Chapter 45: Soul Devouring Qi

The fifteen highly poisonous colored toads were inside the Origin Vital Pulse. Without the help of the spiritual essences, they could no longer harness the vast energy within it to deal with Qu Yi and the others.
Now, the Gold Lord, Wood Lord, Water Lord, and Earth Lord, along with numerous powerful Sky Soul Demons, were guarding the entrance of the cave. As long as the poisonous colored toads tried to escape, they would be instantly shattered to pieces, thus keeping them trapped inside the Origin Vital Pulse Cave.
Originally, the fifteen poisonous colored toads could have stayed in the cave and continued to stall against those outside, but now Qu Yi was inside the Dimensional Sphere, appearing suddenly to launch attacks—each attack possessing the strength of a six-star Sky Soul Demon. This put immense pressure on the fifteen poisonous colored toads.
“King of Colored Toads, Queen of Colored Toads, what should we do now?” Soon, several of them became anxious.
Staying in the cave was out of the question, and leaving was impossible—truly a desperate situation for these poisonous colored toads.
The King and Queen of Colored Toads also trembled for a long time, unable to respond, clearly at a loss for a solution.
“Wait, wait! We’ll stay inside this Origin Vital Pulse Cave. But we fifteen must stay together and be wary of that bastard who might attack us suddenly,” the King of Colored Toads shouted angrily.
Upon hearing this, all the poisonous colored toads realized this was their only option—they had to outlast those powerful demon beasts outside while also defending against Qu Yi’s possible sudden attacks.
Naturally, Qu Yi, who was inside the Dimensional Sphere, was aware of the movements of the fifteen poisonous colored toads.
“Instrument God, these poisonous colored toads are gathered together. It will be difficult for me to hurt them even if I attack alone. Moreover, inside this Origin Vital Pulse Cave, they can recover their demonic essence quickly. This is quite tricky,” Qu Yi said, lying on a soft chair and turning his head to look at the Instrument God with a smile.
“It’s easy. As long as you control this Origin Vital Pulse, those poisonous colored toads will be at your mercy, right?” the Instrument God replied lazily, eyes closed.
Qu Yi immediately smiled, jumping up from the soft chair. “Instrument God, you really think like me! I’ll go wait by the Spirit Tree right away.”
It wasn’t long before Qu Yi took control of the Dimensional Sphere and returned to the deepest part of the Origin Vital Pulse Cave.
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Within this Origin Vital Pulse of Tianfu Star, there were over eight hundred spiritual essences.
A month after the Spirit Tree took root, those eight hundred spiritual essences fully adapted to resting on it. By then, all of them had gathered on the Spirit Tree.
“Haha, Spirit Tree, it’s time for us to act.”

Suddenly, Qu Yi’s figure appeared on the Lingkong Tree, shouting happily. At the same time as his appearance, the tree’s core took action—all the leaves and branches in the place where the spiritual beings rested curled up, wrapping each one of them. Without wasting time, Qu Yi flew over to each wrapped spiritual being and used the “Soul Planting Technique” to control them. …… All over eight hundred spiritual beings were now under control. Naturally, this Origin Heavenly Vein was now under its control as well. “Qu Yi, you’ve taken control of another Origin Heavenly Vein,” the Lingkong Tree’s core cheered, causing all its leaves to tremble. Looking up at the tree, Qu Yi nodded and smiled, saying, “Lingkong, wait a moment. I’ll soon go into another Origin Heavenly Vein cave and come back for you.” “Great! You’re really kind, Qu Yi,” the core exclaimed excitedly again. Qu Yi smiled, then with a thought, all over eight hundred spiritual beings in that cave gathered around him. “Spiritual beings, follow me and kill those poisonous colored toads,” Qu Yi called out happily. Immediately, he rose into the air, and the eight hundred spiritual beings joined together, forming a multicolored blanket-like mass that surrounded him as they flew swiftly toward the entrance of the Origin Heavenly Vein cave. The fifteen poisonous colored toads had remained inside the cave, staying motionless together, on guard against Qu Yi’s possible attack. “King of Colored Toads, Queen of Colored Toads, there’s the presence of spiritual beings in the cave—those spiritual beings are coming again,” one of the poisonous colored toads shouted happily. Naturally, over these two months, without the help of the spiritual beings, the poisonous colored toads had been constantly worried about Qu Yi’s attack, their demonic senses exhausted from constant vigilance. Now that the spiritual beings had returned, they thought they could use them to defend against Qu Yi’s attack. “That’s not right…” the King of Colored Toads said calmly. As soon as he spoke, eight hundred spiritual beings appeared, along with the sight of Qu Yi sitting on them. “Everyone, living two extra months is enough for you,” Qu Yi said without any courtesy, immediately passing judgment. Bang! The fifteen poisonous colored toads stood up, wary of Qu Yi, but their expressions showed great concern. “Who are you? Why do you want to attack our tribe of poisonous colored toads?” the King of Colored Toads cried out resentfully. Qu Yi shook his head, too lazy to explain, and simply ordered, “Spiritual beings, use your power and kill them.”

