Chapter 288: Chapter 207: The Path of the Fake Pill Dao (3)
The sickly dark aura on his face had long since vanished. His breathing was steady and deep—not a single trace of poison remained.
"You... you’re not dead?" Miao Hongrui’s expression changed drastically.
HUM!
Before the words even left her lips, a brilliant flash of sword light flared to life.
Blood Talisman: Breaking Gold!
Blood Talisman: Divine Blade!
Foundation Establishment Swordsmanship: Bone-Piercing Nether Spring!
All three sword techniques were unleashed at once.
"No..." Xiong Hanshan wailed.
Two large heads flew high into the air. Xiong Hanshan and Miao Hongrui died with their eyes wide in disbelief.
"My two fellow Daoists, it seems I am the finch who was waiting in the wings."
Qin Xuan brushed the dust from his robes, a subtle smile playing on his lips.
Deep within the Cave Mansion, the stench of blood still lingered.
Qin Xuan glanced at their two grotesque half-demon corpses, pondering for a moment.
’Whatever. I’ll toss them into the Reverse Scale Space for now. Who knows what kind of poison I’d absorb if I drained them now. It’ll be more convenient to refine them into puppets later.’
Having made his decision, Qin Xuan cheerfully looted their Storage Pouches and all their Magical Treasures, tossing everything into the Reverse Scale Space.
Once he had finished, his gaze fell upon the nearby demon corpse of the Red Blood Centipede.
’The *Blood Poison Plague Scripture* can refine the Essence of Ten Thousand Poisons for my own use,’ he thought. ’This Purple Mansion Peak centipede demon corpse contains a vast amount of Wood Attribute Poison Element—the perfect fuel for my breakthrough.’
Qin Xuan sat down cross-legged, his hands forming a seal.
A blood-red light coiled around him, faintly forming an illusory furnace that enveloped the centipede’s demon corpse.
Wisps of crimson and green Demon Power essence were forcibly extracted and absorbed into Qin Xuan’s body.
As time went on, the Demon Power of the Fake Pill Realm beast, violent and suffused with the resentment it held in life, relentlessly battered his meridians and Purple Mansion.
Qin Xuan guarded his mind, circulating the secret technique of the *Blood Poison Plague Scripture*. Like a sailor navigating a raging storm, he ground down and refined this foreign power bit by bit.
The barrier of the Purple Mansion Fourth Level began to loosen under the impact of the surging Demon Power. The Magical Power within him rushed like a great river, continuously expanding and solidifying.
An unknown amount of time passed before a low hum suddenly echoed through the quiet chamber.
BOOM!
Qin Xuan’s aura exploded outward. Intertwining blood-red light and poisonous miasma corroded the ground, leaving it pitted and scarred.
He opened his eyes, a sharp glint flashing within them for an instant before vanishing.
’Purple Mansion Fifth Level. A success.’
Feeling his Demonic Essence nearly double and his control over Poison Power grow far more refined, a look of delight appeared on Qin Xuan’s face.
He did not rise immediately, instead continuing to stabilize his new Realm while carefully contemplating the mysteries of the *Five Poison True Understanding*.
As his Realm advanced, his perception of the Five Poison Qi Mechanism grew ever more acute.
His Divine Thought spread out, effortlessly detecting the subtle shifts in the Qi Mechanism of the surrounding space.
’Wait a minute. The Red Blood Centipede is Wood Attribute, and the Five Poison Toad is Water Attribute.’
’Water nourishes wood, but stagnant water can also rot it... In the place where their residual Poison Elements intertwine and cancel each other out, the flow of Demon Qi seems to be pulled, distorted?’
At that thought, Qin Xuan followed the almost imperceptible anomaly in the Qi Mechanism to a rock wall in a corner of the Cave Mansion.
The spot looked no different from its surroundings; even a sweep with his Divine Sense could hardly discern anything amiss.
But when Qin Xuan used the methods of the *Five Poison True Understanding* to simulate a mixed Poison Element and gently touched the wall, the surface of the rock wall rippled like the surface of a pond where a stone has been cast.
The camouflage faded away, revealing a narrow fissure.
Within the fissure was a secret niche, no more than ten feet wide. It was empty save for a stone platform in the center.
On the platform rested a palm-sized, rust-flecked, dark Iron Order.
The Iron Order had a primitive, ancient design. Its surface was a dull, dark color, and it was engraved with several indecipherable, ancient Demon Runes.
’Such dense Demon Qi! It hasn’t scattered even after a thousand years!’ Qin Xuan was astonished.
He carefully picked up the Iron Order, noticing rows of faint, unusual Demon Runes engraved in its center.
When he probed it with his Divine Thought, a stream of information flowed into his mind.
[Five Poison Coagulation Pill Chapter - Fragment]
"I am Qingming, of the Fallen Demon Sect. My fall was a matter of time and fate."
"I have lived a free and untrammeled life, and I have no regrets. However, I cannot bear to see my legacy scatter into nothingness. Thus, I leave behind this secret technique, a unique path to forging a ’Fake Pill’."
"Whoever obtains my legacy, be they from the Demon Sect or the Righteous Dao, may cultivate this art."
"I have only one wish: that a successor will carry my legacy forward to glory and not tarnish my name!"
—Cyan Nether Demon Monarch, Li Qingchan
