Chapter 121: Poison Behind (Third Update)

Xu Qing watched the Captain's figure leap into the giant deep pit formed by the fish eye, and the Captain's words seemed to fall at this moment as well, not into the deep pit, but into Xu Qing's mind.

There, these words rolled up waves, spreading continuously into ripples.

Before this, in Xu Qing's cognition, the forbidden areas of this world should all be similar to the jungle beside the scavenger camp, just that the deeper they went, the more strange, eerie, and dangerous they were.

Even the Wilderness Forbidden at the other end of the Southern Wilderness Continent, he felt it was just a larger range, with more and stronger fierce beasts and strange things inside.

But now he understood that although his cognition was not wrong, it was only a corner.

This world was too big. Humans were only one of them here. There were more alien races and forbidden areas one after another.

And above forbidden areas were forbidden lands.

The existence of forbidden lands had completely surpassed the level of forbidden areas and could give birth to new races.

And there was also... the Divine Domain that the Captain spoke of vaguely.

"So, the number of powerhouses and strange things in this world is very large." Xu Qing thought of the stone statue holding a knife in the temple in the scavenger forbidden area, thought of the giant pulling the dragon chariot he felt in the seabed, and the true body of the Sea Lizard Island.

For a long time, he turned his head to look at the Sea Corpse Clan fighting with Ding Ding Xiaohai behind him, his eyes revealing a deep glint.

The Sea Corpse Clan born in the edge area of Corpse Forbidden was very strong.

Being at the same Great Perfection of Qi Condensation, if it had been a Mermaid Clan member or a human cultivator, Xu Qing's killing would not have been so slow; his moves would have been faster.

"What will the Foundation Establishment of the Sea Corpse Clan be like." Xu Qing was vigilant in his heart. He believed there must be Sea Corpse Clan members below, and among them, those at the Foundation Establishment cultivation base must exist.

Although the array in the sky suppressed all the other party's cultivation bases to the Qi Condensation realm, Xu Qing still had to be strongly guarded against such Sea Corpse Clan members.

Especially at this moment when the array seemed increasingly unstable.

Xu Qing was silent. The more he understood the mystery of this world, the more he felt he was too weak. At this moment, the thought of building Foundation Establishment as soon as possible became even more intense.

Xu Qing took a deep breath, his gaze sharp, and leaped toward the fish eye deep pit.

This deep pit was like a tunnel, with a large range, and the depth was even more so, with no end in sight.

When Xu Qing jumped in, he could only see the Captain's figure as a small dot in the distance, sinking rapidly. His eyes narrowed, and he did not control his speed, but borrowed the natural falling force, moving forward while checking the surroundings.

The mud around the deep pit was pitch black. The deeper it went, the more humid it became, and there was a large amount of lichen-like vegetation permeating. From time to time, he could see a few small flowers blooming, which were also mostly black, radiating an eerie feeling.

And this humidity soon became intense, until Xu Qing saw the water surface appearing below the Captain. There was a 'pa' sound echoing, which did not sound like being attacked, but more like landing on the water surface.

Xu Qing immediately operated his cultivation base, raised his right hand, and the black iron sign appeared. After stabbing into the mud beside him, with a 'huo huo' sound, the black iron sign directly drew a long mark on the wall.

With the help of the iron sign's power, Xu Qing's speed also slowed down gradually, until a moment later, he saw the water surface appearing in this tunnel below.

The water surface was pitch black, and he could not see what was inside, but clearly, this tunnel was far from reaching the end. The next journey needed to be submerged in water.

Xu Qing pondered, sprinkled a piece of poison powder.

Waited for a moment to confirm it was safe, then, just in case, he put all items that could not be waterproofed into the storage bag, organized them, rushed into the water surface, and formed protection with the Hua Hai Jing in his body, making the seawater unable to invade, only then did he sink and continue forward.

But after traveling in the water for no long, Xu Qing looked below, his heart alert.

He did not see the Captain's figure here.

It was as if in this pitch-black tunnel, there was some unknown danger hidden, swallowing the Captain's figure completely.

Xu Qing did not hesitate, immediately took out a pocket filled with various mixed poison powders from the storage bag, sent it out of his protective layer, caused that pocket to merge into the water, and released a large amount of poison rapidly.

While spreading to the four directions, Xu Qing grabbed this pocket and sank rapidly.

Wherever he passed, the black seawater, under the rendering of the poison, became even more pitch black.

Perhaps it was because Xu Qing's poison was very sharp, so he did not encounter any danger on the way down. Gradually, when he reached the end of this tunnel, the poison in the leather bag was not much left.

Xu Qing did not pause, swung the leather bag fiercely, and instantly this leather bag headed straight for the exit of the underwater tunnel. The moment it appeared, it dispersed in the water, releasing all the poison remaining inside like ink, rolling rapidly toward the surroundings.

If there was no ambush there, then fine. Once there was an ambush, then this piece of poison water was enough to make them regret this choice.

In the next instant, amidst the rolling poison water, there were miserable screams. Six Mermaid Clan cultivators who were ambushing here retreated in the poison water, their bodies visibly turning blue-black, continuously rotting. Xu Qing's eyes shone with coldness, his body accelerated, and he rushed out of the exit directly.

The moment he went out, waves of art fluctuations roared from all eight directions, and there were even muffled roars echoing underwater.

There was chaotic fighting here.

At the same time, a dazzling and wonderful underwater world also unfolded before his eyes as Xu Qing rushed out.

Compared to the island shore, everything here was reversed, but if one were to invert the body here and step on the mud on the back of this island, one could clearly see that there were countless colorful corals on the ground here.

It seemed the entire world was composed of corals. On those corals, there were also a large number of sea anemones, with red centers, and gray-white petals in the surroundings like teeth, and even more tentacles covered with barbs, spreading out, swaying in the sea.

