Myriad Poisons Palace.
Sect Master Yin Jiuyou sat at the head of the table, his face shrouded in a light poisonous mist. He was thin and wore a dark green robe with black trim. His eyes were deep and unfathomable. He held a bone staff made from the spine of a poisonous dragon, and his aura was cold and silent.
At Yin Jiuyou's lower position, on both sides, the high-ranking members of the Myriad Poisons Sect gathered together. Most of them were rare Dharma Realm cultivators from the outside world, but there were also a few whose cultivation was only at the Golden Core stage. These were the true disciples of the Myriad Poisons Sect, whose treatment was comparable to that of elders, whose status was slightly lower, but still higher than that of protectors, and who were Gelie the highest meeting.
"I wonder why my senior brother has summoned us here? I have a poisonous insect that is still in the training stage..."
A hoarse voice echoed.
The speaker was an old woman, hunched over, her face covered with scars from insect bites, one eye cloudy like a candle flame, the other gleaming with an eerie green light, and her body adorned with various insect jars and poison sacs.
This person is named Granny Gu, the Grand Elder of the Myriad Poisons Sect. Her cultivation is almost on par with the sect leader Yin Jiuyou. She has an eccentric personality, loves insects, and spends most of her time deep in the Thousand Insects Grotto. She is an important Intimidation force for the Myriad Poisons Sect.
"Why is the Grand Elder in such a hurry? Can't you even wait a little while?"
Before Yin Jiuyou could speak, the other person eagerly chimed in.
Compared to the bizarrely-looking Granny Gu, this one appears much more normal.
She wore a simple long robe, her hair was neatly combed, her face was stern and serious, her eyes were sharp as an eagle, and she exuded a faint medicinal fragrance. Although her face was old, judging from the contours of her face, she must have been an absolute beauty in her youth.
Her name Granny Yao, and she was the master of poisons in the Myriad Poisons Sect. She was skilled at extracting all kinds of poisons from minerals, plants, animals, and even rare poisons from heaven and earth. The number of spiritual cultivators in the Dharma Realm who died from her poisons was no less than five, and her reputation was illustrious.
Not only Granny Yao skilled in refining poisons, but she was also adept at making elixirs, making her a true master alchemist. This is the origin of her title; after all, if she were only skilled in refining poisons, she should be called Poison Granny.
'Those two are at it again!'
As soon as Granny Yao spoke, the other high-ranking Myriad Poisons Sect twitched their eyelids and muttered to themselves.
Due to factional and ideological conflicts, Granny Gu and Granny Yao are openly and secretly competing with each other, each trying to prove that their path is superior, while also vying for resources.
Over time, they even started verbally arguing with each other, and arguing was inevitable when they were in the same room. This had become a regular part of the Myriad Poisons Sect's highest-level meetings.
It would be truly strange if the two of them stopped arguing when they met.
As expected, when Granny Yao spoke, Granny Gu raised an eyebrow and was about to retort, but was stopped by Sect Leader Yin Jiuyou.
"I called you here not to argue. There is an opportunity, which is of immense value even to our Myriad Poisons Sect, right before us." Yin Jiuyou's deep gaze swept across the faces of the high-ranking officials below.
The high-ranking officials exchanged bewildered glances.
"Opportunity?"
How could they not know?
"The incident happened suddenly; the news came from the Azure Wood Sect," Yin Jiuyou said calmly.
"Azure Wood Sect?"
"Oh, I remember now, isn't this a county sect under the jurisdiction of Nan'an Prefecture? How come, Senior Brother Sect Leader, the opportunity you mentioned this time is related to the Azure Wood Sect?"
"Looks like another minor sect has stumbled upon a great opportunity. Heh, let me go, wipe them out, and seize the opportunity!"
A middle-aged man with a resolute and cold face, and a hideous poisonous scar running across his left cheek, suddenly stood up. His bulging muscles faintly gleamed with a bluish-black sheen.
"Li Wushe, sit down! You're hundreds of years old, and you're still making such a fuss. What kind of behavior is this?!"
Yin Jiuyou's eye twitched, and he coldly shouted, sounding quite weary.
The elders under his command were all eccentric and unruly, none of them were easy to deal with.
Take this Dharma Protector Elder Li Wushe for example. He's a complete battle maniac, all muscle in his head, with a fiery temper that explodes at the slightest provocation. He's caused a lot of trouble over the years.
If this brute hadn't been so powerful and a loyal follower, Yin Jiuyou would have loved to lock him up.
Seeing that the sect leader seemed genuinely angry, the elders below all quieted down. Yin Jiuyou sighed and tossed out more than a dozen jade slips.
"Here is a detailed report from the Azure Wood Sect. Please take a look."
The elders each accepted the jade slip, their divine senses entering the slip. Soon, powerful auras began to ripple, clearly indicating they were quite shocked.
"Innate Lifeform?!" Granny Gu rasped, her pupils seemingly filled with a swarm of insects hissing.
"Born only a month ago, yet already possessing the cultivation of the Dharma Realm? Can the Middle Chiliocosm truly nurture beings of such a rank?" Li Wushe asked, frowning. Although he was reckless, he was not stupid; otherwise, he would not have been able to cultivate to the Dharma Realm level.
"Didn't the jade slip say that a divine war took place in the Azure Wood Mountain Range ten thousand years ago? The place where divine blood fell gave birth to this Innate Azure Lotus... This is a top-quality medicinal material..." Granny Yao's tone was extremely excited. For a medicine fanatic like her, the allure of an Innate Azure Lotus was simply unimaginable.
