Three days passed. During that time, the taboo poison pill slowly began to integrate with his third palace.0

Ten percent. Twenty percent. Thirty percent....4

Much of Xu Qing’s body was rotting, but he simply sat in place and focused on fighting against it. Over the past three days, he hadn’t just relied on his violet crystal, the life lamps, and the ghost emperor mountain. He had also released all of his beetles. Under his control, the beetles had bored into him and begun feeding on the poison that filled his flesh and blood.6

Those were the various methods Xu Qing had prepared as his first line of defense.0

However, the poison power of the pill was so intense that even all of those preparations weren’t enough. As a result, his body was visibly rotting. All he could do now was focus fully on the integration process and hopefully step past the point of death.0

Four more days passed, and the taboo poison pill was seventy percent integrated into the third heavenly palace. Those four days had been full of pain and torment for Xu Qing. By the end of them, he was left feeling weak and powerless, with no option left other than to endure.0

The spot upon which he sat was covered with black gore, which was his own rotten flesh and blood. His clothing hung limp over his shriveled, rotten frame. Not much flesh could be seen on his hands; they were mostly black bone. The poison from the taboo pill was wreaking havoc on him, to the point where his sea...18