The man's punch failed to send Zhao Er flying and instead splashed him with poisonous blood. He immediately opened his fist into a palm and shoved Zhao Er away.
Bang!!!
Zhao Er was hurled backward, rolling several times across the ground before coming to rest off to one side. Yet he turned his head, his eyes fixed on the two people writhing nearby.
"Aah!!"
The woman's screams behind him grew weaker and weaker. Her eyes were wide open, her mouth agape, and streams of black smoke poured out of it.
The man had already sat down to circulate his cultivation, attempting to resist the encroaching poison with the powerful blood-energy force within him.
But the toxins inside Zhao Er were no ordinary centipede poison or snake venom.
The Blackwater Strange Serpent's toxin produced poisonous smoke whenever it encountered foreign matter, and that smoke devoured the vitality around it. The Golden-Backed Heavenly Dragon's toxin could corrode any living creature.
Though the man's cultivation had reached the Sinew Transformation Realm, and his control over blood-energy force and internal force had reached its limits, he had yet to undergo a true transformation. He was still flesh and blood, unable to withstand these two deadly poisons erupting inside him.
Soon, the flesh of the man's shoulder and neck had been eaten away. Even his bones had turned pitch-black.
The spots on his chest splashed with poisonous blood had also become gaping pits. Black blood gushed out, carrying wisps of smoke with it.
The woman lying nearby had long since stopped breathing.
"Huff... huff..."
Heavy breaths escaped Zhao Er's mouth. All four of his limbs had been dislocated, and the punch to his shoulder had left a wound deep enough to expose the bone.
Yet just as Zhao Er tried to wriggle his body, intending