319: Chapter 316 If one comes, chop it down; if two come, cut them down.

"Understood!"

Chu Weiwei responded crisply, her purple eyes filled with eager excitement.

She slammed both hands onto the ground, the Medicine Immortal Origin within her body surging wildly.

The deep blue poisonous powder she had thrown out earlier instantly underwent a violent chemical reaction under the stimulation of her true essence.

A pungent smell of bitter almonds permeated the air. The powder expanded rapidly in the wind, transforming into a thick, almost viscous, sickly green toxic miasma that swept toward the massive aberration like a rising tide.

"Cough, cough... so choking!"

Yan Rusi, hiding in the distance, felt her eyes stinging unbearably despite having covered her mouth and nose.

She watched the sickly green mist in horror, noticing that wherever the toxic miasma passed, the hard floor paved with celadon jade was corroded into pits, emitting blinding white smoke.

The aberration clearly had not expected this seemingly delicate young girl to be able to release such tyrannical poison.

Its dozen or so pieced-together heads let out simultaneous howls of pain. The moment the hollow eye sockets, which had been wide open, came into contact with the toxic miasma, they began to ooze dark brown pus.

Its vision was completely stripped away, and its massive body rampaged angrily within the toxic mist.

"Blind big guy, look here!"

Su Hongling's unbridled laughter came from above the toxic mist.

She hadn't gone far; instead, using the high dome of the great hall as a springboard, she had performed an incredible reversal in mid-air, like a lurking leopard.

Dark golden blood-Qi flames burned fiercely on her skin, forcibly pushing away the surrounding toxic miasma.

Abandoning her great sword that had become stuck, she met the aberration's wildly flailing arms head-on, using only her fists clad in the [dragon-elephant heaven-suppressing armor] bracers.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The dull sounds of flesh colliding rang out like dense war drums in the empty underground hall.

Su Hongling's fighting style was simple and brutal, yet it carried a shocking power that pushed the aesthetics of violence to the extreme.

Instead of retreating, she Advanced, taking advantage of the aberration's loss of vision to force her way into its inner attack circle.

Every punch she threw carried the gravitational pressure capable of collapsing the Void Realm.

Although the arms of the aberration, pieced together from the remains of various Cultivators, possessed infinite strength, in front of a Body Cultivator as pure as Su Hongling, the crisp sound of breaking bones was incessant.

"Roar!"

The aberration felt unprecedented frustration and anger.

The Formation Plate on its back erupted with blinding red light, and the metal tubes deeply embedded in its flesh began to pulse violently, as if frantically extracting some kind of violent energy.

Immediately afterward, its thick lower body sank suddenly, and a visible black shockwave erupted from it as the center, spreading indiscriminately in all directions.

"Hong Ling, retreat!"

Su Lin's deep gaze remained locked on the Formation Plate that was flashing with red light. On the eve of the shockwave's eruption, he immediately issued the command.

Although Su Hongling was having fun fighting, she had absolute obedience to Su Lin's words.

She clenched her fists together and slammed them fiercely into the aberration's chest. Utilizing this violent recoil force, she flew backward like an arrow released from a bow, landing steadily several dozen zhang away.

The black shockwave instantly dispersed the surrounding sickly green toxic miasma.

With its vision no longer obstructed, the aberration's dozen or so heads turned in unison toward Su Lin's direction.

It seemed that, relying on some beast-like intuition, it realized that this man in green robes, who had yet to make a move, was the most lethal threat among this group.

"Locked onto me, have you?"

Su Lin's expression was calm, his robes fluttering slightly in the residual wind of the shockwave.

He slowly took a step forward.

With just this one step, he seemed to have completely merged into the veins of this world.

"Weiwei, prepare to block its retreat." Su Lin's tone was level, as if he were arranging the most mundane of chores. "Hong Ling, buy me three breaths of time."

"No problem, Old Man!"

Su Hongling twisted her neck forcefully, producing a crisp sound of bone friction.

She took a deep breath, and the blood within her body surged and roared like a great river. Dark golden battle patterns even spread from her skin into mid-air, forming the vague phantom of a Martial God.

"Big guy, your opponent is me!"

She let out a heaven-shaking roar, her feet stamping two bottomless footprints into the ground, and once again transformed into a violent golden stream of light, meeting the charging aberration head-on.

The aberration was clearly thoroughly enraged by Su Hongling's provocation.

