Old Five is a Goose.
Chapter 600: A Mosquito
Mo Wuji had also thought about this ascension channel. Now that Yan Li had brought it up, he quickly asked, "Where is the danger in this?"
He had been to the Immortal World, and this place should be different from where he went, without any Half-Immortal Domains. What danger could there be?
Yan Li explained, "Because these ascension channels lead directly to the ascension pool in the Immortal World, which is guarded by powerful experts. Once you go up, even if no one from the Mirage Mountain is after you, the Immortal World will not allow cultivators who didn't ascend to use the ascension pool. Unless you have a big backer in the Immortal World, no one will dare to touch you."
Mo Wuji thought to himself that he actually had some backers in the Immortal World. He was, after all, an elder of the Immortal Pill Dao Alliance. In theory, even if he used the ascension pool, no one would do anything to him, right? Even the Mirage Mountain wouldn't dare to touch him after knowing his identity.
If Mo Wuji knew that Emperor Luncai of the Gods Immortal Domain already hated him to the bone, and the Immortal Pill Dao Alliance had also directly betrayed him, perhaps he wouldn't think that way.
"What about the second way?" Mo Wuji had already decided to enter the Immortal World through the ascension pool, but it was always good to know another way.
Yan Li said, "The second way is to enter the Immortal World through the Dragon Race's Hidden Dragon Abyss..."
"Hidden Dragon Abyss?" Mo Wuji was a little puzzled.
Yan Li said, "It's normal that you don't know about the Hidden Dragon Abyss. Even the direct descendants of the Dragon Race may not know that the Hidden Dragon Abyss leads to the Immortal World. In fact, once the Dragon Race has a heaven-defying disciple, they will be sent to the Hidden Dragon Abyss for cultivation. This place is the Dragon Race's supreme holy ground for geniuses to cultivate."
Mo Wuji said speechlessly, "Then wouldn't going up from here be even more dangerous than the ascension pool?"
"Not necessarily." Yan Li said affirmatively, "Using the ascension pool is definitely dangerous for you, but sneaking into the Hidden Dragon Abyss, it's really not certain that anyone will know. The Hidden Dragon Abyss is indeed the most secret place of the Dragon Race, but in fact, there are not many experts guarding this place. Because this place is already in the deepest part of the Dragon Race, who can enter the Hidden Dragon Abyss?
Back then, my mother was cultivating in the Hidden Dragon Abyss and accidentally discovered the passage to the Immortal World. Later, after my mother became pregnant with me outside, she was worried that the Dragon King would skin her alive and worried that I would be killed directly, so she secretly entered the Hidden Dragon Abyss again to raise me and sent me to the Immortal World."
"You mean, only your mother knows about this Hidden Dragon Abyss?" Mo Wuji asked in surprise.
Yan Li said uncertainly, "I'm not very sure about that. Many Dragon Race geniuses enter the Hidden Dragon Abyss. My mother could discover it, so maybe others could too."
Mo Wuji finally understood why Yan Li's surname wasn't Ao and why he didn't care about the Ao surname. It turned out that Yan Li was an illegitimate child of a Dragon Race dragon lady, and Yan Li's father was likely not related to the Dragon Race. It was precisely because he had no sense of belonging or any good feelings towards the Dragon Race that he told him about the Hidden Dragon Abyss.
Mo Wuji wouldn't ask about these things. He was about to ask Yan Li about the location of the passage from the Immortal World to the Hidden Dragon Abyss when Yan Li took out a map and handed it to Mo Wuji, saying, "This is the location of the Hidden Dragon Abyss in the Sea Ferocity Continent, inside the largest Sea Ferocity Sea in the Sea Ferocity Continent. You can find this place by following the map."
Seeing that Mo Wuji had accepted the map, he took out a dragon scale and handed it to Mo Wuji, "Brother Mo, you have saved my life, and your character is worthy of my respect. This dragon scale is a gift for you. We'll talk again in the Immortal World in the future."
"The Immortal World is much better for cultivation than the Immortal World. Why do you want to stay in the Immortal World?" Mo Wuji thanked him and asked doubtfully as he took the dragon scale.
Yan Li's tone was a little helpless, "If I go to the Immortal World, I might become someone else's meal before I even grow up. Also, cultivating in the Immortal World and then cultivating in the Immortal World will give me a more thorough understanding of the rules of heaven and earth."
Mo Wuji grabbed a bottle of ten-million-year Immortal Wood Marrow and handed it to Yan Li, "These are some good things I got. Here, take some."
"Ten-million-year Immortal Wood Marrow?" Yan Li exclaimed in surprise as soon as he opened the jade bottle. This thing was too precious. To him, the ten-million-year Immortal Wood Marrow was a rare treasure that was hard to come by.
He immediately put away the bottle of Immortal Wood Marrow and said gratefully, "Brother, you've helped me a lot. This bottle of Immortal Wood Marrow will be of great use to me."
Mo Wuji greatly appreciated Yan Li's straightforward character, which wasn't pretentious at all. He smiled and said, "You even gave me a dragon scale and told me about the Hidden Dragon Abyss, so what's a bottle of Immortal Wood Marrow? You should cultivate well and go to the Immortal World earlier. I'm in a hurry to return to the Immortal World, so I won't stay here and talk to you any longer."
