Chapter 452: The Guess Was Right, This Is the Coffin

The poisonous flood dragon harbors endless treasure, which is actually a common trait of the World BOSS.

Jiang Chen silently pondered whether it was worth killing a few more World BOSSes, perhaps to obtain more valuable items.

Just as he was thinking, the ground suddenly trembled.

Then Jiang Chen witnessed a scene that shocked him.

The corpses that had been scattered on the ground and piled like a mountain began to sink rapidly into the earth.

It was as if a massive vortex had suddenly appeared on the ground, sweeping all the corpses away.

In an instant, the corpses on the ground vanished without a trace.

Even the poisonous flood dragon he had just dissected disappeared completely.

With all the corpses gone, the ground returned to its original state, leaving no trace.

Jiang Chen knew that the ground in the Otherworld Battlefield and the Ancient Battlefield both possess self‑repairing abilities.

This repair ability can quickly clear the clutter on the ground, restoring it to its original condition.

However, in the Upper Space of the Ancient Battlefield, the ground's repair ability is milder, and absorbing corpses takes some time.

It may take as little as three to five days, or as many as a dozen days.

But in the Lower Space, the ground's repair speed is too fast.

After only half an hour, the ground began to repair.

In just about two minutes, the repair was declared complete.

Yet the ground, despite this repair ability, leaves behind a poisonous pool.

Because of that, Jiang Chen felt the poisonous pool was unusual.

He tried to reach his hand into the poison water, and the Bone Armor immediately flashed, isolating the poison water.

Jiang Chen felt a stir and removed the Bone Armor.

The poison water instantly touched his palm.

Jiang Chen could feel the damage from the poison water—a slight tingling, not intense.

All the damage was transferred by a Damage Transfer Skill onto the Undead Legion.

Moreover, thanks to his immunity state, he did not become poisoned.

When he withdrew his hand, the poison water on the blade was shaken off, and the damage ceased.

After confirming his skill worked, Jiang Chen took out the Poisonous Divine Stone he had just obtained.

He then activated it.

The Poisonous Divine Stone exploded, scattering dark‑green light that enveloped Jiang Chen.

Having previously used a Poisonous Gem, he had gained a permanent 50% immunity to poison elements and also awakened the Poison Star Ring skill.

Later, at Second Transcendence, the Poison Star Ring fused with his Curse Skill, becoming the current Poison Star Explosion.

Now using a higher‑level Poisonous Divine Stone, Jiang Chen does not know the exact effect.

Based on his knowledge, regardless of the outcome, there will be no side effects.

If there were side effects, the Detection Technique would inform him.

A surge of dark‑green light flooded his body, and Jiang Chen felt a mysterious power.

This mysterious power resembled, to some extent, the power in a Skill Scroll that can awaken skills.

It seemed both involved some kind of primal force.

Soon, the dark‑green light faded.

Jiang Chen opened his eyes and exhaled.

No new skill was awakened; the poison element immunity rose to 80%.

The Poisonous Divine Stone erased the effect of the Poisonous Gem, replacing it rather than enhancing the gem's base.

However, Jiang Chen thought this was normal; if it were an enhancement on the gem's effect, his poison element immunity would reach 130%, which would mean total immunity.

Jiang Chen did not feel disappointed

, but felt this was normal.

Even in dreams, such good fortune wouldn't occur.

A practitioner being completely immune to an element is unheard of.

The poison element immunity trait has become higher.

At this moment, under Jiang Chen's command, the Undead Legion had retreated outside the poisonous smoke, waiting for the toxicity to dissipate.

Jiang Chen waited a while longer, until the Strong Soldier skill cooled down and the poison on the Undead Legion fully cleared.

Having made all preparations, he then slowly stepped into the poisonous pool.

The Undead Legion stayed on top, not following him down.

The damage he would receive would continuously flow back, while the Lich General would heal the Undead Legion.

Thus the Undead Legion's endurance would reach its maximum.

As long as the Undead Legion remains, he would be in no danger.

Jiang Chen would not venture without purpose; he calculated everything clearly.

80% poison element immunity, plus a 600% elemental resistance Amplify.

