Ye Xiwen looked up and saw a burly man with a dark complexion, black-faced fangs, and a thoroughly detestable appearance.
A terrifying aura of poison coiled around the man's body. An ordinary Imperial Lord would die from catching even a trace of its scent, while even a Celestial Venerable would rot from head to toe after taking a single breath.
His entire body seemed to consist of only one character: the Poison character.
There were no other laws, nor any other fluctuations of divine abilities—only that single Poison character. Yet he had cultivated it to an unprecedented height and actually entered the realm of a Half-Step Chief Sovereign.
This showed that methods themselves held no inherent superiority or inferiority; only people did!
The power of any method ultimately depended on the strength of the person wielding it.
Ye Xiwen merely glanced at him, then closed his eyes again. He had no desire to say anything to him—or rather, he could not even be bothered.
This man had arrived not long ago. When he came, the Celestial Venerables below had also discussed him animatedly, allowing Ye Xiwen to learn his origins: Thousand Poison Oddity Lord, a Half-Step Chief Sovereign from the Poison Dao Era.
He was an ancient Half-Step Chief Sovereign who had attained the Dao during the Poison Dao Era.
However, his temperament was exceedingly strange, which was why he had earned the title Oddity Lord.
The Poison Dao Era itself was bizarre. It was an era filled everywhere with poisonous creatures. While that era still existed, even the Ancient Era rarely dared to invade it, for a single misstep could leave one poisoned. Terrifying toxic creatures and venomous insects filled every corner, while the air itself carried the stench of rotting poison. Ordinary living beings simply had no way