I Became an Evolving Lizard in a Martial Arts Novel-Chapter 334

I Became an Evolving Lizard in a Martial Arts Novel-Chapter 334

Armies clashed against armies.
At a glance, the battlefield might have looked like chaos, but in truth, the formations were moving in perfect coordination.
"Awoooo!"
The white wolf, master of frost, used her power to support the allies.
A protective barrier imbued with frost spread from her, and most attacks within her line of sight were rendered powerless.
CRACKLE!
At the same time, she steadily reduced the enemy’s numbers — a spirit beast truly worthy of being called the Ice Empress of the Gae Gak Sect.
"Hooh, looks like you prepared an antidote in advance."
There was a spirit beast as strong as the Serpent Queen among them — her name was Anansi.
She hadn't even revealed her true form yet, and she was already holding off one of the enemy’s strongest spirit beasts.
A giant scorpion with four massive pincers.
Ordinarily, it should have foamed at the mouth and collapsed from Anansi’s venom — but it was holding out calmly.
Tang Hwa-Yeon had analyzed Anansi’s spiderwebs, and in doing so, had also deciphered her venom.
Naturally, upon seeing Anansi, the scorpion had immediately taken the prepared antidote.
"To have my spiderwebs and venom both countered... What a disgrace."
Anansi said this, but her expression didn’t change at all.
CRACK.
Being on par with the Serpent Queen meant she could crush most spirit beasts purely through brute force alone.
In a flash, she leapt into the air, and her lower body morphed fully into the form of a spider.
There are spiders that don't rely on webs or venom — ones that devour birds by leaping onto them with their massive bodies.
Bird-eating spiders.
There was no way that the Queen of Spiders, Anansi, wouldn’t know how to do the same.
Her legs, as solid as black iron, bound the scorpion’s body tight.
"Hold still. I have to feed your pristine pincers to my son-in-law."
The giant scorpion’s pincers, rumored to be especially beneficial for males.
Something too precious to be handed over to anyone else.
"Sniff... I hate killing poisonous beasts."
She said that — yet stood at the very front, grinding through dozens of venomous creatures at once with her massive tiger's paw.
BOOOOOOM!
Every time she swung her paw, the ground roared.
"It’s a tiger! Everyone, raise your weapons!"
"Bring the nets! Get the nets!"
Some [N O V E L I G H T] tried to fight back.
But—
"Grrrrr..."
The moment they met her golden eyes and heard her low, thundering growl, they lost their will to fight.
"I need to earn points too!"
The blue snake spewed red flames; the red snake unleashed a wave of icy frost.
"Argh! Why is the blue one breathing fire?!"
"Kugh! All we heard was that they were vipers!"
"Ever heard of deception tactics?"
The Red and Blue Snakes dashed across the battlefield, taking down numerous enemies.
With such powerful spirit beasts leading the charge, the morale of the Gae Gak Sect’s followers naturally soared.
Overall, the Gae Gak side was showing clear dominance.
But the enemy wasn't just sitting back, either.
"Gaaal!"
This was the main stronghold of Odukmun.
The core forces — the elders — had gathered in one place.
The Southern Wilds, where spirit beasts and venomous creatures gathered from all over.
Among them, to be recognized as an elder of Odukmun was proof of their strength.
CRACK-CRASH!
Poison clashed against poison in a raging storm.
Naturally, the one facing the elders was the Master of Odukmun, Tang Hwa-Yeon.
Her crimson eyes radiated an ominous energy.
"Why did you side with Hydraya?"
"Keh! Only now do you ask for our reasons, Master!"
It was impossible for a single fighter, even one at the level of Flower’s Vision, to take on all the elders at once.
Thus, they fought her not individually, but together.
Out of eight elders, five of them were attacking her.
Even for a master, taking on five peak-level opponents at once was nearly impossible.
Especially when they, too, specialized in poison.
"You do not understand the ways of this world, Master."
