“And besides, every dog has its day. You’ve ruled the martial arts world for so many years, it’s about time we got a chance to sit on your throne!”
Wang Chong had never heard such a bizarre voice before. It was like the vibration of a string, so alien that it was impossible to tell whether it belonged to a man, woman, youth, or elder.
But the sense of sinister danger was enough to leave a deep impression on anyone.
That raspy voice stated its ultimate objective. “Hand over the map to the Origin Immortal treasury and that key treasure, and I can have Five Poison and the others call back their pets and let you leave alive.”
“Hmph, some shameless old poison masters who don’t even dare to show their faces want to become the world’s number one?”
The Demonic Emperor’s face was cold and tough, his voice icy.
“I’ll give you one last chance. You still have time to retreat. Otherwise, nothing but death awaits… You think the Origin Immortal Art is something you old poisonous things can corrupt?”
“Hahaha, Zhang Wenfu, you’re just trying to scare us! You’re nothing more than a phoenix without feathers, and you want to deal with us?”
“What does it matter that you’re the Demonic Emperor? Even at your peak, we didn’t fear, so why would we now?”
“Keke, come back to us once you have the ability to deal with our little pets!”
One sinister voice after another spoke, belonging to the Five Poisons Elder, the Seven Fiends King, and the Black Poison King.
“Hmph, Zhang Wenfu, did you hear? Not a single one of us will comply, nor will anyone else. I know that you’re a powerful martial artist, but even the most powerful martial art is no match against Gu poison. I’ll give you five minutes to consider and hand over the treasure. If I don’t see those treasures within five minutes, you and your disciple should prepare to make this place your final resting place!”
After saying this, the Gu Poison King fell silent.
Hissing and buzzing continued to be heard on the ground while crows cawed in the skies, but the attacks ceased.
Within the Stellar Energy barrier, the four frowned and began to think.
“What are these scoundrels up to? There’s no reason for them to stop their attacks now,” Wang Chong suddenly said.
“It’s not that they don’t want to attack, but they’re worried that we’ll destroy the treasure. They worry that if we’re poisoned, we might choose to simply destroy the map so that no one can get it,” the Formation Elder sternly said, his expression extremely worried.
“In these circumstances, we have to think of a way to break out. We can’t just sit around and wait for death!” the Wushang Village Chief blurted out.
“It’s not that simple!”
The Formation Elder shook his head, his brow creasing even further.
“With the four of us together, we can still stave them off, but if we split up, those flying Gu in the air will allow the Gu Poison King to take us down one by one.
“Moreover, everyone out there is looking for us. Once we leave, we’ll probably be found by someone else soon after. While we might be trapped here, at least those other old monsters won’t appear for now.”
All fell silent. Everyone understood who the Formation Elder was talking about: Song Yuanyi, the Black Yin Ancestor, the Myriad Ghost Ancestor, and the other titans of the martial arts world. These people were much more difficult to deal with than the Five Poisons Elder’s group.
No matter what they did now, the situation would turn out poorly.
All was quiet as time continued to pass, second by second.
Suddenly, Wang Chong trembled as if in realization, and he smiled.
“Perhaps the matter is not as bad as we thought. Putting aside Song Yuanyi and the Black Yin Ancestor for now, those old poison masters don’t have it as easy as they think they do.”
“Ah?”
The Formation Elder was taken aback, raising his head to stare in surprise and confusion at Wang Chong.
The Demonic Emperor Old Man spoke up at this time. “Chong-er, have you noticed something?”
The voice was abnormally calm.
“Heheh, it’s just a pack of clowns. Do they really think we can’t do anything to them?”
Wang Chong raised his head and chuckled.
“You’ve found their real bodies?”
The Formation Elder shivered in realization.
The Five Poisons Elder, Black Poison King, and the others had all relied on poison to make their fame. They were incapable of engaging in close combat. This also meant that they would hide very far away, and while they were on their guard, it was basically impossible to find their actual position.
But it was apparent from the tone in which Wang Chong and the Demonic Emperor Old Man spoke that they had already found them.
Wang Chong silently smiled while the Demonic Emperor Old Man remained placid and calm, but his eyes were deep and profound.
Chapter 1424 - Breaking Out! (II)
Chapter 1424: Breaking Out! (II)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“Let me go first!”
Wang Chong jumped out of the Stellar Energy barrier and vanished.
At a place several thousand feet away, Wang Chong reemerged.
Boom!
A wave of Stellar Energy erupted forward. On the ground, a small mountain of writhing snakes was blasted apart by this attack.
Bits and pieces of poisonous snake splattered into the sky.
But with the small mountain of snakes gone, a person’s body was revealed.
This person was lying straight against the ground and wearing clothes made of snakeskin, allowing him to merge perfectly with the snakes around him.
