The screams continued. Neither the Mud Spirit nor the Centipede King could stop the actions of Gu Zheng and the others. This was no longer the time when Gu Zheng and the others were in the stomach pouch and they were in charge of the situation.
Blood poured down like a fountain. The last part of stomach pouch number four that was connected to the Mud Spirit's body was broken down by Gu Zheng's Divine Thought. The huge stomach pouch fell into the Mud Spirit's stomach.
The Mud Spirit could no longer make a sound. At this time, it was on the verge of death. The stomach pouch was no longer connected to the body, so the Centipede King inside naturally had no power to mobilize.
The Divine Thought of Gu Zheng and the others flew toward the fallen stomach pouch number four. The decomposition continued at an exaggerated speed.
When it was connected to the body, the stomach pouch was as powerful as the Immortal Domain. After it was separated from the body, it was just a lump of meat. Its resistance to Divine Thought was indescribably low.
The first wave of Divine Thought attack by Gu Zheng and the others disintegrated a huge hole in the stomach pouch. A blood-red light also rushed out from it.
Gu Zheng, who had been prepared, used the Immortal Domain and the blood-red light was immediately absorbed into it.
The blood-red light was the Centipede King's body. After it was absorbed into the Immortal Domain by Gu Zheng, it was immediately imprisoned in the air by the energy of the Immortal Domain controlled by Gu Zheng.
The Centipede King's cultivation was only at the Middle-stage Demon Royal Realm. Without the power of the Mud Spirit to borrow, the gap in strength between him and Gu Zheng was huge.
Looking at the Centipede King who was fixed in the air and could not move, Gu Zheng shook his head and said, "I thought you were very powerful. It turns out that you are just this."
"Pfft …"
Although the Centipede King was imprisoned, it still had some means. The Centipede Bead that it spat out broke through the suppression of its body and shot toward Gu Zheng's glabella.
Some demons could form beads. This Centipede Bead was not the Inner Elixir of the Centipede King. It could be regarded as a Natal Immortal Weapon.
Gu Zheng's mind moved and the Centipede Bead was fixed in the air.
"If it was in the outside world, then dealing with this centipede pearl would require some effort. But in my Immortal Domain, it's utterly useless!"
Gu Zheng waved his hand again, and the cold air in the Celestial Realm condensed into ice. It wrapped around the centipede pearl and flew into his hand.
"Pfff …"
The Centipede King seemed to be frozen, but in reality, its connection with its main body had been severed. After its centipede pearl was forcefully taken away, it spat out a mouthful of blood after suffering a backlash.
"Hahahaha …" The Centipede King suddenly laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Gu Zheng asked.
"One wrong move and the whole game is lost! Even if you can kill me, you will die sooner or later! "The Centipede King laughed sinisterly.
Gu Zheng furrowed his eyebrows. He felt that the Centipede King's words were not just harsh words. It seemed to be implying that his death was imminent.
"Even if I die, it's not something you can see!" Gu Zheng said.
"Not necessarily!"
The Centipede King laughed maniacally. A wave of energy emanated from his body. He had chosen to self-destruct.
"It's a pity that self-destruction is not something you can do just because you want to!"
Gu Zheng stretched out his hand and swept across the void. Ripples appeared in the air. He had used the Dao of Time.
The Dao of Time was originally the nemesis of self-destruction. Moreover, Gu Zheng had mastered the Intermediate Dao of Time. The wave of energy that had been brewing in the Centipede King's body due to the self-destruction instantly returned to its original point.
"The Dao of Time!"
The Centipede King gnashed his teeth in hatred. He could not even self-destruct. It was really as sullen as it could be.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh …"
Gu Zheng moved like the wind. Light spots of immortal power flew out from his fingertips. One after another, restrictions were placed on the Centipede King's body.
"Are you going to search my soul? It's a pity that you won't get what you want! "
The Centipede King laughed. A strange wave of energy emanated from his mind. His memories were scattered. Even Gu Zheng's Dao of Time was not effective.
Looking at the Centipede King, who was in a daze like an idiot, Gu Zheng's soul-searching was really fruitless.
However, Gu Zheng was not disappointed. He did not have much hope that the soul-searching would be successful. After all, when he was soul-searching the female fox, Gu Zheng already knew that the reason why the demons could not be soul-searched was all because the Centipede King had placed restrictions in their minds! For a Demon Emperor who could set up a restriction to prevent Gu Zheng from soul-searching, it wasn't strange for him to have the ability to resist soul-searching! As for the Dao of Time not being effective in this aspect, it was also not strange. After all, the Centipede King was a Big Goblin in the Demon Emperor Realm. Gu Zheng's control of the Dao of Time was only at the Intermediate Level. There was an influence between the two.
