Ao Zhou had only one thought: if he had faced the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons earlier instead of matching strength with Fang Yun, he would already have dissolved into pus.
For the sages, opponents who used deadly poison were actually particularly easy to deal with. They only needed to protect their bodies with sacred power and keep the poison from entering.
Moreover, however potent a Sacred Way poison might be, it was still only Sacred Way power. A poisoned sage could expend his own sacred power to neutralize it completely.
But Ao Zhou realized that what had just happened was different. The nature of the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons' power far surpassed Sage Niu Xun's. Ordinary defenses were utterly useless; the only option was to avoid close combat. Yet the Lord of Ten Thousand Poisons did not merely possess the body of an ordinary giant snake. He could transform into hundreds of millions of giant snakes, making him impossible to guard against and difficult to evade.
"Your Majesty's power is supreme. All sages bow in awe," Ao Zhou praised him sincerely.
Fang Yun turned toward the depths of the Crime Sea. His immensely powerful sacred sense condensed into Fishing Sea Sacred Sense and instantly reached the sages among the Ancient Demon Battle Souls.
The Ancient Demon Battle Soul sages clearly held an overwhelming advantage in numbers, and clearly had no reason to fear Fang Yun if they truly fought, yet every one of them stiffened, terrified that Fang Yun might strike.
Wu Tang, the Ancient Demon who had once sent out an avatar, simply burrowed into the mud and sand of the seabed, secretly peering up at Fang Yun through a gap.
Fang Yun swept his sacred sense over them, left a single sentence, and departed.
"Stay obediently