Chapter 1790 - 1085: Poison Cocoon

Good heavens, what on earth is she....

The Ten Thousand Year Ice Toad let out a loud croak, using the language of its own species...

Sui Yi glanced at it and said blandly, "I don’t like speaking frog-tongue. Use Human speech."

All that gugu guagua noise was very uncouth.

Before, the Poison Vein King and the others would accommodate this thing, but now that it had fallen into Sui Yi’s hands, the Ten Thousand Year Ice Toad had only one choice.

It felt this person was far too terrifying...

Fine, Human speech it is.

"What exactly are you... Anyway, you’re not Human Race, you’re too terrifying, the Poison Vein Imperial Capital can’t hold you..."

"Prisoners don’t have the right to ask questions... But I am indeed not Human Race."

Sui Yi hooked her fingertip, and the Ten Thousand Year Ice Toad was swept up by a stream of ice and brought before her eyes.

"You’ve been quite cunning along the way, hopping around everywhere. If you hadn’t been so greedy, after I got out I’d still have to waste effort tracking you down..."

"You... who are you really! Why did you catch me, what do you..."

Sui Yi’s fingertips moved, layering more than a dozen Forbidden Techniques onto the Ten Thousand Year Ice Toad, then sealing it into the Ten Thousand Year Ice Marrow in her palm.

This little thing had finally been caught.

Yen Yileng didn’t probe into how Sui Yi handled the Ten Thousand Year Ice Toad; she only studied the spiraling poison cocoons arrayed above and below. As she watched, she spoke down toward Sui Yi below: "These people are indeed our Human Race, but... I’ve never seen them before."

"One of the Three Realms Original Rules: those above govern those below. The Star Fall Level masters list is under Heavenly Venerate jurisdiction. Most people’s information is recorded under that list, but not absolutely all. However, every Heavenly Venerate Level master is a peak resource of their race. Gaining or losing even one involves no small consequences. Every Supreme holds a copy of the Heavenly Venerate Level roster.... I’ve seen the one in my master’s hands and have never seen this person... and some of the ones above. Out of all of them, I barely recognize two or three. As for the others..."

She naturally did not recognize them. Though the Human Race’s foundations were immense, Heavenly Venerates weren’t cabbages. One Shattered Jade World at most could give birth to a single Heavenly Venerate. Take the Dragon Ape World, for example—among all the Small Fragmented Jade Worlds it ranked foremost, yet looking at what had developed from the native Human Race there, they had still only reached the Twin Emperors’ Peak of Starfall level, nowhere near Heavenly Venerate.

Most of the current Heavenly Venerates were born from the Human Race base camp at the Three Realms Rampart, where a population on the order of hundreds of billions underwent a quantitative change into qualitative transformation. Otherwise, they were living off old stock—ancient powerhouses from the Main World who reincarnated and cultivated their way back. One radish, one pit....

So, Yen Yileng now suspected these Heavenly Venerate vessels were reincarnators from the Main World back in those days.

Sui Yi naturally heard the implication and frowned slightly. Faintly, she had a bad feeling.

Yen Yileng above was waiting for Sui Yi’s response, but saw this person say nothing, only hold her hands apart above and below, palms cupping a cluster of energy entirely different from that of any Foreign Race or Human Race.

Yen Yileng felt it for a while before suddenly reacting.

Witch.

This person was Witch!!

The Witch Energy split into two crescent-shaped crystals, rotating in her upper and lower palms, with strands of Witch Flow shooting between them.

The Witch Flow coiled around one poison cocoon after another...

Yen Yileng drifted down to land beside Sui Yi...

She happened to turn just as those cocoons, once invaded by the Witch Flow, showed no reaction in some cases, while one turned red, as if something had been verified.

When Sui Yi saw that poison cocoon which turned the Witch Flow red, her expression changed.

That was a chill and killing intent Yen Yileng could understand.

And under Yen Yileng’s stunned gaze, that enormous spiral of twenty-eight poison cocoons seemed to be shifted as a whole, directly relocated to right in front of Sui Yi.

One, two, three... A total of twenty poison cocoons had turned red.

A full twenty of them!!

Sui Yi’s fingers were like a finely crafted scalpel. With the aid of a mass of runes, she lightly drew them across, cutting openings in the cocoon silk and exposing what lay within...

People, lying there.

Four men and one woman all had a Poison Vein Clan fetal egg stuffed into their abdomen... Their heartbeats were still going.

Yen Yileng sensed the gentleness in Sui Yi’s eyes, and faintly, a sadness as well.

She reached out her hand, fingertip gently brushing the woman’s forehead, then let out a long sigh, as if from the depths of her soul...

Yen Yileng was stirred for no reason—that was the protective feeling between members of the same race.

Just like her inborn closeness toward the Human Race.

This Mr. Sacrificial Wine was the same.

She was grieving.

But only for a moment. Then Sui Yi spoke: "In a bit I’ll sever the connection between these twenty-eight poison cocoons and take them away... But we only have three minutes. The Poison Vein Emperor will rush back... Take this Teleportation Array Talisman."

Yen Yileng didn’t take it, just looked at Sui Yi. "Will you leave with me?"

"No."

"Is it that you can’t, or you don’t want to?"

From the very beginning Yen Yileng owed Sui Yi a favor and was thus at a disadvantage; even if Sui Yi teased her with words she couldn’t harden herself. But right now she was, rarely, a bit forceful.

She looked firmly at Sui Yi, a stance that she absolutely would not abandon Sui Yi to flee alone...

