Chapter 596: I'm a Male Concubine?

Returning to the mechanism ship cabin, Ning Zhuo took out his and Sun Lingtong's Cang Tie Han Jia to repair them.

Due to extreme use, these two Cang Tie Han Jia had varying degrees of damage.

Just repairing these damaged parts allowed Ning Zhuo to benefit greatly. He could see at a glance which areas of the entire mechanism war armor were relatively weak.

The weakest part was the Jin Yi.

The triple-fold design led to a drop in the overall strength of the Jin Yi. During rapid flight in the air, every turn subjected the entire Jin Yi to pressure.

"The material for the Jin Yi must be further improved!"

The gains were of course not just limited to this.

"My flying skills are far inferior to Old Big's, I need to practice diligently."

"My divine sense also can't compare to Old Big's, but if I mobilize the Fen Shen Jing, it will surpass him by a notch. I should transform some of the mechanism Jin Yan to carry small magic tools and mirrors to help me grow my divine sense."

Observing with the naked eye in the air is too limited.

Air combat requires a much wider observation range compared to ground combat.

In this situation, divine sense, which can detect in all directions, is the best choice.

Ning Zhuo's cultivation of the Jing Tai Ling Mi Art has a characteristic: his own divine sense range isn't high, but if he borrows external objects, he can exert extremely great power.

"Also, high-speed flight has quite high requirements for the strength of the physical body."

"If I hadn't significantly improved my physique through the Tai Xi Ling Zhou, I wouldn't be able to withstand such flight intensity."

"Also, the Wu Zang Miao Ling Technique caused my five internal organs to mutate, reducing a lot of burden."

Even so, after Ning Zhuo took off the Cang Tie Han Jia, he also found that his whole body's skin and flesh had many new bruises. There was also quite a bit of internal bleeding.

Although his five internal organs had all changed, the human body may not only have these; in the commonly known five internal organs and six bowels, there are still six bowels.

Ning Zhuo immersed himself in improving his mechanism creations.

Two days later, he was reminded by Sun Lingtong, interrupting his cultivation and coming to the Long Tou Cang.

The Yin Hun Hei Zhao Wetland had arrived!

The Wan Li You Long escaped from the void, shrunk to its smallest size, and flew high in the sky.

Looking down from the high sky, the Yin Hun Hei Zhao resembled the torn-apart organs of an ancient divine giant, becoming rotten pieces, casually scattered in this pitch-black wetland.

A thin layer of green fog enveloped the entire wetland.

Hundreds upon hundreds of floating islands either stayed on the water surface or drifted slowly.

These floating islands were almost all condensed from decayed plants and pale white bones.

The island surfaces were often covered with thick Shi Tai. The Shi Tai emitted a faint green phosphorescent light. These phosphorescent lights were not random; they connected to form a vein-shaped faint light network.

Between the floating islands, many huge Du Hun Lian floated on the water surface.

Most of these Du Hun Lian had been transformed, forming Du Hun Deng that belonged to the Yin Hun Hei Zhao Wetland. The lamp light was faint blue, casting a faint blue starry river reflection on the deep pitch-black water surface.

Within these long-burning lamp lights, vaguely, one could see groups of soul lights.

The Wan Li You Long flew quietly and silently.

Sun Ning's vision was broad, and they could easily see the main river channel in the wetland — the Ming Jiao River.

This river channel, like a bulging azure-black centipede, penetrated the entire wetland directly from southeast to northwest.

The river channel was very deep, but the water surface was calm. The soil on the river banks was all pale white, and in some places, even white bones were exposed.

Legend has it that this river channel was transformed from a Ming Jiao Long Shen.

On the calm river surface, many bone spurs floated. These bone spurs were the protruding backs of Ci Gu Jiao.

This kind of crocodile lived in groups in the Ming Jiao River, and they were the well-deserved dominant group. They would dig open the river banks, always digging to the deep white bones in the soil, and drilling out caves in the white bones as nests.

"Look there." Sun Lingtong pointed to Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo followed his pointing and couldn't help but his eyes slightly brighten — he discovered a village.

This village was hidden in the shadow of a Shi Tai Floating Island. The village was built with ship boards, masts, and giant-like ribs.

The village walls could absorb light. Upon closer inspection, one would find that the wall body rippled a layer of oil film, obviously using a special forging method.

Countless corpses were piled at the base of the walls. On top of the city walls, there were large amounts of skulls of different creatures.

The village gate was open, and several boats made of red wood rushed out.

Among the cultivators controlling the boats, a small half were human race, and most were ghost race.

