Witch Wind

Chapter 390 The Poison of the Heavens (Part 1)

The Heavenly Dao was completely refined.

An invisible and traceless entity rose slowly from the Heavenly Cauldron, stretched its body, and merged into this world. And so, this world came alive, became bright, and became utterly complete.

Although its origin was just a small world, with the complete awakening of the consciousness of heaven and earth, and with Xing Tianli's refinement of it, this world began to become extremely active and lively, drawing chaotic primordial energy from the void outside and gradually enhancing its origin.

This is how the world has evolved.

The primordial chaos energy is the food of the world. The more you eat, the faster you grow, constantly breaking through limits and growing into a more complete and powerful world.

In a sense, these worlds, large and small, are also 'cultivators' who are also striving to cultivate themselves.

However, their ascension and advancement are much more difficult than those of other living beings.

On average, out of a hundred million worlds of the same level, only one might successfully break through the limit and advance to the next level.

Xing Tianli suddenly had a sudden realization.

The sages of the Nine Provinces, leading countless disciples and cultivators from various sects, left their homeland for the distant void. This wasn't merely because they were fortunate enough to become mayflies and witness even greater vistas.

More importantly, the original source of the world in the previous life, the magical and beautiful Nine Provinces, was damaged after the sage Pangu failed to prove the Dao by force... Even though the Dao Ancestor Hongjun filled the gap in the sky with his own body and made up for the Dao of Heaven, the world is still not perfect.

An imperfect world, having grown silently for many years, has begun an irreversible breakthrough towards a higher level.

The Nine Provinces world has failed.

The world's decline is unstoppable. In the future, Kyushu will only be suitable for mortals to survive, and for developing a little bit of technology that relies on external resources and is regarded as unorthodox by cultivators. Cultivators will no longer be able to appear in Kyushu.

I have no choice but to leave.

Shallow waters cannot support dragons.

Xing Tianli sighed softly.

By drawing inferences from similar cases and with the boundless knowledge of the Great Daoist as a reference, he roughly understood the reasons why the sages left the land of Kyushu—the world was withering away, and they had to take their disciples and followers to find another paradise.

If it were merely because they had become 'mayflies' and wanted to see higher and farther scenery, they could have traveled light and roamed the void alone. Why would they need to bring their families, disciples, and all these burdens to constantly migrate outwards?
"not easy!"

Xing Tianli looked up at the sky, feeling the primordial chaos energy that this world was breathing in and out. The vast, long, yet incredibly slow breathing frequency of the world—one breath was equivalent to more than ten years for an ordinary person.

The world is indeed growing, but at what rate?

According to Xing Tianli's assessment, it would take about one hundred kalpas for this world to accumulate enough origin to reach the critical point of breaking through to the next level.

"It's truly a long time. Mortals can never witness the magnificent scene of a world breaking through to the top. That's when the real 'Heavenly Tribulation' occurs, a calamity that heaven and earth suffer." Xing Tianli nodded thoughtfully, countless corresponding knowledge from his Dao Eyes slowly flowing into his mind. His understanding of many Daos, principles, and laws deepened considerably.

Now, there is another matter that needs to be addressed.

When refining the consciousness of this world, the twelve-winged creature that appeared in the Heavenly Cauldron was clearly not a good thing. Yet, a wisp of its energy was directed towards a certain place on the Holy Cloud Continent.

"Winged people, you shall perish!" Xing Tianli glanced in that direction, then bowed and paid homage to heaven and earth.

The heavens and earth trembled slightly, and the sky was filled with shimmering light. On the entire Holy Cloud Continent, on hundreds of thousands of outer stars, boundless thunderclouds slowly gathered with earth-shattering thunder. In the next instant, a deluge of lightning, like a torrential rain, crashed down on all the winged people.

In just a quarter of an hour, all the winged people who practiced evil and heretical techniques and were most afraid of lightning tribulations were wiped out.

There is no longer a single winged human living in the entire world.

Xing Tianli nodded in satisfaction. He called out and transformed into a golden light, flying rapidly towards that location.

