24: Chapter 24 Heaven Wants to Use a Cheat Code? I'll Feed Him a Poison That Will Pierce His Guts

Accompanied by a teeth-grinding cracking sound, the blue stone floor tiles in the center of the main hall were torn apart as if by an invisible giant hand, and a horrific monster about a zhang tall roared as it burst from the ground.

The thing was entirely condensed from pure, extreme ancient blood energy, resembling a huge, throbbing piece of blood-colored amber, its surface densely covered with strange human faces that looked like wailing infants. Potent life essence transformed into visible red ripples, crazily scouring the surroundings wave after wave.

This was the emergency compensation mechanism forcibly operated by the Heavenly Dao... the Blood Jade Spirit Fetus.

Seeing that its own biological son was about to breathe his last, the Heavens didn't even bother to pretend, directly ignoring the Laws of physics to pull the plug and air-dropping a super blood bag that came with the function of reshaping a supreme immortal meridian.

Xia Lengbai, who bore the brunt, was forced to retreat half a step by this powerful and overbearing force of the Heavenly Dao rules.

In her cold eyes, a storm mixed with extreme disgust and violence instantly rose.

For Xia Lengbai, who was born with Sword Bones and had a cleanliness obsession that bordered on the pathological, this filthy object emitting a strong metallic smell and manic aura was simply a crazy violation of her senses.

"Presumptuous."

The cold voice seemed capable of freezing the Soul.

Xia Lengbai didn't even draw her sword; the extreme cold Spiritual Qi raging around her instantly transformed into ten thousand crystal-clear ice-blue small swords.

Accompanied by her cold snort, the ice swords filling the sky carried a destructive extreme cold Sword Intent, pouring down towards the Blood Jade Spirit Fetus like a violent storm. Wherever they passed, even the air was frozen, leaving thin white marks.

Meanwhile, Shen Xiao, who was stuck like rotten mud in the shadows of the rafters, had the System's sharp, blood-red alarm echoing crazily in his mind.

Through the information forcibly parsed by the System, Shen Xiao instantly saw through the disgusting calculations of the Heavenly Dao: once this Blood Jade Spirit Fetus broke through Xia Lengbai's firepower blockade and successfully wrapped around and devoured the dying Lin Yun, not only would Lin Yun's shattered Meridians instantly heal, but he would also turn a misfortune into a blessing, using this ancient blood energy to reshape a "Desolate Ancient Tyrant Physique" that surpassed the mundane!

By then, the cheat on this kid would be completely upgraded, and all his previous interceptions would become stepping stones for him to become a god.

"You want to play a blood-lock counter-kill right under my nose? Keep dreaming!"

Shen Xiao sneered in his heart.

He knew very well that with his current Foundation Establishment cultivation, if he were to forcibly rush out to interfere in the hard collision between Xia Lengbai and the Heavenly Dao product, he would be crushed into powder before he could even last a second.

If brute force wouldn't work, he had to use his wits.

In his Sea of Consciousness, he kicked the remnant Soul of Xuan Chenzi, who was playing dead, awake without any politeness: "Old ghost, don't play dead! What is the operating logic of this blood lump that crawled out of the ditch? Speak quickly, or I will disperse this disguise right now and drag you with me to have our Souls scattered under Xia Lengbai's Sword Qi!"

Xuan Chenzi was already trembling with fear from the terrifying pressure outside. Now, being threatened by Shen Xiao, he confessed everything like beans pouring from a bamboo tube: "This... this is the companion Spirit Fetus of the Ancient Blood Demon Formation! This Formation has no Formation eye; it relies entirely on absorbing the purest heart blood of the caster as an anchor point for energy backflow! The heart blood that kid spat on the ground is the trigger; the Spirit Fetus is establishing a circulation channel through that pool of blood!"

Pure heart blood? Energy backflow?

A snake-like dark light flashed in Shen Xiao's black eyes.

His gaze quickly locked onto the pool of pitch-black heart blood on the first floor, which Lin Yun had just spat out, now emitting a faint light and wriggling like a living thing.

"What a considerate System, it even connected the catheter for me."

