Chapter 30: Fighting Above One's Rank
"Corrosive Poison Scorpion Possession!"
It was not Bao Ting's first time killing someone. As an Evil Spirit Master who had already spent several years in the Holy Spirit Cult, not only did he feel no repulsion toward this environment, he actually felt completely at home here. Without giving Chen Ming any time to adjust, Bao Ting rolled over and launched his attack the instant he landed.
A scorpion tail shot out from behind him. His eyes turned dark red, and a black gray light coated his arms and palms. As his Martial Soul was released, 1 white and 1 yellow Spirit Ring floated beside him. His entire body also gave off a foul stench.
The moment he stabilized himself, Bao Ting charged straight at Chen Ming. He raised his scorpion tail high, ready to stab it directly into Chen Ming's chest.
"Abomination Possession!"
Although Chen Ming had lost the initiative, he was not an idiot. The instant Bao Ting moved, Chen Ming responded and completed his Martial Soul Possession. At the same time, his 1st Spirit Ring lit up brightly beside him.
"1st Spirit Ability, Rotting Body!"
The giant scorpion tail stabbed into Chen Ming's abdomen, but it failed to pierce the defensive layer covering his body. Without giving Bao Ting time to react, Chen Ming stepped forward, grabbed Bao Ting's scorpion tail with both hands, shifted his footing, and began swinging Bao Ting around like he was throwing a shot put.
Relying on his cultivation advantage, Bao Ting was slightly stronger than Chen Ming in raw power, but the gap was not great. With his center of gravity thrown off, Bao Ting only managed to struggle for a short moment before completely losing the initiative. Chen Ming swung him by the tail, then slammed him to the ground.
Without waiting for Bao Ting to recover, Chen Ming pounced straight on top of him, using the immense weight granted by the Abomination Martial Soul to crash down onto Bao Ting's body.
The instant Chen Ming's rear end smashed into Bao Ting's waist, Chen Ming clearly felt something snap beneath him. The scorpion tail that had been writhing wildly behind Bao Ting instantly drooped, as if it had lost all connection.
Sitting on Bao Ting, Chen Ming began punching furiously toward Bao Ting's head with poison infused fists.
As the name suggested, the poison of the Corrosive Poison Scorpion was a corrosive poison. The toxin of the Abomination Martial Soul was also corrosive in nature.
However, the intensity of the two poisons was on a completely different level.
Bao Ting's body also contained poison, but the toxin within him was far inferior to Chen Ming's. With every collision, the poison on Chen Ming's body and fists rapidly invaded Bao Ting's body. Meanwhile, Bao Ting's poison could not produce the slightest effect on Chen Ming's body or his own toxin. Chen Ming could even absorb some of that poison to recover a portion of his own Spirit Power.
The best result Bao Ting could hope for was like a powerless husband being forced to watch Chen Ming's poison invade his body. If Chen Ming's toxin became too strong, then the original corrosive poison inside Bao Ting would itself be stirred up and devoured, turning into something that harmed Bao Ting instead.
"1st Spirit Ability, Poison Scorpion Pincers!"
"2nd Spirit Ability, Corrosive Poison Spray!"
Pinned to the ground and being beaten savagely, Bao Ting endured the pain and unleashed both of his Spirit Abilities under the threat of death. The effect of his 1st Spirit Ring was to transform his hands into scorpion pincers, slightly strengthening both his power and his poison. The 2nd Spirit Ability released a rotten stench from the scorpion tail.
Under the enhancement of his Spirit Abilities, the scorpion tail that had been hanging limply suddenly lifted again and began releasing a yellow brown rotten mist laced with poison.
Chen Ming, who was sitting on top of Bao Ting, was naturally sprayed all over by that foul cloud.
Bao Ting had originally intended to use the irritating stench and poison to force Chen Ming off him, or at least make Chen Ming reveal an opening.
But inside the yellow mist, Chen Ming's attacks only became sharper and more frenzied.
As everyone knew, a scorpion's anus and reproductive organs were not in the same place. Both were located near the stinger at the tip of its tail. This mist attack released from the tail was remarkably similar in effect to Luo San Pao's ability.
The poison and stench in the mist could not harm Chen Ming's body at all. Instead, they deeply stimulated his Martial Soul, causing Chen Ming to attack as if he had entered a blood frenzy, his fists leaving afterimages in the air.
Under the constant beating, a light crack sounded from Bao Ting's neck. His head immediately drooped, followed by the sound of his skull cracking open. In the end, under Chen Ming's fists, it was smashed into a red and white pulp.
This was the first time Chen Ming had killed someone. Logically, he should have had many thoughts.
But smelling the yellow mist still surrounding him, Chen Ming's greatest desire right now was simply to leave as quickly as possible.
After quickly searching Bao Ting's body and taking the Storage Pouch, Chen Ming strode toward the main door. But just before reaching it, he paused, turned around, and casually collected the 2 Spirit Tools from the unlucky person who had died earlier in front of the entrance.
"I won, open the door! Senior, open the door!"
Chen Ming knocked on the door with some agitation. A somewhat suspicious voice came from outside.
"I thought you were going to use that environment to cultivate. But it seems you were quite wasteful. Oh well, you survived, so I will open the door."
With a loud bang, the heavy door opened. Chen Ming walked straight out, still carrying the blood stained Spirit Tools. The strange man's expression became a little odd when he saw Chen Ming still in his Martial Soul Possession state.
"An Abomination Martial Soul. Logically, only that lord and that lord's descendants inside the Cult should possess this Martial Soul, but you obviously are not a descendant of that person... Never mind, it has nothing to do with me. I originally thought you might clean up the corpses inside, but it seems I will have to do it myself."
"You younger generation Evil Spirit Masters have become too used to easy lives. When I was young, resources like that would have been completely consumed. Unlike you, you only took the external items and left everything else behind."
As he spoke, the strange man picked up Bao Ting's token, confirmed its identity, then used a device that looked like hydraulic shears to cut off about 1 third of it. After that, he tossed the incomplete token back to Chen Ming.
"This token is now invalid. Whether you keep it as a trophy or melt it down is up to you. Just do not let the waist token leak outside."
The strange man let out a cackling laugh. The male and female sides of his face displayed different expressions at the same time. The left side laughed so hard that its chest trembled and its breasts shook, while the muscles on the right side twitched continuously.
Viewed separately, both the male and female sides of this strange man possessed extraordinary looks, each with its own strange beauty. But once combined into a single body, the result became indescribably bizarre.
"May I ask Senior's name?" Chen Ming took back the token and, forcing himself to remain calm, asked before leaving.
"Me? I have quite a few names. These days, outsiders usually call me by nicknames. Some call me Yin Yang Face. Others call me Dead Pervert. But the one I like most is the name an enemy once gave me, Yin Yang Two Faced Demon. Neither male nor female, neither human nor ghost. That description suits me perfectly."
The strange man cackled loudly.
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