The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

The wind in the woods suddenly stopped, replaced by a nauseating, fishy-sweet smell.

That wasn't the scent of flowers; it was the smell of a corpse fermenting after it had decomposed to its extreme.

Xiao Ruoye abruptly stopped, her shoes carving two deep grooves into the slippery, moss-covered stone. The momentum caused Jiang Chen on her back to slam forward, and she groaned, tightening the straps around her neck even more.

Before us was a massive cliff, as if it had been cleaved in two by a single stroke.

Below the cliff, a pitch-black cave entrance gaped open, with countless purplish-black wisps of mist churning and boiling within, like living creatures greedily swallowing and exhaling all the life force around them.

Within a hundred meters of the cave entrance, not a blade of grass grows; even the rocks have been eroded into a honeycomb-like, pale white.

"arrive."

Xiao Ruoye was panting heavily as she stared at the thick, impenetrable fog.

This is the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons.

"call out--"

A sharp, piercing sound came from the distant forest. Several powerful auras were tearing through the air at an astonishing speed, and the cracking sound of trees being snapped in half by the force of the energy could even be heard.

The Dragon Guards have attacked.

"This fog is interesting."

Junyao walked to the edge of the cliff and peered over her shoulder.

She raised her right hand, and the black bell on her fingertip swayed gently.

"go."

A dozen or so multicolored poisonous bees, each the size of a fingernail, emerged from her sleeve. These were vanguard gu, nurtured with her own blood and essence, capable of biting through ordinary steel.

The poisonous bees buzzed as they rushed into the purple mist.

There was no struggle, no sound.

The moment those poisonous bees came into contact with the mist, they were like tofu thrown into aqua regia, instantly turning into puddles of pus, leaving not even a trace.

Junyao's expression changed, and she abruptly withdrew her hand.

One of the mother insects on her fingertip let out a sharp scream, its body instantly curling into a dry shell.

"no."

Junyao looked up, her eyes grave: "This is no ordinary poisonous miasma; it's thousands of years of accumulated corpse poison. Any living thing that goes in is doomed. My Gu worms can't withstand it."

The sound of something cutting through the air behind us grew closer and closer, and we could even feel the ground trembling slightly.

"Even if you can't bear it, you have to bear it."

Xiao Ruoye gritted her teeth, drew half of the broken knife from her waist, and was about to rush in.

A hand pressed down on her shoulder.

My hands were cold and trembling slightly.

Shen Suxin walked past Xiao Ruoye to the very edge of the cliff.

She put down the medicine box she was carrying, bent down, and slowly took off her cloth shoes, revealing a pair of feet blistered from the long journey.

"Su Xin?" Xiao Ruoye frowned.

"Jiang Chen is right, this is a dead end."

Shen Suxin didn't turn around. She looked at the churning poisonous mist and spoke softly, yet with a resolute air: "Your Geng metal energy can block swords and blades, but it can't block poison. Junyao's Gu worms can kill, but they can't withstand this thousand-year-old death energy."

She turned around and pointed to her heart.

"Only I can get in."

"Do you want to die? This poison can even turn stone!" Xiao Ruoye grabbed her wrist, trying to pull her back.

"Who said I'm going to die?"

Shen Suxin suddenly smiled.

She broke free from Xiao Ruoye's hand, barefoot, and stepped into that ghastly white forbidden zone of death.

"I am a being of the poisonous nature of all herbs; all the poisons in this world are my nourishment."

As soon as she finished speaking, she took a deep breath, opened her arms, and, as if offering herself as a sacrifice, plunged directly into the thick, purplish-black fog.

"laugh--"

It was like throwing a red-hot iron into ice water.

A piercing corrosive sound exploded instantly.

Shen Suxin's originally fair skin turned bluish-purple the moment she came into contact with the poisonous fog. Countless black lines, like earthworms, writhed wildly on her face and neck, a sign that the deadly poison was attacking her heart.

"ah!!"

Shen Suxin raised her head and let out a shrill roar.

This is not absorption, this is forced infusion.

