Chapter 157 Thunder Gang, Sulfur
Chapter 157 Thunder Gang, Sulfur
"Gangsha?"
Huang Yunying repeated.
Cheng Xinzhan nodded.
Huang Yunying hesitated for a moment and said
"There are not more Gangsha in the sea than on land, but there are still some. There are only a few famous Gangsha in the East China Sea, but many of them exist in legends. The "Dongji Jiayang Gang" is in the legendary Tang Valley, the "Nushui Longwang Sha" is in the legendary Dragon Palace, and the "Youye Chenyin Sha" is at the bottom of the deep sea. Don't even think about these other Gangsha on land. Maybe these Gangsha have died of old age.
"If there's anyone I can count on, I think there's only one."
"which one?"
Cheng Xinzhan asked repeatedly.
"'Dragon Roar Water Thunder Gang' is when the raging sea waves sweep up to the sky, the huge waves disperse the dark clouds, the thunder has nowhere to stay, and it hits the top of the waves. The yang Gang formed by the lightning and water mist mixed together is naturally accompanied by a trace of dragon power. It is on the 'Thunderstorm Sea' in the southwest."
Cheng Xinzhan's eyes lit up, "To be honest, brother, I am very lucky. I now have a Yin Sha in my hand, but I am just missing a Yang Gang. I wonder how I can get it?"
Huang Yunying said with a smile, "Bielu is lucky to have come to our Huangliu Island. Otherwise, if you were alone, you would definitely not be able to get it."
"Why?"
"Hahahaha, the 'Dragon Roar Water Thunder Gang' is shared by the Great Sage Fu Hai and the Great Sage Tuo Tian. Tell me, no matter how powerful you are, can you get it?"
Hearing this, Cheng Xinzhan thought, "The Great Sage Fu Hai, isn't that the dragon that attacked the land before? And who is the Great Sage Tuo Tian, is he the Mirage Mother mentioned by Cheng Chu Zhen?"
He looked puzzled and said, "Brother, you are teasing me. How can I take the Great Sage's private property? But even if I surrender to the old immortal now, can I get it?"
Huang Yunying smiled and said,
"Then I need to tell you about the boundaries of the sea. Since the Ao family left the world, the East China Sea is now divided into three parts, from north to south, they are the Yellow Sea, the Cang Sea, and the Sand Sea. Each of the three seas is governed by a great saint, known as the Three Saints of the East China Sea.
"But the one in the Yellow Sea is from a noble family. He announced his fate to heaven and earth and then set sail. Along the way, he brought blessings to both sides of the river and was protected by various immortals. When his merits were fulfilled, he entered the sea and turned into a real dragon. He thinks he is noble and doesn't like to interact with us.
“Our two great saints from Canghai and Shahai are both leaders of overseas demon cults and are known as the Two Saints of Demonic Path.
"From our area, there are more than ten sea areas to the north, all the way to the border of the Yellow Sea. They are all under the jurisdiction of the Great Sage of the Sea and are called the Canghai. Our King Tut's Big Belly Sea and King Vip's Black Abyss Sea are the two westernmost sea areas in the Canghai.
"From here to the west, all the way to the border of the South China Sea, it is under the jurisdiction of the Great Sage Tuotian, that is, the Sand Sea. The Mermaid Sea of the Mermaid King and the Reef Sea of the Jade King are our neighbors. They are the two seas on the easternmost side of the Sand Sea.
“The Thunderstorm Sea is right between the Vast Sea and the Sand Sea. It can be considered a boundary sea and is not far from us.
"In the Thunderstorm Sea, there are huge waves and thunders without stopping. No living creature can survive. However, it gave birth to magical objects such as the 'Dragon Roar Water Thunder Gang'. At first, the two great saints had fought many times for the Thunderstorm Sea.
"But they are all great saints, and no one can do anything to the other. In the end, they agreed on a rule that this thunderstorm sea and the "Dragon Roar Water Thunder Gang" in it belong to the two families. Every sixty years, each side will send people in to mine, and each will rely on their ability to see who gets more."
Cheng Xinzhan finally understood, and asked, "Does Xianye have a quota for admission?"
