That was her wish: to see Elder Zou become the world’s number one Poison Cultivator.

Zou Feng stood dazed in Zhi Shuang’s room for a long while. His expression showed no sign of being touched, nor did he find it amusingly absurd.

Instead, his face was grim.

’Zhi Shuang should still be hiding on Hundred-legged Ridge right now...’

Zou Feng fell silent in thought for a moment, then simply sat down cross-legged on the spot.

’Forget everything else for now. I need to finish the Refinement of this Third Grade Corpse Poison.’

He had just taken out several Fourth Grade cultivators, so his collection of Corpse Poison was growing larger.

’Refining all this Corpse Poison at once... the side effects will be off the charts. No doubt about it.’

But for Zou Feng, that was exactly what he wanted.

Not only were there plenty of "big brothers" on the List of Gods now, but this was also a perfect opportunity to let the True Qi Realm masters of the Celestial Essence Sword Sect enjoy a world of hurt.

At this moment, most of the True Qi Realm masters from the Celestial Essence Sword Sect who had invaded Biyou Palace were surely on the mountain peak, attacking the Five Poison Hall.

The Five Poison Hall had yet to fall, which meant the battle had reached a stalemate.

But the situation was undoubtedly dire.

After all, the fact that the Celestial Essence Sword Sect had dared to come to Biyou Palace and still hadn’t retreated meant they were extremely confident in their ability to take the Five Poison Hall.

And once the Five Poison Hall was breached, the Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array could no longer be maintained.

Biyou Palace would then face nothing but the fate of complete annihilation.

’Although I don’t know who has the upper hand,’ Zou Feng thought, ’as long as I can transfer the side effects and make a few of the Celestial Essence Sword Sect’s True Qi Realm masters miserable, affecting their condition, the situation might just change.’

It was important to remember that the truly decisive factor in this war between Biyou Palace and the Celestial Essence Sword Sect was, and always had been, the duel between the True Qi Realm masters.

So, if a few of the Celestial Essence Sword Sect’s True Qi Realm masters suddenly came down with a mysterious case of explosive diarrhea, it could very well turn the tide of battle.

The next moment, Zou Feng immediately began the Refinement of the Corpse Poison.

He casually assigned the "number one big brother" spot on the list to a Third Grade cultivator from the Celestial Essence Sword Sect who had just been added.

***

On the peak of Cloud Mist Mountain, in an open area not far from the Five Poison Hall.

Several True Qi Realm masters from the Sword Sect, their faces grim, were driving the Wind and Thunder Sword Array to continuously bombard the Five Poison Hall.

The Five Poison Hall, meanwhile, was shrouded in a dense, earthy-yellow poisonous fog under the enhancement of the Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array.

All sorts of venomous creatures constantly materialized within the poisonous fog, frantically attacking the surrounding Sword Sect disciples.

As for the dense waves of Sword Qi from the Wind and Thunder Sword Array hurtling toward the Five Poison Hall, they too were being blocked by these creatures, which would leap recklessly into the air to intercept them.

In short, the confrontation on the mountain peak was entirely a "battle of techniques," a far cry from the back-and-forth melee happening down the mountain.

Before long, five True Qi Realm masters from the Sword Sect hastily retreated from the poisonous fog.

Having ventured deep into the Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array, their complexions were naturally quite poor, some tinged with blue, others with green.

After flying out of the poisonous fog’s range, the five men immediately began Cultivating with all their might, simultaneously drawing on the power of the Wind and Thunder Sword Array to quickly purge the poison from their bodies.

"It’s no use! We killed one of them, but we still can’t break through!"

"The Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array certainly lives up to its reputation. I fear our Sect Leader underestimated this array..."

It was clear that the Celestial Essence Sword Sect’s True Qi Realm masters had split into two teams. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

One team remained outside to drive and maintain the Wind and Thunder Sword Array, bombarding the Five Poison Hall.

The other team acted as an assault squad, repeatedly striking at the weak points of the Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array like a sharp sword, attempting to create an opening.

As for the mention of "killing one," it was obvious that a True Qi Realm master from Biyou Palace had fallen.

"Where is Junior Brother He? Why isn’t he here yet?"

A bearded man in the assault squad looked around, his voice filled with confusion.

Hearing this, the several men outside controlling the Wind and Thunder Sword Array showed expressions of sorrow.

"Junior Brother He... he..."

In truth, they had ways of immediately sensing the death of a fellow True Qi Realm sect brother.

The one who had asked the question had simply been too preoccupied deep within the enemy’s formation to notice.

This True Qi Realm Sword Cultivator from the Celestial Essence Sword Sect who was asking about He Yuan’s whereabouts was named Chen Jun, nicknamed the Fire Fierce Sword. He was quite close with He Yuan within the Sect.