Shen Xiao took a deep breath, pushing the turtle-breathing state of his Counter-flow Step to the limit. His whole person seemed to turn into an intangible ghost, sliding down to the ground along the shadows of the load-bearing pillars, crawling like a snake close to the ground, rapidly approaching that pool of heart blood.

Above his head, Xia Lengbai's ten thousand ice swords were crazily bombarding the Blood Jade Spirit Fetus.

Although the Spirit Fetus had no intelligence, under the blessing of the Heavenly Dao rules, every pulsation could shatter large swaths of ice swords. The violent shockwaves stirred up a level-12 hurricane in the main hall, with wood chips and gravel flying everywhere.

This chaotic scene became the perfect cover for Shen Xiao.

He stopped silently three feet away from the wriggling pool of heart blood, flipped his palm, and a small jade bottle that had been sealed layer by layer appeared between his fingers.

This thing was "waste pill poison" he had collected when he intercepted Lin Yun's Alchemy Opportunity at the Nangong Family.

It not only fused the residues of several top-grade Spiritual Plants with conflicting medicinal properties but was also contaminated with the extreme fire poison produced when the Pill Furnace exploded.

Once it entered the body, even a Golden Core Stage Cultivator's Spiritual Qi would instantly fall into a frenzy, their Meridians would snap, and even gods couldn't save them.

He had originally kept it to use against people later, but now it seemed there was no better seasoning than this.

"The Heavenly Dao wants to feed you a panacea, but as a villain, I have to add some lethal poison to make it worthwhile."

A malicious arc curled up at the corner of Shen Xiao's mouth. He used his thumb to precisely pry open the Seal of the jade bottle and flicked his finger.

A drop of viscous, ink-like poison, emitting a pungent, spicy smell, drew an imperceptible parabola and landed with a "plop" precisely into the pool of heart blood that was acting as the energy anchor.

The moment the poison entered the blood, it was like pouring a ladle of cold water into boiling oil!

The Formation circuit, which had been steadily transporting pure blood energy, suddenly emitted a shrill screech as if old gears had jammed.

The highly corrosive and manic poison, following the energy backflow channel of the Formation, surged upward with unstoppable momentum and was injected without reservation into the "Blood Jade Spirit Fetus" that was trying to forcibly pull at Lin Yun's body!

A dull, strange sound of "thump" was heard.

In mid-air, a mass of thick, ink-black color suddenly exploded at the core of that originally crystal-clear, sacred red-glowing Blood Jade Spirit Fetus.

Immediately after, this turbid, violent dark toxin spread crazily like cancer cells, dyeing the entire Spirit Fetus a hair-raising purple-black in the blink of an eye!

The vague human faces on the surface of the Spirit Fetus instantly twisted into the shapes of extremely painful evil ghosts, emitting shrill wails.

"Hmm?"

Xia Lengbai, who was in mid-air, furrowed her brows slightly. Her extremely keen Sword Heart caught the violent turbulence in the nodes of the blood Formation, as well as that disgusting stench, almost at the same time the poison took effect.

She certainly didn't know someone was poisoning in the dark; she just assumed that this filthy Formation itself had gone wrong.

"Disgusting to the extreme."

The disgust in Xia Lengbai's eyes reached its peak; she could no longer tolerate this smell.

Her jade fingers joined together like a sword and slashed violently in front of her.

A terrifying long sword condensed from ten-thousand-year black ice, emitting a chill capable of freezing the Void Realm, suddenly took shape.

"Break."

The Ice Soul long sword turned into a cold, ruthless aurora that traversed the main hall, piercing precisely into the energy node of the Spirit Fetus, which had become extremely fragile due to the toxin erosion!

Boom!!!

Accompanied by a thunderous roar that almost tore people's eardrums, the Blood Jade Spirit Fetus, already on the verge of energy runaway, completely exploded under the fatal blow of the extreme cold Sword Intent!

Having lost the precise grooming and guidance of the Heavenly Dao rules, the massive energy originally used to reshape the immortal meridian within the Spirit Fetus now completely turned into a wild dog off its leash.

