"Haha, leave? Since you know what Corpse Vine Poison is, you should know that it's fatal upon contact, and the poisonous mist can spread throughout the internal organs in a minute." Wu Zhen laughed loudly, "Do you think he still has a chance to leave?"
"Is this thing really as amazing as you say?" Ye Xingchen glanced at Wu Zhen. "I don't really believe it."
"Ye Xingchen, you killed half of my zombies. Today, it's not too much for me to take your life, is it?" Wu Zhen sneered, "One minute. If you can still stand, then you're amazing."
"Okay, I'll wait a minute." Ye Xingchen looked at his watch and a full two minutes passed.
"How come you're still alright?" Wu Zhen's expression changed.
"Two minutes have passed, how come I haven't died from the poison?" Ye Xingchen said with a smile, "Your childish tricks might be good for scaring kids at home, but trying to use them on me is like showing off your limited skills before an expert."
"As expected of a master of the Heavenly Realm, even with my deep scheming, I still can't do anything to you." Wu Zhen took a few steps back and stared at Ye Xingchen: "But you wait, I will be back."
After he finished speaking, he flicked his right hand, and another cloud of green mist rose up.
Ye Xingchen pulled Si Qianyu into his arms and then shattered the green mist with a backhand strike.
"Don't chase him, he's dangerous." Si Qianyu reached out and stopped Ye Xingchen.
"Releasing a tiger back to the mountain is not a good thing, and I said I would gouge out his eyes. How can I go back on my word?" Ye Xingchen smiled slightly, soared into the sky, and disappeared into the night in an instant.
As soon as Wu Zhen ran away, the remaining five or six walking corpses fell to the ground. Without the control of his magical artifact, these walking corpses were just like dead bodies.
With a thud, a corpse fell to the ground. Looking at the person's clothes, Si Qianyu's body trembled slightly.
The corpse was dressed in black, and it was none other than Jun Dao, an assassin from the Three Thousand Towers.
Looking at Jun Dao's corpse, she remained silent for a long time. So, the people from the Three Thousand Towers had already arrived.
In the darkness of night, Wu Zhen fled at top speed, but suddenly he abruptly stopped.
Ye Xingchen was seen leisurely sitting in the woods, seemingly having been waiting for him for a long time.
"Ye Xingchen," Wu Zhen said through gritted teeth, "it seems I underestimated your strength."
"That's right, you underestimate my strength. In your eyes, I am just a Heavenly Realm expert." Ye Xingchen slowly stood up and then said leisurely, "With your sixteen medicinal corpses deployed simultaneously, dealing with a Heavenly Realm expert shouldn't be a problem, right?"
"Tell me, what do you want?" Wu Zhen stopped, squinting his already small eyes. "What conditions will you offer to let me go?"
"There are no conditions. If I had to give one, it would be..." Ye Xingchen slowly raised his head: "You die."
"Ye Xingchen, don't go too far. You can't mess with the Wu family lineage," Wu Zhen said through gritted teeth.
"You're going to kill me anyway, so what I do isn't excessive, is it?" Ye Xingchen smiled slightly. "As for your Wu family, I've never had any contact with them and don't know anything about them, but I don't care to know anymore. They're all a bunch of ugly monsters anyway."
Indeed, the Wu family is exceptionally ugly, which is due to genetics, as their ancestors made a living by transporting corpses.
Ugly appearances are associated with ferocity. If one is not ugly, one cannot suppress the corpse energy and is prone to backlash. Therefore, the appearances of the Wu family members are all ugly.
"What exactly do you want?" Wu Zhen said angrily. "As long as you don't kill me, we can talk about the terms."
"Is that so? What a pity. As I said before, I have no conditions. If I had to say there is one, it would be... to kill you."
Ye Xingchen stared coldly at him, then swept his right hand through the air. With a whoosh, a sword light pierced the night sky, passing through Wu Zhen's eyes.
Wu Zhen screamed and staggered backward; both of his eyes had been blinded by Ye Xingchen.
"Your gaze was too presumptuous just now," Ye Xingchen said coldly. "So, taking your life isn't too much to ask, is it?"
"Ye Xingchen... if you have the guts, kill me! Our Wu family will definitely..."
*Pfft...* Before he could finish speaking, Chi Xiao had already pierced through his chest.
"If your Wu family is not satisfied, you are welcome to come to me. But I guarantee that if any member of the Wu family dares to provoke me, I will not hesitate to go to Wu Family Fortress and wipe out your entire Wu clan." Ye Xingchen said calmly. He withdrew his right hand, and Chixiao was taken out from Wu Zhen's chest.
Wu Zhen collapsed to the ground with a thud, and blood slowly seeped from his chest.
Ye Xingchen didn't look at the guy again and left.
Si Qianyu didn't sleep all night. When Ye Xingchen returned, it was already morning.
"You're back?" Si Qianyu was delighted and went to greet her.
"I told you I was fine, but you worried all night?" Ye Xingchen said with a smile.
“I don’t feel at ease if you don’t come back. Where is Wu Zhen?” Si Qianyu asked.
"I sent him to his death." Ye Xingchen said calmly, as if he were talking about something insignificant.
"Have the people from the Three Thousand Towers already come?" Si Qianyu looked up at Ye Xingchen.
"I arrived in the middle of the night, but I saw you were sleeping soundly, so I didn't want to disturb you," Ye Xingchen said with a smile. "Of the three Jun brothers, two are dead, and the remaining one went back to report the news."
“I told him to warn Sanqianlou not to cause you any more trouble, or I will slaughter the entire Sanqianlou family.”
Ye Xingchen's second half of his sentence was already filled with murderous intent.
"The one who went back was turned into a medicinal corpse by the wizard," Si Qianyu sighed.
"Dead?" Ye Xingchen was slightly taken aback, then said, "It was his fate."
“I grew up in the Three Thousand Building. The path of an assassin is very difficult,” Si Qianyu said quietly. “Every year, the Three Thousand Building will find children with good aptitude and train them to become assassins.”
"From childhood, we were often hungry and suffered endless torment. Moreover, after we died, we were forced to commit suicide or murder each other. Only the survivor was qualified to enter the Three Thousand Towers."
"The method of raising Gu?" Ye Xingchen's eyes turned cold.
"Yes, in order to ensure that the Three Thousand Towers have a constant influx of fresh blood, they bring in children with good potential from all over the country every year. Some of these children are orphans, while others are forcibly taken from their parents. Five years later, these children will participate in the selection process, and out of fifty, only one or two will survive."
"I never knew who my parents were, or whether they were still alive. I just think the sect leader of the Three Thousand Towers was good to me. Compared to my other fellow disciples, I was lucky," Si Qianyu murmured.
"Don't worry, after things are resolved here, I will send someone to find out about your background. As long as your parents are still alive, I will definitely find a way to locate them," Ye Xingchen said.
"Mm." Si Qianyu nodded heavily, her eyes full of smiles.
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