novelraw Chapter 80 : Don't Provoke Chu Sang, That Abnormal One!
Chapter 80 : Don't Provoke Chu Sang, That Abnormal One!
Chu Sang and Ling Yu exchanged a glance, then immediately rushed to compete with Wu Chang for the person.
"They've been told the depths of the swamp are dangerous. Are they brainless? Why are they still going?" In Qiu Xiude's view, that sword cultivator was undoubtedly doomed to die. The two of them rushing over would only be providing an extra meal for the demon king.
"We'll go help too." Mo Qingchen swept his gaze over the remaining few, pondered for a moment, then changed his words, "I'll go alone. You all focus on breaking the formation. If you can get out, that's best."
Qiu Xiude's expression changed slightly, feeling somewhat unwilling. He said with difficulty, "If even you can't break this formation, how could we possibly do it?"
The female cultivator said, "Rather than waiting here to die in vain, we might as well follow them. She still has antidote pills."
Having successfully convinced themselves, the Tianyan Sect group also followed.
As they went deeper, the poisonous miasma grew thicker. Even ordinary antidote pills were no longer sufficient, as the poison here could materialize into attacks, cutting the skin and causing wounds to fester.
The poisonous fog was thick, obscuring vision.
Ling Yu actively shielded the front, holding her hand as they slowly advanced.
Chu Sang also applied several Golden Armor Talismans to both of them, but even these couldn't withstand the terrifyingly dense poison here. Finally, she became irritated, "Let's fight to the death!"
She hated smog the most!
It pollutes the environment, must be eliminated!
She let go of Ling Yu, her spiritual pressure suddenly surging several times. A green light appeared in her hand, dispersing the surrounding mist.
"This is..." Ling Yu's eyes widened slightly.
Chu Sang's Wood Essence Spirit, which hadn't been used much in half a year, directly rose from the third to the fourth level.
Each level of Wood Essence Spirit would gain new abilities. The fourth level, compared to previous abilities like [Growth] and [Healing], had successfully awakened a series of [Detoxification] functions.
Ling Yu was dumbfounded. Indeed, Little Junior Sister... still needed to be pushed to be healthier.
"Alright, let's continue forward." Chu Sang clapped her hands, in a great mood.
Ling Yu withdrew his gaze, nodded, and followed behind.
It must be said that Little Junior Sister's filter was indeed effective. Along the way, no poisonous miasma dared to approach them.
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In the deepest part of the swamp dwelled a giant black lizard, a full ten meters long. Half of its body was submerged in the quagmire, swallowing clouds and spitting mist. The increasingly dense poisonous miasma was being expelled from a row of small openings on its back.
The black lizard was chewing on flesh and bone, the remains of a batch of foolish cultivators who had been deeply trapped in the miasma, poisoned and unable to resist, easily swallowed into its belly.
Sensing more cultivators entering, it swallowed the last mouthful of bloody bones and crawled out of the quagmire, ready to seek its next tasty dinner.
A sharp sword energy suddenly struck from behind!
The Black Lizard King, being a Late Nascent Soul stage demon beast, naturally couldn't be harmed by such a small sword energy. It didn't even bother to defend. The golden sword energy landed on the hard, jagged black armor covering its body, not even leaving a scratch.
The youth lurking in the forest suddenly widened his eyes, gripping his heavy sword tightly, his palm turning white with effort.
The next second, before Tantai Ming could even see how the Black Lizard King moved, its long tongue lashed out.
The dark purple tongue, over ten meters long, seemed soft as cloth but was as hard as iron and as sharp as a sword. In the blink of an eye, it broke through all the bushes and tall trees concealing his form, striking directly at his chest!
It was just an inch away from piercing through his body!
Fortunately, the blood-colored long sword emerged. He hurriedly blocked the tongue with his sword, barely deflecting this fatal attack.
His wrist turned, and the long tongue slid diagonally towards a huge rock beside him. The rock instantly shattered into powder!
Such was its power!
The Black Lizard King looked at the pale-faced youth in the distance and spoke in human language, letting out a contemptuous cold laugh, "Mere Golden Core stage cultivator, you dare to ambush me? Truly ignorant of life and death!"
Tantai Ming gripped his long sword tightly, swallowing the sweetness in his throat. His face lost its usual playful smile, becoming solemn and cold as frost. "Enough talk. If we kill you, we can get out, right?"
"Brat who hasn't even grown all his hair, you dare to speak so boldly. Seeking death!"
Then I'll eat you first!
The Black Lizard King's speed wasn't fast. Its long tail, covered in rows of inverted spikes, swept horizontally.
Tantai Ming, having been trained by Chu Sang for a year and a half, was faster than ordinary Golden Core stage sword cultivators. His face turned cold as he spun, stepping on a tree to leap into the air. The youth's agile form, like an arrow leaving the string, dodged the giant tail's attack and countered with a sword energy strike.
