As Poison Masters, they possessed terrifying abilities beyond most people's imagination-given enough time, they could lay out intricate Poison Formations whose power far exceeded their own strength.
Within a Poison Formation, various toxins intertwined and fused into a realm of death. Even powerful fighters had to tread with pounding hearts; a single careless step could send them to the underworld.
And Dugu Fu, a direct-line heir whom the Dugu Family had invested heavily in nurturing, was particularly adept at deploying Poison Formations.
At that moment, toxins swirled around his body, as though every inch of his skin held lethal venom.
More terrifying still, he had incorporated the venom of the highly poisonous Six-Winged Golden Centipede into himself, making his toxins fiercer and harder to withstand.
Once those toxins erupted, even a body of steel would be corroded away in an instant.
Yet against Dugu Fu's sudden storm of poisonous mist, even the Blazing Light Guardian Beasts' powerful purifying light proved inadequate on an individual level. Faced with the overwhelming, surging mist, they could not fully withstand its terrifying assault.
At that critical moment, the guardian beasts' leader stepped forward.
It let out a piercing, impassioned howl, as though declaring their resolve to heaven and earth.
With that howl, light surged over its entire body, and immense power seethed within it.
Then an Energy Body in the shape of a Blazing Light Guardian Beast, several dozen meters tall, slowly formed above it, standing unshaken like a towering mountain.
Strands of light descended from the Energy Body and linked tightly with the other Blazing Light Guardian Beasts, forming an impregnable defensive line.
As the light blazed, the poisonous mist was swiftly cleared away. A clear space opened within it, successfully resisting the ravages of the poison-mist storm.
Just then, a powerful energy