The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

Dust filled the air.

The stone bed, carved from a single piece of cold jade, turned into a pile of grayish-white powder.

Jiang Chen lost his support and his body slid downwards.

Xiao Ruoye rushed over and caught him with her arms.

It was piping hot to the touch.

That terrifying palm strike, powerful enough to shatter metal and stone, seemed to have drained the last bit of strength from his body.

His eyes were closed, his head slumped limply on Xiao Ruoye's shoulder, and his breathing was so weak it was almost inaudible.

Only the lingering, domineering pressure in the air still echoed within the stone house.

Clang.

The wooden staff in High Priest Utu's hand fell to the ground.

He collapsed onto the pile of rubble, his cloudy old eyes fixed on the unconscious Jiang Chen, as if he were looking at an ancient ferocious beast in human skin.

"An evil god...this is an evil god possessing my body!"

Utu's voice trembled, he clutched his head with both hands, and curled up into a ball.

"The Black Miao are finished... Bringing such monsters into the village will bring calamity from our ancestors!"

He roared incoherently, completely forgetting that just minutes before he had wanted to turn this "monster" into a Corpse King.

Shen Suxin ignored his nonsensical ramblings.

She reached out and placed her hand on Jiang Chen's wrist pulse.

A few seconds later, she withdrew her hand, her face even paler than before.

That palm strike was a stress response from the remnant soul of the true dragon within Jiang Chen's body, but it also exhausted the medicinal power of the spiritual herbs she had fed him.

If a way to completely suppress the Immortal-Slaying Curse isn't found as soon as possible, Jiang Chen won't last three days.

Shen Suxin turned around.

Her eyes, which usually held a hint of fragility, were now filled with a deathly stillness.

She walked up to Utu.

Utu was still trembling.

"High Priest".

Shen Suxin spoke, her voice very soft.

Utu did not respond.

Shen Suxin raised her hand.

Three long, emerald-green needles appeared at her fingertips.

The needle tip gleamed with a bluish light; that was the deadly poison that would kill upon contact with blood.

"Look at me."

Shen Suxin squatted down.

Utu looked up and met the three swaying poison needles.

His Adam's apple bobbed.

Where is the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons?

Shen Suxin asked.

Utu's pupils suddenly contracted.

"We can't go!"

He screamed and scrambled backward on his hands and feet.

"That's forbidden territory! It's the ancestral vein! Anyone who goes in will surely die!"

Shen Suxin's wrist twitched.

"laugh."

A poisoned needle pierced Utu's thigh.

"ah--"

Utu screamed in agony.

There was no bleeding from the wound, but the surrounding skin and flesh turned a deathly gray color at a visible speed and spread rapidly in all directions.

That is withering.

The withering of life.

"I don't have time to listen to your rules."

Shen Suxin held the remaining two poison needles and slowly approached Wutu's left eye.

"Either lead the way, or I'll send you to meet your ancestral spirits right now."

Her tone was flat, as if she were saying she was going to crush a herb.

Junyao, who was leaning against the wall, tilted her head and smiled playfully, seemingly quite interested in Shen Suxin's appearance.

As Wutu watched the needle tip approaching, his mental defenses crumbled.

"I'll talk! I'll talk!"

He was panting heavily as he pointed to the black mountain behind the village, which was shrouded in clouds and mist all year round.

"It's right behind that mountain... After crossing three ridges, there's a sheer cliff, and below it is the entrance to the Ten Thousand Poisons Cave."

Shen Suxin stared into his eyes.

"Since this place is your sacred ground, why don't you go in yourselves?"

Utu's eyes flickered.

"laugh."

The second poisoned needle pierced his shoulder.

Half of my body went numb instantly.

"Don't do it! Don't do it!"

Utu was utterly terrified and blurted out the words like beans spilling from a bamboo tube.

"Twenty years ago! That place was taken over by a crazy woman!"

Shen Suxin paused.

"woman?"