Mo Wuji was indeed in a hurry to return to the Immortal World. He didn't know how Cen Shuyin was doing now and whether she had recovered.
Yan Li spat out a blue pearl and handed it to Mo Wuji, "Brother, this was given to me by my mother. If you see my mother, give this pearl to her and tell her that I'm doing well and not to worry about me."
"If I meet your mother, I will definitely do this." Mo Wuji didn't refuse and put away the blue pearl that Yan Li gave him.
Yan Li's mother and Yan Li definitely had the same aura. As long as he met her, he would recognize her.
"Then, Brother, I'll send you to the Sea Ferocity Sea." Yan Li had already regarded Mo Wuji as his best friend. The Dragon Race made friends differently from others. Once they recognized someone, they would directly treat them as true friends. If they couldn't get along, they wouldn't bother with you anymore.
Mo Wuji smiled and said, "Yan Li, you should quickly find a place to cultivate in seclusion. There are many powerful experts in this place. If you're captured again next time, it won't be so easy to get out... Oh, right, there's one more thing I forgot to ask you. Do you know the origin of Shuaiguo? Is it a Golden Crow?" (Shuaiguo = Pinyin for Throwing the Blame)
Mo Wuji had always suspected that Shuaiguo was a Golden Crow, after all, Shuaiguo was naturally connected to flames, looked like a crow, and had three legs. The only thing that didn't look like a Golden Crow was that it actually had three horns on its head.
Shuaiguo, standing on Mo Wuji's shoulder, also perked up its ears and looked at Yan Li when it heard Mo Wuji asking about its origin. Although it had the aura of a Golden Horned Purple Dragon in its memory, it didn't know its own origin. At least it didn't know now, after all, its inheritance hadn't fully appeared yet.
Yan Li looked at Shuaiguo admiringly and said, "Brother, this bird looks like a mutated descendant of the Golden Crow. In fact, it's not a Golden Crow at all, but another kind of ancient ferocious insect..."
"Hey, little Purple Dragon, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't talk nonsense. Don't sow discord. I look so cute, how can I be ferocious? Don't talk nonsense in front of me." Shuaiguo couldn't help but retort when it heard Yan Li saying bad things about it.
"Ancient ferocious insect?" Mo Wuji also found it a bit funny. Shuaiguo was a bit ugly, but it was clearly a bird. What did it have to do with a ferocious insect?
Yan Li didn't care about Shuaiguo's words at all and said to Shuaiguo, "It's actually a Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito..."
"What?" Mo Wuji exclaimed in surprise. This answer was unbelievable to him.
Of course, he knew what a Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito was. Moreover, he knew about Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquitoes before he even started cultivating. In fact, he was still working as a global expert on Earth at that time.
Because the Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito was indeed a ferocious insect in Chinese legends. This mosquito was notoriously fierce. It kept sucking Mother Turtle Spirit into an empty shell and even gnawed off three grades of the Guide Daoist's Twelve Grade Merit Golden Lotus, turning the Merit Golden Lotus into a Nine Grade. It was listed alongside the Six-Winged Heavenly Silkworm, Multi-Eyed Golden Centipede, Nine-Tailed Earth Scorpion, and Nine-Headed Insect as the Five Great Primordial Ferocious Beings.
But this was a mythological legend...
No, Mo Wuji suddenly thought of the Twelve Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus. Since he could see the Twelve Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus, then the appearance of the Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito didn't seem unexplainable.
The Karma Fire Red Lotus was also said to belong to the Styx in legends, didn't it also appear on the third level of the Broken World?
Could Shuaiguo really be that big mosquito? It was probably true, otherwise, it wouldn't have been so skilled and experienced when sucking that Tian Zikou's essence blood, and it also had a feeling of wanting more. It seemed that sucking blood was its old profession.
Mo Wuji also sighed inwardly. Others raised a pet that was either a dragon or a tiger or leopard, but he raised a mosquito.
While Mo Wuji was still in shock, Yan Li continued, "Shuaiguo is naturally not the Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito from ancient legends, but the bloodline inheritance in its body is that of the Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito. It also contains a little bit of the Golden Crow's aura and even some of the Iron Eater's aura. But these things can't change the fact that it's a Bloodthirsty Black Ant Mosquito. In a few years, Brother will be able to see it."
Shuaiguo lowered its head. It was also very depressed. It felt that what Yan Li said was true. It never expected that beneath its handsome appearance was actually a big mosquito. Not only that, but according to Yan Li's words, it was also notoriously fierce. Of course, that handsome appearance was just its own measure.
Mo Wuji quickly stopped thinking about whether Shuaiguo was a mosquito. He asked Yan Li not to do anything to Shuaiguo, but just wanted to know Shuaiguo's origin.
"Yan Li, thank you for telling me Shuaiguo's origin. I'm leaving now. We'll meet again in the Immortal World in the future." After Mo Wuji finished speaking, he took a step and instantly disappeared from the spot.
Mo Wuji had a very good impression of Yan Li, not just because Yan Li had pointed out two paths for him. Yan Li's ability to save Lou Yang and even send Lou Yang Dragon Saliva showed that he had a very sincere heart.
Seeing Mo Wuji disappear, Yan Li sighed, "I didn't expect that there were such generous people among humans. It was a good decision to recognize this brother."
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