Chapter 1438: Chapter 1438: I’ll Leave You a Whole Corpse!
At this moment on the stone platform, Yun Xiao’s face held a hint of gloom, perhaps because he recalled the past of the Red Powder Skull, or maybe for some other reason.
In any case, in the next instant, he suddenly extended his right hand towards the pink mist. In fact, the pink mist had already descended upon him at this moment, making this action seem utterly meaningless.
But what happened next not only left the spectators below dumbfounded but also caused Lu Tianwen’s face to dramatically change on the stone platform, as he seemed to entirely fail to comprehend what had just happened.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Only to see a special energy wave erupting from Yun Xiao’s right palm, as if a gentle breeze had passed, then a small blood-red vortex appeared in front of his palm.
This small blood-red vortex seemed to possess an extraordinarily strong devouring power, continuously rotating and slowly making the pink poisonous energy vanish at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The air on the stone platform was still corroded by the Red Powder Skull’s poison, crackling, but it seemed to pose no threat to Yun Xiao.
The pink mist that fell on Yun Xiao seemed not to affect even the corner of his clothing but was instead devoured in a very strange manner by the blood-red vortex in his palm.
"This is impossible, this is... the Red Powder Skull!"
Compared to others, Lu Tianwen could not accept the result of this moment. If the Red Powder Skull was something he refined himself, perhaps he would feel a bit better, especially since he had just broken through to a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Poison Vein Master.
But the Red Powder Skull was given to him by that person from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud. He had tried the power of this Heavenly Rank Intermediate poison before, and it was much more powerful than those so-called Heavenly Rank Intermediate poisons on the Tenglong Continent.
Since obtaining this Heavenly Rank Intermediate poison, Lu Tianwen specifically sought out an old enemy from decades ago and ultimately directly poisoned him to death, turning him into a skeleton.
One must know that Lu Tianwen’s old enemy had, after years of cultivation, broken through to the same Floating Life Realm Peak, but that time Lu Tianwen didn’t even use his Meridian Qi Cultivation, he only used the Red Powder Skull to poison him to death.
Thus, Lu Tianwen had an extremely profound understanding of the Red Powder Skull’s power. He believed that perhaps only the elusive Lu Yanji on the entire Tenglong Continent could slightly contend against it.
As for Yun Xiao, although the boy’s previous performance was indeed astonishing, Lu Tianwen’s confidence in the Red Powder Skull was unparalleled. He believed that once the poison was released, Yun Xiao could no longer escape his grasp.
Who knew the other party not only instantly recognized the essence of the Red Powder Skull but also employed an unknown means at this moment to devour its poison completely.
As the one who deployed the Red Powder Skull, Lu Tianwen could clearly sense the pink mist slowly dissipating, while the young man who devoured so much poison into his body seemed entirely unaffected.
This was completely contrary to Lu Tianwen’s earlier thoughts. He thought that even if Yun Xiao had some resistance to poison, at most he could persist a little longer within the Red Powder Skull.
However, now, the young man simply extended his right hand, simply used a certain aura to form a devouring vortex, and broke through his Heavenly Rank Intermediate poison. How could Lu Tianwen accept this?
Even if Lu Tianwen had more powerful cards up his sleeve, it was no longer the Meridian Refining Conference’s Poison Vein competition. His idea to defeat Yun Xiao openly and justly on the Poison Vein Path had undoubtedly failed.
As an authentic Heavenly Rank Intermediate Poison Vein Master, even with a more important task this time, Lu Tianwen wanted to win this championship in the Poison Vein Path first.
After breaking through his Meridian Qi Cultivation to the early stage of the Lingyun Realm, and the Power of Soul to the Heavenly Rank Intermediate, Lu Tianwen once believed Yun Xiao could no longer stir up any trouble.
Who would have thought, Yun Xiao didn’t make any noise, but once he moved, it was like a Divine Dragon sweeping its tail, causing a monstrous wave that nearly capsized Lu Tianwen’s ship.
At this moment, Lu Tianwen finally realized he had underestimated the young man, who was just over twenty. He knew this time he lost, lost without suspense.
But Lu Tianwen felt suffocated inwardly. After hundreds of years of diligent cultivation, risking the danger of going insane, he finally broke through to the Heavenly Rank Intermediate Meridian Refiner level with external help.
How come all these endless arduous cultivation efforts seemed to have refined him into a fool, while hundreds of years of hard work couldn’t compare to a technique a young man cultivated for merely ten or twenty years?
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Yun Xiao didn’t have that many thoughts. If the other party had used some other Heavenly Rank Intermediate poison, he might have needed more time to dissolve it, possibly even needing help from Little Dragon.