"She's a witch!"

Utu swallowed hard, a deep fear creeping across his face.

"Originally, the Ten Thousand Poison Cave was the burial place of our Black Miao's high priests, where countless poisonous creatures were kept. But after that woman appeared twenty years ago, everyone who went in disappeared."

"Didn't come out?" Xiao Ruoye interjected.

"It's not that it didn't come out, it's that it's gone."

Utu gestured.

"Not even bone fragments were left. We sent several groups of assassins in to scout ahead; as soon as they got within a hundred meters of the cave entrance, their bodies would emit a white light."

"White light?" Shen Suxin frowned.

"Yes, that kind of light is neither hot nor cold; it feels warm on your body. But the flesh will gradually turn into ash, a white ash."

Utu's voice trembled.

"It's as if it's been washed clean by something, even the poisonous insects have been purified."

"Purify..."

Shen Suxin muttered to herself.

She suddenly turned her head to look at Xiao Ruoye.

Xiao Ruoye was also looking at her.

A glint of light flashed in both of their eyes.

The Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons, which should have been an extremely yin and poisonous place, was instead filled with a white light that could purify everything.

This extreme contrast can only have one explanation.

Of the nine physiques, the Holy Light Glazed Physique is the only one that can restrain all curses and poisons in the world.

That so-called "demoness" is the fifth type of physique they are looking for!

It was also the only hope to save Jiang Chen.

"Draw it."

Xiao Ruoye threw a short knife in front of Wutu, the blade cutting three inches into the stone slab.

"Draw out the route, the mechanisms, and the area where that woman is active."

Utu shakily picked up a piece of gravel and drew a sketch on the ground.

The lines are crooked and twisted, but he draws them very meticulously.

Where there is miasma, there is a dead end, and there is that woman's warning line.

Shen Suxin noted down every detail.

"Can this white ash be dissolved?"

She pointed to the gray spots of poison still spreading on Utu's leg and casually flicked out a pill.

Utu felt like he had been granted a pardon. He grabbed the pills and stuffed them into his mouth, swallowing even the dirt.

The pills melt in your mouth.

The excruciating pain in my leg instantly subsided, and the spreading deathly color also stopped.

"Thank you, sir! Thank you for sparing my life!"

Utu knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Shen Suxin stood up and didn't look at him again.

"Ruoye, Junyao, let's go."

She carried the medicine box on her back.

Xiao Ruoye carried the unconscious Jiang Chen back on her back and carefully secured him with a black cloth strip.

Junyao stopped in her tracks as she passed by Wutu.

She looked down at the shivering old man and sniffed lightly.

I don't like the smell on you.

Junyao said softly.

Utu's body stiffened.

But Junyao didn't make a move; she just skipped and hopped after the two people in front of her.

The three figures disappeared through the doorway.

The stone house fell silent again.

Utu lay on the ground, listening to the footsteps gradually fade away until they were completely gone.

He slowly raised his head.

The humility and fear on his face vanished, replaced by a look of resentment.

He glanced at the necrotic flesh on his leg.

"Want to go to the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons to die? Fine, I'll grant your wish."

Utu gritted his teeth and pulled a blood-red jade talisman from his wide sleeves.

This jade talisman is not from the Black Miao people; it is carved with a ferocious coiled dragon.

Dragon Guard Special Grade Communication Talisman.

It can only be used when an SSS-level wanted criminal is discovered.

Once it is crushed, all the Dragon Guard experts within a hundred miles will receive coordinate guidance.

"Destroy my altar, harm my people..."

A ruthless glint flashed in Wutu's eyes.

"I'm not sure if that crazy woman can kill you, but the Dragon Guards will definitely chop you into mincemeat!"

He pressed his thumb on the center of the jade talisman.

"Click."

The jade talisman shattered.

A blood-red ripple, imperceptible to the naked eye, pierced through the roof of the stone house and spread out into the surrounding dense jungle.