Hell Emperor.

Chapter 585 Xia Wei - Invulnerable to All Poisons
In the land of Taiyin, where the moonlight shines brightly, two graceful figures stand facing each other from afar.

One of them stood atop the moon, barefoot and dangling in mid-air. Half of her face was etched into the dark shadows, while the other half was bathed in the cool silver light. Endless arcs of electricity surged around her, making her seem like the embodiment of raging thunder.

Another person stepped onto the ground, her heart as hard as iron, her eyes resolute, holding a sharp sword that concealed the power of thunder and punishment, letting the distant wind howl, her two braids behind her head remained motionless.

The two auras clashed repeatedly. Although they did not actually fight, their auras clashed and fought hundreds of times. The earth was torn apart, dust swirled wildly, and even the eternal moon trembled because of their confrontation.

Xia Wei's eyes blazed with fury, concealing a raging inferno.

Far from the mortal world, at the edge of the earth, the one who risked her life to fight her was neither a ferocious demon god from ancient legends nor a reclusive immortal who had attained enlightenment for ten thousand years, but a humble moon rabbit used for testing medicine.

Thunder roared and lightning surged, shattering the white jade steps and causing the crystal pavilions to collapse. Towers toppled and pavilions crumbled, leaving only ruins in the once magnificent Guanghan Palace that had captivated the immortals.

The endless thunder prison spread out from Yao Bai's center, with wildly dancing silver dragons recklessly destroying everything around them. Palace servants suffered heavy casualties; once they touched the electric arcs in the thunder prison, their fate was to be reduced to ashes, with even their souls vanishing into nothingness.

Xia Wei gritted her teeth. Yao Bai's betrayal, which concealed his evil intentions, filled her with hatred. Her first move was the most powerful lightning technique: "Purple Heaven Divine Lightning!"

A touch of purple spread from the sky, and all the stars in the universe heard her call. Divine lightning from the highest heavens crashed down, turning the entire galaxy into a purple ocean along its path.

Yao Bai's lips curled up slightly. Facing the approaching Purple Heaven Divine Lightning, she didn't even try to dodge, but instead stepped forward to meet it head-on!

The divine lightning struck her, but instead of exploding, it danced and swirled around Yao Bai's delicate body, as if draping her in a purple veil, which, in the hazy light, accentuated the graceful figure of the moon rabbit.

"Trying to use the Thunder Technique against me? That's wishful thinking! I'll show you the true power of the Thunder Control Mirror!"

Yao Bai let out a charming laugh, her laughter containing a hint of pleasure and arrogance.

Unlike Xia Wei, who practiced the wrong method, she completely learned the Thunder Control Treasure Mirror and thoroughly mastered the essence of the unique method.

No matter how powerful Xia Wei's lightning technique was, it would still be restrained by the Thunder Control Mirror, and she wouldn't be able to harm her in the slightest. Instead, all the lightning became her power to deal with Xia Wei!
Yao Bai raised her hand and pointed, unleashing a purple aura even more vast than Xia Wei's. Yao Bai also used the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, but unlike Xia Wei's, the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder she used was far more powerful, even shaking the entire moon!

"not good……"

Xia Wei sensed something was wrong and activated the Thunder Control Mirror with all her might to defend herself. Thunder patterns bloomed in her palm, and the fine lines wove into a net, enveloping her entire body and achieving all-around defense.

The Purple Lightning flashed by, and Xia Wei's demonic eyes, enhanced by the Eastern Purple Qi, couldn't even see the trajectory of the lightning. She only heard a deafening roar beside her ears, and her entire body lost control. She was blasted away and crashed into the ruins deep inside the palace.

"Tch...did he survive?"

Yao Bai sensed it briefly and couldn't help but scoff. The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning needed the power of the Eastern Purple Qi to be infused into it in order to unleash its maximum power. Although Yao Bai had mastered his divine skills, he lacked the support of the Eastern Purple Qi. In terms of the Purple Heaven Divine Lightning alone, his skill was still inferior to Xia Wei's, which was why she escaped a calamity.

"Get her!"

In the distance, several sharp shouts also attracted Yao Bai's attention. She saw several ethereal figures suspended in the sky, emanating a vast immortal aura that even she could not ignore. With her destruction of the Guanghan Palace, the immortals in the palace would naturally not allow her to act recklessly, and reinforcements had already arrived.

Amidst the ruins, Xia Wei struggled to her feet, a trail of crimson blood running down her pale lips, clearly indicating that she was seriously injured.

If Yao Bai hadn't been so arrogant as to use the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder, which he wasn't very familiar with, but instead used the Heavenly Thunder that had previously killed Fairy Wanshou and the others, Xia Wei would probably have been severely injured, if not killed.

"Woo..."

The sound of sobbing beside her caught Xia Wei's attention. Looking in the direction of the sound, she saw a terrified palace maid sitting slumped on the ground amidst the ruins, her beautiful face streaked with tears, wiping them away with her wide sleeves.