These dark blood energies, mixed with lethal toxins and run amok to the extreme, flooded back like a reverse flood, following the already established channel, and crazily surged into Lin Yun's already fragmented body!

"Ahhhhh!!!"

Lin Yun, who had already fainted, had his eyes snap open under the stimulation of this inhuman torture. His eyeballs bulged as if they were about to fall out of their sockets, and a shrill scream erupted from his throat, as if he were being skinned alive!

His body twitched and twisted violently in mid-air, and his bones made teeth-grinding cracking sounds.

Those violent dark blood energies were forcibly prying open and gluing his broken Meridians in an extremely barbaric and rough way.

But the price of this gluing was destructive.

His originally pure Righteous Path Spiritual Root was completely polluted under the scouring of this filthy blood energy mixed with poison.

Wisps of pitch-black Devilish Qi, emitting a strong aura of evil Cultivators, began to overflow uncontrollably from his seven orifices.

Not only did he fail to obtain the "Desolate Ancient Tyrant Physique," but he was instead forcibly transformed into a semi-finished monster emitting a sky-high stench!

The main hall could no longer withstand this level of energy impact. Under the double ravages of the extreme cold Sword Intent and the violent blood energy, the towering dome of the Scripture Pavilion began to collapse on a large scale.

Tons of giant rocks and beams whistled down, kicking up dust all over the sky.

Xia Lengbai stood in mid-air, with wind and snow unable to enter within a zhang of her body.

She coldly looked down at Lin Yun, who was screaming like he was rolling in a dung pit, the disgust in her eyes almost turning into substance.

If it were her usual temperament, this filthy evil object that would dirty her eyes just by looking at it would have long been slashed into nothingness by a sword.

But she keenly noticed that this person was the thief who dared to touch the secret treasure Jade Slip.

In order to find out the truth about the theft from the Scripture Pavilion, she endured the urge to smash the other party to ashes and grabbed into the air.

A strand of extreme cold Spiritual Qi turned into a translucent giant hand, grabbing the back of the neck of Lin Yun, who was still twitching violently and half-dead, as if he were a dead dog.

Subsequently, she didn't want to stay in this dirty place for even a second. She turned into an ice-blue rainbow, directly smashed through the crumbling dome, and broke through the air, leaving only a mess behind.

And under the perfect cover of the sky-filling dust and falling rocks, Shen Xiao decisively lifted the self-mutilating turtle-breathing state of his Counter-flow Step.

After greedily breathing a few mouthfuls of turbid air, he didn't hesitate at all. His figure moved like a nimble civet cat, weaving through the gaps of falling rocks, and jumped directly into the secret passage in the corner of the second-floor side hall where Lin Yun had sneaked in earlier.

This underground passage was originally dug by that unlucky guy Wang Mang to steal Cultivation Techniques. Later it became Lin Yun's exclusive passage, and now, it had become a broad road for Shen Xiao's perfect retreat.

Sneaking rapidly along the dark and deep tunnel, until he was completely out of the sensing range of the Forbidden Ground's core Formation, Shen Xiao's tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

Just at this moment, a crisp and pleasant prompt sounded in his Sea of Consciousness.

[Ding! Detected that the host successfully destroyed the Heavenly Dao's emergency compensation mechanism!]

[Target "Lin Yun" has his Opportunity cut off, and his Physique has undergone an irreversible malignant mutation, his Luck has greatly declined!]

[Congratulations to the host, plundered 20 destiny value! Current remaining destiny value: 94 points!]

Listening to the System's broadcast, Shen Xiao grinned silently in the dark tunnel, revealing a mouthful of white teeth.

This wave, not only did he retreat unscathed, but he also made a huge profit.

Child of Destiny?

I'm afraid he will have to be called the Lone Star of Heavenly Nemesis from now on.

Late at night.

Qingming Sect inner gate, Shen Xiao's independent courtyard.

With the help of the night and the exquisite concealment of his Counter-flow Step, Shen Xiao avoided all the patrolling Disciples who were running around like headless flies due to the commotion at the Scripture Pavilion, and returned to his room safe and sound.

Casually casting a few soundproofing and warning Talismans, he changed out of his dust-covered night-running clothes, poured himself a cup of cold tea, and drank it in one gulp.

