Celestial being

Yuan Ming felt happy when he saw that Black Toad could improve his cultivation by absorbing poison.

The green poisonous mist in the snake cave quickly became thinner. The one-horned snake king saw this and stopped wreaking havoc. The long and thick snake body slowly coiled together, and the snake's pupils showed vigilance.

The poisonous mist in the snake cave quickly disappeared, and not much of the poisonous miasma remained.

When Black Toad finally stopped absorbing, nearly half of the inner elixir in his body turned green, and he became extremely excited, as if he hadn't absorbed enough.

Yuan Ming was originally worried that the black toad would be unable to bear the poison after absorbing too much, but now it seemed that he was overly concerned. The toad's ability to withstand poison far exceeded his expectations.

In addition to cultivating an inner elixir, the demon vine inhabiting the black toad's body seemed to have been injected with new vitality and grew a lot.

Yuan Ming just thought, and the sound of "puff puff" bursting.

There are more than a dozen purple-black demonic vines sprouting from the back of the black toad. Each one is twice as thick as before. Purple vine leaves grow on the surface, making it look like a purple-black vine forest.

This purple-black demonic vine was already difficult to deal with, but now its number has increased dramatically and it is tougher than before. Ordinary second-level ferocious beasts may not be its opponents.

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On the ground, the One-Horned Snake King looked at the ground around him warily, golden light flashing on the horn on his forehead.

At this moment, it seemed to notice something, and its huge snake body flew to the side.

More than a dozen thick purple-black demonic vines emerged from the ground and rolled towards the body of the One-Horned Snake King. Unfortunately, most of them were in vain. Only two demonic vines wrapped around the Snake King's tail.

The tops of the two demonic vines suddenly became sharp, directly piercing the snake king's tough snake scales and sinking into his body.

The one-horned snake king only felt severe pain in his tail, and the demon power in his body was sucked away by two demon vines. The originally plump snake tail became shriveled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The Snake King was filled with shock and anger. As he shook his head, large amounts of dark green venom sprayed onto the demonic vines.

The sound of "chichi" sounded, and those purple-black demonic vines suddenly turned dark when they touched the venom, and quickly rotted and fester, but only less than half of it was rotted, and the remaining part still firmly imprisoned the snake's tail, and could not even swallow the demonic power quickly. How much to slow down.

As soon as the One-Horned Snake King delayed, other demonic vines swept over and entangled various parts of the One-Horned Snake King. The demonic vines even stabbed into the Snake King's body.

A trace of fear flashed in the Snake King's eyes, and he immediately struggled hard while spitting out streams of venom one after another. The horn on his forehead also shot out golden rays, cutting into the demonic vines around him.

Although the purple-black demonic vine is not afraid of snake venom and is much tougher than before, if it is swept by the golden thread, it will be cut into two pieces.

However, the number of purple and black demonic vines has greatly increased now, and their regeneration ability is extremely strong. After being cut off, new vines will grow immediately.

The One-Horned Snake King fired seven or eight golden rays in succession. Instead of reducing the number of demonic vines wrapped around it, there were more and more. After a while, its huge snake body was gradually wrapped into a rice dumpling.

All the vines were frantically absorbing the demonic power from the One-Horned Snake King. The Snake King tried to resist, but it became increasingly difficult for him to do so. With the shrinkage of every part of his body, he struggled crazily at the beginning and finally swung his head and tail feebly.

A full half-quarter of an hour later, the One-Horned Snake King had completely turned into a shriveled corpse, and all the demonic power had been swallowed up by the black toad's blunt knife.

The black toad had just absorbed the snake elixir of a second-level intermediate-level snake king, and now he had swallowed the essence and blood of an entire one-horned snake king, which was equivalent to a mid- to late-stage foundation-building monk. His aura surged again, and he was approaching the second-level intermediate level.

Yuan Ming looked at the remains of the two snake kings through the soul crow, and felt a little unreal.

Although the One-Horned Snake King had just experienced a human-snake battle, he was still a ferocious beast close to the second-level upper level. Now in front of this black toad, he had almost no power to fight back.

He couldn't help but have the idea of ​​re-estimating 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 up, and there are still a lot of spiritual materials that need to be collected from the two snake kings. It is not convenient for Black Toad to do these things.

Yuan Ming stood up, put away the four-way sealing talisman, and headed towards the snake cave.

While he was on his way, he used another soul crow to sense the situation on the Black Fire Sect Sang Yan and his group.

In the dilapidated hall, the Yin Locking Restriction has begun to flicker and disappear, and it seems that it may collapse at any time.

Elder Gutu suddenly spit out a mouthful of magic power, blended it into the white jade talisman, and formed a seal with his hands in front of him.

The white jade talisman in his hand exploded with a "bang" and turned into a white light arrow several feet long, hitting the black light screen.

The jade talismans of the other four people also shattered into pieces and turned into a white arrow of light, striking hard at various places in Suo Yin's forbidden area.

The already precarious restriction completely collapsed and turned into countless black energy that dissipated, revealing the situation inside the palace.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming hurriedly controlled the soul crow to get closer to spy on the situation inside the palace.

There is a black coffin in the center of the hall, and two green tiger statues stand on the left and right sides. They look like two beasts that guard tombs and ward off evil spirits.

Deeper in the hall, there seems to be a white jade stone platform with some bottles and jars placed on it.

It's too far away and Soul Crow can't see clearly.

Yuan Ming controlled the soul crow to get closer again. The bone diagram suddenly looked over and shouted: "What the hell!"

