26: Chapter 26 The Hunt is Set: Poison the Ice Python!

On the bronze stone platform of the underground secret chamber, it was covered with various jars and cans and poisonous herbs emitting a pungent odor.

Qi Yang sat cross-legged, and the purple copper alchemical furnace in front of him was burning with scarlet alchemical fire.

"The Ice Python belongs to both the water and ice dual attributes. This Yao Beast has a formidable Physical Body and a piercingly cold aura. To kill it, one must use extreme fire and deadly poison!"

In Qi Yang's mind, a century of pharmacological knowledge spun frantically.

Although the speed to Cultivate the Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Root was as slow as a crawling turtle, his Physique, complete with the Five Elements, allowed him to handle refining poisons of various attributes with ease.

He grabbed a century-old blazing sun grass that was entirely scarlet and seemed to be burning, throwing it directly into the Pill Furnace.

Immediately after, blood-dissolving vine, deadly spider silk, heartbreak grass...

One by one, the top-grade poisonous herbs ripened by the black gourd were thrown in by him.

He wanted to refine an ultimate poison specifically designed to break the Qi and blood of ice-type Yao Beasts, the burn-blood powder!

Once this poison entered the Yao Beast's body, it would turn into a violent fire poison, frantically burning the Yao Beast's essence Qi and blood, completely disintegrating its formidable Physical Body from the inside.

For a full seven days, Qi Yang did not sleep or rest.

After failing more than a dozen times and destroying dozens of century-old poisonous herbs, he finally condensed a small pinch of dark red powder at the bottom of the Pill Furnace.

Qi Yang carefully packed the burn-blood powder into a jade bottle, a trace of ruthlessness flashing in his eyes.

"The poison is ready, but it is not enough. The Ice Python's perception is extremely acute. Once it senses danger, it will definitely shrink back to the bottom of the cold pond. We must lure it out and trap it to death on the shore!"

Qi Yang stood up, changed into that black robe, put on the gloomy human skin mask, and once again became the Incarnation of the evil Cultivator Daoist Mu.

Taking advantage of the night, he quietly left the Xuantian Sect and headed straight for the Ghost Market a hundred miles away.

The Ghost Market was still in that gloomy appearance filled with Yin Qi.

Qi Yang did not set up a stall, but instead walked straight into the largest underground shop in the Ghost Market, the Wanbao Building.

"Shopkeeper, take out the trapping and killing Formation Plate with the greatest power in your shop."

Qi Yang lowered his hoarse voice and directly slapped a Storage Pouch filled with Spirit Stones onto the counter.

The shopkeeper of the Wanbao Building was a shrewd little old man. After glancing at the weight of the Storage Pouch, his eyes lit up instantly.

"Senior is so generous! Our shop has just stocked a set of first-grade supreme Formation Plate, the Exploding Flame Departing Fire Formation! This array uses eight century-old Fire Cloud Crystals as the array core. Once activated, it can form a fire prison with a radius of ten zhang. Even a Qi Refining Ninth Layer Cultivator trapped inside would have to peel a layer of skin!"

Qi Yang carefully checked the array patterns and Spiritual Qi fluctuations of the Formation Plate. After confirming there were no mistakes, he nodded coldly.

"I want it. In addition, prepare ten first-grade superior explosive flame talismans and twenty first-grade intermediate earth-sinking talismans for me!"

The shopkeeper gasped a breath of cold air. With this array of equipment, was he going to slaughter a sect and wipe out a family?

But he dared not ask too much and immediately went to the warehouse to fetch the goods.

Qi Yang emptied most of the family fortune he had saved over the past half year, and returned to the Xuantian Sect outer sect with a Storage Pouch full of lethal weapons.

All is ready, except for the east wind.

The Ice Python was only a first-order Yao Beast with unopened spiritual wisdom, making it most easily tempted by blood food.

Qi Yang wandered around the back mountain of the medicine garden for half a day, and used a trap to capture alive a plump, first-order Early Stage Yao Beast, the Armored Pig.

This thing had delicious meat and vigorous Qi and blood, making it an irresistible delicacy for the Ice Python.

Late at night, the moon was dark and the wind was high.

Carrying the knocked-out Armored Pig on his shoulder and pasting a breath-concealing talisman on himself, Qi Yang sneaked to the outer periphery of the back mountain's cold pond like a ghost.

The piercing cold wind howled, and the surrounding weeds were covered with thick frost.

Qi Yang did not approach the core of the cold pond, but instead stopped in an open space twenty zhang away from the water's surface.

This was the must-pass path for the Ice Python to come ashore and forage.

He put down the Armored Pig and began to set up the Formation.

Eight century-old Fire Cloud Crystals emitting a scorching aura were precisely buried underground by him, arranged according to the positions of the Exploding Flame Departing Fire Formation.

Afterwards, he crossed and buried twenty earth-sinking talismans and ten explosive flame talismans in the core area of the Formation.

After finishing all this, Qi Yang took out that bottle of dark red burn-blood powder.

He pulled out his dagger, cut a slit on the Armored Pig's neck, and poured all the burn-blood powder into the wound.

The poison melted upon contact with blood, and quickly flowed through the Armored Pig's whole body along with the blood.

Finally, Qi Yang took out a sharp short knife and stabbed it fiercely into the Armored Pig's belly!

"Awoooo!!!"

The severe pain jolted the Armored Pig awake from its coma, and it let out a shrill and miserable scream.

The strong smell of blood, mixed with the unique Qi and blood power of the Yao Beast, quickly drifted toward the cold pond along the cold wind.

Qi Yang did not hesitate at all. He immediately slapped a divine mobility talisman onto his body, turned around, and sprinted fifty zhang away.

