Ate Too Much

"Her Majesty the Queen!"

The Snake-People Race's Great Elder cried out, his eyes filled with joy.

"Queen!"

The many experts of the Snake-People Race were equally exhilarated. Their entire race had come to provide aid precisely because they had received Queen Medusa's orders.

Xie Biyan's expression turned livid. After Su Yun had taken Medusa away, she had never appeared before anyone again.

He had assumed the injuries Medusa suffered during her evolution were so severe that she had yet to recover. He had not expected her to be completely healed already!

"Damn it! I should have realized it long ago. You're a Peak Sixth-grade Alchemist—of course you'd have a way to heal Medusa's injuries!

You kept Medusa from appearing on the main battlefield all this time because you were guarding against this move, weren't you?!"

Xie Biyan looked at Su Yun with icy eyes.

Su Yun smiled faintly. Poisonous fire surged in his hand, condensing into a butterfly.

"This Sect Master has always disdained using schemes and tricks, but against treacherous villains, I naturally have means of precaution.

Of the three nations' Dou Zong combatants, only you remain. Surrender now, and you may suffer a little less."

Xie Biyan's expression shifted uncertainly.

"Go!"

Su Yun flicked his finger, sending the jade-fire butterfly flying toward Xie Biyan.

Even when the three nations' Dou Zong combatants had joined forces, they had been no match for Su Yun. Now that Xie Biyan stood alone, the outcome was even less in doubt. Before long, he was forced into a disadvantage and could only struggle bitterly to hold on.

Meanwhile, with a Dou Zong expert like Medusa joining the Dou Emperor battlefield, she was like a tiger among sheep, slaughtering freely. The three nations' allied army suffered a devastating blow to its morale, and defeat was only a matter of time.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

After several exchanges, Xie Biyan was already at the end of his rope.

His body was hunched over as he panted violently. His black robe had become little more than tattered rags, green smoke rising from its edges. The exposed skin beneath was covered in scorch marks, while the most deadly sight was the purple-blue poison markings covering his body.

That was a sign that the poison had seeped into his bones and marrow!

"I never expected... that after using poison all my life, I would ultimately die from poison..."

Black blood seeped from Xie Biyan's wounds. He circulated his poison arts, only to discover that he could not refine the toxins within his body at all.

"This isn't ordinary poison, is it... There is only one kind of poison capable of completely nullifying my poison arts—the origin poison of the Woeful Poison Body!"

"You do have some discernment."

Su Yun's expression remained calm.

The fact that he possessed the Woeful Poison Body was considered confidential. The Mite'er Family had kept it tightly under wraps, and few within the Jia Ma Empire knew of it.

Su Yun had not deliberately concealed it, but neither had he intended to publicize it.

After all, whenever the Woeful Poison Body erupted throughout history, it would turn everything within a hundred miles into poisoned land, killing all humans and animals alike. Thus, the Woeful Poison Body had never enjoyed a good reputation on the Dou Qi Continent...

Had Xie Biyan not noticed it through his own abilities, he likely would have died believing Su Yun was merely an ordinary poison-element Dou Zong.

"Hahaha, no wonder... The Woeful Poison Body grows stronger by consuming poison. Even if we had not attacked today, you would have coveted the Chu Yun Empire's territory sooner or later!

This old man was not wrong to start this war! I was merely lacking in strength!"

Xie Biyan laughed maniacally.

Su Yun's robes fluttered violently in the wind as he could not help shaking his head.

Xie Biyan and Jia Xing Tian were the same kind of people—aged, old-fashioned... They valued their little patch of land above all else, always fearing that others would come to invade it.

Little did they know that Su Yun did not care for the land they regarded as treasure at all.

And compared to the aging of one's body, the decay of one's mindset was far more terrifying.

Such people possessed no desire to advance. They could never ascend to the pinnacle.

"Your Excellency, I am willing to return to my sect and have the Myriad Scorpion Sect seal itself off for a hundred years. Could that spare the Myriad Scorpion Sect?"

"Relics of a bygone era shouldn't be left behind to make fools of themselves... I'll return those words to you."

Xie Biyan roared, "Are you truly determined to wipe us out completely?!"

Su Yun answered with cold silence.

Xie Biyan seemed to make some sort of decision. "Fine! You forced my hand!"

Su Yun narrowed his eyes slightly.

Xie Biyan revealed a cruel smile and abandoned all resistance against the Woeful Poison Body's poison. The Dou Qi within him instantly boiled, and dense blood blisters emerged across his skin, making for a terrifying sight.

Once the blood blisters covered his entire body, they all exploded at once. At the same time, Xie Biyan gathered all his power into his palm and released a streak of pitch-black light!

Yet the target of that black light was not Su Yun, but Xiao Yi Xian, who was still fighting bloodily on the battlefield below!

"Not good!"

Hai Bodong and the others cried out in alarm.

They knew just how dearly Su Yun cherished Xiao Yi Xian. Even a Dou Zong expert like Medusa, capable of deciding the battle's outcome, had been ordered to remain hidden at her side.

If anything happened to Xiao Yi Xian, one could only imagine the fury Su Yun would fall into!

Medusa was equally startled. Her figure turned into an afterimage as she lunged toward Xiao Yi Xian, intending to intercept the black light!

However, it was already too late. This was Xie Biyan's final counterattack, poured out with all the Dou Qi in his body. It was as fast as the full-force escape technique of a high-level Dou Zong—there was simply no chance of intercepting it.

The black light flashed like lightning and silently entered Xiao Yi Xian's body. The instant it entered her, her mind grew hazy, her steps faltered, and she fainted on the spot.

"Hahaha... Your disciple is finished!"

Xie Biyan laughed madly. All the Dou Qi he had cultivated throughout his life had dissipated with that black-light strike, while the poison of misfortune rapidly consumed his body. His death was imminent.

"This is the Myriad Scorpion Sect's ultimate art, the Demonic Poisonous Pustule! Once this move enters the human body, it continuously releases deadly poison until the host dies from a poison outbreak!

The Demonic Poisonous Pustule condensed from this old man's lifetime of cultivation releases poison so potent that even a Seventh-Tier Magical Beast cannot withstand it!

Even if you are an ancient expert from a thousand years ago, you've never seen such a technique, have you?!

Hahaha, this is the history of the Dou Qi Continent over a thousand years, bastard!

Unless your disciple is also a Woeful Poison Body capable of turning poison into nourishment to raise her cultivation, just wait and watch her entire body rot away as she dies in agony! Hahaha..."

Xie Biyan's voice gradually weakened. At last, he drew his final breath, and his body fell from the sky toward the ground.

Yet after hearing his final words, Hai Bodong, Medusa, and the others all wore strange expressions, their prior tension dissipating.

Even Su Yun, who was usually cold and aloof to maintain his image, nearly failed to hold it together. The corner of his face twitched involuntarily.

Medusa gathered Xiao Yi Xian into her arms. Her crystalline jade feet stepped through the air, sending ripples spreading outward as she arrived at Su Yun's side.

"Based on what that old man said before he died, this girl should be fine... But why did she faint?"

Su Yun took her from Medusa, the girl's delicate body warm and soft in his arms like fine warm jade.

He swept Xiao Yi Xian's body with his Soul Power and said softly, "It's nothing. She just ate too much."

Medusa asked in confusion, "Ate too much?"

"Mm."

Hadn't she simply eaten too much? To the Woeful Poison Body, poison was an excellent tonic. The poison released by the Demonic Poisonous Pustule was Seventh-Tier poison, and it would greatly benefit even Su Yun.

But for Xiao Yi Xian's current cultivation, it was a little too much nourishment for her to handle.