61: Chapter 61 Reverse Poisoning, Murderous Intent Erupts

Thirty zhang deep underground, a set of Formation Flags emitting a dark red glow was slowly operating, frantically extracting the fire poison from the earth veins!

"Lower Second-Grade, Earth Fire Lava Formation!"

Qi Yang recognized this vicious Formation at a glance.

Once this Formation was detonated, it would cause the earth vein fire poison within a radius of a hundred zhang to erupt, turning the entire Nether Grass Field along with the thatched cottage into ashes!

By then, all traces would be erased, and others would only think it was a natural disaster triggered by an earth vein riot!

"That old dog Deacon Pan Ping doesn't dare to come out in the open, so he's playing dirty with me!"

Qi Yang sneered repeatedly.

Deacon Pan Ping calculated meticulously, but he had no idea how deep of a network Qi Yang had dug underground!

The location where the Earth Fire Lava Formation was set up was just a short distance above the tunnel Qi Yang used to go to the Spirit Spring Cave!

Looking at the gradually reddening rock layer above his head, Qi Yang felt not the slightest bit of fear.

He touched the few poison thunder beads in his Storage Pouch, his eyes filled with a bone-chilling murderous intent.

"Want to detonate the earth veins to burn me to death? Very well, today I will teach you what a true mortal blow is!"

Instead of retreating, Qi Yang advanced. With a flash of his figure, he tunneled directly into the rock layer, groping toward the core node of the Formation!

In the rock layer thirty zhang deep underground, the dark red glow flickered like breathing.

The Formation Flags of the Lower Second-Grade Earth Fire Lava Formation had fully deployed, frantically extracting the fire poison accumulated deep within the earth veins.

Once this power was detonated, the ground within a radius of a hundred zhang would turn into a sea of lava and fire, and the Nether Grass Field along with that dilapidated thatched cottage would be reduced to ashes in a breath.

Qi Yang quietly lurked in the rock layer less than five zhang away from the Formation core.

Stuck with a high-grade qi-suppressing talisman, his body was wrapped in a layer of heavy Earth-attribute Spiritual Qi, making him look entirely like a lifeless stone.

Looking at the increasingly violent Fire-attribute Spiritual Qi above his head, Qi Yang's cloudy old eyes showed not the slightest bit of panic, only a heart-palpitating coldness.

"To silence me, that old dog Deacon Pan Ping really spared no expense, even willing to pull out a Lower Second-Grade killing Formation."

Qi Yang sneered repeatedly in his heart.

The power of this Formation was indeed terrifying; if it were any Qi Condensation 9th Layer Cultivator here, it would definitely be a situation of ten deaths and zero life.

But Deacon Pan Ping calculated everything except that Qi Yang had long ago dug a spiderweb-like, all-direction underground network beneath this Nether Grass Field!

Nor could he calculate that Qi Yang, a Five-Element Mixed Spiritual Roots old trash whose body was seemingly half-buried in the dirt, held in his hands such an extreme poison technique as the Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art!

Qi Yang did not choose to forcefully destroy the Formation eye.

A second-grade Formation was already integrated with the earth veins; forcefully destroying it would not only trigger a violent Spiritual Qi backlash, but also alert Deacon Pan Ping, who set up the Formation.

Qi Yang turned his body and escaped along the tunnel he had dug toward the direction of Deacon Pan Ping's Immortal Cave.

Deacon Pan Ping's Immortal Cave was located on a low mountain at the edge of the inner Sect, a distance of only a dozen or so li from the Nether Grass Field.

For Qi Yang, who had already reached the Qi Condensation 9th Layer, escaping underground for this distance did not even take half an incense stick of time.

The inner Sect in the deep night was dead silent.

Inside Deacon Pan Ping's Immortal Cave, several huge luminous pearls illuminated the luxurious stone room brightly.

At this moment, Deacon Pan Ping sat cross-legged on a futon carved from centuries-old warm jade.

His fair, slightly plump face was now covered with a ferocious and impatient murderous intent.

Between his hands floated a Formation Plate emitting a dark red glow, which was precisely the control hub of the Earth Fire Lava Formation.

"Old man Qi, don't blame anyone else; blame your bad luck for being assigned to the Nether Grass Field."

"The smuggling stronghold in the Blood Bone Forest has been wiped out. I cannot afford to take even the slightest risk right now. As long as you die, no one in this world will ever know my smuggling secret!"

Deacon Pan Ping muttered to himself gritting his teeth.

He had been stuck at the Qi Condensation 11th Layer for a full five years.

As a Cultivator with Earth, Fire, and Wood triple Spiritual Roots, his Aptitude could only be considered average in the inner Sect.