Apart from the unpredictable tongue attacks, Tantai Ming could barely handle the beast king's normal attacks. However, his sword energy couldn't leave even a scratch on the demon beast's body. In a prolonged battle, his spiritual energy was rapidly depleting.
This place was full of poisonous qi, making it impossible to replenish spiritual energy.
His face grew increasingly pale, cold sweat dripping. As his movements slowed, the demon king's attacks became more fierce and frequent!
In just a few breaths, he had several new wounds.
Tantai Ming wiped away the blood seeping from a cut on his cheekbone. The fresh blood seeped into his dark red long sword, quickly absorbed, emitting a dazzling red light.
The next second, it spoke in a human voice,
"Obtain my power, and you can escape. Otherwise, there's only death!"
The Blood-Weeping Sword persuaded gently, extremely eager to obtain the youth's blood. That purest Innate Spirit Body blood truly made it crave to the point of madness.
In its over ten thousand years of existence, this was the first time it had seen blood with such vitality.
Or if it could control this body's consciousness, making the other serve it, it could obtain an endless supply of energy and return to its peak.
"Shut up!"
The youth's eyes were cold as he gritted his teeth, enunciating each word, "I don't need your power. I can get out on my own!"
The ancient evil sword's fierce aura was forcibly suppressed by him.
He gripped the now silent long sword tightly, gathering all his spiritual power into it. Stepping on the wind, he moved out, the sword's shadow moving with the wind, man and sword as one. Two crescent-shaped crimson-gold sword lights intertwined and charged forth!
Tantai Ming was extremely talented. The Innate Spirit Body was favored even by the Heavenly Dao. As long as he didn't slack off, Sword Intent was within easy reach.
The power of Sword Intent was several times stronger than sword energy. Carrying the youth's consistently domineering and fearless dao heart, it struck fiercely on the demon beast's enormous body—even the hard black armor couldn't withstand this massive impact force, cracking open a wound that revealed flesh beneath.
Tantai Ming's eyes brightened as he pressed his advantage. At this moment, the myriad sword shadows were like a rainbow piercing the sun. Following the youth's sword incantation, they pressed down forcefully, spiritual energy exploding along with the Sword Intent.
When the dust settled, there was no movement from the other side.
Did it succeed?
Tantai Ming clenched his jaw, his body going soft. The heavy sword plunged deeply into the ground, his hand trembling as he gripped the Blood-Weeping Sword, blood seeping from his split knuckles.
This was his all-out attack.
A desperate move, completely draining his spiritual energy. He couldn't muster even a bit more.
And the surrounding poisonous barrier was growing thicker, almost invading his internal organs.
However, the next second, seeing a severed tail left behind, Tantai Ming's face turned extremely pale—
Autotomy?
The demon king wasn't dead!
Tantai Ming's body reacted faster than his mind, spinning to block with his sword, but he was still struck heavily by the long tongue and sent flying dozens of meters. "Bang!" His back landed on broken stones, which pierced into his flesh, the pain twisting his face for a moment.
The demon king wasn't faring well either, its face grim, "I underestimated you. To think you could unleash Sword Intent of this level..."
This brat's sword was certainly extraordinary, actually able to cause serious damage to its protective black armor!
Absolutely can't let him live!
"Whoosh!" A flying blade broke through the air, striking the curling long tongue,
The Lizard King retracted its tongue in pain, angrily turning to look at the two unfriendly newcomers. "Heh, more fools seeking death. You look tender and delicate, perfect for my extra meal tonight, to recuperate well!"
Chu Sang threw an explosive talisman at its face, "Ugly fat black gecko, is that how you talk to your mother?"
The explosive talisman's power wasn't strong, but it was extremely insulting, instantly maxing out the Giant Lizard King's hatred meter. It abandoned the nearly-caught prey, turning to pounce wildly at Chu Sang.
"Little Junior Sister?!" Seeing the young woman descend like an angel to save his miserable life, Tantai Ming was so moved he almost cried.
"Don't rush to feel touched, quickly take the pills and recover. You'll need to help in a moment." Ling Yu dragged him to a safe place, taking out healing pills and force-feeding him.
The two couldn't let their early Golden Core stage Little Junior Sister face the powerful Late Nascent Soul stage demon king alone. Without waiting for the medicine to fully take effect, they went to help.
The Black Lizard King's weakness was obvious—its slow movement speed. But its advantage was equally apparent: that long tongue that could instantly extend and retract, fully stretching to nearly twenty meters. Its sneak attacks were truly unpredictable. Before one could react, they could be pierced through the chest. It was even more troublesome than the demon king itself.
