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Chapter 353: 322 Forbidden Zone_1
Chapter 353: 322 Forbidden Zone_1
Chapter 353: Chapter 322 Forbidden Zone_1
“Before answering your question, can you first tell me if this is the Imperial Domain of the Sea Race? Is there a Cang Ming Ocean Territory nearby?” Xu Mu asked with a smile.
Upon hearing Xu Mu’s words, the eyes of the woman in the mask narrowed slightly, revealing a hint of curiosity.
Because Xu Mu’s question was somewhat strange!
“You’re not going to tell me that you don’t know this is a Sea Race area, are you?” the masked woman said indifferently.
At the woman’s words, the excitement on Xu Mu’s face was almost uncontainable. Her words had confirmed his conjecture.
Xu Mu could not have imagined that the other side of the Misty Sea was indeed the area where the Cang Ming Ocean Territory is located.
It was like finding something effortlessly after searching for it without avail.
No wonder the Clam People dwelled there.
“Indeed, I didn’t know this is a Sea Race area, as I traversed from the Misty Sea.”
“Misty Sea?”
The masked woman hesitated for a moment, her eyes suddenly filled with horror.
“What you are referring to as the forbidden zone?”
“If what you refer to as the forbidden zone is the region shrouded in white mist, then yes, that’s correct.”
“Impossible! No one could survive coming out of the forbidden zone!”
There was strong disbelief in the masked woman’s eyes.
“Hold on, since you came from the other side of the forbidden zone, how do you know about the Cangming Ocean Territory?”
“Uh…”
Xu Mu hesitated for a moment, realizing that he had slipped up in his speech.
After some thought, he began to explain.
“Well, it’s a long story! I originally lived in the Cangming Ocean Territory, but then I accidentally ended up in another area, unintentionally entered the Misty Sea, or the forbidden zone, and subsequently ended up here after another accident.”
“Haha!”
The masked woman sarcastically said: “You certainly do have a lot of accidents.”
“So you don’t believe me?”
“Do you think I’m a fool?”
“…”
This was indeed hard to explain, and he couldn’t elaborate too much.
Even if he told her all the details, she might not believe him.
“Well, then, you might as well just consider me to be from the Cangming Ocean Territory!”
Xu Mu simply gave up trying to convince her.
“You are indeed from there!”
The masked woman, who believed she had caught Xu Mu in a lie, couldn’t help but feel a bit smug.
“Tell me! How did you get here? Why are you injured, and why did you come here?”
“…”
For a moment, Xu Mu felt that explaining the truth was even more troublesome.
After a series of fabricated stories, Xu Mu finally managed to deceive the masked woman.
“Hand over your storage bag.”
“I say, big sister, you should know better than me whether I have a storage bag or not,” Xu Mu responded, deadpan.
“Who’s your big sister! You didn’t hide it somewhere, did you?”
“How could I hide it in my current state!”
“…”
The masked woman was momentarily speechless, unsure how to respond.
“Then, hand over any valuables you have.” The masked woman insisted.
She had finally captured a struggling cultivator, and moreover a human one. Surely she couldn’t let him get away empty-handed.
“Look here, miss! I…”
“Don’t call me randomly!” the masked woman retorted angrily.
Could all human cultivators be so frivolous?
“You don’t want me to call you Sister, and you also don’t want me to call you Miss, so how should I address you?”
“I’m Nan Peiyao, you can call me Nan or Cultivator Nan!”
Nan Peiyao had never had contact with human cultivators before, but she had heard some information about the human race. She knew that human cultivators liked to call each other “Cultivator”.
“Alright then, Cultivator Nan! If I’m not mistaken, the valuables on me should have been stripped by you already, right?”
As soon as he woke up, he had already felt that except for the ragged clothes smelling of herbs, he was clean as a whistle.
Although he was severely injured back then, she couldn’t have possibly taken everything, not even leaving a piece of clothing, could she?
“…”
Nan Peiyao was a bit embarrassed.
After she picked up Xu Mu from the sea, needless to say, she had to check him.
She then found out that although Xu Mu’s clothes were ragged, they were made of top-grade materials. She then couldn’t resist stripping off all his clothes to exchange for cultivation resources later.
“Since I saved you, you’re my war trophy. What’s the problem with taking a few of your ragged clothes? Aren’t you willing?”
Truth be told, in Xu Mu’s state, she should have handed him over to her race the moment she found him. But due to her own greed, she decided to secretly keep him.
“I’m willing! I’m willing! But having stripped me bare, isn’t it a bit excessive to still ask me for things?”
“…”
Nan Peiyao lifted her head, looking embarrassingly at the ceiling. Indeed, it seemed a bit excessive.
“Anyway, you must have some spell techniques, right? Also, what else can you do?”
“Yes, I have many! I can also do alchemy!”
“You can do alchemy?”
Nan Peiyao’s eyes were filled with surprise. Due to the environment they lived in, what the Sea Race lacked the most were pills and alchemists.
“Hmm!”
“Quickly, tell me everything you know about alchemy!” Nan Peiyao could hardly wait.
If she could learn alchemy, she would never worry about cultivation resources again.
“Cultivator Nan, as I just woke up from unconsciousness, and my injuries are so severe, how about you let me rest for a few days?” Xu Mu’s voice was getting weaker.
Nan Peiyao looked up and down at Xu Mu, and then reluctantly took out a porcelain bottle from her storage bag. She poured out a pill from it, then removed the cloth from Xu Mu’s mouth.
“This is a healing pill. You should eat it.”
“Thank you!”
Xu Mu didn’t hesitate and accepted it straight away.
But the result—
A tier one Yuan Yang Pill!
He hadn’t consumed a tier one pill in hundreds of years.
Even the spiritual beasts he raised wouldn’t eat such low-grade pills.
Honestly speaking, considering his present injury, a tier one pill hardly has any effect.
Despite this, Nan Peiyao had a pained expression on her face. How poor must she be!
“Now you can tell me what you know, right?” Nan Peiyao said.
“I just ingested it, it hasn’t even taken effect yet. How about you come back tomorrow? Anyway, I won’t be able to run away looking like this.”
“You’re not going to trick me, are you?” Nan Peiyao spoke skeptically.
“You’re well aware of my physical condition, how could I manage to deceive you?”
Nan Peiyao hesitated, then nodded her head.
“Alright then, I’ll come back tomorrow, and remember to think well about it. As long as you can teach me alchemy, I may find a way to send you back to the Human Clan.”
Xu Mu did not anticipate that she would offer such a consolation.
He scoffed inwardly.
“Rest assured, as you saved my life, even if you don’t send me back, I’ll certainly fulfill my promise to teach you,” Xu Mu pledged earnestly.
“That’s sensible of you!”
Afterwards, Nan Peiyao left the room, instructing the married couple to take good care of Xu Mu. If there were any abnormalities, they were to report to her immediately.
The middle-aged couple nodded their agreement hastily.
Shortly after Nan Peiyao left, a figure in a robe appeared beside Xu Mu.