"What did you say?"
"After you severed the previous Master’s head, do you remember what you did?"
Tang Hwa-Yeon fell silent at the words of the wrinkled old man.
She remembered.
She had unified the chaotic measures into the standard ones used in the Central Plains, forbidden the abuse of venomous creatures, ensured smooth food distribution across the sect, and even attempted agriculture in the jungles.
"You have nothing to say, do you?"
Of course she didn’t.
Because she hadn’t done anything wrong.
Even the black-scaled lizard would have agreed.
"You destroyed Odukmun’s traditions — and worse, you destroyed its future. We rose up for the future of Odukmun!"
Tang Hwa-Yeon was almost dumbfounded.
They weren’t rising up for the sect’s future — they were rebelling because they could no longer fill their own bellies.
They had revolted for their own pathetic, selfish desires.
"Haah, what miserable lives you’ve led."
"Regret it now, do you? But it’s too late! There's no turning back!"
"I should have purged all the elders when I ascended to Master. I truly didn’t expect I’d be this blind."
She had known the elders were corrupt.
That’s why her first act after becoming Master had been to cleanse the worst of them.
But she couldn’t purge them all.
As a newly appointed Master, she still needed people to manage the duties she couldn’t yet handle herself.
So she had only purged the most guilty ones, hoping the others would reform.
And, at least outwardly, it had seemed like they had changed.
That had been her mistake.
She should have erased them all, without exception.
She regretted her past weakness.
She had worn the mask of a noble Poison Empress, trying to bend the old factions to her will.
Hiding her true nature, struggling to set Odukmun on the right path.
So that no one else would have to live like she had.
But what was the point of regretting now?
So what if her judgment had been wrong?
What she had thought were enemies might yet become her salvation.
Life is unpredictable.
No one can predict the fortunes and misfortunes of life — so it’s enough to correct your path when you realize it.
CRACKLE.
A poisonous wind whirled around her.
A vast curtain of poison unfurled, like a butterfly spreading its wings.
"Indeed, Master! Your poison is enough to make my hair stand on end!"
"But we, too, have trained in poison all our lives...!"
"We will never lose to you!"
One picked up the words of another, and then another chimed in.
It was an absurd scene — yet the strength they displayed was anything but absurd.
SSSHHHHH!
A massive shield of poison spread out, facing Tang Hwa-Yeon.
It looked like the elders were focusing solely on defense, wielding Odukmun’s destructive poison.
At the sight of it, Tang Hwa-Yeon’s eyebrow twitched.
Such an attack wouldn’t be able to harm her.
But breaking through that defense wouldn't be easy either.
Because they were using the very same Odukmun poison.
Why were they taking this stance?
It was clear — their target wasn’t her.
They were aiming for something else.
"Sharp-eyed, aren't you? Tell me — who do you think this battlefield favors?"
"Your tongue’s too long."
"Fuhahat! Of course it is! Bringing venomous creatures against Odukmun? Do you seriously think their poison would work on us? Not just us — all our forces have already taken the antidote!"
If even Anansi’s poison and webs had been analyzed, it was obvious that the poisons of other venomous creatures wouldn’t stand a chance.
For now, it might look like the Gae Gak Sect's believers were pushing forward.
But their poison would never reach Odukmun’s forces.
Meanwhile, Odukmun’s poison would.
It was only a matter of time before the tide turned.
And besides, they didn’t even need a decisive victory here.
The spirit beasts, including Hydra, were still waiting atop the fortress wall.
The massive spirit beast — clearly the leader — had charged straight toward the main hall without realizing it.
All they had to do was hold out until the giant lizard was taken down.
The tiger and the wolf rampaging across the battlefield were a nuisance, sure — but even together, they couldn’t defeat Hydra.
In other words, all they needed to do was buy time, and victory would be theirs.
If they could break Tang Hwa-Yeon’s composure, the war would end even faster.
