A black poisonous fog pervaded the surroundings, enveloping everything in its path. This poisonous fog was exceedingly overbearing, and seemed to possess the strange effect of corroding Spiritual Energy. Therefore, if one was to be affected by it, one would have to pay quite a hefty price.
Grave expressions appeared on the faces of Xu Huang, Lin Zhou and the rest as they tightly clenched the Spiritual Weapons in their hands, their palms dripping with sweat.
While their hearts were beating rapidly, Mu Chen stared at the poisonous fog, while a pleasantly surprised smile surfaced at the corner of his mouth. Gently waving his hand, he said, "All of you, don't move."
After saying that, he took two steps forward, heading towards the black poisonous fog.
Seeing Mu Chen's actions, Luo Li could not help but bite her red lips. Although she was worried in her heart, she did not stop Mu Chen. At this moment, she clearly could only believe that Mu Chen would not act recklessly.
Xu Huang and the rest were similarly astonished as they looked towards Mu Chen, unable to understand what he was planning to do.
Under their puzzled gazes, Mu Chen slowly extended a finger. In the next instant, the colour of his finger rapidly turned jet-black, while a faint and strange fragrance started to radiate from the tip of his finger. After the seal of the Northern Sea Dragon, coupled with the repeated remodelling of the Divine Black Lightning Poison, it had undoubtedly caused his finger to possess an extremely powerful poison resistance.
This poison finger could be considered as one of Mu Chen's hidden killing moves. During his intense battle with Mo Xingtian, the latter had been struck by his demonic finger, causing his physical body to be destroyed. His Spirit had also landed in his hand, before being crushed with a single squeeze.
However, although this poison finger was formidable, it also had a flaw, and that was that Mu Chen was unable to create its own poison. He could only absorb poison from the outside world to strengthen the strength of his poison finger. However, there was an enormous amount of various poisons in the world. Therefore, wanting to easily find a poison that surpassed the Divine Black Lightning Poison was clearly not an easy task given the level that Mu Chen had come into contact with. Therefore, after completely unleashing his poison finger to kill Mo Xingtian, the strength of Mu Chen's poison finger had been completely exhausted, causing him to feel rather regretful. After all, losing such a powerful killing move was quite a considerable loss for him.
But now, it seemed like he could make up for this regret.
Although the black poison fog before him wasn't as overbearing as the Divine Black Lightning Poison, it appeared to be exceedingly sinister. This poison fog was able to corrode Spiritual Energy. In the future, it would be sufficient to be a vicious and unexpected move in a life and death battle. In fact, it might even be able to take control of a life and death battle.
Hu.
Mu Chen deeply breathed out a mouthful of air as the pitch-black colour on his finger became even deeper. Compared to the other nine slender fingers, his entire finger appeared extremely different. However, at this moment, a suction force suddenly swept out from his finger.
Buzz!
As the suction force spread out, the surrounding black poison mist started to fluctuate, while humming noises started to ring out. In the next instant, Xu Huang and the rest were dumbfounded as they saw the poison mist rapidly rushing towards Mu Chen. In the end, it continuously tunneled into Mu Chen's jet-black finger.
Xu Huang and the rest were dumbfounded.
Black light sparkled on Mu Chen's finger. Akin to a bottomless pit, it greedily devoured the poison mist. As more and more poison mist gushed into his finger, the blackness on his finger grew increasingly deep, appearing as though it was condensed from a clump of black liquid.
This devouring lasted for close to ten minutes, while the originally dense black poison mist in the surroundings gradually thinned out.
When the last bit of the black poison mist was sucked into Mu Chen's finger, a smile involuntarily surfaced on his face. He never imagined that not only did the thorny poison mist not cause much damage to them, it had even replenished his poison finger.
With a flick of his finger, Mu Chen's jet-black finger rapidly turned fainter, before finally regaining its fair and slender appearance. Clearly, the poison energy had already been suppressed by the seal that the Northern Sea Dragon had left on his finger.
Turning around, Mu Chen looked towards the dumbfounded Xu Huang and the rest. With a smile, he said, "Let's go. Looks like this poison mist won't be able to obstruct us."
"You, how did you do it?"
Lin Zhou's mouth was wide open. The Mu Chen before him had always caused him to be unable to see through him. Time and time again, he had thought that he was able to see through the latter, only to be quickly destroyed by himself.
"Just some small tricks."
With a smile, Mu Chen did not give any further explanation. Although they could be considered to have some friendly relations with Lin Zhou, it was clearly not at the stage where Mu Chen would reveal everything.
"Let's go, let's continue forward."
With a wave of his hand, Mu Chen shot a look at his surroundings. As the poison mist was absorbed by him, the demonic trees had unexpectedly quietened down once again, standing quietly within the forest without moving a single inch. However, Mu Chen knew that when they once again revealed their fangs, this region would likely be filled with even more ghastly white bones.