With the goal of unifying the Immortal Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Fiend Realm set, Qu Yi showed no mercy toward anything that hindered the growth of his power. The over 800 spirit beings immediately left Qu Yi and formed a mirror-like array, all channeling the energy from the Origin Pulse Cave. Inside the cave, the fierce winds condensed once again into icy blasts. These icy blasts shot toward the fifteen poisonous colored toads. Each blast carried the power of a six-star Heavenly Soul Fiend, creating a terrifying force. “Damn it!” “Gather together and defend collectively, retreating while fighting.” The fifteen poisonous colored toads all spat out venom. Though each drop was only the size of a palm, together they formed a black mist that seemed to separate the entire Origin Pulse Cave. When those icy blasts hit the black mist, they vanished instantly, as if losing all their strength. Seeing this, Qu Yi smiled slightly. The venom of these poisonous colored toads was indeed powerful enough to withstand icy blasts of a six-star Heavenly Soul Fiend level. Yet he wasn’t worried at all. He remained standing on the ground, continuing to urge the spirit beings to attack. In the Origin Pulse Cave, the only thing that was never in short supply was the elemental origin energy. Since the spirit beings were born from this energy and naturally possessed the ability to control it, their attacks could continue endlessly. The icy blasts kept coming. The fifteen poisonous colored toads continued spitting venom, keeping the icy blasts at bay. At the same time, they retreated toward the cave entrance. Initially, the over 800 spirit beings had attacked under Qu Yi’s command, somewhat reluctantly out of instinct. But seeing their spells dissipated by the black mist, these less intelligent beings became furious. The icy blasts grew even thicker and harder, with a roaring sound that seemed capable of shattering the entire Origin Pulse Cave. The venomous mist spat out by the fifteen poisonous colored toads failed to completely dissolve the icy blasts, and pieces of ice still struck them, cutting into their bodies. Though not fatal, it startled all fifteen of them. “Spit venom while creating a defensive shield,” the King of Colored Toads quickly ordered.

In an instant, as the fifteen highly poisonous colored toads spat out their venom, they simultaneously stomped their front limbs. Immediately, a stream of Water-type demon essence flew out from their front limbs. The power of the Water realm, carrying a chill, quickly formed a cold ice wall in front of each of the poisonous colored toads.

The ice crystals emitted by the spirit beings, after breaking through the poisonous mist, became much weaker, only possessing the strength of a one-star Sky Soul Demon. Naturally, when these remaining ice crystals struck the ice wall created by the poisonous colored toads, they shattered on contact.

Seeing this, Qu Yi smiled again, admiring the strong strength of these poisonous colored toads. Yet, he wasn’t worried at all.

The spirit beings grew even angrier and desperately summoned their primal energy to keep attacking the poisonous colored toads. The poisonous colored toads defended themselves while retreating. Qu Yi followed behind the spirit beings, smiling as he watched the toads in distress, his right hand’s five fingers continuously pressed together.

“Time’s up,” Qu Yi suddenly said.

The ice crystals emitted by the spirit beings continued with full strength. At this moment, the venom spat out by the poisonous colored toads suddenly decreased significantly, and the black mist it formed became much thinner. As a result, instead of dissolving the ice crystals, the mist caused countless more ice crystals to fly toward the poisonous colored toads.

It turned out that Qu Yi already knew there was a limit to the poisonous colored toads’ venom—this was the moment they spat out their last drop of venom.

All the ice crystals struck the ice wall created by the poisonous colored toads, generating loud crashes that triggered storms, with intense energy flying in both directions.

“Poisonous colored toads, you can’t hold out much longer. How much longer can your demon essence sustain you?” Qu Yi called out smiling from behind.

As he spoke, the more than eight hundred spirit beings continued to summon their primal energy and fire ice crystal attacks.

Swish swish swish!

