Chapter 374: [Nether Lotus Glow] (2/2)

Qing Feng might appear muddle-headed and careless, but in reality, he was extremely cunning and paranoid. He did not like to fight with unknown enemies. Even though he was a grass-lotus puppet that trained like dire beasts and had many marvellous tricks up his sleeves, he still had weaknesses.

His body was not as strong and sturdy as a dire beasts’. If he was struck by a brutal attack, his body could get damaged easily.

Once his body was damaged, he had to return and stay in his master’s lotus pond for a long time to recover fully.

He did not like staying in the lotus pond at all. His entire body would be lodged under the sloshy mud with only his head left outside. That was a terrible experience.

Usually, if he sensed something was not right, he would immediately retreat and wait for a new opportunity to strike again.

Even though Qing Feng had loosened up, his gaze still did not leave the trapped Ai Hui.

He did not go and capture Xiao Shuren immediately. Since the situation was well under his control, how was it even possible for her to run away?

Ai Hui noticed that [Skyheart Flaming Lotus Lamp] was beginning to dim. The surrounding emptiness and darkness was boundless. Gradually, the [Skyheart Flaming Lotus Lamp] dimmed and its operating speed became very slow.

The glimmer of hope he had just seen was being extinguished in an instant. However, Ai Hui’s mind did not falter because of this. At this point in time, his mind had already returned to its normal state.

What should he do?

Ai Hui was exceptionally calm. His brain was operating very fast as he thought of ways to break out of the green glowing ball.

[Skyheart Flaming Lotus Lamp] suppressed illusions and psychic attacks. Since it worked against the void of darkness, this meant that the surrounding emptiness and darkness was some kind of illusion.

This illusion was so real that Ai Hui could not even budge the slightest bit when he tried to move his body,

The [Skyheart Flaming Lotus Lamp]’s operating speed decreased. This showed that the other’s party’s psychic attack was very strong and the [Skyheart Flaming Lotus Lamp] was being suppressed.

His body was imprisoned but his mind was free. What else could he do?

Eh? Ai Hui suddenly realized that the elemental energy in his body could still flow. Previously, he felt that his elemental energy was being devoured. Apparently, that was also an illusion.

It was incredible to see an illusion being so real.

Ai Hui’s eyes lit up when he knew he could still channel his elemental energy. But every time his elemental energy reached the periphery of his body, the elemental energy could not proceed on. This applied to his palms as well. When the elemental energy reached his palm, it could not escape his palm and entered the Silverfold Plum.

His elemental energy could only flow within his body...

Ai Hui was slightly disappointed. If his elemental energy could not enter Silverfold Plum, he could not utilize his swordsmanship.

Almost all of his fighting capabilities were based on his swordsmanship. The inability to utilize his swordsmanship was equivalent to him losing more than half of his strength. Furthermore, with the [Skyheart Flaming Lotus Lamp] being suppressed, he lost the tiny bit of strength that he was left with.

The situation was becoming worse. However, Ai Hui did not intend to give up just like this.

He kept on channeling the elemental energy within his body and the elemental energy flowed faster and faster. Ai Hui wanted to see if the elemental energy could break through the confinement of the illusion. An illusion spell that could confine elemental energy had surpassed the usual illusion spells in terms of strength and level.

Ai Hui’s movements immediately caught Qing Feng’s attention.

When Qing Feng saw what Ai Hui was doing, he could not help but laugh. He was very proud of himself.

He stepped on the lotus leaves and walked nearer to the green glowing ball. He widened his eyes and admired his masterpiece.

The fact that Ai Hui could still channel his elemental energy was a trap set up by Qing Feng on purpose. Just as Ai Hui had expected, the illusion wasn’t any ordinary illusion. He certainly did not expect that what he had encountered was a type of illusion poison.

Nether lotus seeds grew in places which had the highest concentration of aura of death. These places were also known as gateways to the netherworld. The green light emitted by the lotus leaves was actually a bizarre mixture of light and smoke.

The light could imprison Ai Hui and create illusions, but it was not deadly. The deadly thing was the smoke. The smoke was a formless and invisible poisonous smoke. It could seep into an elementalist’s body without him knowing.

The faster the elementalist channeled his elemental energy, the faster the poisonous smoke would seep into his body and the stronger its toxicity would get. It would draw the elementalist nearer and nearer to his death.

Qing Feng purposely designed the green light to only imprison an elementalist’s body and not the elemental energy within his body. By designing the green light this way, an imprisoned elementalist would see this as his only chance to escape and keep on channeling his elemental energy. Doing this would only give the poisonous smoke the chance to strike.

Therefore, when Qing Feng saw that Ai Hui kept channeling his elemental energy, he broke into laughter. It was a pity that his smile was extremely ugly and weird-looking.

The numbness caused by the poisonous smoke was very subtle, making it difficult for one to sense it. However, Ai Hui could immediately sense something was wrong.

When Ai Hui was in Wilderness in the past, other than the sword embryo, poison was the greatest helper. He had spent a lot of time and effort studying and using poison. As such, he was extremely sensitive to the presence of poison.

When the first trace of poisonous smoke entered his body, he could already sense it.

Poisonous!

The first thing he did was to stop channeling the elemental energy in his body. He knew of a lot of poisons that could use elemental energy as a medium of travel to spread throughout a body.

At this moment, a trace of weird energy suddenly emerged from his body.

Ai Hui was stunned. Wasn’t this fusion elemental energy?

In order to spend a longer time in the Hall of Ancient Records, Ai Hui trained diligently to develop his fusion elemental energy. His training progress in fusion elemental energy had improved extremely fast.

The trace of fusion elemental energy pounced towards that trace of poisonous smoke, like a predator that spotted its prey.