The ghost race is a kind of half-human, half-ghost intelligent life. Males are often ferocious and evil, while females are beautiful as flowers. Their skin color varies, including red, green, blue, black, white, yellow, etc.

Their eyes are quite special. The pupils are black, and the whites are white, allowing them to easily observe ghostly things.

The red wood boats were engraved with spell restrictions and were in the shape of warships. Each had twenty long oars. The bow and stern of the boats were high, forming the appearance of a Jiao head and Jiao tail.

The human race cultivators were mostly silent, with anxious expressions. The ghost race, however, were bare-limbed, with dishevelled hair and long horns on their heads, shouting loudly.

The three warships sped across the river surface, all heading in the same direction.

This scene couldn't help but pique the curiosity of Sun Ning: what were such a group of local cultivators doing in such a hurry?

Originally, their plan was not to rush to Bai Zhi City but to first enter a village or town to disguise their identities and strive to blend in as local cultivators.

But upon discovering this situation, Sun Ning discussed it briefly, then immediately piloted the Wan Li You Long to accelerate high in the sky, flying in the direction of the warships.

They were high up overlooking, their vision was broad, and the Wan Li You Long was fast. After flying ahead, they immediately made a discovery.

This section of the river surface had large pieces of boat wreckage and many corpses of Ci Gu Jiao.

Not a few of the Ci Gu Jiao were as big as war elephants and emitted Foundation Building level aura.

Most eye-catching was a Ci Gu Jiao with its belly up, floating on the river water. To be precise, it was a corpse.

This crocodile corpse had numerous wounds, and blood had already flowed into the river water.

It was very huge, two or three times larger than the warships dispatched by the ghost race village.

Clearly, this was a fierce battle between humans and beasts.

The result of the fierce battle should be mutual suffering.

Ning Zhuo found some remaining cultivators panting on one side of the river bank, while also trying to rescue their companions who had fallen into the river.

Quite a few Ci Gu Jiao were gnawing on the corpses in the river water, regardless of whether they were enemy or friend.

"Little Zhuo, good opportunity!" Sun Lingtong suddenly said.

"Old Big, you mean..." Ning Zhuo had a complete tacit understanding with Sun Lingtong and immediately understood the latter's meaning.

They would go ahead to rescue the main group and fall into the river.

The Wan Li You Long was very small. Among the cultivators in the field, none were at the Gold Core level, so they couldn't detect it.

Many corpses were sinking and floating in the river water. Sun Ning selected two bodies with not too obvious injuries and relatively ordinary clothing, and took the two corpses into the mechanism You Long.

Sun Lingtong immediately started inside the ship cabin, according to the appearance of the two bodies, cast the Qie Qu Technique, applying it to himself and Ning Zhuo.

A moment later, Ning Zhuo became a yellow-faced, pockmarked human race youth, while Sun Lingtong turned into a sturdy, short ghost race.

The two drilled out of the Wan Li You Long. Ning Zhuo pretended to faint, while Sun Lingtong hugged his waist, pretending to be a struggling survivor, and was quickly discovered by people.

"There's a ghost race person over there."

"That youth is Jiao family's third son, Jiao Ma!"

The survivors cooperated to save Jiao Ma (Ning Zhuo) and the ghost race person (Sun Lingtong) to shore.

Ning Zhuo still closed his eyes, pretending to faint, while Sun Lingtong lay on the ground and dry vomited, spitting out large mouthfuls of river water.

Enthusiastic cultivators came forward, checked their injuries, and then patted Sun Lingtong's back: "Your injuries are very light, good luck, big life!"

Someone made a move on Ning Zhuo to wake him: "Pockmarked, Pockmarked, wake up quickly."

Ning Zhuo's face was patted painfully. He only pretended to wake up. His expression was dazed, his gaze scattered, his lips moved a few times, but he couldn't even speak.

"Not bad acting skills." Sun Lingtong glanced out of the corner of his eye, praising his little brother in his heart.

Not so.

Ning Zhuo had been cultivated by Sun Lingtong since he was young. In order to disguise himself, he had put in a lot of effort. Even Meng Yan and others were deceived by him. Deceiving these village cultivators was naturally a piece of cake.

Sun Lingtong's Qie Qu Technique also greatly increased in power due to the evil god bone marrow. Thus, various factors allowed Sun Ning to successfully muddle through.

With Ning Zhuo's identity as Jiao Ma, quite a few people recognized him and inquired about his well-being.

While Sun Lingtong played the short-legged ghost race, no one asked.

In short, the surrounding cultivators quickly accepted them, without the slightest suspicion.

Not long after, three warships sailed here and rescued them.

