573 Soul-silencing Star (2/2)
Zhou Bao's Infinite Poison Banner was a very handy celestial device that would get benefitted from that place. It grew very fast and became easier to use and more powerful as it absorbed more toxicity.
Thousands of years of exploration had proved that Soul-silencing Star contained a huge amount of toxicity. Once caught in, even a Lord of Heaven might be severely hurt, let alone an ordinary practitioner. The Alliance of 13 Realms once organized a group of Lord of Heavens with the Highest Heaven Celestial Device to break into the Soul-silencing Star and see if there were any treasures in that toxic star. However, they came back empty-handed. Moreover, the Highest Heaven Celestial Device they took broke down after not too long. After that, profiting from that star was no longer in the mind of anyone.
Of course, there were some exceptions: for people who were practicing with really toxic celestial devices or highly toxic cultivation methods, like Zhou Bao, Soul-silencing Star was the best place for it. However, there was something to take into consideration: people who dared to practice there ended up poisoned to death and their celestial devices destroyed.
After knowing that, no one dared to practice even near Soul-silencing Star for 100,000 years. That was also why it was surrounded by complete emptiness. On the Void Map, it was represented by a huge red dot.
”It is indeed a really weird planet!”
It was just an ordinary planet standing in the middle of the empty and hollow void and surrounded by crimson airflow, yet it made Zhou Bao frown now that he was in front of it.
Just as it was said in the legend, Soul-silencing Star was a planet made up of highly toxic gases. There was nothing except poison; no fragments of space or rules of time. Everything was hollow.
Zhou Bao squinted his eyes as he thought, ”It's impossible! It's totally impossible! Such strong poison could definitely fuse space, as well as my Infinite Poison Banner. But how do they still exist in the hollow? The space rampart is not strong but rather thin. I can destroy it with just one fist. The poison on this planet is several times stronger than that of my Infinite Poison Banner. How could everything stay so calm and not being corroded? There's something wrong here!” He shook his hand, and the light cyan Infinite Poison Banner unfolded again and flew toward Soul-silencing Star.
This time, his Infinite Poison Banner stretched to almost one thousand feet wide. But compared to the entire Soul-silencing Star, it was still too small, like a tiny drop of water against the vast ocean.
The cyan banner began to billow when approaching the toxic star. Zhou Bao steered it toward the livid smoke in the sky at full speed.
Boom!
When the Infinite Poison Banner threw itself toward the livid smoke, Zhou Bao, who was mind-linked with it, felt a bang on his head. He felt as he had become the Infinite Poison Banner, watching a large amount of poison gas surging toward it and then absorbing it.
”Hu, hu, hu, hu, hu—!” Thick livid gas was condensed into liquid and formed streams of venom, pouring into the Banner.
Infinite Poison Banner absorbed the poison wildly and began to glow as if it had swallowed some tonic. Three talismans gradually appeared, rolling and changing as if they were alive.
Images of ancient times were timidly starting to appear on the three talismans: wild beasts, spiritual creatures, and even fierce beasts vividly showed in the flame of the talisman formation. Some eccentric creatures seemed to have become alive and they began to jump as if trying to rush out and become real living creatures.
Only one of those strange creatures seemed familiar to Zhou Bao. He searched in his mind and realized that it was the poisonous beast that the Poisonous Dragon Emperor in the antiquity times used for pulling carriages. There were thousands of them glimmering in the flame of the talisman formation. It was one of the most inferior creatures. Other weird ones were out of his imagination, but judging from their shapes, actions, and expressions Zhou Bao understood that they were of superior intelligence and high toxicity.
”Hiss!” while he was lost in his mind, Zhou Bao sensed a sudden pause of the venom absorption by his Infinite Poison Banner followed by a sudden pain in his head. A strong feeling of repletion, together with powerful energy, filled his body. The talisman formation on the Infinite Poison Banner sparkled with ecstasy while digesting the energy. However, it had reached its limit and could not take any more in. Zhou Bao knew that if this continued, the Infinite Poison Banner would explode and the poison released would probably hurt him.
”I'd better stop now. Anyway, I've already benefited enough!” Zhou Bao let out a soft sign and folded the still glittering Infinite Poison Banner. He looked at it and smiled bitterly. Three talismans on the banner showed a sign of infusion. Once the three talismans fused together to form an immortal character and after a laborious and hard process, it would become a fairy weapon.
Fairy weapon was totally different from pure Yang celestial device. His Infinite Poison Banner, in terms of both material and refining technique, was still far from a fairy weapon.