Originally, he was planning to seize the body of a warrior from the Poison Witch Race, but upon seeing Lu Yu, he realized Lu Yu's body was much stronger and shifted his focus to Lu Yu.

For this, he didn't hesitate to expend decades of accumulation by the Poison Witch Race, summoning a large number of toxic creatures.

"Leave that corpse, the rest are all your food," the Poison Witch said to the surrounding toxic creatures.

The toxic creatures, slightly possessing some intelligence, showed excitement, frosty coldness, and ferocity in their eyes, crawling towards Sanshi Village.

The moment villagers encountered the toxic creatures, they were torn apart and devoured in large numbers; even the smoke from medicine pots could hardly withstand the attack of so many toxic creatures.

The villagers of Sanshi Village immediately abandoned their armor and fled back to the village.

Watching the numerous toxic creatures swarming towards Sanshi Village, the stone witch took the ritual, holding a strange bone shield, dancing around the medicine cauldron while chanting ancient melodies.

Smoke continuously surged from the cauldron, under the control of the stone witch; the smoke rushed towards the toxic creatures, blocking them, buying time for the villagers to retreat back to Sanshi Village.

"Ssssss~~"

The toxic creatures feared the medicinal smoke and dared not breach it, and many released their poisonous mists, corroding the smoke, which gradually disappeared from the battlefield as the creatures charged again towards Sanshi Village.

The Poison Witch watched excitedly as the myriad toxic creatures surged towards Sanshi Village, knowing such numbers could utterly destroy the village.

His only worry was that the creatures might become uncontrollable and consume Lu Yu's corpse.

Thus, he moved forward a bit, intending to seize Lu Yu's body instantly upon his death, preventing it from being eaten by the creatures.

Rumble~ The ground trembled, symbolizing the great stone at Sanshi Village's boundary rising, emanating a heavy oppression, causing the creatures within the oppressive range to hesitate and recoil.

This was a Stone Spirit, the Guardian God of Sanshi Village, receiving incense offerings from generations of villagers, soon to birth true sentience and transform into a supernatural being.

It was awakened by the stone witch's call, releasing its oppression to protect Sanshi Village from being harassed by toxic creatures and monsters in the surrounding forest.

The Poison Witch, seeing the Stone Spirit appear, pulled out a dried fruit from his medicinal basket. His eyes emanating a green glow, he crushed the fruit, releasing large amounts of grayish-brown dust that enveloped all toxic creatures present.

Absorbing the grayish-brown dust from the fruit made the creatures berserk, fearless of the Stone Spirit's oppression, continuing their charge towards Sanshi Village.

The Stone Spirit was yet to fully form; aside from releasing its oppression, it had no other means of attack. Faced with the charge of frenzied toxic creatures, even as the Stone Spirit's nebulous consciousness felt anger,

it could only intensify its oppression, intimidating the creatures from approaching, unable to attack them.

Seeing this, the stone witch bit his tongue, spitting a mouthful of fresh blood, which floated and burned in mid-air.

In the center of Sanshi Village, in the shaman's home, a red stone placed high for incense sacrifice flew out to the village entrance.

Within the stone witch's dance and song, the red stone emitted a blaze, fiery flames spewed from the stone, burning all toxic creatures approaching Sanshi Village to ashes.

Watching the stone flying in mid-air, Lu Yu's heart raced, sensing a familiar power.

If he wasn't mistaken, that red stone very likely contained one of the fragments of the Sevenfold Heaven of Ice and Fire's legacy jade disc, a piece of fire jade.

How did the fragment of the Sevenfold Heaven of Ice and Fire's legacy end up here? And how did it become a sacrificial item of a village?

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