Chapter 289: Still Can't Taste It

"The fourth elder is dead?"

Listening to Tang San's report, a look of astonishment flashed across Niu Tian's eyes, and then he asked seriously: "What exactly happened, tell me clearly!"

"Yes, Sect Master."

As if his words brought back some bad memories, Tang San subconsciously clenched his fists, his eyes turned slightly red, and he began to tell the whole story with a sad face.

Starting from when they accidentally entered the territory of the pregnant Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear because of obtaining the soul ring, and were chased by the arrogant female bear, and then when the fourth elder led him to resist desperately, they were about to have the upper hand, but were overheard. The male bear who rushed back to the cave attacked him secretly and was seriously injured.

Faced with the sudden turn of the battle, the Fourth Elder knew very well that both of them would die if things continued like this, so in order to give him a chance to escape, he did not hesitate to choose to exchange injuries for injuries, holding back the two dark gold terrors who had cultivated for thousands of years. The clawed bear finally helped him escape successfully at the cost of a tragic death.

On the way to escape, he happened to stumble upon the 100,000-year-old soul-splitting centipede, which was beaten to death by the male bear and half of its head was cut off by its sharp claws.

Anyway, this guy saw that he had no chance of survival. In order to free the other party as soon as possible, he had no choice but to end the other party's life. He relied on the devouring ability of the Eight Spider Spears and the huge improvement in physical fitness of the 100,000-year-old soul bone to successfully succeed. Absorbing the 100,000-year-old soul ring produced by the soul-splitting centipede, he escaped from the Star Forest and returned to the Haotian Sect.

The whole process was full of twists and turns, especially when the fourth elder chose to fight the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear in order to save him, Tang San's whole body seemed to have suffered a huge blow, and his body began to freeze. Trembling uncontrollably.

Looking at those eyes full of regret and pain, Niu Tian was silent for a moment and nodded slowly.

".I understand. I will handle this matter. After going through so much, you go back to your room and have a good rest. Training for the competition will officially start tomorrow."

After speaking, he seemed to have thought of something and suddenly added.

"Remember, the devouring ability of the Eight Spider Spears should not be spread to outsiders, let alone be used easily in front of other people. Do you understand?"

"yes."

Tang San still had that sad look on his face, but he was secretly relieved in his heart.

Considering that the soul of Ming Ming in his previous life had been attached to his soul bone along with the sacrifice, and was fully aware of the devouring ability of the Eight Spider Spears, he did not deliberately conceal this situation.

It's easier to convince people if you speak a mixture of truth and falsehood.

Mingde Hall.

I don't know whether it was helplessness or some other emotion. After trying to free his arms from Meng Hongchen's arms again to no avail, Huo Yuhao sighed softly.

"Do you remember everything I just said?"

"Uh-huh."

Meng Hongchen nodded vigorously, but his tone was extremely perfunctory: "I remember, I remember."

As if she was not satisfied with just one arm, as she spoke, she quietly closed the distance between them, trying to press her whole body against him.

"."

Huo Yuhao took a deep breath and put his free hand on her head, trying to maintain the last possible safe distance.

"I'm serious, Xiaomeng, this is very important to you."

"I'm very serious too!"

As if what was in front of her now was some treasure that was within reach but that she had always dreamed of. Meng Hongchen held his hand like this, her little head arched forward very hard: "To me, everything is Not as important as you."

Nothing is as important as your shady thoughts, right?

Hearing these words that were more straightforward than a confession, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but choke. After taking another deep breath, he tried his best to squeeze out a smile when facing the girl in front of him who couldn't wait to pounce on her.

"Since you remember it, why don't you repeat it to me?"

"Forehead"

Meng Hongchen's movements froze, and his brain was working rapidly. While recalling Huo Yuhao's words just now, he hesitated and said: "Okay, it seems that you are not allowed to touch it with your hands during the ceremony. Ah!"

Before she could finish her words, a merciless brainstorm quietly landed on her forehead.

Huo Yuhao didn't feel the slightest pity for the girl who covered her head with her hands in pain and had an aggrieved expression. Huo Yuhao forcibly tightened his expression and spoke solemnly.

"This soul ritual is really dangerous. If you go wrong, it may endanger your life. I need you to pay attention to it, otherwise..."

