"Whoosh!"
The shriek of something tearing through the air was ear-splitting!
The foul black mist wrapped around the arrow exploded, instantly engulfing Lu Chen.
"Ten Thousand Gu Soul-Eroding Smoke!"
Alarm bells blared in Lu Chen's mind—one of the Ten Thousand Gu Sect's strange poisons specifically emphasized in Medicine King Valley's intelligence. It specialized in eroding the soul, corroding qi, and dissolving bone. Below the Longevity Realm, unless one possessed a special soul-protecting treasure or a suitable countermeasure, anyone struck by it would either die or be crippled!
The black mist melted into him the instant it touched his body, frantically corroding the violet-gold Protective Qi with sizzling sounds.
An icy, vicious force of the soul seeped through the gaps in his qi like countless fine needles, drilling straight into his sea of consciousness!
Within his sea of consciousness, the Soul-Nourishing Jade Essence automatically gave off a gentle white radiance. Yet against this poison designed expressly to target the soul, it struggled greatly to hold on.
Lu Chen felt as though his head had been struck a crushing blow. Darkness swam before his eyes, while agony and dizziness surged through his soul as if ten thousand ants were gnawing at it!
His Protective Qi visibly dimmed and thinned.
And at that split second when the old force had just been exhausted, the new force had yet to arise, his soul was wounded, and his defenses were at their weakest—
"Rumble—!!!"
The Dragon Baleful Gale that had been accumulating overhead finally erupted in full!
Countless dark-red strands of baleful wind, as fine as ox hair yet incomparably sharp, poured down like a torrential rain, instantly blanketing several miles around!
"Screech, screech, screech—!"
Wherever the gale passed, those ferocious Demon Beasts with thick hides and tough flesh were effortlessly sliced apart and dismembered