Assuming 10,000 damage, after successive reductions, the damage that could affect Jiang Chen would be only 333, a reduction of 33 times.

Then that damage would be shared by as many as 27,000 Skeletons and the Lich General.

As long as his passive skill remains active, Jiang Chen is utterly fearless.

Jiang Chen slowly entered the poison water, and after only two steps he picked up a Poisonous Crystal from it.

There were many more Poisonous Crystals beneath the water; Jiang Chen slowly moved toward the center of the poisonous pool, continuing to collect them.

The poisonous pool slopes downward, and the slope is steep.

In just a few meters, the toxin has already passed his chest.

In the center of the pool, thick dark‑green poisonous liquid continuously bubbles upward.

There is a sizable opening here, the

entire pool's toxin originates from it.

The previously seen Divine Spirit Blood of the Poison God was spewed from that opening.

Jiang Chen tried to touch the dark‑green toxin with his fingertip.

A sharp pain shot through his finger; the toxin's potency was far stronger, more than ten times that of the rest of the pool.

At that moment a Poisonous Crystal rose from the opening along with the toxin, and Jiang Chen saw it.

The Poisonous Crystals in the pool also come from there.

"It seems that if we want to find out what's really happening, we have to go inside and take a look."

The opening is not large, about two meters in diameter, just enough for Jiang Chen to fit through.

Jiang Chen examined it carefully; he couldn't tell how deep it was, but he could see that the lower the toxin, the higher its concentration and the stronger its toxicity.

He weighed it in his mind and finally decided to give it a try.

The lure of Divine Spirit Blood is great, and Jiang Chen felt that there might be more than just that below.

In the Core Area, the fire god's blood burns with an eternal blaze, its age unknown, the blood having solidified.

Yet here the blood remains fluid, not solidified.

So Jiang Chen concluded that the source of the blood is still present.

The result that followed gave Jiang Chen a chilling feeling.

Carrying his speculation, Jiang Chen resolutely plunged into the opening.

Enduring the constant impact of the liquid, he sank slowly.

The cave is deep; Jiang Chen estimated he had descended well over a hundred meters.

At this point the toxin had thickened into a mass of ink‑like liquid, dark‑green with black, terrifyingly dense.

Its toxicity exceeded that of the pool's water by hundreds of times.

Here, every second would inflict massive damage on Jiang Chen.

The Undead Legion silently endured Jiang Chen's damage, and the Lich General kept healing.

Jiang Chen's vision was filled with dark‑green, and he calculated the distance in his mind.

Based on the earlier ground tremor he felt, it was roughly around two hundred meters deep.

Now, doing the math, he should be close to the target.

At last, he emerged from the other side of the opening.

After exiting, he entered another space filled with toxin.

Dark‑green poisonous liquid churned endlessly here.

Since entering the pool, Jiang Chen had held his breath.

With his current strength, holding his breath is a basic ability; even a long hold poses no problem.

The toxin attacks him from all sides, but thanks to 80% poison‑element immunity and an additional 600% elemental resistance boost, he endures.

Even with the Undead Legion serving as a damage absorber, Jiang Chen cannot enter here.

This space is rectangular and not very large.

Jiang Chen quickly found its boundaries and measured its exact size.

Its length is about ten meters, width under three meters—a rectangular chamber.

Then he saw a figure lying in the center of the space.

To be precise, it was a humanoid creature.

It seemed already dead; Jiang Chen could not sense any life force.

On its forehead, between the eyebrows, there was a fist‑sized wound.

The toxin was flowing out of that wound.

When Jiang Chen saw the corpse, he was suddenly shocked.

His speculation seemed to have come true.

He flicked his finger to launch a Detection Technique.

But the Detection Technique was erased the moment it left his finger by the toxin.

Jiang Chen frowned, approached the corpse with extreme caution, and gently touched it with his finger.

"Soft."

The corpse actually

was soft, which greatly astonished Jiang Chen.

The Detection Technique emitted from the point of direct contact.

This time there was a result.

"Poison God"

"Status: Eternal Sleep."

Jiang Chen jerked his finger back, his whole body trembling from shock; his speculation had become reality.

He turned back to look at the space again.

It was a coffin, the coffin of the Poison God.