Chapter 614: The Rules of the Poison Dao

During the Soul Transformation realm, cultivators typically use an elixir called 【Ning Shen Dan】 to enhance their cultivation and break through physical barriers.

Of course, some single-element cultivators, during their enlightenment, can directly absorb and condense spiritual energy from the heavens and earth, thus avoiding the need to consume elixirs.

He Pingsheng cannot!

His elemental roots are too numerous; absorbing spiritual energy from the heavens and earth is far too inefficient.

So he must consume elixirs.

But the materials needed to refine this 【Ning Shen Dan】 are not fully available on He Pingsheng's person.

Fortunately, the most crucial primary ingredient lies within the fifth zone of the Youmingdigong.

"So many?" Qiao Hui Zhu was slightly astonished.

He Pingsheng looked at the entire slope, where over forty 【Yun Shen Ku Xing】 trees grew, and nodded: "After all, no one has harvested here for a thousand years!"

"It's normal to have so many!"

【Yun Shen Ku Xing】 are green apricots.

Their skin is wrinkled like an old man's face, shriveled and clustered together.

Hence the name 【Yun Shen Ku Xing】.

Each of the forty-plus 【Yun Shen Ku Xing】 trees bore two or three apricots.

In the end, the two of them harvested over a hundred apricots.

That's enough to refine a hundred batches of 【Ning Shen Dan】.

"Is this enough?" Qiao Hui Zhu asked He Pingsheng.

He Pingsheng shook his head: "Still short… the auxiliary materials are sufficient, but we're missing one primary ingredient: 【Sheng Xian Zi】. Unfortunately, there's none of it in this secret realm!"

"Let's go, next location!"

Whoosh…

He Pingsheng activated the Silver River Sky Shuttle and flew swiftly through the fifth zone with Qiao Hui Zhu.

Once fully extended, the Silver River Sky Shuttle moved more than ten times faster than Nan Li and the others.

He Pingsheng's spiritual sense continuously scanned the surroundings; whenever he "saw" other cultivators, he avoided them—this way, their weaker spiritual senses couldn't detect his Silver River Sky Shuttle.

After wandering back and forth within the secret realm for roughly three days, He Pingsheng had gathered all the items he needed.

But he didn't gather everything.

He harvested only half of some heavenly treasures, a third of others, and left untouched those useless to him.

One must leave something for others, right?

Thus, after three days, He Pingsheng arrived at the passage leading out of the fifth zone.

The passage of the fifth zone was no different from the previous four.

Same size, same specifications!

The difference lay in the cluster of Dao law hovering in the center of the passage.

The first four were, in order: the Dao of Reincarnation, the Dao of Creation, the Dao of Space, and the Dao of Time.

The final one was unique: the 【Poison Dao Law】.

One could understand it as a cluster of deadly poison suspended in the passage's center.

Countless Dao laws condensed spiritual energy from the heavens and earth, transforming it into the essence and aura of poison.

The entire passage was filled with deadly poison.

Even a thousand zhang beyond the passage, a faint veil of poison lingered.

"Husband… there's poison here!"

"I…"

"I think I've been poisoned!"

"My whole body feels numb!"

Before even entering the passage, Qiao Hui Zhu's face turned pale.

He Pingsheng didn't dare delay; he quickly grabbed her hand and leapt back beyond the thousand-zhang boundary.

The poison here was extraordinarily fierce.

Though only a thin layer, after just a few breaths, even Qiao Hui Zhu's formidable body and cultivation base lost half her combat power.

It was that terrifying.

He Pingsheng pressed palm to palm and drew the poison out of Qiao Hui Zhu's body.

"Thank goodness your husband cultivates Poison Dao techniques!" Qiao Hui Zhu looked nervously back at the passage: "Otherwise, I'd have perished here!"

He Pingsheng smiled: "Don't flatter me—you wouldn't have been poisoned if I weren't here."

Qiao Hui Zhu chuckled: "Hehehe… highlighting you is more important!"

"But how can one comprehend this Dao law under such deadly poison?"

"How can we even enter the sixth zone?"

She furrowed her brow.

This was a serious problem.

To comprehend a Dao rule, one must fully integrate it into one's body.

But poison won't allow it—if you open yourself to it, you'll die before you even begin to understand the Dao.

So you cannot comprehend it.

But if you don't comprehend it, how do you enter the sixth zone?

"I don't know!" He Pingsheng shook his head, then pulled out a jade slip.

The map showed the sixth zone was the same size.

But within the sixth zone, there was only one item.

On the sixth zone's map, a hall was marked: 【Hong Meng Dian】.

Inside 【Hong Meng Dian】 lay another object: 【Hong Meng Zi Jin】.

The entire sixth zone contained only one hall, and inside that hall, only one thing called 【Hong Meng Zi Jin】?

But… what exactly is 【Hong Meng Zi Jin】?

It sounded like a mineral deposit.

Yet the prefix 【Hong Meng】 meant this thing was no ordinary substance.

Yet over the years, countless cultivators reached the fifth zone—surely someone must have entered?

If anyone had entered, wouldn't the 【Hong Meng Zi Jin】 in the hall have been taken long ago?

After all, this isn't a 【Zi Jin】 mine—it's just a hall.

If any cultivator had ever entered, wouldn't he have taken all the materials inside?

"Actually, what I cultivate isn't some divine technique—it's merely a body refinement method!" He Pingsheng pulled out the jade slip of 【Jiu Du Lian Jin Shen】 and handed it to Qiao Hui Zhu: "Take a look!"

Qiao Hui Zhu glanced at it, then shook her head: "This looks disgusting—I won't cultivate it!"

He Pingsheng put the 【Jiu Du Lian Jin Shen】 away again.

There are many body refinement techniques in the world; there's no need to use poison to forge the body.

I'll find a suitable one for my wife later.

"Wait here for me—I'll try it myself!"

He Pingsheng tucked away the jade slip and stepped into the range covered by poison.

He Pingsheng had decent resistance to poison, so he sat cross-legged at the edge of the Poison Dao aura, beginning to absorb and comprehend its Dao rules!

Whether or not the 【Hong Meng Zi Jin】 in the sixth zone still existed, the Poison Dao Law itself was an irreplaceable treasure.

After entering the Soul Transformation realm, He Pingsheng needed to refine his body anyway.

Let's try.

After sitting cross-legged here for a full day, he gained some understanding of the poison aura.

This poison aura differed from the poison in the Tian Ji Deadlands.

The Tian Ji Deadlands were poisonous because the Tian Ji Divine Tree concentrated the Poison Dao's origin.

The origin emitted poison of the fifth rank.

He Pingsheng still carried several remnants of Poison Dao origin from the Tian Ji Deadlands.

But this poison aura wasn't merely emitted from an origin.

Here, the Poison Dao Law came first; its power then transformed surrounding celestial spiritual energy into poison.

Thus, this poison had no rank.

Or rather, all this poison was the Poison Dao Law itself.

It was all Poison Dao!

Since it was Dao, it could be comprehended.

He Pingsheng then pulled out a 【Tian Zhen Dan】, swallowed it whole.

Let's begin by comprehending this Poison Dao Law!