Myriad Poison Pool Beside, the rich colored poisonous gas is still slowly evaporating, mixed with the unique smell of humus and poison, which is enough to make most living creatures retreat.
However, at that moment just now--
An extremely brief but extremely clear throbbing that penetrated deep into the soul like a needle pricked Penetration through the layers of poisonous mist and pool water, and accurately touched Dugu Bo who was caring for a "Nether Ghost Claw Vine" on the other side of Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
His withered fingers paused suddenly the moment they were about to touch the spikes of the vines.
Those cold eyes like poisonous snakes suddenly raised their eyes, and their sharp, electric gaze instantly locked the direction of Myriad Poison Pool.
There was no surprise on his face, just a hint of disturbed solemnity mixed with displeasure and doubt.
"Pressure..."
He whispered to himself, his voice hoarse, like sandpaper.
Can't be wrong.
Although it was only a short moment, and although it was so faint that it was almost difficult to capture, it was vast, desolate, and cold, full of the absolute aura of the deep sea and the oppressive feeling of the majesty of an apex predator...
It is definitely the Origin pressure of a high-level Soul Beast! Moreover, it is definitely not something that an ordinary Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast can possess. That feeling... even faintly touched some of the boundaries of his own Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Spirit Empire.
But, how is this possible?
This is the depths of Sunset Forest, his Dugu Bo's other palace, and the outskirts of Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well! The poison arrays he has laid out with his own hands are layer upon layer. Even if Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast is there, it is impossible to sneak in quietly without alerting him at all.
Moreover, that coercion appears and disappears even faster. It seems that it is just a certain existence unconsciously leaking a breath from its deep sleep, or... is it the last echo before death?
Either way, it's anything but unusual.
Dugu Bo slowly straightened up, and his dark green robe moved automatically in the poisonous fog. He did not fly over immediately, but closed his eyes. The vast sea of Mental Power, like the most sophisticated radar, with him as the center, slowly and inch by inch swept over Myriad Poison Pool and its surrounding area.
The water in the Poison Pond is still thick and black, slowly bubbling.
The poisonous weeds by the pool are still nourished by the poisonous gas, showing a strange appearance.
Yuni Deep down, the low-level poisonous insects he raised for experiments seemed a little restless, but soon returned to silence. Only a few relatively powerful (hundred-year-old) auras were wandering uneasily, as if they were also frightened by the pressure just now.
Everything seems "normal".
But Dugu Bo's brows frowned slightly.
So "normal".
The coercion just now was definitely not an illusion. And an existence that can release that level of coercion, no matter what its state, as long as it exists, will never be able to achieve such perfect concealment without leaving a trace under his Mental Power scan.
Or, the other party has already left, and the speed is incredibly fast.
Either...
The other party's concealment method or form of existence is beyond his usual cognitive scope.
Dugu Bo prefers the latter. Because if it is the former, he should be able to capture spatial fluctuations or movement trajectories, no matter how subtle. But now, there is nothing.
"Interesting..." There was a cold, exploratory curve at the corner of his mouth.
No matter what it was, since it appeared in his territory and disturbed the poison he raised, it must be understood.
He stepped forward, his figure flashed a few times, and then he appeared silently beside Myriad Poison Pool. The turbid, sticky, and smelly pool water reflected his withered and majestic face.
He did not rush into the water, nor did he directly bombard the pool with Soul Power. That was too rough and might destroy his carefully arranged environment and some valuable "materials" in the pool.
He just stood quietly, his cold eyes, as if they were real, Penetration penetrated the dark poisonous water several meters deep, scanning the bottom of the pool inch by inch.
The focus was naturally on the central area where the coercion erupted just now - close to the area where he dumped the "offal" frozen blocks before.
Yuni, thick, black, Yuni full of highly toxic precipitates. A few pieces of fish bones and shells that have not yet been completely dissolved. Several low-level poisonous algae with twisted shapes that grow tenaciously in the poisonous water. And those poisonous insects of all sizes that felt his breath and huddled in the depths of Yuni with even more fear...
Everything you look at is ordinary.
Dugu Bo's fingertips quietly condensed a trace of Soul Power, which was so green that it was almost eerie. This Soul Power was condensed but not emitted, but it carried a palpitating toxicity that seemed to corrode the soul. Like a probe, he slowly probed this wisp of Soul Power into the pool, and then into the Yuni at the bottom of the pool.
Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor Poison, one of the most poisonous in the world, has an unparalleled keen perception of the breath of life, energy fluctuations, especially the existence of the "poison" attribute.
Soul Power is like the most sensitive poisonous snake, walking, sensing and screening in Yuni...
Still, nothing was found.
No life form or energy core could be found that could match the high pressure he just sensed.
Instead, I found a few "little guys" - the relatively powerful ones among the poisonous insects in the pond, shivering under the breath of Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor Poison. I also sensed the pure but mixed Toxic Energy mixed with hundreds of toxins at the bottom of the pond. And... the "offal" feed that was dumped not long ago, the extremely weak organic residues left after melting, carrying the fishy smell of the ocean and the smell of death.
