Adding Bricks and Mortar to Compete for the Inner Sect

Outside Venom Hall Valley of the Five Viscera Temple.

Fang Shu walked through the mountain hollows and soon found a hilltop.

In the faint sunlight, his heart stirred. A black and a white wisp of breath rose from his left and right hands, winding together in his palms and taking the shape of Yin-Yang fish, each no larger than a quail egg.

Looking closely, one could see two tiny insects nestled within the eyes of those Yin-Yang fish.

Fang Shu loosely pinched the thing in his hand, looked toward a desolate hilltop, and shouted inwardly, "Go!"

A surge of mana rose from his body. The Object-Driving Technique for flying weapons immediately settled upon the Yin-Yang Venom Worms clasped in his hands, sending them shooting toward a spot a hundred zhang away.

They landed precisely on a stone the size of a human head. Then a gray aura flecked with crimson rose from the stone, curling and shifting like flames.

In the blink of an eye, the stone itself was corroded away by the gray vapor. Even the bedrock beneath it was left with a huge crater.

At the sight of such power, delight appeared on Fang Shu's face. He hurried forward, and once he approached the gray aura, a shiver of terror rose at once from the depths of his soul.

His flesh reacted of its own accord, his blood raced, and distracting thoughts sprang up in wild profusion.

Fortunately, in the next instant, Fang Shu called the two venom worms out of the corroded stone pit and ordered them to separate.

The gray aura dispersed, returning to black and white breaths. Yet compared to before, their density had withered by far more than a little.

Fang Shu thought to himself, *Good thing they aren't dead. If I refine them