544: Chapter 544 Lu Yuan's Scheme

Her breathing was rapid and erratic, each breath accompanied by a murky sound from her chest.

Her right arm hung limp at her side, having completely lost all ability to move.

Shocking black poison spots spread across her arm. These spots were not static; they took on the eerie form of living creatures, like black maggots wriggling beneath her skin, constantly creeping toward her shoulder and heart meridian.

With every inch they wriggled, her face grew a shade paler.

This poison was not ordinary vegetation poison, nor was it the venom of a Yao Beast; it was a poison of Law containing the Origin of the Great Poison Art.

The Great Poison Art was one of the most bizarre Laws among the Three Thousand Great Daos, specifically designed to erode the Origin of a Cultivator.

Wherever the poison passed, the Immortal Lord Origin within the Taiyin Immortal Lord was devoured madly; the insights into Law and accumulated power she had painstakingly cultivated were like food before the poison.

"Hiss! Hiss!"

The Law of Time was forcibly corroded into pools of grayish-green pus, dripping onto the Primordial Ice Crystals on the cave floor.

The Taiyin Immortal Lord gritted her teeth, cold sweat streaming down her face. As a supreme almighty at the Middle Stage of Immortal Lord, she had once thought she had long severed her fear of death. But when the Great Poison Art of the Immortal Lord Wan'e truly destroyed her barrier of Law, she truly realized how despairing the passing of life could be.

She turned, her left hand trembling, and with the last sliver of clarity and perseverance, she formed an extremely complex Dharma seal.

The remaining Taiyin Origin gushed from her palm.

This power of Origin, which in the past was as holy and vast as the bright moonlight, now appeared dim and desolate.

The power of Origin transformed into a thick barrier of profound ice, sealing the entrance of the Hidden Dragon Cold Cave tightly.

The surface of the ice layer flowed with the killing formation patterns of the Taiyin Immortal-Slaughtering Art, the blood-red lines flickering within the icy blue, revealing a sense of mutual destruction.

This was her final pride; even if she died, she would never allow that despicable villain, Immortal Lord Wan'e, to easily step into her burial ground.

After finishing all this, the last glimmer of light in her eyes seemed to be completely drained away.

She leaned against the cold rock wall; her proud figure, which had once been looked up to by countless Immortals, now slumped to the ground powerlessly like a puppet without strings.

The rough rock tore her luxurious Immortal robe, but she had no time to concern herself with such insignificant humiliation.

"Pfft!"

The Taiyin Immortal Lord opened her mouth and violently spat out a large mouthful of black, fishy blood.

The black blood landed on the ground, instantly corroding a deep pit into the hard rock and sending up a pungent, poisonous mist.

She squeezed her eyes shut, enduring the excruciating pain of her Divine Soul being torn apart, and probed her Divine Thought into her body to inspect herself.

The scene within her Sea of Consciousness made her heart sink completely into a bottomless ice cellar—the situation was dire to the extreme, even exceeding her most pessimistic expectations.

The poison of the Great Poison Art was a sickly green energy carrying extreme destruction and resentment. Like maggots on bone, it had broken through the thirty-six Taiyin defensive lines she had set with her proud cultivation of tens of thousands of years, unstoppable.

Every collapse of a defensive line was accompanied by a violent tremor in her Dao Heart.

At this moment, the lethal poisonous gas was only an inch away from her heart meridian.

She could clearly feel the greed contained within the poisonous gas; they were mocking her struggle, eager to taste the heart blood of an Immortal Lord.

What made her feel even more desperate was her Immortal Lord Dao Fruit—that crystalline Dao Fruit which carried her life's insights and represented her reason for existence in this vast Immortal Realm was trembling violently in her Sea of Consciousness.

The surface of the Dao Fruit had already been stained with a layer of sickly green poisonous gas, and the originally pure Taiyin aura was being stripped away and polluted bit by bit.

She knew what this meant: once the Dao Fruit was completely eroded, she would not only die and dissipate, but even her qualification for Reincarnation would be stripped away, and she would completely turn into a wisp of malicious resentment in this world.

"There must be an ultimate Pure Yang Origin to neutralize it... and forcibly dispel the Yin-cold poison within my body... Otherwise, my Dao Fruit will surely shatter today, and I will be doomed eternally."

This cruel thought echoed madly in her Sea of Consciousness.

But in this desolate and remote ownerless Immortal island, in this extremely cold Hidden Dragon Cold Cave, where could she find the ultimate Pure Yang Origin? This was simply an unsolvable death trap.

She had once been high above, looking down on all living beings, but now she could only wait silently in this dark corner, like an ant with a broken spine, for the poisonous gas to devour her Soul.

Unwillingness, anger, regret, and unfathomable fear gnawed at her sanity like poisonous snakes.

Just as her Dao Heart was on the verge of total collapse, and the tide of despair was about to drown her last sliver of clarity, a slight, abrupt fluctuation occurred in the Void Realm deep within the cave.

This fluctuation would normally never have caught the attention of the Taiyin Immortal Lord, but at this very moment, it was like a thunderclap exploding in the deathly silent night.

Lu Yuan stepped out slowly from a rift in the Void Realm; his pace was unhurried, and every step seemed to land on some mysterious node of Dao rhythm.

He did not continue to conceal his aura, because he knew that facing a dying Immortal Lord at the Middle Stage, excessive concealment would only provoke a desperate, maddened counterattack from the opponent.

What he needed to do was to completely shatter her final psychological defenses.

The pressure of an Immortal Lord at the Early Stage descended into the Hidden Dragon Cold Cave without reservation.

Although this pressure was inferior in Realm to the Taiyin Immortal Lord in her prime, at this moment, it carried an absolute domineering aura of controlling everything.

Lu Yuan's eyes were cold and profound; he had been lurking for a long time and had witnessed the entire process of the Taiyin Immortal Lord being heavily wounded and fleeing.

To him, this dying Fairy before him was not a weakling in need of pity, but a mobile treasure vault containing a massive amount of Taiyin Law.

He needed her Taiyin Origin to stabilize his own Realm, and she needed his Pure Yang Origin.

This was a fair trade.

"Great Five Elements Chaos Art, rotate."

Lu Yuan whispered indifferently in his heart, his Cultivation Technique running wildly, and the all-encompassing Innate Chaos Immortal Body within him transformed instantly.

Chaos separates into Yin and Yang, and Yin and Yang can be reversed. He was deliberately stripping away the Yin attribute and the power of the Five Elements within his body, betting all his foundation on the Dao of "Yang." In an instant, a blinding crimson-gold light erupted from the surface of Lu Yuan's body.

This light was not ordinary mortal fire, but contained the purest Yang-vigorous Qi from when the heavens and earth were first created.

His Physique transformed completely into the ultimate Pure Yang Dao Body at this moment.

As he transformed, the environment within the entire Hidden Dragon Cold Cave underwent a heaven-turning and earth-flipping change.

The extreme cold temperature, which could freeze even an Immortal's Divine Soul, suddenly rose, as if a blazing sun had descended directly into this cramped cave.

The indestructible Primordial Ice Crystals on the surrounding rock walls made sounds of unbearable cracking the moment they touched this burst of Pure Yang Qi, then quickly melted, turning into a large amount of water vapor that rose up, enveloping the entire cave in a vast expanse of white mist.