Toad Faced Toad

A thousand-zhang mountain peak, which would be extremely high in the mortal realm, was merely a hill in the Immortal Realm. Xiao Hua had long noticed a deep cave on the mountainside, facing a vast marsh.

Standing before the cave, Xiao Hua looked at the mountain rocks with some surprise. He hadn't noticed it before, but upon closer inspection, he saw that the rocks seemed to have solidified lava, with traces of liquid flow on the surface. Notably, the striped marks were dotted with fist-sized spots, like raindrops. Just as Xiao Hua was about to look closer, Yuanzi impatiently said, "Aren't you going in?"

Though the voice was soft, it felt like a sharp thorn piercing Xiao Hua's mind.

"Alas, no wonder Chu Yu wants to go to Tai Ming Yu Wan Heaven. This fellow has been bullied too much!" Xiao Hua sighed and urged himself forward into the deep cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, a pungent odor assaulted him, and a sense of dread arose from the depths of Xiao Hua's heart. The surface of Xiao Hua's Nascent Soul body began to wrinkle.

Xiao Hua looked at the darkness within in surprise, feeling a pair of angry eyes fixed on him.

"Brother Toad..." Xiao Hua took out the Soul Suppressing Bell, activated it, and muttered, "I've killed a toad before, but I doubt that toad has any relation to you, so we have no enmity. I've come today to ask you to come out and bask in the sun. I have no other intentions. If anyone disturbed you before, please see clearly, it wasn't me..."

The Soul Suppressing Bell chimed and fell to Xiao Hua's neck, with several black ripples seeping into his head.

Xiao Hua took out the crystal bottle and a few jade pieces from his spatial storage. He poured out a few drops of blood mixed with black threads. The blood landed on the jade pieces, transforming into strange butterfly shapes, and then made a "sizzling" sound. Once the butterfly-shaped imprints appeared, an almost suffocating aura surged out like waves.

Caught off guard, Xiao Hua inhaled a mouthful, and his Nascent Soul body trembled.

"Huh? That's not right!" At this moment, Xiao Hua suddenly had an epiphany. "I don't have internal organs, why would I need to breathe? And after smelling this scent, I..."

Xiao Hua wanted to think more, but the smell was truly unbearable. He abandoned his thoughts and hurriedly urged himself forward, flying cautiously inward. As he flew, he whispered, "Brother Toad, your taste... cough cough, is truly unique. I've come to bring you..."

"Croak..." Xiao Hua's prayer seemed to work. He had only flown a thousand zhang into the deep cave when a frog's croak echoed from the darkness. Xiao Hua's vision blurred, and the Soul Suppressing Bell at his neck jingled.

"So powerful..." Xiao Hua hesitated, considering whether to advance or retreat.

"Whoosh..." Just then, a gust of wind howled from the depths of the darkness, like a dragon emerging from clouds or a tiger riding the wind. Golden ripples, like a torrent, surged out from the howling wind, and a giant toad-like phantom, distorted, stepped onto the waves!

"Hello, Brother Toad..." Xiao Hua tossed the jade piece in his hand into the air and fled headlong!

"Swish..." A blood-red tongue shadow shot out from the golden light like a tidal wave. Before reaching the jade piece, it transformed into a tongue several zhang long. The tongue touched the jade piece, which had already turned to powder. A drop of corrosive blood landed on the tongue. Strangely, the corrosive blood drop that could corrode the jade piece landed, and a golden rune the size of a thumb appeared on the blood-red tongue. It absorbed the blood drop, and with a "bang," the rune exploded, merging with the blood drop and disappearing into the red within moments!

"Croak..." The toad within the phantom let out an excited cry. The entire cave shook. With the sound, the phantom's light intensified, and within a few breaths, it had caught up to Xiao Hua's back.

"Jing Sheng truly had no good intentions!" Xiao Hua sighed. He quickly threw the entire crystal bottle of corrosive blood onto the nearby stone wall and then pointed with his left index finger. With a "snap," the corrosive blood flowed down the stone wall.

"Croak, croak..." The toad shrieked wildly, and the Soul Suppressing Bell at Xiao Hua's neck rang chaotically. Xiao Hua felt a giant hand shaking inside his head. Knowing his perilous situation, he desperately activated his Immortal Power and fled outwards with all his might!

"Crack..." Just as the light of the cave entrance was in sight, the Soul Suppressing Bell finally shattered, and Xiao Hua felt the world spinning.

"No, I must find a way to obtain a treasure similar to the Soul Suppressing Bell!" Xiao Hua escaped the deep cave in extreme disarray, his body hovering in mid-air, still feeling as if he were drunk. He couldn't help but think, "Otherwise, even if I had the means to ambush this Toad Faced Toad, I would be no match for it! The Immortal Realm is truly complex!"

Seeing Xiao Hua emerge, Jing Sheng looked somewhat surprised, but he didn't say much after glancing at Xiao Hua's dark robes, his gaze fixed on the deep cave.

Before the deep cave, golden firelight had already leaked out, and light and shadow filled the air. Yuanzi had also cautiously flown ahead, carrying a peach wood sword in his left hand!

"Croak..." A frog's croak shook the earth and mountains. Xiao Hua's face immediately turned pale, and he retreated rapidly. Under the fiery yellow sunlight, he clearly saw the liquid-like ripples rushing through the sky towards Yuanzi. He dared not linger nearby, as it was the kind of situation where a fire at the city gate would affect the fish in the moat!

