Eternal Life

Devil General

‘Devouring Golden Centipedes’ are a very rare species of ancient poisonous bugs, known for eating underground mineral veins of Five Gold and drinking extremely poisonous water to survive. Thus, their bodies are impervious to blades and arrows and one bite, even to a ‘Divine Realm’ cultivator, means instant death. The ‘Seven Evil Spirits Gourd’ is a pure yang treasure, and its pure yang qi has nourished these ‘Devouring Golden Centipedes’, causing their sh.e.l.ls to be even more condensed! See, the jade green flames can only slightly burn them, but is unable to completely kill them. However, this is also partly due to the fact that Jin Shi Tai’s cultivation isn’t high enough. If he had cultivated his ‘Primal Qi’ to ‘Universal Qi’, then these centipedes would all be dead.

[TL: Unsure how accurate my translation for 罡气 (universal qi) is, 罡 is a Daoist term and Baike has just confused me more]

Watching the swarm of centipedes flying out, seeing them rush out of the jade green flames and be burned yet not dead and hearing them emit weird cries, ‘zhi ya zhi ya’, Yan couldn’t help but snicker.

Afterwards, another swarm of forty-nine eye-catching demonic bees flew out. These demonic bees’ whole bodies seemed to be made of metallic hairs, their behinds seemingly a beautiful, shrunken female face. A long stinger protruded from its behind; Fang Han had no doubt that this stinger could even pierce through steel.

The toxic ‘Beautiful Demonic Bee’!

Another species of rare toxic creatures.

Then flew out a swarm of blood mosquitoes. This swarm of mosquitoes was most secretive as they flew out, their bodies only the size of a thumb, seemingly sculptures carved out of blood jade, except for the ‘weng weng weng’ sounds. However, in but a breath, they all suddenly inflated, becoming even larger than a fist. Horrifyingly, terribly scary.

These ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’ are the first of the seven poisons. Legend has it that only within the blood ponds of the most mysterious Xue’ying Clan of the Devil Path can nurture these bugs. Upon biting a person, their blood will instantly be completely sucked out. This isn’t the most horrific thing, the most horrific thing…

Yan suddenly began to laugh.

What’s the most horrific thing? hurriedly asked Fang Han.

While waiting for the reply, there was suddenly a bang! A powerful explosion. What had happened was that when the first blood mosquito inflated, it had left the sky wolf smoke and been burned by the jade green flames. It let out a mournful sound which sounded kind of like an owl.

‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’ weren’t completely flame r.e.t.a.r.dant like the ‘Beautiful Demonic Bees’ and ‘Devouring Golden Centipedes’. As such, they were badly barbequed and severely injured after rushing through the jade green flames. Thus, they struggled to rush forth, and after rushing through a great distance and approaching near Jin Shi Tai, they suddenly exploded, letting off huge bangs!

These powerful explosions caused the jade green flames to be dispersed greatly. These poisonous ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’, upon suffering a critical injury, would explode. The force of these explosions was about as powerful as the explosion of gunpowder.

When Fang Han was still a servant in the Long’yuan Province, he had observed the government using gunpowder to explode mountains and channels which then served as water irrigation. The explosion of a barrel of gunpowder caused mountain rocks to fly so violently it was shocking, yet the explosions of the blood mosquitoes he was witnessing right now, the power was no lower than that of the gunpowder. The great blast almost even dispersed the wolf smoke.

He never would have expected that such a small bug would actually contain such horrifying force.

“‘Seven Ancient Poisons’! It actually is the ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’ of the ‘Seven Ancient Poisons’! Within the ‘Seven Evil Spirits Gourd’, there are actually ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’.”

Jin Shi Tai had focused all of the ‘Jade Green Seven Xiu Devil’s flames towards melting the wolf steel. Within his eyes, Fang Han wasn’t even worth mentioning. As a true disciple, there was no way for him to not look down upon an outer court disciple. And as a ‘Divine Realm’ cultivator, he looked down on ‘Mortal Realm’ cultivators as ants.

