"Old Xiao, are you asking for trouble? Is your brain broken or something?"

After hearing Xiao Mu's intention, Du Wenzhen couldn't help but reach out to touch Xiao Mu's forehead, as if to check whether his brain was really broken.

"Cut the nonsense. Just come if I tell you to."

Xiao Mu swatted away Du Wenzhen's hand.

"Old Xiao, are you serious?" Du Wenzhen's expression was strange, still seemingly in disbelief.

"Nonsense!" Xiao Mu retorted impatiently.

This guy is really dawdling!

"Fine, this is your own doing. Just don't blame me if you get hurt," Du Wenzhen said decisively without further ado. He took out the Disease Gourd, aimed its mouth at Xiao Mu, and slapped the bottom of the gourd.

A stream of Black Gas shot out from the gourd like an arrow, hitting Xiao Mu directly.

Xiao Mu didn't dodge or avoid it, allowing the Black Gas to hit him.

His body immediately began to mutate, the Black Gas spreading from the impacted area. Soon, his entire body turned a purplish-black color as the disease spread from the surface to the inside, corroding his Five Organs and Six Entrails.

Xiao Mu didn't resist, closely sensing the changes after the Black Gas entered his body.

What he discovered was that the first thing to change was his body itself.

It was as if a Seed containing disease had been implanted within him, which began to germinate and take root, affecting his whole body.

Xiao Mu's body underwent a mutation, with the entirety of it affected, and his genes seemed to have been altered.

Disease started to emerge within him, his body weakened, and various symptoms quickly followed.

"So that's how it is."

Xiao Mu muttered to himself, vaguely feeling like he had captured some features of the Curse Technique from the Curse Gate.

Humm!

The Seal of the Heavenly Emperor within him vibrated, Emperor's Might emitted from within, starting to expel the disease from his body.

Xiao Mu's body was affected. Under the suppression of the Emperor's Might, the symptoms disappeared, and his body gradually returned to normal.

However, as soon as Xiao Mu released the Emperor's Might, the disease came back to his body once again.

"Old Xiao, what are you doing? Why does the disease appear and disappear in your body?" Du Wenzhen, watching from the side, was utterly baffled, casting a doubtful glance at his Disease Gourd, unable to fathom what Xiao Mu was up to.

The changes in Xiao Mu's body seemed odd to him. Could his Disease Gourd have become ineffective on Xiao Mu?

"So that's it."

Xiao Mu had an epiphany, and in an instant, he understood the principle behind the Curse Gate's Curse Technique.

It turned out that the essence of the Curse Technique from the Curse Gate was to implant a Seed of curse into an opponent's body, and by exploiting the germination of this Seed, to cause the opponent's body to mutate and eventually result in the effects of the curse.

"What do you mean 'So that's it'? Old Xiao, do you want to try it again?" Du Wenzhen scratched his head, shaking the Disease Gourd at Xiao Mu.

Xiao Mu's response only made him more confused.

"No need," Xiao Mu said, shaking his head slightly.

He had roughly guessed the principle behind the Curse Gate's Curse Technique; there was no need to experience it again personally.

Moreover, since the disease had infected his body, it wasn't suitable to directly experience the Curse Gate's Curse Technique again before he recovered.

"No wonder the Curse Technique from the Curse Gate is so hard to deal with. Once under its effect, the person's entire body undergoes a mutation."

"I must get my hands on the Five Elements Body Purging Technique as soon as possible."

Xiao Mu quietly pondered over the ways to obtain the Five Elements Body Purging Technique.

First and foremost, performing tasks and earning Merits was, undoubtedly, the first choice.

As long as one gained Merits, they could ask Wu Yan for help in applying for the Five Elements Body Purging Technique.

Besides this option, perhaps he could also try to negotiate to purchase the Five Elements Body Purging Technique from someone else.

However, the possibility of acquiring it this way was really slim, as the Alliance had cultivation restrictions on True Realm Secret Manuals; each person could only practice the Secret Manuals they obtained from the Alliance and couldn't transfer them to others.

"Do you know anyone who has the Five Elements Body Purging Technique?" Xiao Mu suddenly inquired of Du Wenzhen.

"The Five Elements Body Purging Technique? I've heard of that manual, but as for who has it, I have no idea. Old Xiao, why do you want that manual? It doesn't seem to have much fighting power, right? Just a trifle." Du Wenzhen thought for a moment, then shook his head. He didn't hold the Five Elements Body Purging Technique in high regard.

What's a trifle to others is not necessarily so to me.

Xiao Mu smiled but did not explain.

Indeed, the ordinary Five Elements Body Purging Technique was not particularly powerful and was insufficient to counteract the Curse Technique of the Curse Gate or the Life and Death Technique of the Life and Death Sect.

But in Xiao Mu's hands, after undergoing Mutation, things would be very different. Without claiming it could entirely resist the Curse Technique of the Curse Gate or the Life and Death Technique of the Life and Death Sect, it would at least be able to contend with them to a certain extent.

"Old Xiao, do you know some Secret?"

Seeing Xiao Mu's smile, Du Wenzhen became curious and eagerly inquired about the situation, his face lit with a smile, "With our brotherly relationship, Old Xiao, if there's any good news, you wouldn't keep even me in the dark, right?"

After looking at Du Wenzhen for a moment, Xiao Mu pondered for a while before deciding to reveal a bit of information to him, "I think the Five Elements Body Purging Technique can counteract the Curse Technique from the Curse Gate."

"Old Xiao, you must be joking," Du Wenzhen exclaimed at once. "That's just a worthless manual, useless. How could it possibly counteract a Curse Technique from the Curse Gate?"

"Besides, if it really could counteract the Curse Technique from the Curse Gate, so many people in the Alliance would have discovered it by now."

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