Chapter 898 - 896: Temptation

Chapter 898: Chapter 896: Temptation

Since there were countless poisons here, and he would inevitably have to come into personal contact with them when refining poison formulas later on, testing the limits of his endurance beforehand was absolutely necessary.

Furthermore, this action was specifically directed at the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm. It was meant for him to see. If Xu Yang wanted the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm to acknowledge him as his master, he had to make him feel shock and fear. Being able to withstand Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood, combined with so many astonishing methods, meant that Xu Yang wouldn’t have to fear the venom of the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm either.

Trapping him here would sooner or later drive him to despair. Whether or not Xu Yang was qualified to be his master wasn’t up to the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm to decide.

As Jia Xiu’s blood floated before him, an indescribable wave of foulness and corrosive power rushed at his face. Xu Yang instantly felt his skin twitch as the vitality within his flesh and blood was severely affected. His face flushed with alternating shades of green and red, and even the flow of his Immortal Essence became sluggish.

"Impressive indeed," Xu Yang murmured.

"Hmph, now you know fear," the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm scoffed. "Although Jia Xiu hadn’t truly mastered the Physique of Ten Thousand Poisons back then, his poisonous blood is still beyond your imagination. Boy, you’d better not regret it. Swallow it!"

Despite the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm’s continuous provocations, Xu Yang merely shot him a cold glance and, without a shred of hesitation, swallowed the drop of blood in one gulp. He immediately sat cross-legged in the void.

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm froze.

"Hiss, he actually swallowed it? Is this boy really not afraid of death?"

He was in complete disbelief. As the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, evolved from a Six-winged Dead Immortal Silkworm, his innate intelligence was incredibly high. Coupled with the many years he had spent committing atrocities alongside Jia Xiu, to be frank, he was far more experienced than the average cultivator. Yet at this moment, he was utterly dumbfounded.

Because there was absolutely no need for Xu Yang to do this! He had already trapped him here with no way out, so what was the point of swallowing Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood? It wasn’t like Xu Yang was cultivating the Physique of Ten Thousand Poisons.

In fact, any normal person would steer clear of the Scripture of Ten Thousand Poisons and the Physique of Ten Thousand Poisons upon seeing them, let alone actually attempt to cultivate them. They simply weren’t meant for human cultivation.

BOOM!

SPURT!

Xu Yang’s face became a mottled, shifting mix of sickly green and black. He convulsed violently, as if countless terrifying bugs were writhing beneath his skin. He first spewed a mouthful of foul blood, and then blood began to seep from his facial orifices. The pain pushed him to the brink of collapse, making for a chilling sight.

He clenched his teeth, enduring the agony with all his might. His Flawless Purifying Physique had been pushed to its absolute limits, yet it still struggled to suppress the terrifying might of Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood. The power of purification could no longer keep up with the corrosion of the toxic blood.

But Xu Yang showed no signs of fear or retreat.

He gritted his teeth and endured, mobilizing his Immortal Essence into a surging, mighty torrent. Waves of Immortal Essence collapsed and disintegrated before the toxic blood. However, if there was one thing Xu Yang didn’t lack, it was Immortal Essence. Boundless and vast, its total volume was practically equal to that of seven or eight genuine cultivators at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal combined.

Wave after wave, layer after layer, it rushed forward endlessly.

As time passed, the skin all over his body began to rot. His flesh decayed, presenting a ghastly sight. Yet deep down, a sense of joy began to well up within Xu Yang.

Just as his Immortal Essence was nearly depleted, his Purifying Physique finally began to fight back. The speed of purification gradually caught up and slowly surpassed the rate of corrosion. Next, the foul corruption affecting him began to diminish at a slow pace. The decaying flesh and the aura of rotting death gradually halted, initiating a process of recovery.

"How is this possible?" When the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm sensed this, his beady green eyes widened so much they nearly tore his eye sockets apart. He was even more horrified than he would have been seeing Jia Xiu resurrected.

He could clearly sense that Xu Yang had never dabbled in the Dao of Poison. The power emanating from his body had absolutely nothing to do with poison. With a cultivation base merely at the Early Stage of Golden Immortal, he had actually withstood the corrosion of Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood?

What a sick joke!

"Impossible. This is absolutely impossible," the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm muttered, constantly trying to console himself. "It’s an illusion. I’ve slumbered for so many years that I’m actually hallucinating."

