I Have 10 Equipment Slots-Chapter 80 - 74: A New Source Fruit
Hmm??
I’m actually getting Demon Points!
Gu Zheng was astonished.
The pure energy absorbed from Xie Buping’s corpse was called "Pseudo-Demon Essence."
This meant it wasn’t true Demon Essence, but it was something very similar.
’Half-demon Family, Demon Power?’
Gu Zheng mused.
The Noble Families of the Half-demon Lineage integrated Demon Power into the human body to obtain immense strength.
In a way, they were no longer human.
That member of the Night Demon Race who had shown up earlier wasn’t wrong on that point.
’Since they’re like Demon Fiends, it makes sense that they would generate Pseudo-Demon Essence after breaking through to the Super Body Realm.’
The acquisition of Demon Points would naturally follow.
Tsk!
A glint in his eye, Gu Zheng turned around and returned to the scene of Xie Bufeng’s death.
He checked the area and confirmed there was no pure energy left, validating his suspicion.
A noble youth of the Half-demon Lineage would only possess Pseudo-Demon Essence in their body after breaking through to the Super Body Realm!
This discovery made him inexplicably eager.
He took a deep breath, calming his mind and suppressing his distracting thoughts.
SWISH!
His figure shot into the air, leaping and gliding over the swamp and back to Black Mountain.
While still in mid-air, he saw a small object rolling in the gully where he had been wandering before.
’Magic Gold?’
Gu Zheng’s eyes lit up, his gaze firmly locked on the rolling stone.
The next moment, he descended from the sky, absorbing the now-stationary stone into his hand.
The stone was the size of a soccer ball and weighed about twenty-two pounds.
SWOOSH~
It vanished into an equipment slot.
[Magic Gold]
It really was Magic Gold!
Delighted, Gu Zheng took the Magic Gold out and transferred it into his Storage Leaf.
’About twenty-two pounds of Magic Gold... that should be enough to upgrade the Celestial Frost Blade to mid-grade, right?’
With this hope in mind, Gu Zheng continued searching the gully for the three-meter-tall chunk of Magic Gold he had seen before.
However, after sweeping back and forth for an entire day, he still couldn’t find it.
Gu Zheng had checked every single rock in the gully. None of them were it.
’Did such a large piece of Magic Gold just vanish into thin air?’
’Or perhaps...’
’Did it merge into the mountain itself?’
Gu Zheng tapped his toes and leaped into the air. From high above, he slowly descended while scanning the entire black mountain with his senses.
Focusing his Spirit intently and extending his Shadow to probe deeply, he indeed made a discovery.
The entire Black Mountain was enveloped in a subtle, mysterious aura.
’If the Magic Gold has hidden itself inside the mountain, I could search here for half a year and still come up empty-handed.’
Although Black Mountain wasn’t particularly tall, it was very wide.
He’d have to move the entire mountain!
"...Fine."
Taking a deep breath, Gu Zheng didn’t hesitate any longer and leaped away.
Beyond Black Mountain lay a dark, chaotic wilderness filled with menacing-looking, unknown plants.
Gu Zheng surveyed it from above for a moment, but instead of landing, he performed a Triple Jump and glided over it.
As he neared the edge of the wilderness, he heard the sound of rushing water up ahead.
’A waterfall?’
He immediately leaped again to pick up speed, gliding out of the wilderness.
Within his field of view, a cliff over a hundred meters tall stood vertically on the shore of a lake with an inky-black surface.
Slightly to the left side of the cliff, a brown-watered waterfall cascaded from the top, roaring as it plunged into the lake.
Clusters of dark-red miasma permeated the air above the lake, drifting slowly with the foul-smelling, cold wind but never dissipating.
’Abundant water vapor, dense miasma...’
’Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon!’
’Could there be a "Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon" nearby?’
Gu Zheng’s sharp brows raised slightly.
He landed by the lake and scanned his surroundings. After confirming no one was around, he took out the Mother Empress Short Toe from his Storage Leaf and equipped it.
He gained the wondrous control of the "Lord of Hundred Insects"!
’The Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon can use mist to escape, travel like a shadow, and inhale and exhale miasma. To catch it, I first have to see it...’