One with the ability to use mysteries of the vast ‘Divine Realm’ and one who could only use their flesh. Comparing the two, no wonder it was as different as ants and elephants.

However, Fang Han had suddenly, unexpectedly released toxic bugs. Upon seeing the ‘Devouring Golden Centipedes’ and ‘Beautiful Demonic Bees’ flying towards him, Jin Shi Tai had to release his mana, using it to grasp the two swarms of poisonous bugs and then erase their sanity to use for himself. He never expected that ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’ would also fly out and rush at him until within ten zhang and explode violently. These violent explosions almost dispersed his mana, which would have resulted in him falling to the ground.

Amidst the chaos, his body straightened up and he quickly soared high into the sky.

The bugs were unable to fly very high, and thus Jin Shi Tai hoped to use alt.i.tude to evade these swarms of toxic bugs. The ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’ had caused him to feel fear.

The ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’ which could explode were just such a lethal species of toxic bugs, they could be considered to be one of the greatest achievements of refining bugs by the Devil Clans. Even if a flying sword was used to kill them, upon contact with the mosquito, it would explode resulting in an explosion that would blow the sword away, or perhaps even break the sword.

Violently explosive blood bombs, nothing was more powerful.

Now you can see the power of the ‘Blood Pond Mosquitoes’. When this mosquito explodes, it is called a ‘Blood Bomb’. They are specialized for penetrating the ‘Immortal Path’s body-defending ‘Primal Qi’ and ‘Universal Qi’. Within the ‘Seven Evil Spirits Gourd’, as long as you keep a male and a female blood mosquito and nourish them with spiritual blood, then those blood mosquitoes will constantly produce offspring. This is the secret that the ‘Demon G.o.d’ traded for thousands of years ago with the Xue’ying Clan’s clan head, the ‘b.l.o.o.d.y Shadow Great Emperor’.

Yan seemed to know everything.

Especially the previous generation of Devil Emperors, Demon G.o.ds, and Supreme Immortals, he was very familiar with all of them. He clearly demonstrated his ancientness, his thousands of years of living.

“Jin Shi Tai, what other tricks you have, you better use them. You are unable to kill me today, and once Fang Qing Xue senior sister cleanses off the Demonic qi, you will be truly over. The Yu’hua School will have be missing a true disciple.”

Fang Han saw Jin Shi Tai rise far in the distance, rising to the limits of the sky, yet didn’t direct the toxic bugs to chase and attack. He hurriedly shook the gourd, his mind ordering, and immediately all of the toxic bugs flew back into the gourd and within their respective cubicles.

It was best to not chase, in case some problem occurred with the toxic bugs, and thus he stored him. To protect himself and wait for Fang Qing Xue to wake up, that was the correct path of action.

“Jin junior brother, leave, and I will talk over it with Fang junior sister,” at this time, a faint voice emanated over from the horizon. Along with the sound was a stream of sparkling, shining golden light, as long as a waterfall, and directly cutting the white clouds in the sky in half.

Whoosh!

The sound had yet to disperse when this stream of golden light arrived in front of Fang Han, stopping on a sand dune over ten zhang away. The speed of this golden light was as fast as its sound.

The golden light scattered, it was actually a person clothed in golden clothes. It was a young person with golden eyelids. They, with their pair of eyes which seemed devoid of emotion, stared at Fang Han and Fang Qing Xue who were amid the wolf smoke.

In particular, upon seeing Fang Qing Xue who was encapsulated within the purple electricity coc.o.o.n and surrounded by the ‘Yin Yang Purple Lightning Snakes’, his face changed color and his brows curved.

This is a true expert! He is even stronger than Jin Shi Tai. Don’t rashly make any moves, he cultivates ‘Great Unrestrained Mysterious Gold Sword Qi’, something as sharp and chilly as the ‘Heavenly Cold Mysterious Profound Strength’ ‘Divine Will’. Do not make a move, you will die as soon as you do.

