From a country cook to a master chef

After dealing with Dian Chu, Lin Jue felt relieved and turned his gaze to Yu Jin, another disciple of the Beast Taming Sect who was lying unconscious on the ground.

Once the talisman is activated, the order cannot be withdrawn. The Four Directions Flame Talisman is extremely extraordinary. Lin Jue splashed water on Yu Jin to wake him up, hoping to see if he could still use the talisman for his own purposes.

Upon learning that Dian Chu, who had used the demonic transformation technique, had died at the hands of the two, Yu Jin's face turned ashen.

To Lin Jue's surprise, this person was quite resolute. Knowing that he had nowhere to escape, he bit off his tongue and committed suicide without the slightest hesitation.

This made Lin Jue, who had intended to extract some useful information from him, shake his head repeatedly.

After removing his storage bag, they threw him into the Four Directions Flame Talisman and burned him to ashes.

At the same time, the mutated black snake swam out of the pool, with a storage bag coiled around its tail.

Seeing this, Lin Jue quickly went over, picked up Dian Chu's storage bag, looked at it for a long time, and then decisively threw it into his own storage bag.

He could only open the storage bag given to him by Wuyanzi using a secret method. This time, he received five or six storage bags in one go. Although he could not open them, it was still a considerable gain.

He planned to keep it until he became a cultivator after refining the Reversal of Five Elements Pill, and then examine its contents.

On the other side, Zhao Xiaoyao was untying Zhen Jian and asking him about the ins and outs of the matter.

According to Zhen Jian, after entering the Netherworld Ghost Land, he spent a day finding lone disciples of the Spirit Talisman Sect and the Beast Taming Sect, and the group joined forces to explore Qingmo Island.

The group was quite lucky; not only did they avoid any danger, but they also collected a considerable number of precious medicinal herbs and spiritual plants on the island.

Later, strange phenomena such as thunderclaps frequently occurred on the island. Realizing that it was the birth of an ancient treasure, the group rushed to the place, only to be tricked by the two members of the Beast Taming Sect.

The two of them managed to obtain a wisp of primordial spirit energy at the bottom of the deep pool, which allowed them to open the spirit beast pouch and command the wolf pack to ruthlessly kill the group.

At this point, Zhen Jian looked at Lin Jue with a face full of anger, wanting to take back his storage bag.

"I, Zhen, acknowledge that Brother Lin is shrewd and skilled in martial arts, but storage bags are the lifeblood of cultivators like us. I can do without the storage bags of the other fellow cultivators."

"Brother Lin, please return that storage bag sealed with gold thread to me. Once we leave the Netherworld, I, Zhen, will certainly repay you handsomely."

Upon hearing this, Lin Jue did not react. After listening to what Zhen Jian said, he stared at the Biyu Pool in deep thought.

The Six Factions Alliance claimed that the Netherworld Ghost Land could seal the magic power of cultivators and that only Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment stage cultivators could enter. However, the current situation is that Core Formation stage cultivators can also break into this place and even fight each other for treasures.

The so-called primordial energy that appeared at the bottom of the Azure Pool actually allowed the two members of the Beast Taming Sect to recover a trace of their magical power to open the spirit beast pouch.

Perhaps beneath the emerald pool lies the clue that can unravel the mysteries of the Netherworld.

Thinking of this, Lin Jue ignored Zhen Jian and dived directly into the bottom of the Green Pool, intending to find out what was going on.

Upon reaching the bottom of the pool, he discovered that the soft mud and sand, aided by the pool water, had already covered most of Dian Chu's body.

The pool was not large, and Lin Jue held his breath and searched underwater for nearly ten minutes, but still found nothing.

Unconvinced, he took a deep breath after returning to the surface and then dived back into the water to search carefully once more.

This time, he was lucky and indeed found an unusual place in a corner of the pool.

It was a stone door hidden by tangled water plants.

Lin Jue searched in the water for a long time before successfully finding the mechanism to open the stone door.

