The three figures that appeared in front of him were two men and a woman. The woman was injured, and it seemed that her injuries were not light. She was being held in the arms of one of the two men. Because of their cultivation, they didn't immediately notice Gu Zheng's group.
A moment later, as the distance between the two sides closed, the two men saw Gu Zheng's group and immediately flew to the other side out of habit.
One of the three was injured, and they were in the dangerous Poison Swamp, so they had to guard against Gu Zheng's group.
Gu Zheng's group glanced at the three of them, but they didn't slow down. After they flew past, the man holding the injured woman fiercely gritted his teeth and shouted, "Fellow Daoists, please wait!"
"May I ask if fellow daoist has any 'Dew Gold Pills'?" The azure-clothed man hugging the woman asked.
"Dew Auric Pills? Did the poison enter her body? "Gu Zheng asked.
Although it was his first time coming to the Rotten Poison Swamp, Gu Zheng had collected some information about the Rotten Poison Swamp. Therefore, he knew that the Dew Gold Pill was a necessary item for exploring the outer perimeter of the Rotten Poison Swamp.
"That's right. My Dao companion's body has been invaded by the poisonous fog. She urgently needs the Golden Dew Pill to save her life. I hope you can sell me a Golden Dew Pill. I'm willing to buy it at twenty percent above the market price!" The man in green said.
"The Dew Auric Pills are necessary for exploring the Poison Swamp. Don't the three of you have any?" Meow Meow frowned.
Meow Meow had heard Gu Zheng talk about the Poison Swamp before, so she found the whole thing rather suspicious.
Cultivators had all kinds of external protection, so it wasn't easy for the poison to enter their bodies. The only exception was when their external protection was broken in battle and the poison took the opportunity to enter their body. Because of the battle and not being treated in time, the poison would wreak havoc in the body to a certain extent and cause people to fall unconscious.
However, since they were going to explore the Rotten Poison Swamp, each person had to at least prepare two Golden Dew Pills! The two of them looked fine, but one of them had fallen into a coma due to the poisonous fog. It was really hard to imagine what they had gone through in a situation where they couldn't use the Jade Dew Golden Pill.
"Fairy, there's something you don't know. Our Jade Dew Golden Pill has been stolen!" The man in black smiled bitterly.
"Stolen?"
Meow Meow's eyes widened as she stared at the storage belt on the man's body. She couldn't imagine what it would be like to have her pills stolen.
"Fellow Daoist, can you save my Daoist companion first? As for the theft, I will tell you in detail later. I think it will be of some help to you during your trip to the Poisonous Swamp." The green-robed man said anxiously.
Gu Zheng was also curious as to how the other party's pills were stolen, so he decided to help the other party.
Gu Zheng flicked a Dew Golden Pill towards the azure-robed man from afar.
After the azure-robed man verified that the Jade Dew Golden Pill was genuine, his face lit up with joy and he quickly fed the Jade Dew Golden Pill to his dao companion.
"Thank you, fellow daoists!"
According to their prior agreement, the black-clothed man tossed some celestial coins to Gu Zheng.
"How could this be!"
The azure-robed man exclaimed. His dao companion hadn't woken up after taking the Jade Dew Golden Pill.
"The Jade Dew Golden Pill has been verified!" The azure-robed man muttered.
"What's going on?" Gu Zheng frowned.
"The Jade Dew Golden Pill didn't work as expected!" The azure-robed man said anxiously.
"Has the poisonous fog entered your dao companion's body for more than two days?" Gu Zheng asked.
"No, it only happened a day ago." The azure-robed man said.
"I can help your dao companion get rid of the poison." Gu Zheng said.
The azure-robed man's eyes widened, then he smiled bitterly. "The Jade Dew Golden Pill didn't work. I think the reason why the Jade Dew Golden Pill didn't work is because the poisonous fog in the Poisonous Swamp is different from before! I appreciate your kindness, but I can't believe that you have a way to get rid of the poison without even checking my dao companion's body! "
"My master said that he can help your dao companion get rid of the poison, then he can definitely help your dao companion get rid of the poison. Why do your words sound so harsh?" The angry man said coldly.
