Mountain Sitting Immortal

None of the elders present would be surprised to see that the lungs of the black skeleton had become full of holes like a beehive. In fact, most of them are willing to bet that the lungs are similar to a beehive.

The voice of the void lder from the Black Bones sect was especially grating to hear for the elder of the Sword Way sect since he had just been rebuked. But he didn't make a fuss. He just sat there with his eyes closed while his anger boiled within him.

After the black skeleton was done speaking, an elder from the Purple Flower sect decided to use this moment to share their important news.

This elder was a lady. She was wearing purple robes with a white flower on them.

She said with a calm, soothing voice, "I'm sure you've heard news that the Red and Blue Fire sect has decided to attack us. I want to inform you that it has been confirmed."

Another elder from the Black Bones sect asked, "Is that so? Why would they ever want to do such a thing?"

The angry elder from the Blood Skull sect replied, "What reason could it be apart from a fight to seek benefits. I guess they are bloodsuckers too."

Some elders chuckled at the remark, while the elder from the Purple Flower sect responded calmly. "It has been confirmed the last unification of their sect has died. They can no longer hold on to their rank 6 secret realm."

"If it were at any other time, they might have been able to hold on for a while with the support of their wide range of connections. But they have offended a lot of people, and the mana tide is coming. They will have to give up their control of the rank 6 secret realm or be forcefully uprooted."

An elder from the Black Bones said jokingly, "Look at that. Don't the people from the Red and Blue Fire Sect like to uproot plants? Now they have become the plants that are about to be uprooted and refined."

He could joke about it because it isn't his sect that a powerful sect from upstream in the Ethera world wants to attack. The Purple Flower sect is the target of attack here, so the three elders from their sect couldn't laugh while others were amused.

But the elders of the purple flower sect didn't get angry. They are not like the people of the Sword Way sect, who display their emotions openly and argue without holding back.

People from the Purple Flower sect are slow to anger and vengeance. Even if they hate someone enough to want to kill that person, they will keep their emotions to themselves. Then they will secretly poison the target.

Just like poison, they are silent and slow killers. So the elder from the Purple Flower sect was still calm as people joked about the perilous situation of her sect.

She said, "I have been instructed to inform you to tell your sect not to get involved in the war or take sides. You are to abstain from the fight, or you will be poisoned, and you won't know how it happened."

She spoke as if she was making a request, but she was actually threatening everyone. Either way, what she said and how she said it angered almost everyone.

An elder from the Beast Training sect sneered and said, "Big talk from someone in a desperate situation. What a bluff."

The elder from the purple flower sect sighed and said, "It is not a bluff. It is because we are in a desperate situation that I can say what I said."

She even explained her reasoning. She said, "We will have nothing to lose if you guys decide to help our enemies. We won't be able to defeat all of you, but we can make you all regret it."

It was good reasoning, and it passed across the seriousness of the threat. What she said got people thinking. But the people from two sects didn't care much.

An elder from the Black Bones sect said in disdain, "I hope that you didn't think that your threat will work on us. If you thought so, then be more explicit. Tell me what the worst thing you can do to the Black Bones is."

He spoke confidently, and even the three elders from the Purple Flower sect couldn't give a satisfactory reply.

It is not that the Purple Flower can't do anything to the Black Bones. They can. But what they can do is not enough to threaten the whole sect of corpse cultivators.

Most of the poison of the Purple Flower sect doesn't work on corpses and corpse cultivators. But the black corpse energy of corpse cultivators can even poison the people of the Purple Flower sect because they are living beings, and every living being can be corroded by corpse energy.

The only thing that the Purple Flower sect has that can work against corpse cultivators is their spirit poison. This is a poison that doesn't affect the body. It only affects the mind and spirit.

Even though the bodies of corpse cultivators have been transformed by corpse energy, they too will be affected by the spirit poison if they come into contact with it in any way.

Spirit poisons affect everyone, so it is dangerous to everyone. Even corpses can be affected by it.

Any corpse that spirit poison touches will die again and its link to its spiritual controller will be destroyed.

With this kind of ability that can undermine the very thing that corpse cultivators rely on, one would think that the mere mention of the name of the spirit poison will send corpse cultivators running.

The problem is that spirit poison is a monolithic poison, so it can be cured. It is not like the combination poisons of the Purple Flower sect which are difficult or even impossible to cure.