Chapter 43: What does the Dragon Tiger Fight taste like?

Kill the fox spirit, you gain 500 slaughter experience, Jia Xian treasure box (green)

Progress update for the Eliminate Five Harms quest: killing Jia Xian species (3/5) can be repeated

You obtained a red soul!

Pull the formation blade out of the already manifested fox corpse

The fox spirit's acting is really good; even his Killing Intent Perception didn't sense anything off

But unfortunately, grayish-white beard willow yellow, these five types of monsters are truly too special, so that upon hearing the two words 'snake demon', he remained on high alert

After approaching the girl with caution, he noticed many unreasonable small details; a girl who had been abducted, even if unharmed, showed no food scraps—how exactly was she surviving?

Of course, the decisive factor was that Elite Talent's adaptation to the smell of blood allowed Mu Yi to smell an ineradicable bloody odor from the fox spirit's body

For Mu Yi, who was already quite sensitive to the smell of blood, it was easy to distinguish the blood odor in the cave from that on the fox spirit; to describe the difference, it's like fried chicken versus barbecue

"Are you planning to break the military formation from within?" Mu Yi pondered the reason they went to such great lengths

As Court Jia Xian, they somewhat understood something about battle formations; the best way to counter a formation is to break it from within, causing those inside to self-disrupt their formation

"Then what role does the Mountain Lord play in this?" Mu Yi stood at the mountain's base, watching the Dragon Tiger Fight on the mountain, and gave a knowing smile

Only incense and a larger territory could make a Wild God submit and lie

Boom!

A bolt of lightning shot from the formation blade, exploding in the firmament like fireworks, clearly visible within a hundred li radius

Lin Jie, who was beneath the Mountain Lord Temple, hesitated not at all, directly gulped down the two bottles of potion in his hand, then rushed toward the Mountain Lord Temple

Pierce the Sun!

A huge red light accurately struck the Mountain Lord Temple; the Mountain Lord's statue emitted a bit of incense aura forming a power barrier, blocking the red light outside

"Ten Thousand Swords Pierce the Sun!" Lin Jie roared, shooting several red light pillars from his hand; without the potion replenishing his strength, he could not possibly use both abilities simultaneously

This time the incense aura was stronger, yet merely a moment later, the Mountain Lord Temple exploded in the mountain ravine into sky‑filling fragments

How could a Mountain Lord Temple with scarce incense possibly withstand successive bombardments?

"Pfft~" The Mountain Lord, who was acting with the snake demon, instantly felt his statue and temple destroyed; the backlash from the incense instantly weakened his breath by half, and he spat out a mouthful of blood

"Something happened!"

The snake demon immediately stopped moving, turned its head toward the cave's direction; although it didn't know what happened, the earlier flash of lightning was definitely a signal

"My temple has been destroyed; it seems that fox spirit was also likely exposed!" The Mountain Lord regretted so much his intestines turned green

Although I don't know where the mistake occurred, now he has already lost everything, even to his grandmother's house

"Cloud Energy, rise!"

Mu Yi's cold voice exploded in the ears of the two demons; scarlet Cloud Energy instantly surged to suppress them

"Zongwang Prompt: Military Formation–Yuan Yang Formation effect, all attributes increased by 10%"

"Zongwang Prompt: Military Formation–Square Formation effect, defense increased by 5%"

"Zongwang Prompt: Military Strategist–Military Formation effect, all attributes increased by 5%"

"Zongwang Prompt: Current Cloud Energy buff effect, Military Formation buff effect doubled"

"Zongwang Prompt: Current Cloud Energy suppression effect, enemy all attributes reduced by 30%"

Heavy pressure fell on the snake demon and the Mountain Lord, as if they were mired in a swamp; every part of their bodies was shackled, unable to unleash their full strength

"Join forces; all the conditions the fox promised you are still valid!" The snake demon instantly turned to lure the Mountain Lord, worried he might flee at this moment

"Good!" The Mountain Lord's eyes were blood‑red, like a wounded beast!

He knew his temple had been destroyed, certainly related to Mu Yi; enemies meeting, naturally are especially red‑eyed

"Roar!"

A roar filled with anger, the heavy pressure suddenly enveloped everyone

"Detected that the character is affected by Tiger's Might; performing willpower check..."

"Check passed; the character is immune to Tiger's Might effects and, for the next 15 minutes, immune to damage and negative effects from that effect."

Mu Yi's body did not sway, yet he noticed the Cloud Energy above his head suddenly thin by several degrees; turning his head, he saw Li Tian and others all affected, their gazes toward the Mountain Lord showing a hint of fear

The Mountain Lord's strong Tiger's Might triggered their innate, unconscious fear of ferocious beasts deep in their bones

"Zongwang Prompt: Current Military Formation Cloud Energy buff effect weakening!"

"Zongwang Prompt: Current Military Formation Cloud Energy suppression effect weakening!"

A wavering of will instantly caused their Cloud Energy overhead to begin losing effectiveness

"You've even slain the Mountain God; what else do you fear?!"

"Just a little cat and snake; today I'll slay them and use them for the Dragon Tiger Fight!"

Mu Yi instantly raised his weapon and shouted loudly; lightning flickered on the formation blade, the contempt in his words accompanied by an invisible ripple spreading outward

"Morale boost successful; friendly forces gain the 'High Spirits' status and, for the next 15 minutes, shake off negative status effects."

With the courage of a commander, Mu Yi's fearlessness, bolstered by his specialty, instantly infected the other soldiers; they gripped their weapons, their fear vanished, replaced by boundless fighting spirit

"Kill!"

Mu Yi let out a loud shout, taking the lead to charge at the Mountain Lord; taking advantage of his illness to seize his life, no matter what, this old tiger is absolutely at its weakest now—we must not let him catch his breath

However, before Mu Yi could rush to the Mountain Lord's front, a pair of vertically slit pupils emitting a faint green light blocked his way, a scarlet forked tongue exhaling an aura that made one's hair stand on end

"Hiss!"

The instant the scarlet forked tongue was flicked out, the bloody maw opened wide, and a foul‑smelling poison sprayed toward Mu Yi

"Damn it! Time Confusion!"

Mu Yi cursed angrily, saying either these beasts can play together, their methods are eerily similar, and this taste is truly hard to stomach

The weasel's stink, the fox's stench, the gray rat's plague, the giant snake's venom before us—all are of the same ilk

Mu Yi dodged the spraying poison; the poison hitting the ground instantly corroded a large pit, and in his moment of dread, his formation blade, accompanied by thunder, came down in a cleaving strike

Hiss! The painful wail drove the Snake Demon to wildly spray highly corrosive venom all around.

Ah!

A soldier who hadn't reacted in time got venom splashed on their arm, and in an instant more than half of the flesh on their arm was corroded away.

Keep your distance, watch out for venom splatter!

Mu Yi shouted angrily, condensing Cloud Energy into a shield and buffing everyone with it, but in that moment of distraction he was immediately swept away by the swinging snake tail.