Chapter 148: Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystal (2/2)

Yu Zhi saw that Qu Wan’Er did not even probe any further, and just took out the spiritual herbs required to concoct the Body Constructing Pill, hence he swiftly moved forward to offer his thanks. Qu Wan’Er waved him off, ”This bit of spiritual herbs means nothing, the amount that I owe Pill Master Mo is much more than these mere spiritual herbs.”

If Mo Wuji did not give her a bracelet, even if she managed to get in here by herself, the price she would have paid would have exceeded these few stalks of spiritual herbs. Thus, deep in her heart, she was still very grateful towards Mo Wuji.

On his side, Mo Wuji took no notice of this, and just asked curiously after keeping the spiritual herbs,” Senior Qu, there’s definitely more spiritual herbs in the depths of this gorge? Why don’t we carry on searching?”

To this, Hou Yucheng replied, ”If we venture further into the gorge, it would take at least three days to reach the next area that spiritual herbs grow at. So both to and fro would take us six days. If that’s the case, we won’t have enough time to make it out of here. Moreover, in a few days, the poison fog of the Five Elements Desolate Domain will return to cover this whole area, and all sorts of demonic beasts will return too. Once that happens, we will have trouble ensuring our survival, much less talk about obtaining spiritual herbs.”

Indeed, Mo Wuji could see that other than the minority of cultivators that were hesitant, the bulk of them had left the gorge.

”If that’s the case, then let’s leave too.” While spiritual herbs were good stuff, to Mo Wuji, Yan’Er’s safety was still the number one priority.

”That’s my intention too.” Hou Yucheng replied.

Qu Wan’Er herself had already made a great windfall, so naturally she agreed to leave too. Yu Zhi’s original aim for coming here was for the Body Constructing Pill, and since he had placed all his hopes on Mo Wuji, whatever Mo Wuji did, he would follow.

When Mo Wuji’s gang of four turned around to leave, the last few hesitating people also decided to follow suit. Valuable spiritual herbs incited greed among people, but if one lost their life in the process, everything would have been for naught.

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”It’s a pity for Brother Mo. Three months in the Five Elements Desolated Domain is simply not enough and Brother Mo even got trapped in the ice mountain for almost two months.” While the four of them were on their way, Hou Yucheng commented with a tinge of sympathy.

Qu Wan’Er smiled, ”That’s hard to say. In my case, if I did not have senior apprentice brother Hou’s help, I might have fallen here much earlier. Just as senior apprentice brother Hou helped Mo Wuji when he was in danger.”

Mo Wuji could understand the meaning in Qu Wan’Er’s words. It was that his level of cultivation was low, and if he did not get trapped in the ice mountain for two months, he might have been killed on the outside.

In reality, Qu Wan’Er was not making things up, for someone with Mo Wuji’s cultivation, in an intense fight like before, there existed the possibility that he could die at any moment.

Perhaps out of all the people that entered the Five Elements Desolate Domain, he spent the least time on searching for treasures, because most of it was spent on cultivating.

”Maybe if I did not intervene, Brother Mo would have similarly brushed off that guy’s ambush. With two months of time, Brother Mo might have actually found a Flower of the True Gods.” Hou Yucheng said matter-of-factly.

With this, Mo Wuji suspected that Hou Yucheng knew that he had some tricks left up his sleeve, hence saying these things on purpose.

”Brother Hou, have you seen a Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystal before?” Mo Wuji was unwilling to elaborate further on the extent of his strength, and on top of that, he really wanted to know if what he had obtained were Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystals, so he inquired about it.

Hou Yucheng chuckled, ”Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystals are even more valuable that Flowers of the True Gods from some perspectives, so how could I have seen such a thing before. What I do know is that a Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystal is a crystal with four corners and a light yellow tint…”

Listening till this point, Mo Wuji’s heart sank. He finally understood what he did wrongly. What he obtained was not the Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystal. Not only was it so, but the object he got appeared very different from one.

What Hou Yucheng described to be an Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystal indeed existed down below, because not far away from where he got the two ice flowers, there was a row of four-cornered, light yellow crystals which fit Hou Yucheng’s description. But that row of things seemed as though they were thrown to one side like a pile of trash. Based on his first impression, Mo Wuji naturally thought that the things being nurtured on the icy altar werr the most precious. Who knew that the stuff that was thrown to one side were the Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystals.

No wonder the man and woman said that they saw the Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystal. They saw what he thought was a pile of rubbish.

”There’s one more day before the day that we’ll leave the Five Elements Desolate Domain, let’s pick up the pace.” Seeing that Mo Wuji and Hou Yucheng’s conversation ended, Qu Wan’Er interjected with a sentence of her own.

It was too late for him, and Mo Wuji could only sigh to himself. If there was still time, he would definitely make a trip back to the icy hall. Regardless whether he froze to death or not, he had to bring back the Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystals.

The worst part was that when he first decided to go to the ice mountain with Hou Yucheng, he only asked Hou Yucheng if there were any Immeasurable Soul-forging Crystals up there, but did not find out what it looked like. Even if Mo Wuji was sure that he would not make the same mistake again, he would not be able to take it if such an error was committed again.

”Your father just doesn’t want to hand it over, what can you do?” A booming voice woke Mo Wuji up from his bout of regret, followed by the explosive sounds of energy colliding into each other.

Zhen Shaoru? Mo Wuji saw Zhen Shaoru in combat with a skinny bearded man, so he leapt over without hesitation and landed at one side to observe the fight. If Zhen Shaoru could not defeat the other party, it didn’t matter that his level of cultivation was insufficient, he would still take action to help.