Chapter 707: 707
As the chariot entered the formation, the purple cloud around it dispersed, revealing the group of over three hundred immortals in purple Daoist robes, as well as thirty or so youths in strange outfits . Clearly, those immortals in purple robes were elites the Sovereign had brought from Myriad Immortal Alliance . In fact, they were nearly half of the Gold Immortals the alliance had recruited . As for those youths in strange outfits, no one knew who they were .
These youths were tall and burly, and their bulging muscles looked full of explosive forces . However, their frames were not as heavy and bulky as Fan Yuqi and Fan Kuai's, and they actually gave people an impression of energy, robustness, and flexibility . Their hair took different colors—some purple, some blue, some red, some white, some silver—and all were waist-length, hanging loosely behind their backs .
Their clothes were anciently fashioned, and although the design was simple, it gave off an indescribable air of dignity and majesty . Without exception, they had handsome facial features, and their gazes were full of a natural nobility and pride . When they lifted their heads slightly to glance down on the crowd, they looked like a group of Gods in the cloud overlooking at the insignificant mortals .
They appeared to be a group of outstanding youths; however, their prowess was rather weak .
No sooner had the Sovereign entered the formation than he came after Wu Qi in his chariot . Behind him, over thirty black flood dragons suddenly rose into the sky, their bodies emanating dark gases and a pungent stench as they sprayed streams of venomous liquid to separate the chariot and the immortals who came with him . The group of Gold Immortals growled and cursed, each waving their hands to unleash dazzling sword beams toward these flood dragons .
The air rang with sizzling noises as venomous black liquid sprinkled onto those sword beams, whose dazzling light began to fade as a result of the fierce corrosion . Some had their protective light barriers cracked and shattered, allowing the venomous liquid to directly touch them and leave dents of varying sizes on their surfaces . In just a few moments, booms started to ring across the sky as dozens of immortal swords exploded at the same time, turning into a rain of light and drifting to the ground .
These flood dragons were malicious creatures that Yu Gu had spent countless efforts in cultivating . They were no longer living creatures, but creepy creatures between ghosts and zombies . All they ate was carefully formulated poisons, and on top of that, Yu Gu had been constantly cultivating them with all sorts of vicious magic . As a result, the venom accumulated in their bodies was so powerful that even Primordial Immortals would find it difficult to deal with, let alone these Gold Immortals .
Yu Gu was, after all, a Supreme Oracle, and thus, all his various tactics were designed with Primordial Immortals as the targets . Using these tactics against Gold Immortals was like using a sledgehammer on a gnat .
As the group of Gold Immortals was momentarily halted by the flood dragons, down below, plumes of smoke spewed out of forty-nine lofty mountains to engulf them . Then, dozens of rainbow flags shot up into the sky, fluttering violently in mid-air . The void began to twist and distort, and the Gold Immortals, together with the group of youths in ancient-looking outfits, felt the world spinning around them . In the next moment, they were thrown into different treacherous killing formations within the Myriad Poisons Formation .
The Gold Immortals were to face Yangqiu Fengbo and the other mighty experts, who would try to kill them with the help of those killing formations . On the other hand, the group of youths was being thrown somewhere near the valley located right in the center of the formation . While they were still at a loss about what had happened, they suddenly heard a dull beating of drums . The next thing they knew, they were surrounded by hundreds of thousands of arrows which came whistling through the air at them, shrouded in raging dark flame and long tails of dark smoke .
These arrows were 'Flying Venomous Centipedes Arrows' recorded in the Myriad Poisons Formation provided by Wu Qi . They were crafted by gathering all kinds of strange and venomous centipedes, harvesting their venom and essence, and refining it with ghost flame . When enhanced with various talismans and restrictive spells, they could even fly in the air for days without falling . The flame on the arrows was the infamous poisonous flame of centipedes, the strength of each wisp equivalent to the venom of tens of thousands of centipedes combined . Even a Gold Immortal, if contacted by this poisonous flame, would lose an arm or two .
Such a fearsome weapon was carefully crafted by the expert craftsmen supplied by King Yang Qiu, using the cutting-edge forging techniques that the Great Yu's Military Court used to craft all sorts of ordnance . The body of the arrow was made of thirty-six kinds of metal alloys, sharp enough to penetrate the protection of immortal artifacts . Together with the various runes that could increase speed and penetration force inscribed on them by the Sun Oracles under Yu Gu, these arrows were incredibly powerful .
Upon seeing countless arrows shooting toward them, the group of over twenty youths could only scream in terror without coming out with any countermeasure . Amidst a shrill whistle, one arrow after another pierced their bodies, leaving deadly poison and flame to wreak havoc in them while causing their skin to gradually turn black and green . Miserable howls and shrieks could be heard spewing out of their mouths, and before long, they were all brutally killed by the rain of arrows .
Stepping on a poisonous cloud, the military officer in charge of this poisonous arrows formation flew up into the sky from behind a mountain . Glancing disdainfully at the youths, who were now dead, he shook his head and said with a cold grin, "Why are they here, when they don't even have the cultivation base of a Heaven Immortal? Are they idiots or what?"
The venom on the arrows was so powerful that as soon as those youths' bodies touched the ground, they began to rot and melt . Even their bones were rapidly dissolved by the venom, and only their teeth, being the toughest part of their bodies, could barely maintain their original shape . As nobody put heavy concern on these youths, no one ever discovered that the teeth left behind by them did not look like that of humans, but were extremely long and sharp like that of some animal .
If there were some experienced Oracles who came forth to inspect these corpses, they would be 'surprised' to find that these teeth looked almost identical to the ones belonging to 'White Tiger' or 'Black Tortoise' .
Some youths did not leave behind anything . After they were dead, their bodies quickly rotted and melted away, and then threads of pure energy began to slowly seep out and drift into all directions . There were also fist-sized crystal cores, as well as runes representing the Law of Heaven and Earth in their bodies, both of which gradually cracked and shattered, turning into natural energy and returning to the heaven and earth .
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