But instead of opening it rashly, he turned back to the shore and asked Zhao Xiaoyao about everything she knew about the Netherworld Ghost Land.

Lin Jue then realized that the so-called Qingmo Island was not actually within the territory of the Great Wu Kingdom, but was located in Zhanbo Kingdom in the far west of the Great Wu Kingdom.

Back then, the experts from the six sects accidentally discovered a spatial rift within the Divine Mirror Palace of the Great Wu Kingdom. After exploring it, the Netherworld Ghost Land came into being.

As for the origin of Qingmo Island, the Six Sect Alliance is also unclear. They only know that the island grows a large number of spiritual herbs and precious plants, and sometimes some ancient treasures and rare objects can be found. Therefore, it is highly favored by the Six Sects, and every fifteen years, the alliance organizes disciples from the Six Sects to go to the island for training.

Upon hearing this, Lin Jue's heart stirred. He dived into the bottom of the pool again, passed through the stone gate, and strangely arrived at the top of a mountain on Qingmo Island.

The mountain was shrouded in mist, and even with Lin Jue's keen eyesight, he could not see anything clearly under the thick fog.

He was standing on a square stone platform, and behind him was a stone door exactly the same as the one he had seen at the bottom of the emerald pool.

As soon as Lin Jue stepped into this place, he smelled a rich fragrance of precious herbs. After a brief search, he was able to pick several kinds of spiritual herbs.

The medicinal herbs here are all precious, without exception they are hundreds of years old.

In no time, Lin Jue had gathered enough medicinal herbs to prepare Qi and Blood Powder and refine Yellow Dragon Pill, and even found the last few medicinal herbs to refine the Reversed Five Elements Pill.

In this way, he would only need fifteen Foundation Establishment cultivator spiritual roots to begin asking someone to refine the Reversed Five Elements Pill.

This pill requires the spiritual fire of heaven and earth to condense; if there is no spiritual fire of heaven and earth, then it needs the true fire of a cultivator to refine it.

Lin Jue is not a cultivator, and the spiritual fire of heaven and earth is extremely rare. He will need to find a reliable pharmacist to refine the Reversed Five Elements Pill for him in the future.

After finishing harvesting the medicinal herbs, Lin Jue glanced at the stone gate standing on the stone platform, and instead of returning to Bishuitan, headed straight down the mountain.

Now that a Core Formation cultivator from the Yanxia Sect has entered Qingmo Island, Zhao Xiaoyao has a special identity as a direct disciple of an elder of the Yanxia Sect. It is likely that if he encounters danger, the Core Formation cultivator would not stand idly by and watch him die.

Lin Jue didn't trust Zhen Jian's character, so out of sight, out of mind and parting ways with the two of them was the best choice.

As he pondered this, he walked down the mountain path.

An hour later, Lin Jue sat under a towering tree, his face full of confusion.

He had been walking in the mountains for so long, and every time he felt he was almost at the foot of the mountain, he would suddenly find himself back on the stone platform at the top.

Could it be the work of these fogs?

Lin Jue secretly guessed, and after adjusting himself for a moment, he got up and walked down the mountain again.

As expected, he returned to the mountaintop.

Just then, thunder roared in the sky, and within the thick clouds, several figures clashed and fought like gods.

"Another Core Formation cultivator!"

Lin Jue was taken aback. He wanted to rush into the stone gate to escape, but he was soon surprised to find that even the battle fluctuations of Core Formation cultivators could not affect him at all, even though he was on the mountaintop.

What surprised him most was that, even though he was standing conspicuously on the mountaintop, the Core Formation cultivators fighting in the sky seemed to be unable to see him, and no one noticed him.

Lin Jue was filled with doubt and suspicion. His brows furrowed slightly, and he stood there motionless, head down as if deep in thought.

Suddenly, he noticed the patterns on the stone platform beneath his feet, which seemed to resemble those of a peach tree.

Upon observation, he was astonished to discover that the entire stone platform was carved from a peach tree stump.