From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

Everyone rushed forward and saw that there were indeed jellyfish under the shimmering water. Their round crowns opened and closed, and their tentacles swayed accordingly. They swam slowly against the current, looking very comfortable.

Should we remove them?

Fifteen wants to wipe out all the jellyfish here.

The latter shook his head and said, "There can't be only this many jellyfish in the river, so there's no point in removing them. As long as people in the vicinity of Kunlun Dragon Peak choose cremation after they die, then Xue Mile's calamity will not reappear."

After saying that, he squatted down and put his hand into the river water, saying to everyone, "It's similar to the water in warm spring, warm and cozy. These jellyfish can only live in this kind of river and won't go out into the rivers outside."

There are two reasons: one is to respect the natural ecology of this place, and the other is to educate the people of this place to gradually get rid of ignorance, so as to achieve harmony between man and nature in the future, rather than continuing to fight endlessly.

Upon hearing this, Fifteen also lowered his rolled-up sleeves.

Afterwards, the group fetched some water and followed the direction of the river's flow. After about one or two hundred meters, they came across a cave with strange runes carved on the surrounding walls.

"Inside there's a stone platform, a corpse with flowers on it, and... a small dog with green fur?" Using his mental scan, Lu Jin described the situation inside the cave.

After pondering for a moment, the first generation Jiang Liu entered first, and the others hurriedly followed.

There was only a stone platform inside the cave, and no flower-covered corpse or green puppy as Lu Jin had described.

Without saying a word, Lu Jin walked to a wall piled with stones and used his magnetic powers to move it aside, revealing an opening.

The group followed him inside and found a corpse lying in front of them.

Judging from his clothes, though they were worn and even damaged by those eerie blood-red flowers, it was still possible to vaguely discern that he was dressed as a lama. Beside him was a rusty iron rod, presumably belonging to the Iron Rod Lama of Tibetan Buddhism.

"He's the Iron Cudgel Lama who told me about the poem by the Great King of the Jewel of Subduing Enemies!" Fifteen leaned closer, took a closer look, exclaimed in surprise, then sighed, "I never thought he would die here!"

"The Nine-Story Demon Tower was sealed off before we arrived. How did he get in?" The old foreigner scratched his head and asked in confusion.

“The underground water system of the Shenluogou Glacier is interconnected; perhaps it came in by water,” Lu Jin suggested. “And the flowers on his body—”

The flower was extremely beautiful, about the size of an ordinary person's rice bowl. Now the flower had withered, and a dark red fruit had appeared, hanging on the black vine.

"Blood Bait Flower!"

It was Partridge Whistle who spoke.

What is blood bait?

Legend has it that in some underground caves and karst caves, if someone dies there, their body will remain incorruptible due to the influence of the life force within, and will be called a "Black Tortoise Giant Corpse". A blood-red flower will grow on this kind of corpse, and it will go through the entire process of flowering and fruiting in a short period of time.

Upon hearing about the Bloodbait Flower, the old foreigner who had reached out to pick the fruit immediately withdrew his hand, drew a short blade from his waist, and tried to remove the fruit.

The moment the short blade touched the fruit, it detached from the stem and rolled to the ground. The vine on the Iron Rod Lama's corpse withered and turned to dust.

This bizarre scene amazed Zhang Zhiwei, who asked the first generation Jiang Liu, "This is the first time I've ever seen such a strange plant. What about you?"

"What do you say?"

In fact.

The early Jiang Liu had seen this blood-bait flower in a cave that buried a large number of dinosaurs during the Triassic period. Strictly speaking, it cannot be considered a plant, nor can it be classified as a fungus; rather, it is a peculiar species that lies somewhere between an animal, a plant, and a fungus...

At that time, due to limited resources, the first Jiang Liu could only determine that this thing was born from the radiation of power from a higher dimension, and did not conduct detailed research. But now—

He took out a glass bottle from his storage ring, and with a wave of his hand, he gathered the spores in the air and put them into the bottle, which appeared as a faint black powder.

"What are these?"

Zhang Zhiwei was taken aback.

"Let's call the 'spores' of the Bloodbait Flower for now."

After closing the lid, the first generation Jiang Liu shook it and chuckled, "These things float in the air, extremely tiny, invisible to the naked eye. Once inhaled—"

Immediately, everyone's expression changed, but Lu Jin quickly calmed down and said with a smile, "Brother Jiang, don't joke around. If something really happened, you wouldn't have let us in."

"Inhaling it will not cause any danger. On the contrary, it can enhance a person's mental strength in a short period of time. However, once it comes into contact with blood, it will take root and sprout, grow black, curled stems, and absorb human flesh and blood to produce blood bait fruit."

At this point, the first generation Jiang Liu extended his hand to the old foreigner, who understood and handed over the short blade in his hand.

It's sizzling!

The moment the sharp blade was used to slice open the blood bait fruit, a pungent, fishy stench wafted out, forcing everyone to cover their mouths and noses.

Looking again at the broken Blood Bait Fruit, there were actually chunks of red and white flesh inside!

# Chapter 1023 Why does the molting turtle have six legs?

"These are chunks of flesh from the Iron Rod Lama's corpse?!"

Everyone was shocked.

Looking at the body of the Iron Rod Lama, there was clearly no damage. Lu Jin even used his mental power to scan it and confirmed that there was no trace of flesh being torn off.

and so--

Is the flesh inside the Blood Bait Fruit just scary in appearance?

