109: The cleaners at Medicine God Valley? I've raised prices by eating garbage!

Time slipped away quietly amidst the "crunch, crunch" sound of chewing.

One day.

Two days.

Three days.

Gu Yang, like a tireless glutton with a bottomless pit for a stomach, launched an unprecedented cleanup operation in this valley filled with deadly toxins and waste.

He ate from the south to the north, and then from the east to the west.

That hundred-meter-tall "Green Poisonous Pill Mountain" had already been gnawed bald by half.

The river flowing with strong acid had been drunk up by him like a beverage, with one-third gone.

As massive amounts of "trash" entered his stomach, Gu Yang's Physical Body, which had been shriveled and weak due to his Transmigration across the Realm barrier, finally began to undergo a qualitative change.

Hum—

On the surface of his skin, the layer of five-colored halo that had originally appeared to resist the toxins had now completely seeped into his skin membrane.

Now, his skin was no longer a simple bronze or glazed gold, but presented a "jade-like" state that was as warm and moist as jade, yet shimmered with a faint cyan light.

This was the sign of the 【Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity Physique (Pseudo)】!

【System Prompt: Host's current Realm: Divine Demon Golden Body First Turn (Pseudo) · Corresponds to Early Spirit Transformation Stage of this world】

Although the Law suppression of the Spirit Realm still existed, Gu Yang clearly felt that the mountain-like sense of restraint was gradually lightening.

His body was forcibly analyzing and adapting to the rules of this high-dimensional world through "eating."

"Hiccup—"

Gu Yang patted his belly and exhaled a smoke ring tinged with seven colors.

This smoke ring drifted onto a nearby stone, and the stone was instantly corroded into a puddle of pus.

"So toxic! Such potency!"

Gu Yang nodded with satisfaction.

"Although I haven't recovered to my Peak yet, I should be reaching the threshold of that Divine Demon Golden Body First Turn, which corresponds to the Early Spirit Transformation Stage."

He glanced at Er Gou, who was fast asleep in his arms.

The little guy hadn't been idle these past few days either; it specifically picked those failed mineral pills and metal scraps to eat, and the starlight on its body was twice as bright as when it first arrived, clearly having eaten its fill.

"It's time to change the flavor."

Gu Yang stood up and looked above the valley.

The Restriction fluctuations there seemed to have weakened a bit, and there was a faint sound of something breaking through the air.

"Senior Brother, there are quite a lot of failed Medicinal Pills this time; we'll have to make two trips."

A small flying boat, emerald green all over and shaped like a gourd, passed through the clouds and mist and slowly descended above the valley.

Two young Cultivators in cyan Daoist robes stood on the flying boat.

They were Outer Sect Disciples of Medicine God Valley, specifically responsible for cleaning up the waste Medicinal Pills produced by the various Pill Refining Rooms, commonly known as the "trash dumpers."

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and dump it so we can go back and Cultivate."

The older Senior Brother said impatiently, "This 'Abandoned Pill Valley' is filled with toxic gas; staying here too long will damage one's Foundation."

"Yes, yes, yes."

The Junior Brother hurriedly controlled the flying boat, opened the hatch at the bottom, and prepared to dump the load.

However, when he glanced down casually, his entire body froze instantly.

"Senior... Senior Brother..."

The Junior Brother's voice was trembling, as if he had seen a ghost.

"What's wrong? Making a fuss over nothing." The Senior Brother frowned.

"You... look down there!"

The Junior Brother pointed downward, his fingers trembling.

The Senior Brother leaned over to look, and was immediately stunned as well.

He saw that the bottom of the valley, which should have been piled high with mountains of waste and surrounded by toxic gas, was now... bald?!

That iconic "Green Poisonous Pill Mountain" was half gone!

That famous "Corpse-Corroding Acid River" was almost dry!

And on that messy clearing, a "wild man" who was completely naked (his clothes had long since been corroded away by the toxic gas, and he was now wearing an unknown animal skin) with skin glowing with an eerie cyan light, was sitting cross-legged on the ground.

He was holding a huge Medicinal Pill the size of a head that was billowing with black smoke, and he was opening his mouth wide, gnawing on it with an expression of enjoyment.

"Crunch!"

That was... "Ten Thousand Poisons Heart-Devouring Pill (Failed Product)"?!

That was a highly toxic object that even Nascent Soul Elders dared not touch easily!

"Is... is that a person?"

The Junior Brother swallowed his saliva, "Could it be the legendary... Medicine Corpse?"

Medicine God Valley had a terrifying legend: some child test subjects would have their resentment linger after death, and their corpses would mutate in the toxic gas, turning into monsters with no reason that only knew how to devour Medicinal Pills—Medicine Corpses!

"It looks like one to me!"

The Senior Brother's face turned pale, "Look at his skin, it's glowing cyan! And those teeth, he even dares to chew on poisonous pills! It must be a thousand-year-old Medicine Corpse that has become a spirit!"

Just as the two were so scared their legs went weak.

Gu Yang below seemed to sense their gaze and looked up.

