Chapter 91 Rebuilding the Golden Body
The King of Zhen remained motionless for a long time. Zhen Su thought that he was displeased with this and was about to try to beg in a different way when the King of Zhen suddenly spoke.
"Call me 'I' one more time," said the Poison King.
"?" Majutsu paused, tilting his head, and said, "...Brother?"
The King of Poison twitched his lips, gave Shinju's head a half-smile, and instructed, "Don't soak for too long." With that, he turned and led his servants away.
Masahiro breathed a sigh of relief and headed to the Azure Palace alone.
The bathing pool in Bixiao Palace was still as spacious as ever. Zhen Su took off his clothes, immersed himself in the pool naked, sat cross-legged at the bottom of the pool, and then closed his eyes to look inward.
The most poisonous bone-cleansing and marrow-washing method in the "Five Ultimate Classics" is different from the ordinary bone-cleansing and marrow-washing method. It does not require soaking in the medicinal water made from the marrow-washing pill formula, nor is it the special spiritual marrow pool water naturally endowed with spiritual energy. Instead, it requires five kinds of poison, referred to as the "Five Poisons".
Extracting the five poisons was incredibly simple for Zhen Su. Since entering the palace, in his pursuit of mastering the art of poison, he had accumulated a wide variety of toxins, including those from spoiled food, the Five-Stone Powder and arsenic, plant poisons like oleander and datura, as well as love poisons and erysipelas…
Therefore, Shinju selected the five most toxic substances, extracted and reprocessed them from the Golden Elixir, and then released them into the bath until the water was completely blackened, without a trace of clarity, and shimmered with an oil-like luster.
Instead of pure spiritual energy cleansing his meridians, he was corroded by extremely poisonous venom, which repeatedly coated his meridians with the poison, turning them into dark black meridians that flowed throughout his body.
As someone who entered the ranks of immortals through the ultimate martial arts, Zhen Su had already forged his physical body to its ultimate perfection. However, with the shattering of his golden core, he could no longer maintain this perfect immortal body, so he could only use poison to block his acupoints and operate his immortal body at the bare minimum. At this moment, it is time to reopen all the acupoints, remove the limitations of the immortal body, and cleanse and purify his bones, flesh, heart, and marrow until all impurities are expelled.
The five poisons obscure the truth, while the poison of the heart is the source of youthful beauty.
Insects break free of their molts, buds emerge from their cocoons, snakes break through the soil—all things flourish, revealing new realms. One might ask, "What is this golden body?" It is simply a body clad in strong armor, its core firmly established, impervious to swords and spears, and immune to all poisons.
Half an hour later, lightning, like swimming fish, floated on the surface of the misty pool, making the gilded dragon pillars on the edge of the pool glitter.
Immediately afterwards, a pair of golden eyes, brighter than gold, slowly opened in the black water. The thick, filthy poisonous water had formed a shell around Shinjuku's body, which gradually cracked and dripped down.
As Shinjuku rose, his golden-scaled body, covered in golden patterns and standing eight feet tall, burst forth from the thick blackness, revealing skin as white as snow and radiating a holy glow, as if a god had descended.
His incredibly beautiful muscle lines were on full display, and as he looked at his True Immortal Body, which had returned to its best condition, Zhen Su couldn't help but reveal a look of satisfaction in his eyes.
He knew that he had already achieved enlightenment.
However, before they could rejoice for long, a sensation came rapidly from afar.
"How could this be!" Shinju reacted violently upon realizing the poison he had left on Tang Quan.
Tang Quan was the person Gu Yixiang had predicted would be the next to be possessed.
"Hmph." It was two days earlier than expected. Contrary to Gu Yixiang's prediction that the group would invade, he had taken precautions and poisoned Tang Quan to keep an eye on her.
Shinju climbed onto the pond bank, quickly put on his clothes which were too short, and suddenly realized that he could no longer hide his appearance with his hair.
However, he couldn't think of a solution to suppress his golden body and restore it to its previous state in the short term.
With Tang Quan's situation becoming increasingly urgent, Zhen Su made a snap decision and rushed out of Bixiao Palace, heading straight for Scorpion Shadow Palace where Tang Quan was located.
The Silver Scorpion Guards stationed around the Bixiao Palace were dumbfounded.
"Wait, who was that person who just rushed out?!"
"Isn't that Lord Qing?!"
"What kind of eyes do you have! That person is just wearing Lord Qing's clothes, but he's much more burly!! How could he possibly be Lord Qing?"
"...You mean, a wild man dressed as Lord Qing came out of Bixiao Palace?"
"..."
"…………"
"Hurry and chase after them!! I'm going to Bixiao Palace to see if Lord Qing is alright!"
"good!!"
Before an incense stick had burned, dark clouds obscured the moon, also covering the two pairs of azure eyes in the sky, but they could not block their penetrating divine sense.
"It seems that the True Lord has noticed our plan."
"If the True Lord discovers us, given his saintly heart, he will surely stop us. We must not be exposed; this time, we must completely eliminate the demon."