Gu Zheng pondered this as he held his breath. His Divine Wondrous power surged, forming a Sword Gang around his body as he began to search slowly along the lake’s edge.
As he neared the miasma, he focused his Spirit, remaining vigilant of any movement around him.
Once inside the miasma, his Sword Gang and the poisonous vapor collided, tearing at and nullifying each other.
According to the information provided by the Equipment Effect, the Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon was a venomous insect that resembled a centipede.
Centipedes were also known as Celestial Dragons. This one could also travel through mist at speeds so fast that only an afterimage could be seen.
This was how it got the name "Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon."
Because of this, finding a Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon required a great deal of luck.
Gu Zheng walked slowly along the shore, searching for the Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon while also staying wary of the lake water.
The pitch-black surface of the lake was unnerving no matter how you looked at it.
It wouldn’t be surprising at all if Water Demons were hiding in its depths.
However, Gu Zheng walked for an hour, circling the lake and discovering it was connected to a river. During this entire time, no Water Demons rushed out to attack him.
There was no sign of the Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon either.
So, Gu Zheng continued downstream along the river.
The dark-red miasma also hovered along both banks of the river, drifting slowly.
As he walked, a crystal-clear fruit suddenly materialized out of thin air, hovering over the river’s surface.
A Source Fruit!
SWOOSH~
He used Absorption from a distance, pulling the fruit into his hand and storing it in an equipment slot.
[Source Fruit: Great Strength]
’A Great Strength Fruit?’
Understanding the information, Gu Zheng felt a hint of joy.
If consumed, this Great Strength Source Fruit could instantly increase a person’s strength by one thousand jin.
A thousand jin of strength wasn’t much help to Gu Zheng.
But for a Grandmaster who had already reached the limits of their Mortal Body, it was a treasure that could break through their ceiling and help them generate Divine Wondrous power!
A rare treasure they would go mad for, bow for, even kneel for!
"Not bad, not bad at all."
Pleased, Gu Zheng tagged the item and moved it into his Storage Leaf.
WHOOSH!
Just then, a long, thin tentacle as thick as a chopstick shot out fiercely from the river ten meters away, stabbing straight at Gu Zheng. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
SWISH~
Gu Zheng dodged, easily avoiding it.
Under his Dark Vision, he could vaguely make out a dark shadow in the water, surrounded by tentacles and radiating an undisguised, cold killing intent.
"Angry that I snatched the Source Fruit before you could?"
Gu Zheng’s sharp brows shot up.
He swung his Celestial Frost Blade through the air. The Sword Gang transformed into a thin line, crossing the ten-meter distance, parting the river water as it shot toward the dark shadow.
HISS!
SPLASH~
The water suddenly exploded upward as blue blood mixed into the river.
Although there wasn’t much and it was quickly diluted, its corrosive properties reacted with the river water, releasing a large amount of ice-blue mist.
The dark shadow that had been lurking beneath the surface a moment ago now sank abruptly, fleeing deep into the riverbed.
It left behind the ice-blue mist, which collided and mingled with the dark-red miasma, canceling each other out.
’The toxins cancel each other out?’
Gu Zheng raised his sharp brows.
He immediately retracted his gaze and continued walking along the riverbank.
WHOOSH!
Just then, a shadow suddenly lunged at him from directly ahead.
It was so fast that by the time Gu Zheng sensed it, the shadow was already upon him.
It was a thirty-centimeter-long centipede with a semi-translucent body and such fine, thin legs that it was almost invisible without close inspection.
The instant it pounced onto Gu Zheng, it instinctively opened its mandibles to bite.
However, just as its mandibles opened, it abruptly froze.
The next moment, it obediently landed on Gu Zheng’s shoulder and coiled up.
"Haha..."
Gu Zheng couldn’t help but laugh.
"Quick, it’s just ahead! Don’t let it... get away again."
Accompanied by an urgent shout that went from tense to relieved, a man and a woman—two noble youths with blue hair—emerged from the miasma and stopped five paces from Gu Zheng.
"The Mist Shadow Celestial Dragon is..."
"How is that possible!"
