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The five Cloud Top experts who were poisoned watched in horror as black lines slowly rose from their ankles. Despite using their spiritual power to seal it off, it only delayed the inevitable and couldn't completely stop the spread of the poison.
They tried cutting their flesh to bleed out the poison and taking detoxifying spiritual medicine, but nothing worked.
Even though the black lines faded a little, the violent poisoning continued to affect them, with the lethal venom gnawing at their hearts; it was just a matter of sooner or later.
As the situation changed repeatedly, the twenty or so hooded and masked people in black switched from offense to defense, protecting the poisoned five within a circle.
Seeing the five swollen legs infiltrated by black lines, everyone's expression turned to one of horror.
But everyone was puzzled, how could... how could such venomous snakes suddenly appear?
