Chapter 095: Destroying the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect (Please Subscribe)
“Brother Wan, I’ll leave this man to you. I’m going in first.”
The black-robed grandmaster ignored the old eunuch and sent a voice transmission to Wan Lifei. Then, taking a group of experts with him, he charged toward the clinic from the flank.
“Kill them!”
A great many experts poured out from within the clinic, including Crown Prince guards and the Grand Princess’s personal guards, among whom were no few first-rate fighters. The black-robed grandmaster paid them no mind at all, letting his subordinates hold those guards back. With a flash, he rushed straight into the clinic.
The old eunuch was just about to stop the black-robed man when Wan Lifei suddenly appeared before him, a golden sword in his hand blazing with a terrifying aura. In an instant, the two were locked in battle.
“Protect His Highness the Crown Prince.”
At the same time, shouts rang out from inside the clinic, where a cluster of Crown Prince experts formed a tight ring of defense around Crown Prince Wu Yunxiao, facing off against the black-robed man.
“His Highness’s breathing is steady. It seems the lingering consumption is indeed nearly gone. However, in that case, I cannot allow you to live.”
The black-robed man let out a cold, sinister laugh, then lunged at the Crown Prince.
“Do not harm His Highness!”
At that moment, five first-rate experts suddenly sprang out and surrounded the black-robed elder, joining forces to attack. They were the first-rate experts by Fang Xian’s side.
Boom!
As a grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm, the black-robed man naturally had no fear of being beset by a few first-rate fighters. Though Li Daqi and the others had long practiced cooperative techniques, the gap between them and a grandmaster remained immense.
“Ah!”
They managed to hold out for only a little over twenty breaths before the black-robed man blasted them away. All five coughed up blood and were flung in every direction, but they immediately swallowed the healing pills Fang Xian had given them, and their injuries were quickly brought under control.
Fortunately, the black-robed man had no desire to kill. After repelling them, he immediately gave chase after the fleeing Crown Prince. The Crown Prince’s guards turned and rushed over to block him, but one cry after another rang out as more and more guards died beneath the black-robed man’s palm.
Boom!
Just then, the Crown Prince retreated into Fang Xian’s nearby small courtyard. The black-robed man pursued him, and after killing several guards, he saw a middle-aged man in blue within the courtyard and, without another thought, struck out with a palm.
“Ah, that hurts.”
Yet his palm force landed on the middle-aged man in blue and only made the other yelp in pain. It did not injure him in the slightest, which caused the black-robed man to freeze.
“How dare you hit me? I’ll fight you to the death.”
At that very moment, the middle-aged man in blue suddenly charged forward. A terrifying aura burst from his body: the aura of a grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm.
Boom!
The middle-aged man in blue threw a punch at the black-robed man. The black-robed grandmaster had no choice but to meet it, yet the impact still forced him back two steps, for the blue-robed grandmaster’s strength was greater than his own.
However, the black-robed grandmaster soon noticed something strange: the blue-robed grandmaster seemed unable to use martial techniques at all, simply flailing his fists in complete disorder. Thus he immediately began to circle with him, though for the time being he could not continue his pursuit of Crown Prince Wu Yunxiao.
Though the telling of it sounds slow, everything happened swiftly. From Fang Xian and the others’ assault on the Five Poison Sect, to the Golden Sword Alliance and the black-robed man storming the clinic, and then the appearance of the blue-robed grandmaster to block the black-robed grandmaster, less than half an incense stick of time had passed.
When Fang Xian and the others realized that the other side actually had two grandmasters at the clinic, they had briefly hesitated over whether to continue the encirclement of Qiu Qianqiu. But another burst of grandmaster aura suddenly erupted, allowing Fang Xian to set his mind at ease, for he knew that aura had been released by Seventh Uncle.
It turned out that after nearly a month of treatment, the injuries in Seventh Uncle’s body had recovered considerably. His mind would even occasionally clear for a fleeting instant, and from time to time a grandmaster-level aura would burst from him.
