After consuming various toxins, the small spider’s size didn’t change much, but the red color on its body became increasingly eerie.
After several more hours, the trees ahead finally became sparse, and the field of view gradually widened.
Passing through the forest, a wooden house could be seen in the distance.
“There’s actually a wooden house here. Could it be the lair of the Black Poison King!?” Cale’s pupils contracted, and anger flashed in his eyes.
Just now, while traveling through the rainforest, he had carelessly almost been bitten by a venomous snake.
And the exhaustion from the long journey and the foul smell on his body, all of it could be attributed to the Black Poison King.
Unable to contain his emotions, Cale tapped his toes and swiftly rushed towards the wooden house.
Right now, he only wanted to quickly deal with the Black Poison King, leave this damn tropical rainforest, take a bath, and rest comfortably.
Thunder Dragon waved his hand, and the rest of the group followed closely behind.
In front of the wooden house were several lush trees called Arrow Poisonwood.
They contained white milky sap, which was highly poisonous. Once it came into contact with a human or animal wound, it could cause paralysis of the heart, blood vessel closure, blood coagulation, and even suffocation and death. That was why people also referred to it as the “throat-sealing blood” tree.
Its toxicity far surpassed that of other highly poisonous plants like the ackee and bitter almonds, making it considered the most poisonous tree in the world.
According to legend, the first person who discovered the highly toxic sap of the Arrow Poisonwood in Banna was a hunter from the Dai Clan.
During a hunting trip, this Dai Clan hunter was cornered by a bear and forced to climb a tall tree. The bear also climbed up after him.
The hunter broke off a branch and stabbed it into the bear’s mouth.
A miracle happened-the bear immediately dropped dead.
Since then, the Dai Clan hunters in Banna would often apply the sap of the Arrow Poisonwood to their arrowheads before hunting, creating poison arrows to defend against the invasion of ferocious beasts. Any wild animal hit by the hunter would only be able to take a few steps before collapsing.
Whenever people mentioned the Arrow Poisonwood, it was known as the “tree of death.”
The seven individuals stood beneath several Arrow Poisonwood trees, with Cale at the forefront. Just as he was about to blast open the wooden door with his palm, something red, the size of an adult’s thumbnail, suddenly descended from the leaves of the Arrow Poisonwood tree.
Upon closer inspection, it was clear that the things hanging down were all spiders, black spiders to be exact. There were at least a few hundred of them.
“It’s the venomous wolf spider! Back away!” The appearance of the black spiders made Juliet’s face turn pale as she shouted in alarm.
Although Thunder Dragon and his companions didn’t know how dangerous these black spiders were, they still retreated cautiously.
Only Cale didn’t back away. He gathered his inner strength in his right hand and struck forward.
“Don’t attack them! Back away!” Leo urgently called out.
Leo had already used his spiritual sense to detect these black spiders. They contained explosive fire energy inside their bodies, which meant that killing them was like detonating a bomb.
However, Leo’s words couldn’t stop Cale in the end.
There was a loud bang as Cale’s palm strike containing inner strength hit one of the black spiders, causing it to explode immediately.
The shock wave from the explosion caused even the tall poison arrowwood tree to tremble.
The shock wave carried flames and swept towards Cale.
Cale’s eyelid twitched, and he opened the ancient fan in his hand, covering his proud face. With his inner power surging, he quickly retreated.
In the next second, a wave of fire surged towards Cale.
Within a few breaths, the wave of fire disappeared, leaving only a few sparks on the grass.
Cale coughed, looking disheveled with his hair and white clothes covered in black burn marks.
The other six people, having retreated in time, were not affected much.
“Damn it!” Cale was angry. It was embarrassing to be in such a sorry state in front of his colleagues.
“Juliet, why do those black spiders explode when we attack them?” Chad asked with lingering fear.
“These black spiders are called ‘Exploding Witchcraft,’ created by witchcraft masters to set traps,” Juliet explained briefly.
“Once someone enters the range of the Exploding Witchcraft and attacks the witchcraft worms, they will explode.”
Thunder Dragon stared intently at the wooden house ahead and said in a deep voice, “Since there are traps set here, the Black Poison King is most likely inside the wooden house.”
Just as Thunder Dragon finished speaking, the wooden door of the house ahead was forcefully pushed open from the inside.
An old man dressed in black Miao clothing, holding a black snake-headed cane, flew out and stood in the open space in front of the wooden house.
“Who dares to trespass in the sacred place of this Witchcraft King?!” The old man’s gaze was sinister as he scanned Thunder Dragon and the others, questioning them loudly.
The appearance of the old man immediately caught everyone’s attention because he was the Black Poison King they had been searching for.
The Black Poison King’s gaze quickly settled on Juliet, and he said in a sinister tone, “Juliet, the holy maiden, I never expected you to bring people to find me.”
The way the Black Poison King addressed Juliet made Leo and the others look at her in surprise. They had no idea that Juliet was the holy maiden of the Black Miao Clan.
In the Black Miao Clan, the holy maiden was second only to the Witchcraft King in importance.
Juliet coldly rebuked, “You killed the Witchcraft King Granny. The Black Miao Clan will exterminate anyone involved!”
“Among the Black Miao witchcraft masters, strength is respected. That old woman was no match for me. She didn’t deserve the title of Witchcraft King. The true Witchcraft King should be me!” Black Poison King sneered, looking completely self-assured.
Juliet angrily retorted, “Nonsense! You are no match for Witchcraft King Granny. You resorted to sneak attacks!”
Black Poison King felt no shame and proudly said, “The reason that old woman was formidable was merely because she relied on the Dark Butterfly Witchcraft passed down by previous Witchcraft Kings. In terms of witchcraft techniques, I surpass her by far!”
“You must be WONDER’s people. That old woman, as the Witchcraft King of the Black Miao Clan, dared to become an advisor. It’s humiliating even in death!”
Thunder Dragon glared at Black Poison King and angrily questioned, “Black Poison King, why did you kill the innocent villagers in two villages?”
“No, no, you’ve got it wrong. I didn’t kill them. I granted them eternal life,” Black Poison King said with a hint of darkness in his eyes, laughing triumphantly.
Hearing Black Poison King’s admission, everyone’s faces turned cold.
Two villages, hundreds of people-the hands of Black Poison King were stained with their blood.
“Leader, there’s no need to waste words with him. Since he’s responsible for the deaths of those two villages, let him pay with his life,” Cale said, eager to regain his dignity. As soon as he finished speaking, his figure flashed, the ancient fan closed, and he stabbed towards Black Poison King’s throat.
“You ignorant fool!” Black Poison King snorted coldly and slammed his black cane on the ground.
A poisonous snake covered in eerie red patterns shot out from the sleeve of Black Poison King’s robe. It was incredibly fast and coiled around the black snake-headed cane.
The head of the fire-red snake had a triangular shape, with a pair of ice-cold snake eyes, clearly a highly venomous creature.