Chapter 2143: Tiger Poison Gu
“You have only seven days left to live!”
ng Qiu Zhen entered Paradise Earth’s dream realm, what welcod him was this sentence.
“What?” ng Qiu Zhen blurted out in astonishnt.
In front of him was an old mushroomman granny.
She sighed and said in a guilty tone: “Little Mi, your grandmother is too useless, I really have no way to treat your illness.”
Using this short ti, ng Qiu Zhen quickly scanned his surroundings. He found that not only was there a mushroomman in front of him, he himself was also a mushroomman.
And right now, they were in a hut that was specific to mushroomman culture.
This hut had deep-green walls, it was constructed with special grass and mud. The roof of the hut was made with straws.
The furnishings inside the hut were simple and revealed this was a doctor’s ho.
“Grandma, is it really hopeless? Is there really no other way?” ng Qiu Zhen pretended to be in disbelief while trying hard to find clues regarding this dream realm.
The mushroomman granny hesitated for a mont before saying: “There is a way.”
ng Qiu Zhen imdiately asked: “What way?”
The mushroomman granny shook her head and walked towards a table.
There were dicine pots all over the table; so were white, so were gray, but most were black.
So of these dicine pots were opened, they were filled with dried dicinal herbs or pitch-black dicinal liquid. Whereas so dicine pots were covered tightly with lids.
The old granny seed to be in a complicated mood, she subconsciously moved these dicine pots before gradually calming down.
With her back towards ng Qiu Zhen, she said: “The one thing I can think of that can possibly save you is not a thod, but a person.”
“A person?” ng Qiu Zhen got near to the old granny, he saw these dicine pots actually contained Gu worms.
The old granny sighed: “Sigh, you know her too.”
ng Qiu Zhen had no idea who she ant, but he had plenty of experience and developed quite a glib tongue, he said: “Could it be her?”
“Indeed, her. My tribe’s previous witch, Huang Wan,” said the old granny.
Every mushroomman tribe had a witch. Different from the rman tribe’s saintess, witches did not hold authority, but they usually had high reputation.
Because witches were the most capable female doctors in the mushroomman tribe.
Without the witch’s support and blessing, the mushroomman’s next tribe leader would face questioning and might even be unable to take the position.
“You only have hope of survival by looking for the previous witch, Huang Wan.” The old granny emphasized.
ng Qiu Zhen imdiately asked: “Then, where is she?”
“Whip Mountain.” The old granny looked at ng Qiu Zhen: “Little Mi, you are a good child, I have watched you grow up. The plague is terrorizing the tribe but you should not have been infected, it was because you helped treat others of your own accord that you got infected. You also know a thing or two about Huang Wan’s matter. Although she is extrely strong, she betrayed the tribe, so you can only go look for her personally. The tribe won’t help you.”
ng Qiu Zhen nodded, he keenly sensed that the old granny had so hidden aning behind her words.
He suddenly had a flash of inspiration and asked: “But grandma, I simply cannot reach there with my strength. I must see Huang Wan to obtain her help. Not only to keep my life, but more than that, I want to bring back a way to treat the illness!”
“Good child, good child.” The old granny was relieved, “That is what I want you to do. Rest assured, you are taking the risk to go to Whip Mountain, your journey will be filled with dangers and Whip Mountain is moreover a human territory. How can I, your grandmother, let you go like that?”
The old granny turned sideways and opened all of the dicine pots on the table: “You can take three of the Gu worms here. They will provide a huge help to you.”
“Many thanks, grandma!” ng Qiu Zhen said while thinking: It was like this indeed.
He had plenty of experiences in exploring dream realms. With just this conversation, he had already probed the key of this dream realm stage.
“The crucial hidden point of this stage of the dream realm is the selection of Gu.”
“If I did not sense the old granny’s hidden aning and ntioned it, I might not have gotten the chance to select Gu.”
“Choosing three Gu worms will definitely lower the difficulty of the dream realm.”
“But which three would be better for ?”
ng Qiu Zhen carefully observed the Gu worms while secretly activating dream butterfly Immortal Gu.
With the help of dream butterfly Immortal Gu, ng Qiu Zhen soon found various clues of the second stage.
“Choose quickly, stop wasting ti needlessly. You need to treasure every breath of ti you have.” The old granny urged.
ng Qiu Zhen said through clenched teeth: “Grandma, let consider for a bit longer.”
The old granny said with a cold face: “Hmph, you are already in this situation, you must be decisive. Choose three Gu worms imdiately, then leave the valley through this secret passage. If this ti passes, that passage will be closed for seven days. Choose quickly!”
ng Qiu Zhen was not able to put it off any longer, but fortunately, he had already gotten much information in this short period of ti.
“I choose these three.” ng Qiu Zhen quickly chose three Gu from the tens of dicine pots.
“Good. You chose well. Huang Xiao Mi, ti is pressing, I can only help you till here, leave now!” The old granny’s voice had just ended when ng Qiu Zhen’s sight turned dark.
