Under the restraint of the inner demon blood oath, "Elder Longjiao" and the other two dared not violate their oath. Otherwise, not only would their future cultivation path be destroyed, but they would also live in endless pain with inner demons every day.
In Li Yan's brief daze, the "Pill Annihilation Powder" that had slipped into his throat instantly turned into a liquid, like a waterfall cascading down a mountain, and flowed directly into his dantian.
Just as Li Yan reacted, the liquid that had entered his abdomen seemed to be attracted by the golden core. It gathered in an instant and enveloped his golden core in a moment.
A powerful suction force came from the viscous liquid that enveloped the golden core.
The connection between Li Yan and his golden core became blurry. The golden core trembled violently, out of control. The purest spiritual power within it was rapidly draining away.
All of this happened in a flash. Li Yan, still dizzy, was already poisoned before he could fully recover.
"A poison that directly destroys the dantian's purple mansion. Its main purpose is to annihilate the golden core and abolish a cultivator's cultivation!"
Sensing the intermittent connection with his golden core and the alarming rate at which the spiritual power in his body was disappearing, Li Yan quickly judged the effects of the other party's three poisons in his mind.
The three of them wanted to destroy his physical body, sea of consciousness, and cultivation source all at once. Their methods were extremely ruthless and sinister.
"Whether it's the corrosion or the toxicity, this should be the most vicious poison I've seen since I started cultivating!"
If he weren't a poison cultivator, Li Yan believed that just with these three poisons entering his body, he would have turned into a pile of pus and blood within three to five breaths.
Of course, according to "Elder Longjiao's" original intention, he wanted Zhang Ming to die slowly in endless pain. That would make him more pleased.
It was just that Zhang Ming had insisted on fighting the three of them alone.
In that case, with the three of them cooperating, they naturally all took out their top-tier poisons. With their synergistic effects, Zhang Ming could only die faster.
And just as Li Yan had not yet reacted, without him having to actively trigger it, a change had already occurred in his body.
The Fragmented Poison Body, like a cat that had smelled fish, had already automatically turned into countless threads from his chest and abdomen, pouncing towards all parts of his body.
In the next moment, Li Yan felt his body relax, and the pain and dizziness had already subsided.
After the threads of qi and blood from the Fragmented Poison Body had pounced out, Li Yan had originally thought that the first to be eliminated should be the potent poison from the back of his neck. That was the main source of the intense pain in his whole body.
It was caused by the green liquid poison attack of that female Golden Core cultivator. Such an attack was actually inferior to the poisons that destroyed the golden core and the sea of consciousness.
But from its surface effect, it appeared more domineering and horrifying.
Without using his divine sense to scan, Li Yan could feel that his neck was already festering. If he delayed for another moment, his head would no longer be supported by the melting neck bones and would roll to the ground on its own.
However, this kind of poison was, on the contrary, the easiest for Li Yan to solve.
And the first thing the Fragmented Poison Body solved was not this, but the "Pill Annihilation Powder" in his dantian.
Because the dantian's purple mansion was originally closest to the gathering place of the Fragmented Poison Body in his chest and abdomen, threads of qi and blood, like a dense spider web, instantly surged into his dantian.
Threads of qi and blood, straight or curved, wrapped around the ball of liquid that had just bared its fangs and was enveloping the golden core, pulling it into its embrace.
As they intertwined, the threads of qi and blood containing the potent poison of the Fragmented Poison Body began to squirm ceaselessly, like a constantly undulating silkworm cocoon.
Outside the golden core, the liquid transformed from the "Pill Annihilation Powder" had just sucked out a portion of the spiritual power from within the golden core. In the next moment, it sensed a death threat from the surroundings.
The liquid immediately gave up its inward tearing at the golden core and began to resist, struggling to pull at the threads of qi and blood outside, attempting to annex the other party and strengthen itself.
Whether it was a congenital poison or an acquired one, they all had the instinct to devour and fuse with their natural enemies.
