The Happy Farmer Wanderer-Chapter 690 Flower on the Cliff_1

"Everything you see is not entirely real; much of it is the work of the formation," Zi Ling’s voice faintly began.

"That flower is fake?" Li Qing asked,

"Oh, that one, that one is real," Zi Ling said, "In the Cultivation World, nothing is impossible, so don’t be surprised by this. If you get surprised by such trivial matters, others will instantly know you’re a greenhorn."

Li Qing: ...

Fuck, got lectured by this old witch again.

"The mist is the formation, so the immortal cranes, the multitude of birds are all illusions crafted by the formation. The only real things here are probably our coffin, the cliff, and the flowers above," Zi Ling explained.

"What immortal cranes, what multitude of birds?" Peering into the distance, Li Qing didn’t spot a single bird.

"Oh, right, although you have methods to restrain Yin Souls, your power is still meager after all, so stop looking, you can’t see them," Zi Ling remarked.

Li Qing: ...

Thinking about how to strangle her.

"See that deep red coffin? That’s mine," Zi Ling suddenly pointed to the coffin on the cliff and instructed, "Step onto the slightly elevated, more solid areas amid the mist. Grab onto the red flowers, be sure to avoid flowers of other colors, and then carry the coffin down. That’s all there is to it, not difficult at all."

"You’re not tricking me?" Li Qing asked seriously.

"Do I have to? Hurry up," Zi Ling said with a smile.

Having come this far, Li Qing indeed seemed to have no other choice.

He silently psyched himself up in his heart and then stepped into the mist.

The light, flowing mist slipped past his feet like water, yet the solid places felt like stone steps.

Step by step, Li Qing very cautiously climbed up the cliff, carefully avoiding flowers of other colors as instructed by Zi Ling, and only grabbing at the red ones until he reached the coffin.

The ascent was pretty smooth, but the descent gave Li Qing a tough time.

The flowers that looked so delicate would instantly transform into man-eating beasts upon being touched.

They actually had mouths, biting the instant they were touched.

If it weren’t for his concern for Zi Ling’s safety, Li Qing would have wanted to throw the damn coffin down on the spot.

It hurt like hell.

Those thorny horrors, resembling man-eating plants, could tear off skin and flesh with a single bite.

After much struggle, Li Qing finally managed to carry that old witch’s coffin across.

And his body was bitten into countless pits, bloody and mangled.

"You should have been more careful," Zi Ling said, barely able to look at Li Qing’s miserable state, as she fished out a bottle of elixir and handed it to him.

Li Qing was in so much pain he was almost convulsing. The feeling of having skin and flesh bitten away was intensely painful, and he was bitten in more than one place. While Li Qing didn’t meticulously count, there were definitely more than twenty wounds.

He didn’t even look at the elixir Zi Ling passed to him, just dumped two pills straight into his mouth.

He was on the verge of going mad from the pain.

"One pill would have been enough," Zi Ling exclaimed urgently.

"What happens if I take too many?" Li Qing asked in alarm.

Zi Ling’s mouth twitched slightly, "It’s not going to do much harm, just a bit wasteful."

Li Qing: ....

That heavy panting nearly scared him to death.

It’s just a waste, what’s there to fear?

But this elixir was indeed a good thing. As soon as he swallowed it, it felt as if a warm current instantly flowed through his eight extraordinary meridians, and his whole body heated up in an instant, and the wound didn’t hurt as much.

As long as that painful sensation stopped, Li Qing instantly felt much more comfortable.

He looked down at the elixir in his hand, on which several very small characters were engraved, "Revitalizing Pill".

Li Qing’s eyes suddenly brightened—this elixir... he had some too.

Before, he and Shisan had snatched a bottle in the Underground Palace, and later that orange cat had brought him two more bottles.

This was one of the three types of elixirs whose effects he had not figured out.

He had not expected the Revitalizing Pill to actually be a divine healing medicine.

He naturally pocketed the elixir and then prepared to find a way to bandage his wounds.

He was nearly flayed by those flowers.

Those flowers were just like this old witch, looking flamboyant and enchantingly beautiful, but ruthless in devouring people without spitting out their bones.

But when he lifted his arm to check, Li Qing suddenly froze.

His wounds had already healed.

He rubbed the blood stains on his arm in disbelief, astonished to find that they had completely healed. The only giveaway was a distinct border between the newly grown skin and the old skin, looking like the mark left by cupping therapy.

This elixir, was it really so domineering?

Li Qing was so shocked that his mouth almost couldn’t close.

"Don’t be corrupt in front of me, this elixir is very precious," Zi Ling said.

"Very precious?" Li Qing asked deliberately.

"Very precious," Zi Ling stretched out her hand towards Li Qing.

"I endured such injuries just to obtain your body. Giving me a bottle of healing elixir as compensation shouldn’t be too much, right?" Li Qing said, "Besides, I’ve seen this elixir before, and it doesn’t seem that precious."

"Fine, I’ll give it to you," Zi Ling withdrew her hand and asked indifferently, "Did you see it in the Elixir Hall?"

"I don’t know if it was the Elixir Hall, but there was a huge stone coffin with many books inside," Li Qing said.

He was actually a little puzzled that such a precious elixir was placed so obviously accessible.

Aside from that immensely strong cat, there was almost no danger there.

"That’s it," Zi Ling said indifferently. "The Elixir Hall is connected to the false tomb, which is bait set by King Qi. There are indeed many types of elixir there, but they are all low-level ones. Just like the Revitalizing Pill, a hundred low-level Revitalizing Pills aren’t even worth the one you just ate."

"King Qi was cunning and ruthless. Even in death, he left many traps behind. The books in the Elixir Hall are mostly incomplete. A considerable number of gold, silver, jewels, and elixirs are there simply to lure tomb robbers deeper into the false tomb. Once inside, no one below the Golden Core level can leave alive."

Li Qing suddenly became wary, "Since the books are incomplete, could the elixirs be..."

"The elixirs are basically fine. Since it’s bait, there has to be something genuine. Besides, King Qi wouldn’t bother wasting his energy on such trivial things. If you took any, just consume them with confidence, there won’t be any harm," Zi Ling said with endless reminiscence, her palm gently caressing the lid of that coffin.

Li Qing suddenly felt somewhat strange inside.

The things they completely disregarded, when brought out to the world, were now pursued by countless people.

Had the Cultivation World not only failed to progress but actually regressed?