Cultivation: Immunity to Negative Effects

BANG!

But Zhang Chi wasn’t flustered in the slightest. With a wave of his hand, a black Sword Light shot out like lightning, instantly piercing the centipede’s head.

He then walked over, harvested the materials from the centipede’s body, and stored them all away.

Next, he took out an Antitoxic Pill, looking as if he was about to swallow it.

SWOOSH!

Just then, the sound of something cutting through the air rang out as a sharp, silver arrow suddenly shot out from a large nearby tree.

The arrowhead glowed with a sinister green light—it was clearly coated in a potent poison.

"Haha, after waiting for so long, I finally have a reward. Why bother toiling to gather Spirit Medicine when waiting for an easy target like this yields a much bigger prize!"

Hidden in the top of the large tree was a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Female Cultivator in black robes, holding a silver Magical Artifact Longbow.

The arrow had obviously been fired by her in a sneak attack.

Seeing Zhang Chi about to be hit and seemingly already poisoned, she couldn’t help but feel ecstatic. Victory was in her grasp.

BANG!

But at that moment, the ground suddenly shook. Zhang Chi vanished from his spot, and the arrow hit nothing but air.

In the next instant, relying on his powerful physique, Zhang Chi had already charged to the base of the tree where the Female Cultivator was hiding and threw a vicious punch.

BOOM!

The large tree immediately exploded.

"This is bad! He actually practices Body Refining, and his cultivation isn’t low! Otherwise, there’s no way he could be this fast!"

Seeing this, the Female Cultivator decisively used an Escape Technique. A gentle breeze enveloped her as she took to the air, fleeing into the distance.

But just then, a Sword Light flashed before her eyes. It effortlessly shattered all the defensive light surrounding her and sent her head flying.

"You..."

Only then did the Female Cultivator realize that Zhang Chi was far stronger than she had anticipated. She was filled with immense regret and terror, but it was already too late.

Then, her consciousness plunged into absolute darkness.

At the same time, a Soul Tracking Technique mark instantly landed on Zhang Chi, but it was absorbed by the Jade Pendant in a flash.

Apparently, to prevent their disciples from being killed during this exploration, the Ten Great Immortal Sects had prepared a Jade Talisman inscribed with a Soul Tracking Technique for each person.

Unfortunately, this couldn’t completely prevent cultivators from killing each other. Cultivators had plenty of ways to circumvent it.

Zhang Chi, for instance, could directly ignore the Soul Tracking Technique.

"Overestimating your own strength!"

Zhang Chi just smiled faintly.

In truth, he had noticed both the centipede and the Foundation Establishment Female Cultivator at the same time he had spotted the Spirit Grass.

His earlier motion of taking the Antitoxic Elixir was obviously a deliberate attempt to mislead her, making her think he was already poisoned.

If she had seen this and still hadn’t acted, or had even come out to help, he wouldn’t have minded letting her go.

’If she had done that, she would have likely just been watching the centipede, wanting to snatch the Spirit Grass, with no intention of ambushing and harming anyone.’

But as it stood, she was clearly playing the part of the oriole stalking from behind.

Since that was the case, he naturally had to kill her.

Besides, he had many ways to kill her; he had just casually used one of them.

’As expected, cultivators are already turning on each other! The dangers in this Secret Realm don’t just come from Demon Beasts, but also from other cultivators! In fact, cultivators are often more cunning and dangerous than Demon Beasts!’

However, Zhang Chi didn’t get carried away by his success. Instead, he secretly warned himself to be more careful.

’After all, this was just a Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator, with no special techniques or significant strength.’

’Next time, I might encounter someone even stronger.’

SHH...

Afterward, Zhang Chi immediately extracted the Female Cultivator’s Blood Spirit Pill for his Spirit Snake, then collected her Divine Soul and fed it to his Beast Soul.

Before her Divine Soul was torn to shreds, it let out a silent scream, seeming to beg for mercy and curse Zhang Chi at the same time.

Zhang Chi, however, was completely unfazed.

’Since she ambushed me, she should have been prepared for both her body and soul to be annihilated.’

