Chapter 137: Chapter 101: The Team-up of Hong Ji and the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother
The tentacles were a composite of various metals, bones, muscles, and fibers, their surfaces covered in the sharp teeth of all sorts of Demons.
The long teeth of the Giant Horror Demon were clustered in groups of over a dozen every half a meter, making the killing power of these four tentacles utterly astounding.
The sheer force from a swing of the four tentacles was enough to knock a Snowstorm Ape to the ground.
If a tentacle was swung with a whip-like snap, concentrating all its force onto a single Snowstorm Ape, the creature would likely be lashed into smithereens by the multi-material limb of bone, metal, muscle, and fiber.
After Hong Ji attacked, Shen Xuan had the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother unfurl its main tendrils.
It spread the silky filaments hidden within its sixteen main tendrils throughout the area, stinging any Snowstorm Apes they came into contact with.
From twenty to thirty meters away, the filaments easily stung six or seven Snowstorm Apes.
The sting from the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother wasn’t severe in itself; it felt like a very fine, soft needle piercing the skin.
This was because the moment a filament stung a target, poison was injected simultaneously.
As soon as the poison entered the target’s body, it caused immediate, excruciating pain.
A creature with a high pain tolerance might not even feel the sting of the filament alone.
Once the poison entered a Snowstorm Ape’s body, besides causing unbearable pain, the venom would also cause the Dissolution of any tissue it touched, rapidly bringing about the Erosion of the ape’s Life.
Hong Ji swung the four tentacles behind her back, reaping the lives of the Snowstorm Apes like a Demon King.
She would finish off any Snowstorm Apes already afflicted by the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s toxin, helping the Poison Chain to jump and spread.
If the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother didn’t actively control the Poison Chains, they would conduct freely, jumping to the nearest target.
However, if the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother took active control, the Poison Chain could be directed into a specific target within range.
Shen Xuan directed the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother to keep five Poison Chains constantly conducting, while sending all the excess ones toward the Ice Storm Apes hidden among the Snowstorm Ape Community.
This allowed for the targeted assassination of elite units like the Ice Storm Apes.
Meanwhile, Ice Glaze used its Exclusive Trait, Extreme Ice Force Field, to reinforce the Ice Cave, mitigating the environmental impact of the Lamp Furnace Flowers held by Zhong Yi, Shen Xuan, and Zhong Ling.
At the same time, it commanded the Ice Sculptures formed by its skill, Ice Jade Fox Sculpture, to guard Hong Ji’s back.
If any Snowstorm Apes or Ice Storm Apes broke through Hong Ji’s defensive line, the four Ice Fox Sculptures under Ice Glaze’s command would hunt them down.
A sweep of a fox tail carried enough force to send even a sturdy Snowstorm Ape staggering.
Thousands of Ice Needles on the tail would pierce the Snowstorm Ape’s body. Even with their strong Ice Attribute resistance, which protected them from the cold qi’s Erosion, they couldn’t withstand the Frosty Cold Qi that shot up into their nostrils!
As the grievously wounded Snowstorm Apes wailed instinctively, they would inhale the gaseous ice that Ice Glaze had sublimated near their nostrils using its Exclusive Trait, Frosty Frost Qi.
Their already blood-engorged internal organs would freeze at an incredible speed.
In their agony, these Snowstorm Apes would become corpses, frozen solid from the inside out.
Zhong Ling would also command her Blade Butterfly—which disliked the cold environment—to perform the final culling of any Snowstorm Apes that got too close.
When the Blade Butterfly attacked, it resembled a magnificent steel rose.
It would crash into its target and execute its Basic Skill, Unsheathing, scattering like a shower of steel petals.
After a day of this slaughter, Zhong Yi’s group of three had reached a Secret Realm Exploration Level of twenty-three percent for the Ice Cave Secret Realm.
The deeper they ventured into the Ice Cave Secret Realm, the more frequently they encountered Snow Demon Ape communities, and the faster their Secret Realm Exploration Level increased.
Every time they passed through an Ice Cave, Ice Glaze would erect a half-meter-tall Ice Sculpture at both the entrance and exit.
