Poison Immortal Cai Di

On the surface, Chen Xiao wore the disguise of a great wastrel. No matter what he did, no one would think too deeply about it. Chen Xiao picking a fight with an old man running a roadside stall today merely seemed like the brat had nothing better to do.

Besides, Chen Xiao had done no shortage of such things before.

But Chen Xiao had not expected Nangong Wenxing to suddenly appear at this moment. Although the Flowing Light Flying Moon Talisman was already in his hands, this old man was also immensely useful. He absolutely could not let the Nangong Family snatch him away again.

In his previous life, this old man had later been recruited by the Nangong Family. Chen Xiao's two older brothers, Chen Yuan and Chen Lan, had both died by this old man's hand.

This time, Chen Xiao had maliciously used Nangong Wenxing's reputation to provoke her, drawing out the maid at her side. He then spouted brazen words about the Nangong Family's sinister schemes, thoroughly shocking Nangong Wenxing before taking the chance to leave.

Nangong Wenxing was a core member of the Nangong Family. Her cultivation had long since reached the Golden Core Realm, and she was involved in some of the family's affairs. Naturally, she knew about the plot against the Chen Clan.

But she had never expected this wastrel to blurt out such a thing. Nangong Wenxing had already been thrown into turmoil by Chen Xiao's provocation, and after his righteous roar, she was immediately stunned.

By the time Nangong Wenxing came back to her senses, Chen Xiao, Mengmeng, Liu San, and the old man had long since vanished without a trace.

After thinking it over, Nangong Wenxing realized that the wastrel had merely been shooting his mouth off. How could a useless good-for-nothing, accomplished in neither letters nor martial arts, possibly see through her family's plans?

Inside Chen Xiao's small courtyard at the City Lord's Mansion.

Liu San threw the old man to the ground.

"You old fool, you actually dared to come to Moon-Gazing City and swindle people! You're simply courting death! Good thing our Third Young Master had eyes like blazing torches and saw through you. Now that things have come to this, what else do you have to say?"

Liu San spoke with righteous indignation, then looked at Chen Xiao with a fawning expression.

Chen Xiao ignored him. With a wave of his hand, he sent Liu San away.

Although Liu San was clever, skilled at reading expressions and adapting to circumstances, he was unfortunately a fence-sitter. He was fine for running errands, but Chen Xiao could never take him in as a confidant. At the slightest unfavorable rumor, this fellow would definitely be the first to jump out and sell him out.

Only after Liu San had left did Chen Xiao look at the nearly disheveled old man.

Mengmeng stood behind Chen Xiao, her divine sense tightly locked onto the old man. Since Chen Xiao valued him so highly, this old man surely possessed something extraordinary.

Mengmeng had now decided that Chen Xiao had previously endured humiliation and borne heavy burdens, presenting himself as a wastrel while quietly hiding his brilliance and biding his time.

But Mengmeng thought far too highly of Chen Xiao. Was this any way to hide one's brilliance and bide one's time? As the son of a city lord in the Immortal World and a descendant of a cultivation family, he had reached only the Qi Refining Third Layer at sixteen. What kind of hiding one's brilliance was that?

If this brat had not been reincarnated, he would probably still be muddleheaded and clueless.

"Cai Di True Person, hello."

Chen Xiao looked at the shabby old man crouching and trembling on the ground, revealing a broad smile.

The old man's body jolted when he heard Chen Xiao's words, and terror involuntarily appeared on his face.

"Cai Di True Person? He is Poison Immortal Cai Di True Person?"

Mengmeng behind Chen Xiao stared at him in disbelief, her face full of doubt.

Poison Immortal Cai Di was famous among the cultivators of Glazed Heaven, and even among immortals. The title Poison Immortal did not mean that he was an immortal, but rather... that he had poisoned an immortal to death.

