Gold-bodied Venerable One did not want to show a weak impression; it breathed slowly.
Even though it looked like its momentum was not as fearsome as that of the 2 other Venerable Ones, Ghost-clawed and Black-faced knew they were inferior to it in terms of breathing out poisonous gas.
Gold-bodied Venerable One was silent, but it was so well-known for its mightiness in poison that it could be in the top 3 among the Insects.
Seeing as how leisure it was, Ghost-clawed Venerable One and Black-faced Venerable One exchanged glances and had the same thought.
‘A barking dog won’t bite, whereas a biting dog won’t bark.
‘We should be more cautious around Gold-bodied in the future.’
Fortunately, Gold-bodied Venerable One did not know what its comrades were thinking while it was working hard, or it would have been so furious that it would vomit blood.
As the 3 Venerable Ones worked together, the poisonous fog’s toxicity seemed to have increased. Even when the Big Mountain-guarding Formation was strengthened, it seemed to be on the verge of collapsing and could not hold on any longer.
Nevertheless, Ou Yangming was not paying attention to the formation.
Since the formation was being handled by Yuqi the Venerable One, it was not something that the young fellow could be concerned about.
Ou Yangming was not someone that would worry about everything while also having to look after himself.
He had curbed his thought and was focusing on the poisonous pill’s spirit.
The young fellow sensed that the centipede’s body shrunk again, such that it was almost only the size of a normal person’s thumb and was even smaller than the poisonous pill itself. Its body might have contracted, but the vortex above its head grew much bigger and was spinning faster than it was before.
Plenty of poisonous gases entered the vortex at every minute and second, then they were refined before their essences were channeled into the poisonous pill.
At this moment, Ou Yangming’s consciousness also entered the poisonous pill along with the endless energies.
Luckily, the poisonous pill was refined by Ou Yangming, thus there was naturally a mysterious contract between them. Regardless of how intense the poisons inside the pill were, they could not affect his mental conception at all. If not, his bit of mental power would have been eroded long ago, and he might turn into an idiot.
The inside of the poisonous pill was already a self-contained space, which was not a dead space unlike that of an interspatial bag; it was a space full of energy.
Yes, this was a marvelous space that was forcibly accumulated using poisons as the direction and energies.
The entire space was empty at this moment but as poisonous gases gushed in without an end, numerous peculiar things appeared in the void.
They were nebulas, which were gathered from different gases.
Ou Yangming was certain that once the energies that were converted from poisonous gases entered the poisonous pill, there would be a drastic change.
The change was not on the surface, but the substance itself.
For instance, if one had a handful of soil, no matter how hard one tried or refined using different techniques, the soil could not be turned into a bucket of water.
However, something as unbelievable as that was possible inside the poisonous pill’s world. The poisons that gushed into the world were no longer pure poisonous gases, but energies that converted into things that were needed by the world.
It was the conversion from energies into mass…
Ou Yangming watched everything happen. He was so immersed in it that he seemed to have forgotten about time.
He observed as the whole sky went from being empty to being filled with countless nebulas. Moreover, he saw various round spheres with defects being born.
All of them were actually converted from the poisonous gases’ energies.
Inside the world, the poisonous gases’ energies seemed to be almighty. They could transform into anything as they wished, and the only goal of those things was to form a world of their own.
Yes, when Ou Yangming stayed in the world, and a certain memory from the Phoenixes awoke in his spiritual world, he realized how astounding his encounter was.
He had come across an exceptional opportunity like never before as he was witnessing a world being born.
Spirit.
This was all because of a spirit.
Whether it was the poisonous pill’s spirit or any other spirit, the existence of every spirit was unusually precious because they could form worlds of their own.
Of course, even the rarest spirit would find it difficult to create a living world; most of them would naturally disappear without being found by other living beings.
Even when some people obtained spirits by luck, they could not provide those spirits with the freedom and energies that they needed. Therefore, those spirits would end up becoming the spirits of certain pieces of equipment, which were the most powerful items in the world as they could upgrade on their own.
Having said that, every spirit could undergo a final evolution, which was to form a world.
The only thing was that such spirits had strict requirements, and the success rates were so low that they were unacceptable.
That said, Ou Yangming had unknowingly watched a spirit’s world being born.
The vast sky, the mysterious yet forceful nebulas, as well as the dissimilar spheres—they were filled with indescribable and unexplainable natural laws or more.
Ou Yangming watched blankly. The only thing that he could do was watch and remember the majestic phenomenon as much as he could.
This experience would not be directly helpful to him at the moment, but he believed that this would definitely be the greatest fortune in his life.
At last, Ou Yangming’s vision went blurry as he detached himself from the boundless starry sky. By the time he opened his eyes, he noticed many beings staring at him.
Ou Yangming tensed up a little and thought, ‘Did everything I see somehow spread and became visible to everyone? If that’s the case, it won’t be surprising even if there’s a bigger sensation.’
Despite that, he got rid of the thought in an instant.
