Chapter 323: Going Against Xie Luo of The Four Spatial Calamities, Testing Might of Dao Fruit! (4)

Chapter 323: Chapter 322: Going Against Xie Luo of The Four Spatial Calamities, Testing Might of Dao Fruit! (4)

The impact shook the demon’s entire body, a visible shudder rippling down through every armored joint.

Xie Luo roared.

His armor was extraordinarily durable, and the attack had not severed the limb. Nevertheless, the thunder had penetrated through the outer shell and struck the demonic energy circulating beneath it.

A sharp, jolting pain spread through his body, deep enough to rattle the ancient demonic core nestled beneath his ribs.

He immediately pulled his leg away and swept his tail toward Lin Yuan.

The stinger cut through the rain.

Lin Yuan raised his left hand.

A silver-blue stream of rain gathered around his fingers, then spread across the air in front of him.

The venomous stinger struck the rain.

For an instant, the two forces collided.

The venom attempted to corrupt the spiritual energy, spreading through the rain like dark ink entering clear water.

But Lin Yuan’s Dao Fruit responded.

The principle of Three Rebirths circulated through the technique, allowing him to distinguish the venomous energy from the spiritual Qi that carried it.

The rain changed.

Rather than allowing the corruption to spread through the entire technique, Lin Yuan separated the affected energy from the rest and guided it toward a single point.

The contaminated droplets gathered into a dark sphere.

Lin Yuan flicked his finger.

The sphere flew away from him and struck the ground.

A hiss rose from the earth.

The soil blackened, and a small patch of grass withered instantly, the acrid smell of scorched vegetation drifting across the clearing.

Bai Qingyue’s expression turned serious.

“That venom is truly dangerous.”

Ku Ming nodded.

“It contains a principle that corrodes more than flesh. If it enters a cultivator’s spiritual circulation, it may gradually damage the pathways through which spiritual energy flows.”

He looked toward Lin Yuan.

“Benefactor Lin’s method of separating the corrupted energy is remarkable. However, he should not allow the venom to come into direct contact with his body.”

Lin Yuan heard the monk’s warning.

He also understood the danger.

The venom was not ordinary poison, and he had no intention of treating it carelessly.

His True Elemental Body gave him an extraordinary capacity to endure and transform energy, but that did not mean every foreign principle could be absorbed without consequence.

Some forms of Origin Energy could damage a Primordial Spirit if handled incorrectly.

Likewise, a sufficiently powerful venomous principle could corrupt the circulation of his body if he allowed it to spread unchecked.

The correct approach was not to endure the venom.

It was to understand how it functioned and prevent it from entering his foundation.

Xie Luo, meanwhile, had already realized that his first attack had failed.

He pulled back, his tail coiling above him like a readied spear, his many eyes narrowing with a mixture of fury and calculation.

The stinger glowed with a sickly green light, and countless tiny droplets of venom formed along its surface.

Then he shook his tail.

The droplets scattered.

They did not fall toward the ground.

Instead, they spread through the rain, becoming almost impossible to distinguish from the silver-blue droplets surrounding Lin Yuan.

A sinister smile appeared across Xie Luo’s face.

“Let’s see how you separate everything this time!”

The venom spread across the clearing.

Some droplets landed upon the stones, causing them to crack and dissolve. Others struck the ancient trees, eating through their bark and leaving behind blackened scars that spread outward even as the three of them watched.

The remaining droplets drifted toward Lin Yuan and Bai Qingyue.

Bai Qingyue raised her hand.

A soft musical note rang through the clearing, as a spiritual manifestation of a Zither had appeared before her.

She plucked a single string, and a clear tone spread through the air, cutting cleanly through the hiss of corroding stone.

The sound did not rely on overwhelming spiritual energy. Instead, it carried her understanding of rhythm and vibration, guiding the rain into a series of delicate currents.

The venomous droplets trembled.

For an instant, their movements became visible.

Bai Qingyue’s eyes sharpened.

“Yuan, the venom is moving along the fluctuations between the droplets. It is not simply mixed with the rain. It is using the changing pressure to conceal its position.”

Lin Yuan glanced at her, a flicker of quiet pride crossing his features despite the gravity of the moment.

“Well done.”

He had noticed the same thing, but her observation confirmed the relationship he had been examining.

The venom was not spreading randomly.

It followed the tiny changes in pressure created by the rain, allowing it to move between the droplets without disturbing the overall flow.

A clever, patient technique, the kind only a long-lived, cunning predator would think to employ.

If Lin Yuan attempted to remove the venom by separating each droplet individually, the Demon King could continue spreading it until the entire battlefield became contaminated.

But the Dao Fruit allowed him to examine the circulation as a whole.

Thunder revealed the points where the energy changed direction.

Rain revealed the flow between those points.

Three Rebirths allowed him to follow the sequence through which the venom moved from one state to another.

Lin Yuan raised both hands.

The rain stopped falling.

Every droplet froze in the air, suspended like countless tiny stars scattered across the clearing.

The entire clearing became strangely still.

Xie Luo’s smile disappeared.

He felt his venomous energy lose its rhythm.

The droplets had not truly stopped moving. Their positions remained fixed for only a brief instant, but the interruption was enough to disrupt the pattern through which the venom had concealed itself.

Lin Yuan’s Dao Fruit rotated.

The silver-blue principle spread through the frozen rain.

The golden-purple principle followed, illuminating the points where the venom had entered the circulation.

Finally, the crimson, black, and white principle of Three Rebirths connected those points into a single pattern, tracing it through the suspended droplets like a thread pulled taut through still water.

Lin Yuan’s eyes brightened, the last trace of concern on his face giving way to cold, focused clarity.

“There you are.”