Daqin Zhentiansi

Chapter 655 Burning the Sea, Trapping the Demon

"The Secret Medicine Department obeys."

The voice of Bodhi, the chief of the Secret Medicine Department, rang out as he moved through the air, his white hair flying like snow in the poisonous miasma, and the bronze poison cauldron he stood on crashed into the coral reef.

As he inserted the twelve poison banners from his sleeves into the reef, the purplish-black poisonous miasma spread along the trench like a living thing. Wherever it passed, the bone-eating fish convulsed wildly, and their scales instantly rotted into pus.

Three thousand Blood Spider Guards emerged from beneath their black robes, their fist-sized blood-patterned poisonous spiders instantly forming a spiderweb-like poisonous array that covered a thirty-mile stretch of sea.

"boom--"

Poisonous miasma and starlight formed a purple-gold dome between the sea and sky, while below, a thunderous storm tore through the dark, demonic clouds, as if an ancient battlefield of gods and demons had been recreated.

The deputy chief, a woman known for her poisonous ways, had her face veiled in purple gauze, and suddenly a datura flower bloomed at her temple.

Three thousand poisonous bee stings shot out from the sleeve, pinning the Bone-Eating Fish King, which was trying to escape from the seawater, to the reef.

"Raise the banner—"

With his withered hands, Yao Bodhi clenched his fists, and twelve poison banners, engraved with patterns of Gu worms, pierced the air and plunged into the seabed.

A purplish-black poisonous miasma spread, turning coral to dust wherever it passed.

On the Zhenhai ship, a group of new recruits stared wide-eyed as they saw a ten-zhang-long silver-scaled sea python writhing in the poisonous mist.

With each roll, a layer of scales peeled off the sea serpent's body. As the seawater surged, the great demon's scales were completely stripped away, revealing its stark white bones!

Lin Guanyang, a disciple of the Nine Yang Sword Sect, looked down at the sword in his hand.

I don't know when, but the sword "Canglang" has become covered with rust and mottled spots. Is this poisonous fog so powerful that it only dissipates a little bit?

"poison……"

He looked up ahead and saw the ghost-faced spiders crawling out from the skirt of the Poisonous Lady, spitting out venomous silk and wrapping a Vajra Realm Eight-Clawed Demon King into a cocoon.

A sickening corrosive sound emanated from within the cocoon, and three breaths later, only half of the demon core remained before falling into the poisonous fire.

“This is no poison technique…” The Nine Yang Sword Sect disciple beside Lin Guanyang staggered back, his face pale. “It is clearly an evil technique that manipulates the cycle of life and death!”

Evil practices.

The Secret Medicine Bureau can bring the dead back to life and heal the wounded, but it can also leave someone without a proper burial.

Is this method righteous or evil?
"Burning the sea."

Yao Puti's voice remained completely calm.

The head of the secret medicine department, Qingnang, a cultivator at the Dongxuan realm, raised her hand, took the gourd from her waist, and threw it out.

"boom--"

The gourd exploded on the sea surface, and the putrid blood inside transformed into a hundred red snakes that burrowed into the surging tide.

Three hundred grandmasters simultaneously crushed the glass bottles in their hands, and the eerie green poisonous flames poured into the demon's lair along the path of the blood snake.

The seabed lava was ignited by poisonous fire, and countless demon eggs floated to the surface of the boiling seawater. The unhatched larvae exploded into a foul-smelling blood mist in the poisonous fire.

As the seawater boiled, dozens of unformed sea monsters struggled in the poisonous flames.

The flesh and blood were peeled away with a piercing shriek, and the thousand-year-old moss clinging to the reef turned into charcoal and peeled off in a flurry.

The Secret Medicine Envoy, Blood Ginseng, a half-step carefree figure, strode across the waves, leaning on the Soul-Devouring Blood Vine Staff in his hand.

The vines pierced into the seawater, drawing out the essence and blood of the demon corpse, which in turn fueled the poisonous fire to burn even more fiercely.

Poisonous flames engulf the sea!

"Formation!"

Seven-colored poison burst forth from the fingertips of Medicine Bodhi, and twelve Dongxuan Poison Cultivators ascended into the sky, riding on poisonous toad puppets.

Their natal poison pills appeared on their chests, the patterns of which intertwined to form a spiderweb-like light screen.

In an instant, a ghastly green phosphorescent light appeared over the vast sea, and the poisonous miasma and poisonous fire merged to form a giant spider phantom that blotted out the sky. This was the "Heavenly Spider Spirit Erosion Array" passed down by the Secret Medicine Bureau for eight hundred years!
Eight spider legs pierced the seabed, triggering a series of explosions. The spewing venom melted thirty siren priests into charred remains.

Pei Lie, an elder of the Nine Yang Sword Sect, stared at the still-spreading poisonous miasma, his Adam's apple bobbing with difficulty.

His natal sword, "Crimson Sky," trembled with fear.

When the poison array erupted just now, the sword spirit spontaneously sealed 30% of its power!

This poison can corrode the spirit of a sword!

The poisonous fire was like a purgatory, instantly sweeping across the vast sea! The seawater evaporated by the poisonous fire condensed into emerald-colored ice crystals in the air, falling onto the armor of the new army with a tinkling sound.

On the Zhenhai ship, the expressions of the new black-armored soldiers changed, and many of them were already pale.

