The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 620 - 587: Poison Calamity_1

Chapter 620: Chapter 587: Poison Calamity_1

The Pure Land has always been a tranquil and peaceful treasure.

Cultivators from the Pure Land, when traveling through various places in the world, are often revered.

Ever since she was a child and a disciple of the Pure Land, Su Wenrou had been traveling around the world, saving the dying and healing the injured.

The patients she healed were not limited to the Human Race, but also included Ferocious Beasts and Spirit Beasts; as long as she came across any seriously injured beings, she would choose to heal them.

The White Crane, loyal to Pang Lin, and many more spiritual birds and beasts living in the Pure Land, were nearly all at death’s door when she took them in and saved their lives.

From then on, these spiritual birds and beasts regarded the Pure Land as another sacred land for the Demon Race.

As the person in charge of the Pure Land, for the most part of Su Wenrou’s long life, she spent her time saving the dying and helping the injured.

The Tao she had sought in her early years was to heal the masses of people.

Faced with some difficult poisons, she would, using her exquisite realm and when too busy to handle it, draw the poison from the patient into her own body.

She would wait until she regained her spiritual strength and then slowly deal with the poison in her body.

With her delicate body, she continuously absorbed deadly poisons and dissipated them in her spare time.

Day after day, year after year, she became proficient with all kinds of poisons, and her body’s resistance to deadly poisons gradually became unmatched in the world.

When she was at the peak of the Immortal Realm, as she was forging the Divine Tao with the "Tao of Healing," the residual poison embedded in her flesh and bones suddenly erupted.

As a "Divine Doctor," she realized it was a tribulation unique to her, a special inner demon that she had to face.

She struggled desperately, trying everything to resolve the "Poison Calamity," only to discover that the poisons immersed in her body, as she pondered the properties of various deadly poisons, had combined with her thoughts and consciousness to develop a consciousness of their own.

Her "Tao of Healing" Divine Tao, in the end, came to nothing.

Just as her spiritual soul was about to fall and her body was on the verge of turning to ashes, she tried to let go of herself and chose to accept and embrace those conscious poisons.

As soon as she made this new choice, everything became so much easier.

One Divine Tao crumbled and dissolved, but a new Divine Tao rapidly congealed and formed in an unobstructed manner.

The one who had the ideal of healing the common people, in the end, ascended as a Human True God through the poisons she had resisted all her life.

At the moment she became divine, she realized that she had greater talent on this path.

She understood that she was naturally suited to contemplating deadly poisons and that her body was extremely apt for it.

Yet she rejected and resisted it from the bottom of her heart; she regretted not keeping to her inner self, and as she faced death, she chose to enter the path using poison.

After her divine ascension, she always refused to display this talent, not wanting to create killing and disasters with poison.

Until many years ago, during a confrontation with the Alien Tribes’ ascent to heaven, she was ordered to enter the Fifth Realm to eradicate a powerful member of the Heaven Clan. There, she was besieged by two other level-ten Alien Tribe elites.

In a situation where death was certain, she released the world-ending deadly poisons within her, and unfortunately, a Poison Calamity ensued.

It was that battle that nearly eradicated all life in a land within the Fifth Realm.

The three level-ten elites who had surrounded her were poisoned to death by her single-handedly!

In this battle, she won a one-against-three victory, securing the overall situation in one fell swoop.

The remaining Alien Tribe elites and many level-nine bloodline warriors, upon learning what had transpired, broke down completely.

The Alien Tribes’ ascent to heaven was meant to seek a better life and more resources, not to utterly annihilate.

However, Su Wenrou, with her resolute release of the Poison Calamity, extinguished one of the seven continents.

The Poison Calamity she unleashed left the Alien Tribes of the Fifth Realm powerless to resolve it, and if she were to initiate the Poison Calamity on each continent in turn, the beings of the other six continents would also die out.

Therefore, the remaining Fifth Realm Alien Tribes who still had the strength, immediately chose to concede.

