The Most Powerful Bodyguard

When Yang Yan reappeared, he was already a hundred meters away.

He noticed a small green snake with black markings around the Nine Nether Blood Qi Flower, flicking a black-purple tongue and emitting a spine-chilling rustling sound.

Nascent Void reminded Yang Yan in his mind, "This is the Jade Ghost Snake, its entire body is poisonous. Particularly, even the Godslayer cultivator finds it hard to resist the snake venom in its teeth, handle it carefully. If you get poisoned, resist it with Wish Power, but to completely detoxify, you need its gall bladder."

Nascent Void’s voice grew weaker and eventually faded away.

The Jade Ghost Snake suddenly vanished, Yang Yan hurriedly dodged.

The spot where he just stood had vanished, leaving only a deep pit, with corrosive sounds echoing around.

Yang Yan suddenly punched towards the left, and the sound of metal clashing resonated.

The Jade Ghost Snake was forced to reveal its form.

Yang Yan activated the Space Blade, as soon as it hit, the Jade Ghost Snake vanished again, leaving behind a writhing segment of its tail.

Dark green blood stained the ground, immediately corroding a deep pit at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Yang Yan hesitated not at all, immediately using the Gravity Law to force the Jade Ghost Snake out again.

Whoosh!

The Jade Ghost Snake spat out a mouthful of venom, and Yang Yan couldn’t dodge in time, having to use Spiritual Power for protection.

However, the venom immediately broke through the Spiritual Power Shield, and although Yang Yan dodged the vital spots, a chunk of flesh on his arm was still corroded away.

Yang Yan decisively cut away the poisoned flesh but felt weakened instantly.

Yang Yan realized he was afflicted with deadly poison.

Most frightening is that this poison not only erodes the body, it even has a weakening effect on the soul.

He activated Wish Power, temporarily resisting the soul’s ongoing erosion, while dodging the Jade Ghost Snake’s lightning-fast attacks, he took antidote medication to temporarily suppress the toxin’s bodily harm.

At this time, the remaining hunched old man from the Extinct Elders rapidly approached.

He looked venomously at Yang Yan and the Jade Ghost Snake battle, ready to strike, preparing to deliver a death blow at any moment.

The Jade Ghost Snake was extremely fast, like a green lightning, making it impossible to guard against.

Despite Yang Yan’s careful dodging, he was still hit multiple times.

As time passed, more and more toxins accumulated in his body, and Yang Yan’s mind gradually grew hazy.

Thankfully, due to the added Wish Power, it seems to alleviate the toxins’ damage to some extent, and Yang Yan wasn’t completely losing his fighting capability.

Amidst this ongoing entanglement, the Jade Ghost Snake’s attack speed gradually slowed as well.

It itself lost too much blood from Yang Yan cutting off its tail during the fierce attacks, becoming physically depleted.

Yang Yan knew full well that in such a deadlock, whoever persists to the end will become the victor.

Sure enough, this life-and-death struggle continued for fifteen minutes, this year finally caught an opportunity, the sword formed by Nascent Void powerfully cleaving downward, instantly beheading the Jade Ghost Snake.

After the successful strike, Yang Yan dragged his weary body, forced an instant teleportation, successfully picking the Nine Nether Blood Qi Flower and securing it, then turned his head towards the distance and yelled:

"Come out! The last of Extinct Ergou."

The hunched old man saw the battle just now, hence he didn’t make a move immediately, not fearing Yang Yan’s strength, because he felt the poison from the Jade Ghost Snake was truly terrifying.

Although he had Divinity Transformation Stage cultivation, he could sense this strange green snake could pose great threat to him.

He originally planned to wait until Yang Yan fought to mutual exhaustion then reap the benefits.

So he simply watched Yang Yan die under the strange snake.

But the result left him horrified.

Yang Yan indeed killed the strange snake.

Though he could feel Yang Yan’s aura was very weak at the moment, without absolute certainty, he dared not act rashly.

Thus, he simply chose to hide and watch as things unfolded.

Now that Yang Yan spoke up, he worried it was a deliberate deceit, totally unwilling to surface.

Yang Yan saw the hunched old man unmoved at all, a Space Blade swung out unexpectedly, directly towards the opponent’s hiding spot.

In an instant, stones flew, earth ripped with a deep groove.

After the dust settled, the hunched old man, with a grim expression emerged from his hiding place, shook off the dust and immediately released a punch straight at Yang Yan.

Yang Yan knew his condition was not promising, about to summon the already prepared Godslaying Halberd.

The hunched old man had a momentary distraction, losing the accuracy of his attack.

Yang Yan seized the chance to immediately consume the Jade Ghost Snake’s gall, detoxifying himself completely.

As the hunched old man returned to his senses, he realized he had lost the best chance to kill Yang Yan, his expression deepened further.

"Little brat, you killed my brother, this enmity is intolerable!"

Yang Yan didn’t bother acknowledging him, hurriedly consuming the Nine Nether Blood Qi Flower.

The Nine Nether Blood Qi Flower was indeed a Spiritual Medicine for Divinity Transformation Stage, not only did Yang Yan’s injuries heal, his flesh unhinderingly broke through to Divinity Transformation directly.

Simultaneously, a portion of Spiritual Qi brought him only a step away from the late Nascent Soul stage.

While consuming the Nine Nether Blood Qi Flower, harnessing its medicinal properties to refine himself, Yang Yan wasn’t idle, silently setting up Meteor Fall.

Originally, he thought the hunched old man would fight him to the death, unexpectedly seeing the situation was unfavorable, the opponent quickly enacted a Body Technique to escape this wasteland.

Yang Yan’s fully driven Meteor Fall only left behind a few drops of the old man’s blood.

Seeing the hunched old man flee, Yang Yan didn’t chase immediately, his face revealing a slightly eerie smile.

In fact, he silently left a trace of Star Power on the hunched old man’s body.

The Land of Mist itself is incredibly strange, not even Godslayer can necessarily escape unscathed.

Even if the opponent’s luck is good, able to leave here, Yang Yan is confident to drag him out.

Elsewhere, seeing Yang Yan not chasing, the hunched old man secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He searched around, finally choosing a secluded place to recover his injuries.

In the wasteland, Yang Yan sensed the old man stopping, feeling surprised.

After a brief hesitation, he immediately concealed his aura pursuing the old man, muttering under his breath, "Since so, then no need to leave!"

As the hunched old man was recovering, suddenly felt a strong sense of unease, smashing the place where he was in retreat and hurriedly dodging.

The moment he just leaped out, the spot where the old man stood was already ground into scorched earth by the dense overwhelming attacks.

Seeing no way to escape, the old man instantly flashed to Yang Yan’s side.

Using the trace of Star Power left on him, Yang Yan immediately locked onto him, raising Spiritual Power draped arms to block the old man’s kick.

Boom—

With a muffled roar, both were knocked back a hundred meters.

Although shocked, the old man’s attacks never halted.

He let out a broken shout, converging an even more fierce attack, lightning-fast lunged at Yang Yan.