System Possession, One Sword Shocks the Gods

149: The Poisonous Dragon Swamp is treacherous; the Ancestral Symbol protects against the miasma.Leaving the valley filled with poisonous miasma, Ye Chen and Su Miaojin traveled south towards an even more desolate and treacherous region. As they ventured deeper, the surrounding vegetation became increasingly strange and hideous, with twisted, monstrous trees clawing at the air. The colors of the miasma permeating the atmosphere grew more vibrant, yet it contained toxins potent enough to stagnate the Protective Aura of a Seventh Layer Earth Fiend Realm Cultivator.

Su Miaojin was forced to continuously circulate her wood-attribute Protective Aura, forming a faint green light shield around her body to resist the pervasive erosion of the poisonous miasma. The light shield crackled with ’sizzling’ sounds from time to time, clearly showing that she was struggling to maintain it. She looked at Ye Chen beside her, and a hint of astonishment inevitably flashed through her beautiful eyes once more.

Ye Chen had no obvious Protective Aura shield around him; there was only an imperceptible layer of grey airflow naturally circulating on the surface of his body. When that vibrant, notoriously lethal miasma came within a foot of his body, it vanished and was assimilated silently, like a clay ox entering the sea, unable to affect him in the slightest. The Origin power contained within the chaos ancestral talisman made him immune to all poisons and repelled all evils. To him, the terrifying miasma of the Southern Wilderness instead became a bit of nourishment to supplement the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi.

“Young Master Ye’s cultivation has reached such heights; Miaojin is truly impressed,” Su Miaojin praised sincerely, her heart inexplicably gaining a bit more confidence for this trip to the Poison Dragon Swamp.

Ye Chen nodded slightly without saying much. His Divine Sense spread out like spilled mercury, constantly alert to the movements around them. The chaos monitoring compass lay silent in his robes, having not yet detected any signs of the Dark Hall’s tracking, but this primitive and desolate jungle was itself filled with unknown dangers.

Three days later, a boundless stretch of swampland appeared before their eyes.

Rather than a swamp, it was more like a Domain of death. Dark green mud bubbled with viscous gas, and as the bubbles burst, they released a thick, grey-black miasma with a rotting stench, which was more than ten times more lethal than the miasma on the outskirts! Within the quagmire, pale beast bones were visible everywhere, and twisted vines covered in poisonous thorns slithered across the mud’s surface like venomous snakes. In the distance, several areas were shrouded in multicolored poisonous fog that reflected an eerie luster under the sunlight, even causing the space itself to slightly warp.

This place was one of the Southern Wilderness’s perilous lands—the Poison Dragon Swamp!

Just standing at the edge, Su Miaojin felt her Protective Aura light fluctuate violently, as if it could be corroded and pierced at any moment. Her face turned pale, and she hurriedly took out two emerald-green Medicinal Pills and swallowed them before she could barely stabilize herself.

“Follow me closely.” Ye Chen’s expression also grew more solemn. The danger of this Poison Dragon Swamp indeed lived up to its reputation. With a slight thought, he activated the chaos ancestral talisman, and a clearer flow of Chaos Qi radiated from him as the center, forming a grey Domain about three zhang in diameter that also enveloped Su Miaojin.

Within the Domain, all laws were nullified and all poisons were repelled. The nauseating rotting stench and the terrifying grey-black miasma were immediately purified and assimilated upon entering this Chaos Domain. The air inside the Domain was fresh, making it feel like a different world from the outside.

Su Miaojin immediately felt the pressure lift. Looking at the seemingly thin but supremely powerful grey airflow around her, the shock in her heart was beyond measure. What kind of power was this? To be able to resist the lethal environment of the Poison Dragon Swamp so easily?

“Thank you, Young Master Ye,” she said gratefully, while becoming even more certain that Ye Chen’s Origins were far from ordinary.

The two stepped into the Poison Dragon Swamp. Beneath their feet was chillingly soft mud, but under Ye Chen’s precise control of his Protective Aura, it was enough to borrow strength to move forward without sinking. The Chaos Domain was like a mobile safety fortress, slowly advancing through the deathly silent swamp.

However, the dangers of the Poison Dragon Swamp were far more than just the environment.

After traveling only a few miles, a seemingly calm black pool to their side-front suddenly exploded! A thick shadow covered in mucus and dark scales whipped out like lightning, accompanied by a piercing whistle of breaking air and a foul, fishy wind, sweeping straight towards the two of them!

It was a massive Swamp Poison Crocodile! Its aura had shockingly reached the Seventh Layer of the Disha Realm! Its bloody maw opened, revealing dagger-like pale teeth, and dark green venom sprayed out like arrows ahead of it!

Su Miaojin cried out in alarm, her Willow-Leaf Soft Sword already unsheathed, glowing with intense green light.

But Ye Chen’s movements were even faster. He didn’t even turn his head as he struck out with a backhand palm. It wasn’t any sophisticated palm technique, but merely the condensation of pure Chaos Gang Qi, transforming into a greyish palm print that arrived first, meeting the spraying venom and the massive crocodile tail following behind it.

