Chapter 1437: Chapter 1437: Red Powder Skull
"Even if your strength reaches the heavens today, you still won’t escape from the palm of my hand!"
As for Yun Xiao’s words, Lu Tianwen simply turned a deaf ear. He only knew that he had already broken through to the Heavenly Rank Intermediate in Poison Meridian Skill, and with that deadly poison he obtained from a certain existence, Yun Xiao could no longer stir up any waves.
Swish!
The next moment, a wisp of peculiar aura once again shot out from Lu Tianwen’s hand. This aura looked like a pink mist, yet also like a piece of thin red gauze, appearing extremely mysterious.
Immediately afterward, everyone clearly saw that the pink mist released from Lu Tianwen’s hand moved on its own in the windless sky, and very quickly transformed into a pink light screen that covered the heavens.
This pink light screen almost shrouded the entire stone platform, leaving the three people standing on it with nowhere to dodge. Of course, as the one who cast it, Lu Tianwen had no need to evade at all.
But in this way, Yun Xiao and Liu Hanyi had no way to maneuver or evade. That pink mist curtain enveloping the entire stone platform could only be avoided if they jumped down from the arena.
However, compared to the spectators below whose expressions changed, Liu Hanyi, as an Immortal Poison Body, could disregard any poison in the world, unless the opponent unleashed poison on the Holy Rank Level.
But it was obvious that the poison Lu Tianwen was using at this moment had not reached the heaven-defying Holy Rank Level, and was merely Heavenly Rank Intermediate. Therefore Liu Hanyi’s expression remained calm, her figure not moving in the slightest.
Yet in the next instant, the expressions on everyone’s faces turned somewhat horrified, because those pink mist curtains pressing down from the sky suddenly burst out with a peculiar power and produced a special reaction.
Chi! Chi! Chi!
One could see that in the air above the stone platform, as the pink mist curtain descended, even the air there seemed to be corroded at this moment, producing a strange and terrifying sound.
"What kind of poison is that? The toxicity is way too strong, isn’t it?"
Seeing this scene, even quite a few Heavenly Rank Low Level Poison Vein Masters showed horrified looks. Their feet quietly retreated several steps, as if afraid that this poison, which was currently only covering the stone platform, might suddenly spread and affect them.
And these Heavenly Rank Low Level Poison Vein Masters also understood in their hearts that this kind of poison capable of corroding even the air was something they absolutely could not resist.
Once it touched their bodies, they would probably turn into a puddle of pus and blood in an instant and die. In other words, at this moment, it seemed there was only one path left in front of Yun Xiao and Liu Hanyi.
Yet under the astonished gazes of the crowd, neither that coarse-clothed youth Yun Xiao nor the Sky Poison Institute’s Poison Meridian prodigy girl Liu Hanyi showed the slightest movement.
This scene made quite a few people thoughtful, secretly wondering if that pair of young man and woman on the arena truly had the confidence to withstand Lu Tianwen’s Heavenly Rank Intermediate poison.
What these spectators did not notice was that when Lu Tianwen cast that pink poisonous mist curtain, a strange cold light flashed in the depths of Yun Xiao’s eyes in that instant.
"Red Powder Skull—looks like this master and disciple pair from Douling Commerce really can’t cut their ties with that woman from Nine-layered Dragon Cloud!"
Because in that instant, Yun Xiao had recognized the origin of that pink mist curtain. This poison called "Red Powder Skull," in fact, just like the "Qin’s Enchanting Fragrance Dew" and "Heavenly Wave Soul Capture" he had seen that day, all belonged to a certain person in Nine-layered Dragon Cloud.
Or rather, it was a deadly poison painstakingly developed by that powerful clan. Even though Yun Xiao had already reincarnated, he still remembered some things from his previous life with exceptional clarity.
The so-called Red Powder Skull was an extremely formidable poison. The grade of this poison was not limited to Heavenly Rank Intermediate. Some Poison Vein Masters who had reached the Holy Rank could even use this poison to turn Cultivators of the Holy Rank Third Realm into bare skeletons in an instant.
The reason Yun Xiao was shocked in his heart was because, in his previous life as the Long Xiao Battle God, he had seen Red Powder Skull more than once in Nine-layered Dragon Cloud.
Although the Red Powder Skull that Lu Tianwen was using at this moment was far inferior to what Yun Xiao had seen in his previous life, he had reason to believe that this was undoubtedly the Red Powder Skull, a unique poison of the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud Lu Family.
Back on the small square that day, Yun Xiao had already seen those two Lu Family poisons unleashed by Xie Tianwan. He hadn’t expected that Lu Tianwen’s final trump card at this moment would again be connected to the Lu Family.
At this moment Yun Xiao truly felt a sigh in his heart, thinking that even though he had already reincarnated, that Nine-layered Dragon Cloud Lu Family and Lu Qinwan still clung to him like lingering ghosts.
From this, Yun Xiao could also deduce that even if this Douling Commerce had nothing to do with Nine-layered Dragon Cloud in the past, at the very least, they had definitely latched onto some big tree of Nine-layered Dragon Cloud now.
Even if that existence was not Lu Qinwan, they were certainly closely tied to her or the Lu Family. Since that was the case, new and old grudges surged up in Yun Xiao’s heart, and he developed a full killing intent toward this Lu Tianwen.
