Cosmic Trading System

Throughout the journey, True Martial Saint Lord remained silent.

"Langya has had great talent since childhood. Grand Master Taoist Ancestor took a total of seventy-two disciples. Among us seventy-two, Langya's talent was also among the top. Moreover, he has always been very diligent in his cultivation, which is why he was highly regarded by Grand Master..." After a long while, True Martial Saint Lord let out a sigh and said.

Lin Yun remained silent. Perhaps, it was precisely because of Langya Saint Lord's exceptional nature that he developed such a strong rebellious heart after feeling treated unjustly?

At this moment, he didn't know what to say. No matter how much hatred they held for Langya Saint Lord before, now that Langya Saint Lord was dead, having died blocking those three Saint Lord Level Ghost Practitioners for them, all their grievances should dissipate with smoke and clouds.

In the face of the three Saint Lord Level Ghost Practitioners, Lin Yun did not believe Langya Saint Lord would survive.

"True Martial Saint Lord, do you know how to neutralize the poison of Netherworld Water?" After moving forward for some time, Lin Yun suddenly turned his head to look at True Martial Saint Lord and asked.

He was unsure when he could elevate his strength again, nor when those three Saint Lord Level Ghost Practitioners would find them. Even more, he was uncertain if even stronger Ghost Practitioners might come from the Netherworld during this period.

If True Martial Saint Lord's strength could be restored, they wouldn't feel as powerless as they did now should they encounter any situation.

To put it more bluntly, if True Martial Saint Lord were to regain his strength, they could also run away faster should the need arise.

"I have only encountered Netherworld Water once thousands of years ago and heard Grand Master Taoist Ancestor discuss its effects. As for how to neutralize it, I am unclear. The Grand Master only said that there are no heavenly materials or earthly treasures in this universe that can counter it..." True Martial Saint Lord said with a slight frown.

"In this universe, there are no heavenly materials or earthly treasures that can counter it?" Lin Yun muttered thoughtfully, seeming to grasp at something but unable to catch hold of it.

If this universe has no heavenly materials or earthly treasures to counter it, does that mean the poison of Netherworld Water is not uncurable, but that this universe lacks the necessary materials, while other universes or the outside world might possess them?

Apart from heavenly materials or earthly treasures, could there be other ways to neutralize it? For instance, their own body's detoxifying ability? Practitioners of their caliber possess extremely robust vitality; ordinary poisons can hardly affect them, and even if a potent poison does strike, it would slowly be expelled by their powerful detoxification ability!

Then, could the poison of Netherworld Water possibly be expelled by this method? If so, how long would it take?

Lin Yun had a feeling this method should work. Previously, when Langya Saint Lord dealt with True Martial Saint Lord, he could have waited for the poison to worsen before attacking, but he seemed anxious, as if he feared True Martial Saint Lord's poison would be neutralized or its effects weakened.

With these thoughts, Lin Yun shared his series of speculations with True Martial Saint Lord.

"What you said is possible. The poison of Netherworld Water, I should also be able to expel it slowly. I have already sensed this, but the speed is very slow..." True Martial Saint Lord nodded slightly and spoke.

For how long had Lin Yun lived? And for how long had he himself existed? The things Lin Yun thought of now, he had already contemplated and analyzed long ago!

"Very slow? Approximately how long would it take?" Lin Yun's eyes lit up as he spoke.

"To completely expel it would probably take a few thousand years," said True Martial Saint Lord with a wry smile, illustrating the greatest issue with this method.

In normal times, several thousand years would be nothing to practitioners of their level; even a brief period of seclusion could exceed this length of time.

However, with the cosmos in a state of great crisis and Lin Yun's cultivation progressing rapidly, spending thousands of years for Lin Yun to cultivate might allow him to reach an extremely high realm. How could he afford to spend so much time for the recovery of his strength?

And although his reduced strength now lessened the universe's law of repulsion, allowing him to stay in this universe for a short time without leaving, once his strength began to recover, how much longer could he remain in this universe?

Perhaps, before much of his strength had returned, he would have to leave this universe.

"Thousands of years..." Lin Yun choked, then shook his head.

Clearly, such a long time would not be feasible.

"By the way, what exactly is the poison of Netherworld Water, and how is it made?" Pausing for a moment, Lin Yun thought of something and asked again.

"Netherworld Water is not man-made but a natural toxin. Normally, in a cosmic space node invisibly connected to the Netherworld, one drop forms every hundred million years..." True Martial Saint Lord said, recounting all the information on Netherworld Water that Grand Master Taoist Ancestor once told them, including the reactions to being poisoned by Netherworld Water.

"A cosmic space node invisibly connected to the Netherworld... I see, it's called Netherworld Poison!" Lin Yun mused. Right at that moment, he suddenly remembered what he had just thought of.

"According to the information given by Grand Master Taoist Ancestor, this poison is extremely rare even in the outer world. If I'm not mistaken, this poison must be seeping in from the Netherworld. It's very rare in the realm of living beings, rare in the outer world, and perhaps common in the Netherworld.

