I Can Transfer the Side Effects of Evil Skills

Once the Immortal Official realized escape was impossible, he immediately decided to go all out.

In the end, they had simply been cowed by techniques they couldn’t comprehend.

’What if Zou Feng only has a few tricks up his sleeve? Why shouldn’t we take a gamble?’

Wasting more energy on fleeing, dispersing the Black Fog, or other such pointless actions would be playing right into Zou Feng’s hands.

At this reminder, the Judge’s mind cleared as well.

’That’s right. No matter how strong Zou Feng is, he just broke through to the Golden Core Realm. There’s no reason for us to be so pathetic and cowardly.’

’We must have been influenced by the Exotic Poison in his Poison Domain, letting Zou Feng set the pace.’

’We never should have fled. We should have joined forces and fought him from the start!’

Unfortunately, one wrong move had led to all their subordinates being wiped out...

Fortunately, the two of them—both in the Golden Core Realm—were still alive. Though they were in poor shape, they could still put up a fight.

The next moment, the two Golden Core Realm Tribulation Cultivators finally overcame their fear of Zou Feng. They unleashed their most powerful Skills, launching a frenzied barrage at him.

The Immortal Official cultivated the Tribulation Path, one of the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills. His attack manifested as an irresistible Celestial Calamity, drawing upon the power of the heavens and earth to strike Zou Feng.

Simultaneously, he flooded Zou Feng’s Divine Sense with the immense suffering of undergoing a tribulation, attempting to drive him to a mental collapse.

As for the Judge, he manifested two ghastly Dharma Aspects with ferocious faces.

Wielding giant hammers, the two Dharma Aspects pounded toward Zou Feng like a chaotic drumbeat.

With two Golden Core Realm Tribulation Cultivators fighting for their lives, the effect was naturally extraordinary. The Poison Domain began to shake violently, showing signs of instability.

But Zou Feng remained as still as a mountain. The Golden Lotuses surrounding him, looking well-fed and sated, emitted a golden light that formed an invisible barrier, blocking all of the Tribulation Cultivators’ attacks.

Once he had gathered enough power, the Dharma Seal in his hands shifted once more.

As the new Dharma Seal took form, he thrust it heavily forward.

RUMBLE—

Amidst a great roar, it was as if Zou Feng had shoved an entire mountain forward. Accompanied by waves of abstruse Brahma Sound, it slammed violently into the Immortal Official.

The Immortal Official had no intention of taking the hit and tried to dodge. But just as he moved, a sharp, needle-like pain shot through his head.

With a loud cry, he had no choice but to unleash all his defenses and take Zou Feng’s palm strike head-on.

As the blow landed, another Golden Lotus bloomed. The Immortal Official froze, stunned and unable to move.

Three breaths later, blood gurgled from his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. He collapsed to the ground, a look of utter disbelief on his face.

After a few twitches, he went still.

Seeing this, the last remaining Judge was horrified beyond measure. He subconsciously drove his Dharma Aspects into a frenzy, continuing his wild bombardment of Zou Feng.

But under the shining golden light, the two Dharma Aspects not only failed to break through his defenses, but their forms grew increasingly dim, as if they were gradually being ”purified.”

No matter how the Judge struggled, he could only watch helplessly as Zou Feng completed another Sealing Technique and, just like before, slowly thrust out his palm.

What the Judge experienced next was identical to what had happened to the Immortal Official.

A sudden, needle-like pain shot through his head, preventing him from dodging in time. He too was forced to take the blow head-on, and he collapsed with blood pouring from his seven orifices.

With the fight finished, Zou Feng performed a flourish of Flower Hand gestures as a closing motion and stopped forming Sealing Techniques.

And so, the Tribulation Cultivators were almost completely annihilated, sacrificing everything they had within this serendipitously created Poison Domain.

Such an overwhelming victory was due not only to his Five Poison Holy Lotus Skill reaching the Realm of Transcendence, but also to the evolution of his List of Gods.

His method for dispatching the Immortal Official and the Judge was a clear combination of his own techniques and the abilities of the List of Gods.

As he attacked, he had masterfully controlled the transference of his skills’ side effects to deliver a double blow to his opponents.

The reason the Immortal Official and the Judge had been unable to dodge—the sharp pain that had lanced through their minds at the most critical moment—was because Zou Feng had transferred his side effects to them at the perfect time.

Although the side effects from the Five Poison Holy Lotus Skill’s breakthrough had been used to purge the useless names from the List of Gods and to probe the Queen Mother’s reaction...

...the side effects from refining the Golden Core Wolf Poison and the Clam Poison had been stored away.