Its thick, massive tail lashed fiercely against the ground, and its enormous body, carrying the momentum to crush everything, collided with Su Hongling with a boom.

The earth trembled violently.

One person and one monster engaged in the most primitive and bloody hand-to-hand combat in the center of the underground hall.

Although Su Hongling's strength was tyrannical, the aberration's size advantage and the Formation Plate on its back providing a constant stream of energy gave it near-perverted recovery and endurance.

Su Hongling's heavy punches smashed its flesh, but the metal tubes on its back would immediately inject green liquid, causing the wounds to heal in the blink of an eye.

"Now."

Starlight flared brilliantly in Su Lin's eyes, and the phantom of the [Myriad Heavens Star Chart] spun rapidly deep within his pupils.

He did not summon his long sword; instead, he raised his right hand, pressing his index and middle fingers together, and pointed them from afar at the red-glowing Formation Plate on the aberration's back.

The Half-Immortal Essence within his body was compressed by him to a terrifying density.

"Space, strip."

Su Lin softly spat out these four words.

In an instant, the Void Realm behind the aberration underwent an extremely bizarre distortion.

The originally stable spatial structure, under Su Lin's guidance, seemed to turn into a rag being kneaded at will.

An indescribable cutting Law descended silently around the red-glowing energy Formation Plate.

The aberration, which was in the midst of a frantic struggle with Su Hongling, suddenly let out a shriek of extreme terror.

It felt that the source of its power was being forcibly stripped from its body by some indescribable great power!

Those metal tubes deeply embedded in its bone marrow made tooth-aching snapping sounds under the cutting of the Space Law.

"Well done, Revered Master!"

Chu Weiwei seized the opportunity, her hands rapidly changing incantations in front of her chest.

"Myriad Poison Heart-Devouring Net, bind!"

Countless purple-black pillars of toxic liquid burst out from the ground around her, interweaving in mid-air to form an airtight, highly toxic net, firmly shrouding the aberration just before it could break free from the spatial restraint.

As soon as the toxic net touched the aberration's skin, it emitted an extremely piercing corrosive sound.

This time, the poison was specially formulated by Chu Weiwei to target the monster's perverted recovery ability.

The toxins frantically drilled into its body along the monster's pores and wounds, directly destroying the molecular structure of those green repair fluids.

"Roar!!!"

The aberration, having lost the supply from the energy Formation Plate and suffering from the intrusion of the potent poison into its body, began to convulse violently.

Seeing this, a cold glint flashed in Su Hongling's eyes.

"Strike while you're down!"

Her figure shot upward, her hands grasping into the void.

The [no edge] great sword that had originally been stuck in the monster's chest cavity, sensing its Revered Master's blood-Qi, let out a heaven-shaking sword hum, forcibly breaking free from the monster's flesh and flying back into her hand.

"Shatter for me!"

Su Hongling gripped the sword with both hands, descending from high above with the momentum of Mount Tai, and slashed fiercely toward the thick neck of the aberration that connected the dozen or so heads.

This sword strike met no resistance.

Having lost the protection of the Formation Plate, the aberration's physical defense had dropped significantly.

The dark golden sword light, like cutting through a piece of rotten wood, directly split the massive upper body and the beast-like lower body in two!

The foul-smelling black blood shot into the sky like a fountain.

The massive body collapsed with a boom, slamming onto the floor and emitting a dull echo.

Those pieced-together heads rolled on the ground a few times, the fierce light in their eyes fading completely, and finally turned into a puddle of foul-smelling black liquid.

"Whew... satisfying!"

Su Hongling shouldered the great sword again, wiped the sweat from her face, and let out a long breath.

Chu Weiwei waved her hand in disgust, dispersing the smell of blood that permeated the area.

She trotted to Su Lin's side with light steps, took his arm naturally, and looked up with her pure little face to claim credit.

"Revered Master, was Weiwei's poison net control accurate?"

Su Lin patted the back of her hand as encouragement, then his gaze crossed over the disgusting corpse remains and landed on the metal Formation Plate that had been stripped away by the Space Law and fallen to the ground.

He walked forward slowly and picked up the Formation Plate.

The material of the Formation Plate was extremely special; it felt cold and heavy in his hand. The back was engraved with tiny rune circuits, while the front was embedded with a crystal emitting a faint red light.

Yan Rusi followed tremblingly behind, watching the Formation Plate in Su Lin's hand, her eyes full of awe.

