Chapter 1477: The Brahma Emperor's Desperate Situation (Part 1)
Would the poison of the Heavenly Poison Pearl undergo a mutation when it comes into contact with the Evil Infant demonic aura?
No one knew.
Because of the existence of 'Myriad Tribulations of Oblivion', Xia Qingyue guessed that it might happen, but it was only a guess. Even if it didn't, her plan had a high chance of success; if it did, then all the better!
And the answer was... yes!
The Heavenly Poison Pearl and the Evil Infant Myriad Calamity Wheel both belonged to the demon race in ancient times, both being supreme treasures with extreme negative abilities. If these two terrifying negative abilities were to come into contact, they would mutually stimulate and amplify each other.
Although Qianye Fantian only had residual Evil Infant demonic aura within his body, and although the poison infused into him was only a trace of Heavenly Poison that had barely recovered over the years, at the moment when the Heavenly Poison erupted within the Evil Infant demonic aura, it was like countless fire meteors plunging into a volcano that had already gone dormant.
If it were just the demonic aura flaring up or the Heavenly Poison erupting alone, given Qianye Fantian's abilities, he might have been able to barely calm himself and resist it. But when the two erupted simultaneously... this number one Divine Emperor of the Dong Shen Domain felt, for the first time, so clearly that he was falling into an abyss of immense pain and terror.
A golden shadow flickered within the grand hall, and Qianye Ying'er appeared like a ghost. The state of Qianye Fantian made her brow furrow slightly, and she said in a deep voice, "What's going on?"
"Poison... the Divine Emperor says it's poison!" the Ninth Fan King said urgently.
"Poison? Impossible!" said Qianye Ying'er. "In this world, there cannot be any poison that could make Father Emperor like this!"
As her words fell, she stepped forward... but immediately, her footsteps jerked backward as if shocked by electricity, and a look of deep horror appeared on her face.
Poisonous aura... from Qianye Fantian's body, she sensed a violent poisonous aura. This poisonous aura was extremely terrifying, so terrifying that she could hardly believe it, many times more terrifying than the number one demonic poison 'Godslayer Desolation' that she had personally sensed and touched back then.
"Heavenly Poison Pearl... it's the Heavenly Poison Pearl!"
Qianye Fantian, curled up on the ground, raised his head. His face was a horrifying blackish-green, and within these few short breaths, his entire body was drenched completely in cold sweat.
His Divine Emperor power was operating without reserve, and the space around him was distorted chaotically because of him. But his power as the number one Divine Emperor of the Eastern Domain was like water brushing against a rock in the face of the Evil Infant demonic aura and Heavenly Poison power—it could resist and suppress... but could not eliminate even a trace!
And the moment his aura relaxed the slightest, the two demons inside his body would immediately erupt fully.
Even so, Qianye Fantian's eyes and soul were terrifyingly clear. He roared in a trembling, hoarse voice, "Taking the opportunity of profound force entering the body... poisoning me... this is the real purpose of Xia Qingyue and Yun Che... Urghhh!"
In this world, there was very little that could make an existence like Qianye Fantian utter such a painful scream, but his appearance at this moment was exactly like a demon being tortured in the hellish tortures of purgatory. Every instant, his face and body were twisting horribly, and beads of sweat poured down from him like a rainstorm.
When profound energy enters the body, it can directly damage the internal organs. Therefore, only the most trusted people or those who pose no threat would be allowed to do so. To Qianye Fantian, Yun Che was clearly someone who posed no threat. With his cultivation level, even if he gathered all his profound energy to blast directly at Qianye Fantian's internal organs, he couldn't cause any substantial damage.
Moreover, even if he really intended to do something underhanded, Qianye Fantian would surely detect it immediately.
But he had not noticed at all how Yun Che had injected the lethal poison into his body... not even the slightest trace!
This was also the thing that shocked and puzzled him the most amidst his extreme pain.
"Heavenly... Poison... Pearl?!" The Ninth Fan King's face changed dramatically several times in succession. The matter of Yun Che possessing the Heavenly Poison Pearl had been quietly spreading since the day the Demon Emperor returned to the world. As one of the Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures, everyone knew it possessed extremely terrifying poison power and purification power. But... not to mention how terrifying its poison power was, he also couldn't understand how Yun Che had managed to poison the Fantian Shen Di silently.
