Chapter 34 : Chapter 34
Chapter 34: Poisoned
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Trying to talk rules with Lu Zhan?
Lu Zhan smiled faintly. “You mean that trash Zhang Chi? They won’t be coming.”
“As I recall, the Demon Extermination Bureau has a rule: when all the people in charge of a jurisdiction are unable to act, the person in charge of another jurisdiction has the authority to intervene in that jurisdiction’s management.”
Master Mo’s brows drew together when he heard that.
“Oh? Jade Bottle Bay has a full five jurisdiction heads. How could they all possibly be unable to act at the same time? Besides, I’m a local, and even I haven’t heard any news of that. How could you know?”
That was what he said, but he still dialed Zhang Chi and the others first.
Unfortunately, no one answered.
His expression darkened. “Young man, are you really set on going in? You should know that some muddy waters aren’t yours to wade into.”
“And what is that supposed to be? A threat? Who gave you the nerve to threaten a jurisdiction head of the Demon Extermination Bureau?”
Lu Zhan drew his saber at once. Master Mo’s face changed drastically. He instinctively tried to retreat and block, but it was too late. The saber-light flashed past, and in the next instant, his head hit the ground and rolled.
[ Ding! Detected that the host has killed a first-layer Aperture Opening Realm Martial Artist. Reward: 2200 Slaughter Points ]
Lu Zhan’s clean decisiveness left the people of Blackwater Hall unable to react for a moment.
“How shameless! He actually launched a sneak attack!”
“You’re courting death!”
“Who would’ve thought even people from the Demon Extermination Bureau would play dirty with sneak attacks!”
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The surrounding crowd was furious, but Lu Zhan did not hold back. He wanted to end this quickly.
Glimmering Light Shadow Escape activated instantly, and the Longevity Saber darted out like a venomous snake striking with its tongue, stabbing first toward the Qi Condensation Realm Martial Artist closest to him.
That man raised his blade to block, only to be split clean in two together with his weapon by Lu Zhan’s strike.
[ Ding, congratulations to the host for killing a Qi Condensation Realm... ]
“Damn it, he’s in the Aperture Opening Realm!”
Someone tried to flee, only to see Lu Zhan tap the ground with the tip of his foot as three afterimages shot toward three different people.
What was eerie was that all three fell dead at the same time.
[ Ding, congratulations to the host for killing... ]
[ Ding... ]
The system’s voice rang without end, but Lu Zhan paid it no mind.
He stepped on the security guard who had first blocked the gate and demanded,
“Where is Fei Lingyu?”
The man pointed at the distant building in terror. “In... inside. Please, please spare—”
His voice cut off abruptly as his head rolled away.
“Today, Blackwater Hall will be erased completely.”
“Not one of you will be left alive.”
Lu Zhan’s face was expressionless.
“Such big talk. I’d like to see how you plan to leave not a single one behind today.”
A cloyingly sweet scent drifted in from afar, and a faint prickling pain spread across his skin.
The person had not yet arrived, but the poison had. Flowers in a nearby flowerbed withered completely.
What a poisonous beauty.
Lu Zhan looked up and gave Fei Lingyu a brief appraisal. She truly was beautiful.
An angelic face. A seductive figure.
The moment she appeared, quite a few gazes in the area were drawn to her.
“You’re Fei Lingyu?”
“That’s right! And who are you? Don’t tell me that useless Zhang Chi invited you here?”
Lu Zhan smiled. “You sent people to kill me, and you still don’t know who I am?”
Fei Lingyu froze slightly.
“You’re Lu Zhan?”
“Since you’re here, then it seems that useless Black Snake is already dead.”
“However...”
Fei Lingyu lightly curled a strand of hair around her finger as she gave a coquettish laugh. The sash at her waist wriggled slightly.
“I never expected you’d actually dare to come here and kill your way in. What nerve. If you’re willing to submit to me, I can consider taking you in as my male favorite.”
A chill flashed through Lu Zhan’s eyes.
“You’re asking to die!”
In the next instant, a streak of red light flew from the Longevity Saber.
At the same time, he activated the Entering the Divine Glimmering Light Shadow Escape. He moved with astonishing speed, but Fei Lingyu retreated just as quickly, dodging the saber energy without seeming slow in the slightest.
Her martial art was definitely Spirit Rank. Should he use the Martial Art Copy Card?
Forget it. Better watch a little longer.
If he copied a lower-grade Spirit Rank martial art, it would be a waste.
“Oh? You’ve already mastered Saber Energy at this realm? I’m more and more pleased with you.”
As Fei Lingyu retreated, her fingertips turned, and twelve poisoned silver needles shot out like torrential rain.