But these are too "low-level" and incompatible with the coercion.
"Strange things..."
Dugu Bo took back Soul Power, the confusion in his eyes became deeper, but the displeasure turned into deeper exploration.
Could it be some kind of special Soul Beast that he has never seen before that can perfectly Mimicry and even completely restrain its own Origin fluctuations? Or is it some kind of remnant soul that is triggered under specific conditions?
The latter is more likely. Because if it is a living Soul Beast, after releasing the pressure, it is impossible to instantly converge the breath to the point where even his Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor Poison cannot be sensed.
"No matter what it is..." Dugu Bo spoke slowly, his voice cold, clearly transmitted into the poisonous pool, with unquestionable warning and control, "Since you have come to my territory and disturbed my poison, you'd better lie dormant and don't cause trouble again. Otherwise..."
He didn't finish speaking, but a more majestic, more restrained, but equally suffocating Titled Douluo-level pressure, mixed with Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor Poison's unique coldness and corrosive power, slowly spread over the entire Myriad Poison Pool like an invisible tide.
The water in the pool stopped bubbling instantly.
All the poisonous insects in Yuni seem to be frozen and motionless.
The poisonous algae also strangely stopped swaying with the waves.
At this moment, the entire Poison Pond fell into absolute silence, controlled by a higher level of power.
Under this terrifying coercion, Dugu Bo felt carefully again.
Still, there was no "unusual" reaction.
It seems that the high-level Soul Beast pressure just now was really just a short-lived Illusion, or some echo of the past that has long since dissipated.
Dugu Bo stood in silence for a moment, and finally slowly withdrew the pressure.
"Humph."
He snorted coldly, stopped staying, turned and left, and the dark green figure quickly disappeared into the dense colorful poisonous mist.
He did not relax his vigilance, but he also did not continue to search aggressively. Since the other party was able to escape his detection, he either really left or had a special way to hide. Forcibly turning the entire Myriad Poison Pool upside down would not be worth the gain, and might even destroy the environment here.
However, from today on, the priority of this Myriad Poison Pool on his perception list will be much higher. He will "pay attention" here from time to time to see if that mysterious "existence" will show its flaws again.
Myriad Poison Pool bottom, that sticky, cold Yuni depth.
The Poison Sludge, which was no bigger than a sea bowl, was black in color, and almost integrated into the surrounding Yuni. During the entire process of Dugu Bo's arrival, Mental Power's scanning, and even the terrifying pressure of Titled Douluo at the end, it was like a truly dead Yuni, without any "active" reaction.
No, it's not just "no response".
He actively and thoroughly "disguised" himself into mud.
The moment Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor Poison Soul Power probed in, it even actively "accepted" the extremely poisonous Soul Power breath, allowing it to flow, dilute and dissipate extremely slowly and "naturally" within its own "Yuni" structure, as if it had just been "contaminated" and "decomposed" by ordinary toxins in the pool, without causing any specific reactions.
And when the final pressure of Titled Douluo mixed with Jade Phosphorus Serpent Emperor Poison came, what it did was to completely "surrender" and "assimilate".
No resistance, no rejection, even Simulation appears in the same state of "natural stagnation" under pressure as the surrounding Yuni and poisonous water.
It worked.
Under the personal inspection of Titled Douluo, a man known for his poison, it successfully hid itself and disguised itself as a piece of mud at the bottom of the pond that was "relatively poisonous, but nothing special."
Until Dugu Bo's pressure completely dissipated, and the breath completely disappeared from the end of perception for a long time...
The core of this mass of Poison Sludge, which was forcibly suppressed until it almost stagnated, started to rotate again like a rusty gear, extremely slowly and with great difficulty.
A cold, weak thought, but full of boundless fear and joy, started to flow again like an undercurrent in deep water.
"Let's go..."
"So... terrible..."
At that moment, it truly felt death. It was not the sense of nothingness that was on the verge of dissipation before, but the absolute fear of being easily erased by a higher level of existence, like wiping away dust.
"Pressure..."
"My... coercion..."
"Induced..."
It finally understood. It was the trace of high-level Soul Beast pressure that it unconsciously leaked just now, originating from Origin, that attracted this terrifying existence.
That's...Dugu Bo.
The fragments of memory surged again, bringing with them the name and the deeper danger signals associated with it.
Must... hide deeper.
Must... be more careful.
You must... solve the "wrongness" in your body and become stronger, otherwise, you may not have such luck next time.
"Soul... core..."
That vague word that meant "answer" and "hope" resurfaced again, clearer and more eager than ever before.
Under the threat of death and in his own predicament, this vague goal became the only visible and distant beacon in the darkness.
It no longer squirms or attempts any "moves" that might cause fluctuations.
Just dormant quietly, maximizing concealment, suppressing the devouring instinct to the minimum, maintaining only the fragile and most basic, almost stagnant operation, and maintaining this small, weird, cold... existence.