Chapter 1320: 乌金草

Wang Qingling stood on a low earthen mound in a vast azure grassland. Before her lay an endless expanse of grass, while behind her was a dense crimson forest.

She wondered where she was, as the location didn't appear on the map she had. Wang Qingling murmured to herself. The map Wang Changsheng had given her didn't show this grassland, indicating she had been teleported to an uncharted area. The Qianyuan Sensing Art showed no response, which meant Wang Changsheng and the other two were tens of thousands of miles away from her. Considering the presence of fourth-tier demonic beasts, Wang Qingling chose not to fly, to avoid being noticed by them.

She released a small horse puppet beast and mounted it. The little horse puppet beast pushed off with its legs and slowly walked towards the crimson forest. Just then, a muffled thud echoed from the ground, and a large cloud of dust billowed from within the crimson forest, as if something was about to burst out. Wang Qingling quickly halted and extended her divine sense.

A deafening howl suddenly pierced the air. Following this, hundreds of black giant wolves, each taller than a person, burst out of the crimson forest. The wolf king, leading the pack, was two zhang long and covered in black fur. All of their eyes were filled with terror, as if they had encountered something terrifying.

A swarm of fist-sized crimson mosquitoes flew out of the forest. These mosquitoes had four wings on their backs, a pair of sharp, exposed proboscises, and a sharp crimson stinger at their tails, making them look exceptionally vicious. Dozens of crimson mosquitoes caught up to one of the black demonic wolves, and a shocking scene unfolded: the wolf let out a wail and rapidly transformed into a dried corpse, collapsing onto the ground. As the crimson mosquitoes caught up to the black demonic wolves, draining them into dried corpses, the wolves dropped to the ground one by one. There were tens of thousands of crimson mosquitoes, clustered densely together like a massive blood-red cloud, a sight that made one's scalp crawl.

Wang Qingling inwardly cried out in alarm, recognizing them as Bloodthirsty Mosquitoes, a truly vicious insect species. She quickly released her Earth Dragon Worm. Retracting the small horse puppet beast, she jumped onto the Earth Dragon Worm's back. The Earth Dragon Worm let out a strange hiss, its body glowed with a yellow light, and it burrowed underground, vanishing from sight.

Not long after Wang Qingling escaped underground, the wolf king was also caught by the Bloodthirsty Mosquitoes. Hundreds of them swarmed over its body, and the wolf king let out a mournful cry as its body visibly shriveled into a dried corpse. Its death was truly gruesome.

Hundreds of zhang deep underground, Wang Qingling sat on the Earth Dragon Worm's back, a look of lingering fear on her face. If the Bloodthirsty Mosquitoes hadn't been distracted by hundreds of demonic wolves, it would have been difficult for her to escape.

Wang Qingling mused that she needed to rendezvous with Uncle Nine or Senior Zhang as soon as possible, as encountering a fourth-tier demonic beast alone would be troublesome. She murmured to herself as the yellow light on the Earth Dragon Worm's body intensified, and it sped up.

In a gigantic valley surrounded by mountains on three sides, deafening roars periodically echoed within, and the ground trembled continuously, as if an earthquake was occurring. Inside the valley, Zhang Wuchen and Lin Yuzong were besieging a red toad the size of a small mountain. The toad's body was covered in repulsive lumps, making it look incredibly ugly, and it had a golden vertical eye on its head.

Three shimmering silver short blades struck the red toad's body, emitting muffled thuds. The red toad opened its gaping maw and spewed out house-sized crimson fireballs, hurtling them towards Zhang Wuchen and Lin Yuzong. As the massive fireballs approached within ten zhang of them, the azure jade flute in Lin Yuzong's hand suddenly glowed brightly with azure light. A rapid flute melody abruptly resounded, and a wave of misty azure sound swept forth. The massive fireballs collided with the azure sound wave, immediately bursting apart with flames scattering everywhere.

The red toad extended a scarlet tongue and slapped it towards the azure sound wave. A resounding crash! The azure sound wave burst apart, releasing a powerful shockwave that kicked up countless碎石. The red tongue swung wildly, striking towards Zhang Wuchen and Lin Yuzong. Before they could regain their footing after retreating, all the lumps on the red toad's back burst open, and a large amount of extremely foul-smelling red liquid shot out, heading for them. They flickered, easily dodging the attack. The red liquid splattered onto the ground, corroding large pits in the earth from which wisps of green smoke rose.

Zhang Wuchen frowned, then slapped her jade hand towards the void, saying they should finish this quickly, as the creature was only a low-grade fourth-tier beast, and they shouldn't waste any more time on it. A fierce wind howled, and a gigantic white hand, over ten zhang in size, materialized in mid-air, slapping towards the red toad. Wherever it passed, the void rippled like water.

The red toad's thick, long tongue fiercely slapped the white hand, which abruptly burst apart, dissipating into a large cloud of white mist. Two silver lights shot out without warning, striking the red toad's front limbs. It let out a miserable shriek as two foot-long white nails pinned its front limbs to the ground. A flash of yellow light appeared, and a palm-sized yellow imperial seal materialized above the toad's head. A deafening dragon roar resounded as a lifelike yellow flood dragon swam across the surface of the yellow imperial seal. It was the Yellow Dragon Seal.

The Yellow Dragon Seal glowed brightly, its size rapidly expanded, transforming into a yellow mountain over a hundred zhang tall. Before it even descended, an intense oppressive force bore down on them. The red toad tried to resist, but the flute's melody turned low and deep, making it feel dizzy and disoriented, inducing a drowsy sensation.

Lin Yuzong roared loudly, and the red toad felt its head spinning, as if it had been struck by a heavy object. The dragon roar intensified, and the Yellow Dragon Seal swiftly crashed down. Zhang Wuchen made a single-handed gesture, and the Yellow Dragon Seal rapidly shrank, flying back to her. A massive pit was left on the ground, and the red toad had been reduced to a pile of mush.

Lin Yuzong spoke with an envious tone, remarking on the immense power of the Yellow Dragon Seal and how it was no wonder True Monarch Yellow Dragon rarely used it, as it could truly be considered a trump card. Zhang Wuchen urged them to quickly rendezvous with Fellow Daoist Wang, expressing hope that they hadn't been teleported directly into a fourth-tier demonic beast's lair as they had. She noted that their luck had been poor, as they were teleported into a fourth-tier demonic beast's lair. Fortunately, they weren't far from each other, which allowed them to defeat this low-grade fourth-tier demonic beast so quickly.

After collecting the red toad's body and clearing out the contents of the demonic beast's lair, the two transformed into two streaks of light and departed.

In a vast, endless brown swamp, Wang Changsheng floated in mid-air, his Twin-Eyed Rat perched on his shoulder, its tail swaying back and forth. Following Wang Changsheng's gaze, one could see a vast expanse of purple giant flowers, taller than a person, their buds closed and not yet bloomed. In the center of this flower sea, a foot-tall black grass grew, its rhombic leaves adorned with golden patterns. The Wood Demon quickly moved towards the purple giant flowers, traversing the swamp as if it were solid ground, moving rapidly.

"Black Gold Grass," Wang Changsheng murmured, "It must be at least a thousand years old! This is the main ingredient for refining the Xuanqing Detoxification Pill." Wang Changsheng muttered to himself, noting that the Xuanqing Pill is a fourth-tier pill capable of neutralizing most potent toxins.