Devour

Chapter 287: Exchange of Favorite Treasures

Cheng Bai heard that it was Yao Shuang's voice and said thoughtfully, "Let's go down and take a look."

Gou Yifan hurriedly said: "It's that A Pu, could it be..."

Cheng Bai said: "Be quiet, don't make any rash judgments, wait and see."

The black sandfly lowered its altitude and flew closer to the ground. A huge figure towered in the misty haze.

On the surface he looked like a half-melted human figure, but upon closer inspection he was a mass of foul-smelling brown mud. The upper half of his body that emerged from the swamp was over a hundred meters tall, with a head, face, hands and claws.

Zhai Xufei said: "Mud demons are monsters that are unique to hateful swamps. It will be very troublesome for those young people below to encounter them."

As he spoke, the mud demon threw a ball of mud at Zhen Yizhe, knocking him into the mire. The sticky mud wrapped his entire body and he couldn't get out of it. He looked extremely miserable.

Duanmu Qi on the other side had already been hit, and was still struggling in the quagmire, unable to rise or fall, and his hard-earned skills were unable to be put to use.

Xu Buwei exclaimed, "This monster's muddy body is very strange. It is not afraid of flying sword attacks at all. It is far better than ordinary sticky mud. It almost took my Liucai sword into its body and took it away."

Yao Shuang was still screaming: "Senior Brother Apu is missing. I wonder where he went?"

Xu Buwei looked around and said, "He said that the purple bell was hidden here, but it disappeared in the blink of an eye. The mud demon should be a monster guarding the root of the precious medicine. The difference in strength is too big for us to deal with it. Let's retreat when the opportunity arises."

The mud demon was intelligent and let out a dull roar: "You dare to steal my treasure? Don't even think about leaving." He raised his giant palm and threw out two huge mud balls, hitting the two people respectively.

Xu Buwei and Yao Shuang knew that the other party was powerful, so they didn't dare to take it head-on and jumped up and down desperately to avoid the attack.

Just as he was panicking, the savage mud demon made a rough "crackling" sound, and its movements became slower and slower. Within a few breaths, its entire body quickly solidified into ice, and it was frozen in the snow, motionless.

Xu Buwei was surprised and asked, "What? The mud demon is frozen."

Yao Shuang looked up and saw the black dragon figure slowly descending in the sky. She was surprised and said, "Is it him? He brought quite a few people with him."

Beitingjun leaned over and shouted, "My Ice Purgatory has frozen the mud demon. What are you guys standing there for? Hurry up and do it."

Xu Buwei came to his senses and used his Liucai sword to chop horizontally and vertically, while Yao Shuang also used his flying sword to help. The two of them chopped the mud demon so hard that mud splashed all over its body, leaving it covered with wounds but unable to kill it.

Seeing this, Bei Tingjun shook his head and said, "Their cultivation is far inferior. Why would a few juniors dare to come to the Abomination Swamp to provoke the Mud Demon?"

Lu Xiaoxi smiled bitterly and said, "Since you have made a move, I will help you to the end."

Bei Tingjun simply used the Thousand-Ren Ice Slash, condensing a giant ice sword suspended in the air, and slashed the mud demon with the force of splitting mountains, stirring it a few times and completely shaking it into ice fragments. The power of the spell was so great that Xu Buwei and Yao Shuang were both terrified.

By the time Duanmu Qi and Zhen Yizhe climbed ashore covered in mud, the battle was over.

The black dragon landed on the ground, and Cheng Bai reached out without hesitation and took the mud demon's huge inner core from the pile of ice.

Duanmu Qi and the others were jealous, but they couldn't say anything. If they didn't help them in time, the four of them would be in danger.

The swamp near the corpse of the mud demon began to bubble up, and a large bubble of water rose up, floated to the surface of the mud pond, and broke with a "snap". A person jumped out of the bubble, and it was A Pu.

Yao Shuang couldn't help but complain: "Brother A Pu, you said there was no danger, how did you attract such a powerful mud demon? The four of us almost died in vain."

A Pu said calmly, "My fellow Taoists, I didn't know there were mud monsters hiding in the swamp. The sect's scriptures don't record any information about monsters. Why are there so many people here?"

Xu Buwei said: "Thanks to Daoist Fellow Baidi who brought in experts to lend a hand, we were able to escape danger."

A Pu clasped his fists and said, "Thank you for your great help, fellow Taoist."

Yao Shuang pressed the issue, "Brother Apu, have you cleared out the mud demon's lair? Is there the purple bell you mentioned?"

A Pu rolled his eyes at her and secretly blamed her in his heart: "What a straightforward little girl, she is talking nonsense in front of strangers!"

He smiled and said, "I found a pair of purple bells, but nothing else." After that, he carefully took out the exquisite jade box from the Sumeru mustard seed in his arms and opened it to show it.

