It was the concentrated essence of all the toxins it had amassed in its lifetime. Death came upon contact; the moment it drew blood, it sealed the throat!
Lin Xuan had long been prepared. Faced with this sudden fatal strike, he remained calm. His footwork shifted slightly, and the stream of venom grazed past his temple before striking the tree trunk behind him.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle—
The great tree instantly began to smoke, a charred black hole corroded straight through its trunk.
Damn, if that had hit my face, there probably wouldn't even be bone fragments left. Lin Xuan sneered inwardly, a sharp gleam surging in his eyes.
He gave the poisonous creature no further chance to retaliate.
His left hand formed sword fingers, and an extremely condensed burst of True Qi shot from his fingertips like an invisible blade, slicing through the night sky.
Pfft!
Without the slightest suspense, the True Qi pierced through Mang Gu Zhu Ha's head and nailed it firmly to the ground.
This king of all poisons, whose very name struck terror into the martial world, twitched twice before falling completely silent.
Lin Xuan let out a soft breath and walked over.
Rather than touch it directly, he took a sharp pure-steel dagger from his robes and built a bonfire beside it.
By the firelight, Lin Xuan crouched down and began dissecting the spiritual creature.
He knew that any such rare creature born of heaven and earth would surely contain an inner core essence.
As the blade cut through the red toad's tough hide, a strange sweet fragrance mixed with a fishy stench rushed toward him.
Lin Xuan carefully peeled back the flesh. Sure enough, near the red toad's heart lay a thumb-sized bead.
The bead was not simply red. It was a purplish red,