Chapter 272: Blood Bead and Inner Core: The Battle of Deadly Poisons

Having passed the first stage with ease, one could see that the road under this stage was already completely covered by magma.

As expected, every stage had a time limit, but for Nan Feihuang, who could fly, this was not a problem at all.

After passing the first stage of Hell Road, there was a circular platform that allowed for a temporary rest; Nan Feihuang sat down there, rested for a moment, and meditated to recover a bit of soul power.

He was in no hurry to chase the Blood Tiger; he would let it fight to the death with the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake, while he himself played the fisherman reaping the benefits.

After the Blood Tiger passed the first stage, it was marching forward triumphantly, as if the Killing God Domain were beckoning to it.

Suddenly, a biting murderous aura locked onto it.

Beneath the magma, something was about to rush out.

The Blood Tiger immediately became alert; the intensity of this murderous aura was no less than the Bat King from just before, and perhaps even greater.

Suddenly, it saw the magma below surging, and a blood-red figure rose up.

It was a gigantic crimson snake.

On the head and back of this snake, there were a total of nine protrusions, each one looking like a bright red mushroom, and inside them, it seemed as if blood were flowing. The snake's abdomen was particularly huge, bulging on the narrow path, and its body length was at least over ten meters.

An ancient exotic species, the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake, its strength was even above a sixty-thousand-year Spirit Beast, far surpassing the Bat King.

Inside this Hell Road, these two monsters were also old rivals, competing for the status of hegemon of Hell Road.

The two had fought several times, and the Bat King was simply no match for it, being defeated quickly every time; if not for its astonishing recovery ability, it would have long since died at the hands of the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake.

The Blood Tiger's use of its martial soul's special ability to absorb the Bat King's blood and use it to deal with Nan Feihuang seemed clever, but it had also laid the groundwork for its own path to Hell.

As an old rival, how could the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake not sense the Bat King's blood?

It could be said that the greater the advantage the Blood Tiger had just taken, the greater the danger it would now have to face.

The Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake's scarlet eyes looked at the Blood Tiger before it, and it let out a hair-raising hissing sound, causing cold sweat to stream down the Blood Tiger's back.

It felt some regret; perhaps it shouldn't have been so quick to kill Nan Feihuang just now, as this monster before it was not something one person could defeat.

But there was no other way now; it could only face it alone. As long as it passed this stage, the Killing God Domain it had been longing for would be right before its eyes.

The Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake struck without mercy, its snake tail striking directly at the Blood Tiger's face.

"Boom!"

The next moment, the Blood Claw and the snake tail of the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake collided violently.

After all, it was a Spirit Douluo; even if it could not use soul skills, the Blood Tiger's strength was still quite formidable, not to the point of having no power to fight back against the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake.

Nan Feihuang, who was meditating, heard the explosion coming from afar and smiled slightly, "It seems that stupid tiger and that snake have already started fighting. Since that's the case, I should go and pick up the ready-made bargain."

Immediately standing up, Feihuang also flew toward the battlefield of the second stage.

When he arrived there, the Blood Tiger and the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake were in the midst of a fierce battle.

The Blood Tiger not only had strong attack power, but its speed was also extremely fast; it jumped onto the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake at this moment, and the target of the sharp claws in its hands was precisely the fleshy tumors on the Fierce Sun Snake's body.

With his rich combat experience, he could see that these were the source of the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake's power, and also where its weakness lay.

As someone who had achieved a hundred victories in Hell Road, confidence was also carved into his bones.

But the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake was, after all, an ancient exotic species; how could it be easily defeated?

With a wave of its snake tail, it swept the Blood Tiger down.

"Hehe, wonderful, wonderful, neither side's strength is weak," Nan Feihuang laughed.

Just at this moment, he felt as if something on his body was trembling.

Nan Feihuang reached into his bosom and took out the item; it was actually the Green Phosphorus Snake Emperor Pill Bead that Dugu Bo had given him.

At this moment, this Pill Bead was emitting a rich emerald green light, seemingly echoing with something.

"Could it be...?" Nan Feihuang had a guess in his heart and opened his External Spirit Bone to look ahead; sure enough, he saw two things.

Within the flow of the Blood Tiger's soul power, and inside the body of the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake, there was a bead present.

If he wasn't mistaken, the one in the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake was the Inner Core that Ma Hongjun would later absorb.

As the Inner Core of an ancient exotic species, its preciousness went without saying; it could be used to assist a Poison Spirit Master in cultivation, or its fire-attribute energy could be absorbed and transformed into a Spirit Ring.

And the one inside this Blood Tiger should be a Blood Bead.

Just like Dugu Bo's Pill Bead, it was condensed during cultivation.

Dugu Bo could not contain such a powerful Green Phosphorus Snake Emperor poison with his body alone, so he had to condense the Pill Bead; it could be said that this bead carried half of his toxicity.

And the Blood Tiger, constantly absorbing the blood of others to cultivate, in order to prevent the rejection of various different bloodlines within its body, similarly condensed the absorbed blood and soul power onto the Blood Bead.

I fear that not just half, but over eighty percent of its strength was on the Blood Bead.

As long as one obtained this bead, even someone without the Blood Tiger's martial soul ability could directly absorb the eighty percent of the Blood Tiger's soul power within the bead to cultivate, but the soul power obtained through such cultivation would not be that pure.

It was not suitable for geniuses like Nan Feihuang, Dian Wei, and Lan Xue, as it would affect their future.

However, it was very suitable for Nan Tianchen; after all, even if Nan Tianchen took the Nine-Rank Purple Ganoderma, his potential was just like that, it was impossible for him to become a god, and even becoming a Super Douluo would be difficult.

It would be better to use the Blood Bead to quickly grow into a Title Douluo.

As for the future, when Feihuang and the others around him became gods, wouldn't it be fine to just take him up then?

"Good stuff, the Blood Bead and the Inner Core, I want them both!" Nan Feihuang had not intended to join the battle so quickly, originally wanting to wait at least until the two sides were both injured, but if that happened, the bead of one of the two sides would inevitably be shattered, and that would be too much of a waste.

The two sides in the battle had already fought to the point of real anger.

Seeing that the opponent's physical attack was no less than its own, the angry Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake sprayed scarlet poison from its mouth, intending to kill the enemy with the highly toxic substance.

Seeing this, the Blood Tiger also used its trump card; it spat out the Blood Bead from its mouth, drawing upon a large amount of soul power.

It likewise sprayed out a blood-red poisonous mist.

This was Blood Poison.

It is recorded in medical texts that Blood Poison accumulates in the blood, cannot nourish the limbs, and leads to diseases throughout the body. Modern medical research has confirmed that human blood contains a large amount of free radicals, chemical residues, heavy metal particles, blood rust and other toxins, as well as waste such as fat particles; these toxins, waste, impurities, and endogenous garbage are collectively referred to as Blood Poison. Everyone has poison in their blood. From the moment a baby is born, there is already poison in their blood.

It is just that the Blood Poison in the human body does not usually excessively affect physical health, but now, inside this Blood Tiger's Blood Bead, there was at least the accumulated Blood Poison of over a thousand people; the strength of the poison upon sudden eruption was not at all inferior to the Ten-Headed Fierce Sun Snake.

(End of chapter)