’And it just so happens that my Spirit Snake and Beast Soul both needed nourishment.’

Next, Zhang Chi also collected the centipede’s Divine Soul. But instead of feeding it to his other Beast Souls, he made it his fifth Main Soul.

The Female Cultivator’s Storage Bag, bow, arrows, and other belongings were all thoroughly plundered by Zhang Chi. Only then did he use a Fire Bomb Technique to reduce her corpse to ashes.

After that, Zhang Chi quickly took stock of his spoils. He then destroyed the Female Cultivator’s Storage Bag and the useless personal items inside to prevent anyone from tracking him with them.

During this process, he discovered that she was actually a Golden Sun Sect cultivator, as he found a Golden Sun Sect Identity Token on her body.

But this made no difference to him.

He didn’t care if she was from the Golden Sun Sect. Even if she were from his own Cangwu Sect, anyone who dared to ambush him would die.

Furthermore, he found some Magical Artifacts and Spirit Medicines in her Storage Bag, some of which were even stained with blood.

Clearly, she had killed other cultivators before.

The overall haul this time was quite good. The only downsides were the small amount of Spirit Stones and the lack of any trump cards like Celestial Grade magical artifacts or Talisman Treasures, so it couldn’t immediately boost Zhang Chi’s Combat Power.

But considering she was only at the Foundation Establishment Early Stage, he wasn’t surprised.

’After all, not every cultivator could be like him, with enough Spirit Stones to buy trump cards.’

SWOOSH...

Zhang Chi then continued onward. Along the way, he encountered a few more Demon Beasts and collected a good number of Tier Two Spirit Medicines.

However, most of these Demon Beasts were only at the Tier Two Early Stage. To Zhang Chi, they were incredibly weak, each falling to a single strike of his sword.

Additionally, Zhang Chi didn’t run into any more ambushes.

After all, the Secret Realm was vast. Although tens of thousands of cultivators had entered, only five hundred of them were Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

And since most of those who could enter the Inner Circle were Foundation Establishment Cultivators, the density of cultivators wasn’t high.

Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Zhang Chi finally saw other Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

However, these cultivators were clever. The weaker ones traveled in groups of three to five, while the solo travelers generally had higher cultivation.

Without a valid reason, Zhang Chi couldn’t just attack them, so he always chose to go around them, thus avoiding any conflict.

BANG BANG BANG...

Just then, however, Zhang Chi suddenly heard the sound of fighting coming from a valley up ahead.

Zhang Chi immediately slapped his Storage Bag and released a Phantom Beetle, sending it to sneak closer. He quickly got a clear view of the situation.

Four masked cultivators were ganging up on a fair-skinned, beautiful Female Cultivator in green robes.

Since all five of them were at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, the Female Cultivator was already sweating and in imminent danger.

However, Zhang Chi didn’t recognize any of the five. Although he felt it would be a shame for such a beauty to be killed, he didn’t know the reason for the fight. He also didn’t want to fight multiple Cultivators of the Same Tier without knowing their background, so he immediately decided to take a detour and leave.

"Four senior brothers, we are all cultivators from the Ten Great Immortal Sects! I, your junior sister, am from the Divine Sword Sect! The Divine Sword Sect and your Cyan Cloud Sect have always been on excellent terms. Why must you insist on attacking me?"

"If you let me go, I am willing to hand over everything I’ve gathered. I can even swear a Heart Demon Oath to guarantee I won’t tell anyone what happened today. How about it?"

At that moment, the Female Cultivator suddenly pleaded. Hearing her words through the Phantom Beetle, Zhang Chi immediately stopped in his tracks.

"Heh heh, so you figured out we’re all Cyan Cloud Sect cultivators? In that case, we have even more reason not to let you go!"

"Exactly! Are you stupid? If we kill you, we get all your things, and we can even... enjoy ourselves for a bit. The risk of this getting out is much smaller that way. Why would we ever let you go?"

"A Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Female Cultivator, eh? We’ve never had a taste of one of those before, hahaha!"

Hearing this, not only did the four masked cultivators show no intention of letting her go, they all began to laugh wantonly.