Chapter 27 : Chapter 27
Chapter 27: I Haven’t Even Gotten in the Car Yet
The Immunity to All Poisons talent had three effects.
【Effect 1: Toxic Immunity】
It granted complete immunity to 90% of poisons, and also allowed him, to a certain extent, to sense, control, or make use of toxins.
Clearly, the Peach Blossom Miasma concocted by this youth fell within the immunity range of Immunity to All Poisons.
The sinister youth quickly regained his composure.
“Good, very good, boy. I never would have thought that I, Black Snake, would run into a fellow expert of the poison arts here in this tiny Peach Blossom Alley.”
“Since my Peach Blossom Miasma is beneath your notice, then try some of my other poisons.”
“Do not worry. I have plenty of poisons here. One of them is bound to suit you.”
Black Snake did not know what Lu Zhan’s talent was.
He simply assumed that Lu Zhan had dealt with the poison through some antidote technique.
Lu Zhan, however, did not expose that fact.
As he spoke, Black Snake retreated at high speed, while scattering bottle after bottle of poison at Lu Zhan.
“Today, I want to see whether you are faster at neutralizing poison, or whether I, Black Snake, am faster at poisoning people.”
It seemed that Lu Zhan’s calm expression had stirred Black Snake’s competitive spirit.
So he developed the urge to test himself against him.
Lu Zhan was utterly unafraid.
With saber in hand, he activated Glimmering Light Shadow Escape at the Entering the Divine stage, and in an instant his whole body became ghostlike.
Moreover, with the support of the Windshadow Step talent, Lu Zhan felt the Spiritual Energy consumption in his body abruptly double, while his speed became even more terrifying.
He even felt as though the entire world had been slowed to half speed.
At the same time, 【Windshadow Step Effect 1 activated】
Windstride: After activation, your speed surges by 100%. While moving, you can leave behind three afterimages in place, each carrying exactly the same aura as the original body.
At once, three figures appeared, half real and half illusion, completely throwing Black Snake’s sight into chaos.
As a result, every poison-coated hidden weapon was evaded by Lu Zhan with effortless ease.
Black Snake panicked.
He had never imagined that Lu Zhan would be this troublesome.
All the ease and smugness he had felt before vanished, replaced by a heavy sense of crisis.
With the methods he currently possessed, even someone at the sixth level of the Aperture Opening Realm would probably be finished if they came against him.
But the man behind him was simply too bizarre.
They were clearly in the same realm, yet Lu Zhan had an alarming number of tricks at his disposal.
So Black Snake hurled out every kind of venomous creature he had raised over the past three years, trying to delay Lu Zhan long enough to escape.
Had it been any other Martial Artist at the third level of the Aperture Opening Realm, Black Snake was certain the other party would have died more than a dozen times over by now.
“Damn it, when did the Linhai City Demon Extermination Bureau produce a freak like this?”
He was so furious he wanted to curse aloud.
The distance between the two closed rapidly.
Black Snake cursed loudly in desperation. He had already had someone investigate Lu Zhan’s background.
The information Scorpion had given him was: “This guy is just a complete rookie. He does not understand anything. He is only at the first level of the Aperture Opening Realm, having just broken through. He has some strength, but no real methods. He is not worth worrying about.”
And yet...
Lu Zhan was already at the third level of the Aperture Opening Realm, and had more methods than Black Snake had eaten grains of salt in his entire life.
“That bastard! Scorpion is a damned bastard.”
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, until he could not help cursing loudly.
He swore that if he made it back alive this time, he would make Scorpion—that lying, babbling fool—pay a terrible price.
One pursued while the other fled.
It seemed as though a long time had passed, but in reality only a few brief moments had gone by.
Although Lu Zhan was fast, there had already been a gap between them to begin with. If he wanted to catch up, it would naturally take time.
It was just like a hundred-meter race.
One person stood only a single meter from the finish line, while the other was a full hundred meters away.
In that situation, not even Usain Bolt could win.
“Are people from the Demon Extermination Bureau only capable of this much? If you have the guts, then stop dodging.”
“You were just saying my poison was third-rate. What about now? Hahaha, scared out of your wits, are you? People from the Demon Extermination Bureau really are all a bunch of gutless cowards.”
