Chapter 400 - 169: Literature, Martial, Loyalty, Treachery, Heroes, Villains, Life and Death! _4
"That’s fine then!"
"Damn it, worst comes to worst, I’ll just fight this poison for another ten years!"
He turned around again and hacked and slashed several more times at Tantai Xianming’s vital points, before staggering off in another direction. Before he left, he made his way step by step to the ancestral tablets of the Chen Country ancestors and, after a stick of incense had burned, finally departed.
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After everyone had left, inside the Underground Palace, from within the Poison Blood Pool, a hand suddenly emerged. Then, Tantai Xianming, who was supposed to be dead, walked out slowly again, having survived the combined ultimate assaults of the Divine General, the unique poison, and the Divine Weapon.
Aside from the first lethal blow, where the Divine Weapon suddenly appeared to break through Tantai Xianming’s defenses, every move thereafter by Li Guanyi was supposed to inflict a fatal wound on Tantai Xianming, yet inside his body, something slowly circulated.
"Mountain Marrow promises longevity, indeed true, yet also false, surviving at most in a sorry state."
Clutching something Li Guanyi had once seen, Tantai Xianming walked with measured steps, emerging after his supposed death. The wound in his chest from the Battle Halberd wielded by Li Guanyi still vivid, the Confucian Scholar walked out, finally sitting at the same spot he had arrived, on those steps.
His breath circulated, his bloodied body steamed clean. He pondered:
"The son of Li Wanli?"
"The heroes of the world, truly inexhaustible in their numbers."