With a soft laugh, the three women of Liujing each raised a small witch banner shrouded in wisps of smoke. Their figures became like phantoms, following along no slower than Xing Tianli. This was the secret 'Three Realms Banner' of the Witch Palace, a set of magical treasures that, when combined, could form the 'Three Realms Reversal Blood Burning Killing Array,' a first-rate and ferocious killing array.

If the three banners are used separately, the "Step into the Three Realms" supernatural power can be unleashed. In an instant, one can roam freely in the Three Realms. It is a powerful magical artifact for escape and life-saving.

What's even more outrageous is that Xing Tianli transformed into golden light and sped forward with great effort. The three women followed behind him, just like migrating geese following the lead goose for support. They only used a tiny bit of their magic power to cling tightly to Xing Tianli and move forward with him.

Xing Tianli turned around and looked at the three of them, rolling his eyes in anger.

A short while later, we arrived at the place.

This is the core of the Holy Cloud Continent, the very center of the perfectly round Holy Cloud Continent.

Here lies a colossal pit, thousands of miles in diameter and unfathomably deep. From all directions, boundless air continuously converges upon this place, transforming into terrifying gales at the edge of the pit, surging downwards with piercing shrieks.

At the edge of the crater, the solid rocks were polished by the gale to a mirror-like shine. To the naked eye, one could see wisps of white wind rushing by. Occasionally, when these wisps of white wind collided, they would produce a thunderous explosion, with shockwaves shattering for hundreds of miles around, creating an extremely terrifying spectacle.

As the fierce wind relentlessly poured downwards, deep within this crater, hundreds of miles above the ground, a layer of pale green mist floated silently. No matter how much or how strong the gale howled and attacked, this layer of mist remained completely still.

The gust of wind rushed into the fog and then disappeared without a trace.

Xing Tianli stood firmly on the edge of the pit, letting the raging storm and torrents whip his purple robes wildly, yet he remained completely still. The three women, on the other hand, were somewhat disheveled. Despite their physical strength, standing behind Xing Tianli, they were being blown about by the gale, unable to maintain their footing.

Helpless, the three women grabbed Xing Tianli's clothes to steady themselves.

“There’s poison down here,” Xing Tianli said in a deep voice. “However, there happens to be a treasure that can ward off poison… Wanfo Leiyin Temple, what a pity.”

With a long sigh, Xing Tianli took out an eighteen-story glass stupa containing relics. Each story of the stupa was carved with a cruel scene from one of the eighteen levels of hell. In each story, a statue of a wrathful deity sat, with a golden Buddha relic hanging from its head, emitting boundless Buddha light to suppress the evil spirits in the hellish figures that seemed ready to rush into the human world at any moment.

'go'!
With a loud shout, Xing Tianli sent the relic-shaped glazed pagoda flying out of his hand. In the blink of an eye, it grew to a height of three hundred miles. The base released a terrifying, hellish, and relentless devouring force. The clumps of green mist below instantly transformed into a long dragon, tumbling and rolling as it was drawn into the pagoda.

A radiant light shone from the Buddha, accompanied by the sound of chanting.

This pagoda is a supreme treasure for subduing demons, which only the abbot of Wanfo Leiyin Temple is qualified to wield. Although it has no offensive power, it can resist external calamities and break through disasters such as fire, flood, lightning strikes, and poisoning. It even has a strong suppressive effect on internal and external inner demons.

The green toxic gas was immediately purified by layers of Buddhist light as soon as it was absorbed into the pagoda.

As the green mist dissipated, strands of golden light surged forth from the pagoda, pouring directly into the large pit. There, they collided with the increasingly vibrant green mist below, continuously dissolving the thick layers of green mist into nothingness.

Xing Tianli then carried the three women into the air, manipulating the pagoda to sink downwards little by little.

The further they descended, the thicker the green mist below became. After descending tens of millions of miles, the green mist had become so dense that it had liquefied, and the malevolent poison it contained was suffocating. Xing Tianli curiously inserted one of his fingers into the viscous green venom. With a 'hiss,' even with his current physical strength, his skin instantly changed color, and tiny blood blisters appeared. The terrifying poison rushed into his body from his finger, spreading at an astonishing speed.

