Chapter 4546 — An Unexpected Boon
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How long this went on, he could not say. He only knew they kept sinking downward—until suddenly the space around him opened up. It felt nothing like falling through a layer of swamp mud; rather, it was like dropping through midair, the speed of descent abruptly multiplying. Then came a muffled boom, and his feet struck solid ground!
Fortunately, Wei Zhao had kept his true qi wrapped around himself and the spirit bird the whole way; otherwise, taken off guard like that, he would surely have been injured.
"Good, it seems the ancient records concerning the Five Venoms Swamp are accurate. You can withdraw your true qi now, lad," the Ghost Thing said.
"That's it? We're safe?" Wei Zhao was rather taken aback. He raised his head and surveyed his surroundings. This was an utterly vast underground space, and some ten zhang overhead hung a mottled expanse of every color—beyond the omnipresent swamp mud, he could clearly make out those materialized five-element killing qi, ceaselessly circling and gliding above.
What puzzled Wei Zhao, however, was that both the swamp mud and the five-element killing qi seemed to be held back by an invisible barrier, isolated there in midair a full ten-odd zhang up. The sight involuntarily reminded him of the great aquariums of the mortal world—it had a rather unreal, dreamlike quality.
"We're fine. According to the ancient texts I looked into before, this should be the source space of the Five Venoms Swamp. Not only is it absolutely safe, it also holds an unexpected boon," the Ghost Thing explained, even as he tried to sweep the surroundings with his divine sense.
"An unexpected boon?" Wei Zhao was briefly startled, and before the Ghost Thing could prompt him, he understood on his own: the spiritual energy in this place was dense beyond anything he had ever seen!
In fact, on his last pass through the Five Venoms Swamp, Wei Zhao had already known the place was rich in spiritual energy, though he had not paid it much mind at the time. After all, the energy he had sensed then was merely far denser than elsewhere on Cloud Terrace Island—still considerably short of the jade pendant space he had always relied upon.
But this time was different. The spiritual energy density in this underground space was a hundred, a thousand times richer than above. Wei Zhao even found that the energy here could overshadow his own jade pendant space. That such a favored treasure land could exist under heaven was simply inconceivable!
Had he not experienced it himself, Wei Zhao would never have believed it: beneath the savage, ferocious Five Venoms Swamp lay a space like this—a holy land that every cultivator and spirit beast could only dream of.
The spirit bird beside him, feeling such dense spiritual energy for the first time, let out a shrill cry of delight and began wheeling and frolicking joyfully around Wei Zhao, not a trace of its earlier panting exhaustion remaining.
Seeing this, Wei Zhao meant to stop it. Wondrous as this place was, it was still an unknown realm whose true nature no one knew. Who could say whether something strange lurked within? After all, flood dragons formed of five-element killing qi already prowled overhead, and if this was, as the Ghost Thing said, the source space of the Five Venoms Swamp, some terrifying being might well stand guard here. (To be continued...)