Chapter 1706: 778: Spirit Root Origins_4
She was at a loss, but Daoist Qing Yang was much more composed, unruffled by the situation.
This Daoist was clearly not even an Immortal, yet he could live in the Dark Sea for so long without being contaminated by the Dark Sea Outer Dao, which in itself was a strange occurrence.
Their Treasure Ship, under the command of those Treasure Hunting Immortals, gradually approached the ancient continent at the center of this Dao Sea.
From afar, the two of them looked on in shock. They saw brilliant Spiritual Energy beams rising straight into the Yunxiao from this ancient continent, and beneath those beams were peculiar plants, including trees, flowers, grass, and even fungi, all unmistakably Earth Treasure Spirit Roots!
Huan Shu widened her eyes. Although she had been a Treasure Hunting Immortal for thousands of years and had seen many Earth Treasure Spirit Roots, it was her first time seeing so many of them!
The continent was densely packed with Spiritual Energy beams, resembling a dense forest, so numerous that the Earth Treasure Spirit Roots were uncountable!
“Oh my God…”
The Black Sandalwood Ship neared the continent, and even before docking, the Treasure Hunting Immortals on board each jumped off the ship, dashing towards the center of the continent, as if something of unparalleled value awaited them.
Huan Shu and Daoist Qing Yang quickly followed, shouting, “Yang Zhen, Feng Chuang, slow down, be careful of danger!”
The Treasure Hunting Immortals ahead ignored them, as if they had forgotten how to fly, using both hands and feet to run like wild beasts.
Huan Shu and Daoist Qing Yang were still chasing them and saw these Treasure Hunting Immortals feeling that running on all fours wasn’t fast enough, so they began folding their bodies to spin like a windmill.
Startled, Huan Shu and Daoist Qing Yang slowed their pace. Although these Treasure Hunting Immortals still had their original faces, their bodily contortions were hardly human.
During their rolling, a few who were close to each other sprouted flesh that connected them, fusing them into creatures with two heads, four legs, and four arms, rolling towards the depths of the continent.
As more of them fused together, quickly ten-odd Treasure Hunting Immortals formed a large rolling mass of flesh.
It seemed that bones were cumbersome, so as the mass rolled, it expelled a dozen skeletons, belonging to those Treasure Hunting Immortals!
Huan Shu and Daoist Qing Yang slowed down further, dumbfounded, watching the large mass of flesh with long bloody tentacles, leaping and swinging, moving quickly as it rushed into the dense forest formed by Earth Treasure Spirit Roots, soon disappearing without a trace.
“They’re no longer human.”
Chen Shi’s voice came, and Huan Shu and Daoist Qing Yang turned to see Chen Shi standing at the edge of the Earth Treasure Spirit Root forest, not far from them, examining the Earth Treasure Spirit Roots.
The two exchanged a glance and moved forward.
Chen Shi turned back, smiling, “Could it be you two still have the Three Blessings Divine Pill Ning Zhenzi gave you?”
In a hurry, they took out the Three Blessings Divine Pill, only to see the pills emit strange squeaks, and a fat worm crawled out from each, jumping from their hands and crawling rapidly!
Huan Shu stepped forward and stomped on the worms, feeling lingering fear, as she approached and asked, “Chen Zhenwang, what on earth is going on?”
“These Spirit Pills hide the flesh of the Primordial Worm. Consuming the Three Blessings Divine Pill is like nurturing a Primordial Worm in your stomach.”
Chen Shi explained, “Those Treasure Hunting Immortals have long been consumed by the Primordial Worm, which is why they could tirelessly navigate the Black Sandalwood Ship. The Primordial Worm, in its urgency to heal, summoned these Treasure Hunting Immortals to merge with it.”
Daoist Qing Yang questioned, “Since the True King knows the Primordial Worm is injured, why not track these Treasure Hunting Immortals to find the Primordial Worm’s true body and eliminate it?”
Chen Shi shook his head and said, “The Primordial Worm, although injured, did not escape from here but hid on this continent, indicating there is great danger here. If I rashly pursued, I might fall into the Primordial Worm’s trap. Besides…”
He glanced at the Earth Treasure Spirit Root forest and said, “This forest is much more interesting than the Primordial Worm.”
“Interesting?”
Huan Shu and Qing Yang were slightly taken aback and followed his gaze to a three-foot-tall Earth Treasure Spirit Root.
This Earth Treasure Spirit Root was entirely green, with a single green stalk branching into seven limbs, and its leaves were shaped like a green bird, named Green Frost.
Green Frost was not rooted in the soil. Its roots were embedded in the eye, ear, mouth, and nose of a skeleton, penetrating into the skull.
This was the skeleton of a Demon Clan warrior, whose power in life must have been extraordinary. The glimmering remains, with their immensely honed Physical Body essence, had yet to fully dissipate!
Huan Shu and Qing Yang moved their eyes, spotting another Earth Treasure Spirit Root beneath which lay another powerful Demon Clan warrior’s skeleton, rooted similarly in the eye, ear, mouth, and nose!
Looking deeper into the dense forest, their scalps tingled as they saw countless Demon Clan warrior skeletons sitting in the forest, heads raised to the sky, while Earth Treasure Spirit Roots rooted in their noses and mouths, as if they were draining nutrients from them!