"Xin, how strong is your poison now?"
"How strong, you ask?"
Hearing Chen Junting's question, Dugu Xin wanted to demonstrate. But scanning his surroundings, he found no "opponent."
Moreover, they were currently at the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well. If his extreme poison damaged this blessed land, that would be a grave sin.
Thus, Dugu Xin could only shake his head regretfully.
However, Chen Junting understood his thoughts. With a simple clap of his hands, a gray hexagram array quietly emerged beneath their feet. In the next second, the three instantly vanished from their original location.
Left behind was only a single flower, Youyou.
Seeing these three living people disappear in an instant, the originally swaying flower suddenly stiffened. "Where did they go!?"
Her tone was filled with utter bewilderment. She even drooped her petals, fumbling about to see if they had burrowed underground. But obviously, these actions were futile.
At the same time,
Amidst a squeeze and shuttle through space, Dugu Xin—along with Ning Tian—was brought by Chen Junting to the Undead Demiplane.
They were no strangers to this place.
Ugh—
After dry heaving, Dugu Xin wiped the corner of his mouth and looked at this completely dead and silent land. "You want me to test it here."
"Exactly." Chen Junting nodded.
But as he beckoned with his hand, a strange fluctuation spread out from him in all directions.
Just as Dugu Xin and Ning Tian couldn't understand what Chen Junting was doing, a few seconds later, they suddenly looked toward one direction. They saw black dots in the distance rapidly approaching!
Looking closely, it was shockingly a massive bone dragon. The aura it emitted was no less than that of a Titled Douluo powerhouse.
Boom—
Amidst the turbulence of violent winds and tremendous commotion, the bone dragon landed heavily. Its ferocious skull bowed before Chen Junting, signifying submission. The nether flames in its eye sockets were its soul fires—likewise, the "life" source of undead creatures.
Thump thump—
Knocking on this seemingly indestructible skull, Chen Junting turned his gaze toward Dugu Xin. And almost simultaneously, the bone dragon also directed its hollow eye sockets toward him.
"Want to try?"
"Then let's try."
Dugu Xin was also a man of few words but fierce action.
A piercing long howl erupted from his mouth as jade-green poisonous light burst forth from his body, his figure growing with the wind.
When the seventh soul ring lit up with deep black light, his body continuously expanded within that jade light, rising straight up.
In the next second, a Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor stood upright with most of its body, confronting the bone dragon face-to-face. Its tongue flickered lightly, scales flaring outward, twenty pairs of icy cold eyes staring coldly at the bone dragon—as if looking at prey. Had an ordinary Titled Douluo seen this scene, they couldn't help but feel chills running through their entire body, goosebumps practically covering them from head to toe.
The bone dragon, under Chen Junting's orders, spread its terrifying dragon wings, claws splayed, assuming a hunting posture.
Seeing this, Chen Junting rapidly retreated backward.
Coming to Ning Tian's side, he swept her into his arms in a princess carry. With a light tap of his toes, a soul power longsword appeared beneath his feet out of thin air, carrying the two toward a distant hill at maximum speed.
Not too far, not too close—perfect for observing the battle.
Seemingly lacking full intelligence, the bone dragon was the first to lose patience. Letting out a dragon roar toward the sky, its wings tore through the atmosphere as it abruptly opened its mouth, a black light shooting toward the Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor.
The Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor that Dugu Xin had transformed into assumed a posture of neither dodging nor avoiding. Seven soul rings swirled around its massive body as it opened its mouth and sprayed out a breath of jade-green poison mist, completely enveloping the black light spewed by the bone dragon. Then it allowed that mass of black light to continue its momentum unchanged, still attacking toward him.
But when it was still a foot from his body, the terrifying extreme poison completely eroded the black light, transforming it into a glob of poison liquid that dripped to the ground.
Sizzle—
Just this sound signified that a poison pit had formed in the ground.
Roar—
The bone dragon let out a furious roar, directly abandoning its long-range attack methods and pouncing toward the great serpent before it!
Dugu Xin, transformed into his martial soul true form, simultaneously raised his ten serpent heads, targeting the bone dragon's wings, four claws, dragon neck, dragon head, dragon tail, and spine—ten locations to bite at. Sharp poisonous fangs like daggers directly pierced through the bone dragon's bones.