The leader was a Gold Core level cultivator, a ghost race, with an ugly face: "This section of the river has always been safe, how did such a large group of Ci Gu Jiao suddenly appear?"

He sent people to investigate but found nothing.

The Gold Core ghost race leader personally questioned the survivors, including Ning Zhuo and Sun Lingtong, but also couldn't find any valuable clues.

Instead, when questioning Ning Zhuo, this leader personally made a move, cast a healing spell on Ning Zhuo, and even offered a few words of comfort.

Ning Zhuo immediately keenly realized that his relationship with this Gold Core ghost race seemed not shallow.

He first took the initiative to ask a question, then suggested returning to the village to make plans.

The Gold Core ghost race stared at him, detecting the difference in Ning Zhuo's tone from usual, yet not suspecting much, but shook his head with a serious expression.

He walked a few steps, stood on a rock, looked around, and announced: "Your trip was to send a marriage to Bai Zhi City, but you were ambushed halfway."

"Although we haven't found any clues, this situation has repeatedly occurred in various villages in the previous period."

"We cannot go back, we always have to go to Bai Zhi City."

"This time, I will personally lead the team and take you all to continue the journey!"

His prestige was quite high, and he was the only Gold Core cultivator present. Under his command, no one refuted.

Sun Ning exchanged glances without a trace, both a little disappointed.

"Sending a marriage? Sending what marriage? Is this village forming a marriage alliance with other forces? Is that why it suffered a strong enemy interception?" Ning Zhuo doubted.

Sun Lingtong also found it strange: "I didn't see a bride either?"

"This doesn't concern us. Or should we find an opportunity later to secretly leave here?" Ning Zhuo suggested.

Sun Lingtong nodded slightly: "That's also okay."

Sun Ning secretly discussed using their divine sense, while outwardly obeying the crowd and stepping onto the warships.

"Jiao Ma child, come here." The Gold Core ghost race leader beckoned to Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo, full of curiosity, walked to the front of the Gold Core ghost race.

The Gold Core leader took out a treasure material and handed it to Ning Zhuo: "You risked your life to pick a Gui Mian Rong fruit for my little daughter. It's a pity you were chosen and have to become the male concubine of the Bai Zhi City Lord."

"Alas, our village is too small, how can we possibly disobey the command of Bai Zhi City?"

"You and my little daughter have no shared fate, just let it be. This is a Gold Core level Ci Gu Jiao's stomach bag. I have already refined it for you."

"Afterward, you only need to escape your soul and drill into it, endure the corrosion, then recover, and your soul's toughness will greatly increase."

Ning Zhuo was surprised, not expecting himself to be the person for the marriage. For a time, he was speechless: "This..."

The Gold Core leader patted his shoulder: "Don't think about returning to the village, and even less about escaping midway. Just sit by my side from now on, and I will guide you, allowing you to cultivate using the crocodile bag."

Ning Zhuo was quite speechless, just like that, he was guarded by the leader's side.

According to his ability, he couldn't secretly slip away; he had to borrow Sun Lingtong's Qie Qu Technique.

Alas, Sun Lingtong found it amusing and was already laughing inwardly: "Little Zhuo, your luck is really good. Let's just rush over like this. No need to go to other villages to create a fake identity."

If Sun Lingtong was unwilling to cooperate, Ning Zhuo could force him, and even this Gold Core cultivator wouldn't be able to stop him.

But Sun Lingtong understood him extremely well and immediately persuaded: "This identity you have, although accidentally obtained, should be very valuable."

"Look, you didn't do anything, just picked up a Gold Core level crocodile bag."

"There's also the Bai Zhi City Lord, who is a Nascent Soul level existence. She definitely won't mistreat her male concubine, right?"

"Little Zhuo, your cultivation method doesn't prohibit leaking Yuan Yang. Dual cultivation can also greatly help your cultivation."

"Think about it, a Nascent Soul level female cultivator dual cultivating with you."

This made Ning Zhuo ponder: "Although that's true..."

Sun Lingtong continued: "Of course, we also have to see how the dual cultivation specifically happens. If it's harmful and not beneficial to us, then we'll just leave. We have the Wan Li You Long in hand, after all."

"Moreover, even if we don't dual cultivate, just this identity should allow us to gain quite a few benefits."

Ning Zhuo was gradually persuaded by Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong transmitted his divine sense, laughing softly: "Don't you feel this is very exciting?"

If it were the previous Ning Zhuo, he might have disagreed more.

But after experiencing the great war of Liang Yin Guo, Ning Zhuo personally witnessed Long Ye's sacrifice and saw countless people's blood splattered on the battlefield. In his heart, he gained much courage and heroic spirit.