This was similar to what Li Yan had read in the records about the Fragmented Poison Body.
"Shattered and fragmented, dividing into infinity, devouring all things in a natural struggle."
Just as in the duel in the Huchen family back then, if the Fragmented Poison Body devoured these three poisons this time, it was possible that some changes would occur.
Of course, if it was a poison that could be easily neutralized by it, it would no longer have any effect on the Fragmented Poison Body.
Similarly, if the Fragmented Poison Body was devoured by the "Pill Annihilation Powder" and the others, these three poisons might also mutate, becoming something that even "Elder Longjiao" and the others could not recognize.
After these liquids produced a powerful suction force outwards, the surrounding threads of qi and blood were actually pulled over by it. They then melted, and the liquid became even more gray and lifeless, filled with an aura of death.
A poison duel changes in an instant. Life and death are decided in a single moment.
This situation only lasted for less than a breath. The threads of qi and blood from Li Yan's Fragmented Poison Body in his chest and abdomen, which had been evenly divided into three strands, had pounced towards the three locations respectively.
The threads of qi and blood in the other two locations had also just come into contact with the invading poisons.
But after sensing the powerful counterattack of the liquid in Li Yan's dantian, at least half of the threads of qi and blood from the Fragmented Poison Body immediately retreated and returned, like a pack of fierce wolves, swarming up aggressively.
This time, a sky-full of qi and blood threads appeared around the gray liquid. They squirmed with a strange rhythm.
As they squirmed, the powerful suction force emanating from the gray liquid in the center was just released when it was dispersed by waves of undulating vibrations.
The gray liquid could no longer pull over any threads of qi and blood. Instead, its own body became scattered due to the increasingly strong undulating vibrations of the surrounding blood threads.
The scattered specks of liquid, upon contact with the outer threads of qi and blood, after struggling to twist a few times, were surrounded by more threads of qi and blood and were devoured completely in an instant.
Thus, the remaining gray liquid, like a little white rabbit surrounded by a pack of wolves, trembled and quickly disappeared. The pale yellow golden core was exposed again.
Compared to the "Pill Annihilation Powder," the poison techniques of Jiao Wuxing and Xi Ye were much inferior.
In Li Yan's sea of consciousness, the inhaled gray mist turned into a green-faced, tusked, disheveled ghost-faced flood dragon snake, flying and rampaging through the sea of consciousness, constantly spewing mist from its mouth, spreading and wreaking havoc throughout the entire sea of consciousness.
The originally clear sea of consciousness became turbid, like a plague descending upon the world. And just as the ghost-faced flood dragon snake was rampaging with impunity, suddenly, a long, slender rope of green and red appeared in the sky.
The moment the green and red rope appeared, the ferocious ghost-faced flood dragon snake, which was rampaging and flying, suddenly whipped its tail and shook its head, pausing in mid-air. Its eyes stared over with a fierce light.
And the green and red rope, without any warning, suddenly expanded and coiled towards the ghost-faced flood dragon snake. The ghost-faced flood dragon snake opened its mouth wide and let out a silent hiss.
At the same time, it violently spewed a thick mist with black qi from its mouth, completely different from the gray mist before, blocking the green and red rope.
At the same time, the body of the ghost-faced flood dragon snake fled into the distance.
The moment these black qi mists came into contact with the green and red rope, green smoke rose from the green and red rope, and its spirituality was greatly lost. But in the next moment, the entire green and red rope immediately changed and expanded continuously.
This time, the damage was relatively insignificant.
In just a few breaths, the green and red rope had almost spread throughout the entire sea of consciousness. The ghost-faced flood dragon snake had nowhere to hide and was directly caught by one end of the green and red rope.
Then, with this bit of leverage, the green and red rope finally seemed more like a long green and red spotted snake. The rest of its body, which had filled the sea of consciousness, quickly shrank. With a flick, it had already coiled up in an instant.
The moment the ghost-faced flood dragon snake was caught by the green and red rope, a painful expression immediately appeared on its ghost face. Its body rapidly tumbled and twisted in the air, struggling to shake off the green and red rope.