"We need to find a way to deal with its tongue first." As the demon king's most proud weapon, the long tongue had maxed-out defense. With the demon king intentionally hardening it, ordinary weapons really couldn't cut it off in one go.
Chu Sang activated her footwork technique, barely dodging an attack. The stone wall behind her previous position exploded into flying debris.
She quickly cast her gaze on a nearby ancient giant tree that would take several people to encircle, her eyes brightening as she flew towards it.
The long tongue pursued relentlessly behind her like a tracking device.
Finally, her speed slowed down. The Black Lizard King was delighted, thinking it could finally swallow this damned cultivator!
But the moment it was about to wrap her up, it found... its tongue couldn't move?
It was dumbfounded, belatedly realizing that during the chase, its tongue had been lured by Chu Sang to wrap around the tree, and not just once.
Mere trees naturally couldn't stop it, but the crucial point was that Chu Sang had taken the opportunity to stick a high-grade freezing talisman on its tongue.
At this moment, its long tongue became an obvious encumbrance, stuck motionless to the tree. Trying to break free would take at least the time of an incense stick burning.
It desperately tried to retreat, wanting to uproot this ancient tree directly, but it wasn't so easy.
"Can't move now, can you? Let me help you." Chu Sang waved a fire explosion talisman between her fingers, smiling.
Under the Black Lizard King's rare angry and terrified gaze, she wordlessly stuck the fire explosion talisman on.
Roaring flames instantly engulfed the frozen giant tongue.
The ice surface did begin to melt, but what shattered along with it was the tongue beneath the ice.
Extreme cold and high heat, rapidly fusing.
This wave of combined physical and magical attack.
Under Ling Yu and Tantai Ming's incredulous gazes, that supposedly indestructible long tongue shattered into several pieces, blood spraying wildly.
"Ahhhhh—I'll kill you all!" The Black Lizard King was in extreme pain and fury.
It wanted to expel all the poison in its body, poisoning these three damned humans to death!
But then they saw a green light flashing intensely from the young woman's fingertips, forming a semicircular barrier that isolated the three of them inside. Outside was dark green, almost black, dense poisonous smoke, but inside the barrier, they were completely unaffected.
"Little Junior Sister, how long can you hold out?" It was impossible for Chu Sang to purify all the poisonous miasma in the swamp area by herself.
Although she could temporarily protect the three of them, her spiritual power was limited. They couldn't remain passive like this forever.
Chu Sang, with a medicine bottle in her mouth, tilted her head back to gulp down some pills. She mumbled indistinctly, "We'll see if it exhausts itself first, or if we get poisoned to death first."
"Damn, why is the poisonous miasma in this wretched place so dense? What have you three... what did you do to push the demon king to this extent?" Qiu Xiude was startled, covering his mouth and nose with his arm as he shouted.
Chu Sang turned her head to look back, not expecting the Tianyan Sect to have arrived.
"Those poison vines were too troublesome. We couldn't kill our way out with just our own strength," Lou Qing said softly. It was better to follow Chu Sang and try their luck. Perhaps they could work together to kill this demon king.
The young woman had an inexplicable power that made people trust her.
"It's good that you came." Chu Sang smiled faintly, clapping her hands. "Perfect. I have one last move, but I need a few more people to lend a hand."
"One sword breaks ten thousand techniques, ten thousand swords subdue the beast. Brave young men and women, do you want to join me in slaying demons and eliminating evil?"
Those present were somewhat eager to try after her provocation. Mo Qingchen pursed his lips and said, "What do you want to do?"
"The weakness of this type of demon beast is usually the eyes and abdomen. Of course, the demon king knows this, so it protects these two weak points very well, making it difficult to get close. Ordinary swords and blades can hardly cause fatal damage, so we need a more powerful method." Chu Sang naturally knew that the Blood-Weeping Sword in Tantai Ming's hand was one of the Ten Great Evil Swords, capable of penetrating the demon king's defense. But relying on it would only give that evil sword an opportunity.
"One, two, three, four, five, six. Six sword cultivators, barely enough. Just right to seal six positions and form a sword formation." She spoke as if it were easy.
"Sword formation?" Lou Qing was surprised and somewhat ashamed. "We... don't know sword formations."
Sword formations integrate sword techniques and formations, combining them into a more powerful entity.
But they also have too much killing intent. If one's strength can't suppress the formation's fierce energy, it might even slaughter those who enter it.
It's far too dangerous, so texts on sword formations are usually kept on the top three floors of the sect's library, accessible only to direct disciples at the Nascent Soul stage or above.
Most of those present were at the Golden Core stage, not even qualified to borrow the texts, let alone comprehend and learn them.
"You don't know, but I do." Her tone rose and fell, leaving everyone's breath caught.