CHAPTER 322: CHAPTER 68: FOURTH SISTER POISON FAIRY QINGJING

Li Mo reviewed the information about Senior Sister Qingjing, only knowing that she had reached the Divine Separation Stage in the ancient Cultivation World, and her temperament was somewhat eccentric.

It was said that any cultivator who came into contact with Qingjing would be poisoned secretly.

Once someone showed any abnormality, Qingjing would trigger the medicine guide without hesitation, and the number of cultivators who mysteriously died at her hands was not small.

Now, ten thousand years later, Qingjing has transformed into an unnameable monster, making her likely even more extreme.

Li Mo felt a bit uneasy. After hesitating for a long time, he chose to use the temple to visit first and determine whether Qingjing bore ill intent before considering descending his true body into the Medicine Garden.

His true body remained on the Ancestor Platform to continue cultivating, as there were still various trivial matters to handle.

After the temple communicated with the True Void Hometown, its figure vanished from the Ancestor Platform, and Li Mo’s consciousness sank into an impenetrable darkness.

Li Mo’s expression remained unchanged.

Even if the temple priest fell, it didn’t matter. The characteristic of the No-Life Sect’s cultivation technique was that both the Middle Dantian and Nascent Soul possessed the ability to reshape themselves.

It would only waste time—likely needing forty to fifty years.

Only half a day later did Li Mo sense the temple again. The latter had already arrived at the Medicine Garden, the True Void homeland where the No-Life Sect cultivated spiritual materials.

He made an effort to restrain the temple’s anomalies, compressing its body to about twenty meters tall.

The temple journeyed through the dense fog for over ten days before finally locating the specific position of the Medicine Garden. What came into view was an island filled with overgrown forests.

Swamps dominated the island’s terrain, exuding a pungent stench that nauseated anyone nearby.

Li Mo raised an eyebrow.

With merely a sweep over the corners of the Medicine Garden, he already spotted over a dozen Mid-Grade Spiritual Materials with thousand-year medicinal power—an incredibly rare find in the Cultivation World.

The abundance of nutrients in the Corpse Mountain Mini World had still not produced thousand-year potency spiritual materials even to this day.

"I don’t see Fourth Senior Sister’s figure. Could she not be in the Medicine Garden?"

Li Mo circled the Medicine Garden several times. After confirming the area was not dangerous, he landed on the island.

The muddy swamp supported the growth of spiritual materials but showed no trace of living creatures.

The spiritual materials, mostly herbal in nature, were scattered across the swamp’s surface.

They appeared unassuming yet exuded an ominous eeriness. The fierce wind howling through the forest sounded like the wails of tormented souls.

Li Mo dared not act recklessly.

Using Turbid Blood Spiritual Power, he floated a hundred meters in the air, carefully scanning the Medicine Garden with his Divine Sense in an attempt to find traces left by Qingjing.

"Harmful Grass is indeed rare, though it’s Low Grade, it possesses a dual attribute of wood and poison."

Admittedly, the spiritual materials in the Medicine Garden were exceedingly rare, and Harmful Grass had already gone extinct in the Cultivation World five thousand years ago.

Harmful Grass resembled reeds in shape, its overall color blood-red, with sawtooth-like edges on its leaves. Its medicinal properties were primarily concentrated in the roots and stems.

When Li Mo grasped the Harmful Grass, he immediately noticed something unusual upon applying force.

The Harmful Grass seemed connected to something heavy, which was still struggling continuously.

Li Mo’s expression turned subtle as, unexpectedly, he pulled a corpse out of the swamp—or more accurately, a not-quite-dead cultivator.

The cultivator flailed its limbs instinctively, resembling a maggot in the mire.

The Harmful Grass was connected to the cultivator’s neck, drawing sustenance from the latter to grow while forcibly maintaining a faint trace of life in the cultivator’s body.

"Why does it feel like the cultivator only arrived in the Medicine Garden in recent years?"

From the Daoist robe left on the cultivator’s body, Li Mo surmised they had entered the Medicine Garden no more than twenty years ago and were likely a Loose Cultivator in childhood before that.

"Strange."

He pulled out several more spiritual materials in succession. The corpses ranged from old to new but were all less than fifty years old, and the cultivations were generally shallow.

"Forget it. Let’s collect one spiritual material first to assess the situation."