That was why the elders had so smugly run their mouths about their plans.
"So, with the antidote, Odukmun’s poison is useless."
"You realize it now? Too late. But if you strip off your clothes and offer full prostration even now... kuhuhut...."
The elders laughed, utterly convinced of their victory.
"Fine. Odukmun’s poison doesn’t work on you, right."
Tang Hwa-Yeon’s expression remained astonishingly calm.
One of the elders furrowed his brows.
How could she be making that face in this situation?
There was sadness, tenderness, contempt, and rage all at once.
Even, faintly, a hint of joy and guilt.
Taken individually, these emotions could be seen anywhere.
But what couldn’t be found on her face — not even a trace — was the acceptance of defeat.
That was what puzzled them.
It was the face of someone with something left up their sleeve.
"GUAAAAH!"
"KKEHEK! W-why the poison—!"
Screams erupted from all around.
The rebels’ martial artists cried out, their faces pale as death.
"...What?"
The elders couldn’t help but panic.
The poisons shouldn’t have worked.
But the reality around them was a nightmare.
People collapsed foaming at the mouth, their hair falling out, their bodies twisting into unspeakably ugly forms.
"How tragic. The Tang family I hated without reason now helps me... while the Odukmun I tried to rebuild crumbles under its own hand."
At the center of the battlefield stood Tang So-Yeong.
Her brown hair fluttered as she stood atop the back of a white spider with a long, elegant tail, hurling throwing weapons in every direction.
Spirit beasts, venomous creatures, and martial artists all clashed wildly around her.
An ordinary person would have frozen in fear — but she, merely a second-rate martial artist, was dashing through the battlefield with delight.
Who could have predicted it?
That the true hero of this battlefield would be a mere second-rate martial artist.
She was the Yubin Poison Flower.
A once-in-a-lifetime genius.
One who had never been chosen by the Two-Horned Beasts.
The precious jewel of the Tang family.
The flower of the Tang family.
And now, the disciple of the Gae Gak Sect’s divine beast.
At least in Tang So-Yeong’s eyes, Odukmun was a loathsome sect.
They experimented not just on spirit beasts and venomous creatures, but even on humans.
It was Odukmun that had planted spies within the Tang family to sow discord.
Because of that, she had harbored deep resentment toward Tang Hwa-Yeon — but she had come to realize that her hatred had been misplaced.
The current Master had also been a victim of those horrendous experiments.
Her brown skin wasn’t just sunburn from the Southern Wilds — it was stained by the venom that had once saturated her body.
As proof, when she used poison, her skin would pale temporarily — and when she stopped, it would return to brown.
Still, that didn’t erase the feelings completely.
Tang Hwa-Yeon had indeed ruled Odukmun.
But her divine beast, the spirit animal she served, had accepted Tang Hwa-Yeon.
And Tang Hwa-Yeon was someone who could greatly help the Gae Gak Sect.
So Tang So-Yeong decided to forgive her — just a little.
There was still plenty of anger to unleash on the real villains — the elders who had ruled from the shadows.
The Yubin Poison Flower bloomed wildly.
The wings of the Venomous Butterfly danced to the rhythm of her hands.
The flower of the Tang family descended upon the land of Odukmun.
The poison of a peak-level master and the poison of a second-rate martial artist collided.
Odukmun’s destructive poisons swallowed Tang So-Yeong’s poison instantly — yet her poison refused to lose its light.
The antidotes and resistance prepared by the rebel forces had been made to counter Odukmun’s poisons.
Naturally, they couldn’t guard against a brand-new poison crafted by a second-rate martial artist.
Tang So-Yeong roamed the battlefield, and at Tang Hwa-Yeon’s signal, unleashed a storm of throwing weapons she had hidden within her robes.
A rain of flowers filled the sky.
The Ten Thousand Flower Rain.
Once again, the flowers of the Tang family bloomed on the soil of Odukmun.

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Chapter 334