Furthermore, with the List of Gods’ upgrade, Zou Feng’s control over these side effects had grown even more refined. He could now divide the stored-up backlash into several portions for use.

He could even ”spice up” the side effects before transferring them.

To put it bluntly, he could fuse additional poisons into the backlash.

Now, it was time to tally his gains.

Since most of the Tribulation Cultivators had been devoured and refined by the Poison Domain, with the resulting energy fed back to him, Zou Feng had expended almost no energy.

As for the Judge and the Immortal Official...

The Judge was not a Poison Cultivator, so upon Refinement, he was primarily useful for enhancing the Soul-Seizing Blood Eyes.

The Immortal Official, however, could not only be used to forge an External Pill but also granted Zou Feng another one of the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills—the Tribulation Path.

This was why Zou Feng had deliberately left the man with a final breath.

The Tribulation Path. It sounded innocuous enough, but as one of the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills, it was bound to be sinister.

The so-called ”tribulation” wasn’t one the cultivator experienced themselves; it was about forcing others to ”undergo tribulations.”

Normally, cultivating this path required one to become a puppet master, secretly inflicting a series of orchestrated disasters upon a chosen target.

For example, they might cause the target’s family to fall into ruin, their beautiful wife to be unfaithful, or for them to suffer a crippling accident—a litany of natural and man-made disasters.

In short, the goal was to ”temper their will with hardship, tire their muscles with toil, starve their bodies, and throw their lives into chaos...”

Yet, after the target endured all these tribulations, what awaited them was not some grand destiny, but being refined and absorbed by the very puppet master who cultivated the Tribulation Path, fueling their vile and unnatural cultivation.

Upon learning the details of the Tribulation Path, even Zou Feng had to marvel at its malevolence. ’Truly, each of the Nine Immortal Ascension Skills is more insidious than the last.’

’If I were to cultivate this path,’ he thought, ’I certainly wouldn’t harm innocent people. I could just target villains and Evil Cultivators who deserve to die a horrible death anyway.’

’It would be even simpler. The most efficient way would be to directly refine those Immortal Officials who already cultivate the Tribulation Path.’

’After all, I’m already in a fight to the death with the Ninefold Celestial Court, and the Queen Mother has her eyes on me. It’s inevitable that I’ll have to settle accounts with this Tribulation Cultivation Sect sooner or later.’

While his mind was occupied with these thoughts, Zou Feng’s hands were not idle. Adhering to the principle of not letting good material go to waste, he refined the Immortal Official into an External Pill.

After he had finished, Jiang Wanzhao and Ye Chenhua approached, their expressions complex.

They had originally intended to help, but ever since Zou Feng had revealed his ”Golden Lotus Life-taking” technique, they felt their assistance was unnecessary.

Before, the two had thought that even though Zou Feng had just broken through to the Golden Core Realm, his strength was already on par with the Golden Core Realm Middle Stage.

But now, it was clear that estimate had been far too conservative.

Based on the combat prowess Zou Feng had just displayed, he was clearly at a level only a cultivator at the Golden Core Realm Late Stage could possibly achieve...

”Those people from the Dubhe Divine Domain, they’re escaping!”

Ye Chenhua had been about to shower Zou Feng with praise, but the next moment, his attention snapped back to the cultivators from the Dubhe Divine Domain he had been monitoring. He had just detected movement.

Hearing this, Jiang Wanzhao looked to Zou Feng, clearly seeking his opinion.

In truth, Zou Feng had been hoping the group from the Dubhe Divine Domain would enter the fray. It was a shame that these beings who dared to invade the Eastern Earth Immortal Realm turned out to be so timid.

”Senior Sister Jiang, Brother Ye, I should make something clear,” Zou Feng began. ”Once I leave this Poison Domain, I won’t be able to fight like I just did...”

He wasn’t being modest; he was stating a fact.

The Poison Domain was a phenomenon born from his Cultivation Skill’s breakthrough to the Realm of Transcendence. Once he left it, his combat effectiveness would definitely be diminished.

At least for now, he was incapable of creating another Poison Domain of the same power.

”No matter! With the three of us working together, there’s no way we can’t take down that bunch of cowards!” Ye Chenhua was already raring to go.

After all, in his eyes, this was a surefire way to earn merit, and a chance to reap some benefits from the cultivators of the Dubhe Divine Domain.

Zou Feng had no objection to this.

And so, after leaving Xiaolv to slumber within the Poison Domain and Su Qingyu to continue her Refinement, Zou Feng followed Ye Chenhua and Jiang Wanzhao in pursuit of the cultivators from the Dubhe Divine Domain.