One person: I, Daoist Master, am a cultivator of immortality!

"So that's what you were planning all this time," Chen Yulou chuckled after hearing Luo Laowai's idea. It's no wonder, as immortality has always been a long-held aspiration; perhaps only legendary immortals could achieve it.

The Sun Yao who appeared before them now was the closest person to an immortal in their minds. If Sun Yao could truly become an immortal one day, wouldn't those who followed him also rise to heaven? Even if they didn't become immortals, becoming immortal children would be a sure thing.

Regardless of the conversation taking place on the cliff, Sun Yao, riding his Thunder Pool Flying Sword, had already leaped down the cliff. However, just as he was hurrying down the cliff, he discovered many medicinal herbs on the cliff face. Among them was even the rare spiritual herb, the Nine Dragon Plate, but unfortunately, it had been infected by the poisonous mist and miasma of the mountains and transformed into the poisonous Nine Ghost Plate.

But who says poison can't be used to make elixirs? Doctors use the principle of "fighting poison with poison" to treat patients, and the same applies to elixirs. As long as the right materials are found, this Nine Ghost Plate might even be more effective than the Nine Dragon Plate. Sun Yao carefully removed the Nine Ghost Plate from the cliff face, and upon closer inspection, discovered that there was more than one Nine Ghost Plate on the cliff.

Heartbreak Grass, Void-Crossing Fruit, and Dragon-Subduing Mushroom—rare and precious medicinal herbs were everywhere. Seeing this, Sun Yao's eyes practically gleamed with greed. "Mine, mine, all mine!"

As Sun Yao spoke, he carefully harvested the medicinal herbs. Sparks flew from the shovel he used to strike the cliff face. He eventually threw the shovel aside and began gathering the herbs using earth-based techniques. Each time he picked a herb, he placed it into a jade box and stored it in his treasure pouch. He was completely absorbed by these herbs for the time it takes to brew two cups of tea; Chen Yulou had already climbed down, but he was still gathering herbs on the cliff face.

However, by this time, Sun Yao had already collected almost all the medicinal herbs here. His biggest gains were three Nine Ghost Plates and two Fulongzhi mushrooms, especially the two Fulongzhi mushrooms, one of which was three hundred years old and the other was two 60-year-old.

Fulongzhi is a type of Ganoderma lucidum, a variant of Fire Ganoderma lucidum. It can neutralize the toxicity of poisons like Nine Ghosts Plate and Heartbreak Grass, making it a top-grade medicinal material for detoxification and replenishing Qi, comparable to the legendary Qilin Stele and Deer Life Grass. If a batch of pills were made from these herbs, its effects might be several times stronger than Little Yellow Pill.

Sun Yao no longer values ​​the Little Yellow Pill as much. It's not that he's developed a resistance to it, but rather that as his Qi cultivation improves, the boost the Little Yellow Pill can provide diminishes. With each level of advancement in his cultivation, the boost from the Little Yellow Pill weakens further. Now, at the seventh level of Qi Refining, the Little Yellow Pill is at most equivalent to the effect of three days of arduous cultivation.

After Sun Yao had gathered his supplies, he saw Chen Yulou climb down. Knowing that it was about time, Sun Yao maneuvered his Thunder Pool Flying Sword and sped down towards the bottom of the ravine.

In the blink of an eye, he had already landed at the bottom of the ravine, where there was indeed a large complex of buildings, which appeared to be a palace complex. However, the main hall they were in had a large hole in it, and there were crawling marks on it, which seemed to have been caused by the six-winged centipede.

The main hall below was already teeming with insects. If Sun Yao hadn't reminded Saihuohou and Dilibeng to carry enough quicklime, they would probably have turned into a pool of corpses by now. The quicklime had kept all the descendants of these six-winged centipedes at bay, but it was more like the countless centipedes had surrounded them, leaving them only a small patch of ground.

After landing on the rooftop, Sun Yao sat cross-legged and quietly closed his eyes to rest. It wasn't that he didn't want to move, but flying on his sword had indeed consumed a lot of his spiritual energy. He would soon have to fight the six-winged centipede, so he naturally needed to seize the time to recover his spiritual energy.

After about the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, Chen Yulou arrived at the bottom of the cliff. The prince, with the large hole in the broken roof facing downwards, was astonished by the dense swarm of insects. If Sun Yao hadn't reminded them to bring more quicklime, the insects in the main hall would have already surged up. He saw Sun Yao resting with his eyes closed and immediately went to his side.

"Master Dao, what do you think we should do?"

"You're a professional, asking me what to do? I've never done grave robbing before. Haven't you encountered this situation before?"

"I've encountered poisonous insects before, but I've never seen one in such a vast sea. I don't know what to do now."

"You mean you didn't bring enough quicklime?"

"I did expect this place to have many poisonous insects and plants, but I never imagined there would be so many," Chen Yulou said, glancing again at the sea of ​​insects in the main hall.

"That's certainly true. The sheer number of poisonous insects here is beyond my expectations. However, every strange place has its unusual phenomena. These poisonous insects are growing rampant here, and to be able to gather such a massive swarm of insects, they have probably already devoured each other and given birth to an insect king. This alien species has not yet appeared. If I rashly make a move, what if it hides in the shadows and waits for its chance to strike?"

"My goodness, who cares about the Insect King at a time like this? There's nowhere to stand down here, our people can't get down, and the Insect King can't come out either. The best course of action now is to solve the immediate problem."

After pondering for a moment, Sun Yao also felt that Chen Yulou's words made sense. If people couldn't get in, there would naturally be no bait to lure out the six-winged centipede. However, he couldn't just make a sweeping attack first; he needed to think of another method. He suddenly remembered the records of Gu refining he had obtained before, and one of the Gu formulas was most suitable for this situation.

"Don't worry, I've thought of a way. I remember I have some materials here that would be perfect for this. Let me rummage through them first." As he spoke, Sun Yao started rummaging through his treasure pouch in front of Chen Yulou. Anyway, they all considered themselves immortals now, so having a storage treasure wasn't unusual.

He took out many materials from his treasure chest, and with the Heartbreak Grass he had just picked at the foot of the cliff, he had just enough to make up the ingredients for the Gu formula he wanted to refine. Sun Yao forced a drop of his own blood from his fingertip, then put the various materials together with the blood and began to refine them. In no time, under the effect of the furnace of heaven and earth, these materials and Sun Yao's drop of blood condensed into a light purple pill.