These tentacles varied in length, some dozens of zhang, some one or two zhang, with light flowing on them, making the entire underwater world look extremely dazzling.

And in the direction of the seabed, there were countless semi-transparent eggs floating. Any one of these eggs was the size of a seven or eight-year-old child, and one could see that there was a Mermaid Clan child existing inside.

This was the underwater world built by the Mermaid Clan on the back of the island, and it was also their true foundation. At this moment, as Xu Qing saw all this clearly, he also saw fighting everywhere in the surroundings.

A large number of Seventh Blood Child disciples were looting those corals, as well as all items with value here, while more Mermaid Clan cultivators were attacking fiercely toward the Seventh Blood Child.

Because it was underwater, blood would not fall to the ground, but merged into the seawater, becoming clusters of blood mist, spreading with the fluctuations here. Xu Qing did not have time to check the full range. Suddenly, a cold glint flashed in his eyes, and his body slammed backward, directly hitting a Mermaid Clan cultivator who wanted to sneak attack.

With a 'bang', that Mermaid Clan cultivator's bones and flesh shattered, and after scattering a large amount of blood mist, a sea anemone on the side suddenly appeared with a giant mouth, biting toward Xu Qing.

The surrounding tentacles wound rapidly, but as soon as they approached, they withered immediately, and the sea anemone was the same, withering directly before biting down, turning pitch black.

Not caring about the sea anemone, Xu Qing moved forward, continuing to check the surroundings.

On this battlefield of the island's back world, it was not just the Mermaid Clan fighting with the Seventh Blood Child disciples. Xu Qing also saw Sea Corpse Clan cultivators. A sweep of his eyes showed that the scattered Sea Corpse Clan members numbered about a hundred.

Every one of them was very ferocious, and seven or eight of them had fluctuations infinitely close to Foundation Establishment, often requiring five or more Seventh Blood Child disciples to surround and suppress them.

Xu Qing looked at these, his right hand suddenly raised, and the black iron sign rushed out, heading straight for a figure rapidly arriving toward him on the left. Amidst the other party's horror, it pierced through the glabella instantly and returned to Xu Qing's side.

Xu Qing did not pause, continuing to gallop.

He rarely made moves actively. Slaughter was not his first choice this time. After arriving in this underground world, he judged the approximate orientation of the fluctuation he had sensed from the Spirit Breath Lamp before.

He wanted to leave this battlefield and go to that place to take a look, to confirm whether the guess he was looking forward to really existed.

And just as Xu Qing was shuttling through the battlefield, suddenly, a sense of crisis floated in his heart.

Xu Qing paused his footsteps and raised his head suddenly to look into the distance.

Almost at the same time he looked over, at the edge of the battlefield, dozens of different Mermaid Clan members suddenly appeared.

These Mermaid Clan members wore white long robes, and the fluctuations on their bodies were very strange—not foreign substances, nor spiritual energy, but a feeling that could not be described. Xu Qing saw this and his mind surfaced with the divinity contained in his own magic boat.

This made his eyes constrict.

And beside every such Mermaid Clan member, there actually existed some ferocious and strange beasts!

Some of these strange beasts were humanoid, but their bodies were slender, a full few zhang in height, like bamboo sticks, yet their heads were massive, and their green skin radiated strangeness.

Others were completely like giants, but they had two heads, and both faces carried ferocity. While walking forward, they were also biting each other.

Others were giant eyeballs covered in pus, yet there were extremely long tongues growing in the pupils, and wherever they passed, the ferocity was astonishing.

There were even some rotten small sharks, with countless rotten weapons inserted in their bodies, crashing around.

"God Officials!" Xu Qing's mind surfaced with the introduction in the little fatty's jade slip about a type of special cultivator among the Mermaid Clan.

The number of this type of cultivator was extremely small. They called themselves God Officials. Their arts were not spiritual energy, but borrowed from the god they believed in, so they called themselves divine arts.

And those strange beasts were the embodiment of their divine arts!

At this moment, following their appearance, the impact on the battlefield was not small, causing some chaos among the Seventh Blood Child disciples. However, the Seventh Blood Child disciples were originally ferocious people raised like gu. At this moment, although the Mermaid Clan had God Officials appearing, there were also quite a few who targeted these God Officials.

After all, in the Mermaid Clan, the status of God Officials was extremely high, and their wealth also exceeded that of ordinary cultivators.

Xu Qing did not participate. At this moment, he withdrew his gaze from those God Officials and was about to leave, but just then, Xu Qing's expression revealed a trace of strangeness.

He saw a corpse that looked very miserable in the battlefield not far away, crawling rapidly.

This corpse was permeated with blood, covered in shocking wounds, looking very tragic.

Sometimes it crawled, sometimes it paused. When passing by the corpses of Mermaid Clan and Seventh Blood Child cultivators, this corpse would familiarly go to search, take things, and continue crawling.

If it encountered a powerful enemy arriving, the corpse would immediately play dead without moving. But if the arriving person's cultivation base was ordinary, then the moment it passed by, this corpse would suddenly erupt, sneak attack and kill, and then fly rapidly to the other side, continuing to pretend to be a corpse...

Although the other party's disguise was good, Xu Qing still recognized his identity.

"Senior Brother Zhang San..."

The moment Xu Qing saw Zhang San, fluctuations came from behind him. Xu Qing rushed forward, turned around suddenly, and just as his right-hand black iron sign was about to be thrown, a hurried voice came.

"It's me, Deputy Captain Xu."

The person who came was the Captain.

It was just that... at this moment, the Captain was a bit different from what Xu Qing had seen outside before.

His body was clearly blue-black, with familiar signs of poisoning, his lips were purple, and while arriving, he was still swallowing detoxification pills.

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