But the green and red rope was faster. The moment it caught the other party, the rest of the green and red rope shrank with the speed of lightning and had already tied the ghost-faced flood dragon snake up tightly from head to tail.
Then, the green and red rope suddenly tightened and twisted. The ghost-faced flood dragon snake's mouth suddenly opened wide, like a drowning person. Before the look of terror on its face could disappear, its entire body had already shattered into pieces and dissipated into gray smoke.
The green and red rope immediately turned into countless threads of qi and blood, wandering through the sea of consciousness. Wherever it passed, the gray mist was absorbed by it, and then slowly hidden within the blood threads and disappeared...
And the outside world's Li Yan felt his divine sense quickly clear up.
The intense pain in the back of his neck became faint a step before his divine sense did. The blood hole that had just been corroded was "slowly" recovering under the effect of the Undead Nether Phoenix essence blood.
The recovery speed after the flesh and blood were damaged was actually under Li Yan's deliberate control.
Otherwise, with the recovery speed of his current physical body, after the potent poison on his neck was removed, it would only take half a breath to heal on its own.
In these three years, Li Yan had refined the Undead Nether Phoenix essence blood with his Golden Core cultivation. That drop of silver blood had already been ninety percent refined, and the third layer of the Qiongqi Purgatory Art had also reached minor completion.
When he completely refined this drop of Undead Nether Phoenix essence blood, it was very likely that he would enter the peak of the initial-stage of the Golden Core realm.
Li Yan estimated that with his current physical body, even without using a spiritual power shield, ordinary magical treasures would have a hard time breaking through his defense. It should be about the same as the physical body of a late-stage Golden Core body cultivator.
This was also one of the reasons why Li Yan dared to take a gamble even though he knew that "Elder Longjiao" was a Pseudo-Nascent Soul realm cultivator. What's more, he still had the Fragmented Poison Body, and the amplification of the Five Elements Returning to Primordial Genesis had also more than doubled.
Not to mention he still had the Gui-Yi Water-Parting Spike that he had never used...
Everything that happened to Li Yan, in the eyes of outsiders, became quite conventional, no different from others who were poisoned and detoxifying.
After being cast upon by the three of them, Li Yan stood there, motionless, with black spiritual power flickering around him.
Everyone saw the flesh and blood on his neck, amidst "sizzling" sounds, reveal a blood hole. The white bones began to be exposed bit by bit, but no blood sprayed out, only wisps of black qi emerged.
It made people's hearts turn cold.
Below the platform, Su Yuan and Xie Tongyi's foreheads were instantly drenched in sweat, their faces pale, and their fists clenched.
Great Master Wanxiang's brows were furrowed, and Jie Fengkai kept muttering in his heart.
'This is really injuring the enemy by a thousand and losing one thousand two hundred. The other person is not dead, but he himself is about to be finished!'
And on the other side, some people had smiles on their faces, while others had looks of ridicule.
'One person against three poison cultivators, hehehe...'
On the platform, after a few breaths, Zhang Ming's body swayed, and he sat down cross-legged on the ground directly.
He laboriously raised a hand and swept it across his waist. Several pills flew out of his storage pouch and were directly sucked into his mouth. Then he closed his eyes tightly and became like a stone sculpture again.
And after he swallowed the pills, the blood hole on his neck indeed stopped expanding and even showed signs of healing. It was just that the power of the pills might be about the same as the thick green liquid sprinkled by Xi Ye.
The healing of the blood hole was extremely slow, and it would even occasionally expand a little again. The poison and the antidote were in a stalemate.
This was only what they could see on the surface. These people could infer in their hearts what a torturous scene was taking place inside Zhang Ming's body at this time.
They had never expected that under such circumstances, Li Yan's personality would once again be revealed. What he was thinking was still not to expose his trump cards.
If he were to be completely fine at this time and detoxify the poison just like that, then besides bringing himself great trouble, there would be no other result.