Three Great Fiends

It had to be said, Zou Feng's plan to use the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake's venom to aid his cultivation of poison arts was practically no different from courting death.

Poison cultivators did cultivate by testing poisons on their own bodies, but that still depended on the circumstances.

One had to know that this world was vast, and who knew how many "strange poisons" remained yet to be thoroughly understood?

Though poison cultivators could make use of these "strange poisons," using them to merge with one's own body...

It was better not to indulge in such wild fantasies.

And the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake's venom was precisely a genuine "strange poison"!

Adding this thing's venom to a blend of five poisons, then soaking one's hands in it to cultivate the Five Poisons Palm?

If other poison cultivators saw this, they would probably all give Zou Feng a thumbs-up and sincerely praise him: "Brother, you truly have a fine talent for courting death!"

Unfortunately, they did not know that Zou Feng was only responsible for courting it with all his might. The dying was someone else's burden to bear.

Inside the woodshed, Zou Feng wasted no more time. He immediately squeezed the venom from the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake's fangs into the jar of poison water used for cultivation.

After the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake's venom dripped in, the poison water swiftly began to give off a faint golden sheen.

Zou Feng did not hesitate. He immediately circulated his internal energy, plunged in his hands, and resumed cultivating the Five Poisons Palm.

Since the side effects had been shifted away, whenever Zou Feng put his hands into the mixed venom before, it had felt only as though they were soaking in cold water.

Yet this time, he actually felt that the "cold water" had become warm!

He had used so many gaudy, bizarre poisons before, yet none had been able to change the "cold water" sensation during cultivation.

Even after adding the venom of Little Green, the gu poison he had raised haphazardly, the poison water might appear to boil, but his hands still felt as though they were in cold water.

So it could only be said that a strange poison truly lived up to its name. Powerful!

Yang Yanpeng was in for a rough time...

After this round of cultivation ended, Zou Feng withdrew his hands and immediately circulated his internal energy.

His bluish-black palms were now faintly tinged with a trace of gold.

Interesting. Don't let this improved Five Poisons Palm of mine turn into something that burst with golden radiance and righteous majesty the moment I struck after I cultivated it to the end, losing all appearance of a poison art...

He then looked at the panel again.

"Five Poisons Palm (Mastering the Basics), progress: 82%"

At last, the cultivation progress had begun increasing rapidly again.

When he had previously cultivated using Little Green's gu poison, it had only barely risen by one percent.

Now, it had shot up by six percent in one go.

It was settled. Within the next few days, the Five Poisons Palm would be able to break through to the realm of "Complete Mastery"!

Moreover, because this was his improved Five Poisons Palm, mixed with far too many poisons and now joined by a "strange poison," even if he used only the Five Poisons Palm, Yang Yanpeng was likely no match for him.

Zou Feng also noticed that the words displaying the Five Poisons Palm on the panel had actually become blurry.

This clearly showed that his improvement of the Five Poisons Palm had been quite successful. This technique would soon evolve into his own shape and become his personal signature skill.

This night had truly brought a bountiful harvest.

He had obtained a strange poison, as well as Yang Yanpeng, that humanoid gu poison nearing maturity, waiting for him to refine in an instant before long.

But to be safe, once the Five Poisons Palm advanced into the realm of "Complete Mastery," he would immediately attempt to break into the ranks!

Unfortunately, there was still one fly in the ointment.

The Golden-Scaled Plague Snake, after having its venom squeezed out, was listless and clearly would not live much longer.

Seeing this, Zou Feng attempted to save it, but his efforts still came to nothing.

The Golden-Scaled Plague Snake had originally been unable to survive in the Central Plains. It had been forcibly brought here by an expert skilled in such matters.

After Zou Feng's round of torment, unless that expert personally came to save it, it could only croak.

Left with no choice, Zou Feng fed the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake to Little Green.

Afterward, he could not help but fantasize about how wonderful it would be if he could get more strange poisonous things like the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake.

Speaking of which, the helper invited by the Blood-Handed Butcher surely had more tricks than merely tossing Golden-Scaled Plague Snakes into the Yang Estate, right?

Almost at the same time, in a courtyard three streets away from the Yang Estate.

The residents of this courtyard were all native locals of Yuan Guang County. Since dawn had yet to break, they were still sleeping soundly.

Yet at this moment, three uninvited guests had appeared in the middle of the courtyard.

One was a bearded, muscular man with his upper body bare, seeming to emit heat at any moment.

Another was a beautiful woman dressed like a brothel girl, with a seductively curvaceous figure.

She appeared very young, around seventeen or eighteen, yet the longer one looked at her, the more unfathomable her true age seemed...

The last was wrapped in a black robe, hunched over, with his features obscured.

A tiny pitch-black snake perched on his arm, lifting its head and flicking its tongue.

The bearded man drank a bowl of wine every now and then, but upon closer inspection, the wine he drank was clearly mixed with human blood!

"Snake Lord, are you sure the Yang Estate will catch that plague or whatever it is?" When the bearded man mentioned the words "Yang Estate," his expression was full of gnashing hatred.

The man called Snake Lord chuckled. "Don't worry. It won't be a problem!"

"Even if it fails to trigger a plague, it does not matter. The strange poisons I brought from the northern desert this time are far more than just the Golden-Scaled Plague Snake."

"In any case, the Yang Estate will soon be thrown into such chaos that not even chickens and dogs will be spared. What eight-rank expert from Heartfelt Martial Hall guarding it? Useless!"

The bearded man crushed the wine bowl in his hand. "Letting these bastards die of plague is letting them off far too easily..."

"But Yang Qianqian alone must fall alive into my hands."

"Since she killed my son, she must give me another son in return."

"If she does not bear me another one, she should not dream of dying an easy death!"

The beautiful woman beside him frowned repeatedly upon hearing those vicious words.

"Only you could think of something like that. You want the woman who killed your son to become that dead boy's stepmother, and then give him a younger brother..." At this point, she suddenly flashed a dazzling smile. "What a mess!"

"A mess? Could any mess be worse than you, Thousand-Faced Widow?"

"I'm not a widow! How can you sully a maiden's innocence out of thin air? I'm clearly still an untouched young lady!"

"Heh, a young lady who has just celebrated her sixtieth birthday."

"Nonsense! Those shameless people who bear grudges against me spread those rumors. I only just turned eighteen!"

The three of them seemed entirely unconcerned about waking the homeowners sleeping soundly inside, and continued chatting among themselves.

If any seasoned figure of the martial world were here, they would immediately recognize that all three were notorious evil-path experts.

Blood-Handed Butcher Xue Ruhai.

Jade Snake Gentleman Li Li.

Thousand-Faced Widow Bai Cuixiang.

Who knew how the Blood-Handed Butcher had managed to invite the other two fiends to help him avenge his son's death.

"Snake Lord, exactly how long will it take to make the Yang Estate suffer a plague?" The Blood-Handed Butcher soon lost interest in bickering with Bai Cuixiang and continued asking.

Jade Snake Gentleman Li Li replied confidently, "From now on, I will release 'strange poisonous things' into the Yang Estate every night. Thus, within ten days, the Yang Estate will certainly descend into great chaos, with grievous casualties!"