Gu Zheng gestured for the angry man to calm down. He looked at the azure-robed man and said, "Since fellow daoist doesn't believe me, then I have nothing to say. According to our agreement, you tell us how the pill was stolen, and then we'll go our separate ways."
Gu Zheng understood that the other party was on guard, but he didn't have the obligation to remove the other party's guard.
The azure-robed man looked at Gu Zheng and the others with a complicated expression. After a few breaths of silence, he smiled bitterly and said, "Fellow daoist, don't be angry. Please save my dao companion!"
The azure-robed man was actually struggling in his heart. Not to mention whether Gu Zheng could save his dao companion in a situation where the Dew Golden Pill was ineffective, just agreeing to let Gu Zheng save her meant that he had to bear the risk of danger approaching! However, if he refused Gu Zheng, then there would really be no hope. He didn't think that his dao companion could receive any other treatment in a situation where the Dew Golden Pill was ineffective. Since that was the case, then he would take a gamble.
Gu Zheng came over with the angry man and Meow Meow. The azure-robed man was worried about didn't happen. He didn't see Gu Zheng and the others reveal any ferocious expressions.
"Fellow daoist, I'm really sorry for what happened just now. I'll have to trouble you now!" The azure-robed man looked at Gu Zheng ingratiatingly.
"Put down your dao companion and stand to the side."
Although he didn't understand what Gu Zheng wanted to do, since he chose to let Gu Zheng save his dao companion, the azure-robed man didn't dare to say anything more. He reluctantly froze her Dao Companion in the void, then stood to the side.
Gu Zheng's palm was placed on the woman's forehead, helping her resist the poisonous fog around her. At the same time, he used the power of Tao, causing the surrounding air to ripple.
"The Way of Time!"
Although Gu Zheng's Time Dao was only used on the woman's body, the green-clothed man and the black-clothed man were still able to sense that the aura of Time Energy was surging from the woman's body. This caused the two of them to involuntarily cry out in alarm.
The Way of Time was the supreme power of law. There was no cultivator who didn't want to possess it. Although there weren't many cultivators who comprehended the Way of Time, they were all familiar with the different degrees of control of the Way of Time! Because of this, the azure-robed man and the black-robed man also understood that the Way of Time that could be used on cultivators and cause time to reverse was already at the intermediate level of control of the Way of Time.
While reversing time on the woman's body, Gu Zheng also investigated her body. After the poisonous fog entered her body, it was difficult to deal with. It was indeed a problem that the Dew Golden Pill could not solve! This situation also showed that there might be something in the poisonous swamp that was different from what he knew.
The poisonous fog entered the woman's body yesterday, but using the Way of Time on a cultivator was not an easy task. Therefore, Gu Zheng used the power of time to remove the poisonous fog in the woman's body. It took about three minutes.
"Ugh …"
The poison in the woman's body was dispelled. She let out a muffled groan as she slowly woke up. Under Gu Zheng's gaze, the green-robed man, who had been waiting anxiously for a long time, quickly flew over and hugged her.
"Exalted Immortal, this is what happened."
The black-robed man handed a jade slip to Gu Zheng. While Gu Zheng was removing the poison from the woman's body, he had already recorded the incident of the Dew Golden Pill being stolen into the jade slip.
"Thank you for saving our lives, Exalted Immortal!"
The azure-robed man and his dao partner bowed to Gu Zheng. After witnessing Gu Zheng's Way of Time, they had changed the way they addressed Gu Zheng.
"If Exalted Immortal doesn't have any other instructions, we would like to leave the poisonous swamp." The azure-robed man smiled apologetically.
"Go on!"
Gu Zheng didn't intend to make things difficult for the azure-robed man and his companions, so he let them leave.
"Interesting!"
Gu Zheng frowned slightly after looking through the jade slip given by the black-clothed man. He casually tossed the jade slip to the curious Meow Meow.
A day ago, the azure-robed man and his companions had encountered a Big Goblin and a Little Goblin somewhere in the periphery of the poisonous swamp.