She was using her own body as a vessel to forcibly absorb the miasma that was enough to poison even a grandmaster.

Centered on her, the poisonous mist that had been permeating the cave entrance seemed to have found an outlet, rushing wildly into her body and forming a huge black vortex.

Xiao Ruoye's pupils contracted.

She saw that Shen Suxin's long, black hair was turning white from the roots at a speed visible to the naked eye.

One inch, two inches, three inches...

That's life force being frantically overdrawn.

Black blood began to seep from the corners of Shen Suxin's eyes, nostrils, and mouth, dripping onto the ground and sizzling against the hot rocks.

But she did not back down.

She stood rooted to the spot, her hands reaching out in the air as if tearing at something.

"open circuit……"

Shen Suxin squeezed out two broken words from her throat.

She suddenly waved her hand, and a wave of air formed from pure poison gas cleaved a two-meter-wide passage through the thick fog.

At the end of the passage lies the deep entrance to the Cave of Ten Thousand Poisons.

"Let's go!!"

Shen Suxin turned around, her face now covered with black poisonous markings, her once clear eyes now blood red, only her long, snow-white hair stood out starkly against the poisonous fog, making one's heart tremble.

Xiao Ruoye felt as if her heart had been squeezed tightly.

Without a word, she hoisted Jiang Chen onto her back, pushed off with her feet, and transformed into a blur, rushing into the passage that Shen Suxin had risked her life to create.

Junyao followed closely behind, and as she passed by Shen Suxin, she flicked a purple light from her fingertip that entered Shen Suxin's body, barely protecting her heart meridian.

"puff--"

Just as the three rushed into the cave, Shen Suxin could no longer hold on and spat out a mouthful of black blood.

The poisonous fog that had been temporarily forced back instantly retaliated.

Shen Suxin staggered, her body swaying precariously, but she glanced at Xiao Ruoye, who had already entered the cave entrance, and a tragic smile appeared on her lips.

With her last ounce of strength, she turned and stumbled inside.

"boom!"

Just a second after they disappeared from the cave entrance, a blood-red blade of light descended from the sky and slammed into the cliff face.

Rock fragments flew everywhere.

A powerful Dragon Guard, clad in dark red armor, landed at the edge of the cliff.

He stared at the toxic fog that had closed up again and was churning even more violently than before, his brows furrowed tightly.

"madman……"

He cursed under his breath and didn't dare take another step forward.

The alloy battle sword had only been touched by a trace of poisonous mist when the tip began to melt and drip.

……

Inside the cave.

There is no light here, only some glowing moss growing on the rock wall, emitting a cold, eerie green glow.

The air was damp and chilly, and the suffocating stench had lessened somewhat.

"thump."

Shen Suxin's legs went weak, and she knelt heavily on the ground.

"Pure Heart!"

Xiao Ruoye put Jiang Chen down and rushed over to help her.

The feel of it made Xiao Ruoye feel a chill.

Shen Suxin's body was as cold as ice, and the blood vessels under her skin had all turned purplish-black and were still throbbing.

And that head of hair that was originally as black as a waterfall has now turned as white as withered grass.

"Cough...cough cough..."

Shen Suxin coughed violently, her body convulsing with each cough.

She opened her palm.

There was a pool of black blood in his palm.

Mixed in the pool of black blood were several pieces of flesh the size of fingernails—her lungs, shattered and corroded by the deadly poison.

Shen Suxin looked at the pieces of flesh in her palm, her eyes somewhat unfocused, but she still struggled to lift her head and look at the unconscious Jiang Chen.

"I'm not...I'm not dead..."

Her voice was so weak it was like a mosquito's hum, but she smiled: "If... if we can't find that woman... my body of poisonous herbs... will be ruined..."

Xiao Ruoye clenched her fist, her nails piercing her palm.

She glanced at the shocking white hair, then at Jiang Chen, whose fate was unknown.

"try to find."

Xiao Ruoye stood up, carried Jiang Chen back on her back, and used her other hand to lift Shen Suxin up.

"Even if we have to turn this cave upside down, we have to find that woman."