Chapter 247: Would You Believe Me If I Said It Was an Accident?

With Lu Yang’s explanation, everyone finally understood that they had made a huge mistake earlier. The black Golden Core they had been examining for so long was not a Golden Core at all.

You couldn’t blame them. The Mountain Carrying Pig was full of gall, but the occurrence of gallstones due to excess bile secretion only happened at the Golden Core stage or above. The Five Heroes of Eagle Mountain had never encountered Golden Core stage demonic beasts before, so it was understandable they didn’t know.

The crucial point was, who could have thought that Golden Core stage creatures could get gallstones?

“This is perfectly normal,” Everlasting Fairy said matter-of-factly in response to Lu Yang’s question. “Mortals get ordinary gallstones, so naturally, Golden Core stage beings get Golden Core stage gallstones. It’s only logical.”

“You just lack experience. Have you heard of viruses that grow in the body and make you sick? I’ve even seen cultivators whose cultivation increased alongside the growth of the virus. Have you ever seen Nascent Soul Stage viral flu?” Everlasting Fairy boasted about her strange knowledge.

Lu Yang shook his head. He hadn’t even heard of such things, let alone seen them.

“In ancient times, viruses grew along with living beings, causing quite a bit of trouble. Ying Tian Immortal established the lightning tribulation partly to help high-level cultivators eliminate viruses, killing them during the tribulation,” Everlasting Fairy revealed another secret.

“Third Brother, if you don’t recognize something, don’t shout it out!” the hook-nosed leader reprimanded the third brother, who was in charge of dissecting.

The third brother felt wronged. Earlier, everyone had been enthusiastically guessing, but no one recognized it was a gallstone, and now they were blaming him?

Being a leader doesn’t mean you can be unreasonable.

As he thought this, the third brother casually took out the gallbladder of the Mountain Carrying Pig.

One, two, three, four, five... the Mountain Carrying Pig was full of gall was not just a description, but a fact.

“The Mountain Carrying Pig is indeed fearless, attacking any demon it encounters, including dragons and phoenixes,” Everlasting Fairy explained.

“Wouldn’t that provoke everyone’s anger?”

“No, everyone avoids it. Think about it, demonic beasts mainly fight using their mouths and claws. If you defeat the Mountain Carrying Pig and get splattered with its bile, which is bitter and astringent, who can stand that?”

“But based on the characteristics of the Mountain Carrying Pig, I created a delicious dish that was widely praised.”

“What did fairy create?”

“Bile stewed with bitter melon, to clear heat and detoxify.”

Lu Yang shivered involuntarily, “And this was well received? Who was lucky enough to try it?”

“Nonuple Immortal, back when he wasn’t an immortal yet. He was poisoned, and I saved him. Seeing him on the brink of death, I made him a bowl of bile stewed with bitter melon to clear heat and detoxify.”

“When he woke up, he took a sip and said ‘good’ before falling unconscious again.”

“Maybe it was because of the poison, but when he saw me bringing food, he struggled desperately. His face was contorted when he said ‘good,’ truly pitiful.”

“...Indeed, very pitiful.”

“And did the poison get cured?”

“Yes, after he woke up, he vomited for half a day, expelling all the poison.”

Lu Yang: “...”

Why does this detoxification method not align with my expectations?

“No more chatting, go fight,” Everlasting Fairy said, then kicked Lu Yang out of the mental space again.

“Fight?”

Lu Yang’s heart sank. The Break Word Technique was his full-strength attack, capable of killing late-stage Golden Core and even half-step Nascent Soul stage demonic beasts, but it didn’t critically injure the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm. Instead, it angered it.

Most importantly, that attack had drained most of his spiritual qi.

“Damn, this is troublesome.”

Meanwhile, Meng Jingzhou, seeing that Lu Yang was also struggling, remembered something and pulled out five directional teleportation talismans from his pocket.

But there were seven people present. If he and Lu Yang escaped, the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm would not spare the Five Heroes of Eagle Mountain.

“Young heroes, don’t worry about us, just go!” the hook-nosed leader shouted, seeing the teleportation talismans in Meng Jingzhou’s hand.

In their line of work, they had long since put their lives on the line.

What to do? What to do?

Meng Jingzhou gritted his teeth. Running away wasn’t his style, but if they didn’t escape, everyone would die here!

In the end, he closed his eyes, pulled out a teleportation talisman, and threw it to Lu Yang. “Lu Yang, catch!”

Lu Yang lunged forward, but the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm sneered and placed its massive body between him and Meng Jingzhou, pinning the teleportation talisman beneath it.

“Trying to run?” The Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm spoke for the first time, mocking Lu Yang’s futile efforts.

“Now!” Lu Yang shouted.

“Do you really need to say it?” Meng Jingzhou’s lazy voice responded as he activated the teleportation talisman.

He had been waiting for this moment.

An invisible cubic barrier enveloped the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm. It didn’t understand what was happening and struggled violently, but the barrier was unbreakable.

The moment they saw the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm, Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou remembered the merchant’s introduction: “If you encounter a life-threatening situation in the dense forest, just activate this teleportation talisman, and it will transport you back to the Demon Subjugation Pass. Even Nascent Soul stage demonic beasts cannot interrupt the teleportation!”

In reverse, if it could transport them back safely, why couldn’t it transport the demonic beast?

...

The cubic barrier, enveloping the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm, turned into a stream of light and flew towards the Demon Subjugation Pass.

The three large characters “Demon Subjugation Pass” in front of the city gate stopped the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm in its tracks.

The guards, seeing a Nascent Soul stage demonic beast suddenly appear, were perplexed. They had worked there for over a decade and had never seen such an audacious demonic beast that didn’t even bother to disguise itself and directly attacked the pass.

“What audacity, demonic beast, to attack the Demon Subjugation Pass under cover of night!”

A powerful voice came from within the pass, belonging to a Spirit Transformation stage cultivator on night duty.

The Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm watched helplessly as a burly man flew out of the city towards it, feeling utterly hopeless.

“Would you believe me if I said this was an accident?” The Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm tried to force a smile.

The burly man sneered, “Do you think I believe that?”

He extended a giant hand and slapped the Silver Ring Heavenly King Worm to death.

(End of the chapter)