Refining Genius Cultivation

Half a month later, Fang Yunlong and the others finally arrived at the boundary between the inner and outer valleys.

Several decades ago, there was no distinction between inner valley and outer valley. On Master Liu's Jade Slip, there was a great river that flowed through the entire Herbs Valley.

Legend has it that in the ancient times, a poisonous flood dragon lived in this river. Later on, the poisonous flood dragon was killed by the immortals, but its poisonous blood was spread all over the river, turning the river into a poisonous river.

The poison aura condensed on the surface of the river, forming a poisonous mist. Tens of millions of years had passed, and the poisonous river was still thick with poisonous fog, but the river water was still extremely poisonous.

On the current Herbs Valley map, there was a mark showing the boundary between the inner and outer valleys. It was this Poison River. As the poison mist on the river was extremely toxic, even the Core Condensation Period Cultivator was unable to resist the poison mist's invasion.

As for the antidote for the poisonous fog, no one had been able to refine it yet.

However, the successive seniors finally found three places to cross the poison river.

These three places happened to be facing the three tornados across the river. Every day, two hours of tornadoes would blow from the opposite direction, creating a hundred feet wide channel in the poisonous fog. This poisonous gas was a bit strange. Once it left the river surface, it would disappear without a trace.

Therefore, although the strong gale blew it away, the poisonous fog could not spread to the river bank. During these two hours, as long as the cultivator could resist the wind from the face of the hurricane, he would be able to reach the other side of the river.

Who knew that the world would shift from time to time. Dozens of years ago, a group of Demonic Beast had somehow occupied the mouths of these three hurricanes. Every time a cultivator faced a hurricane and finally painstakingly reached the other side, at the same time, they would reach the end of their lives and become the food of the Demonic Beast.

Fang Yunlong and the rest were currently on the other side of one of the tornados. Here, Fang Yunlong and the rest also met some other cultivators, but most of them were cultivators of Yuzhou.

Therefore, when there was no conflict of interest, a group battle would not occur, unless one was like Fang Yunlong and the rest who had met the Qizhou cultivators.

Here, everyone silently looked across the river, looking forward to passing through the poisonous fog and arriving at the other side to pluck the endless Spiritual Herb.

Because they didn't understand the situation, Wang Tong decided to wait for everyone to find a place to rest before deciding. If a hurricane blew by and there happened to be no Demonic Beast, or perhaps no Level 5 Demonic Beast, then they could just risk it all and force their way through.

The idea was beautiful, but the reality was cruel. The next day, when the hurricane arrived, a ten zhang wide open area appeared above the river. This was the passage to the inner valley. However, when the passageway appeared …

Everyone simultaneously looked at the other party. On the other side of Poison River, dozens of Demonic Beast were screaming at the group. Within them, there were a few Level 5 Demonic Beast.

Upon seeing such a situation, everyone immediately became listless. Quickly, everyone left the area with their heads down.

He could either return home or continue to try his luck in the outer valleys. Of course, there were still a portion of cultivators who weren't willing to give up and continued to search for other paths along the river.

Fang Yunlong and his fellow sect members gathered together to discuss the strategy for the current situation. In the end, he followed Fourth Senior Brother Zhao Xi's suggestion and walked along the Poison River to see if he could find another path.

After continuously searching for four or five days along the river, they still could not find any passageway. Furthermore, further on, they gradually encountered more Qizhou cultivators, so they could only retreat and return to the mouth of the hurricane.

After running for several days, everyone was tired. They decided to rest for a few days at the mouth of the tornado to continue observing the situation of the Demonic Beast. They wanted to see if there was an opportunity for them to cross the river.

Second, he had to calm down. With less than half a month left, as long as everyone put in effort, and the three smelly leather smiths beat Zhuge Liang, the nine of them would become the three Zhuge Liang, and they would definitely be able to find a way to cross the river.

Fang Yunlong hid his body and came to the river bank. He had seen all of Senior Brother and Senior Sister's anxiety in the past few days, especially Third Brother Wang Tong, who was even more depressed, and had a few strands of white hair growing on his head.

As Wang Tong was the leader of the group, Elder Liu had high hopes for him. If he was unable to gather any, and was unable to complete the mission to pick the True Spirit Fruit, then how would he explain and how would he establish his prestige in front of the other junior brothers?

The poisonous mist shrouded the entire surface of the river, but it was unable to reach the shore. It was truly a boundless world, full of wonders. Fang Yunlong looked at the poisonous miasma in front of him, as he continuously recalled the knowledge he had in his previous life regarding poison.

Poison was actually a chemical substance. Different types of poison, their chemical composition was different. However, there was a simple and common way to prevent it. It was charcoal.

With this kind of simple method, it could only be used for a short period of time. After staying in the poisonous fog for a long time, the charcoal was obviously not going to work.

In the martial woods of the mortal world, when one reached the Innate Realm, his internal energy would be released outside his body, blocking the poisonous gas outside. This was the principle of the Innate Expert's immunity to poisons. Could he use this kind of method, which would prevent any poison from invading one's body, here?

