Chapter 77: The Five Poisons Cave Mansion

  The three of them immediately walked down the high slope, raised their respective jade buildings, opened the yuanqi canopy, and entered the mushroom forest. All they saw were scattered human skulls everywhere in the mushroom forest, some had just died, still with skin and flesh on them, while others had been dead for unknown periods of time, shocking to behold.

  There were still many weapons and undead warriors scattered on the ground, which had been corroded for a long time and would crumble at a touch, making them unusable.

  "This is my second uncle Zhou Ding's magic soldier. Ten years ago, he was ordered to explore Eagle Gorge, and I was only five years old that year..."

  Zhou Shiwen stood under a giant mushroom, bent down to pick up a broadsword, silently staring at the mushroom, with a hint of sadness on his face.

  Ye Xu gazed at this patch of mushroom forest, and his heart was also filled with emotions.

  Buried here are not only the Wu family's witches, but also the Ye and Fang families' witches. They were ordered to come and open up the wasteland, but unknowingly died here, their bodies turning into giant mushrooms.

  Most of them didn't have the strength to display true fire, nor did they understand the yuanqi cloak. Only a few had the strength to cross this mushroom forest.

  However, no one has ever returned alive from Eagle Gorge!

  The Eagle Gorge has buried countless heroes of past dynasties, but now it is going to be opened up by them!

  "Two gentlemen, let's get rid of this poisonous mushroom to avoid harming others in the future!" Ye Xu said.

  The three of them immediately took action, digging up the person-headed mushroom and removing it along with its roots. Although the spore spray emitted by the person-headed mushroom was extremely dangerous, they had yuanqi masks to protect their bodies, so the spores were unable to invade and thus harmless.

  They also collected a few more witch soldiers, all of whom were the remains of witches who had gone to Eagle Gorge for adventure.

  These witches should have died a few years ago, but the witch soldiers had not been corroded and were still bright and shiny.

  Zhou Shiwen only took that broadsword, Fang Chen took away two of them, and the remaining three witch soldiers fell into Ye Xu's hands.

  According to their prior agreement, Ye Xu could take one more thing.

  The eagles opened up a barren valley, and as they had expected, the harvest was incredibly surprising!

  The effect of the witch soldier is not as good as that of the witch treasure, but there are not many in number, and it is very precious.

  Only important figures among the three major witch families have the qualifications to wield magic weapons, ordinary witches can only admire them.

  "What's wrong with Wu Bao?" Zhou Shiwen stroked his big beard, somewhat regretful.

  Ye Xue smiled and said, "One witch soldier is enough to exchange for a witch method, these witch soldiers are enough to arm us to the teeth, Zhou brother is being too greedy."

  Fang Chen smiled proudly and said, "These witch soldiers are far from enough. My goal is to collect many more witch soldiers, then melt them all down and forge a single witch treasure!"

  As all the mushroom-like objects were cleared away, a hole about one person high suddenly appeared before the three of them. A faint light was coming from inside the hole.

  This cave is on the right side of the cliff, and has been covered by a cluster of mushrooms for years, so no one has discovered it. Now that the mushrooms have all been cleared away, it can be seen again.

  On the stone wall at the entrance, there were a few ancient seal characters written. Ye Xuan read them carefully and found that they were the four words "Five Poison Cave Mansion". The strokes of the characters had fallen off somewhat, obviously having been abandoned for a long time.

  "Could it be that someone once lived in Eagle Gorge?"

  He was shocked, they had not even explored a quarter of the Eagle Gorge, but the danger here was already chilling, if someone had lived here before, then this person's cultivation, I'm afraid it would be more terrifying than the masters of the three major families!

  "Since we're already here, why don't we go in and take a look? We might gain something big!" Zhou Shiwen said excitedly.

  Ye Xuan nodded, and took the lead in walking into this Five Poison Cave Mansion. The exterior of the cave mansion was not large, but inside it was extremely vast, bright and clean, as if it were a separate world.

  Above the cave is hanging some stone icicles, this should be a natural cave, don't know who slightly decorated it and made it their own dwelling.

  On both sides of the cave, large night pearls were embedded, shining brightly and emitting soft light. Each one was as big as a fist, with over twenty in total!

  In the center of each night pearl, a strange fish is sealed. This strange fish has a human body and a fish head, obviously refined into an essence. It's only two inches in size, with a ferocious and ugly appearance, its mouth full of nail-like teeth, and its entire body covered in dark greenish-black fish scales.

  On their foreheads grew a thing like a fishing rod, carrying a lantern, and the bright light was emitted from the lantern.

  After many years, these fish spirits still haven't died, carrying lanterns and swimming back and forth in the night pearls!

  Even though the three of them had seen and experienced a lot, they couldn't help but be shocked into stupidity.

