Novel Full Chapter 706 - 694 Harvest
On the Fire Dao Star, in a dense sea of forests, a large patch of towering trees had been cut down, resembling a patch on a giant green carpet.
The Heavenly Craft Camp was situated in this patch.
On the west side of the camp, outside the Demon Dispel Department, there was a huge pit filled with a dense pile of various monster giant beast corpses. Even the smallest ones were as large as silver-backed gorillas.
Chen Mu and the others, who had just arrived at the Fire Dao Star, hadn’t even been assigned to the Snail Shell Camp yet before being brought here to begin demon dispel tasks.
“Are there really that many demon beasts?” Chen Mu raised his eyebrows in surprise.
“Isn’t it all because of our Lu Shenjun?” Wu Gang responded softly.
Yellow Millet Plague Poison?
Sure enough, all the demon beasts on the Fire Dao Star had been taken down by the plague poison.
Chen Mu felt a shiver in his heart again.
As he pondered, a white cloud flew over from the distant horizon, beneath which hung a large White Jade net.
In a matter of breaths, the White Jade net flew over the Demon Dispel Department, dumping a pile of demon beast corpses like dumplings, and then quickly flew away.
“With so many demon beasts, how long will it take us to finish?” Wu Gang slapped his forehead and lamented.
Chen Mu looked at the piles of demon beast corpses in the pit, then at the quickly receding Five Clouds Cloth on the horizon, and his eyes suddenly lit up.
The Fire Dao Star was ravaged by the plague poison, causing formerly strong and difficult demon beasts to become living corpses with their spiritual essence scattered. It required little effort to easily collect them.
His Daoist Foundation Cultivation required a massive amount of demon beast meat to provide vital energy, and this was just like receiving a pillow when falling asleep!
“I just need to take just a tiny bit…”
“Ha!”
Chen Mu’s eyes turned slightly red with excitement.
He had previously resisted coming to the Fire Dao Star.
But now…
“It’s the right choice to come to the Fire Dao Star!”
He glanced around, and nine Vermilion Feather Swords flew out from his sleeve. They immediately burrowed into the ground, flying in all directions.
Beneath his clothes, a faint black and red light shimmered, as the Giant Spirit Divine Descended and possessed him.
The Truth Listening Divine Power was forcefully expanded, and the nine Vermilion Feather Swords were like nine reconnaissance drones, instantly beginning to relay various information.
…
In the depth of night.
A thousand miles east of the Heavenly Craft Camp, in a certain forested mountain area, birds and beasts lay everywhere.
Some were as large as mountains, others as small as grains of rice, all with faint breathing, seemingly in a deep sleep.
At a certain moment, a mass of black fog silently appeared within the forest.
The black fog surged like rolling waves, advancing along the ground in all directions. Wherever it passed, demon beasts of all sizes were swallowed up entirely.
After a while, the black smoke dissipated. Accompanied by a gentle breeze, Chen Mu appeared on a branch of a large tree.
“Thousand Lanterns City is really useless!”
“These are all my cultivation provisions; how come it’s full with so little in it?” he muttered through gritted teeth.
All the demon beasts on the Fire Dao Star had their spiritual essence devoured by the Yellow Millet Plague, the weaker ones died directly, and even the stronger ones became living dead beasts.
Chen Mu had quietly slipped out of the Heavenly Craft Camp the night he arrived at the Fire Dao Star, starting to collect demon beasts in Thousand Lanterns City.
But in just five or six days, the vast Thousand Lanterns City had no more room left.
Looking at those huge demon beasts lying in the distant forest, Chen Mu only felt a heartache so intense it was hard to breathe.
“I can’t continue like this. I must first hone the Plague Immortal Technique!” He immediately made his decision.
As long as he mastered the Plague Immortal Technique, he could quickly extract the demon poison, and then he could confidently throw all the demon beasts into the Bottomless Pool.
The Thousand Lanterns City was just an Incomplete Cave Heaven, limited in size. However, the Bottomless Pool connected to the Netherworld’s Forget River, its space virtually infinite.
As long as he extracted the demon poison fast enough, he could throw all the demon beasts on the Fire Dao Star into the Bottomless Pool!
With a flash of golden light, and the Ground Shrinking technique, Chen Mu’s figure instantly vanished from where he stood.
…
Several days later
In the west of the Heavenly Craft Camp, inside a certain tent in the Demon Dispel Department.
Wu Gang held a sharp knife, carefully dissecting a grinding disc-sized fiery red scorpion-like demon beast.
With a series of squeaks and squeals of metal scraping, the demon beast’s carapace and muscles were finally separated successfully.