"Run! Get out of here!"

Xia Wei raised her hand to wipe the blood from the corner of her mouth and casually said to the palace maid.

When Xia Wei suddenly spoke to her, the palace maid seemed frightened. She only breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there was no danger.

"You're injured..." Upon closer inspection, the palace maid noticed something and took out a clean little white bottle, carefully handing it to Xia Wei. "This is a Grade Three Rejuvenation Pill; it can help you recover from your injuries."

Xia Wei didn't take it, but instead snorted coldly: "Do you think I'd fall for that? What Rejuvenation Pill? In my opinion, this is definitely a pill made from a rare poison. You're definitely up to no good!"

The palace maid looked aggrieved: "Who in the world doesn't know the Moon Palace Fairy's reputation for saving lives with elixirs? How could she possibly use a poisonous pill to harm you?"

Xia Wei didn't believe it at all: "What kind of good place is it where you people use the lives of moon rabbits to test pills and the lifespans of mortals to refine pills? I don't believe you!"

The palace maid pursed her lips and said, "The matter of refining the elixir of immortality was the decision of the Taiyin Star Lord. It is said that it was to be offered to a certain Nine-Turn Supreme. We cannot refute it. Besides, we did not harm those mortals. It was all done by others. When you eat meat, do you care about the suffering of animals?"

After a pause, the palace maid continued, "As for using moon rabbits to test pills, it was out of necessity. Every year, the palace develops thousands of new pill formulas. Without using moon rabbits to test the pills, how can we know the side effects of the pills, and how can we promote them in the future to benefit the world? Besides, in order to ensure the number of moon rabbits, the palace will only use a portion of them for testing. The vast majority of pills with unknown effects, as well as those confirmed to contain strange poisons, are still safely stored in the storeroom behind me."

Following the direction pointed out by the palace maid guarding the gate, Xia Wei also saw the dilapidated storeroom door and the scattered white jade pills everywhere.

Thunder roared again in the distance as Yao Bai clashed with renowned immortals from the palace. A dazzling array of magical techniques illuminated the starry sky, even dimming the eternal radiance of the moon. Despite the combined attacks of numerous immortals, Yao Bai maintained a firm advantage. Her moves were agile yet swift; her entire body transformed into lightning with every movement, sparks crackling across the battlefield. Her boisterous laughter concealed an untamed, unrestrained wildness.

Xia Wei gritted her teeth. With her current strength, she was no match for Yao Bai, who had mastered divine skills. Even if she tried a hundred times or a thousand times, the final result would be no different.

A strong sense of unwillingness filled Xia Wei's heart. Beneath her slender body lay an indomitable spirit of pride. She would never admit defeat so easily!
"what are you up to……"

The palace maid guarding the gate also noticed Xia Wei's unusual behavior and the raging fury hidden in her eyes, and couldn't help but shrink back.

Xia Wei didn't answer. Instead, she reached out and summoned all the white jade elixirs scattered outside the storeroom into her palm. Without saying a word, she tilted her head back and swallowed the elixirs.

After consuming dozens of elixirs, Xia Wei felt a surge of powerful immortal energy originating from her dantian and spreading throughout her body. However, she was still not satisfied. To think that she could surpass Yao Bai from afar with this amount of immortal energy was nothing short of a pipe dream.

Under the horrified gazes of the palace maids guarding the gate, Xia Wei raised her hand and summoned thunder, blasting open the heavy palace gate. She then flew inside and, without a second thought, consumed and refined every elixir within her sight, regardless of its efficacy or potential backlash.

"Are you... are you insane? The pills sealed in the warehouse are either highly toxic or their effects are completely unknown. Even a celestial being of your level would be annihilated if they accidentally ingested just one, or worse. And you've consumed so many..."

The palace maid was greatly alarmed. If anyone thought that the storeroom contained some precious life-saving elixir, they would be sorely mistaken.

Most of the pills stored here are deadly poisons. Even the moon rabbits used for testing medicines dare not take them, but Xia Wei didn't care at all. She didn't even bother to discern the effects of the pills and consumed and refined them all. In the eyes of the palace maids, doing so was tantamount to courting death.

Thinking of this, the palace maid dared not watch any longer. What awaited Xia Wei was either the backlash from the poison pill, causing her flesh and blood to collapse and become unrecognizable, or her immortal body to be unable to withstand such a fierce pill effect and explode to death. In any case, she would not have a good ending.

Time passed slowly, and the situation the palace maid feared never happened. On the contrary, Xia Wei's actions did not stop at all. As the effects of the many elixirs took hold, her cultivation level also rose steadily.

What the palace maid didn't know was that Xia Wei possessed a rare second-grade talent, making her immune to all poisons. The poison that came with the pills when they were made might be a fatal flaw for others, but Xia Wei completely ignored it. No poison could harm her in the slightest!

