Chapter 586 - 352: Celestial Hearing Tower
「Half a month later.」
Jiang Wanzhao’s Flying Celestial Ship, having traveled at full speed for days, was now approaching the borders of the Northern Domain.
The journey had been uneventful.
These past few days, Zou Feng had been completely immersed in the joy of exchanging poisons with Su Qingyu.
"The Calamity Poison Body truly is wondrous!"
After absorbing the poison of great thunder, Zou Feng looked up, took a deep breath, and couldn’t help but sigh in admiration.
Through his in-depth research during this period, he had gained a very direct understanding of the Calamity Poison Body.
Different parts of this Poison Body corresponded to different calamities, and thus their toxicities naturally varied.
Heavenly Tribulation, the calamity of the abyss, the calamity of the prison guard...
Each time he drew poison from a corresponding part of her body, it brought a completely different experience.
Of course, only a Poison Cultivator like Zou Feng could face these calamitous poisons directly. Anyone else would either die or go mad before they even got close.
"Was it fun?"
Seeing Zou Feng’s expression of endless savoring, Su Qingyu’s languid voice sounded out.
Zou Feng immediately adopted a serious expression. "Palace Master, what are you saying? We are engaged in a sincere exchange with the pursuit of the Dao in our hearts. How could this be mere fun...?"
"Well, I think it’s quite fun!"
Su Qingyu licked her lips, she too wearing an expression of endless savoring.
This was only normal. After all, the benefits she had gained during this time were immeasurable.
Even if one were to search through all the records of the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect, they wouldn’t find anything similar to Zou Feng’s current Poison Body.
So many absurdly Exotic Poisons were mixed within his body, yet his body itself bore no hidden dangers. To this day, Su Qingyu still found it incredible.
And a Poison Body with no hidden dangers, viewed from another angle, meant that the poisons were "pure"!
As long as Zou Feng didn’t play any tricks, the poisons he passed to Su Qingyu were all exceptionally pure and easily absorbable good things.
One could call them poison essences!
Therefore, Su Qingyu was incredibly satisfied. She didn’t feel like she was getting the short end of the stick at all; in fact, she felt she had struck gold.
Although she didn’t say it out loud, Su Qingyu was already feeling incredibly fortunate to have a Fellow Daoist like Zou Feng on her path of Immortal Cultivation.
Her path, the Poison Dao, should have been exceptionally thorny, yet Zou Feng’s appearance had smoothed away so many obstacles.
Because of this, whenever they exchanged poisons, Su Qingyu would use every trick in her arsenal, clearly intending to get Zou Feng addicted.
In return, the benefits Zou Feng received were also considerable.
The progress of his Five Poison Holy Lotus Skill, which was at the Unity of Heaven and Man Realm, had long been stagnant.
But after more than ten days of pleasant exchange, the skill’s progress was quite gratifying.
"Five Poison Holy Lotus Skill (Unity of Heaven and Man) Progress: 49%"
Not only had the progress increased, but Zou Feng could also clearly see that the skill’s status on the panel had begun to show an anomaly.
The text seemed unstable, flickering from time to time.
Zou Feng instinctively felt this was a sign that the skill was about to undergo another transformation.
The reason the Five Poison Skill had progressed so much was partly due to the power of Su Qingyu’s Calamity Poison Body. But the main reason was that Su Qingyu herself was a grandmaster of the Five Poison Skill.
After all, Biyou Palace’s predecessor was the Five Poison Sect.
"By the way, although we have the substance of Dao Companions, you must not actually treat me as your Dao Companion!" Su Qingyu’s previous languor vanished as she suddenly put on a stern face.
Zou Feng was stunned for a moment, then he roughly understood her thoughts.
’It’s simple. That doesn’t fit Su Qingyu’s personality.’
’Besides, we’re both powerful Poison Cultivators. There are certain potential dangers that we both must tacitly understand.’
’Zou Feng himself was fine, but Su Qingyu was at risk of losing control at any moment...’
"Palace Master, rest assured. We are merely the closest of Fellow Daoists!"
"Dao Companions are Dao Companions, and Fellow Daoists are Fellow Daoists. Of course I can tell the difference!"
Su Qingyu nodded slowly. "It’s good that you can."
Zou Feng thought to himself, ’Isn’t this just like how ’baby’ is ’baby’ and ’darling’ is ’darling’? What’s so hard to tell apart...?’
"Alright, let’s go out for a walk. Lying in bed all day, what has this become!"
With a single wave of her hand, Su Qingyu was fully dressed.
’Uh, but you were the one who kept saying you wanted more, and more...’
Resisting the urge to tease her, Zou Feng got up to follow, when suddenly he felt a stir in his heart.
He sensed a slight change in the Spiritual Qi outside the room.
It wasn’t that the Spiritual Qi had grown thinner, but he felt it wasn’t as pure as it was in and around the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect.
Of course, it was still far superior to a place like Great Yan, which was completely unsuitable for Cultivation.
Therefore, without needing to ask, Zou Feng knew that the Flying Celestial Ship had reached the territory of the Northern Domain.
It was also a place beyond the reach of the Celestial Dao Cauldron’s "signal."
Zou Feng and Su Qingyu walked out of the room side by side and looked down.
The first thing that met their eyes were endless fields of farmland.
Back in the Eastern Earth Immortal Realm, the terrain was mostly continuous high mountains and rolling hills.
This kind of plains-like landscape was almost nowhere to be seen.
In the fields, many farmers were hard at work.
When they saw the Flying Celestial Ship in the sky, they showed no surprise. Instead, their attitude was one of extreme reverence as they began to kowtow in worship.
Clearly, these were all ordinary people.
The environment of the Northern Domain was originally very suitable for ordinary people to live in, provided, of course, that they were under the protection of the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect.
Otherwise, they would have long ago been "refined" by chaotic Evil Cultivators.
In fact, when the Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect’s rival forces wanted to break through the Northern Domain’s defensive lines and plunder its south, what they sought to plunder were precisely these "talents."
However, this method of using talent was akin to draining the pond to catch the fish—it was unsustainable.
The Pinnacle Celestial Immortal Sect’s approach was to let these ordinary people live and multiply normally, providing a continuous stream of new disciples for the sect.