The cold tea slid down his throat, extinguishing the trace of restlessness remaining in his body.

Just as he was about to summon the System panel to count the total gains from today's series of operations, deep in his Sea of Consciousness, the remnant Soul of Xuan Chenzi, who had been listless, suddenly let out a horrified shriek as if he had seen a ghost.

"Kid... you... where did you get that broken Jade Slip you put at the stairs on the second floor during the day to pit that junior?!"

The old ghost's voice was trembling, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

Shen Xiao put down the tea cup and raised an eyebrow: "What? Isn't that just some ancient trash I picked up at a street stall in the market down the mountain a few days ago for three Low-Grade Spirit Stones? It looks old enough, perfect for disguising as a master's Legacy, is there a problem?"

"A problem? The problem is huge!" Xuan Chenzi almost fainted. If he had a body in reality, he would definitely be beating his chest and stomping his feet right now. "Do you know what that is? That was a trophy I seized after killing a Demonic Path giant when I was traveling in the Southern Border! That is not a Cultivation Technique Jade Slip at all, but... but a tracking token used by the Demon Gate to lock onto their core True Disciples!"

The fingers of Shen Xiao holding the tea cup paused slightly, and his eyes gradually became sharp: "Explain clearly."

"Sealed inside that Jade Slip is the extremely vicious 'Ten Thousand Demon Seal'!" Xuan Chenzi explained desperately. "I spent a huge amount of effort before I died to suppress the Devilish Qi on it, making it look antique and plain. But once it comes into contact with high-concentration evil filth, or pure Demonic Path blood energy, the Seal will immediately dissipate, and the Ten Thousand Demon Seal will be directly branded into the depths of the holder's Divine Soul!"

Xuan Chenzi's voice grew weaker and weaker, with a hint of unbelievable trembling: "You... you poisoned that kid's heart blood during the day, causing the Blood Jade Spirit Fetus to mutate and backfire on all his own Meridians. He was clutching that Jade Slip tightly in his hand at that time! With that manic, extremely filthy dark blood energy rushing in, the Seal on that Jade Slip must have shattered on the spot!"

The room fell into a brief silence.

Only the chirping of insects outside the window sounded intermittently in the night.

Shen Xiao lowered his head slightly, the broken hair in front of his forehead casting a shadow, making it impossible to see the expression on his face.

After a long while, a low laugh with great penetration sounded in the quiet room.

Shen Xiao slowly raised his head, the arc of his mouth widening, finally turning into a cruel and wanton smile.

In those deep black eyes, a fanatical light of watching a good show flickered.

"Old ghost, oh old ghost, you have made a great contribution."

His original plan was just to use a fake Cultivation Technique to cripple Lin Yun's Meridians, then black out his life-saving Opportunity, letting him experience the thrill of falling from heaven to Hell.

But he never expected that the disguise prop he picked up from a street stall was actually a tracking device and identity verification stamp machine exclusively for high-level members of the Demonic Path!

In other words, Lin Yun, who was now being dragged away like a chick by Xia Lengbai, not only had foul-smelling mutated blood energy flowing in his Meridians, but also had a steel Seal called "Ten Thousand Demon Seal" firmly stamped in the depths of his Divine Soul.

In this Nine Heavens Continent where the Righteous and Demonic Paths are opposed and the Demon must be killed, a guy with a legitimate Demon Gate tracking mark on his body and emitting the aura of an evil Cultivator, falling into the hands of Xia Lengbai who hates evil like a nemesis, and falling onto the judgment platform of the Qingming Sect's Law Enforcement Hall...

This is no longer just a case of mud falling into one's pants—even if it's not shit, it's shit.

This is literally smearing shit on his face, and stamping it with a red Seal of quality inspection by the Heavenly Dao!

Shen Xiao picked up the empty tea cup and raised it to the void, as if toasting the Heavenly Dao master he had never met, his tone filled with undisguised mockery and pleasure:

"My dear Child of Destiny, I hope that after you wake up, you will like this... grand opening, where you will not only lose your reputation but also face the relentless pursuit of the entire Righteous Path Sect."