Half an hour later.

BOOM!

A flawless yet domineering aura erupted from Xu Yang, sweeping through the void. Although it wasn’t comparable to his initial peak state, and he even appeared quite weak, at this moment, he had obliterated eighty to ninety percent of the power within Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood, leaving behind only a faint trace.

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm was left dumbfounded. He couldn’t utter a single word.

"Illusion my ass!" he thought, feeling like he was about to lose his mind. "This Saint is going mad!"

A moment later.

Xu Yang shakily stood up, a lingering sense of dread washing over him. A mere drop of poisonous blood had pushed his Purifying Physique to the brink of collapse. Had it not been for his massive and potent reserves of Immortal Essence to burn through, he truly would have met his end. This offered a clear glimpse into the terrifying might of Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood. One could only imagine the potency of the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm’s venom.

However, Xu Yang had already demonstrated terrifying potential. By keeping the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm trapped here, it would take him a few months at most to elevate himself to a point where he could withstand its venomous power.

However, the process had been excruciatingly painful. It was an experience one would never wish to endure a second time.

"Do you still think I’m not qualified to control you?" Xu Yang stared at the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, a cold smile playing on his lips.

Flustered and exasperated, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm snapped viciously, "Wishful thinking! If this Saint says you’re not qualified, then you’re not qualified!"

"Fine. Then you can head down."

SWISH!

The Minor Immortal Realm abruptly split open. The Heaven-Locking Divine Chain coiled around the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, dragging it straight down into the fissure.

"You little bastard!

"This Saint will fight you until the bitter end!

"If you have the guts, let me out! I’ll definitely make you wish you were dead!

"Ahhhh!!!"

The furious roars echoed throughout the Minor Immortal Realm. But very quickly, when he saw the mountain-like piles of corpses and the vast, lingering Evil Qi, his bravado vanished in an instant, and he began to tremble uncontrollably.

"It’s too ancient," the silkworm muttered. "Even the corpse of the peak Sacred Immortal that I crawled out from back then is nowhere near as ancient as this place. Just how many years has it been? Hiss, these corpses are exactly what I need to nourish myself."

GULP!

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm swallowed hard, but in the very next moment, he didn’t dare to take a single step forward. The invisible deterrence was simply too terrifying.

It was nothing to Xu Yang; he was the master of the Minor Immortal Realm. Furthermore, he had long since controlled the ancient Evil Qi here, and had even withstood the impact of the ancient remnant wills on a mental level. But to an outsider, and especially to the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, it felt like directly confronting the deterrence of countless powerhouses at the Sacred Immortal and Daluo Immortal levels.

"Damn it, what am I afraid of?" he grumbled to himself. "In the future, I will be an existence capable of suppressing Daluo Immortals! I am the one-in-a-million Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm! Charge!"

As his low growl faded, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm nudged himself forward. Then, shivering violently, he collapsed limply to the ground.

"That little bastard definitely did this on purpose."

Xu Yang was watching all of this from the shadows. The corpses here were extremely ancient. They had absolutely no residual power left, and it could be said that they were completely worthless. But for the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, they still offered significant help. That kind of ancient Evil Qi, along with the faint remnant wills, could stimulate his metamorphosis. After all, these corpses belonged to beings that were unimaginably powerful in life.

Watching the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm shivering under the residual might of the corpses, Xu Yang smiled faintly. "This is only the first step. Next comes the greatest temptation. I’d like to see if you can resist."

With that said, Xu Yang’s figure blurred, appearing in the sky above the Minor Immortal Realm, looking down condescendingly at the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm.

The latter was still trembling and muttering to himself, with terms like "little bastard" popping up from time to time. Suddenly, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm paused and slowly raised his head. Upon seeing Xu Yang, he immediately glared at him in anger.

"You little bastard, let me out right now!"

"It seems you still haven’t realized your situation," Xu Yang said calmly. "Without my permission, you will never leave this place. Even if one day you muster the courage to devour these corpses and grow stronger, it will be of no use."

As his words fell, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm instantly fell silent. Yet, he truly could not accept the fate of being controlled.

At that moment, a resplendent immortal light began to radiate from Xu Yang’s body.

"What is he going to do?" the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm wondered, staring at Xu Yang warily.