Chapter 984: Sudden Attack

After Qiong Qi collected all the poisonous scorpions into his broken furnace, he kept tossing True Essence and scorpion meat at Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun, while Qiong Qi was refining the scorpion shells, also roasted the meat to let everyone replenish their energy.

Li Qingyun came over to join the fun and took some scorpion meat to eat.

Li Qingyun was also shocked just now that Qiong Qi was actually an Array Master.

Anyone who can draw a Formation out of thin air is considered to be at the level of an Array Master.

At the Qian Long Academy there is only one Array Master who can draw a Formation out of thin air, and he thinks the speed of drawing Formations is still not as fast as Qiong Qi's.

Ye Liuyun actually sighed in his heart that Qiong Qi's speed of drawing Formations out of thin air was much faster than before.

At this moment Qiong Qi was eating so greedily that oil dripped from his mouth, showing no trace of a master's demeanor.

"Huh, this scorpion meat is surprisingly springy! Kid, roast a bit more for me to try!"

Seeing his gluttonous expression, Ye Liuyun's admiration for him vanished instantly!

"Still a foodie!"

Saying that, he took out more scorpion meat and continued roasting it.

Only after everyone was full did they resume their journey.

These high‑rank scorpion meats contained a great amount of Qi and blood, so after eating, the few of them were full of spirit and radiant.

"Let's go, keep catching scorpions!" Qiong Qi swaggered ahead of the group.

He only cared about scorpions; he showed little interest in centipedes, beetles and other poisons, using only Formations to immobilize them before handing them to Ye Liuyun for disposal.

For the large ones, Ye Liuyun extracted True Essence and meat; for the small ones, he also extracted True Essence, and the Physical Body was placed into a separate ring to be submitted to the academy for points.

On the road ahead, poisonous creatures of high rank were numerous, and they relied on Qiong Qi's Formations to travel leisurely, eating and drinking, rarely fighting.

Li Qingyun also admired Qiong Qi to the point of bowing, and ate many good things along the way.

With Qiong Qi around, their journey was almost like tourism; there was nothing his Formations could not handle.

The Cheng Clan members marching at the front gradually began to be killed by poisons, and their numbers were now only half of the original.

Even a high‑rank strongman among them was severely wounded, almost losing all combat ability.

As they walked, Ye Liuyun suddenly stopped following the Cheng Clan's group and led everyone in a different direction, while those Cheng Clan members kept moving deeper into the desert.

"Why the sudden change of direction?" Li Qingyun asked, a little puzzled.

"I'm going to check a place—whether it's the Ten‑Thousand‑Poison Cave!" Ye Liuyun replied.

"You found a trace?" Li Qingyun was even more curious; when did he discover it?

"Hmm! I only suspect it and need to confirm!" Ye Liuyun gave no further explanation.

They walked a stretch and felt the area unusually quiet, with no poisonous creatures attacking them.

"Boss, did we take a wrong turn? Why are there no poisons appearing?" Yuan Datou asked, bewildered.

"What nonsense? This proves he might actually be right! The Ten‑Thousand‑Poison Cave must be a place where poisons dare not approach."

As soon as Qiong Qi finished speaking, he waved both hands, drew a Formation in mid‑air, and slammed it onto the ground.

Immediately, everyone saw the yellow sand on the ground wriggle, as if something was rising from beneath the surface toward them.

Then the True Essence roared, and the sand shook, scattering into the sky.

Ye Liuyun and his companions saw with their own eyes three massive earth‑colored giant pythons being knocked up into the air.

It showed how violently those pythons crashed.

If it weren't for the Formation blocking them, Ye Liuyun's group certainly couldn't have withstood such impact.

All three pythons bore a black mark on their heads, clearly indicating lethal venom; their realms were also of the Venerable realm.

"Why are there so many Venerable‑realm poisons?" Ye Liuyun asked Qiong Qi curiously.

"They've long dwelled in places rarely visited by people, so they have few natural enemies!" Qiong Qi explained.

Each of the three pythons was over a hundred zhang long.

After being knocked into the air, they swayed for a moment before circling back again.

Qiong Qi didn't idle; he kept waving his hands, continuously slamming Formations into the ground.

"The scales of these three pythons are all mine now!" Qiong Qi shouted at Ye Liuyun.

"No problem. As usual, keep the True Essence and meat for me!" Ye Liuyun agreed.

However, this time Qiong Qi didn't need Ye Liuyun's help; when the three pythons coiled around the first Formation he had drawn, trying to tear it apart with his Physical Body, he raised both hands, and the freshly drawn Formation sprang to life.

Those Formations gathered the sand into three sharp swords, slicing at the heads of the three pythons.

Within the Formations, countless flames burst forth, burning toward the three pythons.

The first Formation Qiong Qi had drawn also radiated thunderous power, shocking their bodies into a numb tingling that left them unable to exert force.

Thus the three pythons were forced to abandon attacking the Formations and instead fought the sand‑formed swords and flames.

But once the flames touched them, they could not be extinguished, quickly scorching their entire bodies.

Worried that the scales would be burned, Qiong Qi acted first, brandishing his broken furnace and pulling the three yellow pythons one by one into the fire pit.

Soon he tossed the True Essence and python meat to Ye Liuyun, then put away the furnace and slowly refined them away.

Just as he was about to retract the Formation, he suddenly stopped.

"Phew, almost overlooked this little bunch!"

Ye Liuyun was startled as well. "What is that?" He hadn't even noticed any danger.

"Look!" Qiong Qi pointed at a small black spot on a distant sand dune.

Ye Liuyun only then realized it was a swarm of mosquitoes, but those mosquitoes were more than ten times larger than ordinary ones.

Yet even so, they were very easy to overlook.

Using his Golden Pupil, he searched carefully and discovered that these mosquitoes were all of the later stages of the Dao of Creation, numbering over a hundred, gathered together and eyeing them hungrily.

"Leave these to me!" Ye Liuyun said, releasing Golden Crow Holy Fire with his Golden Pupil, specifically to burn the mosquitoes' wings.

He sent the Golden Crow Holy Fire directly onto those mosquitoes' wings, so each burn hit its target.

Those mosquitoes' wings are extremely afraid of fire; they ignite at the slightest spark.

In the blink of an eye, the wings of over a hundred mosquitoes were burned away, leaving them only able to crawl on the ground.

Qiong Qi then put away the Formation, and with a snap of the furnace, he collected those mosquitoes inside.

The poisonous creatures here are all acting with premeditation; after this incident, Ye Liuyun also became extra vigilant, fearing to fall victim to these poisonous insects.