Shen Yunhao turned around in a daze.
Not far away in the air, a beautiful woman dressed in a black gauze dress, with a graceful and slender figure, was walking gracefully through the void.
She resembled Mu Shuangshuang by about 70%, but possessed a more mature and alluring charm. A gentle smile played on her lips, and her eyes were naturally captivating, yet also carried a hint of wickedness.
Shen Yunhao was certain he had never seen this person before, but the charming face that bore a striking resemblance to Mu Shuangshuang's was enough for him to instantly guess the person's identity.
"Senior Yue...?"
He almost blurted out "Mother-in-law," but he swallowed it back and chose a more appropriate term instead. He was almost able to call her that out directly...
Mu Qingqing raised her hand and crushed the black, withered branches that were attacking Shen Yunhao. Then she turned her head and leisurely looked Shen Yunhao over a few times. Finally, she smiled faintly, her red lips curving into a dangerous arc: "Little guy, I'm very envious of that demonic vine on your body. Before I get my hands on it, you'd better keep it safe and don't lose it."
Shen Yunhao was taken aback at first, but then immediately understood.
If the person in front of her was truly the Poisonous Lady, she naturally wouldn't reveal their true relationship in front of everyone. These words, seemingly about vying for the Demon Vine, were actually an excuse to protect him... Once she sets her sights on something, no one else can easily touch it. At least until she succeeds, Shen Yunhao must live.
Having figured this out, Shen Yunhao's mind raced, and he followed her words, saying, "If you have the ability, then come and take it yourself!"
Before he finished speaking, he swayed and rushed towards the gap beside Elder Guimu, heading straight for the Dark Abyss not far away.
A cold glint flashed in Elder Guimu's eyes, and he was about to make a move to intercept him when a dark purple light containing potent poison once again blocked his path.
Gui Mu paused, looking at the smiling Mu Qingqing before him, and couldn't help but shake his head. "I never thought that the infamous Poisonous Queen would one day stand up for a junior? This isn't like you at all..."
Upon hearing this, Mu Qingqing lightly twirled a strand of hair with her jade-like fingers and smiled gently: "Whether that little brat lives or dies is actually irrelevant, but if you, an old ghost, were to swallow this demonic vine, it would be... far too wasteful!"
Her voice was sweet and charming, but her words were in no way inferior.
Knowing that the other party would never admit to any connection with Shen Yunhao, Gui Mu was too lazy to waste any more words on this matter. He simply said in a sinister tone, "If I'm not mistaken, Qingqing, you seem to have not yet broken through to the late stage of the Void Realm? Do you really intend to fight me here?"
Mu Qingqing could naturally sense the powerful aura emanating from Gui Mu, which belonged to the late stage of the Void Realm and was comparable to the level of a Grand Sect Master.
But there was no fear on her face. Instead, she giggled and said, "Then I must ask Elder Guimu to show mercy and give this little girl a chance to live?"
Gui Mu was not angry upon hearing this. Instead, a strange and enigmatic smile appeared on his face. "Qingqing's poisonous tail is so potent that even the Sect Master would be overwhelmed if he accidentally took a single needle. It is indeed difficult for me to handle... However, the world is vast, and there are always people who can deal with it. Don't you think so?"
Upon hearing this, Mu Qingqing's smile froze instantly, and her expression suddenly darkened.
Sure enough, Gui Mu shouted loudly into the void, "Poison Sect Master, if you don't show yourself now, when will you?"
As his voice fell, the space above suddenly twisted violently, and an old man with a gloomy face and a gaunt figure, as if seeping out of an ink painting, slowly stepped out from the void.
The old man stared at Mu Qingqing with his gray eyes for a long time before letting out a cold snort and saying in a hoarse voice, "Does Palace Master Mu intend to betray my Ten Thousand Poisons Sect and join the Guanghan Palace?"
Upon meeting him, he immediately slapped the huge label of "traitor" on him!
Mu Qingqing was not intimidated at all, and retorted with a low sneer: "Sect Master, please don't speak so harshly! I only stood up to stop it because I couldn't bear to see the ancient demonic vine fall into the hands of the Blood Sect and strengthen the enemy's power! But I don't know... when did you, Sect Master, start colluding with the Blood Sect?"
Faced with her questioning, the old poisoner merely glanced at her coldly before turning to Guimu, "Mu Qingqing, I will naturally stop it. The condition is... that demonic vine must die!"
Gui Mu chuckled sinisterly, as if he had expected this all along: "Of course! In that case, I will not interfere in the internal affairs of your Ten Thousand Poisons Sect... Farewell!"
After saying that, he blurred into a blurry purple afterimage, ignoring Mu Qingqing who was being targeted by the Poison Old Ghost, and chased after Shen Yunhao in the direction he had fled!
Mu Qingqing knew there was no way to stop him now. Gazing in the direction where Shen Yunhao had disappeared, she sighed softly, "I hope that kid is tough enough... otherwise, this time we've really lost both our daughter and our army..."
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On the other side, Shen Yunhao pushed his speed to the limit. The entrance to the Dark Abyss, filled with chaotic energy, was almost in front of him. Above the sky, a terrifying pressure suddenly descended as if the entire sky had collapsed!
That power was vast and boundless, far surpassing any previous attack, as if it contained endless death and decay!
Shen Yunhao was horrified. Without thinking, he instinctively raised the Guixue Sword to block in front of him!
"boom--!"
An indescribable force slammed into the Guixue Sword. Shen Yunhao felt a tightness in his chest, as if he had been hit by a meteorite, and he fell uncontrollably from mid-air!
Before he could be shocked that Mu Qingqing had been defeated so quickly, a huge, bottomless crack suddenly appeared in the ground below, and a massive, withered tree, like a slumbering ancient beast, burst forth from the ground!
The withered tree was entirely deathly gray, without a single leaf, its branches twisted and grotesque, exuding an extremely dense aura of death.
What's important is its size; it's like a small mountain, and the commotion it caused when it broke through the ground was enough to be described as an earthquake.
Not only that, the top of the tree canopy suddenly split open, forming a dark, constantly rotating hole that devoured light and emitted a powerful suction force. Shen Yunhao, who was in mid-air and had just been pushed back by the enormous force from the sky, had no way to dodge and was directly captured by that suction force.
"Whoosh—!"
The next moment, Shen Yunhao felt everything go black, the world spun around him, and he was swallowed up by the black hole at the top of the tree!
As the black hole closed, a portion of the trunk at the top of the massive, withered tree twisted and writh, once again coalescing into the figure clad in purple robes.
This enormous, lifeless tree was actually the real Ghost Tree, and it was also a member of the demon race!
No wonder he previously claimed to be of the same origin as Mo Yan... one a demonic vine, the other a ghostly tree, neither of them are ordinary demons.
He stood on his own body, his eyes filled with an uncontrollable morbid excitement and fanaticism.
"Hahahaha... So many years have passed! Dark Abyss Vine! You have finally fallen into my hands!"
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