The Netherworld isn't just any space but a Yin attribute space connected to tens of thousands of realms. Perhaps, we can start with the Netherworld..." Lin Yun said slowly.

"Start with the Netherworld?" True Martial Saint Lord's heart fluttered.

"Yes, under normal circumstances, it would be difficult for us to start with the Netherworld, but now, the space node connecting our universe to the Netherworld has broken open, and many powerful beings from the Netherworld have entered our universe.

Perhaps, these Netherworld powerhouses carry items that can cure the Netherworld Water poison!" Lin Yun nodded emphatically, his mood unavoidably slightly excited. If this was the case, the Netherworld Poison afflicting True Martial Saint Lord might soon be cured.

"Just now, I killed a lower Saint Lord Level Ghost Practitioner. I collected its Crystal Core and spacial items.

Let me see if there's anything in those spacial items that can cure the Netherworld Water poison!" While speaking, Lin Yun flipped his hand and pulled out a black bracelet from his chest, which he had collected from the Ghost Practitioner he had killed earlier, along with the grey Crystal Core.

Lin Yun's Mental Strength probed inside, and a vast black space immediately appeared in his senses.

"These are... Pellets? Herbs? Weapons? Materials? All with Yin attributes?" Lin Yun quickly scanned the items, murmuring the categories of each item as he checked them.

True Martial Saint Lord also began to search again through the spacial items from the Ghost Practitioners he had previously acquired. At another space node connected to the Netherworld, he had killed many high-level Ghost Practitioners, including a few at the fourth level of the super realm.

He had looked through those Ghost Practitioners' spacial items before but didn't pay much attention after finding that many were of extreme Yin attributes. Without special processing, or if not in special circumstances, they were unable to use them.

However, after Lin Yun's reminder, it occurred to him that those Ghost Practitioner spacial items might contain something to resolve the Netherworld Water. He started a thorough re-examination.

"I didn't find any information on how to neutralize the Netherworld Water, but in one of them, I discovered a drop of liquid that seems like Netherworld Water. True Martial Saint Lord, could you see if this is Netherworld Water?" Soon after, Lin Yun finished checking all the items in the space bracelet, he took out a black jade bottle and passed it to True Martial Saint Lord, saying.

Just now, he had noticed a drop of a transparent liquid in the black jade bottle, similar to the Netherworld Water described by True Martial Saint Lord.

"Netherworld Water?" True Martial Saint Lord was slightly surprised, reaching out to take the black jade bottle, quickly opening the bottle mouth to inspect its contents, while releasing his Mental Strength to sense it.

Lin Yun's gaze also followed, as he had only sensed the liquid with his Mental Strength and hadn't seen it with his naked eye.

"It's indeed Netherworld Water! It is the same in color, shape, and aura as the Netherworld Water I saw thousands of years ago!" At that moment, True Martial Saint Lord said with a faint excitement.

Could it be that since Lin Yun had found Netherworld Water among the spacial items of the Saint Lord Level Ghost Practitioner he had killed, Lin Yun's guess was correct? Perhaps Netherworld Water was indeed not rare in the Netherworld, and the means of resolving it in the Netherworld might not be difficult?

"Is it really Netherworld Water?" Lin Yun inhaled sharply, quickly retracting the Mental Strength he had extended, fearing that the Netherworld Water could travel through his Mental Strength.

He had seen True Martial Saint Lord's poisoning, and if True Martial Saint Lord couldn't resist this poison, he would be even less able to.

His caution was not unwarranted; there were indeed poisons that could infect through Mental Strength. Moreover, although perhaps it was just an illusion, he felt discomfort in the Mental Strength he had retracted, as if it had indeed come into contact with the poison.

"Don't worry, just a brief contact with Mental Strength. Although it can result in some infection by the Netherworld Water toxin, such a small amount cannot affect strong individuals at our level..." Seeing Lin Yun's reaction, True Martial Saint Lord gave a faint smile and said.

"It can indeed infect through Mental Strength?" Lin Yun exclaimed in surprise.

"What's so strange about that? Not just poisons, many substances have this kind of mutual invasion effect. Most are extremely minor, so faint that they can't be detected even with careful Mental Strength sensing. The influence of Netherworld Water is just slightly stronger, that's all!" True Martial Saint Lord shook his head and explained.

"I see..." Lin Yun slightly relaxed and nodded in understanding.

He was aware of the mutual invasion effect mentioned by True Martial Saint Lord. It was like the saying, being close to vermillion makes you red, and being close to ink makes you black, only varying in degree.

"I didn't find a method to neutralize the Netherworld Water either, but since we have found Netherworld Water in these spacial items, then, perhaps as you suggested, Netherworld Water is not rare in the Netherworld. Maybe there is something in these spacial items that can neutralize it, and we just don't know it yet..." True Martial Saint Lord contemplated and said after a pause.