Huang Yunying smiled when he heard this.
"The Immortal Master doesn't have it, but the Crocodile King does, and the Crocodile King's method of allocating the quotas is very simple. He will give it to whoever offers the most blood food.
Cheng Xinzhan's eyes lit up, "What about Master Xian this time?"
Huang Yunying smiled triumphantly.
"Immortal Master took second place last time, and this time he is well prepared. With the sea snakes you hunted twice, I guarantee you will be in the top three. The Crocodile King has ten places, and his four leaders will be divided according to the ranking of blood food offerings. From the highest to the lowest, it is four, three, two, and one.
"Every time people enter the Thunderstorm Sea, they are all below the third realm. As long as we can rank among the top three on Iwo Jima, there will definitely be a spot for you, my dear brother."
Cheng Xinzhan was overjoyed, "Thank you so much, brother."
"You and I are brothers, why should we say these things?"
"Brother, did you go there last time? Did you gain anything?"
Huang Yunying's laughter paused, and then he pointed at Cheng Xinzhan.
"Good brother, you are here to make fun of me. I entered the second realm not long ago, sixty years ago, and I don't have any skills. I just went in to see the fun, so naturally I didn't gain anything.
"Oh, brother, I know you are very capable, but you must not be careless when you enter the thunderstorm sea. The ones competing with us are all water fairies. They are the ones who are riding the waves!"
Cheng Xinzhan nodded, but his face showed an indifferent expression.
Huang Yunying saw this and didn't try to persuade him much. Young people, that's how they are.
"Brother, when can we enter the Thunderstorm Sea?"
Young people are not only arrogant, but also impatient.
Huang Yunying smiled in his heart and said,
"My dear brother, you came at the perfect time. The Crocodile King is about to wake up, which should happen within half a month. The reason why the Crocodile King wakes up once every sixty years is also for this matter.
"At that time, the kings of the various seas will bring their chiefs and minions to the Thunderstorm Sea to pay homage to the Great Sage. There, the two Great Sages will hold a thunder drinking ceremony. We will collect the thunder and offer it to them. The Great Sages will then distribute the collected Dragon Thunder Dew to the kings and chiefs for them to taste."
Cheng Xinzhan raised his eyebrows, "We have to hand over the thunder we collected with great effort for them to taste?"
Huang Yunying was very surprised when he heard this, "Of course, these are the thunder stars that the two great saints have circled. We are just going in to pick them, and the big ones must be offered as tribute."
He lamented in his heart that the young man was new to the sea, not knowing that everything on the sea had an owner and was the private property of the two great saints. As long as the great saints wanted, they could take it away at any time.
And the reason why those below the third realm are forced to risk their lives to collect thunder is because this itself is also a show, a show for all the great saints and kings to watch. It will be fun to wait until the people on the stage are beaten to a bloody pulp and then obediently offer the fought-for thunder dew.
Cheng Xinzhan was a little unhappy, "How much should we collect as tribute, and how much can we keep?"
Huang Yunying sighed and said, "When entering the Thunderstorm Sea, everyone will be given a small lead bottle and a large lead pot. Every time we collect the dew, we put it in the small lead bottle. When the small lead bottle is full, we pour it into the large lead pot. At this time, the remaining dew hanging on the inner wall of the small lead bottle is ours, and the large lead pot must be used as tribute."
Upon hearing this, Cheng Xinzhan suddenly raised his head and looked at Huang Yunying, his face full of disbelief.
Huang Yunying looked at Cheng Xinzhan's expression, and his smile also showed some bitterness.
"My dear brother, this is overseas. I regard those clam girls and mermaid boys as playthings, but those great saints and kings also regard us as playthings. You, don't make a fuss about everything. There will be many more such things in the future!"
After hearing this, Cheng Xinzhan remained silent for a long time.
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Returning to Honglu Island, Cheng Xinzhan looked unhappy. All status at sea was based on strength, without any morality or shame. The lower-ranking ones were playthings of the higher-ranking ones, who could plunder them at will.