Qianye Ying'er's gaze tightened. She murmured softly, "What a clever feint... Xia Qingyue, I truly underestimated you!"
The first time Xia Qingyue came, she didn't mention a word, but instead completely shifted their attention to the 'Primordial Chaos Life-Death Seal'.
And the matter of purification was thus taken by them as a pretext. They had no vigilance about it at all, and their attention was never on it from beginning to end.
She and Qianye Fantian were now jolted awake... the pretext was actually their real purpose!
Clearly, this was revenge from Xia Qingyue and Yun Che! And the father and daughter... had been toyed with by them!
Qianye Ying'er extended her snow-white hand, and a faint golden light flickered. Instantly, the poisonous aura in the space was quickly suppressed. This made her inwardly breathe a sigh of relief. She stepped forward and said, "It seems that the poison power of the Heavenly Poison Pearl is not impossible to suppress. Father King, how are you?"
"No..." Qianye Fantian shook his head painfully. "Although it can be barely suppressed... it simply cannot be resolved..."
"Pfft!!"
Qianye Fantian suddenly shook violently all over and spat out a large mouthful of black blood... instantly, an extremely pungent, foul stench spread rapidly through the hall.
Ordinary dark profound energy would not leave the two Divine Emperors of Fantian and Zhoutian in pain and helpless for years. Ordinary poison could be easily resolved with the power of a Divine Emperor. But whether it was the Evil Infant demonic aura or the Heavenly Poison, both were supreme evil powers from Mystic Heaven Supreme Treasures. Even ten Qianye Fantians could not truly resolve them.
After violently spitting out a mouthful of black blood, Qianye Fantian's face not only showed no improvement, but instead became covered with an even heavier layer of black aura. And his pupils... clearly had gained a trace of a dim, dark green.
Qianye Ying'er was thoroughly alarmed. She quickly shouted, "Ninth, quickly send a sound transmission to all the Fan Kings in the realm!"
A few breaths later, seven auras flew at extreme speed toward the Fantian Divine Palace.
Without time for too much explanation, soon all the Fan Kings in the realm, eight in total, sat in a circle around Qianye Fantian. Their immensely formidable Fan King powers simultaneously circulated, connected, and converged to jointly suppress the Heavenly Poison erupting within Qianye Fantian's body and the rampaging demonic aura.
Every Fan King possessed the power to shake the current era. When the powers of eight Fan Kings merged, it was like eight golden flood dragons surging into Qianye Fantian's body. Coupled with Qianye Fantian's own Divine Emperor power, the strength of this suppression force was beyond what ordinary people could imagine.
This power was enough to annihilate all poison and evil forces in the world in a short time... No one would doubt it.
In the years since Qianye Fantian had been afflicted with the Evil Infant demonic aura, he had often relied on the power of the Fan Gods and Fan Kings to suppress it.
But...
Under the power of one Divine Emperor and eight Fan Kings, the demonic aura and poisonous aura were indeed quickly suppressed, gradually becoming weaker. Slowly, when the poisonous aura and demonic aura were completely restrained and they thought it should temporarily subside, the poisonous aura and demonic aura suddenly, like two completely enraged demon gods, fiercely counterattacked...
The Heavenly Poison's poisonous aura followed the eight streams of Fan King profound energy, like lightning climbing a rope, mercilessly invading the bodies of the eight Fan Kings...
Eight beams of green demonic light burst out from the bodies of the eight Fan Kings. They all opened their eyes at the same time, their entire bodies trembling and twisting in the suddenly erupting poison and pain...
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Yue Shen Realm, Divine Emperor's Bedchamber.
Upon returning to the Yue Shen Realm, Yun Che had become much more silent. It seemed that the purification had consumed too much energy, as he had been resting with his eyes closed for a long time without speaking.
"Master, you seem to have been unsettled all along. Is there something you're worried about?" He Ling asked softly.
Yun Che replied, "No, it's not that. I've just encountered a very difficult matter to figure out."
