PDLP Chapter 78 Trials 16
Chapter 78 Trials 16
Cheng Jiu possessed a spiritual immortal body, making him immune to all poisons, but the little black dragon did not have this constitution. After the battle, the dragon was somewhat dazed, so Cheng Jiu fed it an antidote pill and put it into his spirit beast pouch.
She began to explore the shipwreck, which was clearly many years old. She had never seen the wood used to build the shipwreck before, but it had a metallic feel to it.
The fact that the ship has remained largely intact at the bottom of the sea for so many years suggests that the wood used must be exceptional.
Upon opening the hatch, there was nothing inside. The skeletons were swimming further in. Opening the innermost compartment, two skeletons emerged from the doorway, looking completely broken and mangled.
At first glance, the two skeletons look like lovers leaning on each other, their hands clasped together even in the deep sea.
But upon closer inspection, it turned out to be two men, one above the other, with the man below seemingly holding something in his hand.
Cheng Jiu moved to the side and waited for the two skeletons to float to the center of the living room before continuing to swim inside.
Unlike the empty exterior, the interior is quite rich in content.
At the very edge is a woman's skeleton, floating in the lower left, its eye sockets staring straight at the very center.
Candles, broken swords, and fragments of plates floated in the air, along with a swaying table and wooden chairs covered in messy sword marks, suggesting a series of fierce battles had taken place.
Cheng Jiu felt a chill run down his spine looking at the scene before him, but no alarm bells went off in his mind, so he should be fine.
Further inside was a small cubicle, where Cheng Jiu discovered that some very basic formations were engraved on the door.
Cheng Jiu took out a water-repelling talisman and stuck it around, creating a small space without seawater. She landed on the deck, opened the small compartment, and sure enough, just as she thought, no seawater entered.
Press the button next to it, and the partition will actually move, slowly opening to reveal a staircase.
Going down the stairs, there was a small, dry room, which surprised Cheng Jiu.
The small room looked like a study, and the books on it appeared intact, but they would turn to dust like sand if touched.
There was only one piece of paper on the desk in the very center, with a line written on it that Cheng Jiu could barely make out.
“…Brother, who…will…have…daughter…beautiful?”
She...the god...took a fancy to her, and the elder...took her...the god's...adopted daughter-in-law.
"...Brother...on his deathbed......you...were buried...at the sea."
"?" Cheng Jiu looked at the paper and could barely make out a few words, but anything more was too blurry to recognize.
The paper seemed to have been angrily crumpled into a ball, and then the other person unfolded it again, for some unknown reason.
Cheng Jiu searched the small cubicle carefully again, but found no useful clues.
It seems that there are only skeletons in the very middle room of the ship, and nothing else. However, you can see broken and rusty cannons, and below that, there is a hole.
Moreover, the ship looked extremely poor, and the weapon fragments floating around it could barely be identified as weapons forged by ordinary people.
The last warehouse contained only a pile of boxes made of meteorite iron, which could not only be used to store treasures but also to seal in spiritual energy.
Half of the crates were opened, but they were empty except for some crates that had contained weapons, along with some weapon fragments.
Cheng Jiu put the boxes into his ring, circled the shipwreck, and made sure nothing was missed before getting aboard.
There was really nothing left to explore. After two days of exploration, there was no more wood spiritual energy to replenish her underwater, so her spiritual essence and immortal body were useless. However, as a Golden Core cultivator, she was constantly consuming spiritual energy.
The only way to replenish spiritual energy in the sea is by absorbing spirit stones.
So all things considered, she lost money overall after spending these few days in the sea, aside from the meteorite iron she obtained today.
She was sick of seeing all those sea creatures during the past few days at sea; they were all so ugly and bizarre.
She knew the sea was deep, but she didn't expect it to be this deep. She swam upwards for a while, and when she looked back, she was still not as high as the sunken ship.
In the end, they could only release the little black dragon and have it carry her up.
The little black dragon was very fast. After swimming for about two or three hours, Cheng Jiu finally poked his head out of the sea to breathe.