This is really far worse than the demon cult on land. The demon cult on land at least has a master-disciple relationship, and has to take into account the threat of righteousness and the universal ethical principles of the world. But on the sea where demons are rampant, all of these no longer exist.
If those two Heavenly Masters were still alive, they would have probably taken up their swords and set out to sea long ago!
However, the demons are evil and cruel, and the beasts are brutal. Moreover, they only seek quick success and do not practice purity, so it is always difficult to avoid disasters at sea. The Heavenly Master went out to sea twice and killed so many people that the waves were stained with blood, but didn’t the demons revive again and again?
For these demons, education is useless and they can only be suppressed with the most powerful force. However, the experience of the two heavenly masters made Cheng Xinzhan understand that it is useless to cleanse the demonic atmosphere once. As the saying goes, wildfires cannot be extinguished; they will spring up again with the spring breeze. The demons must be suppressed forever to restore peace and clarity between heaven and earth!
At this moment, he had a vague idea in his mind, an idea so profound that it seemed out of reach. "Meow~"
As if she could see that her master was unhappy, the third sister cried out, jumped out of the cave that was emitting sulfur smoke, ran into Cheng Xinzhan's arms, and spit out a round pill to present to her master.
Cheng Xinzhan smiled upon seeing this, and let out a long sigh to relieve the depression in his heart. There was still a long way to go, and sooner or later he would restore the blue water to its clear state!
"I don't eat it, Third Sister will eat it."
Naturally, he did not eat the snake beads. He reached out and touched his third sister's head, thinking that his third sister had enjoyed a good meal recently. He took all the snake beads from the sea snakes he killed and fed them to his third sister. In addition, she had eaten elixir smoke in the sect in the past few years, and recently she had come to the island and had a liking for sulfur. Her spiritual charm was getting stronger, and she should soon be able to leave her mortal body.
The third sister refused and held the pill with her two front paws and pushed it towards Cheng Xinzhan's mouth.
"what?"
Cheng Xinzhan was preoccupied just now and didn't pay attention. Now, after his third sister reminded him, he could see clearly that it seemed not to be a snake bead, but a pill.
He took it from his third sister and took a look. The pill was the size of a pigeon egg, dark red in color, and a little rough to the touch. He smelled it and it had a strong smell of sulfur, but it was not just sulfur, there was also cinnabar, lead and mercury in it. He also smelled the scent of herbs.
This is authentic Taoist external elixir.
In this demonic sea, who can refine Taoist elixirs?
"Where did you pick this up from?"
The third sister screamed and looked towards the crack in the ground that was emitting sulfur gas.
Did it fall down, or is there another world inside?
Cheng Xinzhan thought about it, returned to the stone house and sat cross-legged, and sacrificed the bamboo body again, and sent his soul inside, and said to his third sister,
"Come on, take me to look for it."
The third sister meowed and jumped into the cave, and Cheng Xinzhan also jumped in.
The cave was deeper than Cheng Xinzhan had imagined. Judging from the height outside, it had already reached the bottom of the sea, but it was still extremely dry. The walls of the cave were covered with sulfur, and the smoke was full of sulfur powder, which was extremely choking.
Moreover, the further down they went, the smaller the cave became and the thicker the yellow smoke became. The third sister jumped in the smoke, feeling very comfortable, while Cheng Xinzhan was almost unable to open his eyes due to the smoke.
After descending 70 to 80 feet, the cave entrance was too small for Cheng Xinzhan to continue walking, so he chanted a spell and tried to use earth escape to continue descending.
"Walk on the mountains and the ground, go out of the dark and into the underworld, escape!"
"what?"
Cheng Xinzhan was a little surprised that there was no movement, so he used his magic power and tried again.
"Walk on the mountains and the ground, go out of the dark and into the underworld, escape!"
It was still no use, he was stuck in the cave, his body didn't move.
Cheng Xinzhan was a little surprised. He reached out to touch the cave, and all he touched was sulfur powder. It turned out that at this point, the ground was all sulfur, without any soil at all. However, sulfur belongs to the elements of gold and earth, so he should be able to pass through it by performing earth escape.
unless……
Unless all the sulfur here has been refined by someone, the nature of the five elements will undergo some changes.