This ensured that Zhong Yi’s group wouldn’t accidentally re-enter a cave they had already cleared.
After Shen Xuan’s Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother joined the battle, its toxins brought about the Erosion and Dissolution of poisoned individuals.
The poisoned Snowstorm Apes and Ice Storm Apes were reduced to nothingness under the toxin’s assault.
Although the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s participation in battle didn’t affect the Soul-Controlling Flower’s absorption of Life and Soul Energy, it did prevent Red Thorn from absorbing the Demon Remains of the Snowstorm Apes and Ice Storm Apes. Zhong Yi, however, wasn’t too concerned about this.
For one, if he really needed Demon Remains, he could just get them from Chen Yin.
For another, he planned to collect plenty of Guardian Beast and Demon Remains in the future, so Hong Ji wouldn’t lack for materials to absorb.
Hong Ji absorbed materials using her Exclusive Trait, Material Absorption, which turned her own body into a vessel.
She could integrate materials or metals from various life forms into herself, making them a part of her body.
As a vessel, however, Hong Ji’s body had a limit to how many materials it could absorb.
Zhong Yi had a feeling that Hong Ji was already nearing that limit.
To grow stronger after reaching the limit, she would need to replace the materials she had previously absorbed.
If Hong Ji could absorb materials indefinitely using her Exclusive Trait, Material Absorption, then her potential would surpass that of every known life form in the world!
After all, any other living being could be used as material to strengthen her indefinitely.
To Zhong Yi’s surprise, after a day of fighting, Hong Ji began to proactively absorb the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s toxins while cleaning up the battlefield.
She was taking the poison into her body as a material.
Zhong Yi was quite surprised by this and made a point to ask Hong Ji about it.
The Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s poison was not only extremely potent but also carried the Rules of Erosion and Dissolution from its Rule Authority, Erosion of All Things.
Zhong Yi was afraid that if Hong Ji absorbed the venom, it might damage the internal space where she stored materials.
When Zhong Yi asked, Hong Ji explained that she could use the Poison Sac of a Mire Snake Lizard Demon she had previously absorbed to contain the venom.
The Mire Snake Lizard Demon was an extremely common Demon in the Mire Secret Realm, known for its slow movement.
At top speed, a Mire Snake Lizard Demon couldn’t even outrun a sprinting teenager.
However, the Mire Snake Lizard Demon possessed a massive Poison Sac, one that was even larger than its own stomach.
It could spray large quantities of highly corrosive venom at enemies from a distance.
The Poison Sacs from the Mire Snake Lizard Demons of the Mire Secret Realm had extremely high poison resistance. Though they appeared thin, the sacs were incredibly difficult to erode with toxins.
By folding and layering the Mire Snake Lizard Demon’s Poison Sacs within her body, and reinforcing them with other poison-resistant materials, Hong Ji created special sacs. Each one could contain the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s venom for nearly three hours before being completely corroded.
Hong Ji just needed to continuously fold and modify more Mire Snake Lizard Demon Poison Sacs to hold the venom.
This allowed Hong Ji to cleverly utilize the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s venom in battle.
Since the venom carried the Rule Authority of the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother, when Hong Ji coated her Bone Blades or tentacles with it and injured a target, it did more than just poison them. The Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother could also use this connection to activate its skill, Poison Chain Conduction.
This formed the first stage of combat synergy between Hong Ji and the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother.
The Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother, as a Poison Attribute Order Beast, suffered from a common weakness among Poison Element Guardian Beasts.
If a target’s defense was too high to be pierced, it was impossible to inflict them with poison.
Although the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother could also spray its venom on a target’s exterior and use its Rule Authority to cause Erosion and Dissolution to their skin or Scale Armor, this method was far too slow against powerful enemies!
And Shen Xuan couldn’t just frequently use his Beastmaster Talent, Poison Burst, to instantly detonate all the poison damage and cause the Dissolution of the target’s defenses.
Each use of a Beastmaster Talent consumed a massive amount of the Guardian Beast Master’s Soul Energy.
By using the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s venom, Hong Ji established a combat synergy with it.
This, in turn, created the beginnings of teamwork between Zhong Yi and Shen Xuan.
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