To the ears of the fifteen poisonous colored toads, these sounds were like death sentences. But given the current situation, they had no choice but to grit their teeth and continuously release their demon essence to form a defensive shield against the relentless waves of ice crystals.

The ice crystals kept hitting the ice wall. Seeing the tenacity of these poisonous colored toads, Qu Yi shook his head, then used his spiritual consciousness to inform Jin Zun, Mu Zun, Shui Zun, and Tu Zun about the situation, allowing them to prepare.

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Outside the entrance of the Primal Energy Cave, Jin Zun, Mu Zun, Shui Zun, and Tu Zun received Qu Yi’s message.

“Everyone, listen up! Fifteen highly poisonous colored toads are about to emerge, and theiryuan essence is almost depleted. Get ready now to deliver the strongest strike at them the moment they appear,” Jin Zun shouted.
“Okay!” All the powerful demon beasts responded excitedly.
Each of them took out their magical treasures, staring intently at the cave entrance, while theirdemonic sense was already fully alert, monitoring any movements inside.
After a while,
“Very good. The poisonous colored toads are about to come out. Get ready,” Jin Zun said coldly, sensing the aura emanating from inside the cave.
Everyone focused their gaze on the cave entrance.
The fifteen poisonous colored toads were now almost at the entrance of the Origin Heavenly Vein Cave. However, theiryuan essence had been almost completely consumed by the spiritual beings, leaving them barely holding on.
Undoubtedly, the poisonous colored toads were also aware that other alien demon beasts were waiting outside the cave.
“You thirteen, we’re almost at the entrance. Wait—once we reach it, you thirteen should rush out and explode immediately. The Queen and I will find a way to escape and come back to avenge you later,” ordered the King of Colored Toads.
Upon hearing this, the other poisonous colored toads looked gloomy but nodded in agreement.
In moments, the fifteen poisonous colored toads arrived at the entrance.
Just as Jin Zun and the others were about to attack, suddenly, thirteen of them rushed out with all their might, heading straight toward Jin Zun and the others, their bodies emitting a faint aura ofyuan essence.
“Bad! These poisonous colored toads are gathering their lastyuan essence to explode,” Liu Feng, who possessed the cultivation level of a Six-Star Heavenly Soul Demon, cried anxiously.
A cold glint appeared in Jin Zun’s eyes. He, along with Mu Zun, Shui Zun, and Tu Zun—whose souls were united with Qu Yi’s—had long known the poisonous colored toads’ plan through their natural spirit deities, so all four of them were already aware of this tactic.
“What’s so scary about self-destruction? Attack them all and blow up their bodies!” Jin Zun ordered harshly.
These poisonous colored toads, who were already at the cultivation level of Three-Star or Four-Star Heavenly Soul Demons with almost noyuan essence left, couldn’t possibly possess much destructive power through self-destruction.
The King of Colored Toads’ plan was simply to use the self-destruction of these thirteen toads to buy himself and the rest some time to escape.
In an instant, nearly a hundred spells at the level of Five-Star or Six-Star Heavenly Soul Demons were unleashed, instantly blowing up the thirteen poisonous colored toads as they rushed forward.

