Cultivation System: Stronger with Age

In a flash, the group, their faces etched with fear, had already fled nearly twenty li without looking back.

Originally, the fastest among them should have been Li Baimei, a Late-Stage Fifth Layer cultivator. However, he had been poisoned by Corpse Scorpion Venom earlier, causing his Cultivation to plummet. Despite using Zhengyuan Grass for detoxification, the venom had penetrated too deeply to be completely expelled in a short time. Furthermore, his True Qi was also being consumed to combat the lingering venom. As a result, this dignified Steward of the Holy Dragon Association ended up being the slowest runner, his face etched with the most profound terror!

After running nearly twenty li, they finally breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look back. However, due to the great distance, they could only vaguely perceive that the dozen or so Poison Corpses seemed to have surrounded Mu Shiba.

"Is he crazy? Why didn't he run with us?" Yan Yunfei asked with a frown after regulating his breath.

"If he had run with us, we'd still be trailed by the Poison Corpses right now!" a Martial Cultivator spoke up, a hint of relief in his eyes. "The speed of a Fifth Layer Poison Corpse is exactly the same as that of a Fifth Layer Martial Cultivator. How could we possibly escape their pursuit? With Mu Shiba as bait, we're actually safer!"

"A Fourth Layer Martial Cultivator facing a dozen Poison Corpses will surely become one himself immediately. It's just a pity about his good looks!" sighed a sturdy Female Martial Cultivator standing with a girl with a bun hairstyle.

At this moment, Li Baimei had already sat on the ground, continuously circulating his Qi Blood to integrate the medicinal power of the Zhengyuan Grass. Soon, a faint phosphorescence appeared on the surface of his body, and the toxins clouding his face gradually dissipated.

Witnessing this, the surrounding Martial Cultivators immediately retreated to a safe distance, terrified of coming into contact with the toxins he expelled!

"Damn it! Yu Hui, Chu Qing, and I had just begun exploring the Cold Pool when we were ambushed by a large number of Poison Corpses lying in wait. Yu Hui and Chu Qing... both were exceptionally talented individuals, destined to advance to the Fifth and Sixth Layers. For them to die in the Ba Mountain Secret Realm is such a terrible injustice!" Li Baimei, having expelled the toxins, sighed as he gazed at the Poison Corpses surrounding Lin Xuankong in the distance.

This Late-Stage Fifth Layer Steward of the Holy Dragon Association still had dread written all over his face as he gazed at the dozen or so Poison Corpses, his heart filled with lingering fear.

If not for that Zhengyuan Grass, I might have turned into a Poison Corpse myself!

"This Ba Mountain Secret Realm is fraught with dangers, and the Corpse Scorpion Venom is particularly deadly..." Li Baimei lamented, a lingering hint of fear still in his eyes.

「Twenty li away.」

Lin Xuankong gazed at the 'Chu Yuhui' before him. The corpse's skin was purple-black, its eyes a ghastly blue-white.

This Vice Gang Leader, quite famous in the Great Marsh Prefecture, was far stronger than the likes of Guo Yunkui and Feng Zhusi. He had also spent many years carousing in Kyoto and was considered a prominent figure in the Great Marsh Prefecture. Alas, now he lay dead in the Ba Mountain Secret Realm, his very corpse controlled by a Corpse Scorpion!

At this moment, the nearby purple-black corpses surrounding him suddenly displayed stiff, seemingly mocking smiles as they advanced step by step.

However, at this very moment, though there were clearly fourteen corpses, only thirteen were moving...

Because Chu Yuhui's corpse had suddenly stiffened, standing motionless!

A hint of joy flickered in Lin Xuankong's Double Pupils. The Eight Gates Celestial Eye actually works on Corpse Scorpions! It seems the Heart Thought strength of the Corpse Scorpions hiding within these corpses is at most Sixth Grade... This is an unexpected boon! I initially thought I'd have to go all out and use a large number of Demon Pearls for this fight!

In the next instant, his gaze from his Double Pupils swept around. The other thirteen corpses immediately froze in place. Their purple-black faces twisted, and their blue-white eyes shrank to needlepoints, as if they had witnessed something utterly terrifying. Among them, Chu Qing's purple-black corpse even began to tremble slightly.

Lin Xuankong casually reached into his robes, and a crystalline Ghost Frog Demon Pearl appeared.

Immediately after, BOOM! An enormous amount of Demon Qi erupted.

A Ghost Frog King, the size of a two-story building and covered in intricate red patterns, crouched in place. It croaked several times as nearly a thousand tentacle-like long tongues wriggled out from its massive maw.

Lin Xuankong had now reached the Perfection of the Fourth Layer. Consequently, the Ghost Frog King he summoned was vastly superior to the Tier Three Ghost Frog King he could previously manifest. It was no longer merely the size of a millstone with a few hundred long tongues. Instead, it was as large as a two-story building, possessing nearly a thousand thick tongues, each capable of extending one hundred zhang!

SWISH SWISH SWISH SWISH!

The sound of rending air echoed continuously as the Ghost Frog King's thousand tongues shot out at high speed, simultaneously ensnaring all fourteen Poison Corpses.

Instantly, Poisonous Fog roiled around the Poison Corpses. A substantial amount of purple-black Corpse Scorpion Venom spread along the Ghost Frog King's long tongues, swiftly turning them all the same purple-black color.

Ordinarily, this terrifying Corpse Scorpion Venom, once it spread, could poison a Fourth Tier Demon down to Tier Three, Tier Two, or even Tier One in a short time. This would significantly reduce the strength of both Demons and any summoned creatures!

However, at this moment, though the Corpse Scorpion Venom spread quickly, the Ghost Frog King showed no discernible change, merely blinking its bulging frog eyes...

The Ghost Frog King Lin Xuankong summoned was formed from his own Qi Blood, converted by the Demon Pearl, so it naturally inherited his Immortal Tier Poison Resistance. His Qi Blood could neutralize even Ninth Tier Demon Poison; how could mere Fifth Tier Corpse Scorpion Venom possibly affect Immortal Tier Poison Resistance?

In a flash, one rigid, purple-black corpse after another was pulled into its massive mouth by the retracting tongues of the Ghost Frog King.