Chapter 896: The Fog Rises, and The Heart Demon Comes
The palm strike descended, strong and windy. Green fog crawling with all kinds of deadly insects blew toward the group.
Eccentric Yao’s true name was Yao E, and he was a Half-Sage. He resided in the One Hundred Thousand Mountains of Nanjiang. While his official moniker was the Old Man of Nanjiang, his disagreeable behavior and temperamental personality also earned him the derogatory nickname Eccentric Yao.
Yao E practiced the cultivation art “Eight Consummate Arts of Shamanic Gu”. Legend had it that the ancient shamans were famed for their shamanism, curses, gu, poison, puppets, and beasts. Yao E was especially adroit in gu and poison.
The palm strike he was using was named “To Speak of Green Mayfly”. It was both a palm technique and a secret art.
Despite its poetic name, the palm technique was anything but. Vicious and cruel, it was something Yao E had created by combining the thousand-year-old miasma in the One Hundred Thousand Mountains of Nanjiang and a kind of tiny Stranger named the Miniscule Mayfly.
The thousand-year-old miasma of the One Hundred Thousand Mountains of Nanjiang was eerie green in color and thick as a fog. Smelling it would instantly trigger an onset of dizziness and multiple organ failure, and touching it would cause one’s flesh and blood to rot, and one’s bones to melt like liquid. It was terrifying to say the least.
The Stranger, Miniscule Mayfly was a Hatred-class Stranger. Small as a speck of dust and nigh indistinguishable with the naked eye, it was an evil and bizarre creature that fed on one’s consciousness.
As the palm strike combined the effects of a thousand-year-old miasma and countless Miniscule Mayflies, it possessed both the ability to corrode one’s astral qi and physical body, and extinguish one’s mind. To call it a vicious technique would be an understatement.
As a result, the idiotic warrior who beckoned Yao E to target his head let out a bloodcurdling scream and dissolved into a pool of pus in just the blink of an eye—though to be fair, he never thought that Yao E would dare to attack him in the Six Livestocks Market.