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Jiang Bai decided to head towards the "dead zone" according to the markings on the map.

Jiang Shan stepped forward, his face still somewhat pale.

He said, "According to the map, we have to cross at least two toxic areas."

At that moment, Jiang Yurou was changing the dressing for the unconscious Jiang Wu when she heard this and looked up.

"His time is running out. Although the toxicity of the Corrosive Vein Powder has been temporarily suppressed, if the problem isn't resolved within three hours, his meridians will begin to rot."

Jiang Bai put away the jade pendant, got up and walked to the cave entrance.

"Pack your things, we'll be leaving in fifteen minutes."

Jiang Shan tightly bound Jiang Wu to his back.

Jiang Yurou repackaged the remaining pills according to their effects.

Jiang Baize began to examine the injuries.

On his right arm, the residual sword energy from the Azure Phoenix Sword was being slowly dissolved by the poisonous patterns, and he was no longer in serious danger.

The real challenge lies in the depletion of spiritual energy.

His mind was still aching, but he couldn't wait any longer.

Half an hour later, the four men emerged from the crevice in the rock.

Jiang Bai led the way. According to the map, they needed to travel two miles east, pass through a "ghostly weeping forest," and then turn northeast to enter the inner deep valley.

"Stay close to me."

Jiang Shan carried Jiang Wu on his back and followed closely behind, while Jiang Yurou limped at the back.

The four of them crept along the rock wall, and after about an incense stick's time, the terrain ahead suddenly changed.

The jagged rocks became increasingly dense, forming a natural stone forest.

The stone pillars ranged in height from four or five zhang to just waist-deep, casting distorted and eerie shadows in the dark purple miasma.

It seems we've arrived at Ghost Cry Forest.

The wind whistled through the cracks in the rocks, its sharp wail mingling with the distant moans of the miasma demons, making it difficult to distinguish the real from the fake.

Jiang Bai suddenly stopped.

A burning sensation came from the poisonous mark on my right wrist.

He raised his hand to signal everyone to stop, his gaze sweeping over the stone forest in front of him.

A few wisps of pale green light drifted between the stone pillars, appearing and disappearing intermittently.

That wasn't a complete miasma demon; it was more like a torn fragment of a soul.

"Let's take a detour."

Jiang Bai changed direction, intending to take a detour around the outer perimeter of the Stone Forest.

After taking only ten steps, three figures suddenly emerged from behind the stone pillar in front of them.

Clad in black and wielding a goose-feather saber, he was none other than a cultivator from the Li family.

The two sides were stunned when they met face to face.

"It's Jiang—" The leader had barely uttered half a sentence when Jiang Bai pounced out like a cheetah.

[Swift Shadow Step] was activated in an instant, tearing apart the dark purple miasma with the force of the wind generated by his figure, and Jiang Bai was already in front of his opponent.

The cultivator drew his sword to strike, but Jiang Bai's left hand gripped his wrist like an iron clamp and twisted it forcefully.

A cracking sound came from the dislocated bones.

The cultivator screamed in agony as his long sword slipped from his hand.

Jiang Bai snatched the knife and slashed back, the blade instantly slicing across the opponent's throat.

Fresh blood gushed out.

The other two were then jolted awake. One swung his knife at the back of Jiang Bai's neck, while the other hurriedly reached into his arms.

This is an attempt to send a signal!

Without turning his head, Jiang Bai swung his right hand backward, sending three bone-corroding poison needles hurtling through the air.

The sword-wielding cultivator hurriedly parried, but the poisoned needles scattered midway, two piercing his arm and one shooting through his thigh.

The monk's arm instantly turned grayish-white, and his skin and flesh peeled off in pieces like weathered stone.

He stared in horror at his festering arm, but before he could utter a sound, the long knife that Jiang Bai had seized had pierced his chest.