"Hmph, you believe everything the jade slip says? Who knows what happened ten thousand years ago? Back then, our Myriad Poisons Sect was just a small sect, so there's probably no record of it left behind," Granny Gu retorted immediately, a response born of habit.
Yin Jiuyou shook his head. "I have already checked the ancient books left by the Five Poisons Cult Sect. This matter is true. Ten thousand years ago, there were indeed gods who descended to the mortal realm and started a great war. The Green Wood Azure Wood Mountain Range did not exist before, but appeared after that divine war. It is said that the aftershocks of the battle caused the earth to undulate and rise, and the earth dragon turned over, which then created the Azure Wood Mountain Range that stretches for tens of thousands of miles."
"Hiss..."
Upon hearing Yin Jiuyou's words, the elders couldn't help but gasp. Even as top-tier cultivators of the Dharma Realm Mingguang Realm, they couldn't imagine the terrifying scene of a ten-thousand-mile mountain range being created by the mere aftershocks of a battle.
"This is the true supreme powerhouse, the pursuit of all of us!" Li Wushe's eyes burned with intense passion, and behind him, the faint phantom images of two giant axes flickered.
"Master, what do you suggest we do?" A voice came from a poisonous man whose skin was mottled and bizarre, making him unrecognizable. Chains were wrapped around his body, seemingly sealing something.
As soon as he finished speaking, everyone's eyes turned to Yin Jiuyou.
The latter slowly stood up. "According to Perfected Qingmu, that Innate Lifeform is heading towards the Azure Wood Sect, seemingly intending to destroy it. We must rush over immediately and capture it in one fell swoop, giving the other five sects no time to react."
"Yes, sir!"
The elders exchanged glances and responded in unison.
Rumble!
The Myriad Poisons Palace trembled and rose from the ground, transforming into a streak of dark blue light that pierced the sky and flew rapidly towards the northwest.
at the same time.
On the other side.
Logo sat cross-legged on the blue lotus, while the Qingfeng carried the Azure Lotus Platform, walking slowly through the air.
Bai Yunzi, standing to the side, was quite puzzled. "Since you're going to destroy the Azure Wood Sect, you should get there quickly. Speed is of the essence in war. If the Azure Wood Sect has time to prepare and activate their sect's resources, it won't be so easy to take them down."
"Foundation? What foundation?" Logo sat still, his voice calm and gentle.
"Naturally, it's the sect's protective formation and its treasured artifact, nurtured with Incense Votive Power vows." Bai Yunzi hurriedly explained to Logo, "With its fixed defense, the formation can withstand enemies of higher realms by utilizing the terrain and spiritual veins. As for the sect's treasured artifact, over the long years, it has absorbed the Incense Votive Power, making its power far surpass that of other treasures of the same level. Legend the treasured artifacts of the Six Sects of Mingguang have even advanced to the level of Spirit Treasure, possessing earth-shattering power. We must not be careless!"
"The Incense Votive Power..."
Logo squinted slightly; he didn't care about the so-called protective formation of the sect.
Essentially, the array formations of this realm are the same as the Rune Array of the Astral Realm.
The former uses Spirit Pattern to form arrays, while the latter uses runes to form arrays. They have many things in common. With Logo's mastery of runes, he doesn't even need the Eye of Insight to see through any array flaws below the God Level at a glance.
The Azure Wood Sect is only at the county-level, and its protective formation is at most at the Epic level, Logo doesn't take seriously at all.
What truly matters to him is the Incense Votive Power.
This is what this world refers to as the Power of Faith.
The Power of Faith has the power to turn the rotten into the miraculous. More importantly, Logo was surprised to find that the Power of Faith in this world was exceptionally pure, and impurities seemed to be easily eliminated. It even evolved into "incense money," one of the three major currencies.
With a thought, a copper coin, round on the outside and square on the inside, appeared in Logo's palm.
A faint scent of incense lingered on the copper coin, giving it a somewhat sacred appearance.
"Gold, silver, and copper coins—this is the currency system formed by the Incense Votive Power of this world, divided into these three levels, with an exchange rate of approximately one hundred to one."
A flood of information welled up in my mind.
Logo then took out ninety-nine incense coins, and with a clasp of his hands, the hundred incense coins transformed into a single silver coin of equal weight in a faint light.
"The so-called gold, silver, and bronze are merely symbolic representations; in reality, the Incense Votive Power have no concrete form..."
"These are secondary; they're merely differences in the concentration of incense offerings. The key lies in the purity of this incense, this Power of Faith... It's too pure!"
"Before Purification the Eternal Blazing Sun, the Power of Faith in the Divine Realm is far less pure than the Incense Votive Power in this realm."
Why is that?
"Methods for collecting Power of Faith? No, the methods for collecting incense offerings in this realm are not much more advanced than those in the Astral Realm."
"Differences in the structure of living beings? Soul or body... Hmm, it's hard to say, it requires further investigation."
"Perhaps there are other possibilities."
"But regardless, if the Incense Votive Power of other realms in the Mortal Realm, the Divine Realm, and the Saint Realm were all like this, the value of this realm would probably shock the entire Astral Realm, including those high and mighty Eternal!"
"This time, we really made the right choice!"
Logo gripped the incense money tightly in his hand, his eyes burning with determination.