He saw the flying boat in the sky and the two dumbfounded Cultivators.

Gu Yang's eyes lit up.

"Yo? Here to deliver takeout?"

He stood up, waved the half-eaten black pill in his hand at the sky, revealed his teeth, which had turned somewhat black under the influence of the toxic gas, and smiled brilliantly:

"Hey! Brothers up there!"

"Do you have any more? This isn't enough to eat!"

His voice was loud and full of vigor, shaking the flying boat.

But to the two Disciples, this enthusiastic greeting was simply the whisper of a demon.

"Mommy! The Medicine Corpse spoke!"

"It wants to eat us!"

"Run away!!!"

The Junior Brother screamed, his hands trembling as he controlled the flying boat; the flying boat drew an "8" in the air, then turned around and fled, three times faster than when it arrived.

"Hey? Don't run!"

Gu Yang was speechless.

"I just wanted to ask if there were any new flavors, is that really necessary?"

Half an hour later.

Medicine God Valley, Inner Sect Pill Refining Room.

"What did you say?!"

An old man with messy hair, a beard covered in medicinal residue, and eyes filled with red bloodshot veins, jumped up from in front of the Pill Furnace.

He was the famous "Pill Addict" of Medicine God Valley—Elder Gu Mu (Early Spirit Transformation Stage).

"There's a wild man in the Abandoned Pill Valley? Eating failed Medicinal Pills raw? And he didn't die after eating the Ten Thousand Poisons Heart-Devouring Pill?"

Elder Gu Mu stared intently at the two Outer Sect Disciples who had brought the news, his eyes flashing with fanatical light.

"It's absolutely true, Elder!"

The Senior Brother said with a mournful face, "That monster is completely cyan, his teeth are black, and when he smiles... he's even scarier than a ghost!"

"Completely cyan... teeth black..."

Elder Gu Mu muttered to himself, then suddenly slapped his thigh.

"Good! Good!"

"This isn't a Medicine Corpse! This is a natural 'Ten Thousand Poisons Immunity Physique'!"

"I've been struggling to find someone to test the 'Nine Turns Spirit-Reversing Pill' I recently developed; ordinary death row prisoners explode after eating just one, and I can't measure the medicinal properties at all."

"If I can catch this wild man..."

Elder Gu Mu was dancing with excitement.

"Quick! Lead the way! I must go and meet this 'treasure' myself!"

Abandoned Pill Valley.

Gu Yang was boredly rummaging through the trash heap for "snacks" that were still edible.

Suddenly, a powerful Divine Sense fluctuation descended from the sky.

Immediately after, a cyan escape light landed in the valley.

Elder Gu Mu appeared, staring at Gu Yang with fiery eyes, as if looking at a piece of peerless jade (or a peerless lab rat).

"Tsk tsk tsk, the Physical Body is crystalline, and the toxic Qi is contained within without harming the internal organs."

"It really is a top-grade Physique!"

Gu Yang looked at this old man with the strange gaze, took half a step back vigilantly, and clenched his fists.

"Old man, what do you want?"

"I'm warning you, I only sell my skills, not my body... oh no, I only eat, I don't take losses."

Elder Gu Mu chuckled, took out a jade bottle from his bosom, and poured out a bright red Medicinal Pill that radiated violent heat.

This was the "Explosive Flame Pill" he had just failed to refine; although it was a failed product, its power was enough to blow up a Golden Core Late Stage Cultivator.

"Little Friend, don't be nervous."

"I see you have amazing bones; you are a genius at testing pills... oh no, a genius at martial arts."

"How about you eat this Medicinal Pill?"

Gu Yang twitched his nose.

【Detected high-energy fire attribute medicinal power! Although extremely unstable, the energy purity is extremely high!】

"Treating me?"

Gu Yang suspiciously took the Medicinal Pill and glanced at the old man's expectant gaze.

"Then I won't stand on ceremony."

He opened his mouth, tossed it in, and swallowed it with a "gulp."

Boom!

Gu Yang's stomach instantly lit up with a red light, and then he let out a burp that carried sparks.

"Hmm... a bit sticky on the teeth."

Gu Yang smacked his lips and commented seriously:

"The heat was a bit overdone; if it had been refined for half a quarter of an hour less, the texture would have been crunchier."

"And there was too much sulfur added inside, it's a bit choking to the throat."

Elder Gu Mu was stunned.

He wasn't shocked that Gu Yang didn't die, but shocked by Gu Yang's evaluation.

"Refined for half a quarter of an hour less... too much sulfur..."

"That's right! Why didn't I think of that!"

"No wonder the furnace always explodes! It turns out the heat was overdone!"

Elder Gu Mu rushed up, grabbed Gu Yang's hand, and was so excited that tears of old age streamed down his face.

"A kindred spirit!"

"Little Friend! No, Great Master!"

"Are you interested in coming to develop in my Medicine God Valley?"

"Food and lodging provided! This kind of Medicinal Pill... all you can eat!"

Gu Yang's eyes lit up.

"All I can eat?"

"Deal!"