Mao Wenjie liked it more and more as he looked. The thousand-year-old wisteria is an absolute top-grade ingredient for pain relief, though it has a high toxicity. After special processing, it is a divine medicine for treating injury and swelling. It's not possible that such a thousand-year-old wisteria tree would not be guarded by a mythical beast, is it?
A mythical beast has injured its paw and bitten through the wisteria skin. It is applied to the wound, and the pain disappears immediately. Such a divine medicine, how could there not be a guardian? The Records of the Yellow Springs mentions that wisteria is a medicinal plant with the ability to reduce swelling and alleviate pain. It can be used to treat various surgical conditions, such as swelling and pain caused by falls and injuries. This is an essential medicine for cultivators! I will take them to fetch the thousand-year-old wisteria tree tomorrow.
Mao Wenjie inspects the surroundings and finds no danger. He closes his eyes and cultivates his spirit. He directly releases his body shielding qi, and those mythical beasts that mistakenly wander into this area have to flee obediently.
The next morning, as the east turned pale with the light of dawn, Mao Wenjie ceased his meditation. The Kunlun secret realm truly lives up to its reputation; practicing cultivation here truly makes one advance by a thousand miles in a single day! If one were really trapped in this secret realm, it would take no more than a year to transcend and ascend, thanks to the extraordinarily dense concentration of spiritual energy.
Liu Xiaogang and the others were even more shocking, "Brother Mao, we all feel like we want to breakthrough in a single night, this is simply incredible!"
Mao Wenjie smiled, "It's quite normal, nothing is impossible here. The spiritual energy density is tens of thousands of times higher than outside, and you've also absorbed the energy from high-level demon cores. It's natural for your advancement to be faster. Based on my observations, all of you may reach the mid-Golden Dan stage in three days."
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiaogang and the others were extremely shocked. To break through so quickly? The happiness came too suddenly!
Mo Shan Shan snorted and harrumphed, "You think it's difficult to follow me, Brother Mao? The truth is, my sister Qingyao and I, along with Brother Mao, have improved by almost ten small levels in just a few months. We are together!"
Upon hearing this, Liu Xiaogang and the others were shocked, "What speed is this? It's faster than taking a spaceship. Such a pace of advancement means you can transcend and ascend within a year, Brother Mao! You're practically an artisan of creating immortals!"
Mao Wenjie cut off their conversation. "Forward for over two thousand meters, there's a thousand-year-old wisteria. Let's go and gather it, refine it into a pill, the elixir we can't do without in our secret realm trials—the Wound Healing Pill!"
Qian Yongping was confused. "Brother Mao, we've all heard of Golden Wound Elixir, Golden Wound Powder, and Golden Wound Ointment. We haven't heard of Golden Wound Pill before."
Mao Wenjie smiled and said, "It's normal for you not to have heard of it. After all, high-level alchemists are too rare. The ingredients for Golden Wound Pill require many that are highly toxic. If you're not careful and someone mistakenly eats them, they could die. For instance, wisteria, horse chestnut seeds, and monkshood all contain deadly toxins, but they are the best painkillers. Therefore, we need an absolute way to remove the toxicity to ensure there is no risk to human life. I have other ingredients required for alchemy here such as Dragon Bone, Aconite Root (processed), Dragon's Blood Resin (Bleeder), Limulus exsidialis (Chinese Sessile Spider), Ammonium Phosphate (Daphnia), Artemisia chinensis etc. Don't worry; I've made Golden Wound Pill before. With a thousand-year-old wisteria tree in front of us, I will certainly make some Golden Wound Pill."
An Dehai, Zhang Bai Shun, Niu Mu Ye, Liu Xiaogang and their families are not involved in the herb business, so they know less about these things than Qian Yongping. After listening for a while, they were still in a fog. In their hearts, they had only one belief: Brother Mao would never harm them. As for the rest, they simply didn't give it a thought.
Mao Wenjie led them about five hundred meters away from the wisteria tree. He felt a pressure from a cave-realization later-stage beast. No wonder there are no other beasts active here; this wisteria tree is being targeted by a cave-realization later-stage beast. Other beasts are too afraid to make any trouble here. Stay here and wait for me. There's an aura of a cave-realization later-stage beast ahead, and I'll go check what it is."
Ding Qingyao was full of fear. "How could there be a beast from the eighth zone in this seventh zone? Is this a bit too unfair? If people coming here for training get close to this area, isn't it ten deaths to one?"
Mao Wenjie said calmly, "It's likely that the beast was injured and escaped here. It was rescued by this wisteria tree by chance, which is why it guards the thousand-year-old wisteria. Otherwise, how could no one recognize this wisteria? It's probably that someone recognized it and came here to feel danger, so they left."
Qin Lingyue heard this and thought it was very possible. "Mao Wenjie said it makes sense," she commented. "The people who come here for training are at the stage of cultivation unity, so even if they encounter a peak cultivation unity-level beast, they can't fight back, but they should be able to run away. If they meet a late cave-realization-stage beast, there's no chance of escaping because the power gap is too great. That's why this thousand-year-old wisteria has been preserved until now. This might be fate; who would have thought that a cultivator with early great perfection-level strength like Mao Wenjie would come to this seventh zone?"
