She knew the current situation was utterly unsuitable for continuing the refinement. She could only temporarily seal the remaining Thousand Poisons Origin within her body. Her fingers rapidly formed seals, and the purple mist around her suddenly contracted into a pale violet sigil, firmly locking the restless black poison deep within her dantian.
Although her aura had fallen slightly from Four-Star Dou Wang, the churning energy within her had stabilized, and the sharpness in her eyes gathered once more.
"Trying to run? Even with a puppet helping you, it won't be so easy to escape!"
Seeing her cease refining, the Great Elder assumed she understood the situation and intended to leave after failing to complete the refinement. He immediately drove his poison staff into the ground and shouted, "Poison Formation, rise!"
The moment his words fell, dense patterns suddenly lit up across the ground. Dark green poisonous mist erupted from them, shrouding the entire Poison Market and completely sealing off the woman's and the black puppet's escape routes.
The moment his words fell, the ground suddenly trembled. Fine dark green patterns lit up from beneath the earth, spreading like a spiderweb.
Immediately afterward, dark green poisonous mist, so thick it could not be dispersed, gushed from the patterns. Carrying a suffocating stench, it instantly enveloped the entire Poison Market and completely cut off the woman's and the black puppet's retreat.
Within the rising poison mist, countless phantom poisonous scorpions and snakes could vaguely be seen slithering through it. Their shrill cries rose and fell, making one's scalp tingle.
When those phantoms touched the Poison Market's wooden stalls, the wood blackened and decayed at a visible rate in an instant, finally turning into pools of foul-smelling black water.
The ground beneath the woman's feet began to heat up as well. Fine