Chapter 211: Taowu Dies, the Realm Revives

Chapter 211: Taowu Dies, the Realm Revives

Bai Yu crouched nearby, watching Jiang Yingxue work, when suddenly a thought struck her, and her eyes lit up.

Devil Ox-Head Mushrooms? Her own storeroom had corresponding Devil Horse-Face Mushrooms.

"Yingxue, if we combine Devil Horse-Face Mushrooms and Devil Ox-Head Mushrooms, would the effect be even better?"

Jiang Yingxue paused in her movements and turned around and said, "Of course, but I didn’t see any Devil Horse-Face Mushrooms on Fairy Maiden Peak. Bai Yu, do you have some?"

"Mm," Bai Yu nodded, and a wooden box about the size of a suitcase appeared on the ground. When she opened it, inside were perfectly preserved Devil Horse-Face Mushrooms.

She had obtained them from a minor secret realm long ago, and since they’d never been used, she’d just stored them away.

Jiang Yingxue sorted the Devil Horse-Face Mushrooms and put them all into the furnace, refining them along with the Devil Ox-Head Mushrooms.

Just like Devil Ox-Head Mushrooms, Devil Horse-Face Mushrooms could inflict severe damage on the soul. Combined, the venom was more powerful, capable of dissolving the soul completely.

In the cultivation world, these spiritual plants were no ordinary cabbages or radishes; they had extremely demanding requirements for growing environment and process, typically found in the demon world or demonic sects.

Two days later, Jiang Yingxue and Bai Yu, carrying the extracted venom, headed to Fairy Maiden Peak in T City.

Taowu, separated by the seal, saw the two enemies standing together and started another round of insults.

One of its arms was already gone, and it couldn’t even circulate energy to absorb spiritual qi, making it all the more furious.

"Damn bitches, just you wait—I’ll toss your souls into the Soul-Dissolving Ghost Pool and make you beg for death!"

"I’ll annihilate the White Tiger Clan!"

"You’ll both regret this!"

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Listening to Taowu’s curses, Bai Yu as she poured the venom faster, saying, "You old bastard, you’re the one who should regret this."

Jiang Yingxue added another seal on top of the existing one, which enhanced and accelerated the venom’s effect.

Taowu realized its soul was dissolving away, and it completely panicked.

If just its physical body vanished but its soul remained, it could still make a comeback. But if the soul was gone, there was nothing left.

"Ah—I curse you with my blood and soul! Everyone in your clan will end up scattered and annihilated!"

But its curse couldn’t get through the seal, so it had no effect.

Three whole days and nights passed, and Taowu’s body and soul were destroyed in that space.

The moment Taowu’s soul completely vanished, the mountain shook, and the barely living spirit of the underground spiritual meridian let out an excited roar.

Above Fairy Maiden Peak, colorful, auspicious clouds appeared, and two thick beams of golden merit light descended upon Jiang Yingxue and Bai Yu. Celestial cranes cried out in the sky, and two rainbows arched across the sky, celebrating this great event for the world.

After Taowu’s death, its body and soul turned into pure spiritual energy that nourished the earth and brought it back to life. Dried-up spiritual springs, withered spiritual meridians, ancient spiritual plant seeds that still had a spark of life, long-sealed secret realms and ruins—all gradually revived, waiting to be found by the fated ones.

With Fairy Maiden Peak as the center, spiritual energy spread outward, and Blue Water Star went through a silent, profound transformation.

By saving a planet and an entire world, the heavens were generous; the golden merit light they received was enough to let them ascend right then and there.

But neither had any intention of ascending immediately, nor did they rush to leave. Instead, they set up protective barriers on-site, sat in meditation to stabilize the golden merit light within them, and planned to find a time and place to refine it later.

Fairy Maiden Peak itself underwent earth-shaking changes. The previously dried-up spring now gushed clear water, faintly laced with spiritual energy; deep in the mountains, spiritual plants sprouted like bamboo shoots after rain; and the mountain’s vegetation, absorbing the spiritual energy in the air and the soil’s nutrients, grew even more lush and verdant.

From a distance, Fairy Maiden Peak looked like a gleaming green gem.

After stabilizing the golden merit light within them, Jiang Yingxue and Bai Yu flew deeper into the peak.

Deep in the mountains, clear water surged from underground, forming a five-colored pool—gold, green, blue, red, and black. Around the pool lay fertile soil, covered in newly sprouted spiritual plants, including low-grade, mid-grade, and a few high-grade ones.

Jiang Yingxue selected some well-formed spiritual plants and stored them in her space, and Bai Yu did the same.

Suddenly, a ray of sunlight struck the five-colored pool, and it emitted five beams of light that coalesced into a door.

"A secret realm?" Jiang Yingxue and Bai Yu exchanged glances before stepping through the door one after the other.

Inside, it was indeed a secret realm, as they had guessed.

But the realm had been untouched for so long that it appeared faded and desolate.

Jiang Yingxue and Bai Yu split up to explore separately, avoiding any conflict over the same treasures.

Crossing a grassy field, Jiang Yingxue faced an endless desert, which she immediately recognized as an illusion.

Gripping her longsword, she slashed forcefully at the eastern entrance, and the desert vanished, revealing a bottomless chasm.

Across the chasm stood a mountain peak. After surveying the surroundings, she pressed a protruding red rock nearby.

"Whoosh!" Two sturdy iron chains shot across from the opposite peak, followed by wooden planks forming a suspension bridge.

Jiang Yingxue walked across the bridge without incident, reaching the other peak.

The moment she set foot on the ground, a swarm of black creatures flew toward her—fifth-rank vampire bats.

She quickly swung her sword to fend them off, and soon the ground was littered with their corpses.

Inside a stone cave, it was pitch black, so Jiang Yingxue took out a night pearl for light.

Following the narrow cave path inward, she walked for a while before stopping, the silence around her eerily unnatural.

Suddenly, a weak voice echoed through the air, "After all these years, finally a living soul has come."

Jiang Yingxue looked up to see a pure white three-headed snake floating in the air.

The snake licked its lips and chuckled, "Hehehe, cultivator flesh—how I’ve missed it."

With that, it opened its mouth wide, baring sharp venomous fangs, and lunged at Jiang Yingxue.

Jiang Yingxue smirked, "Just a mere Nascent Soul stage worm, daring to spout nonsense before me!"

"Boom!" In just a few moves, she struck the three-headed snake to the ground.

"Spare me, great one! This lowly one failed to recognize your might!"

Seeing itself about to die under her sword, the snake cried out, "I know where the treasures are! Let me take you!"