"The Clan Emperor is Supreme Level. Any Supreme has the ability to sever space. The Teleportation Talisman I’ve set can teleport instantaneously. This one’s destination is three thousand li away. The Clan Emperor can’t catch you, on the premise you manage to teleport out... If I sever these cocoons, she’ll sense it and be able to rush back in a moment, then cut off the teleportation... Someone must stay behind to draw her attention."

"Very reasonable, and it’s the best option. But I can’t do that."

Yen Yileng gripped her sword and gave Sui Yi a light smile.

"Teacher also said: The sword is life, but righteousness is what makes one Human."

Without righteousness, one is not Human, hm.

Sui Yi froze for a moment, then smiled.

She understood the other’s meaning: if she left, though she herself might not necessarily come to harm, from a swordsman’s standpoint of moral duty, she would remember this act of "leaving" for the rest of her life.

So she would rather not leave.

And it was also a kind of confidence—she would not be a burden.

"Yen Yileng."

"Hm?"

"You’re really cute."

Yen Yileng was caught off guard by the sudden compliment; her cheeks flushed slightly red as she turned her face away and handed the Teleportation Talisman back.

"No need. I’m giving it to you."

"....."

Yen Yileng’s face inexplicably flushed again.

Does this person just hand things out all the time? Always giving, giving... This kind of instant Teleportation Talisman is a life-saving treasure, and from the way she talks it sounds like only someone at Supreme Level can sever it?

Then for anyone below Heavenly Venerate Level, isn’t it absolute protection?

"No need to blush, I give people things all the time."

"...."

Favorability is just like a roller coaster—up and down, up and down, sour and exhilarating.

Since they’d decided to face the enemy together, they had to design the safest plan. After some discussion, they finally decided to first open up an underground passage to the outside, find a stretch of water marsh, and use the natural water to set several Formations... In terms of offense, a Swordsman’s single-target attack is the most satisfying, but when it comes to blocking and trapping people, Techniques are the cleanest, especially Ice Snow Techniques. Since Sui Yi could condense Law Spirits, she naturally had to maximize that advantage.

"We can set Formations under this lair as well—Explosive Formations... I’ve got Array Plates already prepared. You take them out..."

As she spoke, the one talking reached her hand toward Yen Yileng...

Yen Yileng didn’t dodge, and those fingertips fell onto her temple and the spot between her brows.

In an instant, a three-dimensional map of this whole region appeared in her mind, as if some god’s-eye view saw through everything here, even every mechanism was crystal clear...

The range extended out to a three-thousand-li territory outside...

She only saw it once, yet Yen Yileng had already memorized it, but she couldn’t suppress the shock in her heart.

——Is this person... a god?

"I’m not a god, so don’t worship me." Mr. Sacrificial Wine smiled lightly and withdrew her hand.

With a wave, she gave Yen Yileng a pile of Array Plates.

A pile.

It was a pile.

Yen Yileng was still Supreme Yun’s disciple after all—she had seen some things. After confirming the placement methods for these Array Plates, she took out a milky-white object carved with auspicious cloud patterns.

Palm-sized.

It seemed something was sealed inside.

"Though I believe you have ways to preserve your own life even under the Clan Emperor’s hand, any secret technique beyond your own cultivation generally has side effects... So use this. It’s a hundred percent side-effect free."

"This is the Cloud Map my Master gifted me. Inside are sealed three Great Law Spirits condensed by my Master—just one can block a single strike from the Clan Emperor."

Once she finished, before Sui Yi could refuse, Yen Yileng turned and walked off.

After her breakthrough, her will and soul absolutely matched a Great Celestial Venerable’s, and given they were underground, plus Magnetic Sensation blessed by Sui Yi permeating the subterranean space, Sui Yi wasn’t worried about this trip.

It was just that, holding this single Cloud Map, Sui Yi only felt that her own judgment really was pretty good.

——This girl is straightforward.

And that "hundred percent side-effect free" line had an inexplicable comedic flavor.

Sui Yi smiled soundlessly and began her own arrangements.

There was one thing she hadn’t told Yen Yileng—she wasn’t doing all this merely to retreat safely, but...

Her gaze swept over this vast underground lair; it was the foundation of the Poison Vein Clan, and yet, it had touched Sui Yi’s reverse scale.

"Using the body of my Witch Race Celestial to gestate this kind of Foreign Race..."

Sui Yi flipped her palm, and hundreds of Array Plates floated in midair.

"Really uncomfortable."

In that second, she was the High Priest.

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Sui Yi finished laying out these Formations and then inscribed them with Secret Script... Her speed was naturally very fast; practice makes perfect—just reference that time in the Dragon Ape Emperor’s Tomb.

Once everything was set, her figure flickered, and she appeared beside the largest Poison Cocoon at the top of the Spiral Poison Cocoon cluster. This cocoon shone with the strongest red light, which also meant the bearer inside had to be the one with the strongest Witch Energy.

Who would it be?

Within the Witch Spirit Court, Loulan stood alone, and below the Court Emperor and Spirit Master, the strongest were the Seven of Bei Dou: First Tian Shu, Second Tian Xuan, Third Tian Ji, Fourth Tian Quan, Wu Yu Heng, Sixth Kai Yang, Seventh Yao Guang.

She could feel there was a person inside this Poison Cocoon...

"It’s Kai Yang, right..."

Sui Yi lowered her eyes, placing her palm on this largest Poison Cocoon.

She thought of that young man who smiled all day long yet fiercely shielded his junior brothers and sisters... but in his bones he was the proudest of them all, like blazing scorching light.

Now, he had slept for several thousand years, with an alien egg in his belly.

It was his disgrace.

And hers as well.

Sui Yi’s fingers curled slightly, receiving Yen Yileng’s response from outside.

All set.

Then, let’s begin.