With the rise of my family, I can summon the Daoist Soldiers' Nest.

In an instant, Lin Ye felt his tongue completely lose sensation, and his hands also began to become unresponsive. His entire consciousness seemed to sink into a quagmire, and his reactions became increasingly sluggish.

He knew something was wrong; the ordinary antidotes he carried with him would probably be useless against this level of poison.

Lin Ye lowered his gaze to the small red snake coiled at his feet, and was shocked. He had never expected that such a cute and petite appearance could hide such a domineering venom. It was truly worthy of being the spirit beast that guarded the Sky Green Grass.

At this moment, those small, gem-like, clear eyes were staring intently at the spiritual herb in her hand, exuding an inviolable spirituality.

Knowing his fate was sealed, Lin Ye looked at the little snake's determined expression as it fiercely protected the grass, and a ruthless urge to die together with it suddenly rose in his heart. "Since you want to kill me, then I will never let you get away with it!"

With the thought of mutual destruction in mind, Lin Ye gritted his teeth, mustered the last bit of strength in his body, opened his mouth, and let his numb right hand grasp the green grass and stuff it into his mouth little by little.

In that split second, the little snake realized his intention, raised its head and hissed rapidly. The next moment, it leaped into the air and, following Lin Ye's movements, plunged headfirst into his mouth.

At this moment, Lin Ye's consciousness had been shattered by the poison, leaving only instinct driving him to bite down hard, chew and swallow recklessly, completely unaware that the small snake had also entered his mouth along with the grass.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Ye, lying in the depression, twitched her eyelids and suddenly opened her eyes, her consciousness gradually returning from chaos to clarity.

"Wasn't I bitten by that red snake and died from the poison? Could it be that I've transmigrated again?" Lin Ye subconsciously pushed himself up and looked around, only to find that he was still in that strange depression, and his soul had not gone elsewhere.

"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey..." He felt an unbearable bitterness in his mouth and couldn't help but gag repeatedly, spitting out several mouthfuls of sour water.

"He's still alive?" Lin Ye stood there stunned, his mind reeling. "Could it be that his last act of venting his anger saved his life? Could this Azure Grass have some kind of antidote?"

A thought flashed through his mind, and he subconsciously looked down, just in time to see the small red snake that had already stiffened.

The little snake had already died. Its once bright, flame-like scales were now dull and lifeless, and its once clear, gem-like eyes had turned gray and cloudy.

Lin Ye stared thoughtfully at the clear bite marks on the snake's body and the ruptured wound on its abdomen.

"I remember before I lost consciousness, I think I bit into something and swallowed it. Could it be that besides the green grass, I swallowed something else?"

He looked down at his hands and felt the surging power within his body.

He subconsciously circulated his internal energy and found that his previously sluggish meridians were now unobstructed, and his true energy surged like a river. The barriers that he had tried so hard to overcome in the past were now opened up in one fell swoop.

Unbeknownst to him, he had advanced to become a first-class martial artist!

Lin Ye looked at the small snake on the ground in disbelief, vaguely guessing the truth.

After all, according to ancient texts, the Azure Grass only enhances lightness skills; it has no reason to suddenly increase internal strength or help people advance in cultivation levels.

He guessed right.

In a life-or-death moment of blurred consciousness, he accidentally bit and swallowed a small snake that had crawled into his mouth, along with its blood and gallbladder.

It was this unexpected turn of events that not only neutralized the deadly poison, but also allowed him to cleanse his marrow and refine his body through its medicinal properties. He turned misfortune into blessing, breaking through the shackles of the second-rate peak and stepping into the true first-rate realm.

Lin Ye felt the surging, boundless internal energy within his body, and a flash of inspiration struck him: "Isn't this a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for trial?"

He looked around again to make sure no one was watching, then sat down cross-legged and focused his mind into his sea of ​​consciousness, projecting directly into the family's lair.

The phantom materialized, the spear appeared in hand, and suddenly five second-rate Taoist soldiers, Treant Guardians, appeared on the opposite side.

In the past, Lin Ye had to proceed cautiously when facing these second-rate soldiers, but now he no longer hesitated. With a light tap of his toes, he shot out like an arrow.

This movement surprised even himself.

He merely channeled a wisp of internal energy into the soles of his feet, and his movements became several times faster than when he used his lightness skill before.

Before he could fully react, he had already closed in on a tree spirit guard.

Fortunately, his fighting instincts remained, and he thrust his spear forward with the momentum.

"Pfft—"

Unlike the past when even a full-force strike could only penetrate a few inches, this ordinary thrust, imbued with immense internal force, pierced deep into the tree spirit's trunk, almost piercing it from front to back.

Before Lin Ye could react, the other four tree spirits were already launching a barrage of branches at him.

Because the spear had been thrust too deep and he couldn't pull it out in time, he had no choice but to abandon it and retreat.

With a slight thought, he retreated rapidly. Once he regained his footing, he realized that he had been sent flying more than ten meters away.

"The effect of the Azure Grass is so good?" Lin Ye looked down at his feet and then looked at the tree spirit guard in the distance, experiencing for the first time the power of a top-level spiritual treasure.

Even Elder Ning Wuji's speed when using his lightness skill, in his opinion at this moment, might not be able to surpass his own by much.

No wonder the Azure Grass, with its ability to enhance lightness skills alone, can be ranked alongside the Marrow Cleansing Fruit and the Tai Sui as a top-tier spiritual item. Such an effect is almost reminiscent of a fantasy world.

"It seems that my greatest reliance now is not this first-class internal strength, but this ghostly speed," Lin Ye secretly assessed.

Regaining his composure, he charged at the tree spirit guards once more.

This time, he darted among the five tree spirits like a fish, his spear leaving trails of afterimages.

The treant guards, whose rapid attacks he used to be quite wary of, now seemed as slow as snails to him.

The Azure Grass not only granted him unparalleled lightness skills, but also significantly enhanced his dynamic vision and nerve reflexes.

In the terms of the Dota game he played in his previous life, it greatly enhanced his "agility" attribute.

Combined with his current top-notch internal strength, even though he hasn't mastered top-notch martial arts yet, a full-force strike using the Shadow Piercing Spear Technique enhanced with top-notch internal strength is something that even a second-rate Taoist soldier of the management class can't withstand.

Even with the tree spirits' armor reinforced by each other, a full-force attack could almost pierce through their bodies.

Unable to hit or defend, the five tree spirits ultimately became sparring partners for Lin Ye to familiarize himself with his internal energy and speed.

Finally, as the last tree spirit guard was struck down by Lin Ye's spear and annihilated on the spot, Lin Ye stood holding his spear, let out a long sigh, and a smile appeared on his lips.

Second-rate Taoist Tree Spirit Guardian, challenge successful.