At this moment, the King of Colorful Toads and his heir took advantage of this brief window to flash their bodies and fly into the air, trying to escape. After destroying thirteen highly poisonous colorful toads, the Golden Lord, Wooden Lord, Water Lord, and Earth Lord did not chase after the fleeing King of Colorful Toads and his heir. Instead, they ordered the other monstrous beasts that wanted to pursue them to stop. “Master, why not chase after those two highly poisonous colorful toads?” The powerful monstrous beasts asked in confusion. The Golden Lord smiled faintly and said, “Because Qu Yi has already cast the Dimensional Sphere, which is attached to the King of Colorful Toads. They can’t escape.” At that moment, Qu Yi flew out of the Origin Vitality Cave. “That’s right. Let the King of Colorful Toads and his heir rejoice for now; I’ll deal with them later,” Qu Yi shouted with laughter. The monstrous beasts responded with an “Oh,” followed by bursts of laughter. ※※※ To the north of the Tianfu Continent, tens of thousands of miles east of the entrance to the Origin Vitality Cave, there was a secluded valley. The King of Colorful Toads and his heir landed in this valley. Their monstrous energy had been completely exhausted, leaving them weakly lying in the valley, gasping for breath as their huge bellies expanded and contracted violently. “Hmph! This time, the blows suffered by our tribe of highly poisonous colorful toads will be avenged,” the King of Colorful Toads shouted angrily while breathing heavily. Undoubtedly, only two highly poisonous colorful toads of the Tianpo Monster level remained, meaning their tribe was in its most dangerous situation. The King of Colorful Toads naturally harbored resentment toward Qu Yi and his allies and was determined to avenge himself. “Those alien monstrous beasts must have taken control of the Origin Vitality. They will surely settle on this Tianfu Planet in the future. Once we regain our monstrous energy, that will be the time to take revenge,” the heir also shouted angrily. At this point, the two surviving highly poisonous colorful toads were filled with a desire for revenge. “It’s a pity you have no chance anymore.” Suddenly, Qu Yi appeared out of thin air, holding the Vast Heaven Sword, and spoke with a smile. What! The King of Colorful Toads and his heir somehow found strength again, standing up abruptly and glaring angrily at Qu Yi, seemingly ready to spit out venom to eliminate him. The two highly poisonous colorful toads couldn’t believe that despite escaping so far, Qu Yi still managed to track them down. Of course, they didn’t know that the Dimensional Sphere was attached to them, and Qu Yi’s soul was connected to it, allowing him to use the Boundless Stars to travel directly here. “What, you want to eat me?” Qu Yi wasn’t in a hurry to act.

The King of Colorful Toads and the Queen of Colorful Toads clearly understood that they no longer had the ability to escape. With no other choice but to fight to the death, they could only wait for their demise.
“I’ll bite you to death!” the Queen of Colorful Toads shouted angrily.
Suddenly, she leaped up, opening her mouth wide in an attempt to bite Qu Yi. Qu Yi shook his head, darted aside, and without unleashing the power of his Immortal Sword, simply slashed repeatedly near her mouth.
On the left side of the Queen’s body, from her mouth down to her buttocks, a deep, straight cut appeared, from which blood flowed endlessly, and the wound wouldn’t stop bleeding.
“Ah, you only have the strength of your physical body. No matter how hard you struggle, you can’t outpace my speed,” Qu Yi said with a sigh as he shook his head.
Seeing his queen in such a miserable state, the King of Colorful Toads could no longer maintain his composure. He quickly leaped up, opening his mouth to bite Qu Yi as well. Qu Yi darted aside again, this time to the right side of the Queen, and slashed fiercely with his Immortal Sword.
The King of Colorful Toads fell to the ground, raising a thick cloud of dust. On the right side of his body, from his mouth to his buttocks, another deep cut appeared, with blood flowing continuously.
“Give yourselves a chance. Commit suicide. I don’t want to harm you any further,” Qu Yi said politely from the air.
Realizing they couldn’t stop the bleeding and hearing Qu Yi’s words, the two highly poisonous colorful toads understood that their fate was entirely in his hands.
“Exotic demon beasts, I want to make a deal with you,” the King of Colorful Toads suddenly said calmly.
Hearing this, Qu Yi couldn’t help but smile. At this moment, the King of Colorful Toads still wanted to negotiate with him?
“A deal? Go ahead and suggest it. If what you say satisfies me, I might consider not killing you,” Qu Yi said with a smile.
The King of Colorful Toads’ eyes lit up immediately.
“I know of a place on Tianfu Star where there’s a type of poisonous gas—likely the most deadly, Soul Devouring Gas,” he said calmly.
Qu Yi was stunned upon hearing this. The news was indeed shocking.
Back then, Huang Xu had used the most deadly poison from the three realms—Immortal Realm, Demon Realm, and Demon Beast Realm—to scheme against Emperor Hao. This caused Emperor Hao to lose most of his strength after entering the Cultivation Realm, leaving him at the level of a Human Immortal, and he was eventually hunted to death by fifteen people from those three realms.

“The Soul Devouring Qi—this information can indeed save your lives. How about this: tell me where the Soul Devouring Qi is, and I’ll spare your lives. But you must become my pet beasts,” Qu Yi said with a smile.
“Ah…”
The two poisonous colored toads glared angrily at Qu Yi.
Looking at the still bleeding toads, Qu Yi said calmly, “Not killing you is already the greatest favor I can do. Don’t even think about avenging yourselves on me in the future.”
The King of Toads and the Princess of Toads exchanged a look, their faces filled with resentment.
But…
“Yes, master,” the King of Toads and the Princess of Toads replied reluctantly.
Faced with death, accepting the humiliating status of pet beasts became quite simple.