“Aside from the first time we managed to use our spiritual energy by luck, this formation triggered a restriction, locking us both in place and making it unusable. Why don’t we control the puppet together this time, and then, when that demon thinks he has banished you, hand it over to me and deliver the final blow?”
"Good! Last time we were just careless, and that old man's health was failing. This time he certainly won't be so lucky."
"This time, we must set things right and completely eliminate that demon. That scum is unworthy to be compared to a True Monarch! Anyone who is even remotely associated with him is an insult to the sect..."
After speaking, both pairs of blue eyes closed simultaneously, disappearing into the night.
Tang Quan, who was on duty at the Scorpion Shadow Palace, suddenly staggered, and his raised eyes, illuminated by the dim candlelight, appeared as deep as the sea.
Before she could act, her target appeared in her field of vision—
Shinju walked slowly to Tang Quan with a blank expression. His clothes were extremely ill-fitting and looked rather messy and unrestrained, which made Shinju's god-like golden body look wild and unruly. The golden patterns exposed outside the collar were so dazzling that they could burn Tang Quan's eyes.
"No, impossible! There's no spiritual energy in this world, how did you regain your golden body..." Tang Quan couldn't believe her eyes at all; the other party wasn't like this last time. Yet, within her consciousness, the intense golden light pierced her eyes, causing two streams of bloody tears to flow uncontrollably.
"It hurts!!—" Tang Quan clutched her head tightly, but she couldn't stop the golden light emanating from Shinju from piercing her mind and burning her soul.
Shinjuku remained silent, only staring intently at her with his golden eyes.
The ordeal lasted no more than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, yet it felt like several hours had passed.
"You, you demon! What kind of demonic arts have you cultivated..." Tang Quan finally managed to recover from the soul-crushing torment, and wanted to curse again, but found that she could not utter a sound. Then, in the blink of an eye, Shinju appeared face to face in front of her, his golden eyes like two full moons, while she was like the sea on land, rising and falling entirely at his control.
From that moment on, the flow of everything became extremely slow.
She watched as a hand gradually covered her face, and in the instant before it completely covered her, she glimpsed through the fingers a corner of someone's mouth turning up, and heard sharp, icy words piercing her ear, one by one—
"Is this how I taught you? To treat human life as worthless. Then let you be worthless for once."
Tang Quan's heart skipped a beat, and the fear etched into her body suddenly became vivid along with her memory.
But Shinju gave her no chance to recall. The Five Poisons were injected into the top acupoint of "Tang Quan", and in the blink of an eye, they rushed into her body and precisely bound the two souls inside.
"!!!" Get away quickly—
"?! How did you find me?!" You can't—
Unable to escape!! Grandmaster!
You mustn't kill us!!!
The words the two souls were about to utter were shattered, left behind in the previous moment, and silently vanished into this small world along with the dust.
Shinju coldly gazed at the sky, caught Tang Quan who was about to fall, placed her on a chair, and released a wisp of the energy he had regained from his fingertips, which he channeled into Tang Quan's crown chakra, stopping her aging process in time. A few clumps of white hair in her hair turned back to black and blended into her head of black hair.
At that moment, in Shinju's consciousness, the figures of the shadow guards were approaching. So Shinju turned around, concealed himself in the darkness, and slipped away.
"Uncle Wu..." Only a choked sigh remained.
In the world of cultivation, there is the Qingxuan Sect.
The servant who was managing the soul lamps was drowsy when a sudden gust of demonic wind blew by, and two soul lamps on the shelf belonging to the true disciples went out at the same time.
The servant thought he was seeing things, rubbed his eyes, and immediately scrambled out of the hall in a panic to deliver the message.
Soon, the entire inner sect learned that two promising disciples, Nascent Soul stage experts who were to represent the sect in the Tianyuan Competition next month, had suddenly died before the competition, their souls and spirits annihilated.
The corpse was found still kneeling in the cave on their peak, its seven orifices and five internal organs all rotten, as if it had been gnawed by some wild beast, but there was no trace of invasion anywhere.
This became a shocking unsolved case, and even nearly caused friction with competing sects.
The sect's newly appointed elder, True Lord Yilian, presided over the sacrificial ceremony for the two. Before a million people, she shed a single tear of a fairy who pitied all living beings, a beauty that was breathtaking. Afterwards, it became a popular song in the lower realm, attracting countless admirers, including many prominent figures in the cultivation world. Some even fought for her, making her the most famous person in the world for a time.
True Monk knew nothing about the affairs of the cultivation world, and the emptiness after his revenge enveloped him. In the dark where no one was, he remained silent.
Unable to find Zhen Su anywhere, the Silver Scorpion Guards had no choice but to report in detail to the King of Poison, including the unknown person who left Bixiao Palace.
"Where did this man come from?" King Zhen's brow twitched, and he immediately crushed the jade slip in his hand. Then, he flung his sleeves and strode out of the Zhengren Hall to personally arrest the man.
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Author's note: PS: The "eight feet" mentioned in this article refers to approximately 2.2 meters to 2.5 meters.
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