Chapter 1760 - 648: Snake Cave (Part 3)

After returning to Four Direction City, she quickly killed off almost all of them.

She turned them into various poisons.

Some extremely precious little things were kept by her.

Su Mo had asked, and Little Situ told him, these venomous creatures are difficult to cultivate and shouldn’t be killed casually. When needed, you can directly extract the poison.

As for the others, they were quite useless, taking up space and scaring people, so it was better to just kill them.

In a place with so many poisonous snakes now, if it were Little Situ or the Five Poison Elder, would they have the skill to take all these snakes away?

The thought flashed through his mind, and he stepped forward to follow the two disciples of the Tianjing Sect.

The Tianjing Sect set up an array between the rear mountains and blocked the path with poisonous snakes; there must be something strange going on.

The two Tianjing Sect disciples ahead did not utter a word, seemingly quite uneasy.

They must have some means to make these poisonous snakes dare not approach them.

As a result, they were not attacked along the way.

However, seeing so many snakes, the visual impact also made their legs somewhat weak.

Su Mo, however, was looking for the black-clothed man from before.

Yet, he did not find any trace of the other.

This person was so familiar with the surroundings, the snakes in the forest probably wouldn’t hinder him, so where did he go?

While pondering, he followed the two disciples, turned a mountain cove, and arrived before a cave.

The surroundings of the cave were even more densely packed with poisonous snakes.

This time, there was almost no place to step down.

These poisonous snakes weren’t afraid of people.

Instead, they were eyeing him, as if ready to bite at any moment.

Su Mo naturally wasn’t afraid of them; with a slight frown, he passed through without any special move, and the snakes retreated a good distance.

Then he followed the two into the cave.

Not far ahead, a wide open space within the mountain appeared before them all.

Suddenly, they heard the two Tianjing Sect disciples exclaim:

"What’s going on?"

"Who is he?"

As Su Mo’s gaze passed over them, he saw a person lying in the middle of the clearing in the mountain’s belly.

This person was none other than Jiang Yangliu.

But this place wasn’t just occupied by him alone.

Others were hidden in the dark.

And it wasn’t just one.

In this place, not counting him and the two Tianjing Sect disciples, along with Jiang Yangliu, there were three more people!

Did they come to the Snake Cave for a meeting?

So many people could almost gather two tables for mahjong.

Looking again at Jiang Yangliu, his eyes were closed, lying on the ground, with the snakes avoiding climbing over him.

It was as if he was covered in something foul, and they were avoiding him with disdain.

They kept a three-foot distance from him.

The two Tianjing Sect disciples, startled, exchanged glances, one hastily said:

"Let’s drag him out, otherwise, if we disturb that thing... it’ll be a big trouble."

"You’re right."

The two exchanged glances and moved forward.

But the talkative Tianjing Sect disciple hesitated, gazing at his fellow disciple ahead, his face full of struggle.

Finally, he drew a deep breath, raised his hand like a knife, and swung it towards his senior brother’s neck.

The person in front suddenly stopped:

"Something’s wrong!"

This sudden startle made the one about to strike flinch.

Hurriedly hiding his hands: "What..."

He realized what the issue was as soon as he spoke.

He heard a ’croak’ sound, and a toad was perched on Jiang Yangliu’s chest, for who knows how long.

This toad wasn’t large, only about the size of a baby’s fist.

Perched on Jiang Yangliu’s chest, it croaked incessantly.

Every time it croaked, its cheeks swelled, showing a fiery red color, as if burning.

Seeing this little toad croak, it seemed to take great interest in Jiang Yangliu.

The faces of the two Tianjing Sect disciples turned pale.

The leading one hurriedly put down his basket, opened the lid, took out a porcelain bottle, and said in a low voice:

"Come, look here... Look what I’ve prepared for you to eat..."

As he spoke, he turned the porcelain bottle over and poured it onto the ground.

Out came a layer of red powder.

As the powder hit the ground, a layer of black spread over it.

A snake accidentally came into contact and its skin festered, contorted, and within moments, turned into a pool of pus.

"Poison?"

Su Mo watched coldly and only then realized that the contents of their basket were all poisons.

They were meant to feed this toad.

This little toad was definitely not an ordinary creature.

Thinking of this, Su Mo felt a sudden interest, planning to catch it and give it to Little Situ later.

But the plan of the Tianjing Sect disciple fell through.

The toad’s eyes indeed glanced at the ground’s poison.

But only just a glance.

Then it returned its eyes to Jiang Yangliu.

As if Jiang Yangliu held a greater attraction for it.

SfiSuddenly, it leaped forward.

With its mouth open, a pinkish tongue shot out, licking Jiang Yangliu’s face.

Jiang Yangliu didn’t know what happened.

He appeared unconscious, or perhaps asleep.

When the toad licked him, he scratched his face, mumbling:

"Please, don’t disturb me, let me sleep a little longer..."

His mouth opened, and the little toad, seeing it, sprang like an arrow toward his open mouth.

At that moment, a silver flash appeared.

It shot from a cave corner, aiming directly at the little toad.

Unexpectedly, though small and swift, the little toad was even more alert.

It spun in the air, tapping the silver flash with its feet, bouncing away to a nearby rock.

It let out croaking sounds, seemingly in great anger.

Its angry croak stirred the snakes on the ground into a frenzy.

The silver flash then revealed its true form, a chain dart.

It swiftly turned and retracted into the corner.

A voice angrily shouted:

"Who dares ruin my plans?"

The voice clearly belonged to the black-clothed man.

Before he could reveal himself, Jiang Yangliu suddenly jumped up.

He screamed in pain:

"It hurts... it hurts so much!!"

His face turned red, his hands turned blue, and the colors swiftly spread across his body, causing intense pain.