In the past, when faced with difficult matters, he would habitually ask Mo Li. Now, the one accompanying him was He Ling, but He Ling was different from Mo Li. At least for now, his dependence on He Ling had not yet reached the depth of subconscious reliance he had on Mo Li.
"A difficult matter? Is it that you can't figure out how to deal with the Demon God's return to the world?" He Ling asked again.
"It's not that matter." Yun Che opened his eyes. The place was quiet, with only him present, and no sign of Xia Qingyue. "Recently, I've had several strange dreams. The things in the dreams were very absurd. Absurd dreams should be forgotten in an instant, but I remember them with extreme clarity. Including every scene and every sentence within them."
"Remembering dreams is also a very normal thing," He Ling said softly. "Why is Master so concerned about this?"
"I wasn't too concerned about it before," Yun Che let out a slight breath. "But on the way back to the Yue Shen Realm earlier, I inexplicably caught a glimpse of a strange scene that had appeared in my dream."
"This kind of situation keeps occurring, and I find it hard to convince myself that it's all just illusion and delusion... And those things happen to contradict my memories and cognition, so they couldn't possibly be real, but they always give me an indescribably eerie stirring..." Yun Che shook his head.
Things that could fundamentally never be real, yet appearing in dreams and visual haziness, but being branded so clearly on the soul, impossible to shake off. This feeling was indeed extremely bizarre and inexplicable, something Yun Che had never experienced before.
He Ling was also listening in confusion, unable to empathize. But she could sense Yun Che's restlessness. She thought for a moment and said, "Master, you seem not to have had this kind of trouble before. When did this kind of thing start?"
"..." Yun Che tapped his chin and said slowly, "He Ling, you've asked a good question."
"Huh?"
Yun Che didn't speak again, but suddenly fell silent.
That's right... when did it start? What was the trigger?
Outside the bedchamber, Xia Qingyue stood on the palace roof, bathed in moonlight, her beautiful eyes indifferent. No one knew what she was thinking, and she had maintained this posture for several hours.
At this moment, a flash of moonlight appeared before her, revealing the figure of a young girl.
The young girl's aura was slightly disordered, with a hint of panting. Xia Qingyue turned her eyes aside and said softly, "It seems there is already a result."
"Yes." Lian Yue said respectfully, "News has come from the Fan Di God Realm. The Fantian Shen Di has been struck by a lethal poison, and the Evil Infant demonic aura and the poison erupted simultaneously. Afterwards, eight Fan Kings gathered to suppress the demonic aura and poison for the Fantian Shen Di, but all of them were invaded by the poison."
"Oh?" Xia Qingyue's eyes flickered. "There's even an unexpected delight."
Listening to Lian Yue's words, Xia Qingyue's heart was by no means as calm as her appearance. That the eight Fan Kings would jointly suppress the poison for Qianye Fantian was no surprise to her. But she had absolutely not expected that these eight Fan Kings would also all be poisoned!
The power of the Heavenly Poison... without physical contact, it could actually directly invade the body in reverse along profound energy!?
No wonder back then, among the gods and demons, not a single one could escape 'Myriad Tribulations of Oblivion'!
"The Fan Di God Realm has now sealed its borders. Our people can hardly get near the core area, but it's enough to see that the Fantian Shen Di and the eight Fan Kings are in an extremely bad state."
"I understand. You may withdraw. Oh, and..." Xia Qingyue's gaze turned somber, and her voice suddenly turned cold. "If anyone from the Fan Di God Realm arrives, even if it's a Fan King, drive them away forcefully... except for Qianye Ying'er!"
"Yes!"
Lian Yue left silently. Xia Qingyue's chest heaved violently once, then she gently let out a breath.
At the same time that Qianye Fantian's poison erupted, the Evil Infant demonic aura also went berserk, and subsequently even the eight Fan Kings were poisoned simultaneously.
Thus, faced with the Heavenly Poison power that could not be dispelled no matter what, and the 'mutation' she had warned Qianye Fantian about, the Fan Di God Realm would be facing the terror of their Divine Emperor and eight Fan Kings being buried and destroyed.
Under this unprecedented terror, could the Fan Di God Realm, having just lost three Fan Gods and then suffering Nanming Shendi kicking them while they were down, really hold on for more than twenty shichen?