"Cough cough!"
He was trapped in the cave, sulfur smoke was still rising from below, and now the smoke could not dissipate, it became thicker and thicker, burning him like fire.
The third sister looked up at Cheng Xinzhan from the cave beneath him.
At this moment, Cheng Xinzhan made another gesture and chanted,
"Change!"
Suddenly, a flash of light appeared on his body, and he turned into a six-winged snake-like mosquito on the spot!
The third sister looked at him with her eyes wide as copper bells.
Cheng Xinzhan's talent in spells was admired by everyone, and his attainments in the art of transformation were also amazing, so he had already mastered the "Transformation" spell in the "Guangcheng Chixu Sui Xin Mantra". He transformed his bamboo body into a human body and walked around in the sect. Later on, even those in the third realm could not tell who he was.
However, the "change" spell is not a trick, it can really change the size of the body, so the caster must have a very good understanding of what he wants to change into.
It just so happened that Cheng Xinzhan had been raising poisonous insects recently. He watched snakes and mosquitoes grow from skin to flesh and blood. He observed very thoroughly, so he was able to handle the changes with ease.
The third sister found it very interesting to see her master transformed into a mosquito, so she jumped over and tried to catch him.
"Third sister, stop making trouble and go downstairs."
The mosquito speaks human language.
The third sister then continued to move forward.
The further down we went, the smaller the cave became, and in the end even the third sister could barely fit through it.
They walked about two hundred feet in total. Cheng Xinzhan was about to vomit from the smell of sulfur, and then the cave suddenly opened up.
Cheng Xinzhan took a look and realized that this was the bottom. Under the cave was a space that looked like an inverted bowl. The two hundred-foot-long cave was like a chimney on the top of the bowl.
Cheng Xinzhan finally saw the source of the sulfur smoke. It was not naturally generated by the burning of sulfur by underground fire, but came from an incinerator.
This is a rather large incinerator, reddish yellow, with six legs and four ears, and carved with the pattern of a lion. There is a layer of light yellow paste in the deep incinerator, and there is an underground fire under the incinerator. It is the sulfur smoke produced by the underground fire roasting the paste, which is then discharged to the outside through the cave.
Cheng Xinzhan recognized it. This yellow transparent paste seemed to have water surging in it, and looked like honey. It was sulfur honey fat, the rarest detoxifying medicine among sulfur-based drugs. It was often thousands of years old and was a treasure for alchemists.
I think that in the beginning, the incinerator must have been filled with sulfur and honey, so there would still be some left after burning for so long.
There is a sunken mark of three legs on the ground next to the incinerator, which looks like a mark left after the alchemy furnace was placed for a long time. It seems that someone once made elixirs in this deep underground cave.
Moreover, Cheng Xinzhan had been refining pills in Danxia Mountain for more than six years. It is not difficult to infer that this person must have refined some poisonous waste pills, and then poured the waste pills into the incinerator, covered them with rare sulfur honey, and then burned them with earth fire, so that the toxicity in the pills would slowly evaporate and be dissolved by sulfur at the same time, so as not to pollute the earth veins and the local spiritual energy. This is a method commonly used by alchemists.
Moreover, this place was found very well. This sea area has abundant geothermal heat and is rich in sulfur. There is sulfur smoke everywhere on many small islands, so this place is very inconspicuous. There are probably no less than a hundred such caves on Huangliu Island alone, so Huang Laoxian should not have discovered that there is another cave here.
But what kind of poison pill needs to be buried in such a secret underground and suppressed with precious sulfur honey?
Cheng Xinzhan looked around and found a medicine cabinet left. On it was a pill bottle and next to it was a piece of paper with the words,
"Yang Ming, a Qigong practitioner from Jiulong Island, tried his hand at refining the Plague Pill here. After the pill was made, he covered it with sulfur and burned it. If anyone who accidentally enters this place later sees that the sulfur in the incinerator is less than an inch, then the Plague Pill has been cured. If it is more than an inch, then the poison in the pill has not been cured. People who come here can eat the paper on the side of the Plague Pill to detoxify, and leave quickly without disturbing the incinerator."
(End of this chapter)