Chapter 235 - Black Shell Pill

Chapter 235 - Black Shell Pill

A fierce confrontation was imminent, and Liu Wuxie dared not underestimate the situation. The demise of the twenty-odd individuals did not guarantee an easy victory over Jiang Yue.

Liu Wuxie raised the Heretic Blade with a boundless blade aura gushing out. A terrifying aura accumulated above Liu Wuxie’s head, manifesting into a dracophant, letting out a roar.

A boundless pressure descended, making Jiang Yue feel uneasy. The four companions in the eighth level of the Marrow Cleansing Realm were on the verge of collapsing, their eyes filled with disbelief.

“Strike!” Jiang Yue could wait no longer. His confidence had already begun to falter, a cardinal sin for cultivators. His sword transformed into sparks, flickering in the darkness and emitting green flames as it lunged towards Liu Wuxie.

“Shatter!” With a swing of the Heretic Blade, the sweeping green flames detonated under the blade aura.

“This is nothing compared to my flame!” Liu Wuxie shattered Jiang Yue’s attack and advanced rather than retreating. The most significant threat was not Jiang Yue, but those dispatched by Prince Yongxian.

They might not be comparable to Jiang Yue in terms of cultivation, but Liu Wuxie felt more threatened by them instead of Jiang Yue.

A surge of blazing energy erupted from all three hundred and sixty-five acupoints of Liu Wuxie, causing the surroundings to crystallize in a freeze. This resulted in a noticeable slowdown in Jiang Yue’s speed, his face reflecting the change.

Some kind of power had frozen space, and this was unbelievable. If one cultivated to a high level, they could control and create space, and also manipulate rules of time.

Shortly after, towering flames descended from the sky, catching Jiang Yue by surprise and enveloping him. Those weren’t ordinary flames but demonic flames from the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

“ARGGGHHH!” Jiang Yue screamed out in pain as he was enveloped in the demonic flame that couldn’t be extinguished.

Seeing this, the four experts sent by Prince Yongxian exchanged a look before taking out a black pill and swallowing it.

Liu Wuxie narrowed his eyes when he saw the black pill, and his expression became grave.

“The Black Shell Pill!” The pills they swallowed were the Black Shell Pills. Could it be that they were killing machines nurtured with Black Shell Pills? But they didn’t seem like it because they still had their rationale.

Jiang Yue continued to scream in agony as his body progressively shriveled, its energy being siphoned and consumed by the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron.

A sinister black mist began to rise from the feet of the remaining four, who inhaled deeply, drawing the mist into themselves. A horrifying transformation ensued as their faces contorted and scales, akin to those of fish, surfaced on their bodies, particularly their arms.

Once enveloped in these fish-like scales, they resembled beings clad in a thick, impenetrable armor, impervious to common weaponry. What was even more alarming was the surge in their cultivation levels, reaching the zenith of the Marrow Cleansing Realm.

While Liu Wuxie could handle Jiang Yue, dealing with these four posed a significant challenge. Fôll0w current novÊls on n/o/(v)/3l/b((in).(co/m)

The four let out a deep, beast-like roar as they lumbered towards Liu Wuxie with heavy steps. Discarding the blades they held, they drew black longspears from their interspatial pouches.

“Abyssal spears!” Liu Wuxie frowned. The spears they were wielding contained a dense abyssal aura, and he wondered how many unorthodox people Prince Yongxian conspired with.

In the True Martial Continent, the abyssal race existed alongside the human race. Their bodies housed a formidable abyssal aura, and they sustained themselves by feasting on human blood.

The demon race was incredibly powerful, standing twice the height of humans, making them formidable opponents even at the same cultivation level. Most notably, the demon race possessed a robust physique, nearly immune to ordinary weapons.

After stabilizing themselves, the four experts charged forward, throwing their spears at Liu Wuxie.

Liu Wuxie knew that he had to find their weaknesses to kill them. They wouldn’t die even with their limbs severed; they could carry on fighting tirelessly until their opponents were exhausted and killed.

Executing the Seven Dipper Steps, Liu Wuxie disappeared, causing the four spears to embed themselves into the ground.

The four experts continued to charge forward, shrinking the space for Liu Wuxie to maneuver.

When Liu Wuxie executed the Ghost Eye, his divine sense flowed into their bodies like mercury, and he was deeply shocked by what he saw.

Their internal organs and meridians were injected with large amounts of poison, and the poison could harden their bodies to an incredible degree when they circulated their true essence.

This was the most brutal method of puppet refinement Liu Wuxie had seen. This required hollowing someone’s body and injecting a large amount of materials. This ensured that they looked like ordinary people on the outside, and no one could distinguish them.

The Black Shell Pill contained high toxicity. Consuming one per month resulted in a high accumulation of poison in their bodies.

Liu Wuxie’s divine sense flowed like liquid mercury, tracing the path of the poison to uncover their weakness. Every puppet had its vulnerabilities, which, if identified, could be exploited for an easy kill.

He dodged the incoming attacks while searching for their weaknesses. This placed him in a dangerous position, and there were multiple occasions when the abyssal spears nearly stabbed him.

Ultimately, his divine sense halted three inches below the neck of one of the experts. The flow of poison seemed to slow down at this point.

“There’s really a weakness!” Liu Wuxie executed the Seven Dipper Steps to dodge the fifth wave of attack and appeared behind one of the experts, swinging the Heretic Blade down.

His blade struck three inches below the neck like a lightning bolt. A bizarre scene occurred as a fine slit appeared with black poison gushing out of the wound.

“RWARRR!” The expert struck by Liu Wuxie let out a furious howl, which sounded like a desperate cry before death.

Liu Wuxie retreated as poison fell onto the ground, emitting a hissing sound as rocks swiftly corroded. In the blink of an eye, a basin-sized rock vanished.

The poison was too corrosive, and it would be disastrous if it were splashed onto the human body.

The roar lasted for three breaths before the expert collapsed. The remaining three looked like they had lost their rationale and pounced at Liu Wuxie. They even threw away their abyssal spear and resorted to tackling by pouncing at Liu Wuxie’s waist.

“You three are courting death!” Liu Wuxie snorted and soared to the sky like a celestial crane, splitting into three afterimages and pouncing at the three of them.

The three afterimages resembled three shooting stars, colliding with the three adversaries. The blade’s ray hit the same spot, causing black poison to spurt from the back of their necks.

The poison quickly dispersed like a fog, causing all life in the vicinity to wilt. It wasn’t long before the entire canyon transformed into a barren wasteland.

“I’m lucky that only four were sent tonight!” Liu Wuxie couldn’t imagine the consequences if Prince Yongxian had sent a troop of these killing machines after him. If that were the case, he would undoubtedly have met his end that night.

The moment he stabilized himself, the Sky Devouring Divine Cauldron flew out of his dantian and appeared above the four corpses. What happened next nearly caused Liu Wuxie’s eyeballs to fall out.