The Demon Lord's persona must not be ruined!

The tip of Youyue's blade dipped slightly as she was about to turn around, when a rustling sound came from behind her.

She frowned slightly and turned around to look.

Scorpion was staggering as he stood up, blood still seeping from the knife wound in his chest.

But a twisted smile appeared on his face:

"Youyue...do you think...do you think you've won?"

As he spoke, he reached into his robes and groped for something.

Li Tu watched from the side and muttered to himself:

"What else can that old bastard pull out?"

The next second, Poison Scorpion pulled out a bright green scorpion from his pocket.

The scorpion's carapace was glossy, and its tail hook was raised high, gleaming with a ghostly green light in the dim light.

It lay on the scorpion's palm, seemingly uneasy, its few slender legs trembling slightly.

"This is..." Qianji's eyes narrowed.

The venomous scorpion looked down at the scorpion with a complex expression.

There was reluctance, there was struggle, and in the end, it all turned into madness.

He opened his mouth and pointed the scorpion at his own throat!

"Wait, he wouldn't be going to—" Li Tu's eyes widened.

Before the words were even finished, the scorpion tilted its head back, pushed its hand out, and actually stuffed the scorpion into its mouth!

"Gurgle..."

The sound of swallowing was exceptionally clear in the silence.

"vomit--!"

Li Tu's face turned green, and his stomach churned.

"What kind of taste does this old venomous creature have?! Eating raw scorpions?! Doesn't he find it disgusting?!"

Qianji narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice:

"That's his natal venomous creature, the Azure Phosphorous Scorpion, with whom he has cultivated a bond of life and death for a hundred years. Swallowing it can forcibly burn the source of the venom, unleash potential, and cause a rapid increase in cultivation level in a short period of time..."

He paused, then added, "But the price was that the Azure Phosphorous Scorpion was ruined. Centuries of cultivation, destroyed in a single day."

Is it worth it?

Youyue asked coldly.

The scorpion did not answer.

Because he could no longer answer.

The moment he swallowed the Azure Phosphorous Scorpion, he suddenly arched his body, making a strange hoarse sound from his throat, as if he couldn't breathe.

His skin began to turn an abnormal green, and the veins bulged out, also emitting a greenish glow beneath the skin.

"boom--!"

A thick cloud of green poisonous gas erupted from his pores, instantly enveloping him completely!

The poisonous fog surged and writhed like a living thing.

In the mist, the knife wound on the scorpion's chest, inflicted by Youyue, was healing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

His previously weak aura began to rise steadily!

The bottleneck of the early stage of tribulation was easily broken through, and the spiritual energy fluctuations surged wildly, causing the surrounding air to distort slightly due to this power.

Mid-stage of Tribulation Transcending!

The poisonous fog slowly dissipated, revealing the scorpion once more.

He was a completely different person at that moment.

His skin turned completely dark green, his pupils shrank to the size of pinpoints, and the whites of his eyes were covered with blood vessels.

"Now……"

The scorpion spoke, its voice hoarse and unpleasant, like sandpaper rubbing together:

"Let's try again."

His eyes gleamed with a chilling green light as he stared intently at Youyue.

This is his greatest source of confidence.

The reason why he wasn't afraid of the other two experts in the early stages of the Tribulation Transcending Realm was also because of this move.

But now, there's no turning back!

Youyue's expression was solemn as she held her sword horizontally in front of her, not daring to be careless in the slightest.

The scorpion moved.

So fast!

Youyue's pupils contracted, and she instinctively turned to the side—

"Bang!"

A bright green hand almost brushed past her veil and patted the spot where she had just been standing.

The ground exploded open, creating a huge crater. Debris flew everywhere, and white smoke was still rising from the edges of the crater, clearly indicating that it was highly poisonous.

The scorpion's figure solidified again not far away. He looked at his palm and seemed quite satisfied with his speed just now.

"See that?" He grinned, revealing a set of greenish teeth. "This is my true power!"

Before he finished speaking, he disappeared again.

