Realms In The Firmament

Ye Xiao widely opened his eyes. He knew what was tying these people up all of a sudden. It must be the long and special tongue of the toad…

He was probably right about that, because… When he flew over the Foggy Miasma Mountain, he encountered an incredibly long tongue in the sky…

Well, he cut the tongue that was attacking him with one sword strike…

After what had happened, Ye Xiao finally realized why the poisonous fog suddenly changed… Because he cut the tongue of the monster with one sword attack, the blood that came out from the wound of the tongue became the poisonous fog. When the toad was hurt, Ye Xiao saw the blood became poisonous fog, so he was certain about it… In fact, the more important part of the toad was cut, the blood became more powerful poison!

Ye Xiao was right.

The most important part of the Destined Toad was its tongue. It was also the most horrible and harmful part of the toad.

The tongue could be long, or short, or thick, or thin… I was flexible and agile. Normally, weapons couldn’t easily cut it. Most importantly, over ninety percent of the poison in the toad’s body was in the tongue.

What Ye Xiao did must be quite a surprise. The toad didn’t have time to react. One-third of its tongue was cut off by Ye Xiao and that was why the poisonous fog became tens of thousands denser than usual!

The beast had lived on the Foggy Miasma Mountain for hundreds of thousands of years. How powerful was the poison that it had collected for hundreds of thousands of years? It must have swallowed and absorbed so much poison from other poisonous creatures! It was unimaginable…

Its tongue suddenly got cut and it almost lost half of its tongue… No wonder the Foggy Miasma Mountain would become so much more horrible.

The Destined Toad must be quite upset and angry about it.

It didn’t mess with anybody, just stayed on this mountain peacefully. Maybe it just came up with an idea, or just felt hungry after sleeping for a long time, so it opened its eyes and saw a few humans casually flying over its head. Well, it must have had annoyed the toad…

The toad unconcernedly reached its tongue to the sky. Three men were not much for the toad, but when it was hungry, it was better than nothing!

It was a subconscious move to reach the tongue up. It didn’t even use any power. It was a predatory move in the nature of an animal!

That casual move brought the toad misery! Unexpected to the toad, one of the three men wasn’t just some ordinary cultivator. His martial art perfectly overpowered its poison and the sword of the man was some incredible divine weapon that the toad had never seen before.

It was just a single sword strike. One-third of the toad’s precious tongue was cut off! That was a tongue that escaped all weapon attacks!

‘Holy hell! It hurt so much that I nearly passed away!’

The pain was not the biggest problem. Because its tongue was cut off, the poison in the tongue was mostly released… When the toad was recovered from the unbearable pain and found the broken tongue, it hurriedly put it back and fixed its tongue. However, it was impossible to get the poison back anymore.

The poison had become the poisonous fog all over the mountain!

It truly upset the toad and almost drove it crazy.

It hadn’t ever thought that it would suddenly encounter such a painful accident…

In fact, there was a way to change the situation. The poisonous fog was created by the toad itself by breathing in and out. It intentionally made such an environment by releasing a certain amount of poisonous fog. What it had lost to the wound on this toad eventually became a part of the poisonous fog on the Foggy Miasma Mountain, which meant it didn’t really lose the poison. All it needed to do was to absorb the poison back.

That was why the toad hadn’t move for a long time, concentrated on absorbing the poison in the poisonous fog to recover its power. At the same time, it needed time to fix its tongue. The poisonous fog was from the essence of the toad’s energy. Because of Ye Xiao’s attack, the essence of the energy became the poisonous fog on the mountain. It took only a few seconds to become the poisonous fog, but took a long time to become the toad’s energy again!

Anyway, the toad was broadminded. The Foggy Miasma Mountain had the Destined Poison Shield, so the poison was not going anywhere. It didn’t mind spending some time to get the poison back… After hundreds of thousands of years, it was still the Destined Toad…

However, even it was optimistic, things always changed. When it was busy absorbing the poison back and recovering its power, something happened.

‘Who are these people?’

‘Why are they here together to attack me?’

‘Well, I don’t fear the attacks! But… Bastards… This is unforgivable… Why did they create such a weird valley? How could they create such a strong wind storm? It blew my fog away and broke my Destined Poison Shield…’

‘Now what? My poison… I have collected this for hundreds of thousands of years… Now, most of it is gone… It flew away upon the clouds! Is the god going to get it?’

‘This is unforgivable. I can’t stand this! I won’t let go of this!’

The toad jumped out without hesitation. It reached out the tongue and scrolled over three hundred men away at a time. However, it seemed the tongue moved a little slower when it moved back to its mouth. There were some powerful cultivators among hundreds of people…

The toad’s back was nearly one hectare… Now it bore many wounds…

‘F*ck! This is more to lose!’

The toad was so angry, but it didn’t stop eating the men that were tied up by its tongue. It swallowed them all with one bite.

“It can’t taste worse!”

That was true. However, it was better than nothing!

‘I have lost my power, and I am starving… Fine. I should eat more!’

The toad had eaten some men and then its big eyes, which were as big as three houses, slowly closed down. The eyelids couldn’t help falling down. ‘I must pretend I am asleep, so they will be careless, and I can wrap more men to eat…’

‘A few hundreds of men are far from enough to fill my stomach… I need more!’

The old man in the purple robe was totally shocked.

He kept his eyes open, staring at the giant toad that was hiding behind the fog. He was shaking.

He wasn’t shaking because of fear, but because of anger. He was so angry that he was shaking.

‘I have traveled the world for so many years and I have never been taken advantage of like this!’

‘The poisonous fog is cleaned, and the beast is right in front of us. That damn toad actually swallowed my men like that! Three hundred and fifty-seven men of mine are gone!’