There were many monsters in the poisonous swamp. Immortal cultivators were used to calling those that had gained sentience demons.
The Big Goblin's strength was equivalent to the late-stage Jin Xian's. It was able to fight evenly with the azure-robed man and his companions. The Little Goblin was about the size of a six- or seven-year-old child. It had only circled the azure-robed man and his companions once. However, when the azure-robed man's dao partner needed the Dew Golden Pill, they realized that the Dew Golden Pill, as well as some other small resources that had been in their storage belts were all gone! Combined with the smugness in the Little Goblin's eyes and the strange feeling that arose in their hearts when it circled them, the azure-robed man and his companions were certain that the sneaky Little Goblin had stolen their things.
The Little Goblin's strange ability to steal things from others' storage belts frightened the azure-robed man and his companions. Thus, they desperately broke away from the Big Goblin and ran for a day before they met Gu Zheng and his companions.
"Mister, in the information about the poisonous swamp that you showed me, there was no such Little Goblin!" Meow Meow said after looking at the jade slip.
"There are many demons in the poisonous swamp. It's not strange that many of them aren't in the information," Gu Zheng said.
"Mister, do you think that the things in their storage belts were really stolen by the Little Goblin? Is it a space-related ability? "Meow Meow asked.
"It should be the Little Goblin that stole it. The ability it used is indeed a space-related ability," Gu Zheng said.
"Heavens, to be able to steal things from others' storage belts, what level of space-related ability is that?" Meow Meow clicked its tongue.
"I don't know. This is the first time I've heard of such an ability. Perhaps it's a space-related immortal ability!"
Gu Zheng paused and looked at the shocked Meow Meow. "You don't have to think too much of it. This Little Goblin should be a product of the Breath of Death. It's not strange that it has some strange abilities. If it was really that powerful, the items that the azure-robed man and his companions lost in their storage belts wouldn't have been small items. They wouldn't have been able to escape! "
The poisonous swamp was one of the ancient battlefields where the forces of the Eldritch Age fought against the forces of the outer circle. Many creatures from the outer circle died here, and the Breath of Death they produced after their deaths affected everything in the poisonous swamp. The 'evolution of death aura' mentioned by Gu Zheng just now referred to the spirit monsters or demons that were naturally produced from the death aura of the living beings outside the circle. These things usually retained some of the strange abilities of the living beings outside the circle.
Meow Meow nodded and laughed. "Mister, should we go take a look at that place?"
In the jade slip that the black-clothed man gave Gu Zheng, not only did it record information about the big and small demons, it also recorded another matter! This was directly related to their encounter with the Little Goblin.
Before the man in black and his companions encountered the Little Goblin, they had discovered a mud cave filled with demonic Breath. The man in black and his companions didn't dare to take the risk of entering the mud cave, so they chose to leave quickly. However, along the way, they saw many demons rushing in the direction of the mud cave, and in the end, they had a conflict with the Little Goblin. According to the speculation that the man in black had left in the jade slip, the mud cave either represented danger or some kind of opportunity! After all, they knew a lot about the outer circle of the poisonous swamp, but they had never heard of any mud cave, nor had they heard of demons gathering together! The reason why he had recorded this matter in the jade slip was because he wanted to repay Gu Zheng's kindness.
"Let's go. We don't have any goals anyway, so there's nothing to lose by going there!" Gu Zheng said with a smile.
The jade slip that the man in black had left for Gu Zheng recorded the exact location of the mud cave, which would save Gu Zheng and his companions some time.
"Mister, do you think that the mud cave is the Sky Traversing Boat?" Meow Meow asked again.
A large part of Gu Zheng's understanding of the poisonous swamp came from Gokusen.
Gokusen had once told Gu Zheng that during the first Chaos Tribulation, forces from outside the circle had arrived in the three counties via the Sky Traversing Boat, a spatial immortal device that could carry people. At that time, there were a total of 99 Sky Traversing Boats that descended in the three counties. Most of them were destroyed in the disaster at that time, but some Sky Traversing Boats sank when the poisonous swamp formed.