The reason was simple: if they did not concede and allowed the Poison Calamity to spread from one land to another, the Fifth Realm would become a realm of death.

Following this battle, while Su Wenrou’s name spread throughout the Purgatory World, she also filled many True Gods with fear.

For a long time, the True Gods would not allow Su Wenrou into their realms.

Even Su Wenrou herself, fearing that she could not control the poisons within, dared not return to West Soil, and only drifted outside.

Only when she finally gained control of herself and could suppress those world-destroying poisons did she first return to the land of West Soil.

At that time, she noticed that all the disciples from the Pure Land feared her like a venomous snake.

If even her own disciples felt this way, it was naturally even more so for the strong individuals from other Sects and powers.

She went through a tough and dark period.

It was clearly she who had fended off the counterattack of the Alien Tribes; it was clearly she who had resolved the Alien Tribes’ elite’s will with her own power. Yet her own people shunned her and avoided her, all staying far away from her.

Afterward, she locked herself in a secret chamber, not coming out for decades, enduring the most difficult times.

When she reemerged, she had regained her usual gentle and serene demeanor, as if she had forgotten that dark history, never again displaying her poison skills in the human world.

As time went by, those who knew of her frightening poison arts gradually died off, and the past events that saw her exterminate the living beings of a continent in the Fifth Realm were slowly forgotten.

The surviving True Gods felt she had completely moved on, with poison control ingrained in her heart, and they let down their guard around her.

She also repeatedly promised never to easily initiate a Poison Calamity again, not to create boundless killing and disasters.

In fact, when she was furious on the Observatory and threatened to unleash the Poison Calamity on the Saint Spirit Continent, it was just a threat to Long Xiao to keep him from making a move against Pang Lin.

—She never intended to actually do it.

But now, after her disciple Pang Lin had been saved, she suddenly chose to enter a darkened state, opting to once again unleash the Poison Calamity in the Saint Spirit Continent ruled by Long Xiao.

Only because she knew too well the extremely dire situation the Human Race was facing at this moment.

Zhu Ji, Li Wang, Pei Yishan, Lin Qiyang, Liu Fu, these True Gods who stand at the pinnacle of Purgatory, are very likely to fall in succession within a short period of time.

It was Long Xiao who collaborated with the Alien Tribes, taking the lead through "Thunder Cave Heavens" and becoming the vanguard of the Alien Tribes!

If she didn’t do something soon, the great endeavor of the Human Race for thirty thousand years might be lost.

Thus, the "Poison Calamity" erupted.

She let the consciousness that had been nurtured within intense poison within her activate, temporarily invading and contaminating her original Spiritual Intelligence.

As a result, the Blood Rhinoceros King of Saint Spirit Continent perished first, and the Poison Calamity spread from there.

Next to the "well"-shaped Sword Tower infused with sword light, Pang Jian looked toward the churning Miasma Cloud Sea and discovered that the massive dragon created by the "Dragon Bead" had quietly melted away.

Speckled among them, various colored strange lights gradually shone through the depths of the miasma clouds.

Those unusual flickers of light seemed like they had been bred from the blood and souls of living beings, a kind of utmost poisonous substance.

They possessed life consciousness, they corroded and infected all things, they originated from the "Poison Calamity" stirred by Su Wenrou, and they began to overflow within the Miasma Cloud Sea.

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Within Saint Spirit Continent.

At the location of Dragon Cave, in front of the True Dragon Palace, the Rock Bear Demon God learned of the news that the Blood Rhinoceros King had died violently.

Thinking of Su Wenrou in the Pure Land and Long Xiao who was battling outside the heavens, He guessed what had happened.

"The Poison Calamity has struck."

The Old Rock Bear almost instantly became teary-eyed and choked up, "Elder Long truly did many things for us, solving the tough problem of our Demon Race’s bloodline being restricted."

"But His actions in leading the charge for the other side, digging out the Thunder Cave Heavens, and enraging Su Wenrou, also brought the Poison Calamity to Saint Spirit Continent."

