Chapter 784: Purple-Green
"Old harridan, may you die a terrible death!"
"Even as a ghost, I won't let you go!"
"Uuuuuh..."
Bai Mo had just stepped out when he saw a scene straight out of hell.
Blood was everywhere. Pale-skinned humans were held firmly in place by omnipresent tentacles.
Their feet were pierced by sharp, spear-like tentacles, and they hung upside down like pigs in a slaughterhouse.
The tentacles seemed to be part of some flesh-and-blood machine, constantly transporting these victims to a central cutting area to meet their final moment.
It appeared to be a human slaughterhouse.
As for that wisp of bloody hatred, it hadn't even managed to approach his body before it was ground to dust by the power of Daoization.
As if sensing the disappearance of its kin, more bloody power began to surge towards Bai Mo.
But without a doubt, these special spiritual energies, not particularly high in level, were utterly incapable of approaching their target.
...
"How did you arrive so early?" Just as Bai Mo was still pondering what exactly was going on here, a girl with dark green hair and a pair of crystal-clear wings on her back emerged from the flesh-and-blood machine.
Her method of appearance was quite unique, as if she had grown directly from the flesh.
At this moment, she was not only perplexed but also somewhat shocked.
"Is that so?"
"You should have needed at least ten more days."
"No, that's wrong, you're also a Middle-tier Immortal Spirit!!!" The green-haired girl's face showed an expression of disbelief.
"I am an eighth-stage True Immortal, is there a problem with that?" Bai Mo was somewhat puzzled as to why Yisisi was so surprised by his cultivation level.
In the memories Bai Mo extracted from the Brain Bug Seres, their race had concepts of Lower-tier Immortal Spirits, Middle-tier Immortal Spirits, and High-tier Immortal Spirits, roughly corresponding to the human seventh, eighth, and ninth stages respectively.
Yisisi's true body belonged to the Middle-tier Immortal Spirit class, while the numerous sub-mother bugs under her command were Lower-tier Immortal Spirit beings.
As for the legendary High-tier Immortal Spirits, they had no true physical existence in Seres' memories and were merely a concept or imagination, just like the True Sun Star Lord that Bai Mo had envisioned.
...
"In a mere span of less than two hundred years, how could any life form possibly jump from a low tier to a middle tier?!"
Over a hundred years ago, the eighth-stage Zerg Mother, Yisisi, descended upon Earth by following Seres' location, and happened to encounter Bai Mo, who had just entered the seventh stage. She intended to recruit him as a mercenary, as supplementary high-tier combat power, to participate in the war against the Huaxia cultivators.
But she never could have imagined that in just over a hundred years, the other party would leap to the eighth stage as well, becoming an existence on the same level as herself.
One must know that Yisisi, continuously leading her Zerg forces to conquer and plunder the stars, had also spent a full two thousand years to accumulate enough to advance from the Lower-tier Immortal Spirit level to the early Middle-tier.
"I am different." Bai Mo offered no further explanation.
"..."
"Even if you are an innate spirit, you couldn't possibly skip the vast accumulation required after becoming an Immortal Spirit being." As Yisisi's delicate brows furrowed slightly, the entire slaughterhouse world trembled faintly.
The machines constructed from flesh and blood around them began to vibrate at a peculiar frequency.
A seventh-stage True Immortal who had just ascended to the Immortal ranks could at most be considered invincible on a planet's surface, capable of clearing out the vast majority of non-Immortal life forms on a planet's surface within the time it takes to steep a cup of tea.
An eighth-stage Cave Profound Star Lord, possessing the power of a star, is an existence equivalent to a planet itself, surpassing simple surface invincibility by several orders of magnitude.
To draw an analogy, a seventh-stage True Immortal is like a mobile nuclear carpet-bombing machine, but honestly, even if nuclear bombs were used to scour a planet ten times over, for Earth or any other planet equivalent to a Cave Profound Star Lord, it would essentially be like merely scratching off a thin layer of skin.
...
According to the conventional cultivation methods he left for the True Immortals of the Empire, to cultivate from a first-tribulation True Immortal in the early seventh stage to a fourth-tribulation True Immortal in the early eighth stage would take at least a thousand years, and that's an estimate for those with exceptional talent and fortuitous encounters.
As for him, he had instead forcibly completed this accumulation by rapidly refining Earth with the power of Daoization.
"I guessed it. You didn't expel the Dao Toxin from your body; instead, you desperately absorbed and utilized it!" Yisisi's thoughts scattered for several seconds as she frantically searched through a vast amount of information before finally uttering this answer.
She truly hadn't expected that there would be a lunatic daring to do such a thing, absorbing the Dao Toxin without any reservations.
"Dao Toxin? You mean the power of Daoization?" Bai Mo lightly clenched his right hand into a fist, then opened his fingers again, and a peculiar radiance appeared in his palm.
"Your life won't last much longer." After Yisisi saw this light, she completely confirmed her thoughts: the other party had indeed gained power by absorbing the Dao Toxin, which he called the power of Daoization—a power acquired through a near-suicidal method.
"Five hundred years remain." Bai Mo spoke openly about his approaching limit.
"You're a madman."
"Thank you."
"..."
"How about we make a trade?" The green-haired girl lightly flapped her transparent wings, as if calculating something.
"A trade?"
"I will tell you the method to counter the Dao Toxin, and in exchange, you must help me tie down an old adversary from the Dao Chen Realm."
"A method to counter the power of Daoization? I fear what you have isn't a counter, but rather an evasion." Bai Mo mercilessly exposed her.
After descending upon the Dao Chen Realm, his divine sense had continuously been gathering intelligence.
It didn't even take a few minutes before Bai Mo obtained the information he most desired from the small bugs under Yisisi's command—the secret that they, too, could resist the power of Daoization.
The so-called Zerg were merely a group of tools that shared the burden of Daoization's power, devoid of self-awareness.
Yisisi continuously stuffed new Daoization power into new bugs, then commanded them to charge without regard for life or death, using the lives and blood of the Dao Chen Realm cultivators to endlessly counter and deplete the continuous influx of Daoization power within her own body.
"...I'm not as mad as you, to dare refine even the Dao Toxin into my own power.
But do you know how the Celestial Venerables of the Dao Chen Realm resist the power of Daoization, and why I have to entangle myself in this world for hundreds, even thousands, of years?" Yisisi rattled off a string of questions.
Bai Mo didn't interrupt, allowing her to continue speaking.
"The Dao Chen Realm possesses a special treasure named Purple-Green Spirit Elixir. As long as the Purple-Green Spirit Elixir is refined using a special method into Purple-Green Great Medicine, consumption of it can diminish the Dao Toxin for a period."
"Hm?" Yisisi's words piqued Bai Mo's interest.
"This is the Purple-Green Great Medicine." The girl pulled out a gourd from her chest, then gently opened its lid, and from within, a crystal-clear bead, radiating a mesmerizing, gem-like luster, emerged.
P.S.: Unconsciously, it's already Chapter 800. I said I'd update tonight, and I updated tonight.jpg.
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