Chapter 697
After handing Yu Gu the formation diagram of the Myriad Poisons Formation and a few other spare diagrams of smaller formations, so he could deploy various formation bases in different places with the three thousand soldiers who had come with them, Wu Qi headed for a distant mountain range with four generals, whose cultivation bases had reached the Nine Stars Realm of the Second Pangu Heaven .
These four generals were King Yang Qiu's faithful confidants, and their families had been the servants of King Yang Qiu's line of imperial clan for generations . They were cousins to each other, and had been growing up together with King Yang Qiu . So, their relationship with King Yang Qiu was actually like that of brothers .
According to the unspoken rules of the imperial clan of Great Yu, after King Yang Qiu was conferred as a King, the names of the four were changed to take his title as their surname . They were Yangqiu Fengbo, Yangqiu Yushi, Yangqiu Leilong and Yanqiu Dianjiao[1] . These four names were the names of the deities; because they took the title of a king as their surname and the deities as their name, whenever they said their names, others in Great Yu would immediately know their identity and relation with King Yang Qiu .
Unlike King Yang Qiu's cold, solemn character, the four cousins were like four active volcanoes . Whenever someone offended them, even by mistake, they would erupt and kill the offender . They were literally four savage beasts in human forms . They had no other responsibility except governing King Yang Qiu's personal guards and taking care of his personal safety . In Wu Qi's words, all their brain cells had been replaced by muscle fibers and hot blood .
With these four savage beasts in human skins, Wu Qi ran through the true primitive land, carefully searching for a relatively safe route between the mountains . From time to time, blinding lightning flashed across the sky above their heads, and there were violent storms spinning rapidly all around them . As this piece of land had only been born from chaos for three years or so, the natural rules here had not been firmly established . Therefore, it was fraught with all kinds of natural disasters, and even a careless mistake here often led to death .
They raced between the mountains and occasionally flew a short distance in the air . After more than six hours of traveling in this way, braving through dozens of suddenly erupting, terrible natural disasters; dodging the attack of a fierce hailstorm; avoiding a blizzard strong enough to freeze Gold Immortals to death; and narrowly escaping an eruption of an underground volcano, they finally reached the outer perimeter of the valley in the heart of the mountains .
In the sky above them, a dark cloud slowly rolled by, sprinkling hair-like raindrops that were half-frozen and glinting like crystals . The air rang with crisp clanging noises as they hit the ground, splashing up cold fog that quickly engulfed the surroundings . These raindrops were as powerful as the arrows released from the heavy crossbows specially made in Great Yu, and the coldness they brought with them was enough to freeze average Heaven Immortals to death .
Both the Human Emperor of Great Yu and the Great Celestial Emperor of the Heaven had issued decrees that no one was allowed to enter the lands that had just been born from chaos, unless he or she had the cultivation base equivalent to that of an upper-tier Gold Immortal, as well as a strong confidence in his or her own cultivation base and luck . Only after ten thousand years of cooling and solidification of these lands, and after all the natural rules had been completely established, would the less powerful be allowed to explore these places .
These lands were fraught with mortal dangers . However, whether it was from Great Yu or the Heaven, very powerful experts often visited such places, searching for innate spirit artifacts born out of chaos . If they were lucky enough, they could find rare spirit herbs or innate minerals, which would make them rich overnight . However, if they were out of luck, they might encounter mighty innate savage beasts who had just been born out of chaos and possessed all sorts of strange abilities, which often ended up in a messy situation .
There had been cases of Supreme Oracles from Great Yu falling in such damnable places, and Primordial Immortals from the Heaven having their immortal bodies destroyed here and forced to reincarnate, cultivating all over again . These lands were full of opportunities, but also full of dangers; some could get rich overnight here, while others might be forced to stay here forever, becoming the nutrients that nourished these new lands .
Had it not been because of the protection provided by Yangqiu Fengbo and the other three generals, Wu Qi would never have come here safely on his own unless he used an innate escape art . Among other things, the hailstones alone that smashed down like a heavy downpour would have crushed him into a meat paste if he braved through them with his fleshly body and nothing else .
While panting, he climbed up a mountain about a hundred miles high and saw a hundred miles wide valley laying in front of him .
The valley was shaped like a bowl, with a depth of about ten miles at its deepest point . The ground was flat and empty as if it were a mirror, except for a natural Yin and Yang Lair in the center . Like a Taiji Diagram, at the heart of the valley was a pool of cold water and a volcanic crater, which sat next to each other to form a circle . Cold air and heat wave were being constantly spewed out of them, mixing and fusing with each other in the sky before turning into countless snowflakes and falling back down .
To Wu Qi's surprise, the mountains around the valley formed a natural defensive formation . Not only had it spared the valley from the dreadful natural disasters that raged across the land and prevented the chaotic natural energy that filled the atmosphere from affecting the water and fire eyes in the valley, it had also stopped the water and fire-elemental energies from leaking outside, channeling them into the sky . However, as the energies of water and fire were in a perfect balance, whenever they reached about a mile high into the sky, they would turn into snowflakes and water vapor, falling back into the valley .
"This is an amazing place! So, the two Dragon Pythons of Fire and Ice are hiding here?" Glancing at the landscape in the valley, Wu Qi could not help but marvel at the intelligence of the two dragon pythons mentioned in Liu Bang's information . The natural fire and water lairs in the valley were extremely beneficial to dragon pythons, which made this hiding place a much better selection than where Gold Horn and Silver Horn were hiding in the past .
Even more amazing to Wu Qi was the fact that because of the two natural lairs, the valley was warm as spring and full of natural energy . In this primitive land with no grass growing for tens of billions of miles, the valley was actually rich in water, grass, and natural resources . The two eyes were surrounded by a patch of green grass, about three feet tall and as thin as hairs . Although there was no wind in the valley, the grasses were swaying gently like charming girls dancing in the wind .
Among the fine grass were dense shrubs . They all looked alike: a trunk with nine branches, with a fruit the size of a fist present on each branch . The shrubs near the water eye were all turquoise-green, and their fruits were deep purple-blue; the shrubs near the fire eye were all red, their fruits red as magma . Through their thin peels, one could see the red liquid that was tumbling in them .
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