Although the Golden Flower Poison Python is large in size, its movements are extremely agile. It moves through the dense forest without any hindrance and at an extremely fast speed.

In just a few breaths, the Golden Flower Poison Python has caught up to Bai Rong. Its blood-filled mouth expands, and a purple poisonous gas sprays out, rushing towards her.

Seeing that she couldn’t dodge in time, Bai Rong immediately turns around and raises her hand, gripping a small bronze mirror. She reflects it towards the Poison Python.

A bright light shines on the mirror, condensing into a white light shield, blocking in front of her.

The surging purple gas falls on the shield, making a “pu pu” sound, but it is unable to break through.

However, the dispersed poisonous gas leaks out from both sides of the shield and approaches Bai Rong.

When Yuan Ming sees that she is about to be engulfed by the poisonous gas, he hesitates whether to go forward and help. Suddenly, he sees Bai Rong quickly retreating, and another ancient-looking bell appears in her other hand.

“Dang!”

She shakes the bell vigorously, making a loud sound.

At this moment, a black shadow suddenly swoops down from a tree beside the Golden Flower Poison Python.

Accompanied by a “chi” sound.

The huge head of the Golden Flower Poison Python immediately falls down, and as blood splatters, the poisonous gas sprayed from its mouth also stops.

A man in black clothes walks out from behind the Golden Flower Poison Python.

“Necromancy! Is she a disciple of the Black Fire Sect?”

When Yuan Ming sees the appearance of the man in black, his eyebrows furrow involuntarily.

He is not wearing black clothes all over his body, but is wrapped in black ribbons from head to toe, with only two deep eye sockets exposed, revealing a green glow.

On the outer sides of his two arms, there are two slender curved knives installed by some unknown method, stained with the blood of the Poison Python.

After killing the Golden Flower Poison Python, Bai Rong does not approach, but quickly comes to a stone wall nearby and carefully examines it, as if looking for something.

Yuan Ming is surprised to see this and silently observes without revealing himself.

After a while, he sees Bai Rong searching on this side of the stone wall and taking out something, pressing it on a stone under the wall.

After placing it, Bai Rong hurriedly leaves with the corpse.

When her figure disappears, Yuan Ming comes out from behind the tree and searches under the stone wall with suspicion.

After lifting the stone, he finds that there is a jade symbol similar to the one given by the White Night Scattered Alliance underneath, seemingly some kind of guiding beacon.

Yuan Ming hesitates for a moment and doesn’t dare to touch it without knowing what it is.

He covers the stone back.

When he wants to chase after Bai Rong, he can no longer find any trace.

When Yuan Ming turns around, he sees his Black Toad, which was placed on the outer perimeter for surveillance, now on top of the Poison Python’s corpse.

He quickly catches up and sees the vines extending from the bulging back of the Black Toad, piercing into the remains of the Poison Python, seemingly absorbing the remaining power.

After a while, the originally swollen body of the Golden Flower Poison Python gradually becomes withered and shrinks.

Meanwhile, the Black Toad crouching on the side emits a faint black mist, and the vines on its back are lively and shaking, apparently gaining a considerable benefit.

“I’ve only heard of snakes swallowing toads, but this is the first time I’ve seen a toad swallowing a snake,” Yuan Ming murmurs to himself.

The Black Toad immediately jumps up in front of him, giving a definite answer.

Yuan Ming understands in his heart.

When he relied on the Fur Transformation Technique to survive, didn’t he also hunt and devour fierce beasts to enhance his strength?

So it’s normal for this little Black Toad to eat poisonous creatures.

“Since you love eating poisonous things so much, come, I’ll take you to eat until you’re full.” Yuan Ming smiles.

The little Black Toad immediately lets out an excited low growl and leaps onto Yuan Ming’s shoulder.

Guided by the Soul Raven, Yuan Ming continues to explore forward.

The deeper they go, the denser the poisonous mist becomes.

Towards the back, Yuan Ming gradually feels uncomfortable, and his breathing becomes heavy.

Just as he was about to stop and rest for a while, a sudden burst of fighting sounds comes from not far ahead.

“Bai Rong?” Yuan Ming instinctively thinks of that woman.

With a thought, the Soul Raven flies ahead.

But when Yuan Ming uses the Soul Raven’s vision to see clearly, he realizes that it’s not Bai Rong who is fighting there, nor is it just one person, but Mang Tu and Kun Sha.

The two of them are surrounded by four large Golden Flower Poison Pythons, barely holding on with a defensive artifact in Mang Tu’s hand.

However, the protective barrier emitted by the artifact is already riddled with holes and won’t last much longer.”Are you done? Can you do it or not?” Mang Tun, who controlled the magic tool, urged repeatedly.

Kun Sha also worked anxiously, constantly responding, “Almost there, almost there…”

Yuan Ming saw this scene and vaguely felt that something was wrong.

