Entering the marsh, Shang Xia discovered that that light couldn’t easily pierce through the thicket. The stench of something rotting quickly assaulted him and dense mist quickly clouded his vision. 

“Poison miasma?” Shang Xia frowned. Even though it couldn’t affect him at his current level, he knew that he would have to be ever more careful when venturing deeper into the marsh.

Well, the poison miasma was a form of heaven and earth qi anyway. Gathering enough of it would probably allow them to condense to form a complete strand of extermination origin, but there was no point trying to gather it. One would need to use a lot of time in order to gather the miasma and even more effort to refine the poison within. Only after a lengthy process of purification would they be able to obtain a strand of extermination origin.

There was no way Shang Xia would have the time to refine the poison from the miasma. Moreover, it didn’t seem as though the gourd would be able to do so.

The Spirit Extermination Gourd was able to store extermination qi and collect extermination origins, but it didn’t possess the capability of purification.

When he returned, he would probably report the presence of the marsh to the institution anyway. The institution would send several...