Chapter 171: The Coffin
Seeing that the black toad could improve its cultivation by absorbing the poison, Yuan Ming was overjoyed.
The green poisonous mist in the snake cave quickly became thinner, and the one-horned snake king witnessed this scene, and did not continue to rage, the thick snake body slowly coiled together, and the snake's pupils revealed vigilance.
The poisonous mist in the snake cave quickly disappeared, and there was not much poisonous miasma left.
When the black toad finally stopped absorbing, nearly half of the inner pill in its body turned turquoise, and it became extremely excited, as if it had not absorbed enough.
Yuan Ming was originally worried that the black toad would absorb too much foreign poison and would not be able to bear it, but now it seems that he is too careful, this black toad's ability in terms of poison resistance far exceeds his expectations.
In addition to cultivating an inner pill, the demon vine lodged in the black toad's body seems to have been injected with new vitality and has grown a lot.
Yuan Ming just thought about it, and the cracking sound of "poof" sounded.
There were more than a dozen purple and black demon vines emerging from the black toad's back, each of which was a little thicker than before, and purple vine leaves grew on the surface, looking like a purple black vine forest.
This purple-black demon vine was already difficult, but now its number has skyrocketed, and it is even more tenacious than before, and ordinary second-level fierce beasts may not be its opponent.
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On the ground, the one-horned snake king looked vigilantly at the ground around him, and the golden light flashed on the unicorn on his forehead.
At this moment, it seemed to sense something, and the huge snake body flew to the side.
More than a dozen thick purple-black demon vines drilled out of the ground and rolled towards the body of the one-horned snake king, but unfortunately most of them fluttered into the air, and only two demon vines caught the tail of the snake king.
The tops of the two demon vines suddenly became sharp, directly piercing the snake king's tough snake scales and submerging into his body.
The unicorn snake king only felt a sharp pain in his tail, and the demon power in his body was sucked away by the two demon vines, and the originally full snake tail became shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The Snake King was shocked and angry, and when his head flicked, a large area of dark green venom was sprinkled on those demon vines.
The sound of "snort" sounded, and the place where those purple-black demon vines touched the venom suddenly turned pitch black, quickly decaying and festering, but only half of them were rotted, and the remaining part was still firmly imprisoned by the snake's tail, and even the speed of devouring demon power did not slow down much.
As soon as the One-Horned Snake King was delayed, other demon vines also swept over, entangled all parts of the One-Horned Snake King, and one by one the demon vines pierced into the Snake King's body.
A trace of fear flashed in the snake king's eyes, and he immediately struggled hard, and at the same time, he spewed out streams of venom one after another, and the single horn on his forehead also shot out golden rays, cutting towards the demon vines around him.
Although the purple and black demon vine is not afraid of snake venom and is far more tenacious than before, anyone who is swept by the golden thread will be simply cut in two.
However, the number of purple and black demon vines has increased greatly now, and the regeneration ability is extremely strong, and new rattans will grow immediately after being cut off.
The Unicorn Snake King shot seven or eight golden rays in a row, and instead of decreasing, the demon vines wrapped around its body increased more and more, and after a while, its huge snake body was gradually wrapped into a zongzi.
All the vines are frantically absorbing the demonic power in the body of the one-horned snake king, the snake king wants to try to resist, but it is more and more difficult to do, as the body shrinks everywhere, from the first crazy struggle, to the end of the powerless swing of the head and tail.
After a full quarter of an hour, the One-Horned Snake King had completely turned into a shriveled corpse, and all his demonic power had been devoured by the black toad's blunt knife.
The black toad had just absorbed a second-level mid-level snake king's snake pill before, and now it had devoured the essence blood of a one-horned snake king equivalent to a mid-to-late stage monk in the foundation building, and his aura had skyrocketed again, and he was already approaching the second-level intermediate level.
Yuan Ming looked at the remnants of the two-headed snake king through the soul crow, and felt a little unreal.
Although the One-Horned Snake King had just experienced a human-snake battle, after all, he was a fierce beast close to the second level and upper rank, and now in front of this black toad, he was almost powerless to fight back.
He couldn't help but have a little idea in his heart to re-estimate the strength of the black toad spirit beast.
Now that the battle in the snake cave is over, the battlefield there needs to be cleaned, and there are still a lot of spiritual materials to be collected on the two-headed snake king, and it is not very convenient for the black toad to do these things.
Yuan Ming stood up, put away the Quartet Sealing Spirit Talisman, and swept towards the snake cave.
While he was hurrying, he sensed the situation on the side of Sang Yan and his party from the Black Fire Gate through another soul crow.
Inside the ruined hall, the Yin Lock Prohibition has begun to flicker and disappear, and it looks like it may collapse at any moment.
Elder Gutu suddenly spewed out a mouthful of mana, blended into the white jade talisman, and sealed the trick in front of him with both hands.
The white jade talisman in his hand exploded with a "bang", turning into a white light arrow several feet long, hitting the black light curtain.
The jade talismans of the other four people also shattered, turning into a white light arrow, and slammed into the Yin Lock Forbidden Place.
The already precarious prohibition completely collapsed, turning into countless black qi and dispersing, revealing the situation in the palace.
Seeing this, Yuan Ming hurriedly manipulated the soul crow to get closer and spy on the situation in the hall.
A black coffin is placed in the center of the main hall, and two cyan tiger statues stand on the left and right sides, which seem to be two tombs to ward off evil beasts.
Deeper in the main hall, there seems to be a white jade platform with some bottles and jars placed on it.
It was too far away for the crows to see clearly.
Yuan Ming manipulated the soul crow to get closer again, and the bone diagram suddenly looked over, and shouted: "What is it!" ”
Yuan Ming was startled, and hurriedly controlled the soul crow to retreat, flapping his wings and flying out.
