Chapter 201

"Ah—!!!"

The black-robed man, who was struggling with all his might against the rock mountain above his head, was completely unable to free his hands to dodge; it wasn't until a tearing pain came from his leg that he discovered a poisonous creature had ambushed him from under his feet.

Looking down, he saw that dark red centipede pulling its two pairs of sickle-like mandibles out of his calf, its dark red body glowing with an eerie fluorescence in the moonlight.

"You damn bastard, you even use poisonous creatures to ambush..."

The black-robed man let out a hysterical roar from his throat.

For a moment, he couldn't even tell who was the demon from the Demon Sect.

Hiss~~~

After the successful strike, Little Fire turned and ran, swish, drilling back into the ground crack like red lightning, its tail flickering at the hole before disappearing without a trace.

The black-robed man could only watch helplessly as it slipped away right under his nose, without even a chance for revenge.

His hands were still desperately supporting the rock mountain that kept pressing down, his legs nailed to the spot, every muscle fighting against the thousand-jun weight above his head.

"A mere poisonous creature, what can it do to me..."

The black-robed man roared, separating a wisp of pale blue Primordial Divine Qi to surge toward the wound on his leg, wanting to force out the fire poison that was spreading.

A Primordial Realm martial artist's vitality didn't mean they were immune to all poisons, but ordinary toxins were indeed very difficult to cause substantial damage to them.

Primordial Divine Qi itself was the most refined power; ordinary toxins would be directly annihilated upon encountering Primordial Divine Qi.

However, the next instant, his expression changed drastically again.

Hiss, hiss, hiss...

That fire poison was not forced back under the scouring of the Primordial Divine Qi.

Instead, it flowed upstream along his Divine Qi like a living thing, the skin and flesh where it passed quickly turning charred and festering.

Dark red poisonous sores spread crazily from the bite marks to the surroundings, the large ones like copper coins, the small ones like rice grains, squeezed together in layers, looking exceptionally terrifying in the moonlight.

What made him even more palpitated was that there was a wisp of extremely faint, extremely thin, yet incomparably evil black energy mixed within that fire poison.

The moment that black energy came into contact with his Primordial Divine Qi, it was not annihilated by his Primordial Divine Qi.

Instead, it grew crazily as if it had encountered nourishment of the same origin, eroding the meridians around his wound inch by inch into an eerie purple-black.

"What the hell kind of poison is this?!"

The black-robed man let out a roar of shock and anger, fear emerging in those scarlet eyes for the first time.

Fire poison that could devour and erode Primordial Divine Qi...

This was simply unheard of.

Immediately following—

His pupils shrank violently, and he felt that familiar taste from this eerie fire poison black energy.

He looked up abruptly, staring fixedly at the gray-clothed figure in mid-air who was looking down at him, roaring in disbelief:

"This is... this is demonic energy!!!"

"So that's it..."

"The 'Demon-Suppressing Bead' is in your hands!!!"

In this instant, countless scattered clues pieced together in his mind.

This evil old man, not only could he fly...

But he also had these kinds of eerie martial arts.

It was no surprise at all that Black Star died at his hands.

Hearing this, Jiang Ye, who was stepping on the light breeze and floating in mid-air, narrowed his eyes slightly, his brow raising slightly.

"Demon-Suppressing Bead"?!

He instantly thought of the pitch-black bead he had looted from the Seven Kill Sect demon, which was now being held by Little Fire while it slept every day.

"Could that be some kind of very important thing..."

Jiang Ye pondered in his heart.

Looking at the intense reaction of this Seven Kill Sect demon.

The origin of that pitch-black bead was probably even more extraordinary than he had imagined...

Moreover, the black energy in that pitch-black bead was so similar to the chilling aura on Elder Zhong.

After going back, he could ask that sharp-tongued old man in a roundabout way.

See if he could get any useful information from the other party.

But that was a matter for later.

Right now—

The seal in his hand remained unchanged, yellow true qi pouring down like a tide.

