Yesterday's third bonus chapter: Chapter 2513! 3/4!
(I've been exhausted lately. Mom gets discharged tomorrow, so things should ease up a lot.)
Normally, it would not be so quick to pass the trial of Sixth Mountain, guarded by Eastern Plague God Zhou Xin.
Though it was a trial set by the Plague God of the poison path, the simple tests of poison theory had already ended in the first five mountains. Facing the upcoming trials of the Four Directional Plague Gods, having sufficient mastery over poison alone was far from enough to pass smoothly.
Wu Meier's performance alone showed just how difficult it was to endure within the Qing Sound Grand Formation set up by Zhou Xin and the Forty Plague Witches.
From what Xu Kun had learned, Zhou Xin, before Attaining Dao and Becoming God, had once enjoyed a moment of glory during the Investiture of the Gods War. When Lü Yue led his four disciples to attack Western Qi City and challenged the city outside its gates, Jinzha, the eldest of the Three Zhas, left the city to fight. Before they had exchanged more than a few moves, Zhou Xin brought out his magic artifact, the Headache Chime, and struck it several times. Jinzha's face immediately turned pale as gold paper. Swaying, he cried, "It hurts me to death!" before fleeing back into the city.
Using sound to control poison, using sound to conceal poison—Zhou Xin had clearly carved out a broad path of his own along the Great Dao of poison. Rather than requiring sufficiently profound attainments in the poison path, passing this trial depended most critically on one's growth in the soul path!
The soul path could branch out and bind countless other paths. Poisons of the flesh were easy to cure; one simply prescribed