Poison God's Heritage

"Who the hell is yapping this loud," I said as I came out of the ship. "Damn, even the thunder is quieter than you, what the hell do you want?" I asked the man.

"YOUR LIFE!" he said with the most third rate villain tone you could imagine.

The Demon Sword rushed forward toward the ship. One of his palms was pointing forward while his sword was behind him and many more flew following him.

"Taste the might of the Demon Sword!" he shouted with all his might.

He was fast, and incredibly so, however there was still a distance between us.

"Shen!" Law shouted, worried for the fact that the man called the Demon Sword was attacking. After all he was a peak Origin Realm cultivator. But there was one thing that only I am aware of.

And before the Demon Sword made it half way, I slowly raised my hand and snapped a finger.

Instantly after that, a loud sound of something crashing against the ship echoed from underneath my foot. And the body of the Demon Sword slowly slumped against the bloodied steel until he fell to the ground below.

His swords followed suit as they fell right next to him.

While he gasped for breath after breath, then a final breath before he died clutching his heart.

"…"

"What?" I shrugged at Law who had the 'what the fuck just happened' look on his face.

"Is that the Demon Sword or someone impersonating him," Law asked.

"That is the Demon Sword," I said as I jumped down.

Looking at his arm, he had three circles. He had already gained enough to proceed to the next region but decided to come back for me. Well, sucks to be him I guess.

Although I never understood why he had such an enmity between us… Well, it doesn't matter anyway.

I grabbed his holding bag and threw it inside my own. I'll need to check this thing later. With nothing else left I just simply cutoff his arm and added it to the one back in my ship. The symbol increased by half again and is now showing three circles and a half.

"The third circle is cyan colored," Law commented.

"Yes, there must be more metals deep inside," I replied.

"So, how did this guy, turn to that?" Law asked as he pointed at the corpse of the Demon Sword.

Law's face was the same as one would have if you squeeze a sour lemon in it. Ugly and scowling from the sight.

After all, the Demon Sword's body turned to a black goo with some semblance of human remains in there. Also, it was still bubbling.

Law approached the swords next to the corpse and pocketed them. I had no use for that since they're pretty useless to me.

"Oh, yeah, he was poisoned before, I just enabled it," I said as I hopped back on the ship.

Law followed me asking, "When did that happen? You never attacked him, and the only time you two had an encounter was in the presence of other Suns, although I respect your strength, but I find it hard to believe that you could pull one up the eight suns and poison another competitor," Law said.

"Your reasoning is sound, I did not poison him," I said. "He was already poisoned like I said. I don't know when that happened, but the injury is old, and the poison had festered inside his Dantian for a long time. He probably wanted to get cured by winning the competition," I said.

"If only he had asked you to help him cure his illness," Law said.

"I would have charged him a lot just for him being an ass, anyway, let's keep going," I said as we headed forward.

***

"I don't know what I was expecting," Eccentric Long said, "But it definitely was nothing like that," he added.

"I thought something to that extent might happen," Xiao Du said.

"Really?" the commentator said, "How come?"

"He came to me a few years ago, asking to get his Dantian cleansed from a vile poison that he was attacked with. It was called the Dragon Blight Poison, a nefarious poison that can remain dormant inside one's body, and the moment they use Origin Qi, it will flare up and eat it all, it was a parasitic poison that almost seals a man's Qi entirely.

And cause them to die a horrible death in case the poison was triggered," Xiao Du said.

"But, Du Shen isn't an Origin Realm cultivator, he shouldn't have any origin Qi to enable that poison," the Commentator said, "Also if he used Origin Qi, the Suns would have intervened," he added.

"That would only be the case if the one afflicted with the poison were to use Origin Qi themselves. But what Du Shen had done, defies logic and what I have learned. He took control of the Dragon Blight and activated it remotely, which is absurd to even think about," Xiao Du said.

"That's pretty interesting, because, not only is that poison extremely powerful. It is very hard to find, so how did Du Shen even find the Dragon Blight," The commentator asked. "That poison was extremely rare, and it needs a thousand years to ferment before it gains its toxicity."

"Indeed, Du Shen hasn't been in the beyond for enough time to mature the poison, and he should not have met it in his home world. Not to mention, the only way to find that poison is to obtain it from one of the forbidden regions. Not even a Heaven stage cultivator can survive that area, not to mention the poison.

You have seen how Du Shen was able to control poisons, so one could say he might have gone there and grabbed it. The issue is, the creatures that live there can make snacks out of Origin Shattering cultivator. So, that's impossible even for him," these words were spoken by the one who knows most about beasts in the Beyond, the Dusking Sun.

Xiao Du clasped his hands at the Dusking Sun and said, "I think I might be the reason for this misunderstanding."

"How so?" the commentator asked.

"Because the Ten Thousand Poison Pill I had given him had the Dragon Blight in it. And since he could control it, it was no wonder he managed to defeat the Demon Sword." Xiao Du said.

"Oh, I see, then that explains it. I guess it was his good fortune that he had obtained the poison before the fight," the commentator said.

The Dusking Sun laughed as he relaxed and took another chug from his jug. "You're all underestimating that kid a lot. Just because the difference of cultivation exists doesn't mean that a lower realm cultivator has to lose to a higher realm one. Especially when it comes to poison and craftiness.

After all, he even made that cold hearted woman anxious," the Dusking Sun said as he was looking at the Blue Sun.

She, unlike the many other Suns seemed to be worried. But for what reason, not many would be able to find out.

The chair she was sitting on had it's arm rest crushed, and she didn't even notice it.

Via a divine sense message, all the other suns heard a message coming from the Blue Sun.

"I wish to withdraw that man from this competition," she said.

"What? Why?!" the red sun flared, replying to the rest of the suns.

It was as if they were all having a meeting.

"Calm down Slaughterer," the Wisest Sun said, "But for what reason do you wish to withdraw him? He broke no rules."

"It's not for the rules, if he dies… I have a feeling that we'll lose a very important piece that won't come again for the next ten thousand years. I have underestimated his mind a lot, and I don't want to see him perish this soon," she added.

"That is not up to any of us," the Lord of Lords said, "Because if you were to just draw him, it will only cause strife and bad blood to form between us. After all the efforts he had put in, to simply pull him out would be a humiliation to all of his hard work."

"I'll compensate him enough that he wouldn't think the rewards for this tournament is even worth looking at," she said.

"I don't agree to this," the Cryptic Sun said.

"Neither do I, one of my sect members wishes to clash swords with him, and I don't want to deprive him of that opportunity." The Darkest Sun replied.

The Wisest Sun said, "I also don't want to pull him, after all, I feel that he has the ability to come out of this on top."

"Same here, it is his fortune and his trial to climb over. I cannot deprive him of that," the Lord of Lords added.

The cryptic sun also declined and the Flamboyant Sun didn't even deem the question worth answering.

With that, the Blue Sun bit on her lips and opened a teleportation gate.

"Where are you going?" the Lord of Lords said.

"I cannot permit him to die, if he is injured enough to not be able to continue, then I'll take him with me.

"I cannot allow that!" the Lord of Lords said.

"You want to cause bad blood to form between us!" the Blue Sun said.

"You're the one pushing it! You cannot shelter him, none of us here tried to directly interfere with his fate. It will lead him astray of his own path. Not to mention, you have not told us why you want to break the rules of this competition."

"Because… He might be able to figure out why did that metallic object fell and become the Thunder Domain. But if he gets to the fourth region… he will die…"