Chapter 751: Poison (1/2)
“A holy king from the underworld?” A disquieting voice rang out from a corner of the void as a vivid streak of blue flashed across the sky.
“What was that?!” Alarmed, the holy king leaned slightly backward and snatched at the vivid shadow. His hand closed around a writhing snakeling that hissed furiously and suddenly twisted with a freakish motion, breaking its back to bite the hand that held it.
“Be careful, that’s nascent spirit poison!” Lu Yun quickly called out.
“Nascent spirit poison?” An unnatural blue flashed through Holy King Atrophy’s eyes and slowly crept into his hair and teeth. “Though the poison of a spirit snake is strong, I am immune to it. …you are a creature of the Blood Sea, no wonder…”
The light in the holy king’s eyes dimmed. “There will only be two holy kings in the underworld upon my death… the underworld needs guardians… I sincerely beseech you to become a holy king and keep watch over the tombs of that world.”
Hiss hiss hiss.
Lu Yun didn’t have a chance to respond before the Spiriteater Demon Snake emerged out of the shadows. Its enormous head swung toward the holy king and sought to swallow him whole.
“Oh fuck OFF!!” Lu Yun roared and let loose with everything he had, punching straight at the snake’s head.
A brilliant ball of bloody light exploded from the snake king and unfolded in the air like it was a mini-Blood Sea, sending him flying backward with great force.
“So the Spiriteater Demon Snake is the creature from the Blood Sea!” Abrupt realization dawned on him. The two trails of footprints by the Blood Sea shores must have been misdirection. Holy King Atrophy wouldn’t have been unaware that a creature from those waters had made landfall, and indeed, he’d been on guard against them all along. If there was anything that could harm him in the world of immortals, it’d be something from those bloody depths.
Lu Yun and the holy king had both noticed the snake king’s existence early on, but ignored it since its nascent spirit poison couldn’t affect them. Instead, they’d focused their attentions on the smear of blood hidden in the void. Neither of them had expected that to be a diversion, and for the real threat to be the Spiriteater Demon Snake!
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“It’s said that one can obtain the underworld if one devours a holy king. With the fortification of the world that’s existed since the dawn of time, I’ll be able to break through my current limitations and reach the realm of the primeval human kings…”
Poisonous radiance of vivid blue shimmered around the snake king, marked by an undertone of bloody qi. Its maw yawned open once again as it slithered toward Holy King Atrophy.
In the air, countless rotting kun pulsed in anger and barreled down on the snake as if they’d gone mad. However, all of them shrieked in anguish as soon as they came in contact with the venomous light around the snake. They tumbled to the ground, never to move again.
So even the rotting kun couldn’t approach the Spiriteater Demon Snake.
“What an incredible nascent spirit poison!” Lu Yun rushed over again and waved his hand, popping a middle-aged man in long jade-green robes into existence. His hair and eyebrows were green, and even his pupils were green. Toxic green smoke discharged from all over his being.
The Poison Fiend!
One of Lu Yun’s Infernum, this was an ultimate entity of poison that Lü Guhong of Mist Land had refined. However, it’d gone to Su Xiaoxiao and Xingzi once they’d arrived on the scene. After being reworked by the two Yama Kings, the entity that was closer to a weapon spirit had evolved into a real life form.
After truly coming to life, the Poison Fiend began cultivating an exceedingly vicious poison method and was now a void-ascended immortal. Being a new immortal, he wasn’t all that strong yet, but the poison he possessed was absolutely terrifying and on a similar level to the snake king’s nascent spirit poison.