340 Chapter 340 Beneath Dragon Gathering Mountain (1/2)

Xuanyuan Yiren's eyes shone with a surprised light, ”Then how did you know that? Don't tell me you read about such a place from the books?”

Zong Shou felt his headache right away, he knew that Xuanyuan Yiren would ask that. However, luckily now he wasn't like before when he had feared Zong Weiran badly.

His position as Gantian Mountain monster king was settled. As for Zong Weiran, he was a problem for another day. Since he had already joined the common people path and gained the books and collections of their treasury then he would be able to complete the one origin sword to a certain level.

”I did see it from books.”

As he said that Zong Shou shook his head and smiled, ”The year of Canyang, spirit salamander went up against Xi Zi. It wasn't his opponent and broke its tail to live, its tail landing at where the saints fell. Actually, this mist was what the blood of the spiritual salamander transformed into. It was one of the ancestors of the beast race which is why its blood is the most effective for the beasts and monsters. However, it was poisonous too. There are also many other things. Do you want me to recite them for you?”

Xuanyuan Yiren scoffed and turned around. She thought to herself that she had read a lot of books, but why hadn't she seen things like that? In the future, she needed to flip the book depositories of Linhai College and Gantian Mountain to see whether or not what Zong Shou said was real or fake.

Thinking that since it was related to the common people path founder Xi Zi, then the matter of this place was most probably found out from his saint realm senior brother.

”Actually this place isn't totally without danger, it is just because we came at a good time.”

Zong Shou cast another spell and blew away the mist, following which they could see numerous beast corpses buried in the ground.

”Every midnight when the Ying energy of heaven and earth is at its highest, the poison mist will become stronger. At that time even grade 5 experts will be unable to take it and have to find a place to avoid it.”

Following which he looked around, ”This canyon is roughly 400 miles around and the more we go down the lower the land will get, the mist will also get stronger. Which is why there shouldn't be over 7 thousand beasts here. However, it is said that there is an abyss connected to the bottom of it where many beasts and evil spirits will be attracted by the power of the mist and enter this land…”

Yiren instantly felt regretful when she heard that. With a small number of elite beasts here, it meant that she wouldn't be able to have a large scale use of it. Even if new beasts entered this place, if they weren't here for a long time they wouldn't be able to accumulate too much of such essence blood.

Shi Dan was slightly touched. Even if she knew that this place wouldn't be too useful, but to see that Zong Shou didn't hide news about this place, even that spiritual salamander tail from them showed that he trusted them.

With such a ruler, it was worth it for her to go against orders from her sect and stay and pledge loyalty to Zong Shou.

”Speaking of which, during this period of time, will we all have to hunt these poison beasts here?”

Xuanyuan Yiren was slightly curious as she asked that, ”Zong Shou you aren't going to go for the opening of the dragon gate?”

”It is you all, not me. The dragon gate is a martial saint remnant image, how can I not go for that?”

Zong Shou smiled and looked at everyone who stood stunned, ”what are all of you all standing there for? Do you want me to personally act and send the essence blood into your mouths?”

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2 grade 4 dragon horned winged horses crossed the swamp land. They were 4 elite beasts and their own combat strength was extremely strong, having dragon blood in their bodies. The people sitting on it gave off an unusual aura which was why there was no beast with eyes who came to find trouble with them in the samp land.

The person in front was Zong Yuan who looked around and beneath his feet warily whilst the horse galloped forwards.

This swamp land was most dangerous in its mud where all kinds of beasts could hide within.

If one was unlucky, one might even meet a grade 7 beast.

His personality was just like that. Even if he knew that Zong Shou's strength was far above his, he still put in all his effort.

The one sitting on the dragon horned winged beast behind him was naturally Zong Shou who was currently in a half-awake state.

He only left a bit of consciousness which was on alert against the surroundings, whilst he focused on the changes within his soul ocean.

He had to do that since he had advanced to the Return to Sun realm he had never had a good sleep.

All of that was because of the swallow and purify word talismans which caused his soul ocean to change.

In the past, this whirlpool had its limits and even when it was swallowing spiritual energy of heaven and earth it did so at small amounts.

However ever since he had formed these 2 true spiritual talismans the whirlpool had its core and the suction force was more than 10 times.

It didn't just swallow the basic 5 elements spiritual energy but it directly swallowed origin spiritual energy which was the source which produced that spiritual energy.

Even when his soul ocean formed 7 complete spiritual veins, it still didn't stop. It caused the whirlpool to continue to strengthen whilst successively suppressing and constricting.

In terms of soul power, he should be no weaker than Zong Ling who had already entered the Return to Sun realm 15 years ago and was close to forming 9 spiritual talismans. He was 6 times more than spirit masters of the same grade.

This made Zong Shou worry every moment about what changes would happen to this soul ocean, which might make him die in his sleep without knowing anything.

The only thing that made him feel slightly happy was the one origin sword. Since he recovered the lost Gantian Mountain land and swallowed 3 more provinces, having ten over more cities under his direct rule, his population also increased by 50 million. The dragon energy in the sword continued to strengthen and grow, the dragon tattoo on the sword body was also becoming more and more apparent.