But now, Lu Tianwen’s Red Powder Skull, obtained who knows from where, was all too familiar to Yun Xiao. Moreover, it was only Heavenly Rank Intermediate, which he could easily dissolve just by using the Ancient Dragon Taming Technique.
In his previous life as the Long Xiao Battle God, Yun Xiao interacted countless times with this Red Powder Skull, but at that time, he simply watched Lu Qinwan use the Red Powder Skull to corrode their enemies into piles of bones.
Whether it was Lu Tianwen or Xue Qi from the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, neither had ever known that Yun Xiao possessed a unique soul reincarnation.
And this soul belonging to the Long Xiao Battle God was intricately connected to the Emperor Canglong of the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, which ensured that their plan this time would undergo unexpected changes.
Just a few breaths later, the all-encompassing pink haze was completely devoured by Yun Xiao, leaving not a single trace.
The entire tall stone platform seemed as though the so-called Red Powder Skull had never appeared.
However, at this moment, everyone’s gaze was fixed on Yun Xiao, eager to see whether the youth would succumb to the deadly toxins after devouring so many Heavenly Rank Intermediate poisons.
Most of the present were High Rank Meridian Refining Masters; they clearly understood that merely devouring those toxic substances wasn’t the real skill. The true skill was to withstand the erosion of the poison.
Now that Yun Xiao had devoured all the pink vapors, if the poison within him erupted, it would likely be far worse than being corroded from the outside.
But these onlookers had no idea that after Yun Xiao had devoured the Red Powder Skull, a certain creature hurriedly leaped out.
The creature, eager to grab its share, was naturally the Golden Snake Worm Xiao Wu. It seemed extremely interested in the Red Powder Skull’s toxins, and its devouring speed was even terrifying to Yun Xiao.
"He really is alright?"
About fifteen minutes passed, and as everyone looked at the youth’s unchanged face, except for a slight pallor from the earlier depletion of Meridian Qi assisting Qingmu Wu’s breakthrough, there was no other change.
No matter what kind of toxin it is, under the deliberate attempt of the one administering poison, it’s impossible for fifteen minutes to pass without any reaction, especially during such a duel of Poison Meridian Skill.
In their eyes, if Lu Tianwen really had the means to trigger the poison to harm Yun Xiao, there would have been a reaction long ago, which only indicated one thing, that the toxins were truly neutralized by Yun Xiao.
"I wonder what other methods Lu Tianwen has up his sleeve?"
At this moment, everyone’s attention shifted towards the Heavenly Rank Low Level Poison Vein Master Yun Xiao, as if the Heavenly Rank Intermediate Poison Vein Master Lu Tianwen had become the lower-tier challenger.
This technique failed to affect Yun Xiao, indicating that the youth’s Poison Meridian Skill is not weaker than Lu Tianwen’s Heavenly Rank Intermediate level, or even stronger.
"Yun Xiao, now I admit your Poison Meridian Skill is strong, but today your fate can only end with submitting to me!"
No one expected that when eyes turned to Lu Tianwen, the Vice President of the Spirit Fighting Commerce, despite his dark expression, his words sparked intrigue among the crowd.
"Is it possible that stronger techniques exist?"
Listening to Lu Tianwen’s words, many began to suspect that possibility, considering he was a Heavenly Rank Intermediate Poison Vein Master, possessing stronger Poison Vein techniques wasn’t out of the question.
However, these onlookers were unaware of the deeper meaning behind Lu Tianwen’s words; they only thought they were in for another exciting spectacle, a more thrilling Poison Meridian show.
At this moment, everyone surprisingly overlooked the presence of the genius Liu Hanyi from the Sky Poison Institute, who had also just endured the havoc of the Red Powder Skull; their eyes only focused on Yun Xiao and Lu Tianwen, the pair of rivals.
"At this point, where does your confidence come from?"
Just as Lu Tianwen’s confident words fell, Yun Xiao raised his head, a flash of pink light came and went in his eyes, followed by a faintly amused smile.
"Lu Tianwen, if you kneel now and beg for mercy, maybe I’ll consider leaving you a whole corpse!"
Yun Xiao’s next two sentences were much like Lu Tianwen’s earlier threats, only switching "spare your life" to "leave you a whole corpse."
Everyone, including Lu Tianwen, found Yun Xiao’s words somewhat inexplicable, even though he had effortlessly neutralized the Red Powder Skull, it simply proved his impressive resistance to poison.
In this Poison Meridian Skill duel, strong poison resistance is one aspect, but having techniques to make the opponent concede willingly is another; without such techniques, the bout would just end in a draw.