Such a battle scene was something these martial artists from the Eastern Jianghu and aristocratic families never dared to imagine.

This is beyond human capability...

On the deck of the Zhenhai ship, Captain Qi Zhantang strode forward and kicked a new recruit whose legs had gone limp beside the ship's railing: "Coward! Look carefully—"

He slapped the ship's side with the back of his knife, pointing to the ruins of the demon's lair, dried up by the poisonous fire: "The demon cores under those reefs are enough to buy three prefectural cities!"

The sea breeze, carrying emerald-colored poisonous crystals, swept past the armored soldiers, who then realized that the bone-corroding fish that had previously terrified them were now being transformed into fuel for a sky full of poisonous fire.

On the three-story tower of Zhenhai Ship, Zhang Yuan stood calmly by the ship's side.

Standing beside Zhang Yuan, Yin Jiuyou flicked her finger, and a wisp of dark divine soul power transformed into chains, imprisoning a demonic soul that was trying to escape a hundred feet away.

“The poison is extremely potent, though it can travel a thousand miles,” he said, looking at Yao Puti who was closing the poison array. “If it were my Netherworld Division, we would probably use Soul-Eating Powder.”

Yin Jiuyou's voice wasn't loud, but Yao Puti, who was suspended in mid-air in the distance, clearly heard it.

He turned to look at Yin Jiuyou, then pointed to a swirling vortex of venomous liquid boiling on the sea surface: "The core of that demon's lair is not destroyed. Use the Blood Ginseng's Soul-Devouring Vine to sweep it three more times."

Yao Puti understood that Yin Jiuyou was reminding him that Qingyang Marquis wanted the Three Departments to use ruthless methods to intimidate the new army.

The three commanders are not just going to win this battle, they are going to be ruthless.

The goal is to instill in those 50,000 new soldiers and 100,000 disciples of the Nine Yang Sword Sect an invincible inner demon that the Heavenly Suppression Division cannot defeat!

"boom--"

A golden roc swept across the sky, and the chief of the Spirit Array Beast Taming Division, Zhen Xuan, rode a golden-winged roc and soared upwards, his Bagua Taoist robe fluttering like thunder.

Three thousand Thunderwing Tiger Riders, trailing lightning, formed the Big Dipper formation, with the "Thunder Meteor Crystal" embedded in the back of each rider resonating with the brilliance of Sirius.

The lightning and fire of the Spirit Array Beast Taming Division and the poisonous miasma of the Secret Medicine Division intertwined between the sea and the sky, transforming into a giant purple-gold net.

Below, the streaks of light trailing behind the three thousand Thunderwing Tiger Riders resembled a cascading Milky Way.

The wolf-tooth necklace around the neck of the deputy commander's steed exploded, and the Thunderwing Tiger King, entangled by the beast-taming whip, roared to the sky.

Yu Cang trembled his beast-taming whip, using the beast soul resonance technique to make the tiger pack's eyes turn blood red, and their sharp claws tore at the gaps in the Xuan Jiao clone's scales.

The beast horde suddenly split into seven streams of light, trapping a nine-headed black dragon that had emerged from the seawater in an attempt to break free.

The beast wielder, the Wind Falcon, was surrounded by explosive energy, while a golden-winged roc stood on its shoulder and swooped down to sweep across the sea.

The roc spread its wings and slashed open the throat of the Bone-Eating Fish King, which was trying to sneak up on the enemy. The blood was evaporated by the lightning before it could even splatter.

Zhen Xuan rode a golden roc through thunderclouds, with thousands of array flags hanging down from his sleeves like a galaxy, each flag embroidered with the "Heavenly Wolf Devouring the Sea" image.

While in mid-air, Zhen Xuan flung out seventy-two Yu King Water-Avoiding Pearls.

Legend has it that this pearl is a secret treasure for suppressing the sea, crafted by the ancient sage Yu the Great during his flood control efforts. Its core was forged from the reverse scales of a dragon, and it can draw upon the power of the stars to suppress the water veins.

As he threw out the Yu King Water-Avoiding Pearl, seventy-two rays of starlight fell from Sirius, exploding into thousands of flowing, snake-like golden light and shadow on the Dinghai Anchor Thunder Pattern.

"boom--"

The moment the water-repelling bead embedded itself into the lightning pattern of the anchor, a thousand-foot-long electric arc chain erupted from the anchor body.

The anchor chain was actually made from the spine of a nine-headed black dragon. Wherever the chain swept, the sea monster's scales were charred and peeled off as if it had encountered its natural enemy!
"The Demon Prisoner".

An old voice sounded.

Above the sky, the stars of the heavens appeared.

The hunched-over head of the Spirit Array Division, the Earth Master, suddenly straightened up and threw the bronze compass into the sea.

The earth's veins within a hundred-mile radius of the sea were forcibly twisted, and seventy-two rays of starlight condensed into the phantom of the Heavenly Axe.

The remnants of the Zhou Tian Star Array that appeared on the sea surface forcefully suppressed the demonic energy back to the seabed.

The nine-headed Xuanjiao clone, attempting to break through the light barrier, let out a mournful roar, and its three heads were severed by the Starlight Axe.

Lightning and fire clashed at the break, and the foul-smelling demon blood was evaporated into red mist before it even hit the ground.

(End of this chapter)