When Wang Chong appeared in the sky, this person’s eyes were closed and he was devoid of aura, making him indistinguishable from a dead man. However, his elderly face and the snake scales on his wrist revealed who he was.
The Snake King!
When he saw that figure down below, Wang Chong smiled mockingly. If these people thought that they could hold them down using just some poisonous snakes, bees, and crows, they were far too simpleminded.
Boom! The images of the sun and moon appeared on Wang Chong’s shoulders as he thrust a palm in the direction of the Snake King.
“No! Impossible!”
At almost the same moment, the supine Snake King’s eyes flew open as he sensed danger, and he stared at the ghost-like figure of Wang Chong in the air in disbelief.
His Snake Ambush Art was a supreme art passed down from ancient times and had been refined by numerous generations of Snake Kings. Once it was used, one would not leak out even the smallest bit of aura. Even the best experts would find it hard to sense one.
And one’s aura would become like a snake. Outsiders would only sense that a pile of snakes was there.
Relying on this bizarre concealment art, the Snake King had crisscrossed the land for decades without anyone ever discovering his true body.
And with his ability to control one million snakes, few in the martial arts world dared to offend him.
The Snake King would have never imagined that a youth of eighteen or nineteen would have been able to expose him.
The Snake King immediately got up and spat out black mist from his mouth. He wanted to escape, but it was already too late.
With a single explosion, the battle was over.
The Snake King had just risen to the air when he was immediately brought back down, blood gushing out of every orifice.
His meridians and organs had all been pulped.
Martial artists like this who primarily used poisonous creatures to attack were basically dead once discovered, particularly when fighting experts of Wang Chong’s level.
Hwooo!
Meanwhile, in a gust of wind, the Demonic Emperor Old Man shot up high into the air, appearing above the clouds.
“Not good!”
This elder with sinister eyes was riding on the back of an enormous crow with a wingspan of seven or eight meters and a length of four or five meters, its physique muscular and brimming with energy.
The sinister elder riding the crow was controlling these poisonous crows from nearly ten thousand meters in the air.
“Run!”
The Black Poison King had his giant crow turn around and flee. He had never imagined that the Demonic Emperor would appear at such a high altitude.
The dark clouds should have served as a perfect cover. Moreover, he flew at such high altitudes that not even supreme experts like Song Yuanyi could reach.
The Black Poison King had never imagined that a person would be able to rely on their own power to appear in front of him.
The Black Poison King’s face paled as fear emerged in his eyes.
“You think you can run away from this old man?” the Demonic Emperor Old Man coldly said as he stared at the Black Poison King’s fleeing back.
Perhaps if he had done so before he had been discovered, there would have been a chance, but now only death awaited him.
Creee!
The crow flew into the distance like a bolt of lightning.
But it only made it a few thousand feet before a sharp bolt of energy caught up, coming in at an angle to pierce through the crow and the Black Poison King on its back, whereupon it exploded.
“Damn it! Watch out!”
“Zhang Wenfu, you dare!”
“Run!”
“Kill them!”
The deaths of the Snake King and the Black Poison King, two of the five old poison masters, were something that none of them had expected.
The swiftness of Wang Chong’s and the Demonic Emperor Old Man’s assaults had caught them completely off guard.
Hissss! With the deaths of the Snake King and the Black Poison King, the world fell into disarray. The writhing army of snakes surrounding the group suddenly became confused and leaderless. Gradually, they began to scatter.
Some of the snakes even opened their mouths and began to bite at the Snake King’s body, fighting with each other for the right to feed on his corpse.
And some poisonous snakes that were natural enemies began to fight with each other, throwing the snakes into even greater disarray.
Caw!
Meanwhile, the crows that had blotted out the sky seemed to awaken and scattered in various directions.
Without the Snake King and Black Poison King, these snakes and crows were no longer under control and began to flee.
But although the snakes and crows were gone, the scorpions and poisonous insects intensified their assault. With a rustling sound, countless insects of various sizes emerged from the earth to attack Wang Chong’s group.
The purple-black scorpions stood out the most amongst these insects.
Meanwhile, a vast, buzzing cloud of bees began to attack.
“Brother Zhou, are you ready?” the Wushang Village Chief suddenly asked.
When the Demonic Emperor Old Man moved out, he had taken on the mission of looking after the Formation Elder.
“Relax! It can last for a little while without a problem!”
The Formation Elder smiled. In this brief time, he had laid down a formation. Though it wasn’t that strong, it was more than enough to stave off these attacks.
The Wushang Village Chief smiled and nodded, and a moment later, boom! He shot forward like a cannonball, emanating powerful waves of Stellar Energy from his body.
Papapa! Countless bees dropped to the ground before they could even get close, all of them jolted to death by the Wushang Village Chief’s Stellar Energy.
“You think that no one can find you if you hide underground?”
