Chapter 1208: Aurora’s Heaven Beyond Heaven
It was a poisoned immortal fruit!
Xu Qing looked at Poison Monarch, then bowed deeply at the waist. “Your humble servant accepts the mission!”
He wanted the poisoned fruit!
Poison Monarch didn’t seem surprised. He thought Xu Qing to be much like himself. If you wanted to get stronger, break through, and reach higher heights, you could definitely ask a tiger for its skin! In this case, Poison Monarch was the tiger. At the same time, Xu Qing was providing a tiger skin to Poison Monarch. After all, the Immortal Paragon had ordered that no one infect Xu Qing with their karma.
That’s just going to make things interesting. Poison Monarch flicked his sleeve and started walking away. He blurred, as if he were becoming one with heaven and earth. Ultimately, he vanished, leaving behind a few words echoing about. “You’re on your own now, Xu Qing.”
After he was gone, everything went back to normal. Then a golden stream of starlight descended from above, wrapped around Xu Qing, and drew him up into the sky.
He rose up into the canopy of heaven and ultimately left the planet that housed the Department of Acquisitions headquarters. He didn’t resist. He allowed the starlight to guide him up. As the planet grew smaller and smaller in his view, his thoughts wandered.
Although the immortal fruit was poisoned, it was extremely fresh and of good quality. The downsides and upsides were clear to see.
Furthermore, Xu Qing wasn’t under the illusion that eating the poisoned immortal fruit would mean that the other party’s evil intentions would go away completely. Those evil intentions were related to personal progress, so it was almost certain that the two of them would clash again later. Rather than place his hope on the off chance that the other party would simply give up, Xu Qing preferred to take control.
Besides, he was well aware that he currently had a severe lack of cultivation resources. With a good excuse to work with, he was definitely going to be able to make some advancement. And thus, rather than worry about when the poison might flare up... he figured it would be better to just eat the fruit and grow stronger as quickly as possible.
It was similar to how, back when he had no cultivation base, and was stuck in that city that the broken face had just looked at, he ultimately chose to start practicing cultivation, if for no other reason than to get rid of mutagen more quickly. That same frame of mind applied here.
Besides, to a certain degree, Poison Monarch was right. The two of them really were very similar.