Yuan Ming was startled and hurriedly controlled the soul crow to retreat, flap its wings and fly away.

"Want to leave?" The bone diagram popped up.

A thin black line that was difficult to detect with the naked eye shot out, but it was a black needle as thin as a hair. It instantly spanned a distance of more than ten feet and pierced Soul Crow's chest.

The soul crow flapped its wings and dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the black line's attack.

The black needle suddenly changed its direction and shot towards Soul Crow again, piercing directly through its left wing.

The soul crow's left wing collapsed directly, and it began to fly a little unsteadily. After flying not far, it was pierced by the black needle again, and then collapsed directly, turning into a ball of black air and disappearing.

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While Yuan Ming was running, his head suddenly buzzed, and his face turned a little pale.

The sent soul crow was destroyed, and its soul power also suffered considerable damage.

Fortunately, he has now cultivated the Ming Yue Jue to the second level, and with the incense burner in hand, he can recover after a period of warming.

"It seems that the detection ability of the foundation-building monks has been underestimated."

Yuan Ming did not stop, glanced in the direction where Soul Crow was killed, and accelerated towards the Snake King Cave.

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In the main hall.

"Elder Gutu, what happened just now?" Sang Yan asked.

"Someone must be peeking through the secret technique, and the aura is very well hidden. I just discovered a clue." Bone Tu said in a deep voice.

"The person who can hide his spiritual consciousness from you is probably not an ordinary monk in the Qi Refining Stage." Sang Yan said.

"Could it be Bai Ye or Huan Shi?" The girl in black, who didn't get along well with Sang Yan, said without quarreling with Sang Yan.

"It's not like the methods those two would use, I'm afraid it's someone else." Sang Yan said.

"No matter who it is, you go in and take your things away first. I'll stay here! Remember to be quick!" Bone Tu said decisively, turning around and facing outside.

Sang Yan and others did not dare to neglect and hurriedly entered the palace. They first checked the stone platform behind the coffin. The bottles on it were filled with pills. Unfortunately, too much time had passed and the pills in the bottles had been discarded.

A few people felt very regretful and searched around other places in the palace. Unfortunately, they found nothing. They all came to the black coffin and quickly cracked the mechanism of the coffin lid and were about to open it.

"Wait a minute."

Sang Yan raised his hand to stop the others, knocked out a white alms bowl, floated it above the coffin, and then signaled for others to open it.

With the sound of "click", the heavy coffin lid slowly opened.

Before anyone could see what was in the coffin, a strong black gas came out, giving off a disgusting smell.

"Quickly retreat!" Sang Yan shouted loudly and flew backwards like lightning.

Others also hurriedly flew back.

The white alms bowl suspended above immediately swooped down and sprayed out a stream of white spiritual light, covering the black air.

The black energy rushed left and right like a living creature, but unfortunately it could not break through the confinement of the white light. It was slowly collected by the white alms bowl, but the original white jade bowl slowly turned black.

"Corrion poison! Fortunately, Senior Sister Sang Yan was prepared, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous." The young Jianmei Qing breathed out 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 with a tall and thin body and slender limbs, like bamboo poles.

The corpse was wearing a tattered blue robe, with a high crown made of ruby ​​on its head. It was covered in long green hair, but its breath was very weak.

"This is the corpse of Master Tian Snake, a loose cultivator in the alchemy stage a hundred years ago? It is said that this person's cultivation has reached the middle stage of alchemy. Why is his aura so weak, like an ordinary Yin corpse." The girl in black looked at it. Said the corpse in front of him.

Several other people, including Sang Yan, had similar expressions.

They are all disciples of the Black Fire Sect. The Black Fire Sect is good at controlling corpses and their research on corpses is also very in-depth. After the death of a high-level monk, even if the bones are incomplete, some of the power in front of him will still remain. It will never be like this.

The figure turned into a blur, and the figure of the bone figure also appeared next to the coffin. When he saw the green-haired corpse inside, he frowned.

"Is there a mistake? This person is not Master Tian Serpent?" the sword-browed young man said.

"Impossible, I found it based on the fragment of the picture. The fragment of the picture was painted by Master Tian Snake's only disciple. It clearly marked this place as Master Tian Snake's tomb, the Yin Locks outside the temple, and Those discarded elixirs are all supporting evidence, and it is said that Master Tian Snake was tall and thin, which is consistent with this corpse. It cannot be someone else!" Sang Yan said firmly.

"That residual picture was just something you bought at the stall. Who knows if it was scrawled by some liar." The girl in black said with a curl of her lips.

Sang Yan's eyes darkened and he was about to retort.

"I understand, it's the corpse-sealing nail!" Bone Tu's voice came over, interrupting the argument between the two.

He stood on top of the corpse, staring intently at its head.

"Sealing nails?" Sang Yan asked.

"The corpse-sealing nail is a unique magical weapon of the corpse exorcism sect of the Chu Kingdom in the Central Plains. It is used to refine corpses. As long as the nail is pierced into the Baihui point, it can seal the body's meridians, so that it will not leak its breath, and can Let it automatically absorb the nearby yin energy, so as to gradually transform and absorb it." Bone Tu said, removing the jade crown from the top of the corpse's head, and there was a black iron nail nailed on the Baihui point, which penetrated into his brain.

"Can a corpse be transformed into a refined corpse so easily?" The girl in black looked at the nails and said in disbelief.

To refine a corpse in the Black Fire Sect, it requires many steps and consumes a lot of resources. It is almost unimaginable to be able to refine a corpse by inserting an iron nail.