Chapter 134: Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder! Zhao Hun Explores the Earth Dragon Cave, News of the Five Green Ghost Small Swords!
"Is it any wonder that the spiritual energy in this mountain hollow is so rich?"
"It turns out there is a Spirit Gathering Array underground!"
Qin Wang's eyes lit up as he read the fifth and seventh pieces of intelligence.
"The Eighteenth Prince of the Tianchu Immortal Dynasty, Chu Ping, has five Green Ghost Small Swords? If I could get them, wouldn't that give me seven swords in total?"
Qin Wang's heart stirred as he read the sixth piece of intelligence.
He remembered.
Intelligence showed that gathering nine Green Ghost Small Swords could form an array with overwhelming power at the same level!
"These mutated earth dragons are most afraid of Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder?"
"And there's a formula for it?"
Qin Wang's eyes brightened as he read the eighth piece of intelligence.
Earth dragons, actually just earthworms used for fishing in his previous life, were merely two inches long.
However, in this immortal world, these earth dragon beasts had absorbed dense spiritual energy, eaten spiritual fruits and herbs, and had grown to ten feet long and as thick as barrels, with terrifying strength.
Yet.
Their nature still feared salt, garlic, ants, and toads.
With this, could he drive away the earth dragon beasts and obtain the Azure Fruits?
Thinking of this, Qin Wang's heart began to race!
He immediately checked the detailed formula for Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder.
"Just missing one Spirit Garlic... this..."
After a while, Qin Wang frowned deeply.
To make this Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder, he needed spirit salt, spirit garlic, spirit lime, spirit acid, toad bone powder, spirit ant shell powder, and other eighteen spiritual materials combined into a powder. He had brought some spirit salt himself.
Also, along the way, he had killed Zhao Hunyi, Shi Tianqing, Zixia Zhenren, Lin Shengbing, and other cultivators, taking their storage bags, so he had many of these materials, except for the spirit garlic.
As far as Qin Wang knew, this spirit garlic was used by some celestial kitchens in Celestial Spirit Towers to cook spirit beast soup, not very common, so he didn't have any in his storage bag.
"I'll ask around other cultivators when daylight comes to see if anyone has it!"
Qin Wang thought for a moment and decided.
Intelligence showed that this Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder was what the earth dragon beasts feared most, so he had to make it. If he could use it to drive them away and get the Azure Fruits, that would be perfect.
"These earth dragon beasts mutated because they absorbed the thousand-year spiritual essence underground? Intelligence shows that there's something in this Wanling Paradise that can greatly aid my foundation establishment. Could it be this thousand-year spiritual essence?"
Qin Wang's eyes lit up as he read the ninth piece of intelligence.
However.
Since the intelligence showed this Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder, he must make it!
Time passed.
It was daylight.
Nearly five hundred cultivators around were all eyeing the foundation establishment opportunity in the mountain hollow, unwilling to leave.
Qin Wang asked each cultivator if they had spirit garlic.
"Spirit garlic? Who would bring that into Wanling Paradise?"
"Fellow Daoist, why do you need that? You're not planning to cook spirit meat soup here, are you?"
"Fellow Daoist, you'd better ask elsewhere. I don't have any..."
Qin Wang asked each cultivator, especially those below the ninth layer of the Qi Refining stage, since they were more likely to carry such things.
Since the appearance of the Azure Fruit tree here, more and more cultivators were arriving from afar. By noon, there were already four cultivators who had tried to use silk instruments to pick the Azure Fruits, only to be dragged underground by the earth dragon beasts, causing the surrounding cultivators to retreat several hundred feet once again.
Qin Wang didn't want to give up, still asking each cultivator.
Suddenly, he saw a familiar tall, long-haired youth, Yanhong Hao, who had just entered Wanling Paradise. Seeing Qin Wang, Yanhong Hao curiously asked, "Oh? Fellow Daoist Qin, you need spirit garlic?"
"Yes, Fellow Daoist Yan, do you have any? I'll pay a high price!"
Qin Wang's heart moved upon hearing Yanhong Hao's words. Did he have some in his storage bag?
"I once picked up a few storage bags and didn't sort them much. I seemed to glimpse some in there..."
Yanhong Hao pondered, his divine sense probing into his storage bag. After a while, he waved his hand, and a pile of spirit garlic, probably over a hundred pounds, appeared before him. He said to Qin Wang, "Here, this is all I have. Is it enough?"
"Enough! More than enough!"
Seeing the spirit garlic, Qin Wang's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Fellow Daoist Yan, how much for this?"
He hadn't expected Yanhong Hao to have so much spirit garlic, enough to make dozens of portions.
"You're the first I've met in Wanling Paradise, so consider it fate. It's not worth much; no need for spirit stones. Take it."
Yanhong Hao waved his hand.
He had once killed several robbers and dumped their storage bag contents into his own without sorting much. The spirit garlic took up space in the storage bag, so giving it away as a favor seemed fitting.
"Fellow Daoist Yan, you're generous. Thank you!"
Qin Wang cupped his fists, thanked him, and then left to find a place to prepare the Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder.
Qin Wang sped off.
He reached a rocky area with no one around, took out a four-foot-high urn from his storage bag, and began mixing the necessary materials following the formula.
This urn seemed to have come from some robber's storage bag.
"My god... this Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder is so pungent?"
After half an hour, Qin Wang noticed an extremely pungent smell emanating from the urn!
He quickly covered his nose and held his breath.
This feeling reminded him of the fertilizer shops from his childhood!
It made him want to stay away from this unpleasant smell.
Qin Wang didn't expect that adding the last ingredient, spirit lime, and mixing it well, would make the Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder emit such a foul odor.
"Let's test it on Zhao Hunyi first!"
Qin Wang's eyes flashed. He covered his nose, soaked a set of green robes in the Spirit Salt Garlic Smoked Powder, let Zhao Hunyi wear them, poured some into Zhao's arms, and for safety, smeared some on himself before packing the urn and heading towards the mountain hollow with Zhao Hunyi.
"Squeak!"
"Ah! That's the Earth Dragon King! It's as strong as a Foundation Establishment cultivator!"
"The one being dragged is a guardian of the Eighteenth Prince of Tianchu!"
"Stay back, there's a Foundation-level Earth Dragon King here! No one can get those Azure Fruits now!"
As Qin Wang and Zhao Hunyi approached the mountain hollow, they saw that the number of cultivators had increased to nearly a thousand!
A five-foot-long, bowl-thick, blood-red earth dragon beast exuding terrifying demonic energy bit into a mid-aged cultivator of the twelfth Qi Refining stage, dragging him underground, causing an uproar among the surrounding cultivators!
Many cultivators retreated again.
"Zhao Hunyi, go check it out!"
Qin Wang, standing ten feet behind Zhao Hunyi, controlled him with his divine sense, directing him to approach the dozen or so earth dragon holes around the mountain hollow. These holes, due to the frequent burrowing of earth dragon beasts, had openings three feet wide.