The Journey of Immortal Cultivation-Chapter 585 - 335: The Lake

The most important thing is, the Hundred Solutions Spirit Pill costs very little, while the Clearing Void Pill that can cure all diseases in one go has, due to the inclusion of millennium-aged Yellow Jing and ginseng, a price at least a hundred times greater than the Hundred Solutions Spirit Pill! If every one of the more than six hundred thousand currently sick patients were to be treated with the Clearing Void Pill, the spent Spirit Stones would amount to an astronomical figure, and no Immortal Sect or Demon Sect is willing to pay such a great cost.

It’s the same old saying, mortal lives are worthless in the eyes of the Immortal. Immortals save lives for Merit, and if it costs them too much effort, then the Merit isn’t worth it. And don’t forget, it is only the Clearing Void Pill refined by Ning Xiaoxian with the help of the Fu Yu Tripod that can be so effective; it is unknown whether other Pill Masters have this ability. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦

Having tested the medicine’s effect, she felt somewhat heavy-hearted. Nevertheless, she didn’t ignore the patients before her and distributed one Clearing Void Pill per person, curing everyone of their illness. Ning Xiaoxian named this seed the Plague Seed, and Tu Jin had already determined its structure, telling her that the Plague Seed itself didn’t have a soul or consciousness, but must be acting upon someone’s command.

That is to say, there is someone pulling the strings from behind the scenes, otherwise how would this thing mysteriously make its way into a peaceful little mountain village?

As she pondered while hurrying along, in the blink of an eye, she returned to the shore of Sky Lake. Before descending, she casually cast a Cleaning Technique to prevent the spread of the plague to others. The elderly village head was waiting for her, looking at her eagerly. "Is the immortal willing to go into the lake for our sake?" In his memory, immortals were lofty and cold, and why would they care about the life and death of mortals?

She lightly hummed in affirmation, thinking to herself that I am not doing this for you, but to find out the origin of the Plague Seed. Qi Zai carried her and Tu Jin to the center of the lake; both of them, along with the bird, stood lightly on the surface of the water, certainly inspiring awe in many mortals who witnessed it.

She took out the Water Repelling Pearl, and the three descended into the dark depths of the lake.

The vitality of this lake was more abundant than any other body of water she’d seen. Drifting aquatic plants, crabs scuttling across the lakebed, and various fish, with both familiar and unknown names, swimming freely. Qi Zai was very friendly towards the fish, thus at that moment he drooled and said: "There are really too many fish here."

Hearing his unintended reminder, both she and Tu Jin also realized that the density of fish in the lake was unusually high, having just seen two large fish nearly two meters in length pass by them. Tu Jin mused, "The Lake God’s token is fish scales, and it forbids villagers from fishing in the lake, so it must certainly be a Fish Demon itself."

Only those creatures that have reached the Transformation Stage or beyond can hold their own in these woods, and like pythons and crocodiles, fish are creatures that grow larger as they age. This aquatic territory was clearly the home ground of the Fish Demon; they all became extremely vigilant.

Although this lake was not as vast as one of the Five Connected Pools, it had at least half the area, and with a depth of at least about one hundred and thirty meters, sunlight couldn’t penetrate the water, leaving the lakebed in darkness. Using glow grass as their light source, they searched the lakebed for more than three two-hour periods before finding a man-made expanded cave. Fortunately, this lakebed was not characterized by the typical karst topography common in the Central South, otherwise, the myriad of caves large and small would have made their search an overwhelming challenge.

As they approached the entrance of the cave, a number of enormous figures quickly appeared in the lake water. Ning Xiaoxian counted them one by one: snappers, carps, bighead carps—all enormous in size, with sharp teeth baring, and at least three meters in length; there was even one called the "Big Head Carp," a type of carp with a famous dish in Huaxia made from its head, known as chopped chili fish head. However, this fellow was six meters long, and its enormous head was at least three meters in width—if made into a chopped chili fish head dish, who knows how many people would be able to feast on it.

"These are all spirit monsters, not yet transformed into demons, probably the guards of that Lake God," Changtian knew these small fry were no match for them, speaking with ease, "Fish Demons have lived in this body of water for a long time, its demon energy will influence other fish, resulting in offspring of massive sizes."

She took a few steps back and left the job of dealing with these creatures to Tu Jin and Qi Zai. In the water, Qi Zai’s speed was hindered, not as lightning-fast as on land or in the air, but he was more than a match for the ordinary fish. And Tu Jin need not be mentioned; his soul-shattering roar was even amplified by the water waves. Thus, a dozen breaths later, the battle came to an end.