Before anyone could wonder what was going on, a fluffy green "puppy" ran out of a dark red coffin that was half-exposed on the ground nearby, and without paying any attention to the group led by the first generation Jiang Liu, it ran quickly toward the chunk of meat in the Blood Bait Fruit.

Before it could even bite off the flesh and blood from the blood bait fruit, its body was uncontrollably suspended in mid-air and held in place by Lu Jin's magnetic field. No matter how much it struggled, it was to no avail.

"It really is a green-furred 'puppy,' but why doesn't it have eyes? It only has a nose and a mouth, and it doesn't even have ears."

Hua Ling stepped closer to examine it, but because it was dark green, she dared not touch it, fearing it might be poisonous. She had been stung by a scorpion on Ping Mountain, and if Jiang Liu hadn't saved her with the Linglong Inner Core of the Relic, she would have already gone to the underworld to meet Yama. Therefore, she was quite wary of this color, which looked "dangerous".

The others also stepped forward to take a look and found that, just as Hua Ling had said, this little thing had no eyes or ears.

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Good guy!

It had six legs growing from under its long green fur.

"Holy crap! Is that a bug?"

Lu Jin used his magnetic field to flip the thing over, revealing its six constantly wriggling legs.

However, the skin and hair on its abdomen are not insects; they are more like those of domestic dogs and wild gray wolves.

Is this an arthropod?

Or is it a mammal?

If it's an arthropod, why does it have the skin and hair of a mammal?

But if it's a mammal, this thing doesn't seem to have the corresponding reproductive organs.

and many more!

This thing doesn't even have excretory organs!

Only in, no out...

Could it be a Pixiu?

"If this were a Pixiu, it would be too cheap." Zhang Zhiwei laughed, walked to the dark red coffin, covered his hand with a layer of golden light, and tapped it.

state!

The sound was deep, yet carried a slightly ethereal echo.

“This is not a coffin, it’s a tortoise shell.” Zhang Zhiwei held the tortoise shell by the edge with one hand and lifted it off the ground with a little force.

Upon closer inspection, everyone saw that it was indeed a large tortoise shell with a red background and black stripes.

Zhang Zhiwei continued, "I once saw a passage in the miscellaneous books of the Celestial Master's Mansion: 'If a tortoise sheds its shell, it will live for ten thousand years. Its body contains yang energy, and its shell is a treasure. It cannot be penetrated by water, nor burned by fire. If it can be used in medicine, it can transform yin and yang.'"

However, the Celestial Masters of the Celestial Masters' Mansion throughout the ages have held a critical attitude towards this content, using it to ridicule those unorthodox practitioners who wanted to enhance their cultivation through the preparation of external elixirs.

Surprisingly, molting turtles actually do exist in this world.

"The Taoist methods of the Celestial Master's Mansion are profound and they naturally look down on these minor Taoist practices. But since there are records about the molting turtle, then there may really be molting turtles that live for ten thousand years." Partridge Whistle has traveled the world and explored various tombs in the mountains and forests for many years. He can be considered knowledgeable and confirmed that this is indeed a molting turtle.

"But although this tortoise shell has six holes, they are for four limbs, a head, and a tail. This green-haired puppy has six legs, a head, and a tail. They don't match up, do they?"

Hua Ling noticed something was wrong.

If this little green dog were really a molting turtle, it should at least have four legs!

But what is the truth?

Six.

"That's really strange."

Partridge Whistle only knew of the existence of molting turtles, but had never actually seen one, and was not sure if this green "puppy" was the legendary molting turtle that had lived for ten thousand years and shed its shell... mainly because in everyone's impression, only insects had six legs.

Other creatures with six legs are probably temple statues of gods and Buddhas, where two legs and four arms, totaling six limbs, are not uncommon.

"Brother Jiang, do you know this kind of creature?"

Lu Jin inquired.

"Please, 'I' have lost my soul."

Although he had also cultivated his primordial spirit in the first generation, he was far inferior to himself in the 1749th kalpa. He could not obtain all information with a single open of his wisdom eye or Dharma eye; all he had were the experiences of an "old man".

If you really want to explain it, it's because the molting turtle undergoes a transformation at the moment of molting. During this process, if it is affected by the Blood Bait Flower and Blood Bait Fruit, causing unknown changes in the genes within each of its cells, it is not impossible that it would present itself in its current form.

Just like the fact that the Blood Bait Flower grows on a person, but the fruit that eventually grows is a puddle of slime and a piece of flesh, there is a huge problem with that!

Rather than a fruit, it's more like something is being nurtured... or perhaps an experiment by a higher-dimensional being in this three-dimensional world of Earth to study biodiversity?

unknown.

"Then why not just kill it?" Zhang Zhiwei slit his throat. "This thing is all green, it looks ominous."

"Awoo! Awoo!"

As if it understood Zhang Zhiwei's words, the green-furred molting turtle began to cry out, and its trembling became even more violent.

"Oh, it can even understand human speech."

Seeing the molting turtle still making noises, Zhang Zhiwei rubbed his chin and chuckled, "If this guy hadn't probably been eating the blood bait fruit that grew on the corpse of the Iron Rod Lama, I was planning to kill it and make soup."

Immediately, the molting turtle cried out even louder, even curling up its body and trembling slightly, as if it were terrified of Zhang Zhiwei.

"Since it can speak human language, it must be a molting turtle."

The first generation Jiang Liu made the final decision and didn't want to waste any more time on this thing, so he put the tortoise shell into his storage ring.