Dragon's Origin

Chapter 177: The Difference (Part 1)

The circle drawn by the Great Elder overlapped with the area Song Yan had mentioned. Even Wang Sheng was somewhat surprised, though he didn't show it on his face.

When Wang Sheng and Song Yan were together that evening, Wang Sheng brought up his doubts.

"I suspect that the Great Elder and the others really know something about my father," Song Yan voiced her suspicion again.

Wang Sheng nodded. If that wasn't the reason, there was no way to explain why the Song family's target area overlapped with the area Song Yan knew about. Furthermore, within the Thousand Absolutes Grounds, neither Crimson Bear Hall nor Divine Eagle Prison were visited by the Song family; nor did they go to the core area. Instead, they circled an area close to the Song family's side, which seemed very abnormal.

If Wang Sheng knew nothing about the Thousand Absolutes Grounds, he might not be suspicious. But Wang Sheng was very clear that the only three places of real value in the Thousand Absolutes Grounds were Crimson Bear Hall, Divine Eagle Prison, and the Lin family. Apart from these three places, the area circled by the Song family was not worth any attention.

"That's good, saves us from having to think of ways to detour," Wang Sheng thought about the benefits and comforted Song Yan, saying, "However, once you enter the Thousand Absolutes Grounds, you and Uncle Lao Yu should be careful and adapt to the situation!"

Song Yan nodded. Although she wasn't particularly satisfied with Wang Sheng grouping her, Uncle Lao Yu, and two Song family experts together, she knew that in that situation, this arrangement was the most reassuring to the elders.

After sending Song Yan back to rest, the night quickly passed. Early the next morning, everyone gathered again, re-prepared their equipment and supplies according to Wang Sheng's requirements from yesterday, and they set off directly.

Because they were departing from the Song family's estate, rather than near the edge of the Thousand Absolutes Grounds, it took them more than two days just to travel within the Song family's territory. Wang Sheng was still thinking along the way that if the Royal Grand Ritual yielded some results, this place would be the Song Kingdom.

The Third Elder and Fifth Elder followed the team to the edge of the Thousand Absolutes Grounds before stopping and watching them enter.

After the team entered the Thousand Absolutes Grounds, the Song family members realized that having too many people was sometimes not an advantage.

When there were fewer people, Wang Sheng could indeed take care of both the front and the back. But with more people, the length of the team increased, and Wang Sheng's cultivation was limited, as was the range he could pay attention to. Inevitably, there would be some oversights.

In essence, it was still what Wang Sheng had repeatedly emphasized: be careful, be careful, and be careful again, and don't be curious, don't be trigger-happy. If they could do these things, there would basically be no major problems in the Thousand Absolutes Grounds. Wang Sheng could discover fierce demonic beasts in advance, and as long as they didn't let those lurking insects or small demonic beasts injure them, there would be no problem at all.

Before they had gone a hundred li, four people were injured. Fortunately, they were all minor injuries, and only one person was poisoned. Luckily, due to Wang Sheng's strong insistence, they had brought double the amount of antidote pills, and there were companions around to provide timely treatment, so there was no danger to his life.

However, after these incidents, no one dared to disregard Wang Sheng's words anymore. In the end, the reason these people were injured was exactly what Wang Sheng had said: carelessness and trigger-happiness.

Especially the one who was poisoned. His cultivation was considered top-notch in their group, and he was also the leader, a few years older than Wang Sheng. However, he was very dissatisfied with Wang Sheng taking charge.

Originally, he was the family's genius expert, and all the glory was on him, but now it had all been snatched away by a Third Stage Wang Sheng. Especially Song Yan's affectionate attitude towards Wang Sheng along the way made him burn with jealousy, wishing he could rush up and kill Wang Sheng and take Song Yan.

Unable to quell his anger, he intentionally wanted to challenge Wang Sheng's authority. After passing through a certain area, Wang Sheng specifically instructed them not to touch a certain flower. When he passed by later, he pretended to stumble and bumped into the flower that Wang Sheng had forbidden them to touch.

The tragedy happened as a matter of course at this time. The flower itself was nothing, but its pollen was a favorite of a highly poisonous small flying insect. When the flower was bumped, the flying insects flew up, and some of the furry scales on their wings scattered above the expert.

The protective mask was just a bamboo hat plus some fine gauze, which could block the flying insects from getting in, but it couldn't block these fine powders. In particular, Wang Sheng had kept a trick up his sleeve: the hard-shell masks and activated carbon filter layers were not shared. When encountering miasma, they would use antidote pills and toxin-dispelling pills to resist it. These poisonous fine powders were inhaled, and immediately the expert's face turned blue.

The next moment, the young expert, who had pretended to stumble, plunged headfirst into the rotten leaves under his feet, motionless. If it hadn't been for a few companions around who saw that something was wrong and immediately fed him antidote medicine, he wouldn't have even had a chance to wake up.

Even so, it cost at least four of Yu Baozhai's latest antidote pills and two Mind Cleansing Pills to save the expert's life.

However, Wang Sheng himself had taken Mind Cleansing Pills and naturally knew their effects. They were effective in detoxifying, but they also had a side effect: strong diarrhea.

Unfortunately, the expert was poisoned and his whole body was weak. He either had to lie on the ground to relieve himself, or he had to have someone help him. In short, the expert lost all face. He couldn't even lift his head when facing Wang Sheng and Song Yan.

But this incident made everyone no longer dare to despise Wang Sheng's warnings. Anyway, everyone could see that Wang Sheng didn't care about anyone except the young lady. He would give the necessary reminders, but he didn't care whether others followed them or not. Even if someone was injured, as long as it wasn't Song Yan, he probably wouldn't even lift a finger to help, even if it was Song Lao Yu.

The team had to stop for a day because of this. Although everyone present was an expert, it was impossible for anyone to carry an army, and it was even more impossible for a team to stay behind. Without Wang Sheng, that team would either have to turn around and leave, or they wouldn't survive. The few injured also had to rest for a day before continuing on their way.

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Once they set off again, no one dared to challenge Wang Sheng's authority. Along the way, everyone, regardless of whether they were experts or not, was as obedient as grandchildren. Whatever Wang Sheng said was what they did. No one dared to urge Wang Sheng to walk faster or anything like that, letting Wang Sheng lead them to their destination.

In order not to be too obvious, Wang Sheng initially led everyone not to the area designated by Song Yan, but to another direction. Then, from that direction, he made a large detour, circling around to the destination that Song Yan wanted to go to.

As Wang Sheng expected, apart from discovering the ruins of a few small villages along the way, there was nothing else.

Wang Sheng also played his part well, pretending to be very impatient to lead the way, very impatient to search, and only slowly turned to the area Song Yan mentioned after Song Yan persuaded him with kind words.

Not long after arriving here, Wang Sheng discovered some anomalies.