Chapter 47 : Chapter 47
Chapter 47: The Venom of the Emerald-Eyed Azure-Scaled Snake
At the boundary between Peach Blossom Alley and Duckweed Road.
Lights still glimmered faintly in the surrounding apartment buildings, and now and then, bursts of playful noise could still be heard.
Suddenly, an explosive shout rang out through the alley.
“Sima Zheng, you old thief, hand over the Marrow Cleansing Pill...”
In the end, three dark figures struck at once, surrounding Sima Zheng at the front.
“Bai Yaozu from the black market, and Yi Feng from North Street. It’s you two!”
The moment they exchanged blows, Sima Zheng identified two of them from their martial arts. As for the third, he could not see through him.
“And the two of you dare make a move against this Old Ancestor with only the strength of the seventh layer of the Aperture Opening Realm?”
“Leave at once, and this Old Ancestor will pretend none of this happened. Otherwise, after tonight, this Old Ancestor will personally pay you a visit.”
When Yi Feng and the other man saw their identities exposed, they were not angered. They merely let out a cold snort.
“Sima Zheng, you old thief, others may fear you, but we do not. If this really turns into a fight, with that decaying body of yours, how long can you keep going?”
Sima Zheng’s face darkened. “You are courting death!”
Then came another burst of fierce fighting.
At once, the people in the nearby apartment buildings were so frightened that they hurriedly turned off their lights, and the corridors fell completely silent.
Then, just as suddenly, the sounds of fighting on the street came to an abrupt stop.
“Someone used poison!”
Bai Yaozu’s expression shifted slightly, and he withdrew from the battlefield without hesitation.
He pulled out a bottle of antidote pills from his body and stuffed them into his mouth.
“What sneaking rat dares ambush this Old Ancestor? If you have any ability, come out and face me. What kind of skill is hiding in the shadows and launching sneak attacks?”
Sima Zheng raised a barrier before himself, sealing off the poisonous gas in the air.
“Hehe, if only you had just obediently died. Why force the five brothers to come personally and deal with an old thing like you?”
The Camel Bell Five Fiends began to appear.
“Judging by your accents, you are not from Great Xia. You came from overseas?”
“From Shituo Ridge. Our brothers on the road are kind enough to call us the Camel Bell Five Fiends.”
“The Camel Bell Five Fiends? Insolence! You foreigners dare come to Great Xia and cause trouble? You truly have a death wish!”
...
The four of them shouted sharply.
Then they actually joined forces and attacked the others.
“You do not know what is good for you. Hand over the Marrow Cleansing Pill, and I will leave your corpses intact.”
The boss of the Camel Bell Five Fiends spoke.
“In your dreams. This Old Ancestor has seen every storm the world has to offer.”
In the next moment, the battle changed from a chaotic clash among four men into a wild melee of nine.
Not long afterward.
Fifth Brother of the Camel Bell Five Fiends finally found an opening in Yi Feng’s defense, kicked him flying, then immediately pounced forward, intending to finish him with a single slash.
But a dark crimson saber energy descended from the sky and beheaded him in one stroke.
“Trying to steal my kill? That will not do.”
At some unknown moment, Lu Zhan had appeared in front of Yi Feng.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have slain a Martial Artist at the seventh layer of the Aperture Opening Realm above your level. Reward: 3410 Slaughter Points】
“Fifth Brother!”
The eyes of the Camel Bell Five Fiends nearly split with fury.
“Lu Zhan, I want you dead! Brothers, attack! Kill him and avenge Fifth Brother!”
Though the boss was furious beyond measure.
He still kept Sima Zheng tightly entangled, refusing to let him go.
Naturally, Bai Yaozu and the others did not continue tangling with the Camel Bell Five Fiends. Instead, they charged straight at Sima Zheng.
“Thank you, Lu Zhan!”
Yi Feng was still badly shaken. A moment ago, he had truly thought he was about to die.
He had never expected that the one who saved him would be Lu Zhan.
What a fool. He had come to seize Lu Zhan’s property, yet Lu Zhan had still rushed over to save him.
Did Lu Zhan really think he would be grateful?
How childish.
“You are welcome. In your next life, just remember not to make trouble in my jurisdiction.”
Lu Zhan’s expression was blank.
In truth, there were times when he really did not understand why people always liked thanking him before he killed them.
“Of course, of course...”
Yi Feng brushed him off carelessly, then suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Wait. His next life?
He wants to kill me!
Then why did he save me? So he could wait until after I thanked him before killing me?!!