Phew, she was suffocating!
She summoned the little cloud beast again. The little cloud beast, which had been in the spirit beast bag for the past few days, had shrunk back to its original size and carried Cheng Jiu from the water.
Lying on the little cloud beast, Cheng Jiu opened the jade slip, the information on it was messy and chaotic.
I've compiled a few points.
Wen Sishu saved Liu Shaoyuan. The scorpion was a rare mutated species. It had no cultivation, but it was extremely poisonous. Even a cultivator would die if they were hit by it a few times without an antidote.
Gong Cheng and Gong Yu, along with Nan Yanzhe, reunite in this world, a world of extreme day and extreme darkness, half of which is daytime and half of which is polar night.
Moreover, the distinct dividing lines make the polar night region more dangerous in comparison.
When they went to find Nan Yanzhe, they discovered that the area where he lived was filled with the Vampire Vine, a plant that had been extinct for a long time.
It has no cultivation level, but its seeds can absorb blood, and once they get on you, they are very difficult to expel, making them extremely troublesome.
Fortunately, Miyagi has a fire elemental root, and flames are quite volatile, which is a good counter to his opponent.
As they traveled along, they discovered that apart from Nan Yanzhe's location being the safest blind spot, other places were either covered in blood-sucking vines, parasitic plants, insects, and even Gu poison.
If Yingyue hadn't seen the difficulties they were facing on the jade slip and rushed over quickly, they probably would have fallen victim to the trap.
After all, Gu cultivators were previously classified as evil cultivators, and now it's probably impossible to find even one in the cultivation world.
Yingyue speculated that this place must have been where Gu had practiced Gu cultivation.
They found a lot of bones under those blood-sucking vines. They had never seen so many before. These things had no cultivation, but they were extremely troublesome.
Fortunately, they finally found Nan Yanzhe. Although he wasn't very strong in combat, he was quite adept at avoiding danger and seeking advantage. They didn't encounter many of the traps they had faced along the way when they left.
After that, they asked Cheng Jiu if he was safe, when he would come out, and shared some of his gains in the secret realm.
This secret realm is extremely poor; you can hardly find any precious spiritual herbs, but mutated species that have no spiritual energy at all are everywhere.
The final message was that Wen Sishu and Liu Shaoyuan discovered an ancient city in the desert.
I shared my location and called on my friends to explore together.
If Cheng Jiu comes out of the sea, he should go directly to this ruined city.
The other four people also traveled from the forest into the desert.
Cheng Jiu showed the location to the little cloud beast. Because it had explored the ocean and knew what it was like, the little cloud beast was not at all restrained and sped off in the direction of the location.
The closer they got to the mainland, the more strange birds they could see in the sky. These birds, which fed on strange fish in the sea, naturally saw Cheng Jiu and his group. All the giant birds that came to attack were shot down by Cheng Jiu with a single blow.
They came in groups of three or five, in huge swarms, constantly attacking Cheng Jiu. Like the strange fish in the sea, their bodies were comparable to those of a Nascent Soul cultivator, but they had no cultivation.
Completely powerless against Cheng Jiu's sword, they fell in heaps, staining the sea red. The fish in the sea, not to be outdone by the delicious food on the surface, rushed to devour it.
After many strange birds died, the other birds, seeing Cheng Jiu's ferocious appearance, cried out a few times and scattered, no longer daring to provoke this vicious girl.
Four days had passed since they arrived at the nearest mainland. The other six people also received news that Cheng Jiu had emerged from the sea and said they would wait for her.
Fortunately, the city is not far from the sea, facing the desert and backed by the ocean, and is situated on a very high cliff.
From a distance, the city doesn't look very big; it looks more like an ancient castle!
Riding on the little cloud beast, they arrived at the camp they had marked, where seven tents were pitched and a large campfire was placed in the middle.
Several people were huddled together, seemingly doing nothing.
"Junior Sister, Junior Sister!" Gong Yu spotted Cheng Jiu in the sky with sharp eyes.