Yao Bai, who was engaged in a fierce battle with the immortals, suddenly sensed something. He looked closely and saw layers of thunderclouds condensing in the distance. The aura emanating from the thunderclouds was both familiar and unfamiliar to Yao Bai. It was clearly the noise caused by an immortal breaking through to a higher realm!
"That cloud of tribulation... Xia Wei, you're still alive? You even took the opportunity to break through?"

Yao Bai sneered. Who else could it be but Xia Wei undergoing her tribulation to break through her cultivation realm? Daring to undergo tribulation right in front of her, she truly didn't take her seriously!

"Where are you looking?"

Beside Yao Bai, a point of cold light pierced the sky, carrying unparalleled brilliance as it thrust straight towards him. Wherever the sword light passed, radiance flowed.

Yao Bai scoffed, her nimble body transforming into azure lightning, effortlessly dodging the attack.

Under the moonlight, several fairies formed a sword formation. The fairy at the head of the formation had a fair face, as if it were born from the condensation of moonlight. Her eyebrows were like distant mountains, her eyes were like cold pools, and her expression was indifferent. It was as if a single glance would disturb the clear moonlight that had been silent for thousands of years.

Faced with Yao Bai's destruction of the Moon Palace, the fairies in the formation sternly rebuked him:

"You beast, do you know what you've done? Surrender now!"

"With the fairy Chang'e here, you cannot continue your insolence!"

Hearing the shouts of the immortals, Yao Bai revealed his ferocious nature, appearing like a madman, and laughed shrilly:

"I never imagined that after killing Su'e, there would be Heng'e, and after killing Heng'e, there would be Chang'e. You fairy maidens really are endless!"

Endless arcs of electricity surged continuously within Yao Bai's body, and a magnificent divine power erupted from her as the origin. She stood at the center of the lightning, her entire being like the ruler of thunder. Under that thunderous strike that surpassed heaven and earth, all things mourned.

A dazzling light flashed by, so brilliant that it resembled the last rays of the sun before it went out. A series of explosions followed, and arcs of electricity surged along the swords held by the fairies, turning their sword-wielding hands and even half of their bodies into charred remains, devoid of any life.

With just this one strike, the immortals suffered heavy losses. Before Yao Bai, who had mastered her divine skills, everything else became her stepping stones.

Among the many fairies who were seriously injured and perished, only Chang'e was unharmed. The moment she sensed Yao Bai's attack, she leaped out and, with the help of the moonlight, dodged the electric arcs while launching a counterattack against Yao Bai!
As the sword light approached, Yao Bai certainly wouldn't sit idly by and wait to die. He raised his hand and pointed, unleashing endless lightning from his fingertip. A destructive pillar of light condensed and even annihilated space. Everything that stood in the way of the pillar of light vanished in an instant!

The beam of light collided head-on with the sword, producing a deafening roar that shook the heavens and earth. Chang'e, unable to withstand the attack, was sent flying backward and crashed heavily to the ground. Her body was covered in charred burn marks, and she was barely breathing, clearly critically injured and on the verge of death, unable to fight any longer.

The injuries sustained by Chang'e left the surviving fairies ashen-faced. Besides her, who else could stop the mighty Yao Bai?
With a successful strike, Yao Bai covered her mouth and laughed. Once upon a time, the fairy Chang'e in the depths of the moon palace was a legendary figure to her, someone she could only look up to. But now, even the fairy Chang'e has been completely defeated by her!
Speaking of which, she really had to thank Xia Wei. If Xia Wei hadn't taken out the Thunder Control Mirror, allowing her to comprehend the Great Dao and eventually cultivate the most powerful and unique method in the world, how could she have all of this now?
The blazing lightning from behind interrupted Yao Bai's joy. The lightning could not advance any further when it came within three inches of Yao Bai, and even its power was transformed into part of Yao Bai's own power.

"Having barely escaped with your life, instead of thinking about running away, you're in such a hurry to come back and die?"

Looking up, Xia Wei's slender figure came into Yao Bai's view.

What made Yao Bai's eyes narrow slightly was that Xia Wei's cultivation level seemed to have increased this time!

With her innate ability to be immune to all poisons, Xia Wei saw all the discarded and poisonous pills piled up in the warehouse as rare and precious elixirs.

Although it was a useless or poisonous pill, the palace alchemists added a variety of rare and precious ingredients when refining it, making it no exaggeration to describe it as being entirely of the highest quality. The century-old accumulation in the warehouse had all contributed to Xia Wei's current state!
Taking advantage of this hard-won opportunity, Xia Wei consumed all the pills in the storeroom. As the medicinal effects kicked in, a vast surge of immortal energy arose within her body, causing her cultivation level to rise accordingly. She overcame countless obstacles and broke through numerous bottlenecks.

As the thunderclouds gradually subsided, an unparalleled aura emerged, and Xia Wei's cultivation level reached the early stage of the seventh rank, ready to fight Yao Bai again!
(End of this chapter)