After thinking about it again and again, Fang Yunlong decided to take this risk. His own internal energy could be said to be the strongest within the entire Yuzhou. Inner strength was something that came from one's own cultivation. When using inner strength, one did not have to worry about the poisonous fog invading one's body through the air.

As long as he used his Shield s and covered his entire body, the poison would not be able to seep into his body through his skin.

Thinking to do it, Fang Yunlong used the surrounding trees to quickly produce a large amount of charcoal powder, and densely covered his hands with it. Just in case, before Fang Yunlong covered his hands with the charcoal powder, he first wrapped a piece of the Demonic Beast's intestines around his hands.

With everything in his possession, the Spiritual Fire Liquid in Fang Yunlong's body began to circulate, forming a three-inch-thick layer of Shield on his hands.

After taking a deep breath, Fang Yunlong slowly reached his hand into the poisonous miasma. Although Fang Yunlong thought about it carefully, he still felt uneasy. After all, this poison mist was not something that could be cured.

Once he entered the poisonous mist, it wrapped around Fang Yunlong's hand. Fang Yunlong immediately held his breath, and used the Heaven Eyes Divine Vision to look at his own palm.

The poisonous miasma was thick, making it impossible to use the Heaven's Eye Technique to see the other party's face. However, at such a close distance, one could still see the palm clearly.

The poison mist tightly surrounded Fang Yunlong's palm, but it was blocked outside by the Shield. Fang Yunlong could feel that a strong corrosive aura was attacking the Shield in his hand wave after wave.

He had no choice but to channel all the Spiritual Fire Liquid in his body to block the poison mist out of his body. However, as time passed, a trace of mist still seeped through the Shield and onto the charcoal.

After Fang Yunlong's experiments, he felt that even if he did not have the help of the charcoal, staying in the poison mist for an hour should not be a problem. But the problem was, if he could pass, how could he do so?

Fang Yunlong thought that if he wanted to cross Poison River, he would have to rely on a hurricane. If there was another hurricane opening, they could cross the river. Since they couldn't find the entrance to the tornado, they could still blow away the poisonous mist and cross the river.

Since there was no hurricane opening, it could be built using man-made tornadoes. However, under the current circumstances, it was extremely difficult to create a hurricane opening. It was probably too late.

If there was no hurricane, then what about the array formation? The "Xun" position of the Small Revolving Heavenly Eight Trigrams Array corresponds to the wind, if the Small Revolving Heavenly Eight Trigrams Array's wind position is opened.

If that was the case, then they could create a strong whirlwind outside the formation, and it should be like a hurricane within the river of poison. If the poison mist was placed outside the formation, then they would have a chance to cross the river.

It was just that, in order to circulate the Eight Trigrams Array in the small circle, one had to have the support of magic power. However, once the magic power was used, there would be spirit energy entering the body.

After Fang Yunlong pondered for a while, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind. Other than activating the Small Circle of Eight Trigrams Array, he could also use Spiritual Stone s to lay down the array, or use Spiritual Stone s to provide the support of the Spiritual Strength.

This alone was not enough. If a trace of poison mist were to enter the array, the consequences would be even more severe. However, with the help of charcoal and the ice seal from the Crystal Snow Sword, he would have a ninety percent chance of crossing the river, but he needed to test it out first.

Fang Yunlong went back to find Third Senior Brother Wang Tong, and told him his thoughts. Wang Tong thought about it again and again, and after discussing it with his junior brothers and sisters, he decided to follow Fang Yunlong's plan.

On this day, nine people from Fang Yunlong's sect had arrived at the riverbank and were preparing to cross the river. Before crossing the river, he needed to test out the feasibility of the method that Fang Yunlong had provided.

Fang Yunlong waved his hand, and countless charcoal powder fell onto his and Wang Tong's bodies, tightly wrapping around the two of them. Fang Yunlong had originally planned to test the method by himself, but Wang Tong didn't agree with it. Hence, this time, the test turned into the two of them.

After covering himself with charcoal powder, Fang Yunlong brought out his Crystal Snow Sword, and the two of them quickly became a large lump of ice. Fang Yunlong moved his body within the ice block, bringing the ice block with him into the already-set up Small Revolving Eight Trigrams Array.

The Eight Trigrams Array immediately activated, transforming into a ball of white mist, and entered the poisonous mist of the poisonous river. Once the poison mist entered, the Eight Trigrams Array's formation changed and the wind shifted. The white mist immediately turned into a huge round ball.

As it spun rapidly, strong gusts of wind rose from the sphere, dispersing the surrounding poisonous fog. Very quickly, a blank area of nearly ten feet appeared around the sphere on the river of poison.

Since it was only the feasibility of testing the method, the ball only rotated in its original location and did not fly towards the center of the river.

After the time it took to brew a cup of tea, the round ball returned to the shore. With a flash of white light, it transformed into dozens of array flags, followed by two loud and clear laughter. Amidst the laughter, Fang Yunlong and Wang Tong walked out together.