Li Mo roughly counted around three to four hundred spiritual materials within a kilometer radius. Comparing the size of the island to Luo Zu’s domain, the quantity of spiritual materials in the Medicine Garden easily outmatched the Corpse Mountain Mini World.

He captured the Harmful Grass along with its attached corpse and transported them to the Corpse Mountain Mini World.

The Medicine Garden showed no reaction at all.

"Well, that’s convenient. Senior Brother thanks Fourth Senior Sister in advance."

Li Mo licked his lips and noticed that, moments after the Harmful Grass was placed into the Corpse Mountain Mini World, it began to sprout rudimentary Spiritual Wisdom.

The corpse also became a resident of the world, soaking in the nourishment of this Mid-Grade Magical Treasure.

After wandering the area for a while, Li Mo stumbled upon two more decent spiritual materials. Remarkably, within a short span, Spiritual Wisdom also emerged from these in the Corpse Mountain Mini World.

"Could it be that spiritual materials cultivated from corpses are more suited to becoming Grass and Tree Cultivators?"

Li Mo began to suspect as much, especially considering the unknown changes in the No-Life Sect following his refinement of the twelve Mountain Spider Magic Treasures.

His true body quietly snuck over to the platform to gaze at Luo Zu from afar, realizing that Fifth Senior Sister Yu Xiao, who was presumably in seclusion there, was also nowhere in sight.

As expected, the Twelve Immortals no longer remained bound to the True Void Hometown.

Whether this was fortune or calamity, it was clear that while the No-Life Sect had the strength to dominate medium-sized sects, it was still not formidable enough to contend with large sects.

Li Mo was now certain that the Medicine Garden was unguarded.

"It’s unrealistic to take everything, so let’s just pick some spiritual materials. As for the corpses..."

"Wait. Logically speaking, the Medicine Garden should have tens of thousands of corpses. Surely there are some Taoist Bodies among them, and there might even be valuable finds."

The corpses in the Medicine Garden were relatively fresh, meaning they were recognized by the Creation Book.

Li Mo currently possessed two kinds of Incomplete Immortal Bodies among his Taoist Bodies.

[Innate Saint], [Primordial Chaos]

If he missed this opportunity in the Medicine Garden, finding such a vast number of corpses again would likely require venturing into a battlefield of Daoists and Demons.

Additionally, toxic substances could be developed by studying Taoist Bodies.

The Poison Dao Body could release toxins, which would potentially allow him to refine poisons capable of completing Dao Body Fusion.

Li Mo patiently remained in the Medicine Garden, meticulously sifting through the countless corpses.

Simultaneously, he instructed Futu Hermit to help procure Poison Formulas, placing an instrument by his true body and continually adding various toxic substances into it.

This method of refining poison could also nurture growth in his Divine Skills, albeit partially reliant on luck.

Three years passed.

At last, he discovered the first useful Taoist Body.

The corpses were predominantly from Loose Cultivators, making the chances of containing Taoist Bodies fairly slim. Over the course of three years, only three or four were found.

All were Acquired Dao Bodies and were placed in the wine pool within the Corpse Mountain Mini World.

[No-Brain Poison Body]

The No-Brain Poison Body belonged to Acquired Dao Bodies, where the brain tissue would transform into highly toxic substances. Consumption of such a body would at best impair Spiritual Wisdom, or at worst, cause soul disintegration.

However, most cultivators with the No-Brain Poison Body would remain unaware of the anomaly in their brain before their Divine Sense emerged.

Another five years passed.

Li Mo uncovered two more poison-attribute Acquired Dao Bodies.

[Blood Essence Silver Poison], [Veins like a Poison Nest]

One was a blood toxin, the other a flesh toxin.

Li Mo merely extracted trace amounts of poison, mixing them into a viscous substance that caused his Paoxiao Swallowing Body to stir in excitement, as though facing Jadescent Nectar.

This proved that toxic refinement using Taoist Bodies was indeed feasible.

Even his Poison Making Divine Skill, Hooked Kiss, showed signs of transformation.

Unfortunately, he found no Taoist Bodies related to Immortal Bodies. If the Medicine Garden were suitable for cultivation, he might have considered bringing his true body here.

He set himself a twenty-year deadline, resolving to leave the Medicine Garden once that time elapsed.

