"Lock on!"
The instant Xi Chan made a move against Zhang Chen, Zhang Chen slapped both Chong Ying and A Qin beside him, knocking them out of the golden toad palm's striking range.
The Black Ghost Robe had already fully enveloped his body. In Zhang Chen's field of vision, Xi Chan had been releasing an invisible golden poison into the air with every breath.
The moment the toad palm neared Zhang Chen's body—
"Whoosh!"
Behind him, Chong Ying stared in disbelief at Zhang Chen, who had already moved before Xi Chan.
His hand, wrapped in the ghost robe, pressed Xi Chan's head to the ground. The blade in his hand cleaved through Xi Chan's body without resistance, killing him in an instant.
"No! That's not his true form."
As the Tooth Cutter Saber sliced through Xi Chan's body, Zhang Chen could clearly see that there were no organs or tissues within the bloated body. It was more like a container, its inner flesh-sac walls covered in white eggs.
The eggs rapidly decayed upon exposure to the air, and tiny paper-like toads leaped from within toward Zhang Chen.
The first white toad to touch Zhang Chen's body immediately swelled up.
"Poisonous Insect Secret Technique, First Form."
A voice rang out beside Zhang Chen's ear, like a highly dangerous insect lurking in a shadow beyond his awareness, ready to leap out and claim his life at any moment.
"You're underestimating me."
The tens of thousands of white toads before him would explode upon touching any surface, releasing their internal poison. Zhang Chen could kill them all within a second, but he could not stop the poison within from spreading throughout the entire insect nest.
Protected by the Black Ghost Robe, Zhang Chen did not fear poison corrosion. But in the sealed environment