[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-treasure-immortal-basin":3,"chapter-the-treasure-immortal-basin-the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-82":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Treasure Immortal Basin",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2355265,4608,"Chapter 82: Poison Core, Poison Crust","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-82",82,"\u003Cp>Thud… thud… thud…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Yellow Turban Warriors, needing no control, spontaneously attacked one of the green-eyed white toads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng took on the other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did he have a moment to closely examine the beast before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Green-eyed white toad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only its eyes were emerald green; its entire body, from head to toe, was white.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And its body was enormous, fully five feet in size.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It looked as large as a young calf, terrifying to behold.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its gaping maw could swallow a sheep whole.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng had never in his life seen a toad or frog so massive; at first glance, he was even startled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as the fight continued, his shock gradually faded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For he realized that although the green-eyed white toad was huge and intimidating, its cultivation base was roughly equivalent to a human’s Qi Refining peak, twelfth layer.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet its actual combat power was limited.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, because He Pingsheng was immune to all poisons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this creature’s primary attack method was poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With poison useless, the threat it posed to He Pingsheng vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Second, the green-eyed white toad had low intelligence; beyond attacking and defending, it had no strategies or tricks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unlike the Zhuang siblings he’d encountered earlier, who were cunning and treacherous.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cut…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After roughly half a stick of incense’s worth of struggle, He Pingsheng effortlessly drove his supreme flying immortal sword through the white toad’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Plop…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bright red blood gushed forth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After suffering a grievous wound, the white toad immediately turned and tried to retreat into the water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng naturally wouldn’t grant it that chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cut…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff… puff… puff…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Several consecutive sword flashes descended, and the green-eyed white toad rolled its eyes back, dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other green-eyed white toad, still fighting the Yellow Turban Warriors, was unharmed—but seeing its companion die, it too felt the urge to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet He Pingsheng wouldn’t give it an opening; he raised his sword and struck, slaying it in one blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The simple battle ended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No heart-stopping drama, no twists.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A straightforward, one-sided slaughter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Retreat!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng softly commanded, and the Yellow Turban Warriors instantly dissolved, their golden spiritual energy returning to his body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the two dead poison toads, He Pingsheng naturally wouldn’t let them go to waste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was cultivating the 【Nine Poisons Golden Body】 technique; the toxins within these toads had to be utilized.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Walking to the corpses, he infused a thread of spiritual energy into his small flying sword, which shrank to the size of a dagger, one foot long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sss… sss… sss…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a light slash, he cut open the toad’s skin and flesh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Splash! Blood and unidentifiable organs spilled across the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng noticed that the toad’s skin wasn’t white—it was green.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, it had appeared white because a layer of white, waxy substance coated its skin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng lightly scraped the toad’s skin with his flying sword, and chunks of white toad venom fell to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sss… sss… sss…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where the toad venom landed, the unknown plants growing on the soil instantly withered to yellow, then turned to ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn…” He Pingsheng exclaimed in shock: “This stuff is this toxic?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Toad venom is a poison too!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Collect it!” He Pingsheng excitedly said: “This is a good find—keep it, use it for body refinement!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Body refinement requires various poisons—the more, the better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At present, He Pingsheng had only just entered the 【Qi Refining Section】 of the 【Nine Poisons Golden Body】 technique, reaching the first level.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still far from enough!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a few swift motions, he scraped off all the toad venom from both corpses, piling it into one large mass—over ten catties in total.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After securing the 【toad venom】, He Pingsheng continued slicing open the toad corpses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Due to their low cultivation level, such beasts wouldn’t contain a beast core—but they would definitely contain poison cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few breaths, He Pingsheng found a white poison core inside the toad.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>About the size of a fist, cold to the touch, emitting faint hissing white poison vapor, it looked as pure and white as ice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A white poison core—rare indeed!” He Pingsheng didn’t hesitate; he collected both the white poison core and the toad venom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two poison cores, over ten catties of toad venom—enough to cultivate for a long time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This thing was large; far bigger than the poison cores inside the 【Tiger-Striped Golden Bees】—one of these equaled thousands upon thousands of bee cores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After taking the poison cores and toad venom, He Pingsheng peeled off the skins of both toads.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were valuable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Beast hides, once cut and prepared, could directly become talisman paper; selling them at the Jiaoyi Society could fetch plenty of spirit stones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So they couldn’t be discarded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once everything was done, the sky gradually darkened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunset retracted its final ray of light.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He Pingsheng found a clear patch of ground beside the pond and arranged his supreme formation materials in a specific pattern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, a defensive formation flared into existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had spent every night inside such a formation these past days!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most creatures in the secret realm were level-one Qi Refining beasts; even if they detected the formation, they couldn’t break it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No need to worry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for second-rank Foundation Establishment beasts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He’d heard rumors of them before, but they were extremely rare—practically nonexistent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If such creatures existed, they’d be a nightmare for Qi Refining disciples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should one appear, the Daoxuan Alliance would send teams of cultivators to enter and exterminate it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon entering the formation, his first act was to take out his Treasure Basin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He also placed the 【poison cores】 and 【toad venom】 inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past days, his gains in the secret realm had been substantial.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Excluding the Zhuang siblings he’d slain and the bee honey he’d obtained, He Pingsheng had gathered many level-one spirit herbs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But these items were gradually becoming dull to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Level-one spirit herbs weren’t worth much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And they could all be bought with spirit stones—without effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly felt drawn to the location marked by the Zhuang family for the 【Zhu Yu Fruit】.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Foundation Establishment Pills were something he’d need sooner or later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There are three bottlenecks in Qi Refining: breaking from tenth to eleventh layer, eleventh to twelfth, and twelfth to Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Foundation Establishment Pill isn’t strictly necessary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For some genius disciples, they can cross into Foundation Establishment without it, with no bottleneck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for most, at least one bottleneck exists—Foundation Establishment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Foundation Establishment Pill is one of the celestial treasures for breaking through.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And to break this bottleneck, only the Foundation Establishment Pill will do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For He Pingsheng, with his Five Element Spirit Roots, the importance of the Foundation Establishment Pill goes without saying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, the Foundation Establishment Pill is a second-rank elixir; both the pill itself and its materials are extremely precious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could obtain the Zhu Yu Fruit, whether to sell it or save it for alchemy, it would be an excellent choice.\u003C\u002Fp>",1157,"2026-06-21T04:08:57.694Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","a2351b5bde607fcde671e5f6a33a19d06a51650d18a3d097ac31d62ded57f2da","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-83","the-treasure-immortal-basin-chapter-81",1000,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-treasure-immortal-basin-cover.jpg"]