Chapter 173 Coffin

Seeing that the black toad could improve its cultivation by absorbing the poison, Yuan Ming was delighted.

The green poisonous fog in the snake cave quickly became thinner. The unicorn snake king saw this scene and stopped wreaking havoc. The thick and long snake body slowly coiled together, and vigilance was revealed in the snake pupils.

The poisonous fog in the snake cave soon disappeared, and there was not much poisonous miasma left.

When the black toad finally stopped absorbing, nearly half of the inner elixir in its body turned green, and it became extremely excited, as if it had not absorbed enough.

Yuan Ming was originally worried that the black toad would not be able to bear it if it absorbed too much external poison. Now it seems that he was too worried. The black toad's ability to resist poison far exceeded his expectations.

In addition to cultivating an inner elixir, the demon vines living in the black toad seemed to be injected with new vitality and grew a lot stronger.

Yuan Ming just thought about it, and the sound of "puff puff puff" bursting sounded.

More than a dozen purple-black demon vines emerged from the back of the black toad, each of which was several times thicker than before, with purple vines growing on the surface, looking like a purple-black vine forest.

This purple-black demon vine is already difficult to deal with. Now its number has increased dramatically, and it is more resilient than before. Ordinary level 2 beasts may not be its opponents.

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On the ground, the unicorn snake king looked at the ground around him vigilantly, and the golden light flashed on the unicorn horn on his forehead.

At this moment, it seemed to have sensed something, and its huge snake body flew to the side.

More than a dozen thick purple-black demon vines emerged from the ground and rolled towards the body of the unicorn snake king, but unfortunately most of them missed, and only two demon vines wrapped around the snake king's tail.

The tops of the two demon vines suddenly became sharp, directly piercing the snake king's tough scales and sinking into its body.

The unicorn snake king only felt a sharp pain in his tail, and the demon power in his body was sucked away by the two demon vines. The originally plump snake tail became shriveled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The snake king was shocked and angry, and as he shook his head, large amounts of dark green venom were sprinkled on those demon vines.

With a "hissing" sound, the purple-black demon vines that touched the venom suddenly turned black and quickly decayed and rotted, but only a small part of them were rotten. The remaining part still firmly imprisoned the snake's tail, and even the speed of swallowing demon power did not slow down much.

The unicorn snake king was delayed like this, and other demon vines also swept over, entangled various parts of the unicorn snake king, and pierced the snake king's body one by one.

A trace of fear flashed in the snake king's eyes, and he immediately struggled hard, while spraying out streams of venom one after another, and the unicorn on his forehead also shot out golden rays, cutting towards the demon vines around him.

Although the purple-black demon vines are not afraid of snake venom and are much more tenacious than before, they will be cut into two pieces if they are swept by the golden thread.

However, the number of purple-black demon vines has increased greatly now, and their regeneration ability is extremely strong. New vines will grow immediately after being cut off.

The unicorn snake king fired seven or eight golden rays in succession. The demon vines wrapped around it not only did not decrease, but increased in number. Soon, its huge snake body was gradually entangled into a zongzi.

All the vines were frantically absorbing the demon power in the unicorn snake king's body. The snake king wanted to resist, but it became increasingly difficult to do so. As the body shrank everywhere, it struggled frantically at first, and finally swung its head and tail weakly.

After a full half-minute, the unicorn snake king had completely turned into a shriveled corpse, and all its demon power was devoured by the black toad like cutting meat with a blunt knife.

The black toad had just absorbed the snake pill of a second-level intermediate snake king, and now it swallowed the essence and blood of a whole unicorn snake king equivalent to a mid-to-late stage foundation-building cultivator. Its aura surged again, and it was close to the second-level intermediate stage.

Yuan Ming looked at the remains of the two snake kings through the soul crow, and it felt a little unreal.

Although the unicorn snake king had just experienced a war between humans and snakes, it was a beast close to the second-level upper level after all. Now in front of this black toad, it had almost no power to fight back.

He couldn't help but have some thoughts of re-evaluating the strength of the black toad spirit beast.

Now that the battle in the snake cave is over, the battlefield there needs to be cleaned up. There are still many spiritual materials on the two snake kings that need to be collected. It is not convenient for the black toad to do these things.

Yuan Ming stood up, put away the four-sided sealing talisman, and rushed towards the snake cave.

While he was on his way, he used another soul crow to sense the situation of Sang Yan and his group from the Black Fire Gate.

In the ruined hall, the Yin-locking restriction has begun to flicker and it looks like it may collapse at any time.

Elder Gutu suddenly spurted out a breath of magic power, merged into the white jade talisman, and formed seals with his hands in front of him.

The white jade talisman in his hand exploded with a "bang", turning into a white light arrow several feet long, hitting the black light curtain.

The jade talismans of the other four people also shattered, turning into a white light arrow, hitting the various parts of the lock Yin restriction fiercely.

The restriction, which was already in danger, completely collapsed, turning into countless black air and dissipating, revealing the situation inside the hall.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming hurriedly controlled the Soul Crow to move slightly closer to spy on the situation inside the hall.

A black coffin was placed in the center of the hall, and two green tiger statues stood on the left and right sides, which looked like two tomb-guarding evil beasts.

Deeper in the hall, there seemed to be a white jade platform with some bottles and jars placed on it.

The distance there was too far, and the Soul Crow couldn't see clearly.

Yuan Ming controlled the Soul Crow to move closer again, and the bone diagram suddenly looked over and shouted: "What is it!"

Yuan Ming was startled and hurriedly controlled the Soul Crow to retreat and flapped its wings to escape.