Rumble—

The pressure of the rock mountain above the black-robed man's head suddenly doubled, the huge mountain emitting a roar of being unable to bear the burden, as if the weight of the entire peak was pressing down on his arms alone at this moment.

That heavy aura that suppressed all things permeated, and faintly, there was a trend of a Black Tortoise suppressing the mountain, never to be turned over for eternity.

"Ah ah ah ah ah..."

The roaring sound from the black-robed man's mouth became more and more shrill, the veins on his face, which had been scorched black by smoke and fire, bulging, every breath squeezing out a low roar like a dying beast from the depths of his throat.

He poured all the remaining Primordial Divine Qi in his body into his arms, the pale blue light swirling crazily at the edges of his palms, wanting to smash the rock mountain above his head in one go.

However, his foundation had already been severely injured by Luo Song, and he was being continuously eroded from the inside by fire poison and black energy; at this moment, he was truly at the end of his rope.

No matter how he circulated it, the rock mountain above his head only swayed slightly; not only was it not supported by even half an inch, but it was pressed even lower.

The ground under his feet began to crack, his legs sinking into the rubble inch by inch, his entire body's bones emitting a creaking sound of being unable to bear the burden.

This was absolutely the most dangerous moment since he had advanced to the Primordial Realm.

"No... I cannot die here!!! I must take the 'Demon-Suppressing Bead'..."

A flash of determination crossed the black-robed man's scarlet eyes.

He bit the tip of his tongue, spraying a mouthful of essence blood onto his arms, his Primordial Divine Qi suddenly surging, the pale blue light becoming blinding, actually forcibly supporting the rock mountain above his head by half an inch.

"Oh?!"

Seeing this scene, a flash of hidden shock crossed Jiang Ye's aged eyes.

Is this the vitality of a Primordial Realm martial artist?

Under such severe injury, he actually still had such explosive power.

"Give... me... break—"

The momentum on the black-robed man's body condensed to the extreme, his arms suddenly pushing upward.

Crack... crack... crack...

The surface of the rock mountain was actually shaken by that pale blue Primordial Divine Qi into cracks like spiderwebs.

Rubble fell with a rustling sound, the cracks spreading to the surroundings at a speed visible to the naked eye, and faintly, there was a trend of it really being overturned.

The next instant.

Hiss!!!

From the crack in the ground, a dark red figure once again rushed out as fast as lightning.

It was none other than Little Fire.

After this little guy had been with Jiang Ye for a long time, it was also incredibly devious.

It actually launched a sneak attack again at the moment the black-robed man was most focused on breaking the mountain.

This time, it bit the black-robed man's right leg.

After a successful strike again, Little Fire didn't even look back, its tail flicking in the air, and it swished back into the ground crack.

"You damn bastard!!! You beast!!!"

The black-robed man stared wide-eyed at the dark red figure that had slipped away three times faster than when it came, the roar squeezed from his throat sharp and hoarse, like a crow whose neck had been pinched.

He never expected that he, a dignified Primordial Realm martial artist.

Would end up falling into the hands of a centipede that could be crushed to death with one palm.

The fire poison on his left leg was still spreading crazily, those dark red poisonous sores having climbed from his thigh to his waist and abdomen.

Now his right leg had been bitten squarely, the fresh fire poison and the old poison resonating, the two toxins spreading crazily in his body like a prairie fire.

Even if he had two more lives, he wouldn't be able to survive.

One drum of courage, then decline, then exhaustion.

The momentum to break the mountain that he had finally accumulated by burning his essence blood was completely leaked away by this bite of poisonous teeth.

The pale blue Primordial Divine Qi on his arms collapsed like a popped bubble, the Primordial Divine Qi in his body completely losing control under the erosion of the fire poison, rampaging in his meridians, instead accelerating his own collapse.

He could no longer hold on.

Rumble—

The rock mountain no longer had any obstruction, pressing down like the sky collapsing.

The black-robed man was firmly suppressed to the ground by that heavy mountain body.