"Senior Su, this Formation Plate looks like something that could never be crafted in a remote place like Liuyun Town. The green liquid transported in those metal tubes seems to contain extremely pure life essence."

"Your observation is very keen."

Su Lin examined the patterns on the Formation Plate carefully, a gleam of contemplation flashing in his deep eyes.

"The forging technique of this thing is full of traces of machinery and Laws being forcibly blended together. Through this Formation Plate, they compress and refine the vitality extracted from those who have achieved Ascension, transforming it into the power to drive this stitched-together monster."

He gently brushed the dirt off the surface of the crystal with his finger, and the red light flickered more rapidly.

"Furthermore, this Formation Plate is not just an energy core; it also hides an extremely secret long-distance communication mark inside."

Hearing this, Chu Weiwei's expression changed slightly: "Does Revered Master mean that our battle here just now has already been detected by those guys behind it?"

"Correct."

Su Lin casually threw the Formation Plate on the ground, his gaze looking calmly toward the depths of the great hall.

"This monster being sealed here is itself a watchdog, and also an early warning device. Once it dies, the mark in this Formation Plate will automatically send information back to the main city or a higher-level hub."

Upon hearing this, Su Hongling immediately slammed the great sword heavily onto the ground and grinned nonchalantly.

"Let them detect it! Slash one if one comes, cut a pair if a pair comes! I didn't get enough of a fight just now anyway."

"Brute force cannot solve the fundamental problem." Su Lin glanced at her, his tone carrying a sense of instruction.

"The waters of this Taihuang Immortal Domain are unfathomably deep. Our strength has not yet fully recovered. If we attract true Heavenly Immortal level powerhouses or those organized armies of the Upper Realm, our situation will be very passive, relying on just us few."

He turned around, his gaze sweeping across the wide great hall.

"Since this is an abandoned stronghold they used for cruel experiments, it must hide even more secrets about this world. Before we are completely exposed, we must scour this place clean and find any valuable intelligence."

The disciples agreed in unison and immediately scattered, launching a carpet search in this massive laboratory that exuded a bizarre aura.

The light in the depths of the great hall became increasingly dim.

Su Lin strolled alone among those tall glass columns.

Every time he passed a column, he could feel the endless resentment remaining in the broken bodies floating in the green liquid.

These peerless Prodigies who once stirred up winds and clouds in the Lower Realm had ultimately ended up with the miserable fate of being treated as lab rats and slaughtered at will.

He walked to a huge metal wall at the very end of the great hall.

This wall had no seams and was as smooth as a black mirror.

But Su Lin's intuition told him that something extremely important was hidden behind this wall.

He pressed his palm against the cold wall, closed his eyes, and the Chaos immortal essence within his body transformed into countless tiny tentacles, infiltrating the interior along the microscopic structure of the wall.

After a long while.

Su Lin opened his eyes, a very faint cold smile curling at the corners of his mouth.

"Hidden quite deep, indeed."

He took half a step back, pressed his right index and middle fingers together, and a brilliant starlight sword beam condensed at his fingertips.

Without any heaven-shaking momentum, he just drew a circle on the metal wall in front of him very casually.

"Click."

An extremely slight sound of a mechanism clicking rang out.

The indestructible black metal wall actually sank inward neatly within the range of the circle Su Lin had drawn, then slid to one side, revealing a dark passage leading to the deeper parts.

"Found something?"

Su Hongling was the first to rush over shouldering her sword, peering into the passage.

Chu Weiwei and Yan Rusi also arrived closely behind.

The inside of the passage was filled with an even more ancient, and even somewhat decaying, smell of old books.

"Let's go in and take a look."

Su Lin took the lead and stepped into the passage.

The passage was not long, and at the end was a secret room that was not too large in area.

In the center of the secret room stood a huge jade long table, piled with various Jade Slips, bone pieces, and some ancient scrolls made of unknown animal skins.

In the four corners of the secret room stood four bronze statues in strange poses. The eye areas of the statues were embedded with deep purple gems, emitting a faint light that barely illuminated this narrow space.

"So many classics!"

Chu Weiwei's eyes lit up instantly. For a Medicine Immortal who was keen on studying various bizarre pharmacology and stitching techniques, these dust-covered ancient books were even more attractive than piles of top-grade Immortal Stones.

She ran to the table impatiently, picked up a Jade Slip, and carefully injected a trace of spiritual power.

However, after the surface of the Jade Slip flickered a few times, there was no further reaction.

"The era is too distant; the internal spiritual power structure has collapsed."