Chapter 38: The Extent of Women's Love for Beauty

  All the way bumpy, injured Shidi and sisters were carefully taken care of, but under several times of monster impact and sneak attack, they still got hurt again, wound bleeding was inevitable, not to mention becoming a burden, how hard it was in heart!

  In this desperate situation, even drinking water and walking on the road can be fatal. With over 200 people, we have to be constantly on guard against the sneak attacks of ferocious beasts and poisonous insects day and night. Almost half of our personnel are injured, our magic is exhausted, and we're extremely fatigued. Medical supplies are scarce, and several of my junior brothers' wounds have festered!

  In this atmosphere of death, under wave after wave of invasion, Shang Shang's junior sister fell onto the stretcher and cried out loudly:

  "Senior brother, just let me go and leave on your own. I'm going to die anyway, even if I return and take the elixir to cultivate, I won't be able to reach the stage of forming a pill. It's still death. I don't want to suffer this fate anymore! Waaahhh~~~"

  At the moment when the team stopped, several younger martial arts brothers and sisters also cried out: "Woo~ Elder Brother, put us down, you go on, if we continue like this, we will drag you to death, it's enough, with our feelings of hundreds of years, even if we die, it's enough, put us down..." As they spoke, several younger martial arts brothers and sisters even rolled off the stretcher by themselves!

  "Shut your stinking mouths!" With a face covered in blood, he looked like a bloody little bean, baring his small white teeth as he roared: "I will absolutely not give up on any of you, and you are not allowed to give up either! If you want to stay here, that's fine too - I'll accompany you all to death. In any case, I'm the one with no hope of reaching the Congealing Dan stage!"

  Xiao Dou has already cried to the point of being unable to speak, he wailed like a child: "I, Xiao Dou, have lived a life of failure, if I give up on you all, then... who am I? Tell me, who am I? What in this world can prove that I ever existed?"

  Everyone cried, Shuixian let out a long sigh and walked forward to pat his shoulder, comforting him in a soft voice:

  "Alright, I'm afraid of you. Ahead, more than 50 miles to the west, there is an empty treasure cave that has been dug out long ago. Let's go there. However, since everyone has made up their minds to stick together until death, we must be prepared to die or sacrifice ourselves at any moment. Here, every extra minute means extra danger, and perhaps we will all perish!"

  "What's there to be afraid of!" Xiaodou wiped away her tears and laughed loudly: "Younger siblings, remember when we first left Jiuhua Mountain and entered the mortal world, how sweet was our halfway rest? Let's set off again, after walking more than 50 miles, we'll start a fire to cook and roast a whole sheep, and you can play in the small forest again! Let's go!"

  "Hungry... evil... oh... ugh......" As the wise leader, there was such a morale-boosting move. However, while the younger brothers and sisters were smiling wryly, they all rallied together, helped up their injured siblings, and followed Big Brother Master forward on the treacherous road!

  This guy, you just have to let him see some hope, with hope, everything is fine, look, over 50 miles, everyone is like the male teacher carrying the female teacher back then, walking in big strides, not afraid of anything, it's just being bitten by poisonous insects and wild beasts a few times, after being bitten many times, everyone becomes a famous doctor, no need for Xiaomei this expert to remind them, they can accurately find the medicine themselves and apply it, nothing will happen!

  Due to the difficult road, it took two days to walk fifty miles and finally arrived. Now! Everyone loves this cave so much that at least with it, everyone doesn't have to be surrounded by lurking enemies everywhere!

  Clean up this small cave, Xiao Dou led a few extraordinary and elite disciples, rushed out of the cave, no matter what monsters they saw, it was just a kill ~ kill ~ kill ~

  The surrounding monsters were killed by them, leaving no survivors. The little poison master and the array master are now a treasure. Before long, she set up a red poisonous fog array outside the cave, and for many days, they didn't receive any disturbance from danger, only the corpses of various monsters outside, which could be piled up like a mountain!

  More than ten days later, Fan Shi Di, who was the most seriously injured, can now sit by the pot with everyone else and eat hot pot while holding his stomach!

  It was several days later, in the iron birch forest, where there were still many lurking figures. Xiaodou led a group of 225 people, and together they simultaneously drew out their flying swords, striking down the eight evil monkeys hiding in the iron birch forest! The remaining evil monkeys and onlookers, seeing this terrifying scene, could only flee in panic!

  Shuixian clenched her small fist, excitedly giggling: "This is the power of unity among over 200 people! Eight mid-stage Foundation Establishment giant apes were killed by us, hurry up and collect the Lingzhi fruit, remember to put them in a peach wood box!"

  All the younger brothers and sisters are happily picking the lingzhi fruit like they're in a rural life behind the Mountain God Valley!

  Exiting the iron birch forest, everyone was still carrying large and small packages, weaving in and out of the ancient black forest. Seven days later, they arrived at Green Tide Lake. Just as everyone was about to enter, the grass-clothed man who had snatched their Golden Stronghold seeds suddenly stood up from the deep grass by the side of the road and loudly said:

  "Hey, where are you guys going? Are you looking for trouble?"