There was no time to think. Instinctively, he turned to flee.
But in the next instant, dense waves of saber energy shot out. He did not even have time to react.
He died.
He died quickly, without even the right to struggle.
Just moments ago, he had also seen Lu Zhan kill Xu Da with a single slash.
At the time, he had felt that Lu Zhan was certainly formidable, but that he himself seemed capable of the same thing.
Perhaps he was qualified to compete with Lu Zhan for the Marrow Cleansing Pill.
Now he realized he had been wrong. It was like an exam: some people scored one hundred because they could only score one hundred, while others scored one hundred because the paper itself was only marked out of one hundred.
Yes, he too could kill Xu Da in one slash.
But that did not mean he was as strong as Lu Zhan.
So just how strong was he?
With regret and doubt in his heart, he bid farewell to this world.
【Ding! Congratulations, Host. You have slain a Martial Artist at the seventh layer of the Aperture Opening Realm above your level. Reward: 3410 Slaughter Points】
All of this happened in no more than an instant.
In truth, Lu Zhan had done almost nothing. He had only drawn his saber and, in a flash, unleashed several arcs of saber energy.
At this moment, the Camel Bell Five Fiends had not even reached Lu Zhan yet.
【Windshadow Step】
In the next instant, Lu Zhan gradually turned indistinct and beheaded Bai Yaozu and Second Brother with a single slash.
【Ding...】
The system notifications rang out one after another.
“Next!”
Lu Zhan seemed to transform into death itself, harvesting the entire battlefield.
“Lu Zhan, I want you dead! You killed Ling’er, you killed Fifth Brother and Second Brother. Today, even if we die together, I will still kill you!”
Third Brother’s eyes were full of madness, and also the savage joy of finally avenging a great hatred.
Boom!
A cloud of dark green poison spread out from his body.
“Not good. That is the venom of the Emerald-Eyed Azure-Scaled Snake. Third Brother, do not be rash. Once that poison erupts, even you will die.”
The boss and Fourth Brother retreated again and again.
This poison was extremely famous in their homeland. It was said that a Yuan Gang Realm expert had once passed through that snake’s territory and fought a great battle with it.
Although that Yuan Gang expert had ultimately slain the Emerald-Eyed Azure-Scaled Snake, he had also been bitten once by the venomous snake. He searched everywhere for ways to detoxify himself, but none of them worked.
In the end, that Yuan Gang Realm expert died from this venom. In Shituo Country, this poison ranked among the top ten.
If a fifth-layer Aperture Opening Realm cultivator like Lu Zhan even touched it, he would surely die.
“Boss, ever since Ling’er died, I have had no desire to live. All I want now is revenge. I only have one final request, brother. After I die, bury me together with Ling’er.”
Then Third Brother charged toward Lu Zhan without caring about anything anymore, laughing madly.
“Hahaha, Lu Zhan, you little bastard, go die!”
Lu Zhan frowned and slashed out one dark crimson blade of saber energy after another, chopping Third Brother into a mangled mess.
A cloud of poison completely engulfed Lu Zhan, leaving him no way to evade it.
Sima Zheng and the others could see that everything the poison mist passed over was being corroded.
Streetlamps, railings, flowers, grass, trees, even the walls were all eaten into pits and craters.
What a tyrannical poison!
A trace of solemnity appeared in all their eyes. The Camel Bell Five Fiends might not have been much in terms of strength, but their skill with poison was truly superb.
“Sima Zheng, you old thief, that brat Lu Zhan has already been killed by my brother. The Marrow Cleansing Pill is now my brother’s spoils of war. Hand it over at once, or I will let you have a taste of how my brothers use poison.”
The boss and Fourth Brother stared at Sima Zheng with unmistakable malice.
They were like venomous snakes.
There had been nine of them when they came, and one of them had even been a great figure of the Yuan Gang Realm leading the group. They had thought killing someone at the Aperture Opening Realm would be an easy matter, yet now only two of them remained alive.
At that moment, he felt an indescribable fear toward Great Xia.
It was like staring into a bottomless abyss.
So now, all he wanted was to snatch back the Marrow Cleansing Pill and return to Shituo Ridge. He swore that from this day on, he would never again set foot on Great Xia’s soil.
“I am not dead yet, and you are already discussing how to divide my belongings. You really do not take me, Lu, seriously at all, do you?”
As the poison mist faded, a figure stood quietly beneath the moonlight, clad in dark green crystal armor, calm and composed.