"Are you concerned about my safety?"

As if he had caught something important from those words, Meng Hongchen's eyes lit up. After seeing Huo Yuhao's increasingly dark complexion, he finally looked a little more serious, with a look of forced power. .

"Okay, I was wrong. Yuhao, you are right. Safety is the most important thing. I will listen carefully this time."

Huo Yuhao's face became a little better, he nodded glumly, and continued to add.

"I'm really touched that you realize this. Now let's talk about the precautions."

"The person who will perform the soul ritual with you next is a plant-based soul beast with a hundred thousand years of cultivation. Its existence itself is extremely dangerous. Once it comes into contact, the toxins contained in those parts will be uncontrollably a thousand times greater. breed.”

"So powerful?" Meng Hongchen's face changed slightly. It was precisely because her martial spirit itself had poison properties that she could better understand the gold content of Huo Yuhao's words.

Take her own Vermilion Ice Toad Toxin as an example. Once she has the growth speed of a thousand times, she can forcibly poison her opponent even when facing the ultimate ice or ultimate fire that is said to be invulnerable to all poisons.

Because it is different from true toxin immunity, the invulnerability granted by Ultimate Fire and Ultimate Ice relies more on its own extreme temperature to suppress and eliminate the toxins entering the body. But since it is fighting against toxins, then this After all, there is an upper limit to suppressive power.

It is conceivable that once the burst speed of the toxin exceeds the suppression speed of the two, even if you are the ultimate ice and fire, your body will still be harmed by the toxin.

In this case, compared to soul masters with other attributes, all they can do is hold on longer.

Of course, there is a gap between extremes. This kind of blessed poison may be very deadly to ordinary soul masters with extreme attributes, but it is nothing to Huo Yuhao who possesses the Ice Emperor Spirit.

In front of his Ice Emperor Martial Spirit, whose quality was already beyond the ordinary, no poison could survive for even a moment.

In addition to his situation, beings like Orange who absorb the power of Youxiang Qiluo Immortal, causing the body to reject all toxins, can also be avoided.

After all, no matter how powerful the toxin is, it needs to invade the human body to be effective, and Orange's body is equivalent to an airtight jar, which can protect her from any toxin invasion in all directions without blind spots.

It eliminates the possibility of external toxins entering from the root, and naturally you don’t have to worry about whether you can withstand the toxins. Now that we have finished talking about the advantages, it’s time to talk about the disadvantages.

As Huo Yuhao said just now, the poison attribute is often a double-edged sword. Once the poison is allowed to multiply a thousand times in the body, even Meng Hongchen, a martial soul holder, may not be able to withstand the poison. The harm comes.

At that point, she would most likely become the first person to experience the power of the enhanced Zhu Qing Ice Toad toxin.

Huo Yuhao nodded solemnly and added a reminder: "So before you complete the fusion with it, you must not have any physical contact with it."

The fairy grass he was talking about was the snow-colored Swan Kiss that people couldn't avoid.

Although it is a bit dangerous, it is no exaggeration to say that this thing can definitely be regarded as the treasure of all poison attribute soul masters.

Two years have brought Meng Hongchen's cultivation from Soul Emperor to the bottleneck of level 70. If the seventh soul skill Wuhun Avatar can be blessed by the power of Snow Swan Kiss, it will definitely greatly improve her abilities. combat effectiveness.

Perhaps the Snow Swan Kiss is not that terrible for hard power improvement such as cultivation and physical fitness, and it may even be the last among the fairy grasses, but in terms of actual combat effectiveness, it is definitely better than the Cockscomb Phoenix Kui against Ma Xiaotao, and Earth Dragon Golden Melon improves Qiu'er much more.

After all, it would be really unreasonable for poison to encounter opponents who lack the means to deal with it, especially for Meng Hongchen, whose own poison is already considered a very top-notch existence, and the combat power after being blessed will be even more terrifying.

He still remembered that among the hundreds of secret weapons of the Tang Sect, there was a hidden weapon named Yama Wang Tie, which was said to be a poison-type hidden weapon that could kill titled Douluo.

Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, I think that if Meng Hongchen can successfully absorb it, even if her cultivation level is only that of a soul saint, the poison will be even worse.

The combat power is comparable to that of an extreme martial spirit soul master who is a fellow cultivator. At that time, perhaps it is more appropriate to call her attribute the ultimate poison.

