Martial Hero Rebirth

Chapter 73: Breaking the Venomous Snakes Formation

Hiss! Hiss!

The strange hissing sounds were getting nearer and everyone felt chills in their spines as they heard it.

"what is it exactly?"

Yiqian could not help but ask after failing to identify the source of the sounds.

Nobody could give her an answer, and the sounds only grew louder, indicating that something was approaching in large numbers.

"Ah, they are venomous snakes!"

A spotted venomous snake suddenly sprang from the bushes and attacked Yiqian. With a cry of surprise, she cut down the snake with her sword.

Instead of relief, she only felt despair. This was because she realized that an incredibly large number of venomous snakes were approaching them from all directions.

All these snakes possessed deadly venom, and if non-experts get bitten, they would die in an instant.

Even third-rate experts would not last more than a day from the poison.

At the sight of the snakes, Yiqian was greatly frightened and she swung her sword wildly.

"My god, there's so many of these snakes, could it the doing of Five Poisons Cult?" Yun Taizi cried out with an unsightly expression.

"It's not them, it should be Mount White Camel Villa!" Lin Yi spoke in a low voice with a serious expression and pointed to the snakes around them: "These snakes possess extremely potent venom, but they all move in a fixed pattern instead of moving about randomly. As a result, all our routes of escape have been cut off!"

"The Venomous Snakes Formation from Mount White Camel Villa!"

"This, this is disgusting!" Yiqian felt nauseous from the sheer amount of venomous snakes crawling all over the place.

"I rather engage in battles of life and death with the demonic cult disciples than to deal with these snakes!" Lu Buping's face was also full of bitterness.

They all had similar thoughts.

Although their sword arts were powerful and they could kill these snakes easily, but how could they possibly deal with thousands of such snakes at once?

Even if they did somehow manage to kill all of them, they would surely be completely exhausted by then. When that happened, they could only wait for the demonic cult disciples to take their heads.

"These people from Mount White Camel Villa are too despicable, they are trying to trap us here until we die. Either we succumb to the poison or we get killed by them after we're exhausted!"

"I wonder which scoundrel from Mount White Camel Villa has managed to raise so many venomous snakes!"

Lin Yi's companions could only curse loudly in despair as they felt death approaching them. They were unable to think of any countermeasures.

If they hadn't been surrounded, they could still run away. But right now, such a course of action was no longer possible as they were completely surrounded.

Lin Yi also remained silent.

Some distance away from the oasis, Ouyang Jue was playing a strange musical instrument. The melody was not pleasing to the ears at all, and it could even be described as noisy.

However, what was amazing was that when the venomous snakes heard the noise from the instrument, they started standing upright and danced along to the music. Following that, they slipped into the oasis.

Beside Ouyang Jue, dozens of snake servants from Mount White Camel Villa were holding nearly a hundred large white sacks open, and venomous snakes emerged from these sacks.

After all the snakes had been released and had entered the oasis, Ouyang Jue stopped playing the instrument and looked towards the oasis with cold eyes.

"My lord, the snakes have all been released." A snake servant politely reported.

Ouyang Jue nodded and smiled coldly as he continued looking towards the oasis. "Five Mountain Sword Sects, Huashan's Deadly Celestial Sword, what a great reputation. All of you actually managed to escape from nearly a thousand people chasing you, what ferocity!"

"Heh, today I want to see how you deal with my Venomous Snakes Formation!"

Ouyang Jue had great confidence in his formation.

In comparison to Five Poisons Cult which raised all kinds of poisonous living things, Mount White Camel Villa only focused on venomous snakes, developing the ability to use these snakes to their fullest potential.

Venomous Snakes Formation was a superior secret art developed by Mount White Camel Villa to control large numbers of venomous snakes at once, and these snakes were painstakingly raised by Ouyang Jue.

This was why although he was only a third-rate expert, his ability to control snakes was extremely potent, and other third-rate experts greatly feared him.

Who wouldn't fear getting surrounded by thousands of deadly venomous snakes?

"Kill!"

Lin Yi and his companions swung their swords with all their effort and cut down snake after snake.

However, they could not see the snakes getting lesser, as more and more snakes surged forward to take the place of those killed.

