Chapter 73

The cave entrance was deep and nearly vertical, extending for nearly a hundred zhang. The handsome young man jumped down and used his innate true essence to make himself as light as a feather. At the same time, he occasionally grabbed the steep cave walls to slow his descent. After a while, he finally touched the ground.

"This is really deep. Hmm, where is Master's secret chamber?" The handsome young man looked around and cautiously moved forward along the winding passage. The front was already bathed in a dazzling green light. Soon, he saw an open stone door. Inside the stone door, there was a green glow, and there was also a chilling aura.

"Master." The handsome young man called out from outside the stone door.

"Come in." A sharp voice commanded.

"Yes." The handsome young man suppressed his fear and walked in. It was a sealed stone chamber about ten zhang in diameter. In the center of the stone chamber, there was a large rock, and on the rock sat a man wearing a loose black robe, with black long hair and a pale, emaciated face. The man's eyes emitted a faint green light, and his entire body exuded a tangible evil aura.

In front of him was a large tripod, and on the tripod burned a cold green flame. Above the green flame floated an ancient, blood-red banner. On the banner were numerous fierce faces, silently screaming and roaring, fighting and devouring each other.

The entire banner was surrounded by a visible black glow.

"Sin!" The handsome young man's heart trembled, "Great sin!"

Doing good deeds brings merit, and doing evil deeds brings sin. A person with great sin naturally exudes a terrifying evil aura. However, the sin on the banner was visible to the naked eye, which was even more terrifying.

"This is a magical treasure born from boundless sin." The handsome young man was both frightened and greedy. He knew that refining such a great sin magical treasure would be extremely dangerous during the three calamities and nine tribulations, but the power of such a magical treasure was also astonishing. This was why some evil cultivation methods, despite causing great sin, still had cultivators willing to learn them.

Because the path of evil accelerates cultivation and can even allow one to fight beyond their rank.

"No wonder Master said that once his magical treasure is completed, even a Ten Thousand Phenomena Immortal would not be feared." The handsome young man held his breath.

"Little Seven." The man with the long hair sitting cross-legged spoke in a sharp voice, "Gan'er was my first disciple, like my own son! How can I, Bozi Shan, let Ji Ning off for killing my son?"

The handsome young man bowed his head.

"I am refining a magical treasure and cannot spare the time." Bozi Shan's green eyes glanced at the handsome young man. Refining such a great sin magical treasure was extremely dangerous. If attacked during the process, one could be killed by countless ghosts, causing one's soul to dissipate. Of course, one could forcibly stop, but the cost would be great.

"Little Seven, I grant you a vial of Heart-Eroding Powder." A porcelain bottle appeared in Bozi Shan's left palm, and he casually threw it to the handsome young man.

The handsome young man caught it and looked at the porcelain bottle in his hand with shock, "Heart-Eroding Powder?"

He had heard of the reputation of Heart-Eroding Powder. A single vial of Heart-Eroding Powder was more valuable than a rank-entering magical treasure. Many Purple Mansion cultivators had died from Heart-Eroding Powder, making it even harder to obtain. His master, with his connections within the sect, managed to get this terrifying poison.

"If I could spare the time, would I waste a vial of Heart-Eroding Powder?" Bozi Shan said sharply, "Remember, smash the vial within ten zhang of Ji Ning. He will surely be poisoned. Although the poison takes three days to take effect, once poisoned, it is almost impossible to remove. Even if he is a divine body cultivator and practices the legendary Chiming Nine Heavens Chart, he will surely die!"

The handsome young man nodded.

"Remember, be careful yourself, stay far away. If you are poisoned, come back to me, and I will give you the antidote." Bozi Shan said.

"Poisoning him, I am confident I can do it." The handsome young man said.

"Go." Bozi Shan's gaze returned to the blood-red banner burning in the green flame. Numerous ghosts emerged from the banner, silently screaming and roaring at Bozi Shan, but his green eyes remained cold.

The handsome young man respectfully withdrew and quickly leaped along the deep cave, occasionally grabbing some protrusions on the stone wall. Soon, he emerged from the cave entrance.

Clack, clack, clack~~~

Iron plates rotated, and the cave entrance closed again.

...

Black mist spread.

Water and fire lotuses surrounded Ji Ning's divine soul, which was rapidly deducing. Various array models appeared in his mind, and the structure of the arrays kept changing. In this intense research, Ji Ning's understanding of arrays continued to improve.