He found a hidden towering ancient tree, tightly pressed against the trunk like a gecko, swallowed a turtle breathing pill, and completely concealed his aura.

The hunting trap has been set, quietly waiting for the giant python to enter the urn.

Time passed minute by minute.

The Armored Pig's screams grew weaker and weaker, but the smell of blood grew stronger and stronger.

The surface of the cold pond remained calm.

Just when Qi Yang thought the Ice Python would not be fooled,

Gurgle... Gurgle...

Large patches of bubbles suddenly emerged from the center of the cold pond, the surrounding temperature plummeted, and even tiny ice crystals condensed in the air.

Splash!

The water surface burst open, and a ferocious head as huge as a house broke through the water and came out!

The ice-blue scales flickered with a bone-chilling glow under the moonlight, and the crimson vertical pupils locked tightly onto the twitching Armored Pig on the shore.

First-order Late Stage Yao Beast, the Ice Python!

"Roar!"

The Ice Python flicked its crimson tongue and roared onto the shore, its huge shadow completely enveloping the ground.

It was too greedy and too confident.

In this outer sect's back mountain, it was the absolute overlord, and it didn't sense any danger at all.

The Ice Python glided in front of the Armored Pig, opened its bloody mouth wide, and swallowed the hundreds-of-jin-heavy Armored Pig into its belly in one bite!

On the tree trunk, Qi Yang, who was in the turtle breathing state, shot a terrifyingly sharp light from his eyes.

"Eat, the more you eat, the faster you die!"

After the Armored Pig entered its belly, the toxicity of the burn-blood powder fully erupted in the Ice Python's stomach!

The violent fire poison was like countless red-hot sharp knives, frantically cutting the Ice Python's internal organs!

"Roar!!!"

The Ice Python let out a deafening and shrill scream, its huge body rolling wildly on the ground, and its giant snake tail fiercely lashing at the surrounding rocks, smashing huge deep pits into the ground!

The severe pain made it completely lose its mind, and it instinctively wanted to escape back to the cold pond to suppress the fire poison in its body with the extremely cold water.

But how could Qi Yang give it this opportunity!

"Rise, Formation!"

Qi Yang let out an angry roar in his heart, and his hands suddenly formed hand seals in the air.

Rumble!

The eight century-old Fire Cloud Crystals buried underground detonated with a bang!

Eight scarlet fire pillars soared into the sky, intertwining into a huge flame light shield in mid-air, trapping the Ice Python tightly within a radius of ten zhang!

First-grade supreme Formation, the Exploding Flame Departing Fire Formation!

The temperature inside the Formation soared sharply, and the raging fire frantically roasted the Ice Python's ice-blue scales, emitting sizzling white smoke.

Trapped in the fire prison, the Ice Python suffered internal and external attacks from the fire poison inside its body and the raging fire outside, making it wish it were dead from the pain.

It frantically slammed its huge body against the flame light shield, shaking the entire Formation violently.

Crack! Crack!

Although the first-grade supreme Formation was formidable, the Ice Python was after all a first-order Late Stage Yao Beast, and its strength was terrifying to the extreme.

In just a few breaths of time, fine cracks appeared on the flame light shield.

"Want to break the Formation? In your dreams!"

Murderous intent flashed in Qi Yang's eyes, and he directly detonated the earth-sinking talismans and explosive flame talismans buried at the core of the Formation!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The chain explosions exploded beneath the Ice Python!

Twenty earth-sinking talismans blasted the ground inside the Formation into a bottomless quagmire, and the Ice Python's huge body directly sank into it, hindering its movements.

Following closely, ten first-grade superior explosive flame talismans detonated with a boom!

The violent waves of fire completely swallowed the Ice Python!

"Hiss-roar!!!"

The Ice Python struggled wildly in the sea of fire and quagmire, its scales blasted flying everywhere, and its flesh and blood were a mangled mess.

Under the devastation of the chain killing array and the deadly poison, its indestructible Physical Body defense finally completely collapsed!

But the vitality of a first-order Late Stage Yao Beast was simply too tenacious.

Even having suffered such heavy injuries, the Ice Python still did not die.

Its crimson vertical pupils locked tightly onto Qi Yang on the distant tree trunk, and opening its bloody mouth wide, it spewed out a thick ice-blue cold current!

This cold current contained all of its Yao power, and wherever it passed, even the air was frozen into ice sculptures!

"Well-timed!"

Qi Yang did not dodge; what he was waiting for was precisely this moment!

He released the turtle breathing state, and the Qi Condensation 6th Layer spiritual power in his body erupted with a boom. He urged the black turtle shield to the extreme, blocking it in front of him.

Bang!

The ice-blue cold current fiercely smashed onto the black turtle shield.

The cracks on the black turtle shield began to expand, and then shattered with a bang!

Qi Yang violently spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, and his whole body was blasted flying more than a dozen zhang away, crashing heavily against a huge rock.

But he didn't panic at all. Taking advantage of the opportunity of being blasted flying, his right hand shook violently, and an exquisite sleeve arrow mechanism ejected out.

Swish!

A black short arrow quenched with the deadly mixed poison of blood-dissolving powder and heartbreak grass accurately and unmistakably shot into the Ice Python's widely opened bloody mouth as it spewed the cold current!

Puchi!

The poisonous arrow directly pierced through the Ice Python's throat, penetrating deep into its brain marrow!

The Ice Python's huge body suddenly stiffened, and the vitality in its eyes quickly dissipated.

Rumble.

Its hill-like head heavily smashed onto the ground, making no more sound.

First-order Late Stage Yao Beast, dead!