Mortal: Starting by looting Han Laomo's entire herb garden

Mu Tianyan climbed out of the pit, wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and her eyes were filled with rage.

How dare a human in the late stage of Core Formation injure him?

"court death!"

He opened his mouth and spat out a demon core the size of a fist, its entire body dark green and emitting an eerie light.

The demon core spun around, and an invisible force spread out, instantly enveloping the entire cave.

Lu Yan felt a blur before his eyes, and the scenery around him began to distort and deform.

The cave walls turned into a bloody mess, and the luminous pearls transformed into countless eyes, staring intently at him.

A sticky sensation came from underfoot, as if I were stepping on the tongue of some giant beast.

Illusion.

Lu Yan was startled. The illusion released by the demon core was so realistic that even his divine sense could not distinguish between the real and the fake.

His consciousness began to blur, and the scene before him became increasingly distorted, as if he were about to be dragged into an abyss.

Just then, the Thunder Soul Crystal in his storage bracelet suddenly burst forth with dazzling lightning.

The lightning bolt shot straight into his mind's sea, like a sharp sword severing the shackles of the illusion.

Everything before his eyes shattered like a mirage, and Lu Yan's consciousness instantly returned to clarity.

Thunder Soul Crystal, specifically effective against illusions and inner demons. I found it in the Northern Underworld Immortal Realm back then, and I never expected it to come in handy today.

Mu Tianyan's face darkened when he saw that the illusion had been broken.

A fierce glint flashed in Lu Yan's eyes. Without giving him a chance to breathe, he raised his hand and summoned a golden talisman.

The ruler that defines the boundaries of heaven and earth.

The talisman transformed into countless golden ruler shadows, spreading across the sky like a golden sea of ​​light, surging towards Mu Tianyan.

Wherever the ruler's shadow passed, the void seemed to freeze, and even the air became stagnant.

At the same time, Lu Yan made hand seals and uttered obscure incantations.

Countless crimson runes flew from his fingertips, condensing into a strange blood cloud above his head.

"Thunder Sacrifice Technique, Heavenly Blood Thunder."

The blood-red clouds surged, transforming into a massive vortex, with streaks of crimson lightning brewing within, emanating a terrifying aura of destruction.

Mu Tianyan's heart skipped a beat. He sensed the terrifying power contained in the blood lightning; it was no ordinary lightning technique.

He dared not be careless and poured all his magical power into the two clam shells. The dark green clam shells shone brightly, completely enveloping his entire body.

Two thick, blood-red bolts of lightning cleaved down from the vortex, like two blood-red dragons, crashing straight towards Mu Tianyan.

The lightning pierced through the clam shell as easily as it pierced through rotten soil, striking Mu Tianyan directly.

"What?!"

Mu Tianyan was shocked. His clam shell had extremely strong defenses and ordinary spells could not break through it. How could this blood lightning ignore physical defenses?

Fortunately, the black light barrier of the Xuanming Ink Pearl blocked most of the lightning's power; otherwise, this attack would have been enough to severely injure him.

Even so, Mu Tianyan was still charred black all over, her green hair stood on end, and she spat out a mouthful of blood.

Lu Yan frowned slightly, sighing inwardly. If the Blood Flood Dragon were to personally unleash this Heavenly Blood Thunder, Mu Tianyan would likely be instantly reduced to ashes with that single strike.

After all, he was only at the late stage of Core Formation, and his power was far inferior.

But he didn't stop.

Lu Yan took out a jade bottle from his storage bag, uncorked it, and put a drop of the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk into his mouth.

His spiritual energy was instantly replenished, and his depleted magical power surged forth like a spring, filling his entire body.

Jin Ming's eyes widened, and golden arcs of lightning pulsed violently.

Millennia-old spiritual milk?

This human actually possesses such a treasure? This is a life-saving item that even Nascent Soul cultivators treasure, and a late-stage Core Formation human actually...

Mu Tianyan also saw it, and a look of greed flashed in her eyes, but more than that, she was wary.

The human race has revealed one trump card after another: three ancient treasures, two spirit beasts, blood lightning that ignores defense, and now they've produced ten-thousand-year-old spiritual milk...

He dared not be careless any longer and poured all his remaining magic power into the Xuanming Ink Pearl, which solidified the black light barrier several times over, protecting him completely.

