Chapter 1171 - 308: Outsmarting the Miasma, Seizing Victory; Courageously Wielding Blade Shadows to Decide Fate (Part 2)
With a clattering sound, three silver needles were struck and fell into the mountain stream, while the other four grazed her shoulder, burning a scorched black hole in the plain white robe. Baguru took the opportunity to roar, and the leather pouch at his waist exploded suddenly.
Three black snakes raised their triangular heads, the bifurcated tongues dripping dark green venom, aimed directly at Yun Wuyue’s throat.
"A minor trick!" Yun Wuyue lightly tapped the horse’s back with her toes, her figure drifting like willow, the Cyan Blade took an unorthodox path, and a move "Frigid Plum Blossom Unfolds" struck at the snake’s eye. The sword tip just touched the snake skin, yet she felt the slickness like oil, the snake scales coated with poison to ward off weapons.
The black snake, in pain, wildly lashed its tail, the force of which broke in half the broom-sized shrubs beside the mountain path.
Lan Qin’Er watched with a charming smile, her ten fingers painted with red lacquer suddenly formed strange gestures. In an instant, the mountain wind carried a putrid scent and swarmed forward, a myriad of venomous insects poured out from her sleeves, gathering into a sinister ghost face in mid-air.
Yun Wuyue exerted her energy to force out the Protective True Qi, the Cyan Blade danced densely, exhibiting the move "Wind Rolls up the Remnant Cloud".
Where the Sword Qi reached, venomous insects exploded one by one, green fluid splattering on the mountain rocks, emitting a "sizzle" corrosive sound.
But ultimately she was outnumbered; suddenly her right ankle felt pain — unbeknownst to her, a palm-sized poisonous scorpion had firmly clamped onto her acupuncture point, its sting deeply buried in the flesh.
"Hand over the secret message obediently, and I shall leave your corpse intact," Lan Qin’Er suddenly whipped out a crimson long whip from her sleeve, the eye sockets of the skull at the tip flickering with eerie green flames.
Yun Wuyue gritted her teeth, swung the sword to block, yet the long whip entwined around the sword like a living creature. She instantly felt a numbness spreading from her tiger mouth, looked down in shock to see tiny venomous insects crawling all over the sword, biting her hand.
Blood dripped along the sword edge, spreading into an eerie purple-black color on the cyan stone.
Ah Yina’s copper bell rang explosively again, the sound waves materialized, impacting Yun Wuyue’s heart veins. She staggered back, collided with the cold mountain rocks, and nearly dropped the Cyan Blade.
Lan Qin’Er pressed on step by step, the long whip, like a venomous snake, aimed directly for her throat vital point.
At the critical moment, Yun Wuyue suddenly abandoned the sword, both palms deployed the secret skill "Firefly Illuminating Brilliance". Five strands of white light barely held off the long whip, yet they jolted her throat sharply sweet, with black blood slowly seeping from her seven orifices.
By now, Yun Wuyue’s plain white robe had been stained mottled with blood and venom, her hair disheveled, sticking to her sweat-dampened cheeks. Leaning against the mountain rocks, gasping, she looked at the three approaching people, despair rising in her heart.
𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎
Dusk dyed Miao Ling blood-red, Yun Wuyue leaned against the jagged mountain rock, the Cyan Blade in her palm had been bitten with gaps by the venomous insects.
Only three inches remained from Lan Qin’Er’s crimson whip to her throat when suddenly the sharp sound of air-breaking was heard, and the crossbow arrow of the heroic "Divine Archer" Miao Menlong from the Heroic Sakura Association accurately severed the skull whip tip.
Shan Zhi’s "Plum Blossom Darts" flew out in the Beidou formation, cold gleams sealing off the retreat of the three from the Five Poison Sect, each dart tip laced with poison that seals the throat upon seeing blood.
Shi Feiyang exhibited the Supreme Lightness Technique "Thousand Miles Without Stopping", treading on fallen leaves soaring through the air, the dark outfit flapped noisily in the gust wind, the ice-blue True Qi empowered by the Bright Jade Technique condensed the surrounding mist into frost flowers.
"Lan Qin’Er, you aid the wicked, help the rebels kill my soldiers, leaving the people in many years of suffering, such heinous crimes deserve death! Today, I will rid the evil for the people!" His voice like a great bell, the fierce wind raised by his palms swept the gravel below into a vortex.
Baguru upon seeing, fast formed seals on the indigo headscarf with bony fingers, the leather pouch at his waist exploded bluntly, nine colorful giant pythons spewed tongues out, the friction of scales sounded like sandpaper scraping bones.
Miao Menlong half-kneeled on the ground, the three-eave crossbow of the Miao Family drawn to a full moon.
"Fire!" Three crossbow arrows successively shot at the giant python’s seven-inch mark but were deflected by the snake scales, sparking.
Shi Xiong wielding the White Rainbow Treasure Sword charged into the fray, executing the "Thirteen Life-taking Swords", the sword tip like a spiritual snake, exclusively stabbing the python’s soft abdomen. But the python tail swept across like a steel whip, "snap" it struck his shoulder, chain armor cracked with response, the bloodstain deep visible to the bone.
Xie Wen deployed the Feixu Qingyan Technique, his figure transformed into a faint shadow circling behind Baguru, his iron knife grazed past the elder’s ear, shocking Baguru into staggering avoidance, the seal-building gesture breaking rhythm instantly.
Lan Qin’Er seeing the situation deteriorating, took out a jade bottle from her bosom, poured it out, the purple-black poisonous mist in her palm gathered into a fierce ghost shape: "Shi Feiyang, taste my Five Poison Sect’s ’Nether Ghost Mist’!"
Shi Feiyang’s palms unleashed the "Red Dust Slash" of the Hundred Victories Saber Technique, under the blessing of the "Supreme Forgetting Emotions Ice Soul Cold Prison", nine strands of golden saber Qi spun like a wheel. The saber Qi clashed with the poisonous mist, emitted glass-shattering sharp whistles, the purple poisonous mist was ground into powder, dispersing as poisonous rain over the mountain rocks, immediately corroding into honeycomb-like cavities.
Lan Qin’Er’s complexion changed abruptly, lotus steps retreated urgently, only to see Shi Feiyang’s toe touch the ground, the "Heaven’s Edge" palm force of the Hundred Victories Saber Technique wrapped in icy chill descended upon her.
At the critical moment, Ah Yina’s copper bell unleashed an ear-piercing sound. The sound waves materialized, making everyone’s eardrums ache.
Shan Zhi’s Plum Blossom Darts hummed in mid-air. He flung out seven hidden weapons, forming an Eight Trigrams Array in mid-air, each sound wave rebounded with clangs. Shi Feiyang, using his palms as blades, performed the opening move of the Hundred Victories Saber Technique "Cangsong Welcoming Guest", the palm wind like a wave, dissipating the residual sound waves into nothingness.
Baguru, seeing the situation unfavorable, drove the last remaining giant python to coil around Shi Xiong. The python’s body as thick as a water barrel, constricted Shi Xiong till his veins bulged. "Brother Shi!" Miao Menlong’s crossbow arrow grazed Shi Xiong’s ear, precisely piercing into the right eye of the giant python.