Cai Di True Person himself possessed only Body Integration Realm cultivation, yet with his unfathomable mastery of poison arts, he had poisoned a true immortal to death. From then on, the name Poison Immortal spread throughout Glazed Heaven. Of course, Cai Di's reputation was not particularly good. After poisoning that immortal, he had drawn the fear and even extermination attempts of countless cultivators and immortals. Had he not always kept a low profile, never showing his mountains or waters, he would likely have long since been ground to ashes.

Only much later in his previous life did Chen Xiao learn that the shabby old man he had once bullied at will was the renowned Poison Immortal Cai Di.

Back then, Cai Di had joined the Nangong Family in a fit of rage to avenge the humiliation Chen Xiao, that wastrel, had inflicted on him. He became a great weapon in the Nangong Family's slaughter of the Chen Clan, and Chen Xiao's two older brothers had been directly poisoned to death by him.

Of course, what had happened in his previous life was caused by Chen Xiao offending someone himself, so the other party's revenge was only natural. In this life, however, it seemed that none of it had happened yet, and there was no great enmity between them.

"You... how do you know me?"

Cai Di's body trembled. He raised his head without denying it. At present, because of the problems with the cultivation art he practiced, he had lost all his cultivation. Yet this notorious wastrel had called out his name right in front of him. Was there any point in denying it?

Moreover, judging by what had happened today, this Chen Xiao had clearly come for him.

"Cai Di True Person could be considered the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect's sole inheritor. You cultivate the Ten Thousand Poisons Ascension Art of the Ten Thousand Poisons Immortal Sect. Let me think... what flaws does this cultivation art have?"

Chen Xiao did not answer Cai Di's question and instead began musing to himself. "Ah, I remember now. The Ten Thousand Poisons Ascension Art is an exceedingly domineering poison art. Every sixty years, cultivators of this art lose all their cultivation for three years and become ordinary people. After ascending to immortality, they become ordinary people for ten years every five hundred years... Is that right?"

Chen Xiao smiled at Cai Di.

"You... you..."

When Cai Di heard Chen Xiao reveal his greatest secret, he was so frightened that his entire body shook. This was his fatal weakness. If it were ever publicized, Poison Immortal Cai Di would truly die without even a whole corpse left behind.

"Ah, looks like I was right."

With a flick of one hand, Chen Xiao snapped open the gold-edged folding fan. He gave himself several ostentatious fanning strokes.

"Who exactly are you?"

Cai Di could no longer endure it. He forcibly tried to stand, but Miaomiao moved, and a vast surge of magical power pressed him back down.

"Who am I? This young master is Chen Xiao, the Third Young Master of Moon-Gazing City's City Lord."

Chen Xiao said, swaying his head back and forth.

"May I ask why Third Young Master brought this venerable one here?" Cai Di looked at Chen Xiao's manner and thought carefully of the usual temperament of this Third Young Master Chen.

No matter what, he could not believe that the person before him was Chen Xiao, the famous useless wastrel of Moon-Gazing City.

"Very simple. I want you to work for me and become my subordinate. That is all."

Chen Xiao snapped his fan shut with a clap and looked at Cai Di with great seriousness.

"Then kill me."

Cai Di raised his head and spoke with unwavering resolve. What kind of person was Poison Immortal Cai Di? Back then, in a dispute over loyalty, he had risked his life and directly poisoned an immortal who had angered him to death. How could he now become the subordinate of a mere child at the Qi Refining Third Layer? Compared to that, he would rather die.

"So you refuse?"

Chen Xiao tilted his head as he looked at Cai Di.

"Hmph."

Cai Di snorted coldly and said nothing.

"Hmm, apart from the poison backlash of the Ten Thousand Poisons Ascension Art every sixty years, which Devoured one's cultivation, you should also suffer three months of Ten Thousand Poisons Body Devouring every year, right?" Seeing that Cai Di ignored him, Chen Xiao spoke to himself.

"So what if I do?"

Cai Di was greatly shaken by Chen Xiao's words. This was a tremendous secret of the Ten Thousand Poisons Ascension Art. Apart from the people of the already-extinct Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, it should have been impossible for anyone else in the Immortal World to know it.

"Since this young master knows these things, I naturally have a way to resolve them."