Cultivation Begins From The Desert-Chapter 179 - 177: Xiao Ying [Seeking Subscription]

"Don’t kill me, don’t kill me, I admit defeat, I am willing to hand over all my possessions to Fellow Daoist, no, to Senior, please spare my worthless life!"

Outside Dan Yun Peak, Tian Feng, barely holding onto life, no longer showed any trace of his previous smugness, resembling a tail-wagging pet dog, kneeling on the ground, continuously kowtowing and pleading for mercy to Zhouyang.

Zhouyang was stunned to see this situation.

Though he never regarded Tian Feng and his companions as a threat, he didn’t expect Tian Feng, a dignified Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, to grovel so shamelessly before another Mid-Stage Foundation Establishment Cultivator, truly disgracing the face of Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

"I’m ashamed to be a Foundation Establishment Cultivator alongside you. How someone like you succeeded in Foundation Establishment is really a blind spot in fate!"

As he looked at the kowtowing Tian Feng on the ground, his expression soured, feeling disgusted as though he had just swallowed feces.

If Tian Feng’s previous words of twisting truths and confusing facts made Zhouyang feel contempt and anger, his current shameless groveling to another peer has pushed Zhouyang’s understanding to new lows, merely heightening his disgust.

However, the prostrate Tian Feng seemed oblivious to Zhouyang’s taunting words, continuing to kowtow and say constantly, "Yes, yes, whatever Senior says is right, I plead for Senior to spare my life!"

"You want to..."

Zhouyang intended to say "dream on," but his words barely left his lips before his expression changed, hurriedly channeling all his magical power into the body-protecting divine technique "Qianyang Golden Light." In Xiao Ying’s eyes at Dan Yun Peak, he seemed to turn into a miniature golden sun.

Even so, a tiny, dark green poison needle instantly pierced through his thick layer of Protective Golden Light and burrowed straight into his chest.

Meanwhile, Tian Feng, who had acted like a supplicating pet dog previously, suddenly stood up with a smug expression, burst into laughter as he looked at Zhouyang: "Ha ha ha, you’ve been struck by my {Netherworld Bone-Eroding Needle}. Unless you instantly find a Golden Core Stage Cultivator to help expel the poison, otherwise you absolutely won’t live..."

Unfortunately, Tian Feng’s smug words were similarly unfinished when Zhouyang, who had been caught off guard, suddenly glared at him, an invisible Divine Sense Needle instantly pierced Tiang Feng’s mind, scattering his fragile Divine Soul on the spot.

Nevertheless, Zhouyang, still feeling uncertain, gathered his remaining strength to command his Flying Sword to circle around Tian Feng’s neck, severing his head cleanly.

After accomplishing all of this, Zhouyang quickly pulled out some antidotal elixirs from his Storage Bag and immediately sat cross-legged, circulating his energy to expel the poison needle’s toxins from his body through the refinement of the Spirit Pill.

At this time, Xiao Ying, who had been stunned by the sequence of events, suddenly awoke as if from a dream with her face changing dramatically, hurriedly stepping out from the array to Zhouyang’s side.

"Fellow Daoist, are you alright? What can I do to help you?"

Her face was full of worry looking at Zhouyang as she asked, her voice filled with panic.

Yet Zhouyang, amidst focusing entirely on expelling the poison, despite hearing her words, didn’t dare distract himself to respond.

This made Xiao Ying anxious to the point that tears uncontrollably welled in her beautiful eyes.

She had no experience in magical combat, and when Tian Feng was expelled from the sect, she was only a teenager, unaware of any methods her senior might possess. Knowing Zhouyang was ambushed by Tian Feng, she couldn’t think of any way to aid him, merely fretting.

Just then, as she was anxious to the point of tears, suddenly Zhouyang took a deep breath and then exhaled forcibly with a loud shout, causing the poison needle embedded in his chest to finally be expelled from his body.

Spurt!

After expelling the poison needle, he immediately spewed a mouthful of darkened poisonous blood and weakly looked at Xiao Ying saying, "If you truly wish to assist Zhou, it would be grateful if you would allow me to temporarily use your cave dwelling to heal and expel poison. If you can provide some antitoxic elixir or Spirit Elixir, Zhou would be even more thankful."

After speaking, he paused, glanced at the corpses of Tian Feng and his companions on the ground, and said, "I also ask for your assistance in cremating the bodies of these three, lest they attract demon beasts. Furthermore, if you could scour their Storage Bags and see if any antitoxic Spirit Pills can be found, that would be very helpful!"

Upon hearing his words, Xiao Ying immediately felt as if she had found a mainstay, nodding repeatedly as she answered, "No problem, Fellow Daoist can use my cave dwelling as needed. As for antitoxic Spirit Pills, I recall my master left a Tier Three Spirit Pill {Snow Lotus Clearing Fever Pill} for Ying’Er. I’ll fetch it for Fellow Daoist immediately."

Finished speaking, she hurriedly ran to Tian Feng’s headless corpse, forcibly holding back her nausea as she took the green-grey Storage Bag from his waist that he had previously stolen, and after some searching inside, quickly produced a small Jade Bottle made of Cold Jade and handed it to Zhouyang: "Fellow Daoist, give it a try, see whether this {Snow Lotus Clearing Fever Pill} helps the Fellow Daoist’s injuries."