Li Mo couldn’t shake an inexplicable sense of foreboding, which was soon validated within days.

Suddenly, the Medicine Garden quaked without warning.

A vortex appeared in the swamp’s center, releasing an overwhelmingly concentrated poison-element Spiritual Power.

Just as Li Mo intended to return to the Ancestor Platform via the True Void Hometown, the temple was locked onto by a Divine Sense. A Divine Separation Stage presence had descended upon the Medicine Garden.

"Fourth Senior Sister..."

The aura of Fourth Senior Sister far surpassed any of the Twelve Immortals he had previously encountered, emanating a terrifying pressure that left the temple breathless.

Li Mo felt as if needles were pricking his back.

His true body quickly gathered the items on the Ancestor Platform, ready to escape the True Void Hometown at a moment’s notice, as he was truly uncertain about Fourth Senior Sister’s potential madness.

Soon after, a hideous form extending over a thousand meters emerged from the swamp.

The figure was riddled with pustules, appearing as if it had been stitched together from rotting flesh. Li Mo could even see needle-and-thread-like marks on its skin.

The temple trembled violently.

This sudden entity appeared to be just the tip of the iceberg. Its true size might encompass the entire Medicine Garden—or perhaps, the Medicine Garden was a part of it.

Though Li Mo wasn’t overly concerned about the temple’s loss, he instinctively moved away regardless.

Qingjing ignored the temple and slowly drifted toward the Garden’s center.

Li Mo noticed that Qingjing’s movements were unusually mechanical, like a puppet, lacking any trace of the Twelve Immortals’ characteristic madness.

He hesitated for a few breaths before cautiously following Qingjing from a hundred meters away.

Traversing most of the island, Qingjing reached the Garden’s center, where her body suddenly split open with a gaping fissure spanning hundreds of meters. It resembled a mouth.

After a few moments of gestation, thousands of corpses spilled out from the opening.

Each corpse had spiritual material seeds stuffed into its mouth. Once they fell into the swamp, they seemed to awaken their remaining instincts and collectively burrowed deeper into the swamp.

"Senior Sister Qingjing?"

Li Mo tentatively called out but received no response from Qingjing.

Moments later, Qingjing sank back into the swamp, and the Medicine Garden returned to tranquility.

"The one remaining in True Void Hometown should only be a fragmentary avatar. It seems that the Twelve Immortals have truly ventured into the mortal realm... sigh, whether for better or worse."

Li Mo released several cancer cells, allowing them to silently infiltrate the swamp.

The swamp remained undisturbed, emboldening him to increase the number of cancer cells, directing the Da Ai Mi Tian technique to sweep over one corpse after another.

[Poison Demon Ten Thousand Gu], [Five Poisons and Five Brains], [Immune to Hundred Poisons]...

Although they were all Acquired Dao Bodies, Li Mo left none with poison attributes untouched, transferring them all into the wine pool of the Corpse Mountain Mini World.

To avoid Qingjing seeking retribution later, Li Mo limited himself to extracting only twenty poison-attribute Dao Bodies.

For the next ten years in the Medicine Garden, Li Mo worked tirelessly to complement the Immortal Body, yet despite his round-the-clock endeavors, he found no corresponding Dao Bodies.

The Medicine Garden quaked once more.

Qingjing reappeared, vomiting another batch of corpses before vanishing into the swamp again.

"Huh?"

Li Mo raised an eyebrow.

He detected an aura similar to the Primordial Dao Body and immediately directed the temple to approach.

Cancer cells boiled within the swamp, converging into clusters that forcibly dragged a corpse to the surface. Li Mo could not hide his ecstatic expression.

The Taoist Body was Acquired but undoubtedly derived from a remnant Immortal Body of Primordial origin.

[Earth Master’s Hind Foot]

"Earth commands all things below, thus it is called the hind foot."

Li Mo stood stunned for a moment. The Primordial Dao Body belonged to the metal attribute and represented an Immortal Body’s fingers, while the Earth Master’s Hind Foot belonged to the earth attribute and represented the Immortal Body’s right lower leg.

"Interesting. Let’s see if the Nourishing Yuan Fruit Medicine Power can evolve this Acquired Dao Body into an Innate one."

"Looks like I’ve found the next piece for Dao Body Fusion."