Within the foul-smelling poisonous mist.
Poison toads hunched their backs and stared maliciously at the intruder.
They were carrying corpse after corpse.
No! Those were not corpses.
They were living creatures.
They had merely been frozen in strange poses, sealed within the ice.
Their eyes could still move beneath the ice, revealing expressions of agony.
The poison toads keenly sensed the presence of prey.
Its mung-bean-sized eyes locked tightly onto its target as it gathered strength.
Suddenly, one of the poison toads leaped first, like an arrow loosed from the bow.
The muscles in its hind legs contracted violently, launching its entire body into the air.
In that instant, it moved as fast as lightning.
Yet just as it was about to touch Ling Xuanxiao.
A silver needle moving even faster pierced through its body, flinging out a spray of icy-blue blood.
It scattered through the air, dazzling and brilliant like blooming flowers.
Wherever the blood landed, the surrounding air froze in an instant.
Every drop of blood was like a keg of gunpowder, swiftly freezing everything around it into ice upon hitting the ground.
One drop of blood happened to land on Ling Xuanxiao's Body Protection Qi.
That seemingly insignificant drop of blood caused the Body Protection Qi to tremble violently.
Ling Xuanxiao was startled. A single drop of blood could actually have such an enormous effect on his Body Protection Qi.
However, Ling Xuanxiao soon discovered that although these Ice Poison Toads were extremely dangerous.
Their defenses were not strong.
Several Crane-Top Silver Needles turned into streaks of light and vanished into the air.
Frozen?
Ling Xuanxiao swiftly changed his foothold. The silver needles' speed through the air had been slowed by more than several hundred times.
Ling Xuanxiao's face darkened like still water as he tightly gripped