58: Chapter 58 Qi Meridian Hunt! Glowing Mutant Elixir

In the Spiritless Ruins, on the Underground Second Level, in the inner chamber of the security center.

In absolute darkness, Gu Shen sat cross-legged.

He took a can of iron-sealed meat paste and a bottle of pure water from his Storage Ring, used the tip of his blade to pry open the tin, and swallowed it in large gulps.

The ice-cold liquid mixed with the salty, fishy meat paste fell into his stomach, quickly transforming into a massive amount of heat to sustain the operation of his Physical Body.

After eating and drinking his fill, Gu Shen took out the black iron plate (tablet terminal) wrapped in an isolation Talisman.

The artifact spirit that called itself "Crab" had once said that this object could maintain its hibernation through kinetic energy recovery. Although Gu Shen did not understand what kinetic energy was, he was proficient in the way of Artifact Refining, and after a little deduction, he understood the crux of it.

"The so-called kinetic energy recovery is merely this Magic Treasure being able to absorb the vibrational force of a living person's Physical Body when walking, and converting it into its own Origin Qi."

Gu Shen tore open the Talisman, pulled out a roll of white silk bandages, and tied the black iron plate tightly to the outside of his left thigh.

In this way, every time he sneaked, exerted force, or fought, the violent tremors of his muscles would be transmitted without fail to this broken Spirit Treasure, serving as nourishment for its lingering existence.

Properly prepared.

Gu Shen leaped up and silently burrowed into the Qi meridian passage (ventilation duct) above the ceiling.

According to the Qi meridian blueprint in his mind, the Underground Second Level was extremely vast, and this security center was merely the tip of the iceberg.

Gu Shen crawled forward in the narrow and oppressive passage. Every time the muscles in his left leg tightened, the iron plate tied to his leg emitted a trace of warmth that was difficult for ordinary people to perceive.

About half an hour later.

In the pitch-black passage ahead, a faint, extremely eerie, ghostly green light faintly seeped through.

Gu Shen slowed his breathing, gliding like a falling leaf to the louvers of the air vent, and looked down.

Below was an extremely large warehouse. There was no red light from emergency lamps; what illuminated this place was a small mountain piled up in the center of the warehouse.

It was a pile of irregular Ore emitting a blinding, ghostly green light.

In the gaps between the Ore, there were actually a dozen ghostly green mushrooms growing, their entire bodies crystal clear, as if carved from jade!

"Spirit Medicine associated with a place of extreme Yin? No, that's not right..." Gu Shen's pupils constricted slightly.

Even separated by thick refined iron pipes, he could still feel the extremely terrifying aura of destruction contained within that green light. That was not Spiritual Qi at all, but a world-extinguishing poisonous light a hundred times more concentrated than what he had felt on the first level!

Just at this moment.

The black iron plate tied to his thigh, having absorbed half an hour of the vibrational force of his Physical Body, suddenly vibrated extremely weakly.

An extremely thin, thread-like, withered voice reached Gu Shen's ears:

"Don't touch... high-concentration nuclear waste... the mutant fungi on it... the lethal radiation dosage exceeds the standard by ten thousand times... touch it once and your genes will collapse into a puddle of mush..."

Crab's warning was extremely weak, and after speaking, it fell into dead silence again. Gu Shen's eyes narrowed.

"Lethal poisonous light? Mush?"

If an ordinary Cultivator heard such a warning, they would definitely retreat three times over. After all, such highly poisonous things meant certain death upon contact. But he was different.

He had the [Heaven and Earth Furnace]! That was a Heaven-Defying ability capable of erasing Impurities and purifying the Origin!

In his Great Furnace, the life-taking poison in others' eyes became a supreme treasure for tempering the Physical Body and replenishing blood and Qi!

"Since these mutant poisonous fungi can take root and grow in the place where this world-extinguishing poisonous light is most concentrated, their interiors must contain an extremely vast Origin of vitality." Gu Shen's gaze instantly became extremely fiery.

However, where there is a Heaven And Earth Treasure, there must be a Vicious Beast guarding it.

From the dark corner below the warehouse came a scalp-numbing chewing sound.

Four hairless vicious dogs (mutant radiation dogs), the size of calves, with their skin completely ulcerated and revealing scarlet muscle tissue, were lying on the edge of the green light, greedily gnawing on several remains on the ground.

Green venom flowed from their bodies, and with every breath, they spewed highly corrosive miasma.

Peak First-Stage Aberration! And it carried terrifying toxic light pollution.

"Four of them. Their speed is extremely fast; I cannot let them surround me and get stained with their poisonous blood." Gu Shen slowly drew his thunder pattern gold-slaying blade in the Qi meridian passage.

Clang.

The blade left its sheath without a sound.

Gu Shen pressed his left hand against the louvers, the muscles in his right arm bulging, and the mana of Qi Refining Level 7 poured into the blade like a bursting river.

Bang!

The louvers were kicked away by him!

Gu Shen, like a meteorite falling from the sky, wrapped in the violent momentum of thunder, smashed directly towards the two vicious dogs most concentrated below!

"Die!"

The ghostly blue lightning exploded in the ghostly green warehouse!

Szzzt!

A powerful downward slash. The sharpness of the top-grade Magical Artifact combined with the burst of a Late Stage Cultivator instantly split one vicious dog in two from head to tail! The thunder-magnetic force raged along the blade, directly electrocuting half of the other vicious dog's body into charcoal!

"Roar!"

The remaining two vicious dogs reacted extremely quickly, letting out shrill roars, turning into two scarlet afterimages, pouncing towards Gu Shen's throat and lower body from left and right.

"Solidify!"

Gu Shen advanced instead of retreating; the green light of the Wood Armor Technique on his body flared, transforming into heavy armor like the tangled roots of an old tree.

Bang! Bang!

The fangs of the two vicious dogs bit hard onto the Wood Armor Technique, the green venom crazily corroding the cyan wood spiritual light, emitting a tooth-aching sizzling sound.

But Gu Shen's eyes did not fluctuate in the slightest.

Hardening himself against the corrosion of the venom, he suddenly slammed his left hand with the black turtle shield, like a giant wall, directly slapping the vicious dog on the right until its bones broke and tendons snapped, sending it flying horizontally.

His right hand followed up with a horizontal sweep of his long blade.

Puchi!

A fine dog head soared into the sky, and the foul-smelling poisonous blood sprayed out like a fountain.

Three breaths.

Four peak First-Stage mutant poisonous creatures, all slain! Clean, cold, without a single wasted movement.

Gu Shen dissipated the Wood Armor Technique on his body, which had been corroded into pits and holes, and let out a long breath of turbid air. The suppression power of Late-Stage Qi Refining, in front of such low-level Aberrations without Divine Abilities or Spells, could be called a slaughter.

He walked quickly to the four remains and pressed his hand down. In his Sea of Consciousness, the phantom fire of the Great Furnace swept through.

He put the inferior White Dew into his Storage Ring. Gu Shen did not linger and walked extremely decisively towards that mountain of nuclear waste emitting a blinding green light.

The closer he got, the stronger the corrosive feeling of that world-extinguishing poisonous light became, and Gu Shen only felt a burning, stinging pain on the surface of his skin.

He did not hesitate, using the blade of his gold-severing saber to extremely carefully dig up the dozen or so crystal-clear, ghostly green poisonous fungi by the roots. He covered them with his right hand.

"Refine!"