  Each of these night pearls seals a living fish spirit, shining forever, and is priceless. Even the three major families couldn't possibly possess such wealth!

  In comparison, those vassals they had originally picked up outside were simply beneath contempt!

  "Too luxurious!"

  Ye Xuan shook his head and sighed, reached out to pick a night pearl, put it into his own jade building, with a tragic and sympathetic look, said: "Luxury is just waste, let me put away these decadent things, lest they spread out and cause a bloody storm."

  In the blink of an eye, he had picked up six or seven night pearls.

  Fang Chen and Zhou Shiwen exchanged a glance, hastily heading towards the other night pearls, laughing: "How can this heavy burden be shouldered by Brother Ye alone? Let us help share some of it!"

  "Exactly! Shaobao, how can your thin and weak shoulders bear such a heavy burden? My shoulders are thick and strong, I can carry more!"

  In a short time, the three of them had picked off all the night pearls, and the cave was suddenly plunged into darkness.

  Ye Xuan took out a night pearl to illuminate, and the dim light spread out, only to see Fang Chen and Zhou Shiwen staring at themselves, their two pairs of eyes emitting a dim green glow, like hungry wolves.

  Ye Xu rubbed his nose and smiled: "You two gentlemen, would you really be moved to kill me because of these external things?"

  Zhou Shiwen sneered: "You little scoundrel took the lead, picked the most, and must share with us a few, everyone gets an equal share is fair!"

  Fang Chen's eyes sparkled with a sharp light, and he nodded in agreement. With a cold hum, he said, "Otherwise, my Blood Demon Yuan Soul Great Method wouldn't mind devouring another resentful spirit!"

  Ye Xu glanced around, smiled faintly and said: "Things swallowed by me will never be spat out! This cave's space is not large, Zhou brother your Wind and Thunder Wings are probably hard to use, right? Fang brother, how much power does your Blood Demon Yuan Soul Great Method have in this kind of terrain?"

  The two men's fierce gaze paused, looking around, this terrain was indeed not suitable for their strength to be exerted, but Ye Xu could exert his full strength in this terrain!

  "Two gentlemen, greed is the original sin!" Ye Xu advised with a bitter tone.

  "Xiao Bao, when you said this sentence, didn't you feel even a little bit of shame or guilt?"

  "Damn it, you little brat is even more greedy than me!"

  Fang Chen could only give up. In a place like this, taking action would be useless for the two of them together, and they might even end up being taken down by Ye Xu instead.

  Each of them raised a glowing pearl and continued walking forward.

  Unconsciously arrived at a spacious place deep in the cave, the first thing that caught my eye was an extremely small and delicate ancient tripod cauldron, with two ears and three legs, all over vermilion red, I don't know what kind of wood it was made of, emitting a strong fragrance.

  This is a wooden tripod cauldron.

  Ye Xudan's heart suddenly started racing violently in her chest, as if she had encountered something that moved her deeply.

  He was moved in his heart, and looked around, only to see that the cave mansion was filled with a faint white mist, like mercury, heavy and attached to the ground. It was similar to the mist in the water pool under the Black Eagle Ridge waterfall, although not as dense as the mist in the water pool, but also quite impressive!

  It was this mist that stimulated Bai Yulou's abnormal change and forced him to grow a layer!

  His heart was racing wildly, he quickly calmed himself and continued to scan his surroundings.

  All that was seen was a meditation mat in the center of the cave, with a skull sitting on top of it, wearing a dark black robe, its head hung low, and it was unknown how many years it had been dead.

  However, that dark black robe never rotted and remained shiny as new.

  Next to the skull were scattered a few volumes of scriptures and a jade vase.

  Those several volumes of scriptures were made from paper woven with golden threads and could last for a long time without decaying.

  A skull stretched out a withered bony hand, leaving behind a line of words in front of him. Ye Xuan looked closely and saw that it was written: "The primordial fetus is not yet formed, the lifespan has already been exhausted, what can be done? What can be done?" The language revealed an endless sorrow and unwillingness like a heroic decline.

  "Our family's ancestor, Lian Yuandan, didn't even succeed in refining his elixir, yet the master of Wudu Cave Mansion almost managed to cultivate a primordial fetus, and is countless times more formidable than General Qin of the Qin army mentioned by Big Brother Ye Qin!" He was shocked beyond measure.

  The most eye-catching thing is that on top of the skull, a small triangular flag is floating, with a body as black as ink, only three inches in size. On the surface of the flag, poisonous insects, snakes and ants are crawling, killing each other, extremely cruel, as if there is another world inside the flag!

  This small black flag emits a terrifying aura, fluctuating unpredictably in mid-air!

  "Wu Bao?"

  Ye Xue's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he involuntarily exclaimed. Immediately, his heart stirred, and he couldn't hold back the urge to kill: "Slaughter the two little brats beside me, and monopolize this treasure for myself!"