Against The Heavens 30 Poisonous Demonic Beasts.

"Alright then, Jinwu, let us go an do some investigation before we head to the emerald volcanoes."

Li Yang did not bother staying inside the town any longer after getting as much information as possible from the bald golem. He did not own an interspatial ring, so he would not be able to carry a lot of things anyway, it was better to simply hunt for food. As for water, he could use his ice rune to call forth blocks of ice and then melt them using his fire rune, giving him an almost endless amount of water.

"How long has it been since I had to use this technique I wonder?"

Li Yang left the town and could not help but mutter as he activated a technique from his previous life. The technique he was using right now was a special way of constantly circulating his Qi through his body.

By using this technique, he was able to hide all traces of himself, even his heartbeat and breathing. It was a technique he often used to hide or flee when he had just started cultivating. Of course, once he became known as the Thunder Monarch, he had never had to use it again.

Jinwu could not use the technique, but as a divine beast, he had his own ways of hiding himself, so Li Yang was not worried about Jinwu causing the two of them to be found.

"Let's start by finding out what type of Demonic beasts live around the emerald volcanoes."

The road towards the emerald volcanoes was dotted with forests both large and small, hills of various sizes, as well as boulders that seemed to have been flung there from far away. The road was ripe with places for Li Yang and other Demonic beasts to hide.

Li Yang did not unsheathe his sword as he started slowly making his way towards the emerald volcanoes, taking advantage of all the cover he could find. There was a fake sun in this hidden realm, so there was a chance that the light would reflect off the blade and be spotted by wandering Demonic beasts.

"Let's tail that one for a bit."

After a few hours of carefully and slowly moving from cover to cover, Li Yang managed to spot a Demonic beast. He was currently hiding within a small forest where all the trees bent in unnatural shapes. From his position within the forest, he had a clear view of a hill located in the distance, a lone Demonic beast slowly walking over the hill.

The Demonic beast was in the shape of a large toad, almost three meters tall. Its dull grey body was covered in large pustules, some which seemed like they were slowly growing into new limbs. It had two deep purple eyes, and its maw seemed like it could open almost 90 degrees.

The reason Li Yang chose to tail this Demonic beast was that he could tell that it was around the same strength as he was. If he followed it and managed to see it fight another Demonic beast, or just how it lived, he might be able to learn a little about the Demonic beast that was guarding the emerald volcanoes.

After all, the bald golem said that all the Demonic beasts in this hidden realm were the children of the guardians placed here by Zhao Feng and the others. It would only make sense that the children of the guardian of the emerald volcanoes lived in the area around the emerald volcanoes.

Thanks to his technique, Li Yang managed to follow the toad-like Demonic beast without getting spotted. Jinwu was perching on his shoulder, using his own method of hiding himself. Jinwu did not dare fly freely in the sky, as there was no telling what type of Demonic beasts might lurk there. Their techniques made it much harder for them to get detected, but it did not make them invisible, they could still be seen.

Following after the toad-like Demonic beast was dull and slow, but Li Yang did not let his guard down for a single second, nor did he let the toad-like Demonic beast out of his sight. The toad-like Demonic beast seemed to move in a circular fas.h.i.+on, moving around the emerald volcanoes, seemingly too afraid to move closer.

"It seems like the area around the emerald volcanoes is divided into several territories, with the weaker Demonic beasts forced to stay in the outskirts. Is this decided by the Demonic beasts themselves, or by the guardian of the emerald volcanoes?"

Li Yang mused over the possibilities as he continued stalking the Demonic beast. If it was decided by the Demonic beasts themselves, did it mean that the various Demonic beasts agreed to it, or was there a single leader, other than the guardian of the area?

Before Li Yang came up with an answer that seemed plausible, he heard a loud neighing sound. From behind a large boulder not far away from the toad-like Demonic beast, a large horse-like Demonic beast came running, its eyes gazing hungrily at the toad-like Demonic beast.

The horse-like Demonic beast was slightly smaller than the toad-like Demonic beast, its entire body covered in silky fur that was brown in color and had a slight green tint. But unlike a normal horse, this Demonic beast had seven st.u.r.dy legs, as well as two thin and long appendages, almost like whips that ended in small nubs, growing out from its back.

With the horse-like Demonic beast attacking, the toad-like Demonic beast also got into a battle position. Before the horse-like Demonic beast managed to completely close the distance, the toad-like Demonic beast opened its maw. Just like Li Yang thought, the toad-like Demonic beast could open its mouth 90 degrees, its lower jaw hitting the ground as it fully opened its mouth.

A purple orb of thick jelly-like liquid gathered in the mouth of the toad-like Demonic beast, who spat the orb towards the approaching horse-like Demonic beast.

The horse-like Demonic beast lowered its entire body, its knees sc.r.a.ping against the ground as it continued sliding towards the toad-like Demonic beast. The purple orb flew over the horse-like Demonic beast, hitting the ground a short distance behind it. When the orb hit the ground, a faint sizzling sound could be heard as the ground beneath the orb started vaporizing, the gra.s.s around the orb slowly dying.

As the horse-like Demonic beast straightened its legs and reached the toad-like Demonic beast, the two appendages on its back struck out, producing faint whistling sounds as they moved. The small nubs at the tip of the appendages started emitting small drops of deep green liquid that released a strong fishy smell, the liquid was clearly highly poisonous.

The appendages struck down on the toad-like Demonic beast, one of the nubs. .h.i.tting an eye, while the other hit and punctured one of the pustules on the back of the toad-like Demonic beast.

Both Demonic beasts let out loud screams of agony. The toad-like Demonic beast screamed because its eye was completely crushed, streams of deep green poison slowly invading its body. But the horse-like Demonic beast was not much better off. The pustule that it had punctured released a large amount of purple liquid that quickly started corroding the appendage and other parts of its body that had been sprayed by the liquid when it punctured the pustule.

Both Demonic beasts were just about to move away from each other when the ground suddenly started trembling. As the ground started trembling, fear and terror flashed past the eyes of both Demonic beasts. But before they got the chance to escape, the ground not far away from the two of them opened up.

A large tunnel into the ground was revealed, a spider that was smaller than either of the two Demonic beasts, only around one meter in length, ran out from the tunnel. Its entire body was covered in a black carapace, light purple dots decorating the carapace.

The spider ran even faster than the horse-like Demonic beast, reaching both the Demonic beasts almost immediately. All eight of its legs exerted strength, and the spider jumped up from the ground, landing on the back of the horse-like Demonic beast. The spider sank its fangs into the back of the horse-like Demonic beast, the flesh around the area where it bit quickly melting and revealing the spine of the horse-like Demonic beast.

After it bit down on the horse-like Demonic beast, the spider jumped onto the toad-like Demonic beast, who was currently trying to flee. The spider did not avoid the pustules, puncturing several as it landed on the toad. But it seemed completely immune to the poison within the pustules.

The spider sank its fangs into the toad, which quickly started melting as the spider's poison started coursing through its body. After both the horse-like and toad-like Demonic beast had completely melted, the spider started slurping up the soggy mess that the two demonic beasts had become.

"So it's poison, huh? I can't remember any of them having any Demonic beasts specialized in poison though?"

Li Yang had spectated the entire battle from his location, noting down the strengths of all three Demonic beasts. Had it been just one of them that used poison, it could be a coincidence, but with all three of them using strong poison, it was likely that the guardian of the emerald volcanoes was a poison type Demonic beast.