Chapter 583

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Returning to the mechanical cabin, Unlike Ning Zhuo took his and Sun Lingtong's Pale Iron Han Armor to repair them.

Because of extreme use, both Pale Iron Han Armors had varying degrees of damage.

Just repairing these damaged parts benefited Unlike Ning Zhuo a lot. Which part of the entire mechanical battle armor was weaker was clear at a glance.

The weakest part is the golden wings.

Because of the three-fold design, the strength of the entire golden wing dropped by a notch. Flying rapidly in the air, every change in direction would exert pressure on the entire golden wing.

"The material of the golden wings must be further improved!"

The harvest, of course, was not just these.

"My flight skills are much worse than Boss's, and I need to practice diligently."

"My spiritual sense is also not as good as Boss's, but if I use the Spirit-Dividing Mirror, it will be a notch higher. I should modify the mechanical golden swallows so that they carry small magic mirrors to help me increase my spiritual sense."

Just observing with the naked eye is too limited in the air.

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Air combat requires a much wider range of observation than ground combat.

In this situation, spiritual sense being able to detect in all directions is the first choice among choices.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's Mirror Platform Psychic Art has a characteristic: his own spiritual sense range is not high, but if he uses external objects, he can leverage great power.

"And extreme high-speed flight has high standards and strict requirements for physical strength."

"If I hadn't improved my physical fitness through the Fetal Breath Spirit Boat, I wouldn't be able to bear such flight intensity."

"And the Five-Viscera Temple Spirit Art, which made my five viscera mutate, reduced a lot of burden."

Even so, after Unlike Ning Zhuo took off the Pale Iron Han Armor, he found that there were many new bruises on his skin all over his body. There was also quite a bit of internal bleeding.

Although his five viscera had been changed, there are not only these in the human body; among the so-called five viscera and six bowels, there are still six bowels.

Unlike Ning Zhuo immersed himself in improving mechanical creations.

Two days later, he received a reminder from Sun Lingtong, interrupted his practice, and came to the dragon-head cabin.

The Soul-Shadow Black Swamp wetland had arrived!

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon escaped from the void, shrank to its smallest size, and flew in the high sky.

Looking down from the high sky, the Soul-Shadow Black Swamp looked like the viscera of an ancient god giant being torn apart, becoming rotten pieces, thrown randomly on this pitch-black wetland.

The entire wetland was shrouded in a thin layer of green mist.

Hundreds of floating islands stayed on the water or drifted slowly.

These floating islands were almost all condensed from rotten plants and pale skeletons.

The island surfaces were often covered with thick corpse moss. The corpse moss emitted ghostly green phosphorescence; these phosphorescences were not disorganized, they linked together to form a meridian-like network of ghostly light.

On the water between the floating islands floated huge Soul-Crossing Lotuses.

Most of these Soul-Crossing Lotuses were modified to form Soul-Crossing Lamps unique to the Soul-Shadow Black Swamp. The lamp light was ghostly blue, illuminating the deep pitch-black water surface into a ghostly blue galaxy.

In these long-lasting lights, one could vaguely see clusters of soul light.

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon flew silently.

Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo had a wide field of vision and could easily see the main river channel in the wetland—the Underworld Jiaohe.

This river channel was like a green-black centipede rising up, running directly through the entire wetland from southeast to northwest.

The river channel was deep, but the water surface was calm. The soil on the riverbank was pale, and in some places, white bones were even exposed.

Legend has it that this river channel was transformed by an Underworld Dragon God.

On the calm river surface floated many bone spurs. These bone spurs were the protruding backs of bone-piercing crocodiles.

This kind of crocodile lived in groups in the Underworld Jiaohe and was the well-deserved overlord group. They would dig open the riverbank, dig all the way to the white bones deep in the soil, and drill holes in the white bones to use as nests.

"Look there." Sun Lingtong signaled to Unlike Ning Zhuo.

Unlike Ning Zhuo followed his pointing, and his eyes couldn't help but brighten slightly—he found a village.

This village was hidden in the shadow of a corpse-moss floating island, and the village was built with ship planks, masts, and giant-like ribs.

The village wall could absorb light; looking closely, one would find a layer of oil film rippling on the wall, clearly using a special forging technique.

Countless corpses were piled up at the foot of the wall. And on top of the city wall, there were a large number of skulls of different lives.

The village gate opened, and several ships made of red wood rushed out.

A small half of the cultivators controlling the ships were human, and most were ghost clan.

The ghost clan is a kind of intelligent life that is half-human and half-ghost; the men are often ferocious and evil, while the women are beautiful. Their skin colors vary, including red, green, blue, black, white, yellow, etc.

Their eyes are quite special. The iris is black, and the pupil is white, which can easily observe ghost objects.

