A Record of A Mortal's Journey to Immortality

Chapter 814: The Ten Absolute Poisons

“What’s the problem with these two mountain peaks?” The old man surnamed Lu glanced at the two towering mountains but saw nothing unusual. He asked with some curiosity.

“We set out from here toward the two mountains and converge at a point; both routes lead to the Fire Toad Beast’s nest. But in the mountain on the left lives a group of the legendary ‘Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpions.’ Although there are only a dozen or so, each one is extremely ferocious. I’m afraid that if we pass through that mountain, there’s an eighty to ninety percent chance we’ll disturb them. That would bring a lot of trouble,” the marquis of Nanlong explained after hesitating for a while.

“Purple-patterned scorpions? The kind that once appeared in the Wangshui Kingdom and annihilated an entire group of cultivators from the Lanhai Sect?” Lu Weiying exclaimed in alarm.

Han Li’s expression also changed drastically upon hearing the words “Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpions,” his heart shaking with shock.

“That’s right. Those venomous insects. And the ones here seem to be even stronger than the one that appeared in Wangshui Kingdom, each living for tens of thousands of years with a dark purple-black hue all over their bodies,” the marquis of Nanlong sighed and continued.

“Fellow cultivator Nanlong, you must be joking. With such mature purple-patterned scorpions, how could we dare to provoke them? If there were only two or three, we three could be careful and might stand a chance. But now that there are over a dozen, going there is basically a death sentence!” Lu Weiying glared at the marquis without holding back.

“Looks like Brother Lu intends to take the other path. But that route is even more dangerous. Between here and the other mountain, there is an area riddled with numerous invisible spatial rifts. There are so many of these rifts that we can’t avoid them, nor can we identify all their locations one by one. To dare pass through this area is extremely perilous. I think both of you know something about these dangers,” the marquis said helplessly.

Lu Weiying was momentarily stunned.

Invisible spatial rifts! That was no safer than facing a dozen purple-patterned scorpions.

While the old man was still dazed, Han Li’s eyes flickered as he glanced into the distance upon hearing the mention of invisible rifts.

“It seems that back then, Master Cangkun took the route with spatial rifts. After all, he had magical abilities that allowed him to sense the invisible rifts,” Han Li said quietly, his voice unreadable—no hint of joy or sorrow.

The marquis was slightly taken aback but then smiled bitterly.

“Brother Han is right. This is the dilemma I face. We don’t have the master’s divine abilities to safely avoid these rifts. Compared to that, I still think fighting the purple-patterned scorpions might be the better choice.”

“No, we absolutely cannot provoke the purple-patterned scorpions. What you know about what happened in Wangshui Kingdom is just hearsay. When I was young, I personally represented the Heavenly Pole Sect in an operation to exterminate these scorpions. Their terrifying nature far exceeds your imagination. Provoking a dozen at once is a certain death sentence,” the old man surnamed Lu shook his head vigorously, denying the suggestion outright.

His fear of the purple-patterned scorpions far surpassed the marquis’s expectations.

His earlier confidence that the three of them combined could handle the scorpions began to waver, and hesitation appeared on his face.

Han Li frowned, recalling the information about the purple-patterned scorpion in the Exotic Insect Ranking on the Jade Slip.

The Flying Purple-Patterned Scorpion ranked fourteenth, nearly adjacent to the Golddevourer Worm, an ancient exotic insect highly revered by the Imperial Spirit Sect cultivator who died at Han Li’s hands. If not for the scorpion’s rare egg-laying, making it difficult to have numbers in its favor, it might have ranked even higher.