This was because Bear Li’s violent voice could be heard. “Master Ou, look, quickly look…”
Ou Yangming looked in the direction the spirit bear was pointing in, and his eyes could not help but lit up. He finally understood why it was so agitated, as well as the reason everyone else almost forgot themselves.
Outside the Big Mountain-guarding Formation, the initially dense poisonous fog became tremendously light. Given the intensity, it was nothing compared to the poisonous gases released by the top-grade spirit lizards, let alone the ones released from the Poison Formation in the very beginning.
Not to mention that the Big Mountain-guarding Formation had already been strengthened, even if nothing was changed, it would not be affected at all at this time.
Ou Yangming turned to look at Yuqi the Venerable One, who was at the top of the mountain, but the formidable Venerable One was staring at him with a complicated look in his eyes.
Perhaps the Venerable One’s strange move was the exact reason everyone else was reacting so strongly.
“Master Ou, what… Exactly is going on?” Immortal Fox was hesitant for a while before it finally asked.
It dared not ask Yuqi the Venerable One, but it would be fine for it to ask Ou Yangming.
Ou Yangming flashed a smile and responded, “It’s nothing—the poisonous gases were just sucked away, so don’t worry.”
“Sucked away?” Immortal Fox was slightly stunned, and it had a weird look on its face. “Are you saying that the poisonous gases, which have the essences of the 3 insect races and their respective Venerable Ones, were… Sucked away by something?”
‘Given how intense the poisonous gases were, they could erode even the Beast King Sect’s Big Mountain-guarding Formation. How could you say t
hat they were sucked away? What exactly is it that could absorb poisonous gases of such a scale?’
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Ou Yangming chuckled and said, “Yes, the poisonous fog was sucked, which is why it became so thin.”
Everyone else looked at each other. Although they understood the situation from Ou Yangming’s first reply, they still found it hard to believe it.
Mao Jianbi’s eyes flickered, and he suddenly exclaimed, “A poisonous pill? Your poisonous pill…”
The eyes of the others lit up, and they immediately recalled the poisonous pill that was previously released by Yuqi the Venerable One. Nonetheless, to say that a mere poisonous pill could absorb so many poisonous gases… As much as they racked their brains, they could not imagine it.
Immortal Fox’s eyes gleamed all of a sudden. It stared at Ou Yangming and asked, “Master Ou, did your poisonous pill give birth to a spirit?”
Spirits were incredibly mysterious. Not to mention top-grade Spiritualists, even Venerable Ones dared not claim that they had studied spirits thoroughly. This was because it had been countless years since a spirit last appeared in Danzhou.
Ou Yangming curled his lips. Instead of answering the spirit fox, he responded, “Senior, the crisis of the poisonous gases has been solved, so you don’t need to worry about it now.”
When the poisonous pill’s world was formed, it became a bottomless pit as it activated the starry sky and gathered nebulas. The Insects’ poisonous gases were already spent forces but even if they could release more, the poisonous pill’s world would still suck in everything.
As at this moment, the poisonous fog outside the Big Mountain-guarding Formation was already so thin that there was almost nothing left.
Even so, the vortex above the poisonous pill did not weaken at all; it seemed like it was not going to stop until it absorbed all of the poisonous gases.
This was the exact reason Ou Yangming was so confident.
Yuqi the Venerable One looked deeply at him and remarked, “Okay, you contributed the most this time. Would you like to take back your poisonous pill now?”
Ou Yangming was hesitant. He looked at the remaining poisonous fog outside and replied to the Venerable One with a smile, “Not for now.”
It was not that he was greedy, but he knew he would unlikely be able to find poisonous gases of such a scale in the future.
Once the war ended, the Insects would have a new understanding of the Humans. Ou Yangming’s poisonous pill was unexpectedly effective this time, but the Insects would not be fooled twice.
At the spur of the moment, Yuqi the Venerable One’s face changed. He scoffed coldly and said, “How dare those 3 shameless things think about stealing your treasure? They really deserve to die…” With that, he swayed and soared into the sky, then he flew out of the Big Mountain-guarding Formation.
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In the Insects’ camp, the 3 Venerable Ones were panting.
It was worth noting that they were formidable, by which the outside of the Big Mountain-guarding Formation turned into a sea of poisons after they joined hands to release poisonous gases.
Nevertheless, as Ou Yangming’s poisonous pill succeeded, it began to draw in poisonous gases at an unbelievable speed. In particular, as the starry sky was formed, abundant poisonous gases were converted into other substances. Since there was a creation, the amount of poison needed was simply unbelievable.
It took only a brief moment for the dense poisonous fog to become thin and scattered as though its essences were being absorbed.
Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the 2 other insect Venerable Ones were dumbfounded upon witnessing the strange yet fast change. They felt like they had weights on their chests, and they almost vomited blood.