The red wood ships were engraved with magic restrictions, warship style, each with twenty long oars. Both the bow and stern were raised high, forming the appearance of a dragon head and dragon tail.

Most of the human cultivators were silent, their expressions anxious. The ghost clan were naked, disheveled, with horns on their heads, shouting and screaming.

Three warships sped on the river, in the same direction.

This situation couldn't help but make Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo feel a little curious: what are such a batch of local cultivators in such a hurry to do?

Originally, their original plan was not to rush to White Paper City, but to enter the village first to disguise their identities and strive to play the role of local cultivators.

But now that they found this situation, Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo discussed it and immediately drove the Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon to accelerate in the high sky and fly in the direction of the warships.

They looked down from a high position, their field of vision was wide, and the Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon was fast; after flying to the front, they immediately made a discovery.

There were large pieces of ship wreckage on this section of the river, as well as many corpses of bone-piercing crocodiles.

Many of these bone-piercing crocodiles were as big as war elephants, emitting the aura of the Foundation Establishment level.

The most eye-catching was a bone-piercing crocodile floating on the river with its belly turned up. To be precise, it was a corpse.

This crocodile corpse was covered in scars, and blood had long flowed into the river.

It was very huge, two or three times larger than the warships dispatched by the ghost clan village.

Clearly, this was a fierce battle between humans and beasts.

The result of the fierce battle should be both sides suffering.

Unlike Ning Zhuo found some remaining cultivators panting on the riverbank, while also trying to rescue companions lost in the river.

Many bone-piercing crocodiles were gnawing on the corpses in the river, regardless of friend or foe.

"Little Zhuo, good opportunity!" Sun Lingtong suddenly said.

"Boss, you mean..." Unlike Ning Zhuo had full tacit understanding with Sun Lingtong and immediately understood the latter's meaning.

They rescued the large force ahead of time, falling into the river.

The Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon was very compact, and none of the cultivators present were of the Jin Dan level, so they couldn't detect it.

Many corpses were floating in the river; Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo chose two whose injuries were not too obvious and whose clothing was relatively ordinary, and took their corpses into the mechanical wandering dragon.

Sun Lingtong immediately set to work in the cabin, following the appearance of the two corpses, performing the art of theft, and adding it to himself and Unlike Ning Zhuo.

A moment later, Unlike Ning Zhuo became a yellow-faced, pockmarked human youth, and Sun Lingtong became a sturdy and short ghost clan.

The two drilled out of the Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon, Unlike Ning Zhuo pretended to be unconscious, and Sun Lingtong hugged his waist, pretending to be a struggling survivor, and was soon discovered.

"There is a ghost clan person over there."

"That youth is Jiao Ma, the third son of the Jiao family!"

The survivors worked together to rescue Jiao Ma (Unlike Ning Zhuo) and the ghost clan person (Sun Lingtong) to the shore.

Unlike Ning Zhuo still closed his eyes, pretending to be unconscious, while Sun Lingtong lay on the ground retching, spitting out large mouthfuls of river water.

Enthusiastic cultivators came forward to check their injuries, then patted Sun Lingtong on the back: "Your injuries are very light, you are lucky, your lives are big!"

Someone shot at Unlike Ning Zhuo, waking him up: "Mazi, Mazi, wake up quickly."

Unlike Ning Zhuo's face was slapped very painfully, and he could only pretend to open his eyes; he was dazed, his eyes unfocused, his lips moved a few times, but he couldn't say a word.

"Good acting." Sun Lingtong watched from the corner of his eye, praising his little brother in his heart.

Isn't it?

Unlike Ning Zhuo was cultivated by Sun Lingtong since he was a child; in order to disguise himself, he put in a lot of effort. Even Meng Kui and others were fooled by him; deceiving these rural cultivators was naturally easy.

Sun Lingtong's art of theft also surged in power because of the Evil God's bone marrow. All these things made Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo successfully muddle through.

Many people knew Jiao Ma, whom Unlike Ning Zhuo was posing as, and asked about his well-being.

And the short-legged ghost clan played by Sun Lingtong was ignored by no one.

In short, the surrounding cultivators quickly accepted them without any suspicion.

Not long after, three support warships arrived here and rescued them.

The leader had Jin Dan-level cultivation and was a ghost clan, his face ugly: "This river section has always been safe, how could such a large group of bone-piercing crocodiles suddenly appear?"

He sent people to investigate, but found nothing.

The Jin Dan ghost clan leader personally questioned the survivors, including Unlike Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong, but did not ask for any valuable clues.

It was when asking about Unlike Ning Zhuo that this leader personally took action, performed healing spells on Unlike Ning Zhuo, and comforted him a few words.

Unlike Ning Zhuo immediately realized keenly that his relationship with this Jin Dan ghost clan seemed to be not shallow.

He first asked a question on his own initiative, and then suggested returning to the village to make plans.

