104: Medicine Fairy, Chu Weiwei

“No!”

Mo Chen reacted the fastest. He watched his disciple fall one after another, and a look of horror finally appeared on his face.

“This isn’t poisonous miasma! It’s her trap!

Our life force is being drained! We’ve all become her medicinal ingredients!”

He realized that their target was not fleeing at all, but leading them into a trap that had been set long ago.

“Quick! Retreat!”

Mo Chen roared, but he knew it was too late.

He watched helplessly as the last few disciple also collapsed to the ground, turning into mummified corpses. He himself felt a sense of weakness emanating from his Nascent Soul, and his vital essence was uncontrollably draining away.

“Medicine Immortal...?”

A decisive glint flashed in Mo Chen’s eyes.

He bit his tongue sharply, spitting a mouthful of vital blood onto a pitch-black jade talisman.

“Elder Hun... save me!”

The jade talisman absorbed the vital blood, instantly exploding into an almost invisible black light that ignored the spatial barriers of the place and shot into the sky.

After doing all this, Mo Chen’s aura instantly withered, and his face turned ashen.

He could no longer support himself, his knees buckled, and he fell to the ground. His body rapidly shriveled, eventually following in the footsteps of his disciple.

A bizarre scene occurred again.

All the Thousand Puppet Sect Cultivator’s corpses decomposed in a soft, warm golden light.

Their vital Qi and Nascent Souls were forcibly purified, transforming into countless sacred, warm golden specks of light that slowly rose, eventually being completely absorbed by the plant roots on the ground.

The medicinal fragrance in the air grew a few shades stronger.

Just then, the clouds in the sky were suddenly torn open by an invisible force, creating a rift.

Two cold yet powerful auras, far exceeding the Void Refining Stage, descended from the rift with a roar.

Immediately after, two figures slowly emerged from it.

The one on the left was a gaunt old man in a blood-colored robe, named Gutong.

His aura was at the Peak of the Body Integration Middle Stage, just one step away from the Late Stage.

Beside him stood a figure completely shrouded in a wide black robe.

The figure’s face was indiscernible, and the space around him was slightly distorted, as if light itself was being absorbed by him.

What emanated from him was a genuine, immense pressure belonging to the Body Integration Late Stage.

This person was the Grand Elder of the Thousand Puppet Sect—Night Whisper.

As the two figures emerged from the spatial rift, the overwhelming pressure of the Body Integration Stage instantly dispersed the peculiar medicinal fragrance of the place, replacing it with a nauseating chill.

Gutong’s gaze swept over the shriveled corpses on the ground, and he let out an unpleasant, strange laugh: “Interesting, truly interesting.

Mo Chen, that good-for-nothing, along with his team, was actually drained into medicinal dregs without even seeing the enemy’s face.”

Beside him, Night Whisper, the Grand Elder of the Thousand Puppet Sect, who was completely shrouded in a black robe, remained silent.

He merely extended a withered hand, palm facing upwards.

The fragments of the pitch-black jade talismans scattered in the muddy water seemed to be summoned, slowly floating up and converging in his palm into a faint light screen.

In the light screen was the last scene Mo Chen saw before his death—that sacred, warm golden light, and a unique and powerful aura contained within the light.

A moment later, the light screen dissipated.

“Medicine Immortal, Chu Weiwei.”

Night Whisper’s voice was hoarse, like two pieces of sandpaper rubbing together, “She is at the core of this swamp.

This aura, there’s no mistake.”

Gutong licked his lips, his eyes full of greed: “A Body Integration Stage Medicine Immortal, her Divine Soul, her Physical Body, if they can be refined into our sect’s Saint Puppet, their power will surely be infinite!”

The two no longer lingered, transforming into two streaks of light and shooting towards the depths of the swamp.

Behind the black rock, Ye You’s brows were tightly furrowed. She looked at Su Lin, her demonic power already beginning to surge.

Su Lin, however, made a gesture to her to remain calm, indicating to continue observing.

Just as Night Whisper and Gutong disappeared into the depths of the swamp, a figure appeared without warning in the spot where they had previously stood.

It was a young girl.

She appeared so abruptly, as if she had always been standing there, only now allowing the world to see her.

She wore a moon-white long dress, its hem touching the ground, embroidered with simple herbal patterns in silver thread.

Her silver hair was tied up with a wooden hairpin, a few strands falling beside her cheeks. Her amethyst-like eyes were clear and transparent, without the slightest hint of worldly defilement.

It seemed her entire being exuded an inviolable radiance.

There was also a sense of sanctity that did not belong to the mortal world.

The moment he saw her, Su Lin’s heart skipped a beat.

Chu Weiwei!

This aura... Body Integration Peak!

Only one step away from the Mahayana Stage!

Su Lin’s mind went blank.

What kind of Prodigies were all his disciple!

“Found it.”

Chu Weiwei said softly, her voice like a clear spring in a mountain stream.

She did not look in the direction where Su Lin was hiding, but rather towards the depths of the swamp where Night Whisper and the other had disappeared.

She took a step, and her figure vanished from the spot.

The core of the swamp was a huge lake.

The lake water was as black as ink, and in the center of the lake, a lotus flower, completely translucent and emitting a colorful glow, grew quietly.

Night Whisper and Gutong were hovering above the lake, their eyes burning with fervor as they stared at the lotus flower.

“It’s the Seven Aperture Exquisite Lotus!” Gutong’s voice trembled, “The legendary holy medicine for cleansing the Divine Soul!”

“So that’s it.”

Night Whisper spoke hoarsely, “She set up this grand formation here to protect this holy medicine.

As long as we take this lotus, her mind will surely be in chaos!”

“Heh heh, Grand Elder is brilliant!”

Gutong no longer hesitated, forming hand seals. A giant claw made of countless white bones appeared out of thin air, reaching towards the lotus in the center of the lake.

Just as the giant claw was about to grasp the lotus.

From within the lotus heart, the crystalline lotus seed suddenly opened. It was actually a single bloodshot eye.

“Buzz!”

A black shockwave erupted from the lotus, spreading outwards!

The giant bone claw instantly shattered upon contact with the black shockwave.

“Pfft!”

Gutong’s mind reeled, and he spat out a large cloud of blood mist.

“This... this isn’t a holy medicine! It’s a trap! It’s a poisonous lotus!”

He roared, trying to retreat, but it was already too late.

The mutated poisonous lotus did not stop after destroying the bone claw.

The root stems beneath the lotus seat burst out of the water like twisted tentacles. The entire lotus rapidly expanded, transforming into a colossal monster the size of two people in an instant.

The sacred petals curled outwards, revealing no longer the lotus heart, but rings of dense, glistening sharp teeth, like those of a shark!

The gaping maw suddenly opened wide, and with a lunge, it pounced on the terrified Gutong!

“Ah—!”

Gutong only managed to let out a short, tragic scream before he was swallowed whole by the giant mouth.

Amidst the sounds of flesh being chewed, blood splattered on the lake surface, and then everything returned to deadly silence.