"Hmph, useless..." Yuanzi sensed Xiao Hua's movement and snorted. A string of bells flew before Xiao Hua, and he said, "Given that you lured this beast out, I bestow this Soul Suppressing Bell upon you."

The sound of the bells was crisp and pleasant to Xiao Hua's ears. He quickly accepted them, and under Jing Sheng's extremely jealous gaze, he bowed and said, "Thank you, senior!"

Yuanzi no longer had the capacity to pay attention to Xiao Hua and Jing Sheng. He saw that after the golden firelight, a golden-yellow toad nearly a hundred zhang in size flew out of the cave. The toad's body was covered in spots resembling copper coins, large and small. Under the fiery yellow sunlight, these spots emitted flames several feet high. The flames did not scatter but converged beneath the toad's jaw, where an imprint resembling a woman's face was particularly striking in the firelight.

"Croak..." The Toad Faced Toad's form did not stop in mid-air. It flew out of the deep cave and let out another loud cry, lunging towards Yuanzi. Its arrow-like tongue shot through the air, aiming for Yuanzi's head.

Yuanzi smiled slightly and raised his right hand. A streak of grass-green light flashed, and a transparent shield nearly a hundred zhang in size appeared out of thin air. The surface of the shield shimmered with green light, and all sorts of plants swayed and emerged within the green light!

"Pfft..." The Toad Faced Toad's long tongue struck the green shield. With a "crackling" sound, the green light within several zhang of the impact was extinguished, and the phantom of plants disappeared. A withered gray color rapidly emerged on the cracking surface of the green shield.

"This evil creature indeed has some tricks!" Yuanzi smiled slightly and flicked his right middle finger. A green light spot entered the green shield, and with a "buzz," the green shield's light flared. Hundreds of vines shot out and madly wrapped around the Toad Faced Toad's tongue.

The Toad Faced Toad was not to be outdone. It coiled its tongue, and the space nearby flickered with a faint bloody hue, severing more than ten green vines. However, the moment the vines were cut, the severed vines grew rapidly in the wind with a "whoosh," like pythons lunging at the Toad Faced Toad.

The Toad Faced Toad was startled and hurriedly retracted its blood-red tongue. Then, it suddenly opened its mouth and let out a "croak" like a thunderclap. The visible sound waves rushed towards the vines and the green shield. All the vines shattered into pieces within the sound waves, and the green shield was also torn apart by the sound waves, turning into scattered sparks. This frog's croak was truly like a wind sweeping away residual clouds.

Not only that, but the sound waves, after engulfing the green light, continued their momentum unabated and rushed towards Yuanzi!

"I've been waiting for this move!" Yuanzi smiled slightly, unfazed. He raised his hand and threw a verdant green talisman into the air. As the talisman appeared, the wind howled. Xiao Hua saw the Immortal Spiritual Energy around him surge madly. With a "rumbling" sound, four spherical clouds appeared. Immediately, with a "crackling" sound, four cyan lightning bolts struck down, sealing the space where the Toad Faced Toad was.

"Wood Thunder?" After hearing the thunder, Xiao Hua noticed the terrifying frog croak disappear, and the surrounding space was sealed. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and thought to himself, "The Immortal Realm is indeed the Immortal Realm. Yuanzi's talisman can easily activate Wood Thunder, and its execution is so skillful without any trace! Especially, the space in the Immortal Realm seems different from the mortal realm. I can't sense my own domain, but this Wood Thunder, four Wood Thunders can seal a space, which is rather strange..."

As soon as Xiao Hua's thought arose, he saw that within the cyan seal, the Toad Faced Toad's body suddenly turned yellow, and its body began to swell. Its originally angry eyes turned blood-red.

"Could it be that Brother Toad can break through the spatial seal?" Xiao Hua's heart was startled.

As expected, the Toad Faced Toad opened its mouth, and silent fire waves surged towards the cyan lightning seal before it.

Seeing the cyan lightning violently shake and cracks appear, Xiao Hua couldn't help but glance at Jing Sheng in the distance. Although Jing Sheng's face was hidden within his dark robes, judging by his slightly stiff posture, Xiao Hua could almost imagine the stunned expression on his face.

Xiao Hua didn't know if Jing Sheng could escape the Toad Faced Toad's croak and fire waves, but he knew Chu Yu definitely couldn't.

However, to Xiao Hua's surprise, Yuanzi did not activate any Immortal Arts. Instead, he watched the fire waves within the seal with great interest, seemingly unconcerned.

With a loud "boom," the lightning seal shattered, and the fire waves surged forward like a rising tide.

"What an evil creature..." Yuanzi smiled and pointed at the four lightning clusters that had returned to the talisman with a mournful cry, saying, "To be able to break my Thunder Screen Talisman is truly beyond my expectation. If that's the case, then let me see your true abilities!"

Saying this, Yuanzi raised his hand, and dozens of fluorescent lights scattered. The fluorescent lights fell into the air and transformed into dozens of slender green wood. This green wood looked ordinary, but as the surrounding Immortal Spiritual Energy surged in, in the blink of an eye, these green woods transformed into human forms. Not only that, but the transformed green wood figures were also clad in armor and held weapons, looking majestic!

As soon as the green wood humanoids took shape, the fire waves, more than ten zhang high, arrived.

"Whoosh, whoosh..." The dozens of green wood humanoids simultaneously opened their mouths, and the seemingly surging fire waves were actually sucked into their mouths. Not only was Xiao Hua dumbfounded, but even the Toad Faced Toad opened its mouth, as if mute, and made no sound.

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