Covered in sweat, he straightened up and glanced at the large pile of demon beast corpses stacked next to the tent, only feeling phantom pain in his back.
How long would this dismantling take?
His face was full of anguish.
Looking up at Chen Mu lounging at the entrance on a deck chair, he couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
He was a dignified General, with fifty or sixty Demon Dispel Daoist Soldiers under his command, yet he was helping this little soldier with work, truly…
“Letting a General like you help me with this is indeed a bit of a grievance.” As if sensing the observing gaze, Chen Mu opened his eyes and spoke with a smiling concern: “How about you take a rest, and I’ll substitute for you?”
Meeting Chen Mu’s eyes that narrowed into slits, Wu Gang only felt a chill down his neck and shivered.
“You rest, you definitely shouldn’t move!”
“I just love hands-on demon dispelling, I’m not the least bit wronged!” Wu Gang solemnly affirmed, his face full of earnestness.
Hehe…
Sensible.
Chen Mu nodded with a smile, tossing a Jade Gourd to him.
“Replenishing Origin Soup, it can nourish essence and strengthen the foundation, perfect for condensing the Divine Orifice Talisman.”
Wu Gang was overjoyed at this.
His willing assistance over the past few days wasn’t solely because of the Nightmare Victory Spell. The Replenishing Origin Soup, which could partially replace the Rejuvenation Pill, was the true reason.
Chen Mu ignored the delighted Wu Gang and turned his focus inward into the Thousand Lantern City’s Shadow Pupil.
A fist-sized Thousand Lantern City portal opened inside his sleeve, streams of golden Jade Cicada Qi surged in.
The Plague Immortal Technique was cast, and the golden star sand qi condensed midair in the City, forming a human-sized smoke ball.
An unusual pulling force emanated from the golden sphere, spreading as ripples in all directions, in the blink of an eye enveloping the entire Thousand Lantern City.
Before long, tiny invisible traces of demon poison began to fly from the demon beast corpses on the ground, like moths to a flame, diving into the golden smoke ball.
In just two moments, all the demon poison within the demon beast corpses in the Thousand Lantern City had been completely absorbed.
Cautious, Chen Mu even dispatched the Giant Spirit Divine into the City, leveraging the Truth Listening Divine Power to carefully detect.
Once he was sure all the demon poison was indeed gone, he couldn’t help but be filled with exhilaration.
Even the usually lazy big-eyed Shadow Pupil revealed a hint of excitement.
Chen Mu opened his eyes and looked at the gray wall.
Plague Immortal Technique: 9/10000/Sixth Rank;
“It’s done!” He couldn’t help but clench his fist.
Over the past days, he had even paused his Daoist Foundation Cultivation just to gain experience with the Plague Immortal Technique, and now he finally achieved his goal.
Chen Mu raised his head, looking at the Five Clouds Cloth transporting back bundles of demon beasts through the tent door, his face broke into a bright smile.
Just wait, tonight I’ll stash you all into the Bottomless Pool!
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Heavenly Craft Camp.
In the center of the camp was a pond, its surface smooth like a mirror, the water crystal clear, with the bluish-grey pebbles at the bottom clearly visible.
In the center of the pond stood a water pavilion, where the Heavenly Craft Camp General Zhou Tong was in seclusion.
“Elder Zhou, something seems off, it appears there’s another team collecting demon beast corpses.” A middle-aged man in a dark Daoist Robe frowned: “Do you think it might be… Lu Shenjun?”
Zhou Tong suddenly opened his eyes.
If Lv Yue were really hiding here, wouldn’t he, as a traitor, be doomed?!
“Have you found any clues?” his scalp felt tight.
“It’s precisely because we haven’t found any traces that we’re suspecting it to be Sect Master Lü’s work.” The middle-aged man shook his head solemnly.
Hearing this, Zhou Tong breathed a sigh of relief: “Then it certainly isn’t the Sect Master himself.”
Lu Shenjun had always been domineering, if he truly needed demon beast corpses, he would control the Heavenly Craft Camp openly, never clandestinely searching on his own.
“So we…” The middle-aged man also breathed a sigh of relief.
The longer he stayed on the Fire Dao Star, seeing more and more demon beasts’ spiritual essences dissipate and die, the more he revered Sect Master Lv Yue.
“It must be someone inside the Heavenly Craft Camp committing embezzlement.” Zhou Tong said thoughtfully.
“Set an ambush. I’d like to see who dares to be so bold, embezzling from the Thousand Mechanisms Sect!” Zhou Tong snorted coldly.