Chapter 1081: Poisoning the Earth Sovereign

Seeing Ye Liuyun display his divine might, Xia Tianqiong's tense mood indeed relaxed considerably.

When many people were afraid to go on stage, an Earth Sovereign Martial Cultivator nevertheless stepped forward.

"I'll come meet you!"

Upon seeing that Martial Cultivator, the crowd immediately began whispering.

"The genius of the Cheng Clan, Cheng Qifeng!"

"An Earth Sovereign realm—now we have something to watch!"

Upon seeing him, Ye Liuyun's expression also grew more solemn.

Cheng Qifeng not only had solid True Essence, but also wore Divine Rank protective armor and carried a Venerable Rank Defense Artifact, fully prepared.

Ye Liuyun's strongest attacks—the Vajra Divine Bow and Spiritual Soul Attack—had little effect on him.

After observing for a while, Cheng Qifeng had a rough grasp of Ye Liuyun's strength, so he too came prepared.

Seeing Cheng Qifeng go on stage, Xia Tianqiong, who had just relaxed her heart, couldn't help but tense up again.

Among peers of the same age in the Imperial City, Cheng Qifeng's strength ranks among the top, making him very hard to deal with. Moreover, he is so well prepared, and his realm is far higher than Ye Liuyun's.

At this moment she clenched the corner of her clothes tightly, nervously praying that Ye Liuyun would defeat his opponent.

Ling Shuang also broke into a sweat for Ye Liuyun. She wanted to send him a voice transmission about Cheng Qifeng's situation, but unfortunately the arena activated a formation that blocked Divine Sense, so she couldn't pass along the message.

As soon as Cheng Qifeng stepped onto the stage, he first smiled at Ye Liuyun.

Upon that smile, the Ten Thousand Gods Command in Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness immediately emitted light.

"Illusion!"

Ye Liuyun immediately realized that Cheng Qifeng was using an illusion attack.

"Useless!"

Ye Liuyun snorted coldly, raised his hand, and shot an arrow.

At the same time, he also united with his clone's main soul, attempting to launch a Spiritual Soul Attack to test the strength of his Venerable Rank Defense Artifact.

Most Martial Cultivators use Venerable Rank artifacts to defend against Spiritual Soul Attacks; it is rare to see Divine Rank artifacts for that purpose.

So Ye Liuyun didn't think much of it; he and his clone should be able to handle a Venerable Rank artifact.

However, what he didn't expect was that Cheng Qifeng's Defense Artifact also had a poisonous function, specifically designed to poison souls.

Both Ye Liuyun's and his clone's main souls were instantly poisoned.

Coincidentally, they also found a loophole at that moment and threw in some Nether Ghost Fire and Blood Thunder.

Afterward, he and his clone's main soul immediately returned to Ye Liuyun's Sea of Consciousness.

At that point, both souls had large areas turning black.

The Ten Thousand Gods Command saved Ye Liuyun once again; a flash of golden light instantly cleared away those toxins.

The clone's soul, sharing the same origin, was naturally also detoxified by the Ten Thousand Gods Command.

The clone's soul promptly returned to its physical body. It took out a scepter, and a wisp of invisible smoke drifted toward Cheng Qifeng.

At this moment, Cheng Qifeng also felt his soul under attack, and the Nether Ghost Fire could not be extinguished.

"Ye Liuyun, withdraw this flame, and I'll detoxify you—how about that?"

He thought Ye Liuyun's soul had been poisoned, so he proposed terms to Ye Liuyun.

"No need! I'm not afraid of death!" Ye Liuyun said indifferently.

"Are you trying to have us both suffer mutual destruction?"

Cheng Qifeng also didn't expect Ye Liuyun to be so ruthless—he would even sacrifice his main soul.

"So what if it is?" Ye Liuyun sneered, staring at Cheng Qifeng.

At that moment, his Primordial Spirit Secret Technique sensed that Cheng Qifeng had inhaled the poisonous smoke released by the clone, but he himself remained unaware.

Only then did Ye Liuyun relax, coldly telling him, "You're not qualified to negotiate terms with me."

"You madman! Don't you want to live?"

At this time, a large portion of his main soul in the Sea of Consciousness had been burned away, leaving him anxious.

He dared not delay, fearing that if both of Ye Liuyun's souls were poisoned, no one could retrieve the Nether Ghost Fire.

He sensed that the flame was extraordinary—not something a strong soul could simply extinguish.

At this moment, Ye Liuyun instead relaxed, clasping his hands behind his back and strolling around the arena.

"You... you weren't poisoned?" Cheng Qifeng only then realized Ye Liuyun's reaction was off.

He knew that kind of soul poison was extremely potent; at this point Ye Liuyun should be suffering more than him.

Yet Ye Liuyun could still stroll leisurely, indicating he definitely wasn't poisoned.

Ye Liuyun, however, was buying time and began chatting slowly with him.

"I was poisoned, but..." he said, deliberately pausing for a moment.

"But I burned all the poison away!"

Ye Liuyun casually made up an excuse to fool him.

But under the effect of the Nether Ghost Fire, Cheng Qifeng genuinely believed Ye Liuyun had the ability to burn away the poisoned parts of his soul with fire.

"Then tell me, what must I do to have you withdraw this fire?"

At this moment, nearly half of Cheng Qifeng's main soul in his Sea of Consciousness had been burned, driving him nearly mad.

"I want your life!" Ye Liuyun teased, looking at him.

"Do you know who I am? With just you, you dare demand my life?"

Cheng Qifeng scoffed at further talk, was about to reveal his identity, when suddenly he felt numb all over and his body exhibited an abnormality.

He scanned with Divine Sense and discovered his entire body had turned black.

"Am I poisoned? When did I get poisoned?" He himself didn't even realize how he had been poisoned.

But just as he tried to warn Ye Liuyun and have Ye Liuyun detoxify him, he found he couldn't speak, couldn't move at all.

He could only watch helplessly as the poison inside his body kept spreading, after which his organs began to necrotize.

At this moment, his eyes were filled with fear.

At first, the spectators outside the arena didn't understand what Cheng Qifeng was doing.

Only when everyone saw his skin turning black did they realize he had been poisoned.

"What's going on? Wasn't he trying to poison Ye Liuyun? How did he poison himself?" Everyone still didn't understand what was happening.

At this moment, Cheng Qifeng's heart and brain had been completely blackened by the poison, and were beginning to corrode.

Soon, black smoke began to rise from his mouth, nose, and so on, and then his body surface also started to corrode and emit smoke.

He could no longer stand; with a thud, he collapsed straight down.

Ye Liuyun immediately sucked away his protective treasure, guard clothing, and Storage Ring, then also dragged his remaining secondary Soul into the Creation Realm.

Unfortunately, Cheng Qifeng usually only knew cultivation, never cared about Cheng Clan affairs, and had hardly found any valuable information.

"Did you poison Cheng Qifeng to death?" the Elder stared at Ye Liuyun in disbelief.

Actually, he had wanted to go save Cheng Qifeng just now, but he feared he would also contract the deadly poison. Moreover, by the time they noticed, they hadn't even had time to devise a countermeasure before it was too late.

"It was his own poison; he reaped what he sowed!" Ye Liuyun blamed everything on Cheng Qifeng.