Mao Wenjie, who was a hundred meters away from the thousand-year-old wisteria, felt that the beast had unusual movements and released a pressure that enveloped an area of one hundred square meters. Where was it? Mao Wenjie used his spiritual sense to probe further. He discovered that there was a mountain cave that could be climbed behind the wisteria tree. The pressure was released from the cave, and there was a python coiled around 100 meters inside the cave. It's you, Mao Wenjie retracted his spiritual sense and took a step by step towards the wisteria tree. When he was about ten meters away from the thousand-year-old wisteria, the head of the python had already been next to it and was puffing out a snake tongue over one meter long with hissing sounds. It stared at him with its eyes wide open.
Mao Wenjie looked at the python, snorted coldly, "You beast dare to be insolent?" He then unleashed the pressure of early great perfection stage.
The python, frightened by the pressure released by Mao Wenjie, retreated into the cave. "This human doesn't understand martial ethics," it thought. "I came from the eighth zone to the seventh zone because I was seriously injured and near death. While I was mixing in the seventh zone, I discovered this thousand-year-old wisteria tree. I once passed by here with an injury and accidentally brushed against its bark. My wound healed just as it passed over the spot where the bark had fallen off, and my damaged meridians all recovered to their original state, which is when I knew it was a treasure vine. This time, it was this treasure vine that saved my life again. My plan was to take the vine back to the eighth zone once I reached cave-realization peak. You human without martial ethics are truly shameless. You clearly have great perfection stage strength but don't go to the ninth zone; instead, you come here to play weak and eat strong in the seventh zone. Are you not ashamed of yourself? You're truly a cunning human."
Mao Wenjie didn't care about all that. He approached the thousand-year-old wisteria tree and prepared to pull it out. The python, however, burst out of the cave without hesitation. It flicked its tongue at a high frequency, showing no signs of giving up on its existence with the wisteria tree.
Mao Wenjie watched the scene with a smile, "You beast are courting death. Watch me slap you to death," he said, just as he raised his hand,
Suddenly, the voice of Chilian Immortal Qingxia appeared in his mind, "Master, wait a moment. It has cultivated for over two thousand years and will soon be able to transform. You can give it pills to promote its transformation. Once it transforms, I can use its body to ascend, which will be a double benefit. Otherwise, I don't know how long it would take to find a body."
Mao Wenjie nodded and agreed, "I can spare its life, give it Breakthrough Golden Dan, even give it Spirit Essence Stone for it to absorb. Let it transform. As for whether it is willing or not, that depends on its destiny."
Chilian Immortal Qingxia, Master, please be assured. I will communicate with it. I'm sure it will agree.
Mao Wenjie smiled and said, "You want to communicate with it, but I see that you want to possess it."
Chilian Immortal Qingxia looked at Mao Wenjie, "Master, why are you so smart? I've established a mental contract with you. If I want to possess a human again, you definitely won't agree. Possessing a creature of the same species, would you oppose it?"
Mao Wenjie nodded, "You can borrow its physical body, but if you do, your cultivation level will definitely drop. That's an inevitable consequence."
Chilian Immortal Qingxia countered, "Master, don't you think you're being too smart? I know borrowing its physical body will definitely drop my cultivation level, but it's also a helpless act. At least it's better than always being a sword spirit without a body. It's just another test of cultivation. Otherwise, even if you ascend to heaven, I will still stay in the mortal world as a sword spirit. Although I will have to go through another test of cultivation, at least there is a chance of becoming an immortal."
Mao Wenjie nodded and agreed, "Go ahead. I'll wait for you here."
Chilian Immortal Qingxia flew out of the Dragon Spring Sword and directly entered the python's mind. She wouldn't care if the python agreed or not and directly swallowed its soul. The pain of the python's soul being devoured was no better than that of a human. It writhed its body, which was over thirty meters long, hitting the stone walls of the cave with loud thuds. The noise was so intense that it made Ding Qingyao and the others, who were half a kilometer away, shiver with fear. After more than half an hour, the noise in the cave died down. The python emerged from its hole and said to Mao Wenjie, "Give me Breakthrough Golden Dan. It's best if you give it to me together with Spirit Essence Stone so that I can transform and accompany you in undergoing trials."
Mao Wenjie took out three Breakthrough Pillars, "You have a few thousand years of cultivation, and there should be no problem in taking three Breakthrough Pillars at once. With these Spirit Essence Stones, whether you can transform depends on the will of heaven."
Chilian Immortal Qingxia directly consumed three Breakthrough Pillars.
Mao Wenjie threw the Spirit Essence Stones directly into the cave, and only then did he feel secure enough to pull out the thousand-year-old wisteria tree. He passed a message to Ding Qingyao and her team, "Wait here at the entrance of the cave. I'll refine some Golden Injury Healing Pill."
Ding Qingyao and the others sat cross-legged and continued to absorb the energy from the spirit bead.
After over an hour, Mao Wenjie refined some Golden Injury Healing Pill and was satisfied with the result. He put it into his spatial ring and muttered to himself, "Time has almost come. Where is Qingxia? Is this really fate?"
Just as he was thinking, there came a sound of crackling from inside the cave, which startled them so much that all of them who were absorbing the essence from the spirit bead stopped meditating and stared fixedly at the cave entrance.
Ding Qingyao asked in a hurry, "Mao Wenjie, what's inside the cave? It's making such a loud noise. Didn't you say there was a late cave-realization stage beast in there? Why is it making such a commotion? Don't you think you should kill it?"
Mao Wenjie smiled and looked at the mouth of the cave, "You don't need to be in a hurry. In a while, you'll understand what's going on."
As they were speaking, a voice suddenly rang out from the entrance of the cave: "Master, do you find me beautiful?"