  "It's you!" Little Bean walked forward, with a mischievous grin: "You thief, how come you've got a conscience and came to return our seeds? Hmph! You'd better not say no, or I'll cut off your little brother!"

  "Hey, you!" The man in the grass clothes said gruffly: "You really don't know what's good for you. I'm giving you some information - there's a place you can't go to, or else you'll all die! Do you know that I just saved your lives? So now you owe me three hundred spirit fruits!"

  "Give it up!" Xiaodou said with a sly smile: "You think you can deceive us with just one sentence and take away the materials we worked hard to get? No way!"

  The man in the grass clothes curled his lips and said, "Deceive you? I'm a turtle son! As long as you agree to give me three Lingguo fruits, I'll tell you what kind of monster is inside. Hmph... You haven't been to Tiandao, have you? Do you know why there's no return to Yangchun Water in these years? There's actually a big demon here!

  Xiao Dou's heart skipped a beat, and he furrowed his brow as he turned back to ask: "Shui Xian, is this really the case? The Tian Dao Alliance Trading Conference! That's the largest trading venue in the cultivation world, how could there be no one selling Huai Yang Chun Shui?"

  The water fairy glanced at the grass-clothed man with a faint expression, and suddenly said with a firm face:

  "Mung bean, Green Wave Lake is our last stop, and it's also the most dangerous one. If we don't get the Rebirth Spring Water, whether or not we can form a Golden Elixir doesn't matter that much. But you want our Shangong Valley to be like other sects, full of old and frail elderly men and women? I'm telling you, I absolutely don't want to grow old. I haven't even fallen in love yet! So, I'd rather die than become ugly."

  "Let's be beautiful! We don't want to get old, we're alive, so let's be pretty. I must get rid of the crow's feet around my eyes, they're ugly to death. This way, our husbands will dote on us again and other men will sneak glances at us too... Yeah, let them all come and take a look at us......" The sisters collectively support Shuixian!

  "Who cares!" Xiaodou shouted loudly, pulling on his collar: "You with the straw hat, your plan has fallen through! In any case, we have to face it together. We're not afraid of anything! Brothers and sisters, follow me! If we live, we live together; if we die, we die together!"

  "Live together, die together!" In the astonished eyes of the grass-clothed man, these fearless little guys all raised their fists and shouted in unison. Everyone followed that despicable guy who was about to chop off his own younger brother into the absolutely dangerous Green Wave Lake!

  Carefully strolling around the emerald green and clear Green Tide Lake for two rounds, huh? There's no danger at all, not even a single small monster. Standing in front of everyone, Xiao Dou cleared his throat and said:

  "According to external news, apart from scaring people, it's useless. When I arrive, the ghosts will run away. Come! Let's use the old method again, 100 people collect the morning dew of a hundred flowers, and 100 people form a circle to guard. After finishing this task, we'll go back to condense the initial stage of the Dan."

  With him around, everyone's tense mood was alleviated a lot. Immediately, they took out the jade bottle that had been prepared early on and collected the morning dew from the hundred flowers on the mysterious Green Tide Lake shore!

  Only the dew here can be used to configure the Rebirth Spring Water that doesn't age for a hundred years, one small bottle delays aging by a hundred years. Cultivators who don't want to stay young and handsome are even more so, women especially, they'd rather not have a husband than not look beautiful, as people say, being young and beautiful is the capital of socializing!

  Hey, they're talking with such confidence and righteousness. Which of you men dares to refute them? Alright, if you think you're so noble, then go ahead and watch the inner meaning yourself. Let a young handsome guy marry an old lady, haha, nothing more to say?

  One hundred people finished collecting, and the remaining one hundred just started getting excited. One by one, they held small jade bottles to collect the morning dew of a hundred flowers that filled the air with fragrance. After everyone finished collecting, they searched for the precious dew that could only be condensed here in decades, and after confirming that all had been collected, as people were lining up to leave, suddenly...

  "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Three loud explosions, no one noticed the crystal clear lake surface, suddenly a monster burst out, but saw Little Bean's senior brother going crazy, rushing to the front of everyone and blocking a snake head as big as a small house, then lightning-fast flying sword struck the left side, his eyes rolled back and forth, and with great difficulty, he burst out a force striking the right side!

  When the crowd saw three... whether it was one or three was unclear, three emerald green snake heads appeared on the surface of the water in unison, staring at them with icy, emotionless eyes. It was as if they were going to scare people to death. What's more unsettling was that there was no one here who could investigate the giant snake's cultivation level, and it was a matter of life and death to fight against such a massive snake that was hundreds of times bigger than themselves!

  "Three-headed snake, not three-headed python! Everyone quickly open the brocade bags, there's a precious sulfur crystal inside! Let's throw the sulfur crystals into the river together! Poison it to death, if it doesn't die, at least make it uncomfortable!"

  At this moment, there is a way out. Everyone takes action and finds the pouches distributed before departure. They take out a dull gray thing from inside without looking closely, all worried about the eldest brother, quickly casting their magic towards the lake surface. The sulfur essence dissolves in the lake water, and the pungent smell spreads immediately...