Although the Chaos Tribulation was a great tribulation, it was a major event that could not be understood in detail without reaching a certain level of cultivation.
For example, the cultivators who were qualified to participate in the first Chaos Tribulation were at least of the Void Return Realm. These cultivators had either died in the first Chaos Tribulation, or they had survived the tribulation and become almighty figures. Due to their superiors, they had always been tight-lipped about their experiences with the Chaos Tribulation. Therefore, even though cultivators like the man in black knew that the poisonous swamp was an ancient battlefield and that it might have something to do with the previous Chaos Tribulation, they had no way of knowing anything about the Sky Traversing Boat, which was very close to the core of the Chaos Tribulation! Therefore, when they saw the mud cave, they naturally didn't associate it with the Sky Traversing Boat.
Cultivators who didn't know what had happened in the poisonous swamp assumed that it was an ancient battlefield. They came here to explore in hopes of finding some lost immortal devices from that era. The Immortal Cultivators who knew the history of the Rotten Poison Swamp came to explore the Rotten Poison Swamp in hopes of discovering the 'Sky Roaming Boats' that had sunk into the swamp. This was because every 'Sky Roaming Boat' could possibly represent an immeasurable amount of wealth.
In fact, the Sky Traversing Boat was very similar to the mysterious space Gu Zheng had entered in the Turbulent Currents Sea. However, according to Gokusen, the Sky Traversing Boat was larger than the mysterious space, but its interior wasn't as strange as the mysterious space.
Gu Zheng wasn't short on celestial coins now. If he was short on celestial coins, the mysterious space in the Turbulent Flow Sea could bring him a considerable amount of celestial coins even if he had to dismantle the metal and sell it.
"That mud cave is very likely the Sky Traversing Boat. After all, according to the man in black, the entrance to the cave is made of mud and some unknown metal. There seems to be a lot of space inside! "
Gu Zheng replied to Meow Meow. In his heart, he planned to send someone to deal with the mysterious space in the Turbulent Currents Sea when he returned. In any case, it was a considerable amount of celestial coins. It would be a pity to leave it like that.
More than two hours passed by.
"Angry man, don't you think that monster looks a little like you?" Meow Meow suddenly laughed.
"Big Sis Meow Meow is joking again. How could that monster look a little like me? With its skinny appearance, it wouldn't even be enough to take a beating from me! "The angry man said helplessly.
"Who said anything about your body size? I'm talking about its appearance! "
Meow Meow said this, and the angry man smacked his lips, speechless.
Aside from the two furry ears on its head, the monster that Meow Meow was talking about really did look a little like the angry man who had lost a lot of weight.
From the characteristics of its body, the skinny monster should be a wolf monster. It was originally flying in the direction of the mud cave, but when it sensed that Gu Zheng and the others were behind it, it landed on a patch of lotus flowers in the swamp and transformed into a lotus leaf.
"This is a half-transformed monster. It already has enough intelligence to perform a Soulsearch on it," Ye Futian said with a smile.
Gu Zheng's heart stirred, and he changed the direction of his flight. Meow Meow and the angry man immediately followed.
"Wolf monster, this exalted immortal needs to know a few things. I'm going to search your soul. If you cooperate, everything will be fine. If you don't, you'll be digging your own grave."
At Gu Zheng's level of cultivation, his desire to kill was very faint. Apart from a change in his state of mind, it was more of an understanding of how to avoid karma.
Gu Zheng had thought that the wolf monster would cooperate with him if it had a bit of intelligence. But unexpectedly, the wolf monster remained unmoved, as if it didn't believe that he'd seen through it.
"Trying to deceive yourself?"
Gu Zheng was amused by the wolf monster's stupidity. He flicked his finger, and a cluster of flames immediately landed on the lotus leaf. Under the raging flames, the verdant lotus leaf turned into a skinny wolf monster.
The wolf monster's eyes flashed fiercely, and cold mist spewed out of its body to resist the flames. At the same time, it recklessly enlarged its mouth and bit at Gu Zheng and the others.
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