Without hesitation, Youyue wielded her curved blade, creating a ball of silver light in front of her.

"Clang clang clang clang—!"

A series of metallic clangs rang out as the scorpion's figure appeared and disappeared, launching attacks from all angles.

Each strike was accompanied by a foul-smelling, poisonous mist.

Youyue fought and retreated, her sword flashes dense but clearly suppressed.

"This can't go on." Li Tu frowned, clenching his fists. "Youyue is completely at a disadvantage."

Qianji shook his head slightly:

"The power that the scorpion gains from burning its venom is naturally extraordinary, but it won't last long."

"How long can it last?" Li Tu asked curiously.

Qianji was somewhat speechless.

He's not an immortal!

How do we know how long it can last?!

Chu Yuan didn't speak, he just quietly watched the battlefield.

He frowned slightly, his mind racing.

The True Eye of Truth revealed that his right chest was severely injured...

Is the right breast a scorpion's weak point?

Is it the weak point of the technique?

Never mind, let's give it a try!

"Youyue,"

Chu Yuan spoke:

"Attack his right chest."

Upon hearing this, Youyue did not hesitate at all.

Her sword strikes shifted abruptly, the previously impenetrable blade light suddenly receding and transforming into a straight silver line, piercing straight into the scorpion's right chest!

The scorpion sneered inwardly.

As expected of the sect leader, even with his cultivation damaged, his eyesight remains sharp, seeing through the weakness of my "Ten Thousand Poison Scorpion Demon Art" at a glance...

But so what?

"clang--!"

The moment the scimitar pierced his right chest, it produced a crisp sound like metal clashing against stone!

A flash of green light appeared on the scorpion's chest, as if it were covered by an invisible carapace.

Youyue's all-out strike didn't even graze the skin; the blade was blocked just half an inch from the skin!

"Ha ha ha ha!"

The scorpion laughed wildly:

"So what? Even if you know my weakness, it's useless if you can't break through my defenses!"

He patted his right chest triumphantly; it glowed with a green light, clearly indicating extremely strong defense.

"My Poison Armor is forged from centuries of toxic essence; no one can break through it!"

Youyue drew her sword and retreated, her brows furrowed beneath her veil.

Chu Yuan narrowed his eyes.

If it doesn't break the first time, then try a few more times.

No matter how hard a shell is, it can't withstand hundreds or thousands of attacks.

"Youyue," Chu Yuan said calmly, "focus on one point and reach the pinnacle."

Youyue paused.

She looked at the scorpion's right breast, which was glowing green, and then glanced down at the scimitar in her hand.

The next second, her eyes changed.

Although she didn't quite understand it.

But what the cult leader says is definitely right!

"I understand."

Youyue took a deep breath and drew her sword again.

Scorpion scoffed and casually slapped the blade with his palm, trying to shake it off.

However, the tip of the knife drew an almost imperceptible arc in the air, avoiding his palm and striking precisely in the center of his right chest, exactly where the attack had occurred!

"bite."

A soft sound.

Poison Scorpion was stunned for a moment, and before he could react, Youyue's second strike had already arrived.

"bite."

The tip of the knife touched the same spot again.

Then came the third, fourth, and fifth cuts...

Youyue's figure flickered around the scorpion like a ghost, each slash coming from a different angle, but ultimately the blade tip landed at the same point.

It's always that spot on the right side of my chest!

"Ding ding ding ding—!"

The crisp sounds came one after another, starting sparsely, then becoming denser and denser, and finally turning into a continuous barrage of blows like a storm!

The scorpion initially scoffed, "Useless! A waste of effort!"

But as he was laughing, his expression changed.

Because he could feel the layer of poisonous armor on his chest being weakened by each strike!

Each time the blade touched the carapace, it would tremble slightly, even though the carapace remained intact.

After hundreds of tremors combined, tiny cracks finally began to appear!

"Impossible...this aura...you're breaking through?!"

The scorpion was filled with shock and rage.

This guy is using himself as a whetstone!