Mysterious Immortal Herb, Clash of Kings

"Finally found this place!"

In a steep valley within the Star Dou Mountain Range, Dugu Feng stood in a wretched state, watching the Rock Frogs hopping below.

They were frog-type soul beasts that lived in rocky regions. Their skin was as hard as stone, and when they stayed still, they looked just like rocks.

Once they spotted prey, they would swiftly lash out with their tongues.

Their tongues were like stone chains. Once they caught prey, they would bind it tightly, leaving it unable to move.

Their tongues were covered in veins and immensely powerful.

Once ensnared, it was like being constricted by a python.

Weaker prey would usually be strangled to death by their tongues before being swallowed and digested.

A Rock Frog that was around a hundred years old could grow to over three meters long, while thousand-year ones could exceed five meters.

Those that had reached ten thousand years were basically the size of small hills.

However, they rarely moved. Whenever one jumped, the ground seemed to quake.

Dugu Feng fixed his gaze on the deepest part of the valley.

Activating A Thousand Li in a Flash, his figure turned into a series of afterimages.

He moved rapidly behind the Rock Frogs.

These Rock Frogs had a weakness: they could only see what was in front of them.

To see anything behind them, they had to laboriously turn their bodies.

Moreover, Rock Frogs were extremely slow. Their massive size enhanced their defense, but at the cost of their speed.

Relying on the peerless movement technique A Thousand Li in a Flash,

Dugu Feng passed directly through the Rock Frog pack at the outskirts and entered the valley.

The moment he entered, Dugu Feng spotted a ten-thousand-year Rock Frog King nearly seven meters tall.

It looked like a building.

Dugu Feng did not dare alert the Rock Frog King.

Using his movement technique, he quietly moved away from the Rock Frog King guarding the valley entrance.

He hid inside a narrow crack in the steep cliff within the valley.

"Normally, a king of a pack like this wouldn't guard the entrance itself. If that happens, there are only two possibilities. One is that the pack has encountered danger. The other is that this ten-thousand-year Rock Frog King isn't the strongest existence in the pack."

Based on his own judgment, Dugu Feng leaned toward the latter.

Just then, a cloud of green poisonous mist began spreading from the other side of the valley.

The Rock Frog King, which had originally been resting with its eyes shut, opened them and let out an enormous bellow that rang like a bull's.

The sound was majestic and forceful, causing the entire valley to tremble.

Countless Rock Frogs immediately leaped out from the left side of the valley.

There were even several Rock Frog Kings nearly as large as the ten-thousand-year Rock Frog King.

Seeing those Rock Frog Kings, Dugu Feng believed his guess even more firmly.

"Four... five... six! Six of them in total!"

On the other side, within the poisonous mist, an enormous Red Poison Earth Dragon slowly revealed itself.

This Red Poison Earth Dragon was not a draconic soul beast at all. It was a centipede.

Its entire body was crimson red, with a thousand legs. When fully extended, it measured more than twenty meters long.

Compared to it, even those rather massive Rock Frog Kings appeared somewhat tiny.

"A Red Poison Earth Dragon over twenty meters long is, at the very least, close to a hundred-thousand-year existence. These Rock Frogs are absolutely no match for it."

"A Red Poison Earth Dragon is like a king cobra among snakes. Unless they are male and female, it is difficult to find two of them in the same place, because they eat everything—whether their own kind or other similar creatures. They especially enjoy eating highly venomous soul beasts to raise their Soul Power."

"Even in such extreme conditions, mates will kill each other, and they may even devour their own offspring. That is why it is almost impossible to see two Red Poison Earth Dragons at once. With one nearly hundred-thousand-year Red Poison Earth Dragon here, there probably won't be another poisonous creature within a hundred li."

Dugu Feng had originally intended to come near this valley and see whether he could absorb some toxins to improve his Soul Power cultivation. But after seeing the Red Poison Earth Dragon, he already felt like retreating.

This Red Poison Earth Dragon's strength was comparable to that of a Soul Douluo, and a high-ranking Soul Douluo at that.

Those Rock Frog Kings could not possibly be its opponents.

The outcome of this battle had long since been decided.

Just as Dugu Feng was preparing to get up and leave, a fragrance instantly spread throughout the entire valley.

The instant he smelled it, a thought surfaced in Dugu Feng's mind: this was an Immortal Herb.

"I never expected to find another Immortal Herb outside the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well. But it makes sense. Since Immortal Herbs were recorded, they must have appeared elsewhere before."

"It was only because of its unique geographical environment that the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well produced so many Immortal Herbs."

Dugu Feng swiftly swept his gaze across the valley and soon discovered a lingzhi mushroom growing from a crack in the rocks.

The lingzhi radiated dazzling nine-colored light and carried an exceptionally alluring fragrance.

Even from such a great distance, merely taking one breath of its scent made Dugu Feng feel the Soul Power within his body begin circulating rapidly.

This Immortal Herb was in no way inferior to those within the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.

The residual Immortal Herb power within Dugu Feng's body was unexpectedly stimulated by this Immortal Herb and began refining completely.

His Soul Power directly broke through from level forty-nine to level fifty.

"Just one breath completely refined the Immortal Herb power still inside me. I have to find a way to get this Immortal Herb."

Dugu Feng had already begun drawing upon the poison in his dantian, but he was in no hurry to strike. He intended to let the snipe and clam fight, then reap the fisherman's profit.

Just then, the entire valley shook. From the northern side of the valley,

what Dugu Feng had originally thought was a hill began to reveal its true form amid the constant tremors: it was an unimaginably enormous Rock Frog King.

Many earthy-yellow patterns covered its body. Judging from its aura, it was also a soul beast close to a hundred thousand years old.

When the Red Poison Earth Dragon saw that Rock Frog King, hatred appeared in all sixteen of its eyes.

It immediately opened its bloody maw and spewed highly corrosive Red Poison gas from its mouthparts.

The moment the hundred-year Rock Frogs came into contact with the poison gas, their bodies began to corrode.

Even the thousand-year Rock Frogs began crying out in agony.

The Rock Frog King slammed both palms against the ground, and countless stone spikes erupted from the earth, shooting toward the Red Poison Earth Dragon.

A battle between kings began in an instant.

The ten-thousand-year Rock Frog Kings began gathering strength, springing off with their hind legs and turning their own bodies into weapons, smashing into the Red Poison Earth Dragon like cannonballs.

This was how the Rock Frog clan attacked.

Their bodies were heavier, so they could only use themselves as weapons, leaping to crush their opponents to death or slamming into them.

The Rock Frog King close to a hundred thousand years old violently stomped with both legs, making the entire ground tremble. Dugu Feng, hiding in the rock crevice, hurriedly circulated his Soul Power to stabilize his surroundings.

The Rock Frog King close to a hundred thousand years old suddenly charged forward and slammed directly into the Red Poison Earth Dragon.

The instant its enormous body crashed into the Red Poison Earth Dragon, it unleashed a terrifying shockwave.

It swept outward in every direction.