Seeming to sense someone watching him, the man opened his eyes in puzzlement and followed the gaze toward Eastern Deity. Their eyes met in midair, and Eastern Deity immediately withdrew his gaze.
"Who is he? Someone who can make you so wary?"
It was Ye Lin's first time seeing Eastern Deity so wary of someone, and he could not help asking curiously.
Although Eastern Deity usually acted like a carefree rogue, from Ye Lin's observations, this fellow was anything but simple.
But... anyone who could cultivate to the True Immortal realm did not seem likely to be simple.
Except for certain utterly absurd specimens.
The Star River Cosmos was vast beyond measure, and its living beings were countless. With such an enormous base, having a few freaks was hardly anything strange.
"Him? The world calls him the Poison Venerable."
Eastern Deity explained quietly to Ye Lin. Only after seeing the man withdraw his gaze did he breathe a faint sigh of relief.
"Poison Venerable?"
"Yes. He was born in an utterly ordinary small world within an ordinary star system. The small world he lived in was incomparably mundane; the highest cultivators it could produce were only at the Spirit Transformation realm."
"He had originally been an ordinary child from a farming family. But later, by some unexplained twist, he obtained the legendary Poison Venerable inheritance. Yet the Poison Venerable inheritance was far too bloody and went against the harmony of heaven, so in the end, he merely committed it to memory and never intended to cultivate it."
"Just when he thought his life would pass by like that, disaster struck. His parents were falsely accused and beheaded by the local county magistrate."
"Upon hearing the news, the Poison Venerable, with his strength alone and his mere mortal body, forcibly crossed