For those Dual Spiritual Roots geniuses, the Sect wished they could chew up resources and feed them into their mouths, making Breakthroughs as simple as drinking water.

And what about him?

He could only rely on reselling Sect supplies to exchange for barrier-breaking pills!

Now that his financial path was cut off, the pent-up evil fire in his heart had reached its extreme, and he had to kill someone to vent his anger.

"Turn into ashes for me!"

Deacon Pan Ping gave a ferocious smile, his hands abruptly changing incantations as the thick Spiritual Qi of his Qi Condensation 11th Layer poured into the Formation Plate without reservation, preparing to completely detonate the Earth Fire Lava Formation.

It was precisely at this moment, in the rock layer fifteen zhang directly beneath Deacon Pan Ping's Immortal Cave, that Qi Yang's tightly closed eyes suddenly snapped open!

"Right now!"

Qi Yang let out a low roar deep in his heart.

His powerful perception was like an invisible giant net, firmly locking onto the Formation node beneath Deacon Pan Ping's Immortal Cave.

Qi Yang's hands formed hand seals as fast as lightning, and the Five Poisons Nourishing Spirit Art rumbled into operation within his body!

Within his Dantian, the five types of Spiritual Qi of Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth transformed into a massive Five Elements Grindstone.

He did not absorb Spiritual Qi; instead, using Earth-attribute Spiritual Qi as a guide, he frantically extracted the extremely cold nether toxic Qi that had accumulated beneath the Nether Grass Field for hundreds and thousands of years!

"Water restrains fire, earth conceals metal, Five Elements reverse, pour it in for me!"

Qi Yang violently pushed upwards with both hands.

Under the forcible compression of the Five Elements Grindstone, that suffocatingly massive extremely cold nether toxic Qi transformed into an invisible black toxic pillar, forcefully back-flowing along the Formation Spiritual Qi channel Deacon Pan Ping had just opened!

Inside the Immortal Cave, Deacon Pan Ping was waiting with an excited face for the feedback of the earth fire eruption from the Formation Plate.

But the next second, the ferocious smile on his face instantly froze.

The originally crimson-red light on the Formation Plate unexpectedly turned into an eerie pitch-black color in an instant!

An extreme chill capable of freezing even the Soul, mixed with a nauseating putrid toxic miasma, followed the Spiritual Qi connection of the Formation Plate and directly rushed into Deacon Pan Ping's hand Meridians!

"This... What kind of ghost thing is this?!"

Deacon Pan Ping was so terrified that his Soul Flying Away and Spirit Scattering, and he let out a terrified scream.

He desperately wanted to cut off the connection with the Formation Plate, but it was simply too late.

The speed of that nether toxic miasma was too fast—so fast that before he even had time to prop up his Protective Aura, it directly surged along his arms and crashed violently into his Dantian Qi Sea!

Ice and Fire Dual Heavens!

Deacon Pan Ping himself cultivated a Cultivation Technique primarily based on Fire and Earth attributes, and his Dantian was filled with manic Fire-attribute Spiritual Qi.

At this moment, the extremely yin and toxic power of the nether toxic miasma violently smashed in, just like pouring a basin of ice water into a boiling wok of oil!

Boom!

A muffled explosion came from Deacon Pan Ping's Dantian.

Under the impact of this opposing and terrifying power, his Earth, Fire, and Wood triple Spiritual Roots completely lost balance!

"Pfft!"

Deacon Pan Ping tilted his head back, violently spewing a mouthful of black blood mixed with fragments of internal organs that shot up more than two zhang high.

His complexion turned into a dead-ash-like blue-purple, and a layer of eerie black frost formed across his skin.

Qi Deviation!

Once the triple Spiritual Roots lost balance, the Spiritual Qi in his body would turn into a wild horse with broken reins.

Deacon Pan Ping's thick Spiritual Qi of the Qi Condensation 11th Layer had now completely turned into a life-claiming poison, frantically running amok in his extraordinary Meridians and tearing his Physical Body apart inch by inch!

"Ah!!!"

Deacon Pan Ping fell to the ground, rolling around in agony as his shrill screams echoed within the enclosed Immortal Cave.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not figure out why he was clearly activating the earth fire Formation to kill a Qi Condensation Third Layer trash, yet the backlash that returned was this kind of terrifying extreme cold toxic miasma!

But he would never have the chance to figure it out.

Just at the moment when Deacon Pan Ping's protective spiritual light completely collapsed and his whole body convulsed to the point of being unable to move,

Rumble!

The bluestone ground beneath Deacon Pan Ping violently exploded!

Amidst flying gravel, a figure wearing a grayish-black robe and a yellowish wax mask burst out of the ground carrying monstrous murderous intent!