"This won't do, we will be dead from exhaustion before we finish killing the snakes!" Lin Yi shook his head.

"Senior Brother Lin Yi, what should we do then? Should we try to clear a path and charge our way out?" Yiqian asked.

As Lin Yi looked at the five horses which had died to the venom, he shook his head at the suggestion.

So what if they managed to get after expending all their effort and strength? The people from Mount White Camel Villa were probably waiting in ambush outside. It was no different from voluntarily walking into a trap.

Lin Yi surveyed the dense vegetation surrounding them. Due to the presence of a water source in this oasis, the plants were able to grow thickly in this location.

Suddenly, he thought of an idea.

"Cut down all the plants surrounding us and empty out a small area!" Lin Yi ordered in a loud voice.

Although his companions were puzzled, they did not hesitate at carrying out his orders. Very soon, the area around them was completely cleared of vegetation.

After spending days with Lin Yi, they now had complete trust in him, unconditionally following his orders. During the last three days, Senior Brother Lin Yi had repeatedly brought them out of dangerous situations, so it was not strange for them to trust him so much.

As they looked at Lin Yi with a puzzled expression, he retrieved a piece of flint from his baggage and threw it into a heap of dry grass.

Slashing at the heap with his sword, sparks flew. Soon, smoke emerged from the heap and a small fire started to burn.

In just a short while, the small fire turned into a wildfire.

"Fire attack!"

The four of them finally understood his plan.

"Haha, Senior Brother Lin Yi is truly smart to think of this method to deal with the snakes!"

At this moment, they were glad that they set up camp in this oasis. If they were located in the middle of the desert, a fire attack wouldn't even be possible.

Soon, all the vegetation were enveloped in blazing flames several meters tall, and the fire started spreading outwards rapidly, consuming the entire oasis.

The venomous snakes were unable to escape the flames and were roasted alive, spreading a fragrance of cooked snake meat.

"Smells good!"

"Haha, now we get to eat snake meat!"

"The people from Mount White Camel Villa are so good to us. They know that we haven't had a good meal for days and gifted us with so much snake meat!"

"The meat of venomous snakes are the most delicious!"

"Don't waste any of it, let's eat it quickly!"

As the snakes burned to death around them, the four of them engaged in banter. Maybe they were truly sick of eating rations, and they all used their swords as skewers and started roasting the dead snakes. They even took out the salt and other seasonings that Lin Yi had brought along and used them in the cooking.

Very soon, they were happily devouring the snake meat, and even Yiqian couldn't stop herself from eating one after another of these snakes.

"Ahh, my snakes!"

Watching the huge flames consuming the snakes, in an instant, the majority of the snakes were burned alive. As he saw his precious snakes die in large quantities to the raging fire, Ouyang Jue nearly vomited blood from the pain.

"Hurry, hurry up!"

"Retrieve the snakes!"

Yelling at the snake servants, he urged them to collect the snakes. The snake servants anxiously opened the white sacks to let the snakes back in.

Unfortunately, the fire was too strong, and most of the snakes died to the flames before they could react.

Ouyang Jue was consumed by rage and he cursed loudly: "Deadly Celestial Sword, I will definitely kill you!"

Just as he finished saying that, he saw five people wearing heavy armor charging out of the burning oasis.

Their leader even stared coldly at him before swiftly taking out a violet great bow and shooting a violet arrow right at him.

A high-pitched sound was produced as the arrow pierced through the air with incredible speed!

Ouyang Jue was shocked and immediately started retreating.

Seeing that he could not dodge the arrow, Ouyang Jue grabbed hold of a snake servant beside him and used the servant's body as a meat shield.

Boom!

The servant's body exploded as a huge hole was created!

How could an arrow be so terrifying!

Ouyang Jue broke out in cold sweat, his face full of fear.

The force of the arrow had even partially transferred to his hand holding the servant, causing him great pain and injury as the blood flowed from the injury and painted his hand blood-red.

"You don't have to kill me, because I will kill you!"

"Demonic scum from Mount White Camel Villa!"

The person who shot the arrow took off his helmet and revealed the face of a youth.

He was very young, but his eyes were filled with coldness and killing intent.

"You are Lin Yi, Deadly Celestial Sword!" Ouyang Jue trembled in fear as he recognized the youth.