Chapter 726: Chapter 60 Rescue, but not all can be saved
Long Long continued to search the valley.
The area of the valley wasn’t small, but it appeared extremely cramped and narrow with the gigantic body of the poisonous serpent occupying it.
Apart from the central lake, there were no trees in the valley, likely because they had all been killed by the serpent’s poison; the environment was damaged a bit too much.
“How dare you!”
After circling the serpent a few times and still not finding more clues, Long Long began to waver slightly.
He had checked the ground and underground; there were no enchanting formations or strange spatial fluctuations. Where could it be hidden?
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“In that case, there can only be one answer,” Long Long murmured.
“Hmm, there’s probably nothing,” the Kunlun Mirror consoled him. “It’s okay to make a mistake, everyone guesses wrong sometimes.”
“What do you mean ‘guessed wrong?’ It’s too early to draw any conclusions!” Long Long rolled his eyes and chuckled, “I guess it swallowed the object into its stomach!”
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Kunlun Mirror: ?
“The underground has been entirely scanned; besides the inside of this serpent, the entire valley has also been searched,” Long Long said with a cold laugh. “Other than its stomach, where else could it be hidden?”
“This might be a bit…” The Kunlun Mirror started to say it was somewhat far-fetched but then thought it might indeed be possible.
The Human Race has the Sleeve Universe Great Method, and the Demon Race also possesses the technique of swallowing the sun and moon. The White Tiger Clan is known for this technique; it is said they can swallow demons and refine them directly in their belly; they can even keep flying swords and such in their mouths and spit them out at critical moments to kill enemies.
But as for whether the poisonous serpent knows this technique, it’s not easy to say.
She fell silent and just scanned the serpent’s body.
Scanning a cultivator is nearly a hundred times more difficult than scanning the landscape within a mile. To make Long Long give up completely, the Kunlun Mirror scanned very meticulously this time, almost checking every single scale on the serpent’s body.
Hmm, no abnormal spatial fluctuations, just as I said… Huh?
“How’s it going, Ah Jing?” Long Long urged.
“It didn’t hide it in its belly; instead, this creature has ingested some kind of alien object,” the Kunlun Mirror replied.
“What kind of alien object?” Long Long asked.
“Western Tai Bai Geng Metal,” the Kunlun Mirror said in a strange tone. “You, uh… cough, cough, you’re really lucky!”
“Did you just want to say, ‘How can such a loser like you be so lucky?'” Long Long feigned indifference and retorted, “Consider this a warning!”
Western Tai Bai Geng Metal, also known as “Celestial Falling Gold,” is the most difficult to obtain among the Innate Five Elements True Vein.
As the name implies, it refers to the meteorites that fell from the celestial realm after detaching from the Western Tai Bai star. They contain an alien metal that is denser, harder, and more indestructible than any metal existing in this world.
Currently, there is no known Western Tai Bai Geng Metal in the Mortal Realm, and the Eastern Emperor Realm only possesses one piece, kept in the Sacred Mountain of the White Tiger Clan. It is said to be taken out only during sacrificial ceremonies—anyway, Long Long felt it was impossible for him to get his hands on it.
Yet to think it would be in this place! Huh?
He suddenly realized something and began discussing with the Kunlun Mirror and Green Duckweed Sword:
“You think, could this Western Tai Bai Geng Metal have been stolen by the old poison dragon ancestor from the White Tiger Clan?”
“Let’s assume that the old poison dragon ancestor stole the Geng Metal from the White Tiger Clan and then escaped here…”
“Wait,” interrupted the Green Duckweed Sword. “This Tai Bai Geng Metal, being the emperor among metals, greatly suppresses the Wood System. If it were buried underground, not a blade of grass would grow for a hundred miles around.”
“Has the poison dragon gone mad, or has he deviated, to steal something that suppresses his own kind so greatly, even to the extent of swallowing it and causing his yin and yang to go out of balance, forcing him to fall back into a deep slumber?”
“That’s not what he meant,” explained the Kunlun Mirror. “He just wanted to make the Geng Metal look like stolen goods, so he could feel justified in taking it.”
“You broken mirror, spouting nonsense!” Exposed by the Kunlun Mirror, Long Long immediately became somewhat flustered and quickly scolded, “I’m just boldly hypothesizing and carefully verifying.”
“In my opinion, the old poison dragon ancestor wasn’t stealing the item but was poisoned by someone,” the Kunlun Mirror went on without minding him.
“Poisoned?” Long Long asked in surprise.
“Just as it said, no one would be foolish enough to steal poison and swallow it directly into their stomach.” The Kunlun Mirror spoke calmly, “Not to mention, the old poison dragon ancestor doesn’t possess the technique of swallowing the sun and the moon. After swallowing it, how to extract it is also a challenge; why would it bring trouble upon itself?”
“But if someone poisoned him, and he ingested it unknowingly, doesn’t that explain all the doubts?”
“Although Western Tai Bai Geng Metal is tough and indestructible, with a certain secret technique, it could be refined to flow like molten iron.”
“Mix it into wine or an elixir, and trick the old poison dragon ancestor into consuming it. Once the Geng Metal loses True Yuan supply, it solidifies again, sticking to the stomach and intestines, piercing the chest and rotting the belly—even causing yin and yang imbalance and the decline of Yimu, leaving Jiamu to exist alone…”
“Now that you mention it, there’s some sense to that,” pondered Long Long. “Because the Metal System suppresses the Wood System, if one wants to counter the Metal System with the Wood System, one must emphasize Jiamu and abandon Yimu.”
“We originally thought the old poison dragon ancestor was practicing some secret technique, causing an excess of yang over yin. Now it seems that it was likely out of necessity.”
The more Long Long thought about it, the more possible it seemed, because an excess of yang over yin for cultivators is extremely dangerous and not worth the cost.
If one is not careful, at best, one’s cultivation will be wasted; at worst, one’s body and soul could be destroyed.
Unless a cultivator is facing a life-and-death situation, they would have no reservations and could do anything. Like Su Jian enduring so many years in the life-and-death trial, disregarding even his daughter and disciple, or like the elder in black burying himself in the ice to suppress the Heart Demon…
Upon realizing this, Long Long finally pieced together the whole story.
In doing so, helping the old poison dragon ancestor extract the Tai Bai Geng Metal from his stomach is essentially helping him solve the most critical problem. So, treating the treasures I previously kept for him as medical fees and accepting them with a smile seems quite reasonable, doesn’t it?
Old poison dragon ancestor, what do you think? If you have any objections, just say so; if not, I’ll take it as your agreement!
Well, the patient has no objections; then we can start preparing for the surgery!
“Ah Jing,” Long Long suddenly asked, “if you were to teleport the Tai Bai Geng Metal out of his stomach, would he immediately wake up?”
“Of course,” the Kunlun Mirror replied. “After all, he is of the rank of immortals. If it weren’t for the fierce struggle against the Geng Metal in his belly, why would he not wake up?”
“Then good,” Long Long chuckled, “is it possible to teleport only a part of it out? Leave just a tiny bit inside him, the kind that would take him ten days or half a month to fully refine and wake up from.”
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