The dream realm entered the second stage.
He had rank three cultivation, and using his Gu worms as well as the three new Gu, he traveled rapidly through the mountains, although it was arduous.
He walked through the dangerous man-eating forest, passed the high fog, and crossed the death marsh. He was now facing his final obstacle, a thousand beast king level black bear.
ng Qiu Zhen fought a long and bitter battle with the black bear.
Finally, the black bear collapsed on the ground.
Its thick body shrank within a few breaths of ti like a balloon that was poked.
In just a short while, its blood, flesh, and organs turned into purple poison which flowed out of its wounds and orifices.
ng Qiu Zhen carefully squatted and took out tiger poison Gu.
This rank three tiger poison Gu was one of the three Gu he chose in the first stage of the dream realm. Once activated, it could emit tiger poison.
Tiger poison Gu was like a black scorpion, but its head had golden markings that resembled the character for ‘king’.
It ca out of the white silver aperture and started absorbing the poison that was all over the ground.
Soon, the poison was completely absorbed by it, and its body was slightly enlarged.
With a shift of ng Qiu Zhen’s will, tiger poison Gu obediently flew back into his aperture.
“The first stage had many poison Gu. Like snake poison Gu, dove poison Gu, bee poison Gu, and so on. Against the thousand beast king level black bear, bee poison Gu, which is restrained by bear physique, should never be selected. Snake poison Gu and dove poison Gu have rather slow effects. Only tiger poison Gu is specialized in dealing with this kind of large beast and its effect takes place quickly as well. Moreover, when used with poison liquid Gu, tiger poison can change form and beco extrely practical in battle.”
In the fight with the black bear king, ng Qiu Zhen used poison liquid Gu and tiger poison Gu to form a poison liquid tiger.
The poison liquid tiger was able to fight the black bear king head on, it greatly made up for ng Qiu Zhen’s weakness in direct combat. ng Qiu Zhen stayed at the back and continuously used poison path Gu worms to help the poison liquid tiger and claid victory in the end.
Naturally, tiger poison Gu also had its disadvantage.
The disadvantage was quite big as well.
There was a common saying that even tigers would not hurt their cubs, tiger poison Gu had no effect towards infantile targets.
According to dream butterfly Immortal Gu’s information, ng Qiu Zhen had already known in the first stage that the black bear was the final obstacle and also the most difficult one.
He acted according to the conditions and selected the most crucial tiger poison Gu.
“Tiger poison Gu’s toxicity and venom quantity has fallen greatly, even though I gathered the remaining poison after the battle.”
“Tiger poison Gu needs ti to recuperate, my overall power has decreased quite a bit. Fortunately, this is the final obstacle, and this is a dream realm, not the real wilderness.”
“Huh? What happened?”
ng Qiu Zhen’s expression changed slightly.
The second stage of the dream realm was still stable and did not disappear like he expected.
“Is there still another obstacle? It can’t be. Dream butterfly Immortal Gu already scouted everything.”
“Wait a mont, in the search before, there was also a mortal.”
This mortal did not have Gu Master cultivation, so ng Qiu Zhen did not think much of it. Maybe, if tiger poison Gu was not selected, the mortal would provide so help to the Gu cultivator exploring the dream realm.
But now, ng Qiu Zhen realized this mortal seed to be a crucial factor.
According to the gathered information, ng Qiu Zhen naturally knew of this mortal’s location.
He imdiately moved towards the location.
Halfway on his journey, his strength started decreasing rapidly.
“What’s going on?” ng Qiu Zhen imdiately inspected himself and turned pale, “The plague has erupted! There were clearly about two more days left. Could it be, the battle with the black bear expended too much of my energy, and my body is unable to bear it so the plague erupted earlier?”
This plague was specific to mushroomn, once it erupted, mushrooms would grow all over the body.
The bigger the mushrooms grew, the more vitality they would extract from the mushroomn.
The plague broke out so violently that when ng Qiu Zhen discovered it, he was already sapped of his strength and collapsed on the ground.
“Is this dream realm exploration going to end here?”
“I haven’t even seen Paradise Earth’s face.”
To help the main body’s plan of constructing earth vein, ng Qiu Zhen started the exploration of Paradise Earth’s dream realm ahead of ti.
“No, I still have hope.”
“Persevere, I must persevere, this place is not that far from that mortal’s location.”
Although ng Qiu Zhen was powerless and could only lie on the ground, it had not reached the worst situation yet. At least, he had strength to breath and could use the Gu worms in his aperture.
He imdiately activated a healing Gu worm and started delaying for ti.
The healing Gu could not cure the root problem and only lessened the threat of the plague. But its effect was minimal like a child trying to stop a car.
“Damn it, the battle with the black bear king expended over half of my prival essence. My prival essence will be used up soon.”
ng Qiu Zhen was forced into a predicant again.
But right at this ti, he heard rustling noises.
“It’s that mortal’s footsteps. Good!” ng Qiu Zhen’s eyes shone as he used all his strength to shout: “Help… help…”
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