It was a crude attempt at provocation.
Black Snake was cursing so viciously because Lu Zhan was getting closer and closer.
“Since you had the nerve to come and ambush me, you should have known what consequences you would have to bear.”
Lu Zhan paid no attention to the provocation.
He simply chased after him with his saber in hand. At worst, he would carve a few extra cuts into him later.
“Scorpion, you damned bastard. If you do not make your move right now, I will expose everything you have done.”
Black Snake ground his teeth as he spoke.
If that bastard had not supplied false information, how could he possibly have ended up in such a situation today?
Scorpion truly deserved to die!!!
The hatred in his heart surged.
In the next moment, a G-Class SUV came roaring down the road at full throttle.
SCREEECH!
A piercing sound of emergency braking rang out.
The G-Class skidded for some distance across the asphalt, its tires smoking with a sharp hiss.
Soon enough, an old man wearing a silicone mask stepped out of the vehicle. His figure was somewhat bloated.
“Black Snake, you useless waste. You could not even complete your own mission, and now you dare take your anger out on me. If you threaten me again, I will make you regret it for the rest of your life.”
Scorpion spoke coldly, then added another sentence.
“Do not think you are the only one who knows poison tricks.”
It was not hard to tell that he had deliberately disguised his voice.
The duck that was practically in his mouth was about to fly away.
Lu Zhan suddenly unleashed three arcs of saber energy. They were broad, long, and immensely forceful.
The saber energy was ferocious.
“Chen Lin, do not think I would not recognize you just because you disguised yourself a little.”
“You are dead today. Colluding with an evil cult and betraying the Demon Extermination Bureau. Even if I kill you on the spot, no one above will say a thing. They might even reward me with a considerable amount of Contribution Points.”
Lu Zhan had long suspected him.
Especially today. On the surface, Chen Lin had seemed to come merely to throw his weight around, but in truth he had been setting a trap for him.
Now it seemed that was indeed the case.
Still, Lu Zhan felt that he was missing one final clue, one clue that ran through everything from beginning to end.
When Scorpion heard Lu Zhan’s words, his pupils suddenly contracted.
The motion he had been about to make to block the saber energy stalled for a split second.
“Hmph. I have no idea who this Chen Lin you are talking about is.”
A flash of viciousness passed through Scorpion’s eyes.
He raised his long saber across his chest, and a faint glow spread over its blade.
He might not have been capable of projecting saber energy away from the blade, but that did not mean other Martial Artists were unable to defend against such attacks.
At the end of the day, it was still only an attack method formed from Spiritual Energy.
As the saber energy dissipated, the hand gripping his saber could not help trembling, and the web between thumb and forefinger had gone numb.
Those three arcs of saber energy...
were powerful!
If not for the fact that the distance had been relatively great, causing most of the Spiritual Energy to disperse after leaving the blade, he estimated he would not have been able to withstand even one of them.
“Move!”
He turned and tried to get into the vehicle.
A savage gleam flashed through Black Snake’s eyes. Without the slightest hesitation, he slammed the car door shut with a bang.
Locked!
“Leave? Stay here for the rest of your life instead!”
He gave a ferocious grin.
Then he started the engine at once, floored the accelerator, and sped away.
Scorpion froze.
At that moment, even Lu Zhan was stunned.
His teammate had actually sold him out just like that?
“Black Snake, you f***ing bastard—I am not even in the car yet!”
“I am not in the car, Black Snake, f*** you******! If I make it back alive today, I will skin you alive!”
Scorpion bolted after the vehicle, trying to get in, but no matter how fast a person ran, he could never outrun a car.
And this was a straight asphalt road, so the moment Black Snake started the engine, he had the accelerator pinned all the way down.
In no time at all, Scorpion could not even smell the car’s exhaust anymore.
“Make it back alive?”
“Heh. If I let you make it back alive today, then would that not be a failure of duty on my part?!”
A voice sounded faintly from behind him.
That undisguised killing intent swept over him from the rear.
In that instant, he felt as though he had been locked onto by some primordial ferocious beast.
Cold sweat immediately drenched him.