As the Wushang Village Chief floated in the air, he spoke in a voice that was neither loud nor soft. He lacked the domineering air of the Demonic Emperor Old Man and appeared mellow and calm. However, the Wushang Village Chief’s attitude was completely different from the genial atmosphere he exuded.
Rumble!
A moment later, the sound seemed to drain out of the world, and then a massive bolt of energy shot down from the heavens and sharply stabbed into the earth.
“Not good!”
Four to five hundred meters below the surface, a figure wearing a gray and black robe trembled in shock and opened his eyes.
Upon close examination, one would realize that this person was lying in the mouth of some sort of centipede monster.
The underground was a forbidden place for martial artists. Not even the best of them could travel through the ground like it was air.
This black-robed man, held in the mouth of this centipede monster that traveled four or five hundred meters below the surface, would normally be impossible to discover.
Alas, despite his best efforts, he had still been discovered by Wang Chong’s group.
“How could it be like this?”
A hint of panic appeared in the eyes of the Seven Fiends King. He subconsciously pressed his right hand on the ground to get up, momentarily forgetting that he was deep underground, where escaping was not so easy.
Rumble!
At this moment, the vast white bolt of Stellar Energy stabbed down like a sword, slicing through the Seven Fiends King and his centipede monster.
“Aaaaah!” With a wretched scream, this infamous controller of poisonous insects bled out of every orifice and died.
The dense collection of poisonous insects that had only been ten-some meters from the Formation Elder suddenly stopped and began to fight each other.
With the deaths of three of the five poison masters, the chaos on the battlefield only increased.
“Damn it! How could this be?! Just how did they find us?”
At the same time, far in the distance, behind a group of mountains, a figure tossed aside the stone slab concealing him and began to flee. As he flew, countless golden bees buzzed alongside him. This was naturally the Five Poisons Elder.
His face was panicked and ashen, and his only thought was to get as far away as possible.
Their encirclement of Wang Chong’s group had practically been a sure thing. No matter how strong that group was, they should have never been able to deal with an endless tide of snakes, bees, crows, and insects.
But now, three of them were dead. Although the Five Poisons Elder had not been discovered yet, he had seen enough of their ability to not dare take the risk.
After all, his deceased comrades had possessed far greater concealment abilities.
In the world of martial arts, hiding far away was nothing exceptional at all!
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
With several blinks, the Five Poisons Elder soon vanished into the distance.
A swarm of bees was not enough to deal with Wang Chong’s group. He did not dare to remain in the northwest for even half a moment more.
……
“Zhang Wenfu, you and your disciple are far too arrogant! Do you really think that even like this, I can’t deal with you?”
Moments after Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief had dispatched their opponents, a cold and furious voice resounded, seemingly circling around in the air as it spoke.
Chapter 1425 - The Power of Purging!
Chapter 1425: The Power of Purging!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
“It’s the Gu Poison King!”
Within his stone formation, the Formation Elder was just beginning to rejoice once he saw the bees beginning to scatter, believing that they had gotten through this trial. But upon hearing the voice, he shivered all over and knew that the Gu Poison King, the most dangerous of them all, had still not been removed.
Buzz!
At the same time, Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief all turned solemn and began to
warily observe their surroundings.
“Seal off your pores and watch your surroundings!”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man’s voice resounded in the ears of Wang Chong and the Wushang Village Chief. His eyes moved as swiftly as lightning bolts as they observed the area.
Although they had killed three of the old poison masters, the Demonic Emperor Old Man was not one bit relaxed. On the contrary, he had become even more serious. The Wushang Village Chief and Wang Chong did not belong to the martial arts world and had little awareness of what went on within it, but the Demonic Emperor Old Man and Formation Elder knew.
Their sudden and fierce attack had killed three of the five while another one had fled, but the survivor was more frightening than the other four added together.
Strictly speaking, the Gu Poison King was not considered a martial artist.
This was because to martial artists, anyone who primarily attacked with other methods besides Stellar Energy were not martial artists. This category of people was known as ‘unorthodox warriors’, and the Gu Poison King from the Miao territory fell under this category.
His attacks were far too bizarre and apparently invisible. It was said that he used flying Gu that were difficult to detect with the naked eye.
It was rumored that they could slowly infiltrate the Stellar Energy of a martial artist until they bored into the body.
As this sort of attacking style was too bizarre, frightening, and unpredictable, even when the Demonic Emperor dominated the evil path, he rarely entered the Miao territory.
Naturally, he had little conflict with this Gu Poison King.
Moreover, the Gu Poison King had never appeared in places outside the Miao territory, remaining an unfathomable existence, so the two had never really fought before.
But the appearance of the Origin Immortal Art and the temptation of being the world’s number one had broken this calm. For the first time, these two titans would battle.
The Human Emperor c1-2382 Page 891