After failing to obtain any memories from the Centipede King, Gu Zheng killed the Centipede King and left the Celestial Region.
"Master, how was it?"
Seeing Gu Zheng appear, Die Ling asked telepathically.
"Nothing much. I was unable to effectively soul-search it. There was no spatial immortal item in its body. I only obtained its inner core and centipede pearl," Gu Zheng said telepathically.
"Master, what do we do now?" Die Ling asked.
"Open a hole and get out first. I want to soul-search this guy. Don't make too big of a commotion. I'm afraid it won't be able to take it and die."
The "it" that Gu Zheng was referring to was naturally the Mud Spirit.
After Die Ling and the others opened a hole, Gu Zheng probed into the fourth stomach pouch with his Divine Sense.
Fairy Linglong and the other two were already dead. The Centipede King must have felt that there was no hope of blackmailing them, so it dragged them to the grave with it.
Without further delay, Gu Zheng, Die Ling, and the others opened up a passage to leave the Mud Spirit's body. During this process, the Mud Spirit did not let out any screams. If it was not for the fact that it was still alive, one would really suspect that it was dead.
After opening a hole on the Mud Spirit's back, Gu Zheng and the others finally left the demon's belly.
Although they had left the demon's belly, above them was not the sky. The Mud Spirit was a demon hiding in the swamp. If it was not for Gu Zheng and the others using their Immortal Techniques to support it, the swamp mud would have flowed into the hole when they opened the hole.
After letting Die Ling and the others stay at the hole, Gu Zheng, who was walking through the swamp mud, approached the Mud Spirit's head.
Even though he could control water and earth, Gu Zheng's speed was not very fast. After all, this was the Poisonous Swamp. The power of law was different from the outside world. The suction force of the swamp was very strong! Fortunately, Gu Zheng had mastered the Intermediate Five Elements Dao. If it was Die Ling or Meow Meow, it would be almost impossible for them to walk through the swamp mud.
After walking for about five minutes, Gu Zheng finally reached the Mud Spirit's head.
"Five minutes, this guy is really big!" Gu Zheng said in his heart.
The Soul Search had to be done at close range. Gu Zheng placed his hand on the Mud Spirit's head and immediately began the Soul Search.
Gu Zheng was not sure whether he could find anything useful from the Mud Spirit. This guy had too many incredible things. Gu Zheng was just trying his luck by searching its soul.
The Mud Spirit was now in a state of serious injury and coma. Even so, when Gu Zheng's Divine Thought invaded its mind, it still launched a counterattack against Gu Zheng.
The Mud Spirit's counterattack was an instinctive counterattack. Without it personally leading, this kind of counterattack only caused a little resistance to Gu Zheng. Soon, Gu Zheng broke through it.
The moment that made Gu Zheng excited had finally arrived. Whether he could search the Mud Spirit's memory would be revealed soon! If the Mud Spirit cleared its memory before it fainted, then all his efforts would be in vain.
Gu Zheng probed the Mud Spirit's memory with his Divine Thought. The original tension immediately relaxed. The Mud Spirit's memory was still there!
Through the Soul Search of the Mud Spirit, Gu Zheng learned that the Mud Spirit's body looked like a kun. The process of its birth was extremely difficult and also very coincidental.
The Mud Spirit had a very fast growth rate and also had many magical powers. After it met the Centipede King a thousand years ago, it had been helping the Centipede King unify the periphery of the Rotten Poison Swamp.
The Centipede King raised the demon's cultivation, but this method of forcibly raising the cultivation had a very big drawback. The demon's intelligence basically stopped at the level of being raised. Moreover, once they left the Mud Spirit's body, their strength would decrease.
When Gu Zheng and the others entered the Mud Spirit's body, it was the day when these demons in the periphery of the Rotten Poison Swamp had to contribute their essence blood to the Centipede King. There were also many demons in the Mud Spirit's body. However, after the Centipede King pulled the net, the Mud Spirit had all these demons were expelled from its body in order to save unnecessary energy.
The Centipede King needed the essence blood of these demons, but its real purpose was to cultivate the Thousand Beasts Pill. After the Thousand Beasts Pill was completed, it would use the Thousand Beasts Pill to increase its strength.