Moreover, the Insects’ Big Poisonous Fog Formation crumbled at this time. The insects involved in the formation either foamed at their mouths and collapsed to the ground or passed out. Even for the powerful high-rank and middle-rank spirit beasts, they were not much better than the half-spirit beasts as they found it hard to walk, staggered, and even fell to the ground. Their eyes were their only body parts that were still moving, but they were extremely exhausted.
Given their states, even if they could survive, they would be bedridden for a long time after this. Furthermore, some of them might not be able to advance any more in the future as their foundations were probably damaged.
They ended up like this because they were forced by the 3 Venerable Ones.
Since the Venerable Ones were doing their best, the other insects dared not hold back at all, hence they spat out all of their poisonous gases. This time, they damaged even their hearts, livers, spleens, and kidneys, so it would not even be too much to describe them as half-dead.
Now that the poisonous pill’s world was formed and sucked all of the poisonous gases that they gathered, they were negatively affected by it.
Most of the worn-out insects could not withstand the spiritual impact anymore, thus their minds and bodies collapsed.
These insects were not ordinary, brainless fellows. Given that they were chosen to join such a big formation, it meant that they were somewhat intelligent. As long as a living being had wisdom, one would be able to think and have a certain bottom line.
Whether it was a human or a creature, once the reality exceeded their withstandable limit, they would suffer a complete loss.
Despite panting for breaths, Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the 2 other Venerable Ones still had flickered eyes as if their consumptions earlier could not make them wave.
“What’s going on?” Ghost-clawed asked with bright eyes, “Did the spirit change again?”
“Look—over there!” Black-faced Venerable One lifted its long legs to point into the distance. “The spirit!”
Without being masked by the dense poisonous fog, the poisonous pill was still drawing in poisonous gases through the vortex, so it was easily located.
“Let’s go, we must get our hands on that spirit!” Gold-bodied jumped into the sky before the others did.
Ghost-clawed Venerable One and Black-faced Venerable One followed suit without any hesitation. It was clear that they had covetous looks in their eyes. They were aware that even if they managed to get the spirit as they wished, they would end up fighting against each other for it and might even die.
Having said that, they would not give up regardless of the cost.
Needless to say, they would still work together before they managed to seize the spirit.
The 3 Venerable Ones were so fast that they arrived above the poisonous pill in the blink of an eye.
When they looked at the poisonous pill, as well as the little centipede that was drifting above it with a tail, they had weird looks on their faces.
“10,000-legged?”
‘Why does this centipede look so similar to the 10,000-legged Venerable One?
‘But the 10,000-legged Venerable One declined Ghost-clawed Venerable One’s invitation, so how could it be here? Besides, even if it’s here, it won’t help the Humans.’
It was true that there was internal strife among the Insects, but none of the insect Venerable Ones would be a drag in a war between the Humans and the Insects.
On the ground, the tiny centipede seemed to have sensed the Venerable Ones’ auras.
Unlike before, it was not thinking about escaping this time. Instead, it lifted its head and continued to absorb the poisonous fog, then it fed back the poisonous gases’ essence into the poisonous pill. Throughout the process, the centipede showed the Venerable Ones a threatening look.
The 3 insect Venerable Ones looked at each other as if they had just seen a ghost.
They could tell that the centipede was not the 10,000-legged Venerable One, but was formed from pure energies.
It was a legendary spirit.
However, a trace of the 10,000-legged Venerable One could be spotted on the spirit. Since Ghost-clawed Venerable One and the others had known the 10,000-
legged Venerable One for 1,000 years, they would not be mistaken.
‘Is this centipede really the doing of Old 10,000-legged?’
Ghost-clawed Venerable One gritted its teeth and shouted, “We can’t bother too much now. Let’s capture it!”
“Okay!”
The 3 Venerable Ones made their moves almost at the same time. Since the spirit was right in front of them, they were not willing to let anyone else have it.
Following that, 3 different lights that represented the powers of the 3 Venerable Ones struck at the same time, then they transformed into 3 enormous hands. One was black, one was gold, while the other was multicolored. Their colors were not the same, but they all contained overwhelming, fearsome powers.
That said, the little centipede’s body expanded the second they made their moves.
“Woosh…”
The centipede became larger than the 3 hands combined. What more, it extended its hundreds and thousands of legs concurrently to get hold of the 3 humongous hands.
Even if the 10,000-legged Venerable One was present, it could not have done anything like that.
This was because a living being’s body had a certain structure. Even if a centipede had countless legs, one could not twist one’s body as one wished.
Who knew, the centipede, which was transformed from a spiritual body, did not have such a concern. Its body seemed to have separated into 3 parts, which echoed each other at a distance but also seemed like they were having individual fights, by which they grasped the 3 giant hands tightly without letting go.
The 3 Venerable Ones tensed up, but they did not panic at all. Instead, they activated their powers to capture the centipede.
Nonetheless, they instantly realized that their powers seemed to have entered a vast sea when they entered the centipede’s body.
At this moment, they experienced what it felt like to drop a stone into a sea.
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