Chapter 2217: Chapter 2217: Blood Miasma
Half an hour later, Ye Haochuan arrived at the south gate of Qianyun City.
This city gate was built on a cliff. To be precise, among the city walls of Qianyun City, three of them are built on cliffs, with only the north gate connecting to the land, serving as the main passage into Qianyun City.
The cliffs on three sides are all unfathomably deep. Strangely, within these cliffs, there are dense and variable layers of clouds, which is the reason behind the names of Qianyun City and Qianyun County.
It’s understandable to say that Qianyun City’s altitude is high and the clouds can’t reach such heights. However, Qianyun City is clearly not located on a plateau, and yet thousands of feet above in the sky, countless clouds are floating as common as they are in other places.
No one knows why these clouds haven’t ascended into the sky but are densely packed beneath this cliff, forming a spectacle.
Standing on the cliff and gazing at the clouds below, Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but marvel.
"Have you finished looking? If you have, hurry back, there are still many people lined up behind you!" The guard at the gate suddenly patted Ye Haochuan’s shoulder and said.
Ye Haochuan turned his head to look and indeed saw a long queue behind the city gate.
The thousand clouds wonder of Qianyun City is famous throughout the Myriad Realms Mansion, and many people who visit Qianyun City for the first time come to witness this work of nature’s craftsmanship.
"I’m not here for the scenery!" Ye Haochuan smiled slightly, stepped onto the railing of the city wall, and was about to jump down.
The guard’s expression didn’t change, he just said indifferently, "Oh, another one seeking death. I say, Qianyun City should no longer be called Qianyun City, but the Holy Land of Suicide."
Hearing this, Ye Haochuan was startled and almost stumbled and fell.
A cultivator standing nearby, obviously coming here for the first time, was somewhat puzzled, and curiously asked, "I see this man’s cultivation is not low. Even if it’s several hundred feet deep below, it’s not necessarily certain death, right?"
"Several hundred feet? Are you joking with me?" The guard sneered, "This cliff is far deeper than a thousand feet, and according to rumors, there is a vast poison swamp below. Jumping down, even your bones will be corroded to nothing."
"No way, that terrifying?" The person’s face changed color upon hearing this, and couldn’t help but shiver, quickly stepping back a few steps as if afraid of falling down.
"In my ten years of serving here, I’ve never seen anyone who jumped off here come back alive."
The guard pouted and glanced at Ye Haochuan, saying, "I say, are you going to jump or not? If not, get down. Blocking people’s view is very unethical, you know?"
Oh boy, this guard is indeed an unusual character, having seen countless people take their lives from here, and yet remains so nonchalant.
Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but smile inwardly, chuckling, "Haven’t you never seen anyone come back alive? Make sure to remember my face because when I return, don’t pretend not to recognize me!"
After speaking, he leaped, plunging headfirst into the clouds as if executing a perfect diving maneuver.
The guard was slightly stunned, then disdainfully shouted, "If you can come back alive, I’ll give you my family’s heirloom, that big black pot!"
Surrounding people booed nonstop, family heirloom black pot? What use could it be? Becoming a scapegoat?
At this moment, Ye Haochuan had already pierced through the clouds, not able to hear the voices from above.
"Oh dear, this is likely well over a thousand feet!"
Looking at the world below the clouds, Ye Haochuan couldn’t help but be amazed.
In the Immortal Realm, without reaching the True Immortal Realm, one cannot fly, and due to the formidable Rule Power, even Immortal Transformation Experts wouldn’t be as resilient as in the Lower Realm.
Falling from a previously considered high place at this height, even an Immortal Transformation Peak expert would face near-certain death. Now, this spanned nearly two thousand feet, and a True Immortal Expert, without the aid of flight, would perish for sure, let alone an Immortal Transformation Cultivator.
Ye Haochuan, secretly alarmed, dared not take it lightly and quickly summoned the Heaven Escape Bead.
In an instant, Ye Haochuan’s falling speed drastically reduced, descending slowly and leisurely.
After a full half hour, Ye Haochuan descended to a position within a hundred feet above the ground, able to roughly see the situation below.
What lay before him was a ground devoid of vegetation, covered only in an endless blood-red hue. Whether earth or stone, it seemed as though they had been doused with blood.
On the ground, there was also a thin layer of blood-red mist, enveloping the entire land.
"Is this... blood miasma?"
Looking at this red mist, Ye Haochuan’s heart suddenly grew wary.
Previously above, listening to that guard’s exaggerations hadn’t left much of an impact, but seeing the situation below, he suddenly realized that the guard had only described one-tenth of the true terror down here.
"If that damned Poison Widow dared to bring Shuying and Qingyin to this place, I’ll tear her to pieces!" Ye Haochuan said fiercely.
Boss Yao’s intelligence suggested that there was a high chance the Poison Widow was here, but it wasn’t known for certain that Fan Qingyin and Jiang Shuying were also brought here, leaving Ye Haochuan with a sliver of hope.
Unaware of the blood miasma’s danger, Ye Haochuan dared not land, hovering above the miasma layer, carefully probing every inch of the surrounding land, unwilling to overlook any potential hiding spot of the Poison Widow.
Whoosh~
A massive monstrous head suddenly emerged from the ground, snapping towards the Heaven Escape Bead with a speed that startled Ye Haochuan.
This head had no visible eyes, ears, or nose, only a gaping bloody mouth, seemingly capable of devouring the world.
The Heaven Escape Bead’s defense wasn’t particularly strong, and Ye Haochuan dared not rely on it to resist, hurriedly summoning the Halberd of Heaven and Earth, and lunged out from the Heaven Escape Bead, striking with all his might.
The sound of roaring Dragon Roars was deafening as the Halberd of Heaven and Earth burst forth with an unstoppable momentum, repelling the head several feet away.
Only then did Ye Haochuan see clearly that connected below this head was a slender body, devoid of any limbs, resembling a snake but more like a mutated worm.
"This thing is strange, but with only Immortal Transformation Peak strength, it isn’t too difficult to handle!" Relaxed upon discerning the creature’s form, Ye Haochuan eased his mind.
Yet at this moment, Ye Haochuan suddenly felt his entire body stiffen, followed by a piercing agony emanating from every inch of his skin, a torment so unbearable that he wanted to flay his skin off entirely.
"Oh no, it’s the blood miasma!" Ye Haochuan instantly realized the peril, hurriedly swallowing a Spirit-Purifying Detoxification Pill and rapidly channeling the Manual of Returning to the Origin of Wondrous Flowers, urging Flower Energy to dispel the miasma.
However, this miasma was excruciatingly tenacious, and despite Ye Haochuan’s exhaustive efforts, he couldn’t expel it from his body.
The monster also seemed to notice Ye Haochuan’s predicament and seized the opportunity to attack, compounding Ye Haochuan’s misfortune.
