Yellow Court Daoist-Chapter 83 - 78: Crying Swamp [Seeking recommendation tickets! Thanks to ’Fantasia’s Lonely Cry’ for the generous reward]

Swamps can be geographically divided into mountain swamps, plateau swamps, and plain swamps.

Crying Swamp.

It is a narrow, ribbon-like swamp that extends from north to south, with a width of tens of thousands of miles of mountain swamp.

At the border of Dangyang County and Crying Swamp.

Four Giant Turtle Puppets lined up in a '一' formation, roaring forward, plunging headfirst into the Crying Swamp.

Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu stick their heads out from a Giant Turtle Puppet, while nine larks circle and frolic in front of them.

After several years, the nine ordinary larks, initially nourished on Yellow Chestnut Pills, were full of spiritual energy and able to understand human speech. Later, Lu Qingfeng fed them with 'Feeding Spirit Pills,' making them even more mystical.

These Feeding Spirit Pills were initially an incomplete Elixir Recipe Lu Qingfeng acquired at an auction in Bingling Realm's Sishui Town.

After completing the recipe, it was merely a high-level recipe. The medicinal ingredients required weren't particularly rare and could just barely be found in Upper Sun Country.

With time on his hands for refinement and alternating feed with Yellow Chestnut Pills, these originally mundane larks were gradually transforming into demon beasts and spiritual beasts; their feathers were becoming glossier as well.

Lu Qingfeng had strengthened the Feeding Spirit Pill recipe, and with the right ingredients in the future, he would be able to refine top-level or even entry-level Feeding Spirit Pills. It was unknown to what extent the nine larks could evolve.

The larks were mystical.

Yet, Lu Qingshan and Lu Qingyu were focused on the Double-headed ducks above the Giant Turtle Puppet and the Silver Armored Horned Python following behind the Puppet.

The Double-headed ducks flew at low altitude, stirring up gales of wind.

The Silver Armored Horned Python moved silently, vigilantly flicking its tongue.

These two demon beasts, along with the Cold Ice Toad in the arms of Daoist Miao Yin, were all spiritual beasts she had tamed.

Among them, the Silver Armored Horned Python was the strongest, nearing the peak of the True Qi Realm. The Double-headed ducks were average in strength, comparable to the fourth or fifth layer of the True Qi Realm, but excellent for transportation.

It was relying on these two spiritual beasts that Daoist Miao Yin managed to escape from the War God Society's pursuit when she was afflicted with cold poison, and afterward, she established herself in Miao Yin City.

"Indeed, the City Lord has remarkable skills to be able to tame such demon beasts," Lu Qingfeng said, looking at the Double-headed ducks and the Silver Armored Horned Python.

"These mere second rank demon beasts are no match for this Giant Turtle Puppet," Daoist Miao Yin shook her head.

All along the way from Fujiang Cliff entering the Crying Swamp, Daoist Miao Yin saw that the Giant Turtle Puppet was steady. Ordinary ferocious animals would flee in terror upon seeing it. Even if they were demon beasts, none could withstand the rampaging charge of the Giant Turtle Puppet; they either perished or fled in horror.

Passage was unobstructed.

Her heart was filled with increasing astonishment.

Lu Qingfeng smiled and did not continue the topic. Instead, he looked around and couldn't help but sigh, "The Crying Swamp truly lives up to its name."

The Crying Swamp was ridden with a dense fog that could reduce the visibility of ordinary people to less than three meters. Even a True Qi Realm cultivator with some achievements like Lu Qingfeng could only see up to seven or eight meters ahead at most.

Over the years, Lu Qingfeng had controlled the Puppets to go in and out of the Crying Swamp multiple times, but this was his first time actually entering, and the experience felt different. Indistinct cries echoed around his ears, disturbing the mind and chilling to the core. A thick fog surrounded him from the front and sides, and looking up, the sunlight refracted through the fog, but the sky was not visible.

In such an environment, it was difficult to discern directions.

Moreover, with the bizarre changes in the magnetic field within Crying Swamp, compasses were rendered ineffective here.

Whether it's from Yang Country or from the other end at Biyang Lake Earth Realm, people enter the Crying Swamp every year. However, from either side, there may not be one who comes out in ten or twenty years.

The vast majority lose their way in the Crying Swamp, with life and death unknown.

"Why did the City Lord venture into such a perilous place as the Crying Swamp in the first place?"

