Chapter 409: Great Array of Ten Thousand Poisons

Poisonous mist shrouded everything, obscuring both sky and earth.

"Not a sneak attack; this seems to be the first late-stage Human Jin Dan I've faced?"

Jiang Ding muttered to himself.

Since the Jin Dan stage, humans, possessing their Ben Ming Fa treasures, have become stronger than many demonic beasts; unless the beast's bloodline rank is extremely high, humanity's diverse methods allow them to suppress beasts of the same realm.

The greater the wealth, the larger this same-realm power gap becomes.

A deep blue shield expanded, hissing under the poison mist's corrosion.

Ding ding ding!

Green venomous snakes with a metallic sheen formed a formation and lunged; blue-gold sword light circled him, slashing back and forth, its sharpness radiating everywhere.

Snake after snake was cleaved open from the front, falling as two halves of flesh and blood; mid-air, their bodies turned to dust, annihilated by sword qi, unable to undergo any further transformation.

Due to his own fragility, this kind of area attack was something he had to deal with.

Jiang Ding showed no haste at all, leisurely watching the woman in the black skirt seven or eight kilometers away; layers of poison mist could not block or obscure her even a fraction.

"Why can't they break in yet?"

"That flying sword is a freak!"

Lady a Thousand Snakes' face turned pale; magic power surged out like a tide, her figure swaying as if about to collapse.

With the poison formation, the poison mist, and attacks from ten thousand snakes, even multiple late-stage Jin Dan cultivators should now be showing injuries; she should not be so intact and undamaged.

"Flee?"

"Absolutely not; sword cultivators' greatest strength is speed and offense; giving them your back means certain death!"

A flicker of cowardly emotion flashed and was immediately banished.

She gritted her teeth, bit her tongue, and spat out another mouthful of vital blood; her body suddenly hunched terribly, her snow-white skin becoming almost translucent, with vivid red, slender muscle patterns clearly visible.

This mouthful of vital blood fell upon a black-and-white venomous snake; the snake's body, the size of a thumb, suddenly swelled; countless snakes flew toward it like swallows returning to their nest, pouring into its body, further accelerating its expansion.

Even the sky-filling, gold-melting, bone-eroding poison mist surged into its throat with every breath.

In an instant, a bump grew on the black-and-white venomous snake's head, and some emerald-green whiskers sprouted from its jaw; it actually displayed some traits of a dragon seed, and a domineering, cruel aura of a top-tier demonic beast ruler radiated outward.

"Damn brat..."

Lady a Thousand Snakes' heart was bleeding.

These two black and white snakes were her Ben Ming Fa spiritual pets cultivated over hundreds of years; countless heavenly treasures and earthly herbs had been fed to them, granting them a trace of dragon seed bloodline; in the future, they might have the chance to transform from snakes into flood dragons, becoming Nascent Soul-level great demons, elevating her and her entire clan.

Now, due to Ji Gong, everything was utterly destroyed.

Roar!

The black-and-white venomous snake, now bearing initial dragon seed traits, let out its first dragon roar since birth; heavy dragon pressure locked on, and a mouthful of destructive emerald-green dragon breath was spat forth; even the air hissed, corroded into black marks.

Such momentum,

even a high-grade treasure facing it head-on might be corroded into a pile of scrap metal!

"Give up targeting my true body; this is seeking your own death."

Jiang Ding shook his head.

He pointed with a finger.

Amidst a sonic boom, a blue-gold flying sword charged suicidally into the destructive dragon breath, possessing absolute confidence in itself, believing itself invulnerable to all arts, solid and immortal.

Boom!

The blue-gold flying sword's light was brilliant; the emerald-green dragon breath's pressure was heavy and extremely condensed; between their collision came a thunderous roar shaking the heavens.

Countless spiritual lights shattered; they locked in stalemate, the two becoming two streaks of flowing light, colliding endlessly, tangling endlessly; even a slight leakage of residual waves caused vast areas of the ground to shatter and melt away completely.

Shiu shiu!

