Chapter 901: Everything is Ready

“Eldest Senior Brother, do you want to head to Heaven’s Edge Tower first? I’ll have them issue you a Heaven’s Edge Order. It’ll make things more convenient for you.”

“Sure, I know a bit about Heaven’s Edge Pavilion. Having a Heaven’s Edge Order would indeed be much more convenient. But Junior Brother, can you really just have them give me one so easily? I remember there being certain requirements.”

“You don’t need to worry about that, Senior Brother. Getting a Purple-level Heaven’s Edge Order won’t be a problem.”

“Purple-level?” Luo Yao gasped, his eyes widening as he stared at Xu Yang in disbelief.

Even though his junior brother was incredibly strong, how could he just casually make Heaven’s Edge Pavilion hand out a Purple-level Heaven’s Edge Order?

Purple-level was second only to the Dark Gold Layer. Only the top three on the Dragon and Tiger List were qualified to possess one.

Xu Yang offered a mysterious smile without explaining further, leading his eldest senior brother back. With matters here concluded, he needed to return and make his final preparations. They traveled all the way back to Celestial Sword City’s Heaven’s Edge Tower.

When Luo Yao learned that Xu Yang was the legendary Dragon and Tiger Venerable, he was shocked speechless. Staring at the Purple-level Heaven’s Edge Order casually handed to him, his mind went blank.

After making simple arrangements for Luo Yao, Xu Yang returned to his room to begin his final preparations.

Naturally, these final preparations involved the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm.

With a single thought, he entered the Little Immortal Realm once more. Upon arriving, Xu Yang immediately heard the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm cursing up a storm. Seeing this, Xu Yang smiled faintly.

“It seems you have made the right choice.”

“You little bastard, you finally dare to show your face!”

“Hmm?”

“Hehe, Master,” the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm let out an awkward, sheepish laugh. If he were a human cultivator, one could well imagine that his expression would be incredibly fawning.

“Your Primordial Spirit Seal.” Xu Yang didn’t waste any words, cutting straight to the point. With an entity like the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, he wouldn’t be able to rest easy unless he had a firm grip on its life.

“My Primordial Spirit Seal… I’m afraid you won’t be able to bear it, Master,” the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm said. If given a choice, simply submitting without handing over his Primordial Spirit Seal would naturally be the best outcome.

“Just hand it over,” Xu Yang demanded, a cold light glinting in his eyes.

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm’s heart skipped a beat. He cursed internally before letting out a heavy sigh. Since he had already chosen to submit, so be it. Following a being with a Twelfth-Grade Immortal Foundation was an honor in itself.

He let out a muffled groan and split off a Primordial Spirit Seal. It looked like a miniature, phantom image of the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm, shrunk down many times over.

As the seal drifted toward him, Xu Yang’s mind trembled. This Primordial Spirit Seal contained an unimaginably terrifying poison.

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm then explained, “Master, I am an Innate creature of the Poison Dao. Both my physical body and my Primordial Spirit are incredibly toxic. If a cultivator’s strength is insufficient, even the slightest touch from their Primordial Spirit will cause it to wither and die instantly.

“Although you can withstand Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood, Master, you should still be cautious.” He certainly didn’t want his own seal to accidentally kill Xu Yang.

Xu Yang nodded slightly. However, instead of immediately refining the seal, he left it suspended against the barrier of the Little Immortal Realm. With just a single thought, countless Heaven-Locking Divine Chains would erupt to tightly bind the seal. This way, he didn’t have to worry about the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm playing any tricks.

Only after doing all this did Xu Yang let the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm out.

He thought, “I need to get some treasures to enhance my Primordial Spirit from Heaven’s Edge Pavilion. And some sufficiently sturdy treasure flasks.” He quickly found Chen Yingchuan and stated his requests.

With the Starfall Immortal Ruins about to open, all factions were making their preparations. These requests were naturally nothing major. Chen Yingchuan forwarded the matter to Heaven’s Edge Pavilion, and in just two days, a pile of resources for enhancing the Primordial Spirit and treasure flasks were delivered.

Back in his room, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm stared with tiny, resentful eyes. “Master, there’s no need for me to bleed. When the time comes, I can just attack directly. That’s much more terrifying than just my poisonous blood.

“If I go all out, even an expert at the Golden Immortal Extreme Realm would suffer a huge loss if I took a bite out of them.”

