My Scales Can Make Equivalent Exchange
Chapter 739 - 625: The Way Out

Chapter 739: Chapter 625: The Way Out

"Um... it wasn’t too bad, I guess?" Yao Wenxuan thought of Old Ghost’s words and replied somewhat unconfidently.

Actually, he felt a tad unlucky. He had ascended twice and both times had ended up suffering terribly.

Even though the first bout of suffering had helped him achieve the Tribulation Stage, this time it seemed like he had gained nothing from his ordeal. However, Old Ghost Tong had told him that this place happened to be an unparalleled treasure land for refining his immortal body!

For him, it was perfect!

Moreover, after gaining the opportunity in the future, the altar would undoubtedly bring immense rewards too.

But these could not change the fact that he had always found himself in dire situations.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zijia said, "I will cultivate the Gu insects, and you will discard them."

"Is there a difference?" Yao Wenxuan asked somewhat speechlessly.

"Of course, there is!" Wang Zijia replied seriously.

As a notorious person from his previous life, he was very familiar with Fanbai’s metaphysics. Not only in this world, but luck truly did exist!

...

Time passed unknowingly, and in a blink of an eye, the two of them had stayed in this forbidden land for almost half a year.

During this time, Wang Zijia was surprised to find that despite exchanging away all his abnormal statuses, changes had still occurred in his body.

Not the bad kind, but seemingly positive changes.

Even though his body had been eroded by countless confused spirit mechanisms and Dao principles without any mutation, his body, having been refined time and time again, had actually started to step into the refining process of his Dao body ahead of time!

This was the most difficult step for a Great Cultivator who had crossed the tribulation!

For Wang Zijia, starting meant completing initial refinement!

This unexpected joy really was not bad!

...

One day, the two of them, out of habit, selected a space area and tossed out a bunch of Gu insects before they moved on to another location.

For the most part of the year, the two had formed a pattern: cultivate Gu insects for nine days, discard them on one day, and then repeat every ten days.

Until a better method came along, as long as they weren’t completely emptied out by these low-level ants, they would keep going.

Suddenly, Wang Zijia’s eyes lit up, and he erupted into an expression of surprise.

Inside his Sea of Consciousness, a dedicated avatar was on duty.

At this moment, he finally sensed that a Gu insect had passed through the space cracks and suspected that it had gotten out.

However, the situation seemed tricky, and he didn’t dare delay any longer. If the Gu insect died, all the hard work would be for naught. Thus, he swiftly anchored the insect.

"What’s wrong, Immortal Venerate?" Yao Wenxuan asked in confusion, seeing Wang Zijia suddenly stop.

Even with some wariness due to the half-year of interaction, Yao Wenxuan was quite familiar with Wang Zijia. However, he still called him Immortal Venerate, refusing to get too close.

In the next moment, he saw Wang Zijia’s surprised expression.

"Could it be...?"

Before Yao Wenxuan could finish speaking, a book materialized before Wang Zijia, as a passage slowly opened up. It seemed like Wang Zijia blessed himself with something, causing an explosive increase in his aura. He stepped inside, disappearing from the spot.

Yao Wenxuan watched this scene in shock. Only after Wang Zijia had disappeared without a trace did he react.

"I told you so! This is not a good thing! You know you regret it now, right? You were played for a fool for half a year."

"If you had listened to me and chosen a spatial rift to escape through, this would have been over a long time ago!"

The voice of Old Ghost Tong echoed in Yao Wenxuan’s mind, taking pleasure in his misfortune.

Yao Wenxuan fell silent for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, the book reappeared, and the passage opened once more as Wang Zijia verbatim came over. "Hurry up and come here, I found an exit!"

"Don’t be impulsive! You cannot just casually enter the mini world of an Earth Immortal Dao Cultivator." Old Ghost Tong warned.

"You shut up!" Yao Wenxuan first scorned the Old Ghost in his mind who had started once again to argue against entering someone else’s Cave Heaven Worlds. Then, without saying another word, he ventured inside.

The passage slowly disappeared, and the book also dissolved into an anchor point and vanished.

The entire core area of the forbidden land returned to silence, awaiting its next visitor.

...

East Wilderness Immortal Domain, Northern Ancient Ruins Group.

This was a deserted group of ancient ruins with an untraceable origin but had certainly existed for a very long time, definitely not an artifact of this era.

Because there was almost no threat left here, countless low-level cultivators had come here to explore and scrap everything over time, leaving nothing valuable behind.

However, half a day ago, this place had suddenly experienced an earth-shattering event followed by a rosy cloud that rushed to the sky.

By the time the cultivators arrived, they discerned amidst the rosy clouds that a palace had emerged from the ground in this area.

The palace was gray and constructed entirely of rock, exuding an aura of wildness and ancient times, majestic and long-standing.

As the news spread and many people became aware of it, several major factions around naturally took notice.

One God Monarch after another rushed to this place in haste.

When the rosy clouds dissipated, the gray stone palace appeared before everyone, grand, quaint, with an imposing wild aura emitting from it.

With the disappearance of the rosy clouds, the previously inaccessible palace was now open for everyone to enter freely.

The arriving cultivators swarmed in one after another.

However, once the people entered, they found that this palace was like a portable cave mansion, with a separate world inside.

The whole palace seemed like a small secret realm!

With a myriad of rooms and numerous houses, only the environment seemed to be relatively dark and gloomy... as if this was a group of tombs?