Shaking his head, he retracted some of his thoughts. He did not have the ability to uproot the demonic trees in this region. At this moment, these demonic trees had only given up after sensing that their strongest attack was useless against him. If he was too ruthless and caused the demonic trees in this region to move violently, he did not believe that he would be able to charge out of this dangerous dark forest. Therefore, it was best for the others to pray for their own good. If they wanted to seek treasures, they would have to be prepared to pay a heavy price.
With a tap of his foot, his figure had already shot out like a wisp of green smoke, rapidly rushing towards the deepest part of the forest. Behind him, Luo Li, Xu Huang, Lin Zhou and the rest immediately followed suit.
While Mu Chen and the rest were rapidly rushing towards the depths of the dark forest, all the other groups that had entered the forest had suffered from the attacks of the demonic trees. In an instant, they suffered disastrous casualties, with some unlucky groups being completely annihilated, turning into ghastly white bones that would forever remain within this forest.
Only a few of the more powerful groups were able to break through by luck. However, all of them had to pay a heavy price.
In fact, even the three groups as strong as the Saint Spiritual Academy, Myriad Phoenix Spiritual Academy and Martial Spiritual Academy were in an exceedingly miserable state. They had quite a few cards up their sleeves. Although they weren't as tyrannical as Mu Chen, who had directly absorbed the poison mist, they possessed some Spiritual Artifacts that could resist the poison mist. This was the reason why they were only covered in soot, without paying too heavy of a price.
After breaking through the blockade of the demonic trees, all the groups increased their speed and headed towards the depths of the forest. Since the defence of this region was so powerful, the ancient remnant should not be simple. As long as they could obtain it, it would be worth it, no matter how great the price they had to pay.
While all the groups were doing their best to break through the blockade of the demonic trees that reeked of blood, at the very last moment, there were a few black figures shuttling through the shadows of the forest in a phantom-like manner.
Chi Chi!
When those black figures shot into a certain region, the earth trembled as countless vines shot out. At the tip of the vines, the sharp tree thorns flickered with an extremely sharp lustre. At the tip of the vines, there was even a black liquid dripping from them. Clearly, it contained a lethal poison. If one were to come into contact with it, they would undoubtedly die.
Those tree thorns pierced through the air as they shot over, blocking all the paths of retreat for those black figures.
However, faced with such a dangerous situation, those black figures did not show any signs of panic. The person in the lead indifferently smiled as he raised his head, revealing a somewhat pale youthful face. He extended his withered palm as green Spiritual Energy swept out from the tip of his finger. In the end, it seemed to have formed into green runes.
Rustle!
Those green runes shot out, before clashing against those vines.
When the two collided, not a single sound rang out. Those green runes seemed to have directly integrated into those vines. In the next instant, those vines violently trembled, before explosively shooting away, piercing through the other vines. Those vines were akin to snakes as they guarded around those black figures. From the looks of it, those demonic trees were actually under their control!
Compared to Mu Chen, such a method was even more bizarre and formidable.
Chi! Chi!
In this region, the demonic trees were frantically attacking one another. Vines pierced through the giant trees, bringing about black traces of blood, causing this region to appear extremely bizarre.
Those black figures smiled as they looked at the scene before them. After a long while, when the demonic trees in this region were completely pierced and killed by the demonic trees under their control, they waved their sleeves. Jade green rays of light gushed out from the remaining demonic trees. With a final bang, the entire tree exploded, causing black blood to spurt out.
Clearly, those black figures were somewhat fearful of the black poisonous liquid. One by one, they avoided it, not daring to come into contact with it.
"These Poison Demonic Trees are truly flourishing. However, it's a pity that we don't have the time. If not, we would be able to collect all of this Spirit Devouring Poison and sell it for a pretty good price." Looking at the black poisonous liquid, a black figure spoke out in a somewhat regretful tone.
"Forget it. Our target is the Divine Wood Tablet within the gate of the Divine Wood Palace. As long as we obtain that Divine Wood Tablet, we'll be able to find the true ruins of the Divine Wood Palace. To our Wood Spirit Race, that would be a truly great achievement," said the black figure in the lead with an indifferent smile.
"However, there are some extremely strong groups that have come here this time. The groups from the Four Great Academies in particular won't be easy to deal with," said another black figure.
With an indifferent smile, the black figure in the lead said, "This place is our world. Regardless of who dares to obstruct us from obtaining the Divine Wood Tablet, there'll only be one outcome for them."
His tree-trunk like hand suddenly clenched tightly, while malevolent and dense killing intent appeared on his pale face.
"They'll become fodder to nourish this land!"
The surrounding black shadows also chuckled coldly, their voices filled with coldness.
"Let's go."
With a wave of his hand, the leading black figure shot out in a spectre-like fashion. Behind him, black figures closely followed, disappearing within the shadows in the blink of an eye, leaving behind the strange scene of demonic trees piercing through one another.