It is a pity that such a powerful snow-colored swan kiss is destined to be almost no one able to make good use of it because of its characteristics that ordinary people cannot even touch it.

But it was obvious that Huo Yuhao was one of the very few exceptions. In other words, the emergence of the soul ritual changed everything, allowing him to help Meng Hongchen make good use of it.

"The jelly grass that signed the soul contract with you this time is called Snow Swan Kiss. ​​It is worth mentioning that although it can breed toxins in the contact parts, it does not carry highly toxic substances in itself. It can even be said to be a real anti-toxic agent. Attribute immunity.”

What Huo Yuhao is explaining now is actually what he learned from communicating with the Snow-colored Swan Kiss in the demiplane of the undead a few days ago.

For example, the immunity to toxins, although a bit beyond his expectation, actually makes sense when he thinks about it. After all, given its characteristics, if it is not immune to toxins, it may be affected by the toxins spreading in the air as soon as it grows. And the ego is rotten.

And it is different from the toxin-dispersing toxins of Youxiang Qiluo Immortal Product and the suppressed toxins of Ice Emperor Martial Spirit. This thing is simply immune to all toxins. No matter how much toxins accumulate in the body, it will not be affected at all.

In a sense, it may be truly invulnerable.

"Because of this, some adjustments need to be made to the soul ritual steps this time. You need to first fuse the soul bone that it actively stripped off, so that your body has the same toxin immunity as it, and then try to absorb it through the soul ritual. remaining power."

As if realizing the seriousness, Meng Hongchen's little head couldn't stop nodding: "I understand."

Seeing the other party's appearance, Huo Yuhao was a little surprised: "This is very dangerous, aren't you afraid?"

"Huh? Why are you afraid?"

Meng Hongchen tilted his head, as if confused: "Aren't you here?"

Taking advantage of Huo Yuhao's dazed moment, she quietly stepped forward and hugged the young man in front of her, her voice determined and serious.

"As long as you are here, I am not afraid. After all, you clearly know the danger of this matter, but you still took the initiative to mention it to me. You will definitely do your best to ensure my safety, right?"

As if he was amused by the clever answer, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth: "Do you really believe that I will protect you?"

"Of course." Meng Hongchen said without hesitation: "I am your female companion. We will be together for the rest of our lives. If I don't trust you, who else can I trust?"

"..."

Huo Yuhao opened his mouth, not knowing what to say for a while. It seemed that he could not resist the fierce attack of the girl. He instinctively turned his head away to avoid the warm breath hitting his face.

"Ahem, it would be best if you are willing to trust me. Let's prepare to start the ceremony... Before that, take this and return it to me after the ceremony is over."

As his palm turned, a crystal clear bead like a lavender crystal appeared in Huo Yuhao's hand.

"The Heart of Qiluo, carry it close to you during the ceremony, it should protect you from being corroded by toxins during the process of absorbing soul bones."

"Really? You have so many treasures on you..."

As if she was amused by his unromantic look, Meng Hongchen couldn't help but hum twice, and then she threw Huo Yuhao, who was caught off guard, to the ground with a force.

Ignoring the other party's stunned eyes, she leaned over slightly and admired his appearance from a high position.

"But then again, no matter how nice the words are, you will definitely be a little scared in your heart."

Speaking of this, she paused, and suddenly met Huo Yuhao's blue eyes, and said meaningfully: "If someone can comfort my anxious heart with actual actions before the ceremony, maybe I can perform better during the soul ceremony."

Comfort, you are just greedy for my body, right?

Huo Yuhao complained in his heart, but when he met Meng Hongchen's expectant eyes, he couldn't bear to say no.

"Just three minutes, when the three minutes are up, you will listen to my instructions and start soul..."

Halfway through his words, he felt a fragrant breeze blowing on his face, and then, all the words that he hadn't had time to say were blocked by Meng Hongchen who was racing against time. .

"..."

"Three minutes are up."

"Too short, I haven't tasted it yet, another three minutes..."

"..."

"Huh - enough, enough?"

"You didn't even count, how do I know if it's really three minutes, no, start over..."

"..."

"Is your timer broken? It doesn't feel accurate? Test it for another three minutes..."

"I haven't even said anything yet!"