Xing Tianli groaned, and countless furnaces within his body spun simultaneously, devouring the terrifying wisps of poisonous gas and grinding and melting them bit by bit.

The Primitive Witchcraft Classic trembled slightly, and a book called The Myriad Poisons Witchcraft Codex quietly emerged.

At the same time, a wealth of knowledge about the preparation, use, and defense of poisons also emerged in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao. Xing Tianli's Great Luo Immortal Soul operated at full speed, integrating these poison techniques seen by the Heavenly Dao with the witchcraft of the "Ten Thousand Poisons Witchcraft Codex," and quickly innovated, creating many novel and terrifying poison techniques.

The Tongtian Yuling Banner flew out, and Xing Tianli pointed his finger, mobilizing a wisp of black-green 'essence'. The Tongtian Yuling Banner transformed into the form of the 'Plague Yellow Banner,' a renowned innate killing treasure from the primordial era.

Countless poisonous runes erupted from Xing Tianli's body like a tidal wave, continuously engraving themselves onto the Plague Yellow Banner.

Originally, the Plague Yellow Banner, which was meant to control plagues and toxins, was rising with yellow energy. Its color gradually turned dark green, and wisps of terrifying poisonous aura spread out from the banner. In all directions, the boundless green venom churned violently, helplessly being whipped up by the Plague Yellow Banner.

"From now on, this will be the Myriad Poison Banner." Xing Tianli smiled as he watched the Plague Yellow Banner, where brand-new innate runes representing the terrifying Dao of 'poison' were constantly taking shape, and nodded with great satisfaction.

Poison is always an extremely effective means of dealing with poison.

Just like this time, when dealing with the three great dynasties, if Xing Tianli had not had Liu Jing and Zhong Nu prepare a strange curse poison hidden in the bodies of the Miao people of the Nine Provinces, which could turn them into a deadly poison but would not harm him, and if he had not had Sima Guang contact his hidden fellow disciples, this curse poison with an extremely fast spread rate would have quickly spread to hundreds of thousands of stars.

Given the nature of those winged people, in their quest for power and profit, they will undoubtedly strive to increase their strength, and they will certainly devour the body cultivators of the Nine Provinces to enhance their own cultivation.

Because of the existence of this terrifying curse poison, all the winged people who devoured cultivators from the Nine Provinces were poisoned, triggering their inner demons, causing them to be attacked from both inside and outside, directly leading to demonic possession and death.

Poison, if used properly, can save lives.

Gradually, the essence of this green venom was extracted by the Myriad Poison Banner, and under the influence of countless poisonous Daoist principles, it underwent a strange mutation, becoming hundreds or thousands of times more toxic.

With a flick of his hand, Xing Tianli restored the Heavenly Spirit Banner to its original form.

The Tower of Creation also quietly appeared. It approached the Tower of Spirit Control Banner, and the two spiritual treasures collided with each other. Wisps of dark green poisonous gas appeared in the Tower of Creation.

Inside the enormous Tower of Creation, the weapons of the combat puppets controlled by the ghost slaves were all secretly coated with a layer of dark green poison.

Xing Tianli chuckled and scolded in a low voice: "You don't learn the good things, you only learn the improper ones."

Shaking his head, he manipulated the relic-shaped glazed pagoda to continue descending. In this way, they flew down for nearly a hundred million miles until a bluish-gray cave appeared below. The cave was round and smooth, and although the four walls were made of rock layers, they were incredibly dense and smooth. Countless extremely fine traces of the Heavenly Dao were faintly visible on the rock walls. The power of the Heavenly Dao had permeated the bluish-gray rock layers for countless years, transforming them into something as smooth and lustrous as the finest mutton-fat jade. Touching it felt as if oil could stick to one's hand.

Dozens of fist-thick, bluish-gray stone chains grew directly from the surrounding rock walls. These stone chains were seamlessly integrated with the rock face, appearing entirely natural and without any trace of human intervention.

A winged human, about ten zhang tall, with two pairs of dark green wings on his back edged with a layer of fine golden feathers, a sinister face, and no aura, was suspended in the air with chains piercing through his vital organs.

Xingtian Carp absorbed the thick, sticky poisonous mist, and the violent gale from high above howled down without any obstruction.