Originally, the two sides already bore an irreconcilable blood feud, and now he discovered that the other party was actually connected to the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud Lu Family. So long as it involved that woman, whether person or matter, Yun Xiao could never turn a blind eye.
With Yun Xiao’s current strength, it was naturally impossible for him to storm the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, drag out that pair of traitorous spouses and behead them in vengeance, but since they had already met at this moment, he would no longer show any mercy.
Although this Red Powder Skull’s virulence could be called top-tier even in the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, what Lu Tianwen was unleashing right now was without question not the Red Powder Skull’s strongest state, and it simply could not arouse the slightest fear in Yun Xiao.
He didn’t even bother to warn Liu Hanyi over there, because he knew that with Liu Hanyi’s special Immortal Poison Body constitution, at least this Heavenly Rank Intermediate venom could not harm her.
"Yun Xiao, just accept your fate. As long as you kneel and beg for mercy, perhaps I can consider sparing your dog life!"
These thoughts in Yun Xiao’s heart were naturally unknown to Lu Tianwen. He simply could not bear the sight of that youth remaining so calm and indifferent even with death at his doorstep. Gazing at the pink mist curtain filling the sky, he could not help feeling somewhat triumphant.
To tell the truth, even if Yun Xiao did not leap off the stone platform nor kneel and beg for mercy, Lu Tianwen still would not have dared to take his life. That existence’s command was something he did not dare violate in the slightest.
Yet in Lu Tianwen’s heart, Yun Xiao knew nothing of this. Under the threat of death, to humiliate him once more—this, to Lu Tianwen, was undoubtedly an immensely pleasurable act in both body and mind.
Any supremely stubborn person might, at the critical juncture of life and death, abandon that dignity they had always regarded as faith. In Lu Tianwen’s view, this young brat Yun Xiao would absolutely be no exception.
It was a pity Lu Tianwen had no idea that Yun Xiao had lived two lifetimes, his temperament long since tempered to be tougher than anyone’s. All the more when facing something related to his great enemies from his previous life, he would be even less likely to yield easily.
"Hmph, with just your Heavenly Rank Intermediate Red Powder Skull, what can you possibly do to me?"
At this moment, hearing Lu Tianwen’s smug threats, Yun Xiao finally stopped hiding his inner thoughts. As that clear shout left his mouth, the Vice President of the Spirit Fighting Commerce’s face could not help but change.
"How does he know this is the Red Powder Skull?"
Lu Tianwen had known nothing of Yun Xiao’s mental activity just now, but at this moment Yun Xiao directly calling out the Red Powder Skull’s name undoubtedly gave him a tremendous shock.
This was something specially bestowed upon him, Lu Tianwen, by that existence from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud. When he obtained this venom, even Lu Tianwen, who had just broken through to Heavenly Rank Intermediate, had never even heard of the name Red Powder Skull.
Only after that existence patiently explained did Lu Tianwen gain a slight understanding of the Red Powder Skull’s toxicity, yet as for the method of refining this venom and its origin, he remained utterly in the dark.
However, today was the very first time Lu Tianwen had unleashed the Red Powder Skull, and it had actually been called out in one breath by Yun Xiao. How could this not startle him? At this moment, a few fragments flashed like lightning through his mind.
That was the time at the small square, when Yun Xiao had forced answers out of him about the origin of Qin’s Enchanting Fragrance Dew and Heavenly Wave Soul Capture, and in the end, so as not to expose certain things, Lu Tianwen had no choice but to personally kill that treasured disciple Xie Tianwan.
Back then, those matters had seemed like nothing more than a whim on Yun Xiao’s part, but now Lu Tianwen could no longer think so. The things this brat knew appeared to far surpass his own.
"Could he also be connected to the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud?"
Once this notion arose, Lu Tianwen’s imagination immediately ran far. Especially when he recalled Yun Xiao’s forceful rise over these last few years, he felt this possibility even more likely.
If he hadn’t come from the higher Plane of the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, how could Yun Xiao, in merely three to four short years, ascend from an unknown nobody to the dazzling height of current fame sweeping the Continent?
At this moment Lu Tianwen had clearly forgotten that Yun Xiao had actually come from the Hidden Dragon Continent. Ever since Yun Xiao rose to fame, that segment of history beginning with the Countries Hidden Dragon Conference had spread like wildfire across the Tenglong Continent.
"Hmph, no matter what, you only possess Heaven Rank Low Level Poison Meridian Skill. So what if you’ve recognized the Red Powder Skull?"
Still, Lu Tianwen was at least a Vice President. After a brief shock, he no longer dwelt on it, because at this moment he was already like an arrow on the bowstring, with no choice but to release.
Endless pink mist descended from the sky, and in the blink of an eye had already wrapped the entire stone platform within. At this moment, all eyes were fixated firmly on Yun Xiao.
They all wanted to see whether this youth, who had displayed such astonishing brilliance before, could once again turn defeat into victory under this kind of special Heavenly Rank Intermediate venom.
By comparison, Liu Hanyi, who likewise stood on the stone platform and was shrouded in the pink mist, was selectively ignored. They subconsciously regarded this as a battle between Lu Tianwen and Yun Xiao.
The endless pink light screen enveloped them, causing the three figures within to appear somewhat blurred. And beneath Lu Tianwen’s complacent expression, that coarse-clothed youth finally moved.