In fact, there were seven True Qi Realm masters in the Celestial Essence Sword Sect who were as close as brothers and were known as the Sword Sect’s Seven Extremes Sword.

The seven of them had once descended the mountain together to annihilate a relatively weak Evil Sect.

That feat became a celebrated tale in the Jianghu, known as the "Seven Swords Descend the Celestial Mountain."

Now, upon learning of the death of his brother from the Seven Swords, Chen Jun was, as expected, overcome with uncontrollable rage.

"Who did it?"

"Most likely Zou Feng..."

He Yuan, the Flying Snow Sword, had wanted to avenge Zhao Ke. Before coming to attack Biyou Palace, he had spoken of it so often that everyone knew.

When He Yuan didn’t show up at the peak earlier, anyone could guess he had gone to settle accounts with Zou Feng.

Therefore, He Yuan’s sudden death was inextricably linked to Zou Feng.

Furthermore, as a demon with a Demon Slaying Order on his head and the home-field advantage, it wasn’t entirely impossible that Zou Feng had ambushed and killed He Yuan.

Seeing that Chen Jun was about to lose his composure and charge off recklessly to avenge He Yuan, the other True Qi Realm masters from the Sword Sect present quickly tried to talk him down.

"Calm down! The bigger picture is more important!"

"Jing Huaisong could make his move at any moment! There’s no need to rush for revenge!"

The mention of Jing Huaisong only made Chen Jun even angrier.

"Where is Jing Huaisong? We’ve been waiting for him to act for so long! What the hell has he been doing, dragging his feet like this!" Chen Jun cursed.

The Jing Huaisong they spoke of was the current Sword Saint of the Celestial Essence Sword Sect.

There was no sign of Jing Huaisong nearby. As the Sword Saint, he was used to acting independently.

Even during this assault on Biyou Palace, Jing Huaisong had used the excuse of "brewing his Sword Intent" to disappear somewhere, and no one knew when he would finally strike.

But all the Sword Sect’s True Qi Realm masters present were certain that the moment Jing Huaisong did act, the heavily depleted Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array would almost certainly collapse.

The others tried to persuade Chen Jun a bit more, but his expression only grew darker, and he began to walk away, ignoring them.

"Chen Jun, I told you not to be impulsive! Besides, Cloud Mist Mountain is vast. How can you be so sure you’ll even find Zou Feng?"

Chen Jun was unmoved and kept walking.

"If you insist on going, don’t blame me for reporting this to the Sect Leader..."

At this, Chen Jun finally stopped. He turned back irritably and snapped, "I have to take a shit!"

The others naturally didn’t believe him. While even True Qi Realm Martial Artists have to answer nature’s call, their control over their own bodies was so strong that they would never lose control.

"Junior Brother Chen, if you’re going to make an excuse to get revenge, at least come up with a believable one!"

Seeing his fellow sect members’ disbelief, Chen Jun, who was already agitated and uncomfortable, finally exploded.

"Fine! Fine! You don’t believe me, huh? Then I won’t be discreet about it. I’ll show you right now whether I’m telling the truth or not!"

With that, he undid his belt, first pissed a good thirty feet into the wind, and then squatted down and unleashed a torrent right where he stood.

The force of a True Qi Realm expert "unleashing a torrent" was just as exaggeratedly powerful.

A series of deep, explosive rumbles echoed out, and the entire mountaintop seemed to tremble slightly from the impact.

Soon, a thick, foul stench permeated the area.

The smell was so bad that all the other True Qi Realm masters present couldn’t help but wrinkle their brows in disgust.

Some even felt they would rather smell the poisonous gas from the Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array than this putrid odor.

This foul stench, which these high and mighty figures hadn’t smelled in a very long time, was so overwhelming that it even caused their morale to drop significantly.

’What in the world did this guy eat to reek so badly?!’

Of course, Chen Jun wasn’t intentionally trying to disgust his sect brothers.

He had no idea why, but he had suddenly been hit by an upset stomach, and he was completely unable to control it.

However, he had just charged through the Five Poison Devouring Immortal Array. It was very likely he had been afflicted by some kind of Exotic Poison that hadn’t been purged yet.

So, it wasn’t all that strange that he was having stomach problems.

"Junior Brother Chen... you... if you had to relieve yourself, why couldn’t you do it in private? This... this is utterly undignified!" one of them exclaimed, flicking his sleeve forcefully.

Chen Jun, already in a terrible mood and now with his body acting up, had completely let himself go.

Hearing this accusation, a furious rage surged straight to Chen Jun’s head. He immediately cursed back, "Fuck it! I told you I had to go, but you wouldn’t let me leave! And now you’re blaming me!?"