What Xing Tianli initially perceived as ordinary gale was suddenly transformed into a spherical cave with a diameter of 100,000 miles. From all directions, wind runes flashed rapidly on the cave walls, and the gale accelerated and was forged into wind blades several feet in diameter. With a piercing sound of air being torn apart, these blades slashed fiercely down at the winged man.

The two pairs of wings on the winged man's back emitted a sinister light.

The ghostly light protected the winged man's entire body. The wind blades slashed down fiercely, striking the ghostly light with a series of clanging sounds. The wind blades were shattered, but the ghostly light was also split open with countless fine cracks.

Xing Tianli suddenly realized.

This is a prison created by nature, and it is this four-winged birdman who is imprisoned here.

Xing Tianli recalled the legend of the so-called "Creator Ancestor" in the Winged People's textbooks. He originally thought that the Winged People were just embellishing their own image, but he didn't expect that there was such a strange thing.
"So, the senior monks of Wanfo Leiyin Temple were ambushed and slaughtered by the winged people. They were poisoned during the Ullambana Festival, leaving them with only a fraction of their original strength. This poison... was given to them by you?" Xing Tianli suddenly realized that this made sense.

Xing Tianli flew to the winged man, his purple robes billowing, wisps of purple energy swirling around him. He also raised the Tongtian Yuling Banner, transforming it into the Six Soul Banner, ready to unleash its most ferocious attack at any moment.

The Heavenly Bamboo transformed into the Green Lotus Sword, its sword light gleaming, and pressed directly against the winged man's brow.

"Hey, stop pretending to be dead!"

"The Heavenly Dao of this world could not kill you back then, and could only imprison you... When I came down, the poisonous mist restriction you released to weaken this Wind Blade Torture was still very active."

Are you still alive?

Xing Tianli continued talking to himself, while the winged man remained completely still.

Enraged, Xing Tianli took a deep breath and, using a negligible amount of strength, slammed his fist into the birdman's abdomen with a loud 'bang'.

How pitiful.

With a loud 'boom,' the man's abdomen exploded, spraying out fragments of his internal organs, including gallstones and mammary glands. His body was almost split in two, with only a broken vertebra remaining to barely connect the two halves.

The creature was ice-cold, lifeless, and seemed to have been dead for countless years. It let out a muffled groan, and dark green blood gushed from all seven orifices. Its eyes were wide open, and within its pale green pupils, dark green veins throbbed wildly. It opened its mouth wide with great difficulty and took a deep breath.

After a long while, the man finally roared angrily, "You inhuman beast... You don't even spare the dead?"

Xing Tianli clapped his hands and laughed, then slapped him hard across the face: "Hey, the dead man's talking now!"

What a brutal slap!

The birdman's head was spun 720 degrees on his neck after being hit. Luckily, his neck structure was several times more flexible than an owl's. Even though it was hit like this, his neck made a 'crackling' sound, but it didn't break.

Poor thing, Xing Tianli's slaps shattered the guy's cheeks, smashing all his teeth. Blood and flesh mixed with tooth fragments sprayed everywhere. The scene was so bad that anyone with a slightly soft heart would silently squeeze out tears.

"Enough, enough!" The man finally couldn't take it anymore. He yelled angrily, "Let's talk this out... You damned thing, you damned butcher... thug... perverted savage... I've never seen such a bastard as you!"

With a "ha!" Xing Tianli spun the Qingping Sword, and its four wings were sliced ​​off with a "snap".

With a wave of his hand, the Tower of Creation emitted a ray of spiritual light. Amidst the winged man's inhuman screams, the four large wings were absorbed into the Tower of Creation. Strands of divine light of creation swept over the four wings, trying to analyze their profound mysteries.

Before being brutally beaten by Xing Tianli, this guy was basically unconscious and had almost zero perception of the outside world.

In this state, the four wings can automatically protect the body and resist the wind blades. It can be seen that these wings are quite mysterious and worth studying. If the combat puppets created by Xing Tianli in the future all have two pairs of wings, wouldn't their combat power be greatly improved?

"Stop!" The jerk finally gave in: "Let's talk this out."

(End of this chapter)