They gleamed with a dark blue light under the blazing sun.
Lu Zhan tapped the ground with the tip of his foot, and his entire body split into three afterimages weaving through the toxic mist. The silver needles passed through the shadows and embedded themselves into the wall, emitting sizzling sounds of corrosion.
Fei Lingyu had already seen this move just now.
“Interesting. Is this shifting between illusion and reality? Or some kind of shadow-swapping movement art?”
“Whatever. If I attack all three at once, I can’t go wrong.”
A bewitching smile curved her lips as a jade flute appeared in her hand. A short note sounded.
Before long, over a hundred poisonous bees burst forth with vibrating wings and split into three groups, attacking the three afterimages.
“So this is one flaw of the Windshadow Step talent. I just didn’t expect her to notice it so quickly.”
The Longevity Saber traced a flourish in his hand, and dense streams of saber energy shot out.
The poisonous bees at the front were shredded into powder, but a red gas spread out from their bursting corpses, and the sunlight filtering through the crimson haze dyed the air into blood-colored pillars.
Hmph!
Poison again!
Lu Zhan retreated rapidly, while three arcs of saber-light tore through the toxic mist.
With her vision obstructed, by the time Fei Lingyu noticed them, it was already too late to dodge.
She raised the jade flute in front of her chest to block, and sparks exploded at once. The force of the saber energy numbed her arms.
The front of her robe was also torn open by the saber wind, revealing a faint glimpse of snowy skin beneath.
She did not care in the least.
It was only that a flash of alarm passed through her eyes, and her expression grew more serious.
Why?
He was clearly only at the third layer of the Aperture Opening Realm, so why was he so troublesome to deal with?
In the next moment, a trace of ruthlessness appeared in Fei Lingyu’s eyes.
The sound of the jade flute changed from short, sharp notes to something soft and decadent.
The instant they heard it, the swarm clearly became excited, circling around Lu Zhan and exploding one after another. Thick blood mist engulfed all three afterimages, and this time Lu Zhan had nowhere to dodge.
Since that was the case, why not use the situation to his advantage?
Outside the toxic mist, Fei Lingyu looked rather pleased with herself.
“This is the blood poison of the Five Poisons Bees. I once used this poison to kill a late-stage Aperture Opening Realm Martial Artist. Even a Divine Sea Realm Martial Artist wouldn’t be able to walk away unscathed after coming into contact with it.”
“I refuse to believe you still won’t die from this.”
He was handsome enough that she had wanted to play with him a little before killing him, but who told him to be this troublesome?
As the blood mist dispersed, the ground was littered with the corpses of the Five Poisons Bees, and she felt a little distressed.
She had raised those bees for quite some time.
Now, aside from the queen bee, all of them were dead.
And as for Lu Zhan, it was just as she had expected.
He was already lying motionless on the ground, no longer breathing.
She fired several more poisoned needles in succession, yet they failed to break his defenses at all. Frowning slightly, she walked toward Lu Zhan.
“Tsk, tsk. I never thought this man’s body would be so powerful. And with a face like that, it’s a pity he died.”
“Just right, I happen to be lacking a corpse to feed—”
Before she could finish speaking, Lu Zhan, who had been lying on the ground, suddenly opened his eyes.
His killing intent was completely undisguised.
“Die!”
At such close range, with Lu Zhan launching a sneak attack, it should have been foolproof.
Yet at the critical moment, a red snake flew out from Fei Lingyu’s waist with astonishing speed.
It bit down on Lu Zhan’s hand in one instant, and half his arm immediately went numb.
As a result, his blade missed by an inch.
It only pierced straight through Fei Lingyu instead.
“How is it possible that you weren’t poisoned? That was the venom of the Five Poisons Bees.”
Fei Lingyu was in utter disbelief.
But very quickly, as though she had realized something, she burst into laughter.
“Hahaha! I understand now. You have a body with Immunity to All Poisons.”
Lu Zhan’s expression remained calm as he slowly withdrew his saber.
Yet just as he was about to gather saber-light and finish Fei Lingyu once and for all, a sudden wave of indescribable icy pain exploded from the wound on his wrist.
The saber-light he was condensing flickered once and turned unstable.
“Lu Zhan, you’re dead...” Fei Lingyu coughed up blood, her eyes full of venom and savage delight. “Hongyao’s poison... specifically counters bodies immune to all poisons... You... won’t last much longer...”
Hongyao was the name Fei Lingyu had given that little red snake.
It was a treasure she had raised for many years.
However, that snake had a peculiar trait: it could release its venom only once in its entire life. But the venom was so overwhelmingly potent that even a body with Immunity to All Poisons could not withstand it.
That was why she was certain that Lu Zhan would die today.