Chapter 567 - 313: Great Demon

Time ticked by.

The Spiritual Qi in the Cold Pool began to churn. Hundred Flowers, who was waiting nearby, found her breath growing heavy, and a hint of tension appeared in her eyes.

As more time passed, her heart rose to her throat.

The Ten Thousand Wood Spirit Fruit was about to lose its effect, and the time left to trap the Ancient Rock Python was running out. She could already hear its roars growing more furious. If Lü Zhong didn’t emerge from the Cold Pool soon, Hundred Flowers would have no choice but to abandon the plan for now and flee.

Just as Hundred Flowers was hesitating, a figure suddenly shot out from the surface of the Cold Pool.

"He’s out!" Jing Yang said in pleasant surprise.

But at that moment, Hundred Flowers felt a sudden, inexplicable jolt in her heart. She quickly sent a telepathic message to Jing Yang, "Something’s wrong. This man was afflicted with the Puyuan Fire Poison. Why isn’t he showing any signs?"

"Don’t worry, that’s the nature of the Puyuan Fire Poison. It works silently and without a trace. By the time you realize it’s there, it’s already too late. Otherwise, how could someone as cautious as I was back then have so foolishly lost my body?" Jing Yang seemed extremely confident, even revealing some of his secrets.

Hearing this, Hundred Flowers finally relaxed a little.

At that moment, a flash of light revealed a black-robed figure by the edge of the Cold Pool. It was Lü Zhong, who had gone down to retrieve the Qiluo Immortal Lamp. Seeing that the "murder and robbery" he had anticipated hadn’t occurred, he breathed a small sigh of relief and handed over half of the Qiluo Immortal Lamp to Hundred Flowers as they had agreed.

Despite this, Jing Yang’s desire to possess his body had not diminished in the slightest.

Suddenly, the once-calm Cold Pool began to boil violently. Plumes of ice-blue frigid energy shot toward the sky, freezing everything around them solid. At the same time, the nearby ground started to crack, and even more cold energy surged from below, throwing the two of them into the air.

"Perfect chance! Do it now!" Jing Yang shouted.

Hundred Flowers’s expression turned cold. Without hesitation, she summoned a flower-branch-shaped Magical Treasure. Countless sharp thorns materialized from it, shooting toward Lü Zhong like a curtain of rain, all aimed at his vital points.

Lü Zhong, who had been on high alert, sharply perceived the attack, but his expression remained unchanged. He just sighed inwardly. ’I don’t bother anyone, yet they insist on bothering me. All I wanted was to quietly gather some Spirit Medicine. Why does it have to be so difficult?’

At the same time, five Little Flood Dragons flew from his sleeve, swimming through the air to block the incoming thorns one by one.

"HISS! The Flood Dragon Spirit Banner... a Five-Sided Flood Dragon Spirit Banner!" a shocked voice came from across them. Then, Hundred Flowers’s voice distorted, changing into a sharp, sinister male voice that shrieked, "Damn it, he wasn’t poisoned!"

"What? Could it be that Jade Pendant...?" Hundred Flowers’s voice switched back to a female one.

They were both shocked. This was a situation they had not anticipated.

Hearing this, Lü Zhong’s face turned ashen. He immediately understood what had happened. He inwardly felt a wave of relief. ’Thankfully, I didn’t use that Warm Jade because I wanted to get the Sun Fire Essence.’

’Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.’

Across from him, Hundred Flowers felt a pang of regret seeing that Lü Zhong wasn’t poisoned. But now that she had turned against him, there was no possibility of reconciliation. The enmity between them could not be erased.

But the regret in her heart lasted only for a moment before she wiped it clean.

At the Nascent Soul realm, every cultivator possessed a firm will.

Hundred Flowers instantly made a decision, preparing to see it through to the bitter end.

’I don’t know how Lü Zhong avoided the Puyuan Fire Poison, but his weakened aura is definitely real.’

With this in mind, Hundred Flowers sent a telepathic message:

"Jing Yang, if you want to seize a body, you must act now!"

"Don’t worry, I know what to do!"

The moment Jing Yang’s voice fell, a black shadow surged out of Hundred Flowers’s body. It quickly solidified into a human form, revealing the face of a sinister-looking man.

He immediately turned his cold gaze toward Lü Zhong. Seeing his opponent flying away without any intention of fighting, he sneered, a look of appreciation in his eyes. "Quite the cautious one. No less so than I was in my prime. A pity... today, your body will be mine!"

Then, Jing Yang suddenly formed a Dharma Seal.

With a POOF, his figure vanished.

Meanwhile, Lü Zhong, who was using the Shooting Star Escape to continuously increase the distance between himself and Hundred Flowers, suddenly felt the hair on his neck stand on end. Without a second thought, he dodged to the side.

In the next instant, a black shadow appeared where he had just been.

After that, the two figures flickered madly, constantly changing positions.

"What kind of Escape Skill is this? It’s even faster than my Gale Shadow Escape!" Jing Yang exclaimed in frustration as he pushed his own technique.

He had originally thought he could use his Escape Skill to easily invade Lü Zhong’s body.

But he never imagined he wouldn’t even be able to touch a single hair on his head.

’If this continues, I’m afraid I’ll exhaust all my remaining Nascent Soul Qi and still fail to possess his body. What’s worse, now that I’ve left Hundred Flowers, I can never go back.’

Jing Yang let out a savage grin; he had come up with an idea.

His figure suddenly swelled, then instantly exploded into a cloud of black gas. His speed multiplied in an instant, and he transformed into a streak of Black Light that caught up to Lü Zhong in a flash, ready to begin the possession without hesitation.

Unexpectedly, just as Jing Yang rushed in front of Lü Zhong, he witnessed a sight he would never forget for the rest of his life.

"This... this is the aura of Tribulation Thunder!"

Lü Zhong sneered and, without hesitation, activated the Thunder Seal in his Sea of Consciousness, unleashing a trump card he had been hiding all along. Ever since he had passed the Six-Nine Celestial Tribulation, the Wood Thunder Seal had changed again, allowing him to erupt with incomparably powerful Tribulation Thunder for a short period.