"Hmm?" Ji Ning suddenly felt a sense of foreboding.

With his powerful divine soul, he could sense the impending danger. The last time he had this feeling was when he was about to enter the third level of the ancient water mansion. This time, the feeling was even stronger, as if no matter how he tried, he could not escape the impending crisis.

"Danger?" Ji Ning opened his eyes and looked around.

Suddenly—

The black mist on the left side parted, and a large number of white threads instantly enveloped him. In the distance, the handsome young man held a duster in one hand and a talisman in the other. The white threads from the duster quickly approached Ji Ning.

"Hmph." Ji Ning's hands appeared with twin swords, and the water and fire lotus blocked the white threads.

"Bang!"

When the hundreds of white threads collided with the water and fire lotus, something seemed to explode. Ji Ning then noticed that the hundreds of white threads were entangled with a porcelain bottle, which shattered upon contact. As the bottle shattered, the sense of impending danger became even stronger, and Ji Ning's face changed.

"There must be something in the bottle." Ji Ning was not foolish, but he could not see or smell anything.

The handsome young man immediately retracted the duster and used a talisman to escape as soon as the bottle shattered.

"This, this bottle..." Ji Ning felt uneasy.

"Ah."

Suddenly, his heart felt a sharp pain, and Ji Ning's face turned pale as he clutched his chest. The Chiming divine power in his body immediately began to search, but it could not detect any toxins. However, his heart continued to throb painfully, and his entire body felt a faint ache, which he could not stop, even his head ached.

"What to do? The toxins are spreading throughout my body, and my Chiming divine power and divine sense cannot detect them." At this moment, Ji Ning remembered the black ox's words in the water mansion: do not underestimate any opponent, especially cultivators.

Cultivators have various means. A single vial of poison can kill you, and no matter how skilled you are in battle, they will not engage you.

This is what cultivators are!

No one knows what means they might use...

"Ha ha ha." A triumphant laugh came from the distance, "Ji Ning, no matter how talented you are, you will surely die."

Inside the great array, Ji Ning's face was grim. Although his Chiming divine power and divine sense could not detect the toxins, the pain in his body made him feel that the toxins were gradually spreading throughout his body. Although the spread was slow, it was steady, and his powerful divine body could not expel them.

"What a powerful poison, colorless, odorless, and undetectable." Ji Ning was alarmed, "Although it does not take effect immediately like ordinary poisons, it seems to be deeply rooted in every cell, making it impossible to eliminate. If this continues, my body will be finished in a few days."

"A few days?"

Ji Ning's eyes were filled with madness.

"In these last few days, even if I die, I must break the array." Ji Ning's heart burned with intense anger, "I will kill them one by one, and perhaps I will get the antidote from them."

"There is no way back."

"I must break the array!"

Ji Ning sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and the protective lotus surrounded him. He then frantically deduced the array.

...

In the mountain's belly.

After the handsome young man entered, he glanced at the shocked and angry Meng Yu, Ji Wuyu, and other Ji clan members, as well as members from the Ji clan's East, North, South, and Main residences, who all glared at him angrily.

"What are you looking at? Your Ji Ning is poisoned and will surely die within three days." The handsome young man was extremely confident, "Not just him, even if a Purple Mansion cultivator is poisoned, they will surely die."

"Our Ji clan's ancestor will come."

"He will surely kill all of you and save Ji Ning."

Meng Yu and others refused to believe that Ji Ning would die.

"Ha ha ha, your clan's ancestor?" The handsome young man laughed wildly, "With the small tribes in Yan Mountain, how could they have such poison? Even in my sect, such poison is hard to obtain. Don't look at me; I won't tell you what poison it is."

"Go to hell."

"You will all die."

The Ji clan members cursed, and even the other bound divine body cultivators despaired and cursed.

...

In the inner city of the Ji clan's West Residence.

Ji Yichuan was accompanying his wife Weichi Xue, occasionally looking out the door.

Suddenly, through the door, he saw two people on the back of a green-flamed bird in the distant sky. One was Ji Honghua in red clothes, and the other was a gray-robed old man with fiery red hair. Ji Yichuan immediately recognized him as the true pillar of the entire Ji clan—Ji Jiuhuo, the clan leader!

"Xue, Xue, the clan leader is here." Ji Yichuan called out.

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