The Plague Rat snorted coldly. "Why wouldn't there be? Our Lord is exactly that!"
"There's no need for an old fossil like you to believe it. Just don't cause trouble for me, or else..."
"Or else what?"
"Or else, Lord Rat will just accept death and self-destruct, dragging you down to hell with me!"
"Anyway, my life belongs to the Lord. I've already gotten more than my money's worth!"
The Plague Rat spoke with iron-clad certainty.
Jing Hui laughed with a touch of desolation. "I was already dead, little mouse."
"Now... it should be the time for the descent of the Golden Buddha once every thousand years again, right?"
The Plague Rat didn't answer, still vigilantly guarding his sea of consciousness.
Who would believe it if a dead person from a thousand years ago was talking in their head? There had to be a catch.
Jing Hui didn't need him to answer and continued talking to himself.
"Even if you don't say it, I can sense that disgusting aura of purity."
"You don't need to be on guard against me either."
"I am now merely the last bit of consciousness left after death, residing within the plague origin."
"I should have dissipated slowly with time, but it was the aura of this descent of the Golden Buddha combined with your near-death outburst that allowed me a brief moment of sanity."
"I don't want to do anything, nor do I have the energy to possess a filthy rat like you."
"I am simply curious..."
"A thousand years later, how will the human race face this tribulation of the Golden Buddha once again?"
The Plague Rat frowned. "It's none of your business. Get out of my head already!"
Jing Hui chuckled. "Quite the temper."
"However, since I've woken up and happen to be residing in your body..."
"Considering you are the only one who carries my origin, it wouldn't sit well with me to watch you use my Way of Plague in such an... unsightly manner."
"Who are you calling unsightly?!" the Plague Rat roared in anger.
"Watch closely, little mouse."
Jing Hui ignored his shouting. His voice suddenly became majestic, like a mighty divine sound.
It was as if a god or fiend from ancient times had opened its eyes deep within the Plague Rat's soul.
"True plague is never just something filthy."
"Even if it was once the source of calamity, as long as it returns to the righteous path, it can become a power of protection."
"Under the Great Plague, all beings are equal."
"It can grant death, and it can also grant... new life."
"Great Plague Heaven isn't meant to be used like that!"
As soon as the voice fell, the Plague Rat felt his body sway violently.
He lost control of his physical form.
It felt like someone was deliberately guiding him.
He saw the rampaging plague origin within his body suddenly become incredibly docile.
Hum—
Dark green fiendish qi soared into the sky, interweaving like a silk net, instantly covering the entire sea eye.
Those ferocious black-spot monsters immediately began to rot the moment they touched the fiendish qi.
The Plague Rat was shocked to discover that his fiendish qi was even penetrating the ice layers, killing those monsters that were still gestating and yet to take form right at their source!
"Plague... doesn't just bring disaster."
Jing Hui's voice echoed in his mind.
"Do you understand?"
"A lord of plague should master life and death, not be swept away by death."
The Plague Rat talked back dissatisfaction. "You're as dead as a doornail, so where do you get the nerve to lecture Lord Rat?"
Jing Hui choked for a second, then quickly coughed twice before continuing.
"I have my own difficulties; you don't need to mind that."
"Using poison to fight poison, using plague to suppress plague."
"The end of all things is decay, but after decay, one finds new life."
"This is what it means to be the Purity and Filth."
With this stern warning, the Plague Rat felt a sudden clarity in his mind.
The feeling was like a beggar who had rolled in the mud for a lifetime suddenly being washed clean and dressed in dragon robes.
Pure transparency!
All the black-spot monsters that died under the Great Plague Heaven were decomposed into the most primitive death qi and a black airflow similar to divinity.
Then, following the fiendish qi released by the Plague Rat, they returned to his body.
Great Plague Heaven operated frantically, devouring every single black-spot monster in the sea eye.
Divinity mixed with death qi poured incessantly into the Plague Rat's body.
That death qi should have been violently rebelling, but in the face of the sublimated festering divinity, they could only submissively surrender, becoming fuel for the Plague Rat's advancement.
The Plague Rat successfully achieved symbiosis with the death qi entering his body; not only was he not contaminated, but he perfectly suppressed them.
Three Transformations of Eerification...
Seventh-stage...
Seventh-stage first symbiosis contract...
The Plague Rat's own strength broke through consecutively under the gift of True Lord of Purity and Filth.
Combined with Chen Zhou's Faith Conferment which boosted his power, the Plague Rat felt he was temporarily at the peak of the second symbiosis contract.
That was a true great demon; as long as they reached the seventh-stage, they could rule over an entire region!
Not to mention he was now at the second contract!
"So this is... power..."
The Plague Rat clenched his fists and let out a long howl toward the sky.
"Squeak!!!"
A sharp rat cry echoed through the seabed.
The terrifying sound waves, mixed with plague fiendish qi, instantly made the seawater within a hundred miles boil.
The explosion in strength made the Plague Rat's confidence swell.
He looked at the hole deep in the sea eye that was still emitting black qi. Seeing another wave of black spots surging out, a wicked smile tugged at the corners of his mouth.
"Now, it's Lord Rat's turn to show his might."
He made a grasping motion in the air.
"Great Plague Heaven!"
Boom!
The dark green domain instantly expanded, enveloping the entire sea eye.
The black spots seeping out of the sea eye were decomposed by the plague fiendish qi within the domain as soon as they showed their heads, feeding back into the Plague Rat's body.
At this moment, this place was no longer an icy dead end but the Plague Rat's hunting ground!
It was like a max-level account slaughtering a beginner village.
The Plague Rat felt so good his scalp tingled.
He even had enough energy to split off a refined strand of fiendish qi, transforming it into a dark green dragon that roared as it charged out of the sea eye, heading straight for the Dragon Palace.
"That idiot Poison-Wing is probably still getting beaten up outside."
"Sigh, who told Lord Rat to be the boss?"
"Since Little Ten is so useless, I'll show some mercy and give him a hand."
Only after doing all this did the Plague Rat slowly turn around, looking at the ice sculptures behind him.
He walked up to Cangming and lightly tapped on the ice layer with a finger.
The power of plague permeated the ice, dissolving the cold qi of the cold spring.
Crash—
The ice shattered. Cangming took a huge gasp of air, his entire fish body collapsing onto the ground as he coughed violently.
"Cough, cough, cough... Am I still alive?"
Cangming looked at his hands in disbelief, then at the empty sea eye around him, looking completely bewildered.
"Where are the monsters? Where are the black spots?"
"I, the Great Lord, took care of them."
The Plague Rat stood with his hands behind his back, putting on an air of profound mystery.
He walked over to the unconscious Sea Emperor and didn't hold back, kicking the Sea Emperor directly on the butt.
"Wake up, old man, it's daylight!"
The Sea Emperor jerked from the kick, his eyes snapping open as he let out a tragic roar.
"My life is forf—!"
"—Uh?"
Halfway through the roar, he choked up.
He looked around blankly. There were no hellish scenes as he had imagined, and no black-spot monsters running rampant.
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