Lu Qingfeng and Miao Yin Daoist were gathered atop Giant Turtle No. 1, asking out of curiosity. Having known each other for more than four years, Lu Qingfeng was aware that Miao Yin Daoist came from the other end of the Crying Swamp but didn't understand why she would take the risk.

"Originally—"

A hint of reminiscence appeared on the face of Miao Yin Daoist, "It's a long story."

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The world is divided into Three Mountains and Nine Waters.

Miao Yin Daoist hails from the Bi Yang Lake Territory on the other side of the Crying Swamp.

To the east of the Spirit Extinguishing Land is the Cultivation World of 'Three Mountains and Nine Waters'. The Crying Swamp and Chengyang River are both part of the 'Nine Waters' of Three Mountains and Nine Waters.

Biyang Lake is also one of them, yet it is a sacred place for cultivation—

Great Sects are numerous, demons emerge endlessly. Various cultivation resources, such as Spiritual Medicine, spirit ore, Spirit Stones, and so forth, are readily available.

Miao Yin Daoist did not understand the other Earth Realms of Three Mountains and Nine Waters; she only knew that within the thirty-six million miles of Biyang Lake, islands were densely scattered. Some were occupied by demons, others were sites of sects.

Biyang Lake includes the expanse beyond the lake for an unknown distance, all theoretically considered part of Biyang Lake Territory.

Even Core Formation True Men, steering sword light and divine movement tunneling light without rest, would need three to five years to cross. Moreover, with demon beasts rampant in Biyang Lake Territory, even Core Formation True Men would not dare to recklessly use tunneling light or steer Flying Swords to traverse the territory.

Walking across by foot, even three to five decades might not be enough to get out of Biyang Lake.

For Miao Yin Daoist, before she arrived in Upper Sun Country, her cultivation level was only at the True Qi Realm. She had heard of the fame of Three Mountains and Nine Waters, but let alone Biyang Lake, even the ten thousand miles around her native Luoxia Sect she had never ventured out of.

Most of the information she had was hearsay.

"Biyang Lake is vast, with numerous sects, each occupying a Spiritual Mountain."

"Luoxia Sect is one of them."

Miao Yin Daoist spoke slowly, while Lu Qingfeng listened quietly.

Miao Yin Daoist was from Luoxia Sect, located on the western fringe of Biyang Lake, adjacent to the Crying Swamp. Because it was close to the Crying Swamp and the Spirit Extinguishing Land, where Spiritual Energy was more common, smaller sects like Luoxia Sect were able to survive.

Luoxia Sect was called a small sect, but that was relative to Biyang Lake Territory.

In fact, not only did it have a Spirit Void True Cultivator in residence, but there were also quite a few Foundation Establishment Practitioners in the sect.

At the time, Miao Yin Daoist was just starting out, and she and a good friend went out to gain experience. Unexpectedly, they found an ancient hermitage. Both had major gains in the hermitage, and in the face of profit, her friend betrayed her, leaving Miao Yin Daoist seriously wounded. Miao Yin Daoist fought back desperately and managed to kill her.

Later, she encountered a demon. With serious injuries and in panic, she rushed into the Crying Swamp, wandered for a long time without finding a way out, and ended up mistakenly stumbling into Upper Sun Country.

During this period, she used the Beast Taming Secret Technique and the egg of a Cold Ice Toad acquired from the hermitage, hatched the Cold Ice Toad, and used it to suppress the cold poison caused by taking the Green Heart Pill to treat her injuries.

At this point, Lu Qingfeng couldn't help but admire Miao Yin Daoist's perseverance and endurance.

The Green Heart Pill and the Cold Origin Pill share a similar wonderful effect; they can suppress and recover from extremely severe injuries. However, once the injury is healed, the chill poison contained within the elixirs begins to nourish and grow within Inner Breath, True Qi, and True Yuan, feeding like a maggot in the bone, making it very difficult to remove.

If True Qi is used excessively, the chill poison will spread rapidly, rendering all medicines ineffective.

Even during ordinary times, with the chill poison clinging to the body, every part of the body would feel as though it was being bitten by cold insects, a pain far beyond what ordinary people can endure. Many who have used the Green Heart Pill or Cold Origin Pill to recover from injuries but have not been able to expel the chill poison would become unable to bear it within a few years; a great number go mad in their search for death.

Yet Miao Yin Daoist endured it for a good forty to fifty years.