Penetrating the surface of the bony body, injecting extreme poison within.
Upon first contact, the bone dragon's body was instantly eroded by the extreme poison. Even the location where the poisonous fangs made contact corroded at the fastest speed, continuously progressing toward the degree of flying ash.
This thoroughly enraged the bone dragon.
However, ten jade-green halos emerged from the serpent heads, fusing together during their release before suddenly expanding outward.
This fused jade-green halo caused everything within its range to turn jade-green, like a poisonous purgatory. Poison liquid even emerged, transforming this area into a poison swamp.
"This is…"
Ning Tian was slightly startled. "The power of a domain."
"It seems Xin's luck is good." A smile appeared at the corner of Chen Junting's mouth. "The benefits he obtained from the Ten-Headed Fierce Yang Serpent's inner core are exactly the same as what Phoenix Douluo Ma Hongjun got ten thousand years ago."
Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor Domain.
This was the name Dugu Xin gave it himself.
Though the name was ordinary, the domain was extraordinary.
Once deployed, everything within its range—any non-living matter—would be assimilated by his extreme poison. Within the domain's range, his own poison attribute would increase by fifty percent, becoming even more poisonous than Ultimate Poison. Unless the domain was broken, he would not die unless killed ten times. However, this domain also had a limitation: it could only be deployed in martial soul true form state.
In the current battle, Dugu Xin had already gone all out.
Under the tyranny of Ultimate Poison, combined with the domain's dominance, the bone dragon had become fish on the chopping block—at the mercy of others. In merely a moment, its body was completely infected by extreme poison turning jade-green, and chunks of bone had already disintegrated.
Had Dugu Xin not held back, it would have long since turned to flying ash.
The massive body of the Ten-Headed Jade Phosphor Serpent Emperor turned transparent and vanished. Dugu Xin's body hovered in mid-air, then quietly landed.
Stepping upon the poison swamp, as if treating it as nothing.
Looking at this extreme poison environment around him, Dugu Xin was about to use the Poison Pill within his body to retract this poison swamp when—"Wait a moment."
Chen Junting and Ning Tian, wearing poison-avoiding sachets, flew down from that small hill in the distance, calling out to stop him. At this moment, a gray stream of light flew out from behind Chen Junting's head.
They saw Elder Yi gradually transform into a figure existing between illusion and substance, then gracefully land beside the bone dragon's remains.
Looking at the soul fire about to extinguish, he reached out and tapped it. Then, with practiced ease, he employed necromantic magic to transform the bone dragon.
Meanwhile, Chen Junting had already arrived at Dugu Xin's side. Looking at this poison swamp, he said, "My teacher intends to transform the bone dragon into one possessing your extreme poison. So when that time comes, this poison swamp will serve as its dwelling place—no need to retract it."
Dugu Xin naturally wouldn't refuse this.
Thus he nodded. "Alright."
And at this time, Ning Tian, standing beside Chen Junting, also spoke at the appropriate moment. "Xin, with your extreme poison, I'm afraid ordinary Titled Douluos are no longer your match. I imagine even Super Douluo level powerhouses wouldn't dare to easily exchange blows with you."
"You're overpraising me."
Dugu Xin couldn't help feeling somewhat embarrassed, waving his hands awkwardly. But the tone in his voice couldn't conceal his mood.
Chen Junting, seeing this from the side, also couldn't help but smile.
However, just as Little Tian said, Dugu Xin—now possessing the Ultimate Poison attribute—had truly become a character that even Super Douluos wouldn't dare to easily exchange blows with. Even he himself was the same. Of course, this was under the condition of not having poison-avoiding methods.
Also at this moment, Roar—
A dragon roar instantly attracted the three's attention. Following the direction of the sound, they saw a bone dragon like jadeite emit a heaven-shaking roar, as if reborn.
And in an instant, it was attracted by the poison swamp.
Without a word, it dove into the poison swamp, rolling and frolicking about like a husky among dogs, immediately causing everyone to burst into laughter.
However, what Chen Junting and the others didn't know was that at this moment, a certain gaze was continuously searching for something in the Douluo Plane…
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