‘It chewed them and swallowed them!’

‘This is unbelievable…’

‘It is too arrogant… too crazy… too aggressive… It is sick!’

The old man in purple robe felt that his head was going to explode.

He had never been in such a negative situation, not even when he had to face a million men in the enemy’s army!

Now he was only fighting against an animal!

“F*cking animal! How vicious! How brutal! How arrogant!” The old man’s face turned dark.

“My lord, the poisonous fog is clear. What should we do now? Are we going to besiege the monster and kill it?” A few vice-generals surrounded the old man in the purple robe.

“Do you have to ask such a silly question?” The old man fiercely said, “Aren’t we here to hunt the evil toad? I don’t care what or how much it costs! We must capture the Destined Toad!”

He thought for a while and then took a long breath. He said, “The poisonous fog on the Foggy Miasma Mountain is broken. The Destined Toad is right before our eyes. The only thing the monster can do to attack is to wield its tongue! There is nothing else it can do now… Humph! It is easy to catch an animal with such limited attacking methods!”

“My lord, you are wise!”

The vice-generals kept kissing the old man’s ass, but in their hearts, they were cursing him.

‘Only to wield its tongue? Only?’

‘Limited attacking methods?’

‘There is nothing else it can do?’

‘How dare you? Really? Old man?’

‘That thing just moved its tongue and we lost three hundred and fifty-seven men…’

‘How many people do we have?’

‘Eight thousand! That is all! My bloody lord!’

‘Eight thousand men! That monster ate three hundred and fifty-seven men with one bite! Ten bites, it swallowed three thousand, five hundred and seventy men of us! With less than thirty bites… We will all become pieces in the toad’s mouth!’

‘It takes a man more than thirty bites to finish dinner!’

‘The eight thousand of us are only as much as half a meal to the monster…’

‘We are alive now, and we can laugh and talk… If the monster swallows us, we will become stools in half a day…’

The vice-generals all felt so sad as they thought of half a meal and the stools.

“Only half a meal to it…” One of them actually spoke it out.

The others heard it, and they quickly turned over to prepare for the fight…

‘What an erhuo!’

(Off-screen voice of Erhuo: “Pah! What are you thinking? I am smart and great! All beasts must bow to me! How do you have to call people erhuo when you actually want to call them idiots! Erhuo should be the highest-level compliment! Remember? Do not use it incorrectly!”)

“Half a meal?” The old man in purple robe asked. His strong power wave was oppressing down.

The vice-general was so upset, and he didn’t dare to lie to the old man. “I mean… The toad… The Destined Toad… It… This is… A meal… I mean… No, I didn’t mean… Please…”

The old man in purple robe half-closed his eyes and said, “Do you want to say that even if the toad eats all the eight thousand men, we are just half a meal to it? Is that what you want to say?”

“No… No… I don’t want to… It wasn’t… I didn’t mean…” The vice-general was sweating.

“What do you want to say then? Go ahead. I am listening!”

“I… I mean…”

“What do you mean? Well, let me tell you what I mean. I mean you should get twenty black dragon whips! Somebody come! Give him the lesson he deserves!”

The shout shook the entire army.

The vice-general was so upset.

‘Oh, f*ck. Do you really have to vent your anger on me? Really?’

…

On the other side, Ye Xiao was urging the two sisters to cultivate harder, and he was supervising them.

“Come on! You look like two starving girls!

“Han’er! That was wrong! You must give more attention! Push it harder!

“Shuang’er, you are in the wrong mood! You are distracted! Go again!”

…

Ye Xiao was pointing at them like he knew everything. Yue Shuang and Yue Han only followed his instructions and cultivated really hard… At least it looked like so.

In fact, it was just like so.

The two ladies weren’t using any powerful spiritual energy, but they were practicing their martial arts for real…

They were concentrated on cultivating their unique martial art!

The old man in purple robe looked over and then looked back.

He was a little confused though. ‘That was such a strong wind storm. Why are those ants still alive? Were they just lucky? Or…’ As he looked at the bottom of the mountain, he found the cave. It explained many things. ‘They were hiding there. They are just lucky. That’s all.’

…

Ye Xiao was training Yue Shuang and Yue Han. He gave the ladies dan beads from time to time…

The army did ruin his plan and stopped the Poison King’s training, but they disclosed the Destined Toad. Ye Xiao and his people would have to face the toad if not for the army. After all, after the Poison King and the Silver-scaled Golden-caruncled Snakes finished improving in this area, they would have to deal with the monster on the mountain. Now that the North Sky King’s Army was crazily attacking the toad, Ye Xiao felt lucky about it.

‘We are so lucky… Those men are dying for us… If they didn’t come, we will encounter the Destined Toad carelessly… According to the incredible power of the toad, we might have to run for life in the end!’

‘In fact, maybe one of the ladies or the Poison King would have to stay behind! That would have killed me with extreme agony in the heart!’

He had all the reasons to be pessimistic. Nobody would believe that a toad could reach the Undead Stage… In fact, the Destined Toad was at the late phase of the Undead Stage…

It was just a toad!

Why was it so powerful?

It should be even much stronger if its tongue wasn’t hurt!

What level was the toad when it was at the prime status?

It was leaving no room for humans to be cultivators!

Ye Xiao was shouting inside his heart, but he was actually silent.

‘Humph! These men are powerful, but they can’t kill the toad. Hmm… They can’t kill the toad, but they will hurt the toad badly. When both sides were dead, I will show up and collect whatever is valuable…’

‘Well, if both sides were exhausted and nobody was unharmed, it would be better…’

‘After all, these men were all high-level cultivators… They must have a lot of valuable things with them…’

‘I should clear their pockets! That is what the One Meter Higher Sky would definitely do…’