There were two magical herbs in the box, shaped like bells, as big as fists, with an elegant purple color and a soft halo. The dragon-beard-like stamens swayed gently as if they were alive, and were extremely spiritual.

Cheng Bai's spiritual eyes could identify it clearly, and he couldn't help but praise it: "What a treasure, born from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth."

"It's all worth it after all the hard work." Apu laughed and gently closed the jade box.

Yao Shuang was a little disappointed and complained, "We ran to this place of death where it's hard to breathe and took great risks, and we only got a pair? As for curing inner demons and helping us survive the disaster, it's so far away from us. It's really not as good as the Mud Demon Inner Pill."

Zhen Yizhe echoed, "The Mud Demon is definitely not something we can contend with. It can be considered an early stage monster in the Undwelling Realm. The inner elixir it cultivates is extremely precious, and its market price alone is high."

Yao Shuang thought for a moment and suggested, "Brother Baidi, can you do me a favor? We are already acquaintances. Didn't you say that the two purple bells are great? How about exchanging them for the inner elixir of the mud demon? This way, everyone can get the treasure they like, and everyone will be happy."

Cheng Bai was stunned: "The Princess of the Yao Family is so ignorant and dares to ask such a question. Medicinal materials need to meet the right person. Inner elixirs are so scarce among cultivators! In terms of price, they are dozens of times more expensive than two purple bells."

Xu Buwei smiled and said, "It depends on what the seniors and Daoist Baidi think."

A Pu's face changed slightly, and he cursed inwardly: "The little girl is short-sighted and has no foresight. At my level, what does a mere Wuzhu Realm initial stage inner elixir mean? Fortunately, I have prepared in advance." He soon relaxed and said: "Junior Sister Yao likes it, everyone agrees, I have nothing to say."

Cheng Bai noticed the slight change in A Pu's expression and thought, "He went all the way to the mud demon's lair to steal the treasure. It's hard to say whether he was prepared to sacrifice his teammates. Now he is chatting and laughing without any care. He must have obtained far more than two plants. The restrictions on the Sumeru mustard seeds are complicated and difficult to detect with spiritual consciousness. If he used them for his own benefit and gave two plants to deal with the situation, others would not be able to search him. Only he knows how much he got."

This cannot be said nonsense, after all, no one has seen it with their own eyes.

Cheng Bai recalled Fu Gui's words and made up his mind: "The Bingqing Zhenshen Pill may be very important, and the only medicinal ingredient needed is the purple bell."

He took out the brown inner pill of the mud demon, and the spiritual light radiated and dispersed the surrounding fog. He said leisurely: "Based on the market price, this inner pill of the initial stage of the Wuzhu realm is worth at least one million taels of gold. Maybe it can be refined into a capable or even excellent soul weapon. In exchange for two spiritual herbs, we can make a good relationship."

Yao Shuang was overjoyed when she heard this. She rushed forward to take the jade box from A Pu's hand, opened it and handed it to Cheng Bai, smiling from ear to ear: "Thank you, Brother Baidi, for your help."

Cheng Bai took the purple bell without saying a word and put the Mud Demon's inner elixir into her jade box. The exchange was successful.

Xu Buwei sighed and praised in his heart: "Fortunately, Junior Sister Yao is smart and asked for it quickly. If a little girl said something wrong, it's not a crime if she doesn't know it. If it were us, we would never dare to ask for it."

As the interactions became more beneficial, several children from famous and prominent sects became familiar with Cheng Bai and the others, and they were soon chatting and laughing together.

Xu Buwei greeted him and said, "I have heard of the White Emperor for a long time. His battle on the Ladder of All Things made him famous. I have long wanted to meet him."

Duanmu Qi said: "I heard that Baidi's weapon refining skills surpassed those of the Changsheng Society, and his fame is rising rapidly. I admire him very much."

Cheng Bai was slightly stunned and said, "Why do you say that? I have never competed with the Changsheng Society in the art of refining weapons."

Zhen Yizhe continued, "I also heard that Tiantun Sect's Baidi had a unique skill and refined the Hanguang Sword, which was placed in the Zhenyue Sword Sect's Nine Palace Sword Box. Changsheng Society's number one master, Mo Gui, refined the Huaying Sword, which was also placed in the Nine Palace Sword Box, but ranked after the Hanguang Sword. This matter spread among the major sword sects stationed in Shanhui City, saying that the world's number one weapon refining master was replaced by a new one, and Changsheng Society didn't seem to react."

Cheng Bai thought to himself, "I actually ignored this matter... Isn't that offending the Changsheng Society? It depends on what the other party thinks. Mo Ruo is a rebellious person. He defeated me in private in the past and no one knew about it. But now that his ancestor's skills are inferior to mine, it has spread to all major sects and then spread across the five continents. How can I let it go?"