The reason why Fairy Linglong and the others entered the Mud Spirit's body was because the Purple Eye Fairy saw the Thousand Beasts Pill being refined by the Centipede King when she used the 'Clairvoyance' magical power, so she took the risk to enter the Mud Spirit's body.
The four stomach sacs of the Mud Spirit were actually the four 'secret rooms' that Gu Zheng learned from the Soul Search of the mother fox's memory, and the passage connecting the four stomach sacs was actually the 'hall'.
After ending the Soul Search of the Mud Spirit, Gu Zheng's original doubts were also explained, but there was still a lingering feeling in his heart, because things were not over yet!
The medicinal wine that the Centipede King used to raise the demon's cultivation was not brewed by the Centipede King. It was provided by a guy called the 'Flood Dragon King'.
Because the Mud Spirit did not have direct contact with the Flood Dragon King, it did not know much about the Flood Dragon King. It only knew that the Flood Dragon King was the ruler of the depths of the Poisonous Swamp, and his cultivation was at the late stage of the Demon Emperor realm. The Centipede King and Zhu Duo were brothers. Zhu Duo provided the Centipede King with medicinal wine that could raise the demon's cultivation, and the Centipede King gave the ingredients he collected to the Flood Dragon King in return.
When he was Soul Search of the mother fox, Gu Zheng already knew that there was a device in the so-called hall that could release medicinal wine. Gu Zheng did not know what this device was at that time, but he thought that if the situation permitted, he must study the medicinal wine and see how it could raise the demon's cultivation.
After Soul Search of the Mud Spirit, Gu Zheng learned that the so-called device was actually a Teleportation Immortal Formation. The Centipede King could put the ingredients in return to the Flood Dragon King, and the Flood Dragon King could also send the medicinal wine he brewed to the Mud Spirit through the Teleportation Immortal Formation.
Gu Zheng and the others had a lot of things stolen, and all the immortal weapons and refining materials had been eaten by the Mud Spirit! It was because it had the ability to digest almost everything that the Mud Spirit could grow so big!
Gu Zheng was different from Dao Xinzi and the others. Dao Xinzi and the others had been robbed twice, and their spatial immortal weapons had been emptied, but Gu Zheng and the others had only been robbed once. This was because after the first theft, Gu Zheng had found that the space they were in was different, and had asked the angry man to spit out demonic fog and be careful. At that time, the Mud Spirit was worried that Gu Zheng would find out more, so it did not steal from them again. But even so, Meow Meow and the angry man, who did not have many reserves, had their spatial immortal weapons looted, including Meow Meow's extremely precious core immortal weapon!
There were simply too many things stored in Gu Zheng's space. The butterfly spirit was able to react in time when he was robbed, so he only lost 12 boxes of items.
Of the 12 boxes that Gu Zheng had lost, four of them were his gains from the two 'secret rooms', and the other eight were his family's assets. Although the number of boxes that had been lost was not too many, Gu Zheng's losses were heavy. The eight boxes that had been lost contained ingredients from outside his circle and most of the high-grade ingredients! In other words, Gu Zheng only had one box of high-grade ingredients left, and all the ingredients below high-grade, immortal grade, and heavenly treasures had not been lost, but all the ingredients from outside his circle had been stolen! Moreover, all the stolen ingredients from the people who had entered the Mud Spirit's stomach had been sent to the Flood Dragon King through the teleportation immortal formation.
"Master, what's wrong?"
Gu Zheng had returned to the cave. Sensing that he was in a bad mood, the Butterfly Spirit asked.
"It's like this …"
Gu Zheng told the Butterfly Spirit and the others what he had learned from the soul search.
"He, he was eaten? Is there any way to get it back? "
Meow Meow was so shocked that she stuttered. Cultivating in her Core Carving for five days was only one day in the outside world. It was worthy of being called a priceless treasure!
"There's no way to get it back. Anything eaten by the Mud Spirit will be digested in an extremely short amount of time," Gu Zheng said.
"That damned pig, it ate such a good immortal item, didn't it know how to keep it for its own use?"
Meow Meow wanted to cry. She had wanted to give the Core Carving to Gu Zheng, but Gu Zheng had told her to keep it for now!
"Due to the Mud Spirit and the Centipede King's special bodies, they couldn't use the immortal items of cultivators, so the Mud Spirit swallowed all the immortal items they obtained."
