Chapter 1048: Different Roots (1/2)
Davis was about to soothe Xiao Meili's psyche so that she does not make this place a mess or humiliate herself, but fortunately, she closed her eyes and tried to calm herself down.
Nadia didn't have a change of expression at all. After seeing so many Spirit Attribute Sources, she was rather getting bored and remained indifferent to its ghastly image. Compared to her master's mysterious yet terrifying energy, she felt that it was lackluster.
On the other hand, Evelynn possessed a determined expression on her face while her brows were furrowed. She knew that she had to absorb this wretched, ugly, and truly disgusting face into her dantian to improve her cultivation and law comprehension. Otherwise, it was possible that she would be unable to catch up to her husband or her two sisters anytime soon.
Davis noticed her expression, and inwardly nodded his head. Her eyes didn't waver at all. If it were the Evelynn of the past, he knew that she would be like Xiao Meili right now, ending up terrified and disgusted by the shape of these Poison Essences.
Indeed, it wasn't just this Poison Essence that took a ghastly shape of a rotting face. Out of the six Poison Essences, three of them possessed sinister shapes!
Poison Essences tend to mostly take the shape of what, where, and why they were formed from, but they also possessed the tendency to constantly change shapes to their discretion. Right now, Davis could see that this Peak-Level Sky Grade Poison Essence took the shape of a ghastly human face to intimidate them.
'Heh! Even though numerous formations imprison it, it still has the mood to scare us... Is this it's nature, something that all Poison Essences are born with?' Davis mused before he looked at Xiao Meili.
”What's this stupid face's name and origin?”
”Eh? Oh...” Xiao Meili understood before she nodded her head, ”Its name is Pestilent Dragonfly Dust Spawn.”
”As for its origin and powers, please give me a moment.”
She hesitatingly looked at the ghastly green face before she walked up to the sealed gate. However, she moved to the side four steps away before knowingly stepping on an invisible mechanism.
From the ground, the surface moved as a jade slip appeared. She bent her waist and picked it up carefully before reading it. After a few seconds, she looked at Alchemist Davis and explained.
”This Pestilent Dragonfly Dust Spawn is born from the corpse dust of the Verdant Dust Dragonfly, among the numerous carcasses. The Verdant Dust Dragonfly is known for their resilience to certain poisons like paralytic ones. As for their poisonous prowess, it is said that it is capable of creating a poisonous dust storm in groups, making it easy for them to poison a city full of Fifth Stage Experts to death!”
”Oh...? Fifth Stage Experts? Mid-Level Sky Grade?” Davis became confused before his expression brightened, ”Did this Pestilent Dragonfly Dust Spawn manage to grow by two levels, reaching Peak-Level Sky Grade in prowess?”
Xiao Meili pursed her lips as she nodded her head, ”It is stated that it killed a million souls as it targeted the towns of the Alstreim Family, and grew by using their souls as an energy source about thirty thousand years ago.”
”Thirty thousand years ago!?” Davis's expression changed, ”It's been imprisoned from such a long time ago?”
Xiao Meili shook her head, ”No, it's said that it managed to hide in the collapsed crevice of the Verdant Range Valley for many thousand years before it was captured by one of our Ancestors after an expedition into that collapsed crevice.”
”So an Ancestor-level character captured it. No wonder they were able to bring a monstrosity like this here and not kept in the Treasury for more security. I initially thought that this place was controlled by a Grand Elder, but to think that its history really belongs to an Ancestor...”
”Time sure flies fast...” Davis was in awe before he quickly frowned.
When he grows in cultivation in the future, would his perception of time also change? At some point, thirty thousand years would appear very little that even relationships wouldn't matter anymore?