"Want to go?" The bone figure flexes the fingers and pops up.
A slender black line that was difficult to detect with the naked eye shot out, but it was a slender black needle, which instantly crossed a distance of more than ten zhang and stabbed into the chest of the soul crow.
The crow flapped its wings and dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack of the black line.
The black needle suddenly turned in its direction and shot at the soul crow again, piercing directly through its left wing.
The left wing of the soul crow collapsed directly, and began to fly a little unsteadily, and after flying out for a short time, it was pierced through the body again by a black needle, and it collapsed directly, turning into a cloud of black gas and dissipating.
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Yuan Ming was running for a while, when his brain suddenly buzzed, and his face turned a little pale.
The soul crow sent out was destroyed, and its soul power was also damaged a lot.
Fortunately, now that he has cultivated the Dark Moon Technique to the second layer, and with the incense burner in hand, it only takes a period of warmth to recover.
"It seems that I still underestimated the exploration ability of the monks in the foundation building period."
Yuan Ming didn't stop, his eyes glanced in the direction where the soul crow was destroyed, and accelerated towards the direction of the Snake King Cave.
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Inside the main hall.
"Elder Gutu, what happened just now?" Sang Yan asked.
"It should be someone peeping through secret techniques, and the breath is very well hidden, and I just discovered a hint of it." Gutu said with a deep groan.
"If I can hide from your divine sense, I'm afraid it's not an ordinary Qi Refining Stage cultivator." Sang Yan said.
"Could it be the White Night or the Phantom Time?" The stakes are very high, and the girl in black, who doesn't deal with Sang Yan very well, didn't raise the bar with Sang Yan and said.
"It's not like the two of them will use it, I'm afraid it's someone else." Sang Yan said.
"Whoever it is, you go in and take it first, I'll stay here! Remember to be fast! Gu Tu said flatly, turning to face outside.
Sang Yan and the others didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly entered the hall, and a few people first checked the stone platform behind the coffin, and the bottles and jars on it contained all the pills, but unfortunately too much time had passed, and the pills in the bottles had been discarded.
Several people were very sorry, and searched around the other places in the hall, but unfortunately they didn't find anything else, and they all came to the black coffin, and soon cracked the coffin lid mechanism, and was about to open.
"Wait."
Sang Yan raised his hand to stop the others, knocked out a white bowl, suspended above the coffin, and then signaled that the others could open it.
With the sound of the "click" mechanism, the heavy coffin lid slowly opened.
Before a few people could see the contents of the coffin, a thick black gas came out first, exuding a disgusting and disgusting smell.
"Hurry back!" Sang Yan shouted loudly and flew out like lightning.
The others also hurried backwards.
The white bowl suspended above immediately swooped down, spewing out a stream of white spiritual light that covered the black gas.
The black qi rushed left and right like a living thing, but unfortunately it could not break through the confinement of the white light, and was slowly put away by the white bowl, but the bowl that was originally as white as jade slowly turned black.
"Carrion poison! Fortunately, Senior Sister Sang Yan was prepared, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable. The sword-eyed youth exhaled lightly and said.
The girl in black glanced at Sang Yan with a complicated expression, and then looked at the coffin.
Inside the coffin lay a seven-foot-tall corpse, tall and thin, with slender limbs like bamboo poles.
The corpse was wearing a tattered cyan robe, a high crown made of red jade on its head, and long green hair, but its breath was very weak.
"This is the body of the Heavenly Serpent Master who cultivated during the Dan period a hundred years ago? It is said that this person's previous cultivation has reached the middle stage of the knot, why is his aura so weak, like an ordinary yin corpse. The girl in black looked at the corpse in front of her and said.
Several other people, including Sang Yan, all had similar expressions.
They are all disciples of the Black Fire Gate, the Black Fire Gate is good at controlling corpses, and the study of corpses is also very deep, after the fall of high-level monks, even if the bones of the corpses are incomplete, there will still be some of the power in front of them, and it will never be like this.
As soon as the figure flickered, the figure of the bone figure also appeared next to the coffin, and when he saw the green-haired corpse inside, his brows furrowed.
"Could it be mistaken? This person is not a serpent? The sword-eyed youth said.
"Impossible, I searched for it according to the remnant map, the remnant picture was drawn by the only disciple of the Heavenly Snake Master, and it was clearly marked that this place was the tomb of the Heavenly Snake Master, the lock yin prohibition outside the hall, and those discarded pills were all corroborated, and it was rumored that the Heavenly Snake Master was thin and tall, which also matched this corpse, it could not be someone else!" Sang Yan's tone was firm.
"That remnant picture was just bought by you at a stall, and I wonder if it was scribbled by a crook." The girl in black said with a twitch at the corner of her mouth.
Sang Yan's eyes sank, and he was about to refute.
"I see, it's a corpse nail!" Gutu's voice came over, interrupting the argument between the two.
He stood on top of the corpse, his eyes fixed on the corpse's head.
"Nail the corpse?" Sang Yan asked.
"The corpse sealing nail is a unique magic weapon of the Central Plains Chu State Corpse Chasing Sect, used to refine the corpse, as long as this nail is pierced into the Baihui acupoint, it can seal the meridians of the corpse's body, so that it will not leak breath, and it can automatically absorb the nearby yin qi, so as to gradually transform and absorb." Gu Tu said that he removed the jade crown on the top of the corpse's head, and a black iron nail was nailed to the Baihui acupoint, which penetrated deep into his brain.
"So easy to convert a corpse into a refining corpse?" The girl in black looked at the iron nail and said in disbelief.
To refine a refining corpse, the Black Fire Gate requires many steps and a lot of resources, and it is almost unimaginable to insert an iron nail to refine a refining corpse by itself.
(End of chapter)