Gu Zheng paused, then continued, "Don't be too sad. Think about it from another perspective, there are gains and losses! The Mud Spirit didn't just devour our immortal items, it also devoured the immortal items of my disciples and the Tongtian Sect's disciples. Among those immortal items, there were two that were very extraordinary and could restrain the Energy Gathering Plate! If the Mud Spirit and the others could use immortal items, the consequences would be unimaginable! "
"Alright!"
Meow Meow felt a little better after hearing Gu Zheng's words.
"Master, the Mud Spirit sent the stolen ingredients to the Flood Dragon King immediately, what about the things that originally belonged to them?" Butterfly Spirit asked.
"The things that originally belonged to them are still there. This can be considered a blessing in disguise. It would be even more infuriating if they didn't have those things!"
Gu Zheng also rejoiced in his heart. At first, the Mud Spirit and the Centipede King didn't expect this outcome. When they felt that the situation was developing in a bad direction, the Mud Spirit was already seriously injured and couldn't send the things that originally belonged to them to the Flood Dragon King.
"Master, what do we do now?" Angry Man asked.
"Let's go and find what belongs to them first, and also find the opportunity that belongs to you!" Gu Zheng said.
"Opportunity?"
Angry Man's eyes widened. He had already given up on the so-called opportunity because the feeling that attracted him had already disappeared when the secret room turned into the stomach wall. This made him feel that the so-called opportunity might also be an illusion.
"You can't feel the attraction because the Mud Spirit showed its true body. As for the so-called opportunity, I feel that it should be the 'Thousand Monster Pill' that attracted Fairy Linglong and the others into the Mud Spirit's body," Gu Zheng said.
The things that belonged to the Centipede King and the others were all in the stomach pouch number one. In addition to the four boxes that he had previously obtained, Gu Zheng also found four new boxes.
Losing eight boxes and gaining eight boxes, the numbers seemed to be equal, but in fact, Gu Zheng still suffered a great loss! Even though the eight boxes that he obtained brought four precious Immortal Grade ingredients to Gu Zheng, in the eight boxes that he had lost, many of the high-grade ingredients were very rare, and their value was not much lower than the Immortal Grade ingredients! More importantly, the ingredients that he had lost were originally able to support Gu Zheng's Eye of Dao, but now that he had lost those ingredients, Gu Zheng did not know when he would be able to improve his Eye of Dao again.
Among the eight boxes, apart from the Immortal Grade ingredients, the only thing worth mentioning was the 'Thousand Monster Pill'.
The 'Thousand Monster Pill' was something that was cultivated with the blood essence of ten thousand monsters, but it was not a finished product. Otherwise, it would have been eaten by the Centipede King long ago.
When Angry Man saw the 'Thousand Monster Pill', the feeling that he had been deeply attracted to it appeared again! Moreover, the clear feeling had changed, so Angry Man felt that the 'Thousand Monster Pill' should be his opportunity to break through to the Demon Emperor Realm.
"Master, can you give me the inner cores of Fairy Linglong and the others? I think it will be very beneficial to my cultivation! "Angry Man said hesitantly.
Originally, Gu Zheng did not feel anything special, but when Angry Man asked this question, the premonition that came from his Sixth Sense was triggered again! This time, it was not a warning of danger. This premonition made Gu Zheng feel that if he let Angry Man devour the inner cores of Fairy Linglong and the others, it would be the right thing to do.
"Fairy Linglong and the others are different from monsters. They are not only real monster cultivators, but also disciples of Saint Immortals. Although it is not strange for anything to happen in the poisonous swamp, there should be a bottom line for everything! You are a monster cultivator, but I don't want you to be a monster cultivator who is willing to do anything to improve your cultivation! If you break through some things, even if the Evil Qi in your inner core is gone, I am not sure if it will appear again in the future! "Gu Zheng said earnestly.
"Master, I was wrong!" Angry Man lowered his head and said.
"The Centipede Pearl and inner core of the Centipede King are all yours. As for the inner core of the Mud Spirit, I will not give it to you after I get it. I need to study it!" Gu Zheng said.
Due to the rapid progress of his cultivation in all aspects, Gu Zheng usually did not think about the inner cores. However, this did not mean that he could not use the inner cores himself! After all, using demonic cores to refine pills was something that immortal cultivators had always done. Before Gu Zheng had become an immortal cultivator, he had already used demonic cores of the five elements to raise his Natal Truefire and Natal Truewater.
The Mud Spirit was very unusual, and so was its inner core. Gu Zheng planned to study it when he had time.
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