Chapter 664: Chapter 664: Merging with the Snake Corpse
I was so emotionally agitated, having just shed blood tears, that my vision was somewhat blurry.
I rubbed my dizzy temples, "What... what? You don’t know the way? Then why didn’t you say so earlier?"
"Cough cough~ How about we catch a zombie and ask?" Zhang Zidao coughed lightly.
"No, that won’t do. Acting like that, it’s too easy to startle the grass and scare the snake." I firmly rejected Zhang Zidao’s suggestion, "I’ve observed that all the zombies have self-awareness."
This stronghold has an indescribable mystery and eeriness, where souls return to the Netherworld three days after death.
But the zombies strolling around the village... their souls are still intact...
Zhang Zidao: "Then what should we do?"
"What to do..." I regretted so much in my heart that I didn’t ask Granny Long for the location of Cold Moon Spring when I encountered her.
Zhang Zidao came up with a lousy idea, "How about we search carpet-style?"
"To search every inch of such a huge stronghold?" I was restlessly uneasy, worried not about finding Medicinal Spring but about whether we would survive until the moonlit night.
Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck me, "Master, I think I know where Cold Moon Spring is."
"You know? How is that possible?" Zhang Zidao was surprised, "Cold Moon Spring is the forbidden area of Tianying Village, hidden very securely, and only the Stronghold Master can enter."
As expected, the old Daoist was a huge pitfall.
Knowing full well that Cold Moon Spring was well-hidden, he still proposed the idea of a carpet search.
If we really searched blindly, God knows until when we would have to look.
My memory froze at the moment in the cave when the young man claiming to be Lin Huan took out the map, "I seem to have seen the map of the village; it marked the location of Cold Moon Spring, just... I don’t know... if that map is real."
Who knows if the map from the Illusion Realm is real or not, I had no clue in my heart.
"Regardless of whether it’s real, let’s try our luck; maybe we’ll hit the jackpot blindly." Zhang Zidao rolled up his sleeves and readily said let’s do it.
I tried hard to recall the details on the map, leading Zhang Zidao around to avoid the patrolling zombies among the stone houses.
We wound up at the foot of a mountain and looked up at the cliff, "It’s actually on the mountain."
"This height is no challenge for your master." Zhang Zidao lifted my arm, leaped more than ten meters, and effortlessly pulled me up onto the stone platform of the cliff.
Near the stone platform were shiny and translucent quartz rocks, with a pure green pool in the middle.
The pool was bubbling, filled with the decayed scent of herbs.
Me: "Why do I feel... this thing is for soaking zombies, for preservation?"
"Correct answer! Reward is your master’s little heart." Zhang Zidao greasily made a heart gesture at me, "It uses Corpse Qi to suppress Demonic Qi, as for the herbs, there are all sorts of medicines in here that can treat various diseases."
"I... why do I feel it’s so unreliable?" When I arrived at Cold Moon Spring, my attitude actually shrank back.
This green, rotten-smelling Medicinal Pool was too off-putting...
Zhang Zidao had already jumped down from the cliff, "After you’re done soaking, send me a WeChat message, your master will stay away for now."
"Master... you..." Don’t go.
I had no idea at the bottom of my heart what to do if this Medicinal Spring wasn’t Cold Moon Spring, and it didn’t cure my Blood-weeping Syndrome?
Then I wouldn’t be able to search for the other half of Little Dumpling’s soul!!
I hesitated slightly inside, then, one by one, I took off the thick clothes that I was wrapped in and walked into Cold Moon Spring.
The Medicinal Pool smelled foul from afar, but even more so once inside.
It was like being soaked in a cesspool, wordless, with the sticky medicinal liquid coating every inch of my skin.
I slowly closed my eyes, silently chanting the incantation to gather Spiritual Power, as the passage of time became quiet and slow.
After an unknown amount of time, heavy footsteps reached my ears.
Though there were only the footsteps of one person, there were the voices of two people talking, "Brother, we’ve finally found Cold Moon Spring. We can fully merge with this snake corpse and it won’t reject us anymore!"