While Dai Youheng was cultivating, deep within the Mingdou Mountain Range, in a secluded valley...
The mountains, which had been eerie yet quiet just yesterday, were now shaken by an unending succession of violent explosions and earth-shuddering tremors.
Thick black smoke mixed with a sinister, dark green poisonous mist poured from the valley's fissures and cave entrances. The pungent stench of sulfur and rotting flesh filled the air.
"Boom, boom, boom-!"
Violent explosions erupted one after another, sending shattered rocks flying. The entire valley seemed to howl in agony.
Not long before, the supremely confident Shrek Inspection Corps had received intelligence from White Tiger Duke Dai Hao and headed straight for the cave marked as the lair of the Evil Soul Master known as the "Death Messenger."
The main team members, led by Ma Xiaotao and Dai Yueheng, charged ahead, while the Reserve Team followed a little farther behind.
They had thought that with so many experts among them, and Xuan Zi secretly watching over them, they had nothing to fear.
Taking down a mere Death Messenger, an Evil Soul Master at the Soul King level, should have been as easy as reaching out and grabbing him.
None of them had imagined that the "Death Messenger," who appeared to be only a Soul King and should have been easy prey, could be so treacherous and cunning.
Besides Corpse Explosion, he had long since planted large numbers of trigger-activated Soul-Guided Elemental Bombs at the cave entrance and along its passages! Not only were these bombs devastatingly powerful, but even more viciously, they were packed with specially refined toxic substances. Once detonated, poisonous mist instantly spread everywhere, impossible to guard against!
The proud members of Shrek's main team stepped into a death trap the moment they entered.
Violent explosions and dense poisonous