Immortal Venerable of the Beast Race
Chapter 101 - 101 76 Profound Yin Marketplace_1

101: 76 Profound Yin Marketplace_1 101: 76 Profound Yin Marketplace_1 The blazing flames hadn’t yet scattered when Shen Long raised his right hand, and a giant wind blade thirty feet long shot out, plunging into the sea of fire.

The ground tore open, revealing a long and thick crack.

It wasn’t long before the flames dispersed, and the Twin-Tailed Scorpion had been split in two by the giant wind blade, emitting a scent of charred flesh.

Shen Long looked up towards the sky, where a streak of cyan light appeared in the distance, swiftly flying towards him.

In less than three breaths, the cyan light came to a halt, revealing a shimmering flying boat.

A man in his fifties dressed in a cyan robe and a slender woman in a purple dress stood on the cyan flying boat.

The man had a round face and large eyes, a ruddy complexion, while the woman possessed a features like a painting, her skin as white as snow, and her bosom perky.

Both were at the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

They were somewhat surprised to see the Twin-Tailed Scorpion split in two.

“I am Lin Guang, and this is my wife Su Nan.

How may I address you, Taoist friend?”

The man in the cyan robe said politely with his hands clasped together.

“Shen Zhu.”

Shen Long replied, having grown up in Qianzhu Valley since his childhood, he had chosen this name for himself.

“So, it’s Taoist Friend Shen.

Thank you for your help.

We had great difficulty in finding this early stage second-order Twin-Tailed Scorpion, yet it managed to escape.

We need its Demon Core.”

Lin Guang said courteously.

Since Shen Long had slain the Twin-Tailed Scorpion, by all rights the beast’s remains belonged to him, however, Lin Guang and Su Nan had found the scorpion with great effort, even wounding it before Shen Long intercepted and killed it.

This kind of situation was not uncommon, and some cultivators would even fight over it.

“Surely, we can’t say whoever found the Twin-Tailed Scorpion first owns it, can we?

I can give you the Demon Core, but you’ll have to trade something for it.”

Shen Long stated.

Monster Beasts of second order and above possess a Demon Core, the most valuable part of the beast, which he was not inclined to give away easily.

Lin Guang breathed a sigh of relief and took out five cyan wooden boxes, upon opening one, each box contained a small black herb.

“Ink Mustard Grass aged eighty years!

Alright, set the boxes on the ground, the Demon Core is yours, the corpse is mine.”

Shen Long said.

Lin Guang executed a spell, and the cyan flying boat began to descend slowly.

They disembarked.

With a defensive spell cast upon himself, he set down the five wooden boxes and walked towards the corpse of the Twin-Tailed Scorpion, while Su Nan looked on guard, her right hand constantly on her Storage Bag.

Lin Guang extracted the Demon Core and placed it into a cyan jade box.

“Thank you, Taoist Friend Shen.

We have other matters to attend to and must leave first.

Until we meet again if destiny allows.”

After saying this, Lin Guang walked onto the cyan flying boat and, with a motion of his hands, cyan light illuminated it, and it soared into the sky, disappearing from sight quickly.

Shen Long carefully swept his Divine Sense over the five wooden boxes, confirming there was no trickery before finally opening them and stowing away the five stalks of Ink Mustard Grass before taking his leave with his flying artifact.

Half a month later, Shen Long appeared over a verdant bamboo forest.

It was twilight, with the setting sun in the west casting the afterglow of the sunset across the bamboo.

Changing his spell, Shen Long increased his flying speed.

Soon, he arrived above a largely collapsed earthen temple, which housed a stone statue of a Bodhisattva, the statue’s surface covered in cobwebs.

As it was getting late, Shen Long decided to rest here for the night before continuing on his journey.

Shen Long cast a Dust Purification Spell, cleaning a tidy area, took out a blue meditation mat from his Storage Bag, and sat down cross-legged.

He then took out a cyan Jade Slip and immersed his Divine Sense into it.

The Jade Slip recorded insights from a first-order Alchemist on crafting Spirit Feeding Pills.

Shen Long had exchanged Kind Attribute points for the Pill Formula for Spirit Feeding Pills, and as long as he gathered the necessary materials, he would be able to start refining them.

After a little while, Shen Long set aside the Jade Slip, took out a thick, blue-bound book with the title “Zhao Country Travel Records” embossed on the cover, a compilation of experiences from a Loose Cultivator who had traveled around Zhao Country and stored in the Scripture Pavilion of Spirt Control Sect.

Compiled thirty years prior, it was considered quite reliable.

Shen Long flipped through the book as the sky darkened, taking out a Moonlight Stone that emitted a soft white glow to illuminate the entire earthen temple.

“Zhao Country Travel Records” detailed the situation in Zhao Country, which was divided into ten states and partitioned among the Hundred Ghosts Sect, Yin Corpse Sect, Blood Skeleton Sect, and Heavenly Fiend Sect—The Hundred Ghosts Sect controlled three states and was the strongest.

The codex included various strange and interesting tales from Zhao Country, including the reason for the destruction of the Yu Family.

When Shen Long received the Spirt Control Token, he also acquired a Jade Pendant engraved with the character “Yu,” which he confirmed through numerous codices to be the Identity Token of a Yu Family descendent.

The Yu Family member had already perished, and Shen Long did not know his name.

It was not appropriate to directly impersonate a Yu Family descendant; thus, he claimed to be Shen Zhu.

However, if needed, he wouldn’t hesitate to reveal the Yu descendant’s identity.

More than two hundred years had passed, and even if some descendants of the Yu Family were still alive, it would have been many generations, making it impossible for them to recognize each other.

Therefore, no issue arose with Shen Long pretending to be a descendant of a Yu Family member.

Zhao Country harbored a dangerous area known as Profound Yin Valley, rich in various Yin attribute materials and haunted by Ghost Creatures.

Once, a Core Formation Stage Ghoul King appeared, and it took the concerted effort of Core Formation Cultivators from the Hundred Ghosts Sect to resolve the crisis and seal off the area with enchantments.

The four major Sects of Zhao Country controlled Profound Yin Valley, periodically sending disciples into the valley to collect Yin attribute materials and exterminate Ghost Creatures to prevent another Ghoul King from emerging at the Core Formation Stage.

Besides the perilous sites, the codex also described some of the country’s famous mountains and rivers.

Shen Long, engrossed in the book, deepened his understanding of Zhao Country.