"Want to leave?" The bone diagram flicked its finger.

A thin black line that was difficult to detect with the naked eye shot out, but it was a black needle as thin as a hair, which instantly crossed a distance of more than ten feet and pierced the Soul Crow's chest.

The Soul Crow flapped its wings and dodged to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack of the black line.

The black needle suddenly changed its direction and shot towards Soul Crow again, piercing directly through its left wing.

The soul crow's left wing collapsed directly, and it began to fly a little unsteadily. After flying not far, it was pierced by the black needle again, and then collapsed directly, turning into a ball of black air and disappearing.

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While Yuan Ming was running, his head suddenly buzzed, and his face turned a little pale.

The sent soul crow was destroyed, and its soul power also suffered considerable damage.

Fortunately, he has now cultivated the Ming Yue Jue to the second level, and with the incense burner in hand, he can recover after a period of warming.

"It seems that the detection ability of the foundation-building monks has been underestimated."

Yuan Ming did not stop, glanced in the direction where Soul Crow was killed, and accelerated towards the Snake King Cave.

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In the main hall.

"Elder Gutu, what happened just now?" Sang Yan asked.

"Someone must have peeked through the secret technique, and the aura is very well hidden. I just discovered a clue." Bone Tu said thoughtfully.

"The person who can hide his spiritual consciousness from you is probably not an ordinary monk in the Qi Refining Stage." Sang Yan said.

"Could it be Bai Ye or Huan Shi?" The girl in black, who didn't get along well with Sang Yan, said without quarreling with Sang Yan.

"It's not like the methods those two would use, I'm afraid it's someone else." Sang Yan said.

"No matter who it is, you go in and take your things away first. I'll stay here! Remember to be quick!" Bone Tu said decisively, turning around and facing outside.

Sang Yan and others did not dare to neglect and hurriedly entered the palace. They first checked the stone platform behind the coffin. The bottles on it were filled with elixirs. Unfortunately, too much time had passed and the elixirs in the bottles had been discarded.

A few people felt very regretful and searched around other places in the palace. Unfortunately, they found nothing. They all came to the black coffin and quickly cracked the mechanism of the coffin lid and were about to open it.

"Wait a minute."

Sang Yan raised his hand to stop the others, knocked out a white alms bowl, floated it above the coffin, and then signaled for others to open it.

With the sound of "click", the heavy coffin lid slowly opened.

Before anyone could see what was in the coffin, a strong black gas came out, giving off a disgusting smell.

"Quickly retreat!" Sang Yan shouted loudly and flew backwards like lightning.

Others also hurriedly flew back.

The white alms bowl suspended above immediately swooped down and sprayed out a stream of white aura, covering the black air.

The black energy rushed left and right like a living creature, but unfortunately it could not break through the confinement of the white light. It was slowly collected by the white alms bowl, but the original white jade bowl slowly turned black.

"Carrion poison! Fortunately, Senior Sister Sang Yan was prepared, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous." The young Jianmei Qing breathed out and said.

The girl in black glanced at Sang Yan with a complicated expression, and then looked at the coffin.

Inside the coffin lay a seven-foot-tall corpse with a tall and thin body and slender limbs, like bamboo poles.

The corpse was wearing a tattered blue robe, with a high crown made of ruby ​​on its head. It was covered in long green hair, but its breath was very weak.

"Is this the corpse of Master Tian Snake, a loose cultivator in the pill formation stage a hundred years ago? It is said that this person's cultivation has reached the middle stage of pill formation. Why is his aura so weak, like an ordinary Yin corpse." The girl in black looked at it. Said the corpse in front of him.

Several other people, including Sang Yan, had similar expressions.

They are all disciples of the Black Fire Sect. The Black Fire Sect is good at controlling corpses and has an in-depth study of corpses. After the death of a high-level monk, even if the bones are incomplete, some of the power in front of him will still remain. It will never be like this.

The figure turned into a blur, and the figure of the bone figure also appeared next to the coffin. When he saw the green-haired corpse inside, he frowned.

"Is there a mistake? This person is not Master Tian Serpent?" the sword-browed young man said.

"Impossible, I searched for it based on the fragmentary picture. The fragmentary picture was painted by the only disciple of Master Tian Serpent. It clearly marked this place as Master Tian Snake's tomb, the Yin Locking Restriction outside the temple, and Those discarded elixirs are all supporting evidence, and it is said that Master Tian Snake is tall and thin, which is consistent with this corpse, so it can't be someone else!" Sang Yan said firmly.

"That residual picture was just something you bought at a stall. Who knows if it was scrawled by some liar." The girl in black said with a curl of her lips.

Sang Yan's eyes darkened and he was about to retort.

"I understand, it's the corpse-sealing nail!" Bone Tu's voice came over, interrupting the argument between the two.

He stood on top of the corpse, staring intently at its head.

"Sealing nails?" Sang Yan asked.

"The corpse-sealing nail is a unique magical weapon of the corpse exorcism sect of Chu Kingdom in the Central Plains. It is used to refine corpses. As long as the nail is pierced into the Baihui point, it can seal the body's meridians so that it will not leak its breath, and can Let it automatically absorb the nearby yin energy, thereby gradually transforming and absorbing it." Bone Tu said, removing the jade crown from the top of the corpse's head, and a black iron nail was nailed to the Baihui point and penetrated into its brain.

"Can a corpse be transformed into a refined corpse so easily?" The girl in black looked at the nails and said in disbelief.

To refine a corpse in the Black Fire Sect, it requires many steps and a lot of resources. It is almost unimaginable to insert an iron nail to refine a corpse on its own.