Zhouyang took the Jade Bottle, opened it, poured out the pigeon egg-sized white Spirit Pill from inside, brought it to his nose to sniff, then closed his eyes to sense it for a moment. His face showed a hint of joy as he exclaimed, "It works very well, and the effect is excellent!"

After he finished speaking, he immediately swallowed the Spirit Pill in his hand, then instructed Xiao Ying to activate Dan Yun Peak’s Mountain Protection Array before he directly plunged into the cave mansion on the mountain to refine the Spirit Pill.

Seeing this, Xiao Ying couldn’t help but show a hint of joy on her face, then she followed Zhouyang’s instructions, first collecting the items from the three corpses on the ground, and then conjured three bursts of Foundation Establishment True Flame to burn the corpses into ashes.

However, when she entered the cave mansion with the collected spoils and saw Zhouyang sitting on the jade couch in her bedroom refining the Spirit Pill, her pretty face immediately turned crimson.

At that moment, she only remembered that since her master passed away, she had sealed the stone chambers where her master usually cultivated and lived in the cave mansion. Realizing that Zhouyang couldn’t access the other rooms, it made sense that he would be forced into her private quarters to refine the antidote.

"Hmm, Master often said that as cultivators we shouldn’t be bound by common etiquette. Besides, Fellow Daoist Zhou has saved my life. He was injured because he saved me. We can’t blame him for this!"

Her face flushed red as she looked at Zhouyang’s handsome face, then quietly left the bedroom and closed the door.

The "Netherworld Bone-Eroding Needle" from Tian Feng was indeed highly toxic. Although he claimed before dying that only a Golden Core Stage cultivator could remove the toxin, which was certainly an exaggeration, the poison from this needle was indeed lethal for any ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators.

Fortunately, Zhouyang was not an ordinary Foundation Establishment cultivator.

He practiced the "Qianyang Immortal Scripture," which inherently had a strong ability to expel toxins. Along with timely ingestion of various Antitoxic Elixirs, especially the "Snow Lotus Clearing Fever Pill," which seemed specially crafted to counteract the poison from the "Netherworld Bone-Eroding Needle."

Through the combined effects of these Antitoxic Elixirs and his strong innate detoxifying ability, he successfully expelled all the poison from the "Netherworld Bone-Eroding Needle" after a whole month of secluded cultivation within the cave mansion on Dan Yun Peak.

"Brother Zhou, Ying’Er made a Blood Replenishing and Bone Strengthening Soup using the demon beast meat you provided along with some Blood and Qi Replenishing Elixirs from the medicinal garden. It’s based on the recipe recorded in master’s herbal recipe book. Try it and see how it tastes."

On Dan Yun Peak, Zhouyang was holding a jade scroll, studying the information within when he saw Xiao Ying approaching with a big bowl of medicinal soup, smiling brightly.

It had been two days since he emerged from seclusion, and within these two days, he learned from Xiao Ying about the disputes between her master and her senior brother Tian Feng, understanding the whole story.

According to Xiao Ying, her master was originally a child of a certain cultivation clan. Later, the clan was annihilated due to being embroiled in battles between cultivation sects, with only her master surviving because he was away.

After surviving, her master didn’t dare to foolishly seek revenge against the offending cultivation sect, instead choosing to leave his homeland and go to the Broken Cloud Mountain Range to live disguised as a Loose Cultivator.

Tian Feng was the first disciple her master took in during his time as a Loose Cultivator.

But later, Xiao Ying’s master discovered that Tian Feng was deceitful, secretly colluding with others to harm other Loose Cultivators. Enraged, he expelled Tian Feng from the sect.

Since Xiao Ying’s master had cultivation at the Ninth-Layer Foundation Establishment stage, Tian Feng dared not appear before his master again during his lifetime, let alone seek revenge.

Yet, half a year ago, not long after Xiao Ying successfully established her Foundation, her master reached the end of his lifespan and passed away on Dan Yun Peak.

After recovering from the grief of her master’s passing for about half a year, Xiao Ying encountered Tian Feng coming for revenge.

After understanding the situation, Zhouyang naturally felt great sympathy for Xiao Ying’s plight and did not regret his decisive decision to intervene and save her.

The reason he hadn’t left immediately after recovering from his poison injuries over the past two days was partly to take advantage of Dan Yun Peak’s environment to fully restore his previously depleted Primordial Qi. The other reason was because of Xiao Ying. frёewebnoѵēl.com

Due to the fact that he had bravely saved her life in her moment of crisis, Xiao Ying trusted him greatly. During their interactions over the past two days, she had shared many things with him.

Thus, he learned that Xiao Ying not only possessed the dual attributes of wood and fire with top-grade Spiritual Root talent but was also a Tier Two High-grade Alchemist and Spirit Plant Cultivator, all while being just thirty years old!

In the Cultivation Realm of Liuyun Continent, it wasn’t particularly rare for thirty-year-olds to become Foundation Establishment Cultivators—almost every clan’s upper-grade Spiritual Root cultivators could easily reach this stage.

However, becoming a Foundation Establishment Cultivator at thirty while simultaneously elevating Alchemy and Spirit Plant Techniques to Tier Two High-grade is truly astonishing!

Still, this wasn’t the fundamental reason Zhouyang chose to stay. The primary reason he decided to delay his significant mission of heading to Immortal Sun City to meet Cao Wenjin was because, during conversations with Xiao Ying over the past two days, she inadvertently expressed a desire to leave Dan Yun Peak and travel the Cultivation Realm.

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