Yan saw Fang Han’s foolish desire to make a move, and hurriedly warned him.

The Yu’hua School’s eight great ‘Divine Wills’, the ‘Purple Yin Lightning Knife’, the ‘Jade Green Flame Seven Xiu Devil’, the ‘Great Unrestrained Mysterious Gold Sword Qi’, and the ‘Heavenly Cold Mysterious Profound Strength’ were things only true disciples could cultivate.

[TL: Yes I realize it is only four and yet I put eight]

“I am the true disciple of ‘Stone Dragon Peak’, I am called Shi Long Zi. What is your name?” This pract.i.tioner in golden clothes seemed to not be as bad as Jin Shi Tai, immediately declaring their ident.i.ty.

“Outer court disciple, Fang Han,” replied Fang Han, trying to not act rashly.

“Please move out of the way,” said Shi Long Zi, wrinkling his brows.

“I don’t know why Shi senior brother wants to kill Fang senior sister? Can it be that our Yu’hua School isn’t an ‘Immortal Path’ school and is in fact a dog eat dog ‘Devil Path’ school? Although I am an outer court disciple, I still know the school rules. The Yu’hua School headmaster and those of the venerable ‘Immortal Path’ are perspicacious, your actions can be found by those elders,” said Fang Han, mustering his courage.

“I don’t intend to kill Fang junior sister, I only hope to ask her for something, and convince her to hand it to the school elders. This thing’s stake is rather large, and is crucial towards the growth and extermination of the Immortal and Devil Paths. Although you wield the ‘Seven Evil Spirits Gourd’, you are not my opponent. Even if you insert seven flying swords and form the ‘Seven Killing Swords Array’, you cannot change anything.”

Shi Long Zi slowly continued, “However, I am not willing to hurt you. Jin junior brother was a little bit impatient. If you care, how about I give you a flying sword as an apology?”

[TL: I think the author dropped a character here, doesn’t make sense to apologize if he is willing to hurt him]

This is a true ‘Immortal Path’ model, unlike Jin Shi Tai who ate pellets to breakthrough into the ‘Divine Realm’. The closer he is to being like this, the stronger he is, cautioned Yan.

“These many things, let us wait until Qing Xue senior sister wakes up before we discuss it. We are all Yu’hua School disciples, why can we not happily talk about it?” Fang Han couldn’t relax in the slightest.

“Boy, you are only an outer court disciple, yet you dare to speak. Do you want to die?” Jin Shi Tai landed down from the sky, his face overflowing with anger. He seemed to want Fang Han dead on the spot.

“Junior brother, calm down,” Shi Long Zi waved his hand, “I truly don’t want to bully the weak.”

“But,” Jin Shi Tai hurriedly replied, his eyes flashing with a sliver of coldness.

“No buts, even if that thing is held by Fang junior sister, my interest isn’t very great. The only reason I listened to your words was so I could meet the person by Fang junior sister’s side. The Devil Schools’ thousand year genius, the son of the Xian’tian Devil Emperor, Devil General Ying Tian Qing.”

While Shi Long Zi spoke indifferently, he suddenly increased the volume of his voice by several times, shouting towards the sky. His voice unexpectedly carried faint traces of golden color, piercing through the sky and emanating to areas a hundred li away.

“Ying Tian Qing, I know you will appear. As long as Fang junior sister is in danger, you will appear. Why do you still not appear? Could it be that you don’t believe that my ‘Great Unrestrained Mysterious Golden Sword Qi’ is incapable of piercing through Fang junior sister’s purple lightning ‘Divine Will’?”

Loud words continuously conveyed out.

A long, long time pa.s.sed without any answer.

“If that is the case, then I shall make my move!” Shi Long Zi took a step forward.

“Shi Long Zi, if you dare move a single finger, I will completely shatter you,” at this time, a howl emanated over through the sky!