23: Chapter 23 Frost Green-Eyed Serpent

"Your top priority is to first raise your level."

"Without a high enough level, everything else is just empty talk."

These were words Lin Hanwen had once said to them.

Tang Mo remembered them vividly.

Picking up the Beginner Skill Manual from the ground, Tang Mo headed straight for the next room.

Along the way, he passed through two more corridor-style structures.

They were also filled with Level 17 elite mobs.

After killing them all, Tang Mo gained a total of over three hundred thousand experience points.

A familiar white light once again radiated from Tang Mo's body.

Tang Mo's level had reached Level 16.

[Name: Tang Mo]

[Class: Deadly Poison Master (Unique)]

[Level: 16 (0.0%)]

[Strength: 142]

[Agility: 106]

[Spirit: 203]

[Endurance: 389.7]

[Equipment: None]

[Skills: Venomous Arrow (Lv16), Poison Barrier (Lv16), Highly Poisonous Vines (Lv3), Poison Rain (Lv6), Source Poison (Lv2), Soul Poison (Lv1), Embrace of Ten Thousand Poisons (Passive), Body of Poison (Passive)]

[Venomous Arrow (Lv16): Fires 12 arrows condensed from venom forward, dealing poison-attribute damage. Specific damage depends on your Spirit stat and skill level.]

[Poison Barrier (Lv16): Creates a toxic miasma with a diameter of 160 meters centered on yourself, dealing poison-attribute damage to enemies within. The range, duration, and damage depend on your Spirit stat and skill level.]

[Highly Poisonous Vines (Lv3): Summons toxic vines to bind enemies and deal poison damage. The number of vines and damage dealt are related to your Spirit stat and skill level.]

[Poison Rain (Lv6): Releases toxic rain, dealing continuous poison-attribute damage to enemies within a 10-meter diameter. Damage can stack. The damage, duration, and range are influenced by your Spirit stat and skill level.]

[Source Poison (Lv2): Toxins not only deal damage to enemies but also devour the life essence of biological beings. For every life essence devoured, all poison damage increases by 1 point and endurance increases by 0.01.]

[Embrace of Ten Thousand Poisons (Passive): Toxins can instantly heal your injuries and restore your Spirit.]

[Body of Poison (Passive): Your body transforms into poison elements, granting immunity to physical attacks and ordinary magic attacks.]

[Soul Poison (Lv1): Toxins deal damage to the enemy's soul and devour it. For every soul devoured, all poison damage +1.]

After Level 15, the growth of Tang Mo's various attributes received a massive boost.

Among them, the increase in Spirit was the largest.

Now, all of Tang Mo's attribute values had exceeded one hundred.

Tang Mo laughed somewhat self-deprecatingly, "Compared to the attributes of these monsters in the Purgatory dungeon, my stats are practically trash."

"I suppose this is why few people ever attempt Purgatory-level dungeons. Ordinary Professionals aside, even those with Legendary-tier classes would likely find it extremely difficult to clear."

Tang Mo began to feel fortunate that he had obtained two God-level Skills in the early stages.

This allowed him to win right from the starting line.

Following the spiral staircase at the end of the dungeon corridor, Tang Mo arrived at the second floor.

The structure of the second floor was different from the floor below.

The second floor consisted of only one massive room.

In terms of area, it was likely as large as all the rooms on the floor below combined.

The room had been smashed to pieces.

Broken walls, doors, and windows were everywhere.

It looked as though it had undergone a brutal battle.

Tang Mo simply released his Poison Rain skill directly, covering the entire second floor with toxic rain to check if any monsters were disguised as rocks or anything else.

Black rain sprinkled throughout the entire room.

The disguised monsters he had imagined did not appear.

Roar!!

A hair-raising roar suddenly echoed from the far end of the room.

Then, a massive silhouette charged from the end of the room.

Its enormous body caused the entire floor to shake incessantly.

Tang Mo knew that this should be the final boss of the dungeon.

Without waiting for it to get close, Tang Mo waved his arm forward, and six Highly Poisonous Vines spread toward the monster like tentacles.

As the distance closed, the information of the dungeon boss appeared before Tang Mo's eyes.

[Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent (dungeon Boss)]

[Level: 20]

[Strength: 25,000]

[Agility: 19,000]

[Spirit: 19,500]

[Endurance: 800,000]

[Skills: Icy Arrow Rain (Lv20), Frozen Touch (Lv20), Ice Armor (Lv20), Summon Ice Snake (Lv20), Frost Domain (Lv20), Death Coil (Lv20)]

The powerful attributes of the Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent once again deeply shocked Tang Mo.

"As expected, compared to these Purgatory dungeon monsters, my stats can only be considered trash."

However, this didn't scare Tang Mo; after all, he was a man who had even experienced a beast tide.

Furthermore, the Body of Poison passive allowed him to easily face monsters with such attributes.

Soon, the Highly Poisonous Vines collided with the Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent.

However, facing such a monster, the Highly Poisonous Vines—unsurprisingly—failed to last even a second, being smashed to pieces instantly.

After shattering the vines, the Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent didn't slow down, continuing its charge toward Tang Mo.

Even from a great distance, Tang Mo felt a bone-chilling cold.

The Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent arrived in a flash, its bloody maw snapping down directly at Tang Mo.

Tang Mo did not dodge; he fired a Venomous Arrow directly into its mouth.

Tang Mo had observed earlier...

...that the scales of this Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent were extremely hard.

The Poison Rain falling on it elicited no reaction at all.

Although the Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent's level was not more than 5 levels higher than Tang Mo's, based on his previous experience fighting serpent-type beasts, a Venomous Arrow likely wouldn't be able to penetrate its scales.

As such, trying to wound it with venom from the outside was clearly unrealistic.

That was why Tang Mo had waited for the moment the serpent opened its mouth to inject the venom directly into its body.

With his elementalization passive, Tang Mo had no fear of the serpent's bite.

Sure enough, the serpent bit down, and the venom flowed down its throat into its body.

One must remember that a single Venomous Arrow could infect it with one layer of toxin.

And Tang Mo's toxins could deal over 20,000 damage per layer per second.

A Level 16 Venomous Arrow could release a total of 17 arrows condensed from venom.

In this way, it was equivalent to the Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent instantly accumulating 17 layers of toxin.

In the next second, the serpent's health dropped by nearly a sixth.

The Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent, after all, belonged to the venomous snake category and possessed naturally high poison resistance; therefore, the actual damage dealt by Tang Mo's toxins wasn't as high as the raw calculation suggested.

Nevertheless, at this rate, the Ice-Blue Eyed Serpent would last six or seven seconds at most.