At most, these four Golden Flower Poison Pythons were only at the Qi Refining stage, so how could they have pushed these two to such a desperate situation?

Just then, there was a sudden disturbance in the mountains and forests.

Even from a distance, Yuan Ming could feel the intense trembling of the earth.

At this moment, he saw through the eyes of the Soul Raven that in the rolling mist, huge shadows emerged one after another, and hundreds of Golden Flower Poison Pythons rushed out like a tide, surging towards Mang Tun and the others.

Under the tremendous pressure, Mang Tun’s defensive magic tool finally couldn’t hold on and collapsed with a loud bang.

But at the same time, a red light rose from the center of the two, followed by a burst of red mist.

Accompanying it was Mang Tun’s painful roar.

The pervasive red mist had a strong corrosive effect and forced the approaching Golden Flower Poison Pythons to retreat.

Due to the diffusion of the mist, a large number of Golden Flower Poison Pythons actually changed direction and rushed towards Yuan Ming.

Seeing this, Yuan Ming quickly summoned the Soul Raven back and put away the Black Toad, dodging towards the direction of the mountain wall.

However, before he could run far, the Golden Flower Poison Pythons had already twisted their bodies and rushed towards him.

“Not good! This is a disaster on the level of a beast tide!” Yuan Ming knew that he couldn’t fight back at all and quickly climbed towards the mountain wall.

Just as the beast tide was about to surge, he climbed up a stone cliff located in the middle of the mountain wall and saw a black cave that was taller than a person.

Yuan Ming rushed into the pitch-black cave entrance, but as soon as he took a step, he lost his balance and fell forward.

Fortunately, it was only a steep slope in front, not a cliff. After a few rolls, Yuan Ming stopped the rolling motion with one hand and stood up.

At this moment, he noticed that the passage inside the cave was unusually spacious.

Inside the passage, a warm airflow continuously blew out, blocking the poisonous mist outside the cave. Besides darkness, there was no poisonous gas inside.

Yuan Ming reached out his palm and condensed some spiritual energy, forming a fist-sized fireball.

With a flick of his finger, the fireball swiftly flew forward and swooped down, exploding suddenly about thirty feet away.

Yuan Ming dodged the scorching air wave and, with the sparks from the explosion, saw the situation inside.

The slanting passage was extremely deep, and it was not empty inside. The ground was scattered with large white beast bones, and the further down, the more there were, resembling a graveyard of beasts.

With a thought, the Soul Raven flew in first to help him explore the route.

After about the time it takes to brew a cup of tea, the Soul Raven finally passed through a pile of bones that almost blocked the entrance of the cave and flew into a spacious and dim space.

It was called dim, not dark, because this space was not completely underground.

Above it, there was a small opening, and faint sunlight leaked through, barely qualifying as a sinkhole.

Following closely behind, Yuan Ming punched open the large pile of bones blocking the entrance of the cave and arrived here.

As soon as he entered, he couldn’t help but shiver.

Although it was a sinkhole with sunlight shining through, it felt colder than the passage just now.

The higher the sinkhole went, the more vibrant the surrounding stone walls became, covered with green moss and various ferns. Near the entrance of the cave, there were even a large number of vines, making the already small entrance even more concealed.

On the ground of the sinkhole, there were also scattered beast bones everywhere, most of which had already decayed, with only a few still having intact fur.

After carefully inspecting the surroundings and not finding any danger, Yuan Ming saw a peculiar black withered tree in the center of the sinkhole.

It was only about three feet tall, shaped like coral, with many tentacles. It was pitch black like ink, but had a metallic luster, as if it was made of black iron.

So at first, Yuan Ming really thought it was a piece of iron.

But when he looked closely, he found that there were wooden textures on this “piece of iron”, with scars like an old tree, and exposed roots at the base.

However, the entire tree was obviously dead, without any leaves.

At the base of the tree roots, there was a slightly sunken small pit, with traces of liquid that had once gathered inside.

Yuan Ming reached out his hand and waved it above the pit without directly touching it, but he felt a cold breath.

“Could this be the rumored Yellow Springs Tree?” A flash of insight came to his mind, and he suddenly remembered what this thing was.According to the records in the book, in some places where yin energy gathers, under fortuitous circumstances, spring water can accumulate, attracting the yin energy of the earth’s veins to form a spring eye.

The spring water that forms is known as Yinling Spring.

And if a seed falls into it and is able to take root and sprout, the tree that grows out of it is called a Huangquan Tree.

Therefore, depending on the type of seed that falls into the Yinling Spring, the appearance of the Huangquan Tree can vary. Some can grow into robust large trees, and coffins made from them can preserve the body for a hundred years without decay.

Some can only grow into small plants like the one in front of Yuan Ming. The prayer beads or incense made from them have excellent calming and soothing effects.

And the wood of the Huangquan Tree can also be used as one of the main spiritual materials for the refinement of certain special magical instruments.

In short, this is indeed a very rare and good thing!

(End of Chapter)