Chapter 153: Poison Fiend (1/2)

Instead of making his next move, Lü Guhong stood in front of Lu Yun. “Not bad. Your senses are decent and you blocked my attacks of swiftness. But I’ll kill you with my next move.”

Lu Yun quietly considered the youth, and also refrained from action. The monster spirit struck a lazy pose, weaknesses glaringly obvious in his stance. However, Lu Yun knew that if he made a move, the young man would fight back ferociously.

“Make your strongest move.” The governor nodded slowly. “Your attacks are impressive, but not enough to kill an august immortal.”

He’d acquired Aoxue’s talent through the Tome of Life and Death and sparred with her for years. At some unknown point, he’d become one of the best cultivators in the world of immortals.

Even then, he didn’t think he had the ability to kill an august immortal, nor did he think Guhong could, with the way he was fighting.

Lu Yun would put him at Wu Tulong and Dongfang Hao’s level, or slightly below them. If the monster spirit had managed to kill an august immortal, he must possess a special killing move like Lu Yun’s Judgement of Life or Death.

Countless immortals and cultivators had taken flight to watch the two of them fight from a distance. Wu Tulong, Dongfang Hao, Zi Chen, and Mo Qitian remained at the four corners of the battlefield, marking a circle roughly five kilometers in radius.

Bam!

An explosion sounded from Guhong’s body as a pillar of emerald light enveloped him. He seemed to be undergoing some changes in the light, which were accompanied by a faint fragrance wafting out of the pillar.

Is he going to reveal his true form? What is he?

Monster spirits transformed to human form to facilitate cultivation, but they were at their strongest in their original forms. If Lü Guhong had slain an august immortal, he must have done so in his original form.

“That’s.. a jiao, and a poisonous one at that!” [1] Lu Yun’s face clouded over. Now he recognized the fragrance.

Poison!

The characters of Lü Guhong’s name had suggested a true form of some avian creature, but he was actually an enormous crocodile!

Though they shared many traits and looked similar, these scaly beings were a completely different species from dragons. The strongest among them were no lesser than a dragon, and so-called scaled dragons were a crossbreed of the two races. Since dragons were the more dominant bloodline in that genealogy, scaled dragons called themselves dragons.

Lü Guhong was the venomous kind of crocodile!

Just as Lu Yun was recovering from his shock, a snarling green figure charged out of the beam of light and lunged at him, brandishing its claws.

A Poison Fiend!

By killing others with poison and incorporating the victims’ souls into it, a terrifying spirit would be born over time—a Poison Fiend!

Others might not be able to see the thing clearly, but Lu Yun could. This particular fiend had reached the immortal realm. Its poison could kill even a golden immortal, let alone an august immortal. Nerves made his hands clammy with sweat.

Whoosh!

His body burst into black flames. An immortal-realm Poison Fiend was too terrifying, even more so than the mutated poison in Qing Han’s body. Without hellfire, Lu Yun wouldn’t survive being in close proximity, let alone fighting it.

The poison in Qing Han’s body has been suppressed by the empress’ heritage, but not cured. Once the empress leaves, the poison will resurface and kill him.

Fusang Purewood is inside the Skandha Extinction Tomb and protected by the empress’ dread zombie, which means it’s unattainable. Qing Han won’t prolong his life with an origin sphere, so that leaves this Poison Fiend for cleansing his poison. Perfect!

Lu Yun’s eyes lit up.