The reason it seemed so was that although many cultivators had caused quite a commotion over the burial items in the tombs, they couldn’t find a single coffin for a long time.

In the midst of constant struggle, the cultivators continued to delve deeper, even as swarms of other cultivators arrived on the scene.

A majority were God Monarchs, most of them Infant Gods. There were few Primordial Spirits, and only eight or nine were at the Tribulation Stage.

In the East Wilderness Immortal Domain, due to the difficulty of suppressing the Dao Body, cultivating the Immortal Body, and crossing tribulations, the progress of cultivators in these aspects was quite arduous.

Therefore, crossing tribulations still represented the high-end power of East Wilderness.

The overall level was roughly the same as the Southern Spirit Three Domains. Earth Immortals were almost never seen in the daily routine, and Turbid Immortals were the highest level cultivators.

Unlike the others, East Wilderness was not barren and possessed all the resources that the Immortal World should have.

Therefore, the Cultivation World on the whole was slightly more developed than South Spirit. Many major sects from the Central Immortal Domain had also established branches here to claim territory and collect cultivation resources.

While it seemed comparable to the Spirit Suppressing Realm, there was indeed a significant difference.

In terms of power, the ranking was similar to Spirit Suppressing Realm, but there was a considerable difference in terms of quantity.

Also, if one provoked a major faction, it might lead to an immortal from a different domain coming after you.

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Following half a day of chaos, there were even more cultivators in the palace, which although not very large on the outside, was like an endless maze inside. Numerous low-level treasures were rife, resulting in quite a bit of chaos, with fresh blood staining many palace rooms.

"Roar!"

A half-day later, a beastly roar that was part human part creature echoed through the entire palace.

A ferocious and ancient aura rushed upon them.

All the cultivators present were taken aback, but several crossing-tribulation Great Cultivators who had just arrived, abandoned their treasure hunt and rushed towards the sound.

A moment later, the Great Cultivators arrived in an immense hall.

Seeing the scene within, each of the cultivators took in a sharp breath.

The great hall was huge, the size of hundreds of football fields combined, filled with countless bloody runes. Innumerable top-grade Spirit Stones formed the core, and Immortal Crystals served as the nodes, creating a big array.

And right in the center of the array, a void fissure, akin to a giant’s eye, appeared and a coffin floated midair.

Blood-red rosy clouds spread out, and immortal spirit Dao Charm intertwined.

"Immortal Corpse!"

"Ancient Immortal body?!"

"We’re rich!"

For any Crossing Tribulation Cultivator, any immortal body was considered a terrifying treasure.

It had so many uses, such as helping to refine one’s Dao Body. Even refining it into an Immortal puppet, it might not win against an Earth Immortal, but it would still pose a considerable challenge to a Turbid Immortal.

In East Wilderness, it could be counted as being in the top ranks.

In short, for the crossing-tribulation Great Cultivators, an Immortal body was an enormous treasure.

The group of Crossing Tribulation Cultivators instantly cast wary looks at their peers in their surroundings.

However, before they could even try to snatch,

"Roar!"

Another human-beast roar resounded. This time, the cultivators saw clearly that the sound was coming from the coffin.

Before the cultivators could do anything, a moment later, the entire palace was once again sealed. Cultivators were confined in the rooms they were exploring, like living burial accessories.

The group of Crossing Tribulation Cultivators that were raring for a fight, miraculously set aside their grievances. Without any communication, they teamed up and launched an attack on the coffin being gradually pulled open.

"Bang!"

At that instant, the creature inside the coffin sensing the attack, kicked the coffin lid off.

A creature flew out.

With blue faces and sharp fangs, suffused with Death Qi, a pair of bat wings open at its back. Many parts of it were suffering from decay, leaking an odorous, dark yellow liquid.

"Corpse Transformation?"

"It’s actually a Seventh-Rank Corpse!"

"How could this be possible in the current age, how could an Immortal body undergo natural Corpse Transformation."

"Is this the place where some old Devil raises corpses?"

"······"

Seventh-rank Corpse: A terrifying zombie comparable to Earth Immortal, one step away from the traditional zombie’s peak, the Eighth-Rank Zombie: Un-decaying Bone!

Theoretically, the highest rank among zombies was the Celestial Immortal Realm.

That is to say, this was the natural limit of growth. Not all zombies could reach the eighth rank, but the eighth rank was the peak for zombies.

While a Seventh-Rank Corpse was powerful, it had a considerable flaw: it could not leave the place where it was nurtured.

While advancing from a Sixth-Rank Wandering Corpse to a Seventh-Rank Corpse, one needed to select a nurturing location, to settle down and form a nest. After advancing to a Seventh-Rank Corpse, they could not leave until they breakthrough to Un-decaying Bone, which was comparable to a Celestial Immortal.

Despite the significant flaw, with the Seventh- rank Corpse present, all the cultivators felt despair because the place was sealed.

Leaving the palace was out of the question, let alone leaving the Great Hall.

"Roar!"

After the Seventh-Rank Corpse appeared, it roared at the Crossing Tribulation big shots, its bloody eyes flashing. Without any warning, it charged towards the seven or eight Crossing Tribulation Great Cultivators.

It seemed as though it had wisdom, or perhaps it was intentionally attracting prey.

Many people instinctively scattered, and those targeted could only grit their teeth and retaliate.

"Boom!"

"Bang!"