It seemed the black-robed grandmaster had stirred his own grandmaster aura. Now that Seventh Uncle was holding the black-robed grandmaster at bay, Fang Xian could relax, because the Grand Princess’s three thousand hidden guards had already appeared and sealed off several streets around the area, beginning the slaughter of the villains trapped within.
“Finish Qiu Qianqiu first.”
Fang Xian immediately sent a voice transmission to Wu Qingluan. The two of them simultaneously intensified their assault, and in an instant Qiu Qianqiu’s situation became perilous.
His poison had no effect on the two of them. Wu Qingluan had taken a Small Hundred-Poison Pill, so unless it was a truly deadly toxin, nothing could touch her. In addition, with the divine weapon in her hand, her combat strength was already no weaker than Qiu Qianqiu’s.
As for Fang Xian, he had not yet erupted with full force. He was merely maintaining the strength of a peak first-rate expert, so he could pose only a limited threat to Qiu Qianqiu. Thus Qiu Qianqiu’s attention was mostly fixed on dealing with Wu Qingluan.
Boom!
After Fang Xian’s transmission, Wu Qingluan suddenly gave a sharp cry and unleashed her strongest killing move at full force. Her long sword in hand spilled out myriad streaks of starlight, engulfing Qiu Qianqiu.
“Kill!”
Qiu Qianqiu roared furiously and was forced to erupt with all his strength just to withstand the assault. In that instant, his attention shifted away from Fang Xian, and right then Fang Xian burst forth as well.
Boom!
However, Fang Xian’s eruption was masked by the auras of the two of them. In a flash, the Fallen Star Sword became a beam of starlight stabbing straight toward Qiu Qianqiu’s back, striking him completely off guard.
Qiu Qianqiu was indeed worthy of being a grandmaster of the Transcendent Realm. At the brink of death, he violently twisted his body aside, and Fang Xian’s sudden sword strike failed to pierce his back, instead striking his right shoulder.
But Fang Xian reacted quickly. The moment the sword struck Qiu Qianqiu, he twisted his wrist, instantly severing the other man’s right arm. At the same time, Wu Qingluan’s long sword pierced Qiu Qianqiu’s left leg.
“Ah!”
Driven by the agony, Qiu Qianqiu retreated in a flash, while sweeping out a cloud of black smoke to block the two of them. Then his figure flickered and vanished on the spot, fleeing in utter desperation.
“Should we chase him?” Fang Xian asked.
“No need. Qiu Qianqiu has lost an arm and injured a leg; his strength is sure to have suffered greatly. He won’t escape. Let’s go back and help first. Leave Wan Lifei and that black-robed man here.”
Wu Qingluan shook her head.
At once, the two of them turned and sped back toward the clinic. By then, the three thousand personal guards had already surrounded the outside of the clinic and were steadily cutting apart and slaughtering the villains trapped within.
Fang Xian did not return with Wu Qingluan. Instead, he landed atop Taibai Tavern, drew his bow, nocked an arrow, and began picking off members of the Golden Sword Alliance and the black-robed faction within the encirclement.
Whoosh!
An elder of the Golden Sword Alliance was in the middle of sparring with a group of personal guards. He had just killed one of them when a shrill, piercing sound rang out overhead. A sense of danger rose in his heart; he was just about to evade when sudden, searing pain shot through his thigh. A sharp arrow had pierced straight through it, making his body stagger.
“Kill!”
At that moment, the captain of the guards, seizing the opportunity, flashed forward like lightning. His long saber swept out, and with a wet thud it plunged into the other man’s lower back. The captain then hurled his entire body forward, driving the saber completely into his opponent.
“Ah!”
The elder of the Golden Sword Alliance let out a miserable scream and was just about to fight back when several guards surged in from all around him, shouting as they hacked down upon him. One blade severed his wrist, another struck his neck, and another pierced his heart.