“You should understand the Starfall Immortal Ruins better than I do, right?” Xu Yang countered. “Who knows what kind of dangers will appear? Using poisonous blood is safer.

“Don’t worry, I only need a few drops.”

He merely intended to use the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm’s poisonous blood as his strongest trump card. Hearing this, the silkworm obediently agreed.

One man and one silkworm busily tinkered with Jia Xiu’s corpse. Soon after, dozens of treasure flasks were filled with colorful, spine-chilling poisonous blood. When needed, throwing these flasks to detonate them would unleash the poisonous blood, causing even cultivators at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal to find themselves in a world of pain.

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm wriggled out of Jia Xiu’s corpse, looking slightly weakened, and spoke to Xu Yang as if claiming credit. “Master, it’s done.

“Hehehe, I’ve modified Jia Xiu’s corpse and even added a drop of my innate poison source. If you encounter any tough opponents, just throw it right at them. The blast radius can cover thousands of miles.

“Below the Golden Immortal Extreme Realm, unless they have a top-tier defensive treasure, no one will be able to escape.”

A sharp light gleamed in Xu Yang’s eyes, and he felt incredibly excited. Subduing the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm was indeed the smartest choice he had made. When it came to the Poison Dao, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm was a natural-born ancestor. Looking at Jia Xiu’s corpse, Xu Yang could already envision the chaotic scene that would unfold when he used it. He just had to wait and see who would be the unlucky ones.

“Well done,” Xu Yang praised, nodding in satisfaction. “I’m actually quite curious to see how terrifying you’ll be once you reach the Saint Immortal or Daluo Immortal level.”

The Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm instantly became thrilled. He had received his master’s praise, and the implication of the latter half of the sentence was obvious. His master intended to nurture him all the way to the Saint Immortal or even Daluo Immortal level!

Considering how young his master was and the heights he had already reached, that trash Poison Demon Jia Xiu had spent his entire life just to scrape by at the Late Stage of Golden Immortal. He truly lived up to the Twelfth-Grade Immortal Foundation.

By association, the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm felt that his own potential had practically reached the level of a cultivator’s Twelfth-Grade Immortal Foundation.

“Next up, everything is ready; all we need is the opportune moment.” Xu Yang narrowed his eyes, a formidable glint flashing within them.

In the days that followed, he cast aside all distracting thoughts and focused entirely on enhancing his Primordial Spirit. Finally, three days before the Starfall Immortal Ruins opened, he completely refined and took control of the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm’s seal.

Even with his Primordial Spirit enhanced, refining that single seal made him suffer several times more than he had from Jia Xiu’s poisonous blood. He finally understood why the Ten Thousand Poisonous Sacred Silkworm disdained Jia Xiu so much. The claim that Jia Xiu was unqualified to make him submit was not an exaggeration in the slightest.

Three days later.

Xu Yang appeared once again on Heaven’s Edge Pavilion’s Wind and Cloud Platform.

On the platform, Heaven’s Edge Pavilion’s expedition team had already assembled. The group consisted of members from the various Heaven’s Edge Towers as well as internal experts from Heaven’s Edge Pavilion. The weakest among them were at the Early Stage of Golden Immortal, while the strongest were at the Golden Immortal Extreme Realm.

Even experts at Cang Feng’s level would be entering the Starfall Immortal Ruins. However, once those at the Golden Immortal Extreme Realm stepped into the Starfall Immortal Ruins, they would not appear in the same realm as the others. Instead, they would be sent to the deepest layer of the ruins—a region that once served as a burial ground for terrifying Saint Immortals and still contained their lingering residual might.

In that place, even Golden Immortal Extreme Realm experts would perish if they were the slightest bit careless. Anyone below the Extreme Realm didn’t even have the qualifications to peek inside.

In total, there were nearly three hundred people present. The lineup could only be described as magnificent.

Xu Yang looked at the gathered crowd and secretly clicked his tongue. If Heaven’s Edge Pavilion’s forces were like this, one could well imagine the other factions. The expedition teams from the top-tier immortal sects were probably even more staggering. For this trip to the Starfall Immortal Ruins, it was safe to say that nearly half of all the experts from the Eastern Continent’s powerful factions were going.

“Move out!”

With Cang Feng’s command, everyone vanished atop the Teleportation Array.