Ning Zhuo finally secretly nodded: "This is indeed very possible, becoming an exciting adventure."

"According to what the Gold Core leader said earlier, many people were intercepted halfway. This indicates that a force is targeting the Bai Zhi City Lord."

"And it also indicates that the City Lord is widely collecting male concubines, and I am just one of them. This is precisely what can allow me to muddle through and fish in troubled waters!"

Sun Lingtong anticipated: "I also don't know if we can rely on this convenience to sneak into the City Lord Manor's treasury? Hehehe."

They still hoped to return to the village, blend in for a while, and strengthen their disguise, not expecting to get this layer of identity by mistake. Instead, they stumbled into something clever and had to rush to Bai Zhi City immediately.

"Sending a marriage? Sending what marriage? Is this village forming a marriage alliance with other forces? Is that why it suffered a strong enemy interception?" Ning Zhuo doubted.

Sun Lingtong also found it strange: "I didn't see a bride either?"

"This doesn't concern us. Or should we find an opportunity later to secretly leave here?" Ning Zhuo suggested.

Sun Lingtong nodded slightly: "That's also okay."

Sun Ning secretly discussed using their divine sense, while outwardly obeying the crowd and stepping onto the warships.

"Jiao Ma child, come here." The Gold Core ghost race leader beckoned to Ning Zhuo.

Ning Zhuo, full of curiosity, walked to the front of the Gold Core ghost race.

The Gold Core leader took out a treasure material and handed it to Ning Zhuo: "You risked your life to pick a Gui Mian Rong fruit for my little daughter. It's a pity you were chosen and have to become the male concubine of the Bai Zhi City Lord."

"Alas, our village is too small, how can we possibly disobey the command of Bai Zhi City?"

"You and my little daughter have no shared fate, just let it be. This is a Gold Core level Ci Gu Jiao's stomach bag. I have already refined it for you."

"Afterward, you only need to escape your soul and drill into it, endure the corrosion, then recover, and your soul's toughness will greatly increase."

Ning Zhuo was surprised, not expecting himself to be the person for the marriage. For a time, he was speechless: "This..."

The Gold Core leader patted his shoulder: "Don't think about returning to the village, and even less about escaping midway. Just sit by my side from now on, and I will guide you, allowing you to cultivate using the crocodile bag."

Ning Zhuo was quite speechless, just like that, he was guarded by the leader's side.

According to his ability, he couldn't secretly slip away; he had to borrow Sun Lingtong's Qie Qu Technique.

Alas, Sun Lingtong found it amusing and was already laughing inwardly: "Little Zhuo, your luck is really good. Let's just rush over like this. No need to go to other villages to create a fake identity."

If Sun Lingtong was unwilling to cooperate, Ning Zhuo could force him, and even this Gold Core cultivator wouldn't be able to stop him.

But Sun Lingtong understood him extremely well and immediately persuaded: "This identity you have, although accidentally obtained, should be very valuable."

"Look, you didn't do anything, just picked up a Gold Core level crocodile bag."

"There's also the Bai Zhi City Lord, who is a Nascent Soul level existence. She definitely won't mistreat her male concubine, right?"

"Little Zhuo, your cultivation method doesn't prohibit leaking Yuan Yang. Dual cultivation can also greatly help your cultivation."

"Think about it, a Nascent Soul level female cultivator dual cultivating with you."

This made Ning Zhuo ponder: "Although that's true..."

Sun Lingtong continued: "Of course, we also have to see how the dual cultivation specifically happens. If it's harmful and not beneficial to us, then we'll just leave. We have the Wan Li You Long in hand, after all."

"Moreover, even if we don't dual cultivate, just this identity should allow us to gain quite a few benefits."

Ning Zhuo was gradually persuaded by Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong transmitted his divine sense, laughing softly: "Don't you feel this is very exciting?"

If it were the previous Ning Zhuo, he might have disagreed more.

But after experiencing the great war of Liang Yin Guo, Ning Zhuo personally witnessed Long Ye's sacrifice and saw countless people's blood splattered on the battlefield. In his heart, he gained much courage and heroic spirit.

Ning Zhuo finally secretly nodded: "This is indeed very possible, becoming an exciting adventure."

"According to what the Gold Core leader said earlier, many people were intercepted halfway. This indicates that a force is targeting the Bai Zhi City Lord."

"And it also indicates that the City Lord is widely collecting male concubines, and I am just one of them. This is precisely what can allow me to muddle through and fish in troubled waters!"

Sun Lingtong anticipated: "I also don't know if we can rely on this convenience to sneak into the City Lord Manor's treasury? Hehehe."