Amidst the biting wind, nine invisible, intangible ox-hair-thin needles shot from afar, their needle tips concealing deep emerald poison light.

"A bit weak."

Jiang Ding casually pointed; seven or eight streaks of blue-gold sword qi flew out, slicing Lady a Thousand Snakes' set of low-grade treasures, driven by her remaining meager magic power, flying away and crashing into the distance.

Crack!

Just then, Lady a Thousand Snakes' face showed terror.

She saw that the emerald poison dragon breath and the blue-gold flying sword, tangled in the air for a moment, finally reached a conclusion.

The blue-gold sword light's brilliant Jin Chong Guang flashed; as the sword edge flowed, it cleaved the emerald poison dragon breath from the middle; the spell's core structure was torn apart, shattering amidst an earth-shattering explosion.

Then, it surged into the mouth of the black-and-white venomous snake with the bump on its head, piercing straight through its skull.

"Roar..."

The black-and-white giant snake let out a mournful cry, turned to look at its master one last time, and its body suddenly exploded into sky-filling fragments.

"Young Master, spare my life!"

Lady a Thousand Snakes, unable to grieve the death of her spiritual pet companions of hundreds of years, screamed, her form transforming into ten thousand tiny venomous snakes fleeing in all directions.

Her speed was unparalleled; the aura of every single venomous snake was identical; even a peak Jin Dan cultivator might not distinguish them in a short time.

Shiu!

A streak of blue-gold sword light flew past, slicing the head of a chopstick-sized venomous snake into pieces.

The surrounding ten thousand venomous snakes paused, then suddenly burst apart; sky-filling foul flesh and blood scattered, corroding deep pits into the ground where no plant could be grown for hundreds of years.

If left unchecked, it would become an ideal habitat for poison-type demonic beasts; years later, another Foundation Establishment death zone would be born.

"In the current situation, late-stage Jin Dan cultivators still pose a major threat."

"Unless core interests are involved, try not to provoke them."

Jiang Ding muttered, looking toward another battlefield.

One after another, flame-molten rock giant swords fell from the sky, each forming a formation, surrounding Shang Shang Chengye in the center with successive bombardments; the twelve copper coin treasures around him now had greatly dimmed spiritual light, with some areas even showing signs of melting.

"Fellow Daoist, you are extraordinary."

Jiang Ding exclaimed.

A third-grade superior array, relying on the spiritual vein and earth qi, is in truth far stronger than a late-stage Jin Dan cultivator; the fact that this one has held on until now without losing an arm or a leg proves his strength is no small matter.

If they were to fight alone,

it would inevitably require some effort, needlessly adding much risk.

Whoosh!

The blue-gold flying sword shot through the air; the Po Fa Xian Jin, combined with the annihilating sword intent, pushed the true meaning of destruction to its absolute limit, creating a monster whose swordsmanship was utterly unbearable to behold, yet whose sword intent was terrifyingly boundless.

"The Shang family will not let you off!"

Shang Shang Chengye roared in despair.

Boom!

Flame array patterns spread densely; nine giant flame swords descended from the sky and, together with the blue-gold flying sword, struck simultaneously against Shang Shang Chengye's twelve copper coin treasures, whose protective light had dimmed. The copper coins clattered and flew away, and the shield shattered.

Whoosh!

The blue-gold flying sword pierced Shang Shang Chengye's skull. The nine giant flame swords arrived at the same instant. Amidst the sky-filling flames and sword qi, his flesh and blood body turned to ash and scattered with the wind.

"These two's assets should be quite considerable."

Jiang Ding waved his hand, and the storage bags and treasures of Lady Thousand Poisons and Shang Shang Chengye fell into his grasp.

With another sword slash, countless sword qi flew toward the caverns in all directions, destroying the stress points of the caverns he had just calculated.

Amidst the rumbling, the cavern collapsed. The array that concealed and hid from detection crumbled. This underground area, which had broken away from Master Tushan Xiancheng's control, was once again buried and completely vanished from sight.

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(End of this chapter)