“Puff!”

The venom struck the Chaos palm print and instantly vanished into nothingness. The palm print’s momentum didn’t decrease as it collided violently with the thick crocodile tail.

“Bang!”

There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a dull, drum-like thud. The Seventh Layer of the Disha Realm Swamp Poison Crocodile let out an agonizing roar. Its massive tail, which was powerful enough to shatter refined iron, had its scales burst and bones shattered the moment it made contact with the grey palm print! Its massive body was even flipped away by an irresistible force, crashing heavily into the mud dozens of zhang away. After struggling a few times, it stopped moving; all its life force had actually been shattered by a single palm strike!

Su Miaojin’s hand holding the sword froze in mid-air, her beautiful eyes wide open, almost unable to believe what she was seeing. A Seventh Layer of the Disha Realm Yao Beast was... just killed by a casual palm strike? He didn’t even use his sword!

Ye Chen slowly retracted his palm, his expression as calm as ever. After the initial refinement of the chaos ancestral talisman, the quality of his Chaos Gang Qi had undergone a qualitative leap. Although the quantity hadn’t increased much, the ’quality’ far exceeded those of the same level, containing a trace of the overbearing power of the Chaos Origin. Against this kind of unintelligent Yao Beast that relied entirely on instinct and physical ferocity, he had an overwhelming advantage.

“Let’s go,” he said indifferently, as if he had only swatted a bothersome fly.

Su Miaojin took a deep breath, suppressing the waves of shock in her heart, and silently followed. She felt more and more that the power hidden within this seemingly calm young man was like an abyss, unfathomably deep.

The two continued to venture deeper. During this time, they encountered several more waves of attacks from poisonous insects and fierce beasts, even a swarm of flying Poison Bats, but under Ye Chen’s Chaos Domain and casually swung Chaos Sword Aura, none returned alive.

As they continued deeper, the terrain of the swamp began to become complex, with many jagged rocks eroded by poisonous water and massive decaying withered trees appearing. According to a tattered beast-skin map in Su Miaojin’s hand, the entrance to the Hundred Flowers Secret Realm was hidden in this area.

However, just as they followed the map’s guidance to a strange pool surrounded by three massive withered trees in a triangular formation, Ye Chen’s footsteps abruptly stopped, and his eyes instantly became sharp as knives.

The chaos monitoring compass in his robes sent a clear and cold warning!

At the same time, a sinister voice came from behind a moss-covered boulder to the side:

“Tsk tsk tsk, I didn’t expect that besides the remnants of the Hundred Flower Valley, there would be an unexpected harvest.”

Along with the words, five figures slowly walked out. Leading them was a pale-faced young man with sunken eyes holding a Snake-Headed Cane. His aura was cold and mixed, shockingly at the Eighth Layer Earth Fiend Realm! The four elders following him had even deeper auras; two of them had reached the Ninth Layer Earth Fiend Realm, and the other two were at the Peak of the Eighth Layer Earth Fiend Realm!

The poison technique fluctuations emanating from them were several times more refined and powerful than the Witch Poison Sect Disciples they had encountered before, indicating they held extremely high positions in the sect.

The young man’s gaze first swept greedily over Su Miaojin’s slender figure and pretty face, and then he stared fixedly at Ye Chen, especially at the faint grey airflow around him, his eyes filled with heat and possessiveness.

“To be able to stroll so leisurely in the depths of this Poison Dragon Swamp and even form a Domain to resist all poisons... you must have a supreme poison-warding treasure on you!” The young man licked his lips, his voice carrying a hint of distorted excitement. “This Young Lord happens to need such an item to help me completely refine the ’Ten Thousand Poison Golden Core’! Kid, hand over the treasure and then kill yourself; this Young Lord can give you a quick death and leave your corpse intact.”

A thin, withered elder at the Ninth Layer Earth Fiend Realm beside him took a step forward, his cold gaze locking onto Ye Chen as he said raspily, “Kid, to have the Young Sect Master of my Witch Poison Sect personally take action is your honor. Be sensible, lest you suffer.”

Su Miaojin’s face instantly turned as pale as paper, and she lost her voice, saying, “The Young Sect Master of the Witch Poison Sect, Wu Huan! And the Left and Right Poison Envoys!” She hadn’t expected that for the nine-orifice immortal lotus, the Witch Poison Sect would even send out the Young Sect Master and the top Left and Right Poison Envoys of the sect!

Ye Chen’s gaze calmly swept over the five opponents. This lineup was indeed powerful. Two Ninth Layer Earth Fiends, two Peak Eighth Layer Earth Fiends, plus an Eighth Layer Earth Fiend Young Sect Master; they were far stronger than any enemy he had encountered before.

He slowly shielded Su Miaojin behind him, and the guixu sword in his hand let out a low, soft hum as Chaos Qi slowly gathered on the blade.

“The treasure is on me.” Ye Chen looked at the Young Sect Master named Wu Huan, his lips curling into a cold arc. “If you have the ability, come and take it yourself.”