At the same time, Jiang Shan pounced from the side, his thick-backed sword sweeping across, sending the cultivator who was taking out a communication talisman flying backward. The cultivator crashed into a stone pillar, slid down, and his chest caved in. He was killed with a single blow.

From the moment the attack began until all three were killed, the two worked together seamlessly, killing with a single blow!

Jiang Bai quickly searched the corpse and pulled out a blue communication talisman from the last person's arms.

The talisman was wrinkled, but thankfully it wasn't activated.

"Let's go." Jiang Bai led the three of them swiftly through the stone forest.

Footsteps and shouts came from behind.

It seems the commotion had finally attracted the attention of others.

The four quickened their pace and hurried through the stone forest.

The burning sensation on Jiang Bai's right wrist was getting stronger and stronger.

The color of the miasma ahead began to change, turning from dark purple to dark red, like diluted blood mist spreading.

The sweet, fishy smell in the air grew stronger, and inhaling it caused dizziness.

"Hold your breath immediately."

Jiang Bai gave a low shout.

He activated the poisonous patterns to transform and dissolve the inhaled poisonous miasma within his body before continuing his journey.

After passing through the stone forest, the terrain begins to sink.

A canyon opened up ahead, its rock walls a dark red, as if stained with blood.

This is the "Desperate Zone" marked on the jade pendant map.

"This is it."

Jiang Bai stopped in his tracks.

Jiang Yurou took out three Qingxin Pills from her medicine bag.

"Holding it under the tongue can help ward off the hallucinogenic miasma here for a while."

Jiang Bai took the pill, but did not take it immediately.

The poisonous markings on his right wrist began to actively absorb the dark red poisonous miasma at the valley entrance.

The poisonous patterns are like a thirsty container, refining and purifying the inhaled poisonous miasma, turning it into toxins and storing them in the poison pool. At the same time, they give back a cool spiritual energy to nourish their own meridians.

"Let's go inside!"

Jiang Bai was the first to step into the canyon.

A dark red poisonous miasma rushed towards them. Even with the poisonous patterns absorbing it, some still seeped into their bodies.

The scene before my eyes began to distort, and the rock walls seemed to come alive, transforming into menacing ghostly figures.

Countless whispers echoed in his ears. Jiang Shan groaned and his eyes glazed over.

Jiang Bai turned around and pressed down on his shoulder, the ripples of the poisonous pattern entering through his palm.

Jiang Shan shuddered, his eyes regained their clarity, and cold sweat poured down his face.

"You must keep your mind clear."

"Um!"

The four of them trudged into the valley, one step at a time.

In the center of the valley, a pool of dark red liquid spreads out quietly.

The surface of the pool was calm and still, thick like congealed blood, emitting a sweet and fishy smell ten times stronger than the surrounding poisonous miasma.

The rocky ground beside the pond is dark brown and barren, except for a few scattered dark red plants that stubbornly grow in the cracks between the rocks.

The most striking sight is the view from the poolside.

A stone tablet, about half a person's height, stands by the pond. The tablet is covered with cracks and its surface is engraved with dense characters.

A jade box lay scattered on the ground in front of the monument.

Jiang Bai's right wrist began to burn with poisonous markings, echoing the aura in the pool.

The inscription on the stele reads:

"Those who come after me will find this letter as a personal meeting."

"My name is Blood Vine. I was once the seventh elder of the Valley of Ten Thousand Poisons. I defected here because I was secretly refining the 'True Blood Pattern of Ten Thousand Poisons'. I used my life's blood essence to refine hundreds of poisons and nurtured this pool for thirty years."

"Your arrival here is both an opportunity and a calamity."

"Those who enter the pool must endure the pain of a hundred poisons gnawing at their hearts. Success will transform the poisonous markings, while failure will turn their bodies into blood and imprison their souls forever."

"The blood lotus by the pond can cure the poison that corrodes the veins and bones."

"The complete text of 'Poisonous Pattern Foundation Building' is sealed in the jade box, and it can be opened after the transformation."

