Sage Monarch

"It seems Yang Qi is only just starting his rise to the top," one of the other elite disciples said in admiration. "Maybe we ought to go do a bit of brown-nosing."

"You don't need to do that," Elder Sister Xue replied. "Just be friendly with him. I'm very curious about Jadefall's pet, but you have to realize that even the most experienced and knowledgeable elders don't know what it is or how it works."

"That pet of hers is already a hot topic among the higher echelons of the sect," another disciple said. "Supposedly, there are even powerful demon-gods on the outside who've learned of it and want to get their hands on it. On top of that, Jadefall has supposedly gone out for training."

Elder Sister Xue laughed. "If the demon-gods go after her, then they'll just end up getting killed by her pet. People say the bubbles it creates are impossible for any evil to pierce. In fact, more than half a year ago, she and her Master went on a mission to the Death God Wind Cave, beyond the highest heaven. It was thanks to her pet that they could safely get in and procure a psychic wind pear. And that was how her master reached the Consummate God level."

"Not even the Death God Wind Cave could do anything to her pet's bubbles?" another disciple said in shock.

Around this time, a Lesser God elite disciple approached respectfully and said, "Elder Sister Xue, I got the information you asked about. Yang Qi picked a mission to go to the Pill-King's temple ruins to search for medicinal pills. It's a very dangerous mission, but he insisted on taking it."

"The Pill-King's temple ruins?!" one of the disciples exclaimed. "He picked a mission like that? Those ruins are extremely dangerous. Even if we went as a group, we would probably end up dead. Forget about the medicinal pills there, it's the toxins you have to watch out for. It's deadly! That entire continent was razed to the ground by poison, and is covered with an endless miasma. Any living creature that enters, man or beast, will be dissolved into a mush."

"Yang Qi isn't an impulsive person," Elder Sister Xue said. "He wouldn't dare to go into a place like that unless he was truly confident in succeeding." From the look on her face, she was looking forward to seeing how things would play out.

Meanwhile, Yang Qi had left the god kingdom via teleportation portal.

There were teleportation portals that led to all sorts of locations in the god world, as long as one had enough godstones to power them.

Of course, it wasn't as if they had teleportation portals leading to every corner of the god world. The god world was huge, and the House of God Ordainment only operated in a small portion of it. Not even the Sovereign Lord's halls of heaven had been large enough to spread throughout the entire god world.

If Yang Qi tried to fly directly to his destination, it would simply take too long.

He put some noble caliber godsand into the teleportation portal, causing it to whir to life. As it powered up, he nodded inwardly. 'As long as you reach the Consummate God level, you can create teleportation portals leading between two continents. But Consummate Gods are generally at the peak of Paramount will. They have to become Perfect Gods before they can hope to unravel the secrets of Unbounded will. Right now, my will convergence is at the early Paramount level, just on the verge of the mid level.'

Unfortunately, he was far from being strong enough to build his own teleportation portals. After all, it involved creating spell formations so stable that they wouldn't be harmed or destroyed by spatial eruptions.

The teleportation portal flared with light, and he stepped out to find himself surrounded by noxious air. The ground below was like a marsh or bog, with occasional bubbles that would get larger and larger before ultimately popping. Overhead, the sky was dark and overcast.

The teleportation portal was located on a completely empty raised platform. There were no other people visible. Mist swirled about, and when it touched Yang Qi's skin, it stung as it tried to bore into him to reach his blood and soul.

Ordinary Lesser Gods would melt upon being touched by such mist, and their godhood would be immediately tainted. Thankfully, Yang Qi had Paramount will, so all it took was a thought to negate the toxins. Then a bubble appeared around him as he drew on the Purrfect God Art.

After reaching the Paramount level, his Purrfect God Art had become more refined. Although he couldn't quite match the purrling, the fact that he had combined its abilities with the Great Necropolis God Art had led to mysterious and profound augmentations.

Right now, the toxic energy had no way to reach him, so he turned into a prismatic beam that shot off into the mists.

Long ago, this continent had been a luxurious and bustling place. However, after the Pill-King God clashed with the seventy-two monarchs, hypertoxic poison had stained the land and turned it into this endless bog.

In fact, it had eventually come to be called the Toxic Continent.

The Toxic Continent was a huge place filled with mists and bogs that could degrade godpower and turn it into something poisonous.

Despite his current defenses, Yang Qi was still being very careful. He knew full well that things would get more dangerous the further he got into the Toxic Continent. For all he knew, the toxic energy might reach the point of being able to pierce his defenses. Therefore, he kept the God Legion Seal ready to use at any moment.

Furthermore, in his sea of energy, the sheepskin scroll was manifested in the form of ten thousand characters, and joined by a broken piece of the Mahātmā Jade. Of course, by now, the Mahātmā Jade wasn't a danger to Yang Qi's flesh and blood, nor his psychic power. Unfortunately, it still wasn't complete, and couldn't release the potential of its full version that the True Devil had wielded. Most of the treasures Yang Qi had weren't particularly important anymore, except for the Mahātmā Jade.

The Mahātmā Jade was on a similar level as the God Legion Seal. After all, it had been created by the True Devil specifically to fight the Sovereign Lord. Once it was complete, it would definitely be no less formidable than the God Legion Seal.

The difference was that the jade wasn't as famous as the seal, and those who knew of it were aware that whoever pieced together the full Mahātmā Jade would still need the True Devil's sheepskin scroll, as well as significant enlightenment. It was very different from the God Legion Seal, which would automatically impart the Strength of the Hell-Crushing Godmammoth to anyone who acquired a piece of it.

As Yang Qi flew along, the bogs sped by beneath him and he kept his divine will spread out as far as possible, keeping an eye out for anything noteworthy. After about an hour, the ruins of some sort of temple complex appeared up ahead.

Numerous structures could be seen stretching off into the distance. They were dead quiet, without signs of demonlings or humans. Not even toxic demonlings could handle the toxic energy here, although according to rumor, there were certain devils who could cultivate poison arts in this environment.

That said, Yang Qi hadn't seen any devils like that so far.

Swish!

He landed in one of the ruined structures, looked around, and could already see signs of places where experts had recovered medicinal pills in the past. To find anything useful, he would definitely need to go further in.

Of course, the toxic gas and mists were stronger than anything from before. Yang Qi took out a dagger and threw it out. Before it could even hit the ground, it corroded into a noxious liquid that evaporated into thin air.

'So strong!' he thought, nodding. 'I'm only on the outskirts, and it's this bad? I wonder how strong it will be further in. Even with Paramount will, I would have a hard time here on my own. Thankfully I have the God Legion Seal and the Mahātmā Jade together. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to go much further than this.'

He was even limited in terms of his psychic power; if he sent it out beyond his defenses, it would be quickly destroyed by the toxic mist.

Because of that, he could only look around for signs of medicinal pills.

Furthermore, he didn't dare to simply fly over the ruins; he had to walk. Unfortunately, considering how many years these ruins had been around, and how many experts had explored them for loot, it wouldn't be easy to find anything valuable.

With that, he set about exploring. Occasionally the sky would go completely dark, and at other times, bits of light would peek through. Because of that, it was possible to track the passage of days and nights.

He searched for over ten days until he came to the realization that there were certain places that had never been opened, and by extension had never been explored.

Unfortunately, he hadn't found any medicinal pills so far.

That didn't shake his resolve though. He was convinced that there were medicinal pills to be found; he just needed to keep searching. The toxic mist was getting so dense that it was hard to see his hand in front of his face, and his defenses were constantly being eaten away.

Thankfully he had his God Legion Seal to provide an endless source of godpower, otherwise he would have already run out.