Newbie Guardians

Chapter 46 Deadly Poison

Just as thick smoke billowed from the tomb, the man locked in combat with Amonic was greatly alarmed. His name was Pang Huadi, the third disciple of the Ghost Elder, possessing peak fifth-tier cultivation, an indestructible body, and the previously unused Gu Transformation skill. This was because Gu Transformation would turn him into a monster, stripping him of his human form. For a narcissistic man like him, such an ugly appearance was unacceptable; therefore, he would never use it unless in a life-or-death crisis. However, if this operation failed, returning would be worse than death. He gritted his teeth and roared:

"You forced me into this, so let's all go to hell together!"

He pulled out a dark brown pill the size of a pigeon's egg and swallowed it in one gulp. As the pill passed down his throat, a bloody taste surged up, and his stomach churned. Thirty seconds later, bones and muscles grew wildly, his body twisted and deformed, thick, hard skin grew all over his body, his arms turned into a pair of large claws, his legs became thick and strong, his feet directly broke through his shoes, his toes became sharp claws, and a two-meter-long tail grew from his tailbone, with sharp bone spurs at the end, containing a deadly poison.

Pang Huadi merged with the scorpion, transforming into a monster that retained human features except for its face. After the transformation, its abilities rose to the early stage of the sixth rank, and its twin claws possessed immense strength, forcing Amoniko to retreat step by step.

Hearing the roar, everyone rushed over. Pang Huadi, seeing the group of handsome men and beautiful women before him and thinking of his own ugly appearance, felt his heart bleed and roared wildly:

"I will fuse you all with toads, creating the ugliest, most disgusting monsters!"

Jin Jun roared and activated his dash skill, fiercely attacking the monster's face. Hannah activated two dashes in succession, appearing behind the monster, and the two launched their attacks almost simultaneously.

Pang Huadi pushed off with both legs and instantly appeared more than ten meters away. Jin Jun couldn't stop his attack and thrust his spear at Hanna'er. Huang Xin exclaimed in alarm:

"Be careful!"

Hanna reacted swiftly, launching a three-stage dash in the opposite direction to create distance between herself and the monster. Amonica quickly closed in and engaged the monster in combat.

The magic-based teammates' water balls, five thunderbolts, and small whirlwinds deal very little damage to monsters and have a chance of accidentally injuring Amoniko, making ranged support somewhat inadequate.

Huang Xin realized that the monster's head hadn't been infected by the Gu poison, so he aimed at its head and fired continuously, forcing it to dodge repeatedly. All the arrows hit the monster's body, but failed to penetrate its armor, falling to the ground as they were knocked away. He quickly ran out of arrows. Even so, this relieved much of the pressure on Amoniko.

Jin Jun tossed over a bundle of gold-type armor-piercing arrows. Since Huang Xin had no attributes, the expensive gold-type arrows were useless against him. There was no time to worry about that now; suppressing him was the priority. Under the effect of Eagle Eye, Huang Xin's arrows hit their mark every time. Just as the monster smugly boasted, "This is just a tickle," the armor-piercing ability was finally triggered. The arrow pierced through the chest and went straight through the back, its power astonishing.

The arrow had clearly caused a serious injury, and Pang Huadi was furious. With a flick of his tail, hundreds of poison needles enveloped everyone.

Amonic leaped several meters into the air, her wooden spear touching the ground, dodging the poison needles. Elise, already adept at her vine skills, formed a shield with three vines, blocking the needles. Hannah dodged, but remained within the area of ​​effect; the needles stung, but she wasn't poisoned, thanks to her armor's poison immunity. Everyone else collapsed, severely poisoned, even Cheng Ziyu, who had used her teleportation skill in time.

Elise quickly used her Vitality skill to continuously heal and detoxify her teammates. Without Huang Xin's ranged support, Amoniko was once again forced into retreat. Hannah made a double dash and launched a sneak attack from behind. The monster was hit twice, then turned around and delivered a heavy blow, but Hannah escaped with a triple dash.

Huang Shen quickly recovered and continued to provide remote support. However, perhaps due to bad luck, it wasn't until he had almost used up all one hundred arrows that the armor-piercing effect was triggered again, penetrating the monster's chest.

After being severely injured twice, the monster launched its poison needle attack again. This time, everyone learned their lesson and spread out to attack the enemy at the furthest distance. They were also on guard, and everyone except Jin Jun successfully dodged the attack.

Jin Jun threw another bundle of wind-elemental arrows, this time with slightly better luck, triggering armor penetration three times in total. Pang Huadi's strength was gradually declining, and he quickly weighed his options:

"These people are too cunning. If we continue fighting, we'll definitely die here. We might as well escape first. At worst, we won't go back. If we hide, we might live a few more days."

It decisively executed another tail whip, turned around and fled, thanks to its strong legs, it ran dozens of meters away in the blink of an eye.

Huang Xin noticed the monster was trying to escape and quickly shouted a warning:

"This guy is trying to escape, quickly trap him."

Elise has no quick movement skills, and the monster has already escaped the vines' attack range, leaving her powerless to stop it.

Hannah charged forward three times in a row, but still couldn't catch up with the monster, and she stamped her feet in frustration.

Huang Xin accurately controlled his gliding skill, chasing and firing at long range simultaneously, his sniping ability granting him an extremely long range. Perhaps due to bad luck earlier, this time the third arrow triggered the armor-piercing effect, piercing the monster's calf and drastically reducing its running speed.

Hannah followed closely behind Huang Xin. Seeing that there was still hope, she launched another three-stage dash, closing the distance to within thirty meters.

The monster turned its head and saw that the two were getting closer and closer. A smirk crept onto its face as it cursed inwardly.

"Go ahead and chase! I have a backup plan. We'll see how you die later!"

Whoosh! Countless arrows rained down! Huang Xin slid forward, quickly tackling Hannah to the ground, both burying their heads in the grass in perfect unison. Huang Xin felt a sharp pain in his shoulder first, then two arrows struck his back. The pain quickly subsided, and his consciousness began to fade. He struggled to hold on, desperately protecting Hannah beneath him.

A minute later, the arrows stopped. These were specially made wind-type armor-piercing arrows. The monster had been riddled with arrows and was already dead.

When Hannah realized that Huang Xin hadn't gotten up, a bad feeling welled up in her heart. She hurriedly turned around and saw that Huang Xin had already fainted.

Upon discovering that Huang Xin had been shot with an arrow, Elise rushed over quickly. Ignoring Hannah, she immediately used her Vitality skill to treat Huang Xin and detoxify him.

The other teammates arrived one after another. When Huang Xin woke up, he found himself leaning against Hannah's chest, and he got up to apologize to her.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!"

Before she could even get up, Hannah hugged her tightly again. Huang Xin could feel her trembling slightly, as if she were afraid of losing her at any moment.

After Hannah calmed down, Iris slowly revealed the truth. It turned out that the arrow contained a deadly poison called "Soul-Severing Powder," extracted from dozens of venomous insects living in extremely yin places, and refined dozens of times, making it extremely rare. Those poisoned would suffer from the dual effects of the poison and yin energy, causing their souls to dissipate. Even guardians would die within three minutes without an antidote. Huang Xin's constitution was weak; he couldn't have lasted that long. If it had been a few seconds later, even if he had been saved, he would never have fully recovered.