Three days later.
Purple Cloud Mountain.
One of the three realms' blessed lands, it was once a Bodhisattva's training ground.
Its wonders and strangeness are beyond words.
A poem as proof: Green pines shade the glorious realm, verdant cypresses surround the immortal dwelling.
Willow branches grace the mountain path, exotic flowers bloom along the gurgling stream.
No leaves fall in four seasons, flowers bloom throughout the eight festivals.
Auspicious mists touch the heavens, auspicious clouds connect with the Great Void.
But at this moment, Purple Cloud Mountain.
The mountain rocks and pines remain, but the auspicious clouds are gone.
In the midst of the mountain, there are no Buddhist temples, only a Taoist temple.
In the sky, there are no auspicious clouds, only threads.
Yes.
Threads as red as blood, hanging down from the boundless sky.
Like the fishing lines of an old fisherman, waiting for the pitiful fish to take the bait.
At this time, Xu Yuan's figure was walking through the Taoist temple on the mountain.
“Tsk tsk... Truly tragic.”
At this moment, he looked at the scene within the Taoist temple before him.
He couldn’t help but sigh with pity.
You see, at this moment,
Inside the Taoist temple, there were countless Yellow Flower Sect disciples wearing yellow robes and stone-like masks.
Their bodies were either corroded by poison gas or crushed by some massive claw.
Yes, they were all dead.
Needless to say.
These Yellow Flower Sect disciples staying on Purple Cloud Mountain.
Were naturally killed by the enraged Poisonous Enemy King.
“Fourth Sister was indeed right... Waiting three days before entering Purple Cloud Mountain did allow me to avoid a direct confrontation with the Poisonous Enemy King.”
At this moment, Xu Yuan secretly marveled at his wife’s reliability in his heart.
That’s right.
After deciding to enter Purple Cloud Mountain.
Fourth Sister didn’t ask much, didn’t persuade him, and didn’t ask to follow him.
It wasn’t that she was unwilling.
But she knew that her entering Purple Cloud Mountain would be meaningless to Xu Yuan.
If she faced the Poisonous Enemy King, she would only become a weakness for Xu Yuan.
So, she chose to wait outside.
She simply suggested that Xu Yuan wait three days before entering Purple Cloud Mountain.
And Xu Yuan followed her words, and saw what he saw now.
He could tell from the traces of the corpses.
The Poisonous Enemy King left less than a day ago.
In other words.
If he had come in earlier.
He would have run into the old scorpion directly.
“The Lotus Buds are all shattered, the old scorpion really doesn’t know a good thing... No wonder Poisonous Enemy Mountain has fallen into such a state.”
Xu Yuan softly commented as he walked up the mountain.
He had no pity for these dead Yellow Flower Sect disciples.
Because he knew that Purple Cloud Mountain was not a place ordinary Yellow Flower Sect disciples could enter.
Those who could come here were all those who were close to hatching Lotus Buds or those who were willing to pay any price to obtain them.
Taoists who were obsessed with immortality.
These people would sooner or later be consumed by the Lotus Buds and turn into Worm Feather Taoists.
They died cleanly.
As Xu Yuan walked forward.
His Divine Sense extended.
Soon, he found it.
At the southern side of Falling Flower Manor below Purple Cloud Mountain, there was a remarkably powerful aura.
“Poisonous Enemy King... Is he resting after slaughtering those Taoists?”
Xu Yuan identified the other’s identity.
If there were no accidents, it should be the Poisonous Enemy King.
But at this time, Xu Yuan did not pay attention to him.
Instead, he leaped forward.
He headed straight for the highest peak of Purple Cloud Mountain.
There, you could see a small courtyard on the mountaintop.
This was the ‘Nest Cloud Peak’.
On the mountain peak above Nest Cloud Peak.
There was a giant, ugly blood egg, like a heart.
The countless threads that fell from Purple Cloud Mountain were entangled with it.
At this moment...
“Buzz!”
The moment Xu Yuan stepped into Nest Cloud Peak, he activated the 【Ancient Silk of the Qinxian】transformation.
“Oh!”
A deafening roar, like that of a rooster, but also like a demon, echoed through the mountaintop.
And as the roar sounded.
Xu Yuan saw it.
The midday sun, originally so bright and warm, was now changing.
Red, blood-like moonlight spread from the sun.
In an instant.
The sun turned into a blood moon.
The entire sky, at this moment, turned into a bloody red.
Then...
“Boom!”
The giant, ugly blood egg, shattered!
From within the blood egg.
A giant monster, with a body of bone, the appearance of a rooster, and bull horns, fell down!
“Oh!”
It opened its mouth again, letting out a roar filled with resentment and hatred.
And Xu Yuan knew, naturally.
This giant monster was the demon that the Heavenly Court’s 昴日星官 (Mǎo Rì Xīng Guān - literally ‘Daybreak Star Official’, referring to a god who is said to be the Rooster star in Chinese astrology) transformed into after being robbed...
“Dimmed Moon Demon King!”
Xu Yuan whispered softly.
But then, he didn’t attack the Dimmed Moon Demon King directly.
Instead, he glanced behind him.
Then, he saw the ‘Poisonous Enemy King’ flying up from Falling Flower Manor below!
“Who！？Who summoned that beast!？”
“Baian, is that you！？You dare to come before me！？Do you still want to take away that beast?”
At this time, the Poisonous Enemy King, with blood-red eyes, flew forward.
