Chapter 798: Li Yun vs Old Ghost Wei
Amid Old Ghost Wei’s wild laughter, the Black Venom Snake was the first to move.
It crawled slowly, and its size began to swell.
In the blink of an eye, it grew from the size of an arm to the thickness of a pillar, reaching dozens of zhang in length. It coiled upward, and its pair of crimson blood eyes radiated an incredibly cold light.
It hissed, spraying venom from its mouth like torrential rain, flooding toward the Sumeru Golden Mountain.
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Upon contact, the Sumeru Golden Mountain emitted a series of hair-raising sounds.
The golden light rapidly receded, and in only three breaths, the Sumeru Golden Mountain was completely corroded until nothing remained.
At the same time, the Dark Tail Scorpion suddenly raised its tail.
A stinger shot out with a sharp whistle, struck Monk Yiming, and directly dissolved the halo of Buddhist light surrounding him.
Finally, the Three-Legged Corpse Toad lunged violently.
It was not large, but its power resembled that of a dragon elephant. With a heavy impact, it knocked Monk Yiming straight out of the arena.
Not only that, but Monk Yiming’s body was instantly covered in a layer of emerald-green light.
The sickly green hue spread across his entire body in an instant.
Under the coverage of this green light, Monk Yiming screamed in agony. His skin, bones, and meridians were rapidly corroded, and even his true essence was being eaten away.
Clearly, this emerald light was an extremely terrifying toxin that even a powerhouse like Monk Yiming could not resist.
"Not good."
In the spectator stands, an old monk from the Golden Lotus Buddhist Kingdom had a sudden change in expression.
His figure instantly appeared beside Monk Yiming, and rippling Buddhist light bathed the injured monk.
However, although the vast Buddhist light could slow the spread of the emerald light, it could not truly expel it.
The horror of this toxin exceeded his imagination.
"Hmph."
The old monk snorted coldly, and a golden sarira floated out, emitting intense golden light.
Under the illumination of this golden light, the emerald glow was finally completely removed.
"So young, yet your heart is so malicious."
He glared coldly at Old Ghost Wei.
To cultivate the Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts while only in his twenties, Old Ghost Wei had clearly committed sins beyond counting. If such a person were allowed to grow, he would surely become a devil head whose hands were stained with the blood of countless people.
Such a devil had to be eliminated in advance.
"Hahaha."
Old Ghost Wei completely ignored the old monk’s murderous gaze.
He laughed wildly, and his eyes turned provocatively toward Xie Wushang.
Facing that provocative look, a cold light flashed in Xie Wushang’s eyes before quickly being restrained.
He said nothing.
Although they were all part of the Four Devil Princes, this did not mean the relationship between Xie Wushang, Old Ghost Wei, and the other two was good.
On the contrary, their relationship was incredibly poor. One could even say they were as incompatible as fire and water.
Given the chance, they would not mind pulling one another down. They might even step on one another to plunge the other into an abyss of eternal damnation.
Regardless, after this battle, Old Ghost Wei’s threat level rose significantly in everyone’s eyes.
He had only deployed three of the Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts and had clearly not shown his full strength, yet he had already defeated Monk Yiming.
If all five beasts were deployed together, it was hard to imagine how terrifying they would be.
Li Yun’s gaze, however, turned cold.
He already had no good feelings toward cultivators who practiced such demonic methods.
The stronger Old Ghost Wei’s Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts were, the more disgust Li Yun felt toward him.
Unfortunately, Li Yun did not encounter Old Ghost Wei in the next two rounds of matches.
In these two rounds, his opponents were Ye Wuhen and the black-robed figure.
In both battles, no surprises occurred.
Although Ye Wuhen had once been the seeded contestant of Sword Peak, his current strength was far inferior to Li Yun’s.
After exchanging a few sword strikes, Ye Wuhen simply conceded.
In the battle against the black-robed figure, Li Yun also won quite easily.
In fact, after defeating the descendants of the Three Great Eye Lineage Clans, he had already secured his status as the number one person in the Way of the Soul at this Heaven’s Chosen Assembly.
Although the black-robed figure’s attainments in the Way of the Soul were not weak, they were only around the same level as Murong Lan’s.
He was even more straightforward than Ye Wuhen.
As soon as he stepped onto the stage, he chose to concede.
These two victories meant that whether in the Dao of the Sword or the Way of the Soul, Li Yun stood above everyone else at this Heaven’s Chosen Assembly.
No one could compete with him in either path.
"Next match, Li Yun versus Old Ghost Wei."
As Elder Qing’s voice rang out, the entire venue immediately became restless.
At this stage of the Heaven’s Chosen Assembly, every battle had already attracted great attention, but this match was different.
Li Yun had already become the greatest dark horse of the tournament.
At the beginning, few people had cared about him. But step by step, he had defeated formidable opponents one after another and forced everyone to acknowledge his strength.
Old Ghost Wei was no ordinary opponent either.
As one of the Four Devil Princes, and one who had already revealed the terrifying Devouring Extinction Five Venom Beasts, his fame and momentum were both astonishing. Many people had already begun to regard him as a genuine contender for the top ranks.
The moment Li Yun and Old Ghost Wei stepped onto the arena, countless eyes locked onto them.
Their gazes met in midair, and an invisible clash seemed to explode before the battle even began.
𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚
Old Ghost Wei looked at Li Yun with icy contempt.
In his eyes, Li Yun’s rise was something he found deeply intolerable. A nobody who had only emerged halfway through the tournament had actually climbed to a position where he was being mentioned in the same breath as him.
To Old Ghost Wei, that was an insult.
A sinister smile appeared on his face.
"Brat, no matter what kind of glory you had before, it all ends here," he said coldly. "This battle will make you understand the difference between trash like you and someone like me. I will crush all your pride, destroy all your confidence, and let you lose in utter despair."
Li Yun looked at him indifferently.
"Enough nonsense," he said calmly. "If you want to fight, then fight."