606 : Barely Escaped from Death

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Chapter 606

Barely Escaped From Death
Translated by Kollumceti of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

The lake boiled and released bubbles full of cold air.

Meanwhile, Jiang Liu’s hand had touched the nearest Skull Flower Herb to him. However, the tightly closed flower buds suddenly slowly blossomed when his hand touched the leaf of the magic herb.

When the flower bud was in full bloom, it suddenly sprayed a thick black liquid. Jiang Liu never noticed the change at all. Even if he perceived it at the last moment, he could not react in time and immediately got a head-on spray.

The bubbling sound was just like that of sulfuric acid.

“Aaaaahhhh!!!”

Jiang Liu let out blood-curdling screech, his hands grabbed his face as he rolled around on the ground. But in a few seconds, one side of his face had decomposed to reveal the white bones beneath. The bright red blood was dyed black as it flowed down his neck, looking exceptionally terrifying.

His screams attracted the attention of most of the people present. They hurriedly looked over, but no one came to rescue him. Some even gave a sneer of contempt.

Transcendent level magic herbs could not be lumped under one class.

This was because some transcendent level magic herbs naturally had defenses to protect themselves with. For example, one should be even more cautious with magic herbs like the Skull Flower Herb which grew in special places.

Although the Skull Flower Herb grew within a miasma, what all magic herbs could not lack was spiritual energy. So the Skull Flower Herb developed a means of self-defense, which was expressed in two directions.

One was that the magic herb absorbed excess miasma during its growth. In order to protect its growth, they would convert the absorbed miasma into a liquid state and store it in the flower bud. This was a kind of self-defense method; the other was for external threats. In the case of Jiang Liu, the magic herb would protect itself by spaying out the liquid stored in its flower bud when he touched the magic herb. The liquid was highly corrosive and erosive, and even spiritual power could not be used to block it.

The situation was even worse as Jiang Liu was sprayed when he had let his guard down.

The Vermillion Blood Clan did not come to rescue him upon hearing his miserable shriek. They could not go to him as the Water Demon was too powerful and they did not even have time to look after themselves.

Moreover, he even took advantage of the time when everyone was dealing with the Water Demon to pick magic herbs. In some people’s eyes, his actions felt a little like he was taking advantage of another’s perilous state.

The miasma produced by the black liquid soon spread to Jiang Liu’s whole body. From time to time, a black gas could be seen running through the meridians from the surface of his skin. With one glance, it was enough to tell that the corrosion was too severe and he could not be saved.

At that moment, a slight movement suddenly came from the lake which had constantly been boiling with bubbles of cold air. In the next second, a Water Demon emerged from the bottom of the lake.

This Water Demon was distinctly different from other Water Demons in that it did not have that weird color. The Water Demon looked like it was made of milky white cheese. It was totally bald and had a pair of black eyes that seemed as if they were embedded in cheese, and almost appeared like they were about to fall off when the eyes moved.

The man who saw this scene was immediately overwhelmed with shock.

The representative of Mage Association inhaled and after drawing some distance away from the water demon he was fighting with, and could not crying out, “A Level Twelve Water Demon?”

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