He knew the clam shell couldn't protect him from the blood lightning, and his only hope now was this pearl.

Lu Yan seized the opportunity and activated the Qiankun Demarcation Ruler at full power.

The golden sea of ​​light suddenly contracted, trapping Mu Tianyan tightly.

Immediately afterwards, the blood lightning struck again, causing the black shield to tremble and dim in color, but it could still defend against it.

Before Mu Tianyan could breathe a sigh of relief, countless golden needles suddenly emerged from the sea of ​​light.

Tianyang Gilded Needle.

The needles rained down like a waterfall, instantly piercing the black light barrier of the Xuanming Ink Pearl and leaving several small wounds on Mu Tianyan's body.

Mu Tianyan glanced down at the wounds on her body, her face full of disdain.

It's just a minor injury, why bring it up and embarrass yourself? As long as you weren't struck by that strange blood lightning, you'll be fine.

But the next second, his expression changed.

A sharp pain spread from the wound, as if ten thousand ants were gnawing at his flesh, or as if someone was slowly cutting his bones inch by inch with a dull knife.

His complexion turned ashen at a visible speed, his lips turned purple, and the veins on his forehead bulged.

"Your needle... is poisoned!"

Mu Tianyan's voice changed, and she stared at Lu Yan in horror.

Lu Yan sneered and said slowly, "The Ten Deadly Poisons, the Bitter Poison. Ever heard of it?"

Mu Tianyan's pupils suddenly contracted.

The Ten Deadly Poisons? Bitter Poison?

Of course he had heard of it. It was one of the ten most notorious poisons in the cultivation world, and bitter poison was the most troublesome of them.

The most frightening thing is that once bitterness enters the body, it is extremely difficult to get rid of.

Even a powerful demon in human form, without specialized methods and elixirs, can only endure it.

Mu Tianyan never expected that this human would possess such a thing.

He felt his demonic body rapidly decaying, his magical power becoming increasingly sluggish, and even maintaining his human form was becoming difficult.

"You...you're so cruel..."

Mu Tianyan gritted her teeth, her eyes filled with resentment.

He finally succeeded in transforming into human form and joined the Suanni clan. Just when he was about to rise to prominence, his demonic body was destroyed by a human in the late stage of Core Formation.

But he was, after all, a level eight transformed demon, and knew that if he dragged this out any longer, he would only face certain death.

Mu Tianyan gritted her teeth, and suddenly a flash of light appeared on the top of her head. A green primordial spirit flew out from the top of her head at an astonishing speed, fleeing out of the cave.

You can find another body if it's destroyed, but once you lose your life, you lose everything.

A glint of light flashed in Lu Yan's eyes.

Want to run?

He patted the spirit beast pouch, and a dark shadow appeared in response.

The Crying Soul Beast, the little black monkey obtained from Bitao Island, was still somewhat dazed when it landed, looking around, not knowing why its master had called it out.

Then it saw that green primordial spirit.

The Soul-Crying Beast's eyes lit up instantly.

Mu Tianyan's primordial spirit sensed a tremendous crisis. When she turned around, she was met with a beam of yellow light shooting out from the nostrils of the Soul-Crying Beast.

"No!"

The yellow glow, like a rainbow piercing the sun, instantly enveloped Mu Tianyan's primordial spirit.

"Fellow Daoist, spare my life! I was blind and didn't recognize your greatness..."

However, no matter how much he struggled or begged for mercy, it was all in vain.

Huang Xia swept up the primordial spirit, dragged it back to the Crying Soul Beast, and sucked the primordial spirit into it.

Then it let out a satisfied burp, patted its belly, and showed a happy expression.

The cave was so quiet that you could hear the sound of water droplets hitting the ground.

Jin Ming stood to the side, his mouth slightly open, the golden lightning arcs no longer flickering, his entire Suanni seemed petrified.

He had seen many grand scenes, but he had never seen such a brutal one.

An eighth-level transformed demon, from the destruction of his physical body to the devouring of his primordial spirit, the entire process takes no more than the time it takes to brew a cup of tea.

The one who accomplished all of this was merely a human in the late stage of Core Formation.

Jin Ming's gaze fell on Lu Yan, and for the first time, he showed a look of fear.