The soldiers around them instinctively tried to retreat, but those in the rear kept pushing forward while those at the front desperately surged back. The entire flank formation began to descend into chaos.
But the poisonous mist would not wait for them.
Centered on Dugu Bo's position, the dark green fog spread outward in widening circles.
Wherever the dark green light passed, the wild grass instantly withered and blackened. Even the frozen, rock-hard soil was corroded into a layer of fine bubbles.
The soldiers who inhaled the poisonous mist never stood up again after falling. Their corpses decayed at a visible rate, their skin ulcerated, their muscles dissolved, exposing bones beneath that had been stained dark green by the poison.
A centurion at the Soul King level reacted slightly faster. Before the poisonous mist reached him, he unleashed a defensive soul skill, and a pale blue barrier enveloped his body.
He thought he was safe, but the Jade Phosphorous Serpent Emperor Poison had never been an ordinary poison. Its terrifying quality lay in its ability to corrode Soul Power.
The pale blue barrier hissed as it corroded within the dark green mist. In merely three or four breaths, it shattered into pieces like thin paper soaked in acid.
The centurion did not even have time to scream before the poisonous mist swallowed him. He staggered forward several steps, then collapsed headfirst onto the ground.
Soldiers fell in swathes within the poisonous mist, like wheat being harvested.
Only then did the three Title Douluo above the central army formation realize something was wrong.
Chrysanthemum Douluo Yue Guan looked down at the area on the flank enveloped in pale green mist, and his pupils suddenly contracted.
The poisonous mist was spreading far too quickly. In only a brief moment, it had already