[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-poison-god-s-heritage":3,"chapter-poison-god-s-heritage-poison-god-s-heritage-chapter-369":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Poison God's Heritage",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1656656,2120,"Chapter 369 The Peak","poison-god-s-heritage-chapter-369",369,"\u003Cp>The Heavenly Gate. The gate of testament and trial. When it opens to a cultivator, it is a good sign of luck. Because this gate only appears for those that have great talent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, I have no talent to speak of. I'm simply lucky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Poison God's heritage isn't a complex cultivation method. And it is easy to understand and easier to rise in rank thanks to eating poison.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though it requires a lot of luck, not to practice, but to actually be accepted by the book, acolyte within it or not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for inscriptions, my knowledge from a past life had allowed me to easily understand, deduce and simplify what many in the world of cultivation believe to be the hardest of Cultivation Styles to learn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I have no talent root, or so I was told by many seniors. I've seen what a talent root is like. It's the aptitude for a certain type of cultivation. Some are attuned with Ice, like Yu-Yu, some more so with Fire, like Meng Hao. And some have other attunements with other elements. As for me, I have no such thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was told I was so untalented that it was a miracle that I was even able to climb in cultivation. I was told that my talent was so poor that even a mortal would have better luck in climbing to the peak than I would.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was told that I am not much, an old senile man, looking for the secrets of youth and cultivation at the expense of his livelihood and the welfare of his family and household.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But here, even the heavens, present the gate to me, as a testament to my ability. I may not be talented in the eyes of the people, but even the Heavens have to open their gates to me,\" I spoke as I stood up facing the gate, for the third time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What do you have for me to challenge this time, oh great gate of the heavens?\" I chuckled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no answer, as the door opened up, there were no soldiers there anymore.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Saint Qi that would usually seep out and bring life to a soldier of the heavens decided to remain within the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing but a staircase that seemed to lead into beyond the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wind roared when it was still and it howled as it coursed through the gate. It felt as if the gate was a whale that opened its mouth, letting in water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then the wind was spewed back, from the gate, releasing a sound so close to a voice that it actually sounded this word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Enter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the wind…and it spoke words of welcome to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took a step forward, then the next, prudent but calm and collected. I took a step into the opened gate, and on the first step of this endless staircase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Within the gate, there didn't seem to be an end to the stairs. And unlike the dark night of the outside world, it was a clear blue sky with endless purple clouds all over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I then took another step. Then another, and I kept walking forward and forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There didn't seem to be an end to this staircase, but I had no need to stop or go back since I was invited, I will oblige.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet things seemed to change after taking a few hundred more steps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I wiped my forehead and realized I was sweating, which shouldn't be possible. It was only a few steps, and as a cultivator, I shouldn't be this tired.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another thing caught my sight, my arm, it was just moments ago, glistening, bright and healthy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, it looks paler than normal and slightly shrunken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn't pay it any mind as I continued to move forward. Yet soon, I began feeling… exhaustion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My breaths seemed to be heavier, and my legs started to cramp.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked back to see how far I had walked, only to realize that the Heavenly gate was not even a step away from me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I had barely taken a step forward even when I took several hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What kind of Tribulation is this,\" I muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But for some reason, I felt that I shouldn't step back, otherwise I would have given up something, as if I were to have given up a part of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This trial is interesting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked up, and took another step, then another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And kept on moving. While at the same time inspecting myself every now and then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My robes seemed to be slowly deteriorating. My body seemed to be slowly shrinking and dwindling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>My hair began to fall and my sight slowly and surely decreased.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, I kept on taking a step after the other, unrelenting and unstopping, even when I tripped and fell on my face, breaking a tooth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I grinned, and climbed up the stairs, with old-looking fingers, full of wrinkles and rheumatoid. I still kept moving forward. I didn't dare look back, because I knew, I would see myself having taken nothing but a single step. And if I were to do that, I'll find myself in despair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, I kept moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moved until I started wheezing, then spat some of my teeth out, rotten, yellowish, and old.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I moved until I could no longer see as sight had left my eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I kept moving, using Divine Sense which didn't seem to have dwindled any bit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I kept moving forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At one point, my right buckled and broke, collapsing on itself, causing me to fall on my arms, against the sharp stairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With whatever will I had, I managed to grab tight in case I were to fall down or back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even against the soul-wrenching pain of my leg, I still tided through it with the sheer power of will.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I tore some of my dilapidated clothes and made a makeshift bandage. I slowly touched the part where the break was, it had splintered and the bone was protruding out of the skin… the blood coming out was barely warm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>'What a sad sight…' I said, not mocking or feeling pity for myself. With great difficulty and a lot of grunting, I managed to snap the bone back in place, then wrapped the cloth around it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thankfully I didn't fall unconscious from shock. It seems that my body had returned to its mortal nature, however, my soul had never dwindled, never felt weaker.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Breath, after heavy breath, I collected whatever remained of myself, and this time, began climbing the stairs, with hands and a leg, trying my best not to further destroy whatever remained of this dying body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slowly moving up, bleeding all over the stairs, I kept climbing, even if every step of the way felt like the climb of an entire mountain, I kept moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Until I couldn't move anymore. Not for the lack of will… but because the mortal shell could no longer follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I was forcefully extracted outside of my own body, and as I looked at the sight I sighed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Where I was, was nothing but a skeleton wearing old rotten, and dilapidated clothes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The skeleton was lying on the ground, its hand grasping for the next step. While dried blood seemed to have made a trail behind it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And looking up, I saw that the staircase still had no foreseeable end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I guess I understand what this trial means…Many people crave to reach the peak of cultivation, while they think they crossed a great distance, they've not even taken the first step towards the end. This trial is meant to humble the Cultivators who foolishly think that they can reach the peak,\" I muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"However, death is inevitable,\" I spoke as I looked at the top of the endless staircase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And even if it took the climb of a thousand lifetimes, I'll still move forward, even without a body. I will reach the peak, no matter how far it is. No matter how difficult, even if I had to drag my dying body towards, it. So heavens, your ruse, and trial into dismaying me from reaching for the peak only increased my conviction to seek it further. I should thank you for that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I finished my words, the entire world around me seemed to darken and I found myself sitting back at the same boulder I was on earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In front of me was the heavenly gate with its door completely closed. While the thundering skies seemed to slowly fade away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The redness of the dark night skies slowly changed until the bright moon was all that was shining upon the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heaven's Gate disappeared without a trail.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Divine Senses from all over the Heavenly Academy seemed to rush forward towards me inspecting what was going on the moment the gate disappeared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the first to arrive was Master Rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You're a lucky kid you know,\" Spoke Master Rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Why?\" I asked back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've been rewarded handsomely,\" Master Rain said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I looked around, there was no reward like last time, no fruit, no Saint Qi, nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don't see any reward,\" I said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You've been exempted from the Ascendant Tribulation because you passed it as a Soul Transformation Cultivator,\" Spoke Master Rain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Euh…say what now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1554,"2026-06-06T12:17:55.364Z",1,"novelbin.me","af22c50f08500688bfe96b6d585da90b802f7651ed45cc27adc26c70ecdbe46a","poison-god-s-heritage-chapter-305","poison-god-s-heritage-chapter-368",920,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fpoison-god-s-heritage-cover.jpg"]