The Jin Dan ghost clan stared at him, noticing that Unlike Ning Zhuo's tone was different from usual, but did not suspect much, instead shaking his head with a grave expression.

He walked a few steps, stood on the mountain rock, looked around, and announced: "You are going to White Paper City to send the bride, but you were intercepted halfway."

"Although no clues were detected, this situation has occurred repeatedly in various villages some time ago."

"We cannot go back; we must go to White Paper City."

"This time, I will lead the team personally and take you to continue the journey!"

He had high prestige and was the only Jin Dan cultivator in the audience; once the order was given, no one refuted it.

Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo looked at each other imperceptibly, both a little disappointed.

"Send the bride? Send what bride? Is this village going to marry and form an alliance with other forces? So it suffered the interception of a strong enemy?" Unlike Ning Zhuo was suspicious.

Sun Lingtong was also strange: "I didn't see the bride who is going to get married?"

"This has nothing to do with us. Why don't we find an opportunity later to sneak away from here?" Unlike Ning Zhuo suggested.

Sun Lingtong nodded slightly: "That works too."

Sun Ling and Unlike Ning Zhuo secretly discussed with spiritual sense, while on the surface they obeyed everyone and stepped onto the warship.

"Jiao Ma'er, come here." The Jin Dan ghost clan leader beckoned to Unlike Ning Zhuo.

Unlike Ning Zhuo, full of curiosity, walked to the front of the Jin Dan ghost clan.

The Jin Dan leader took out a treasure material and handed it to Unlike Ning Zhuo: "You risked your life to pick a Ghost-Face Banyan fruit for my daughter. Unfortunately, you were chosen to become the male concubine of the White Paper City Lord."

"Alas, our village is too small, how could we disobey the order of White Paper City?"

"You and my daughter have no fate, so be it. This is a stomach bag of a bone-piercing crocodile, Jin Dan level, I have already refined it for you."

"Afterward, you only need to escape your soul, drill into it, endure the corrosion, and then recover, which can greatly increase the toughness of your soul."

Unlike Ning Zhuo was surprised; he didn't expect that he was the one who was going to marry, and was speechless for a moment: "This..."

The Jin Dan leader patted him on the shoulder: "Don't think about returning to the village, and don't think about escaping halfway. You will sit by my side later,

I will guide you and let you practice with the help of the crocodile bag."

Unlike Ning Zhuo was quite speechless, being watched by the leader by his side like this.

According to his ability, he couldn't sneak away, and must use Sun Lingtong's art of theft.

Unfortunately, Sun Lingtong saw the fun and was already rolling with laughter in his heart: "Little Zhuo, your luck is really good. Let's just rush over like this, there's no need to go to other villages to get a fake identity."

Sun Lingtong was unwilling to cooperate; if Unlike Ning Zhuo forced it, he believed this Jin Dan cultivator couldn't stop him.

But Sun Lingtong knew him extremely well and immediately persuaded: "Although this identity of yours was obtained by accident, it should be very valuable."

"Look, you didn't do anything and you got a Jin Dan-level crocodile bag."

"And the White Paper City Lord, that is a Nascent Soul-level existence, surely she won't treat her male concubine badly."

"Little Zhuo, your cultivation method doesn't forbid leaking primordial yang; just dual cultivation alone will be of huge help to your cultivation."

"Think about it, a Nascent Soul-level female cultivator dual cultivating with you."

This made Unlike Ning Zhuo ponder: "Although that's what is said..."

Sun Lingtong said again: "Of course, dual cultivation also depends on how to practice. If it's harmful to us, then we'll just leave. We have the Ten-Thousand-Mile Wandering Dragon in our hands."

"Besides, even if we don't dual cultivate, just this identity alone should be able to get us a lot of benefits."

Unlike Ning Zhuo was gradually persuaded by Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong transmitted his thoughts, laughing: "Don't you think this is very exciting?"

If it were the old Unlike Ning Zhuo, he might have disagreed more.

But after experiencing the great war in the Liangzhu Kingdom, Unlike Ning Zhuo witnessed Long Ye's sacrifice with his own eyes and saw countless people spilling blood on the battlefield, which added a lot of courage and heroism to his heart.

Unlike Ning Zhuo finally nodded secretly: "This is indeed very likely to become a wonderful adventure."

"According to what the Jin Dan leader said before, many people were intercepted halfway. This shows that there is a force targeting the White Paper City Lord."

"And it also shows that the City Lord is collecting male concubines, and I am just one of them. And this is exactly what allows me to fish in troubled waters!"

Sun Lingtong said expectantly: "I wonder if we can rely on this convenience to sneak into the treasury of the City Lord's Mansion? Hehe."

They were still hoping to return to the village to mix for a while to enhance their disguise, but they didn't expect to get this identity, which was a bit counterproductive, and they had to rush to White Paper City immediately.