The Martial Soul Skeleton, in Douluo Continent's Bone-Changing Susanoo

Chapter 52 Azure Phosphorus Serpent Venom Array

Gastly, responsible for scouting, naturally acted as the vanguard, clearing the way to ensure that every route forward would bypass the habitat of the spirit beast horde.

The Gastly responsible for observation will fly to each entrance of Sunset Forest and then find a dark place where it cannot be exposed to sunlight to hide, so that it can survive indefinitely.

Their primary subjects of observation are the people entering and exiting the Sunset Forest entrance.

Having personally witnessed Dugu Bo's presence and endured the mental pressure he exerted, the Gastly observers at the forest entrance would communicate with each other via their spiritual powers whenever Dugu Bo was present. This way, they could retrieve the immortal herbs and leave the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Well in time.

After the notification is given, all Gastly creatures immediately dissipate, thus avoiding leaving any evidence.

Fortunately, Gastly has never been exposed to the public over the years. To outsiders, this uniquely shaped, alien skull looks more like a small, social spirit beast from Sunset Forest.

All the Gastly have clearly defined roles and have begun to carry out their respective tasks.

After Xia Liang finished eating, the chef's third soul skill accelerated the recovery of his pipa leg.

Within half an hour, the recovery speed of his soul power, physical strength, and mental power increased by fifty percent.

Only when the soul power and mental energy consumed by summoning Gastly had almost recovered did Xia Liang take out a jar of milk drink and a blue mushroom from his tricolor ring.

Milk Beverage is the first soul skill of the female soul emperor with the Milk Martial Soul, which can shield her from all auras and odors.

The blue mushroom is the third soul skill of a three-ring food-type soul master: Hundredfold Spirit Mushroom. It can maintain the best mental state for ten minutes, be immune to illusion-type soul skills, and isolate external mental attacks and detection. However, if the difference in mental strength is too great, the effect of the soul skill will be broken.

First, Xia Liang consumed the Hundredfold Spirit Mushroom, then drank a sip of milk beverage. He gained the added benefit of shielding against aura and mental energy detection.

Just then, Gastly, who was in charge of scouting, had already found the best route a kilometer ahead.

After consuming the chef's first Soul Skill, Thousand Mile Swiftness Kick, Xia Liang followed Gastly, who was leading the way, and headed towards the core area of ​​Sunset Forest along the best route.

This optimal route avoids the habitats of soul beasts, and with the added benefits of isolating one's own aura and shielding against mental detection, there is almost no need to worry about the threat of soul beasts.

However, it's hard to guarantee that there won't be spider web traps laid by soul beasts like the Cave Spider on the ground.

To avoid accidents and to get there faster, Xia Liangcai took the chef's first soul skill, Thousand Mile Chasing Wind Kick.

This is a food-type soul skill that can increase the user's movement speed. In addition, during the movement, the user will not leave any footprints, just like walking on snow without leaving a trace, and moving forward with the wind.

Every kilometer Xia Liang ventured deeper into the Sunset Forest, he would expend additional soul power to summon a large number of Gastly to remain in place, in case of unforeseen circumstances.

It continued until the next morning.

Some Gastlys didn't have time to hide in the shadows and were destroyed by the sunlight.

Others were ambushed and destroyed by various spirit beasts.

By the end of the night, nearly half of the Gastly summoned had been lost.

Xia Liang didn't care about anything else and went deep into the Sunset Forest according to the original plan.

In the afternoon, he finally stepped into the core area of ​​Sunset Forest.

There are fewer group-living spirit beasts here, but the number of spirit beasts that act alone has increased several times over.

Judging from their size and characteristics, most of the spirit beasts in the core area of ​​Sunset Forest have reached the level of ten thousand years of cultivation and possess the ability to think like humans.

The Hundredfold Spirit Mushroom is, after all, only the third spirit skill of a three-ring spirit master, and the spirit detection shield it grants is completely ineffective against ten-thousand-year-old spirit beasts.

During his swift journey, Xia Liang encountered an assassination attempt by a ten-thousand-year-old human-faced demon spider capable of invisibility.

Fortunately, the numerous Gastlys gathered together and unleashed their undead roars, causing the spider spider's leg thrusts to deviate. In addition, the skeletal giant hand gripped the rib shield, forming a double defense, which saved Xia Liang's life.

With his ribs covering his entire body, he used the flying ability of the Soaring Thousand Miles Gale Kick to fly through the wind. After several struggles, he finally escaped safely from the pursuit of the Ten Thousand Years-Old Human-Faced Demon Spider.

It wasn't until nightfall, when it was completely dark, that we arrived.

The bright moonlight shone on the ground, casting shadows of the surrounding plants.

Led by Gastly, after two days and two nights of travel, Xia Liang finally arrived at the heart of Sunset Forest and stopped in a place with high mountains and low valleys.

Looking into the valley to the left, one sees a misty atmosphere and the occasional roars of wild beasts, giving one a sense of danger as if trapped in an ambush.

What appeared before Xia Liang was not a forest or a valley, but an endless expanse of dark green poisonous fog.

Having fought Dugu Yan twice before and spent some time in Dugu Yan's three types of poisonous mist from the Azure Phosphorous Serpent, Xia Liang could tell that the dark green poisonous mist in front of him was formed by the condensation of Azure Phosphorous Serpent venom, which was probably the Azure Phosphorous Serpent venom array set up by Dugu Bo.

The poison array contains extremely potent toxins.

The darker and more vibrant the color, the more toxic it is.

The fact that this dark green poisonous fog is so clearly visible to the naked eye is enough to prove that the toxin content in the fog is extremely high. If you rashly enter the fog, you will die in an instant.

Using his food-based soul skill to fly through the wind, Xia Liang circled the poisonous fog twice and discovered that the poison array covered an extremely wide area. Not only this region, but all the mountains in front of him were protected by this poison array.

The thing hidden in the safe area within the poison array should be the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye.

This poisonous array acts like a shield, covering a large area in front of you. To fly into the Ice and Fire Yin-Yang Eye, you still need to pass through the poisonous fog that shrouds the sky.

That makes sense. Dugu Bo set up the poison array to prevent soul beasts or soul masters from entering his treasure land. If the protection of the poison array can be ignored from the sky, then what is the point of this poison array?

Xia Liang tried to send a Gastly that had taken a food-type Soul Skill with anti-poison properties into the poison array ahead.

Suddenly, a scream rang out, and the Gastly that rushed into the poison array was instantly dissolved and corrupted by the poisonous mist within.

With the first and second spirit rings lit up, Xia Liang transformed his slender skeletal right arm into a powerful skeletal giant hand.

Under the control of his mind, a ten-meter-long skeletal giant hand reached into the poison array.

About two seconds passed.

When the giant skeletal hand was retracted, its entire forearm below the elbow had been dissolved into powder by the poisonous mist within the poisonous array.

Even the skeleton martial soul's defense, enhanced by the second soul skill, was instantly disintegrated, demonstrating that the poisonous mist within this poison array was far more potent than Dugu Yan's poisonous mist.

Fortunately, Dugu Yan gave me the antidote pills.

(End of this chapter)