"Once the Poison Calamity erupts, it’s unstoppable, cannot be intercepted."

"The only option is to flee!"

"Order all Demons to leave Saint Spirit Continent at the fastest speed possible, taking with them all members of the Demon Race they can!"

Accompanied by earth-shattering roars, those Demon Kings of Saint Spirit Continent, the Great Demons, each and every Dragon, all fled toward the outside world, not daring to stay on that continent anymore.

Saint Spirit Continent has always been sacred land to the Demon Race, but now because Su Wenrou stirred the Poison Calamity, it must result in horrendous suffering for all living beings.

"Sword Tower!"

"Pang Jian!"

The first ninth-level Demon King to flee Saint Spirit Continent, not daring to touch the void where Long Xiao and Su Wenrou were located, thus came towards the towering divine figure of Pang Jian.

The Golden Elephant, Ghost Snake, and Kylin, three powerful ninth-level Demon Kings, as well as two thousand-zhang long ninth-level Old Dragons, came rushing from different directions.

"Sword Tower Pu Zhaotian, imprisoning our Dragon Race’s young warriors, killing our own kind!"

"Sword Tower! From now on, it’s the great enemy of our Dragon Race!"

A ninth-level Wind Dragon first stirred up a storm in the void, roaring, "The ancient ancestors have given their orders, let us bombard Pang Jian to prevent Pu Zhaotian from ascending to True God!"

"Pang Jian is merely a Sword God in the Immortal Realm, he is not to be feared!"

"Kill him, then rip apart Pu Zhaotian and destroy the Sword Tower’s foundation for countless generations!"

As the Wind Dragon called out, the Golden Elephant, Ghost Snake, and Kylin, the three great ninth-level Demon Kings, responded one after another.

In front of the "well"-shaped vortex of sword light, Pang Jian, holding the Origin Demon Sword, narrowed his eyes towards the direction of Saint Spirit Continent and did not notice Old Rock Bear’s presence.

His feelings were somewhat complex at the moment.

As the Realm God of this era, he originally had a duty to unite the Human and Demon Races, ideally tying the Demons to the chariot of the Humans to once again jointly repel the Alien Tribes from the Fifth Realm.

Unfortunately, Long Xiao was too domineering and had almost gained the recognition of most Demons.

After a trip to Northern Qi, Long Xiao’s brazenness further escalated, evidently reaching some consensus with that concealed Demon God in Northern Qi.

On the Old Rock Bear’s end, he indeed offered some assistance during his ascension to Demon God.

But it was clear that the Demon and Human Races were already starting to sever ties, and with Long Xiao’s promise likely to elevate the Demon Race to a ruling position within Purgatory, would Old Rock Bear not consider the well-being of his own kin?

As ninth-level powerhouses like the Wind Dragon, Golden Elephant, Ghost Snake, and Kylin currently sought not only to kill him but also aimed to annihilate his Shifu Pu Zhaotian and the Sword Tower altogether.

What of the duty of the Realm God? How could he allow Demon Kings to obstruct his Shifu from Divine Enthronement!

"This is the path chosen by Long Xiao. Since things have come to this, blame cannot be placed on me."

Pang Jian gathered his strength and as the storm surged towards him, he swung his sword to chop at the most surly Wind Dragon.

One sword unleashed, and the brilliant Star River burst forth!

The sword light, condensed with stars and the Bright Moon, pierced through all incoming storms, extinguishing the dragon power instilled within the Wind Dragon.

The sword light pierced through the swirling storms and shredded the Scale Armor deep sea constructed by the Wind Dragon’s scales into fragments, leaving a deep, bone-deep wound on the head of the Wind Dragon.

This ninth-level Wind Dragon, one of the oldest dragons after Long Xiao, was older than most of the Human True Gods.

Amongst the ninth-level Dragons, he was second only to the radiantly glorious Long Zhan.

He had always believed that Human True Gods like Li Chu and Mu Wentao were no match for him.

Yet, he was wounded by Pang Jian with a single thrust of the sword.

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