His eyes first fell on the giant Dimmed Moon Demon King, revealing hatred - his wife, the Scorpion Demon, was killed by the Daybreak Star Official!
But then, when he saw Xu Yuan.
His expression was startled: “Who are you!?”
“Poisonous Enemy King.”
At this moment, Xu Yuan was polite.
He bowed slightly to the Poisonous Enemy King.
Then, he softly said: “This Daoist is Xu Yuan, you should have heard of...”
“Die!”
He didn’t finish his sentence.
Because the moment he uttered the words “Xu Yuan,”
The Poisonous Enemy King’s eyes turned blood-red!
“The villain who killed my children!”
“Such a villain! Such a villain!”
“You and this beast, die together today!”
The Poisonous Enemy King’s figure was ferocious, the demonic energy of his body was a raging black cloud.
It almost stained the entire blood-red sky black on one side.
He didn’t hesitate.
From behind him, from the giant tail stinger that far surpassed that of his four Scorpion Princes.
An ominous venom, with a greenish hue.
Burst forth.
At that same moment...
“Buzz!”
Xu Yuan saw it.
Wherever the tail stinger passed.
Lush trees withered.
Solid rocks turned to dust silently.
The green earth turned red before his eyes.
Even the immortal energy and spiritual energy dimmed.
Even the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas would frown.
That was...
“Tail! Sting! Needle!”
Grass in the mouth of a viper, a scorpion’s tail sting - this is the most toxic thing known to mortals of the four continents.
And the Poisonous Enemy King’s poison was even worse.
He and his deceased wife had once listened to scriptures and practiced in front of the Buddha of the Great Thunder Sound Temple.
They received the Buddha’s spiritual essence and swallowed the aura of the Dharma Realm several times.
Finally, they cultivated a poison.
It was called ‘Horse-Killing Poison’.
Once this poison was unleashed, immortals and Buddhas could not resist it.
In the past, it even stung the Buddha’s golden body.
And this Horse-Killing Poison in his tail sting was even more extraordinary!
“My children, your father will avenge you now!”
Seeing Xu Yuan standing motionless, the Poisonous Enemy King roared in his heart.
But the next moment.
He saw an unbelievable sight.
Xu Yuan’s body was surging with magical power.
The vast magical power swept away, even blowing away the half-black demonic cloud in the sky!
And the next moment, Xu Yuan raised his hand.
“Boom!”
So, before the Poisonous Enemy King’s incredulous eyes.
Xu Yuan actually used his hand to directly block his tail sting!
“Impossible!”
At this moment, the Poisonous Enemy King couldn’t help but utter in disbelief.
“How can you have already reached the Immortal Dao?”
Yes, these were the two most unbelievable things in his mind.
He could naturally tell.
Xu Yuan’s magical power at this moment, and his immortal aura.
Clearly, he had achieved the Immortal Dao through the fusion of dragon and tiger.
But before his four children perished, he had investigated.
He knew that Xu Yuan’s cultivation seemed to only be at the True Transformation Realm!
From True Transformation to Immortal Dao... How long has it been！？
What made it even more unacceptable was.
“How can you withstand my Horse-Killing Poison!?”
His Horse-Killing Poison sting, which could poison gods and Buddhas and taint golden bodies.
Now, it was held in Xu Yuan’s hand.
It couldn’t infect him in the slightest!
“What are you exactly!?”
He roared, subconsciously trying to retract his giant tail.
But it was at this moment...
“Buzz!”
The Poisonous Enemy King saw it.
A colorful thread appeared from Xu Yuan’s body!
It only touched his giant tail, winding around it.
The Poisonous Enemy King found that his tail, which could break thousand-jin rocks, was actually tied up, unable to break the thread!
Then, he saw Xu Yuan smile.
“I’ve got you!”
“Got me!?”
But at this moment, the Poisonous Enemy King was instead provoked into a frenzy.
“No matter what you are, a mere junior who has just entered the Immortal Dao... Even without Horse-Killing Poison, I will devour you!”
As a long-lived demon king, he was a seasoned warrior.
Although he didn’t know why Xu Yuan was so special.
He had already sensed it.
Although Xu Yuan had reached the Immortal Dao, his magical power was not particularly profound or mysterious.
Even if the Horse-Killing Poison was ineffective, just relying on brute force... He was confident that he could defeat him!
“Got me, what of it? Let’s see how you...”
He didn’t finish his sentence.
Because the next moment, he saw a huge shadow appearing behind Xu Yuan.
Followed by a clear rooster crow.
It was the crow that appeared in every nightmare the Poisonous Enemy King had.
And so...
“Chi!”
A sharp bone tail pierced his body from behind.
That bone tail was so familiar to the Poisonous Enemy King.
“My wife...”
It was his wife’s tail.
During the Journey to the West, she was killed by the Daybreak Star Official.
Her scorpion tail was also taken by the Daybreak Star Official.
Now it seems, it was actually refined into a weapon for the Dimmed Moon Demon King by the Baian Demon King.
Then... it tore his body in two!
The Poisonous Enemy King’s figure was thrown away by the force, landing heavily.
His soul shattered, his demonic energy dissipated.
But as a demon king, his vitality kept him from dying instantly even like this.
So, he saw the last image of his demonic life.
At this moment.
The ferocious Dimmed Moon Demon King, appearing with the blood moon and the red sky.
Was like a docile pet.
Its massive body bowed slightly, prostrating itself.
And the one it was bowing to was none other than.
Xu Yuan.
“I’ve been tricked.”
This was the last thought of the Poisonous Enemy King.