Poison Spirit Flood Dragon

Sunset Forest was a large gathering place for Soul Beasts within the Heaven Dou Empire, but its number of Ten Thousand Year Soul Beasts was far lower than the Star Dou Great Forest.

Xu Mingxi and Dugu Xin had agreed to meet in a small town outside Sunset Forest. However, the Star Crown Sect was far away, and though the three of them hurried as much as they could, they were still two days late.

Dugu Xin stood at the town entrance and spotted from afar the three people he had once met in the Star Dou Great Forest, then told Dugu Bo the strength of the two elders.

That made Dugu Bo rather pleasantly surprised. He had originally thought the Star Crown Sect sending two Soul Douluo was already giving him plenty of face; he had not expected them to mobilize a Titled Douluo as well.

A smile was forced onto his slightly stiff face, and he strode forward to greet them.

Xu Mingxi also saw this old poison monster, one of the most important supporting characters in the original work. His hair and beard were dark green, his cheeks sunken, and his emerald-like eyes gave off a soul-seizing sharpness.

Under Dugu Bo's startled gaze, Xu Mingxi walked past the Titled Douluo beside him, came forward, and extended his right hand to him.

"Senior Dugu, I've long heard of your great name. Xu Mingxi of the Star Crown Sect pays his respects."

"I've long heard of you as well."

Dugu Bo looked at the two powerful figures beside him, who remained silent, and also formed a guess about Xu Mingxi's status within the Star Crown Sect. Naturally, he no longer treated him as a junior.

None of them were warm, talkative people. After exchanging a few words, Dugu Bo took a scroll from his Storage Soul Tool and slowly unrolled it before Xu Mingxi and the other two.

"A long body, dark-green scales, a single horn on its head, and two claws beneath its belly. Senior Dugu, this is a Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, isn't it?"

"Exactly. I've already investigated it. This Poison Spirit Flood Dragon should be around seventy thousand years old."

Dugu Bo thought of another scroll in his Storage Soul Tool and felt a little guilty.

He had originally chosen a sixty-thousand-year Poison Light Serpent Emperor, but he had not expected the lineup sent by the Star Crown Sect this time to include a Titled Douluo.

In that case, switching his target to a Poison Spirit Flood Dragon with a higher age and stronger bloodline shouldn't be too much of a problem, right?

Back when he was at Level 80, he had been able to absorb the soul ring of that fifty-thousand-year Medusa. Now that he had reached Level 90, absorbed Medusa's Soul Bone, and suppressed the toxins within his body, there was no reason he could not absorb a seventy-thousand-year Poison Spirit Flood Dragon.

Xu Mingxi glanced at the First Elder. Seeing him nod, he put the scroll away and agreed to hunt the target Dugu Bo had chosen.

The stone in Dugu Bo's heart finally dropped. As he led the way, he introduced the specific details of the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, and the group stepped into Sunset Forest.

"The Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's strongest aspect is the poison throughout its body. The venom it sprays from its mouth can even turn a fertile forest into a dead land. When the time comes, we'll try our best to stop it from releasing it."

Compared to detoxification, Dugu Bo was better at poisoning others. Even he had to temporarily avoid the edge of the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's toxins.

Besides, Dugu Bo was confident that he could control the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon. His eighth soul skill, Time Freeze, combined with his skull soul skill, Medusa's Gaze, could be called one of the strongest control-type soul skills on Douluo Continent.

"Good. When the time comes, this old man will go all out. Old Ninth, if the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon isn't dead by then, I'll have to trouble you."

Against the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, aside from that one control method, Dugu Bo would not be able to play much of a role. His poison was troublesome, but that was only against soul masters.

If it was aimed at a Soul Beast like the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, whose toxins and physique were both exceptionally powerful, his poison could not be said to be completely useless; it could only be said to be better than nothing.

As the group advanced, they discussed countermeasures. In Sunset Forest, a seventy-thousand-year Poison Spirit Flood Dragon was already almost an overlord-level existence, and other Soul Beasts were even less its match. The group arrived at the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's territory without real danger.

After years and years, this place had long since been transformed by the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon into a dead land. A poisonous swamp bubbled and gurgled, poisonous gas rising from the bursting bubbles, while the air was covered in poisonous mist. Even with Soul Power covering his body, Xu Mingxi could feel faint stinging pains.

"Everyone, these are detoxification pills I specially refined. Taking them can prevent the poisonous gas here from spreading through your bodies."

Dugu Bo took several brown pills out of his Soul Tool and distributed them to everyone, two pills per person. Since he had included the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon as one of his targets, he naturally had not done no preparation at all.

These pills had been meticulously formulated by Dugu Bo after collecting soil and poisonous mist from the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's territory and studying them in depth. Forget the swamp and the poisonous mist—even if they were sprayed directly by the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, they could hold on for a while.

I hope we don't need to use the second one. Dugu Bo silently prayed in his heart. He truly had no confidence in neutralizing the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's poison.

Everyone waited outside the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's territory until midnight. The First Elder sensed the active starlight around him and gave the order to move out, taking the lead without hesitation.

Dugu Bo followed close behind. The moment he saw the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, he would have to erupt with all his strength and control it, buying time for the First Elder.

Xu Mingxi raised his head and looked at the night sky. There were no clouds today, the moon hung high, and the stars glittered. It was a good day for hunting soul rings.

They had not walked far when a furious roar rang through the sky. Trees fell in swathes, and a green flood dragon shot into the air.

"Stop. Everyone stop. The Poison Spirit Flood Dragon seems to be fighting something."

Everyone lowered their bodies and held their breath. Dugu Bo leapt onto a nearby tree, his eyes turning into snake pupils as he observed the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's every move.

They saw it soar upward, twist its body in midair, open its vicious flood-dragon mouth, and spray fiercely downward. The green venom seemed to steam as it turned into a curtain of water that covered the entire area below.

Just then, a pitch-black pillar of light shot into the sky, breaking through the curtain of venom. Xu Mingxi only saw a black shadow flash past. When it appeared again, it was already at the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's tail.

"Awooo!!!"

The suddenly appearing Soul Beast bit directly onto the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's tail. With a twist of its body, it flung it downward.

With a rumbling crash, the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon was smashed into the ground and could not move for a moment.

"An eighty-thousand-year Shadow Wolf!"

Dugu Bo spent years searching for poisonous herbs and insects in Sunset Forest, so his understanding of this place was no joke. With one glance, he recognized this Shadow Wolf, which, like the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon, was one of Sunset Forest's overlord Soul Beasts.

After the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon was smashed to the ground, the Shadow Wolf took advantage of the momentum and landed on its body, biting directly into its vital point. Not to be outdone, the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon swung its tail and whipped the Shadow Wolf straight off its body.

The two Soul Beasts exchanged blows back and forth, tangling together. The Shadow Wolf had the higher age and was extremely fast, while the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon had the stronger bloodline, with both its toxins and physique being exceptionally powerful.

In a head-on clash, the Shadow Wolf was soon defeated and turned into a streak of black light, rapidly disappearing between the trees.

Green blood seeped from the Poison Spirit Flood Dragon's body, while Shadow Wolf blood still remained around its snake-like mouth. It hissed toward the sky, displaying its victory and declaring its power.

"Attack!"