"Remember: Once the True Blood Poison Mark is formed, never show it to anyone. The Ten Thousand Poison Valley's kill order... is valid for a hundred years..."

The last few lines are illegible and about to fall apart.

Jiang Bai withdrew his gaze, and Jiang Yurou had already picked some blood lotus from the surrounding area to apply to Jiang Wu's wound.

The bluish-black marks from the poison visibly faded, and Jiang Wu's breathing gradually stabilized.

"He'll wake up in a little while," Jiang Yurou breathed a sigh of relief.

Jiang Bai walked to the edge of the pool and untied the black gauze from his right wrist. Three poisonous markings faintly glowed in the dim light.

"I want to go into the pool," he said.

Jiang Shan's expression changed: "But the inscription on the monument says—"

"The inscription also says that this was set up for someone like me who bears the poisonous mark." Jiang Bai interrupted him, "If I haven't come out in three hours, you take Jiang Wu back the way you came and find Lu Qi."

Jiang Yurou bit her lip, Jiang Shan gripped the knife hilt tightly, and finally nodded heavily.

Jiang Baizhi put away the jade box, took off his outer robe, and stepped into the pool.

The instant the thick blood submerged his ankle—

pain.

Hundreds of toxins, like living creatures, burrow into the pores, eroding flesh and gnawing at bones.

Jiang Bai let out a muffled groan and sank to the bottom of the pool. His vision was completely red, and it felt as if his skin and flesh were being peeled away inch by inch.

He desperately circulated the "Hundred Poisons Tempering Technique," and the poisonous patterns frantically devoured the essence in the pool, but still could not keep up with the speed of decay.

As consciousness faded, a faint glow of [toxic immunity] flickered within the body.

The pain subsided suddenly.

Taking advantage of this moment of clarity, Jiang Bai activated the poison pattern with all his might.

On the right wrist, three lines began to intertwine, merge, and spread.

Deep blue, bluish-purple, crimson... the lines crawled across the forearm, down to the elbow, splitting into two, then four, and finally transforming into nine strangely intertwined poisonous lines that clung to the entire right arm!

The moment of transformation, the power of devouring surged. Flesh and blood regenerated from the festering wounds, new skin was as smooth as jade, and bones became solid.

The cultivation barrier shattered with a crash.

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Its physical strength is approaching that of a mid-level magic weapon.

With a slight thought, Jiang Baixin's right arm was writhing with poisonous patterns, his palm gleaming with a bronze luster, and a metallic sound emanating from his clenched fist. Another pattern spread out an invisible wave, protecting his soul.

Three hours later, the pool water had cleared.

Jiang Bai stood up, the water flowed down, and his newly grown body revealed a jade-like luster.

Nine poisonous lines slowly moved beneath the black veil, like a living creature lurking in the shadows.

The two men from Taniguchi were both taken aback when they saw him walk out.

Jiang Shan glared: "Your aura..."

"I won't die." Jiang Wu sat against the rock wall, grinning, his face still pale.

Jiang Bai took out the jade box and lightly touched it with the power of the poisonous patterns.

"Click."

Upon opening the box, a dark red halo swirled within, revealing countless characters—"True Blood Poison Pattern Foundation Building Chapter."

"Nine Poisons Foundation, Defying Fate and Changing Destiny..." Jiang Bai's divine sense swept over it, and he understood.

This method is dangerous, but if successful, one will be virtually invincible among those of the same level after reaching the Foundation Establishment stage.

He put away the jade box and looked at the blue deputy flag in his hand.

"What's next?" Jiang Shan asked.

"Seize the main flag." Jiang Bai said calmly, "The Li family will definitely get one of them; we'll go get the other one."

Jiang Yurou asked softly, "And then?"

Beneath the black veil on Jiang Bai's right arm, the poisonous markings were slightly hot.

"Then," he looked out into the depths of the miasma beyond the valley.

"kill!"