Chapter 322 Another Heavenly Rank! (Seeking monthly votes)
The spear thrust out.
A thunder dragon then fell from the sky.
Two deer antlers point diagonally to the sky, and the dragon's mouth is wide open, with a dragon pearl vaguely visible inside.
Dazzling and awe-inspiring.
In contrast, Yan Jingchen seemed to be frightened, remaining motionless and staring straight at the thunder dragon with her head tilted back.
To be precise, what he was looking at was the "bee" that had devoured his poisonous power.
A faint murmur could be heard: "Outside Wumeng Mountain, a thunder dragon has appeared..."
boom!
Sizzle!
The thunder dragon crashed down on Yan Jingchen, sparks flying everywhere in an instant.
The solidified spear intent contained within it then burst forth, shattering rocks and blowing away trees to dust. When it landed on the Chishui River, the river water exploded, and fish and shrimp flew about.
After a while.
The noise gradually subsided.
The pervasive poisonous miasma slowly dissipated, and the smell of soil and vegetation became even stronger.
Chen Yi hovered in mid-air, looking down.
Yan Jingchen stood still, looking up to meet his gaze.
Pei Ze, Li Yunjun, and the others retreated several miles early on, and together with Pei Gan and Lan Yanni, they looked at the devastated battlefield.
He was stunned and speechless.
Even Zhang Dabao and the others in the distance held tightly to their frightened horses and camels, gazing in this direction.
"As expected of... the boss..."
Liu Lang leaned against the ruts of a carriage, a hint of envy in his eyes.
Although his cultivation and skills were weaker than Chen Yi, Yan Jingchen and others, he could clearly sense the fluctuations of spiritual energy in the surrounding world.
The way of the gun is like a rainbow, the way of the fist is like a knife.
Even just watching from afar, the dazzling gold and white fluorescent light brought tears to his eyes.
Hearing the voice, Zhang Dabao belatedly turned around: "Brother Liu, you're awake. You feel good... Huh? Why are you crying?"
"Could it be... that the boss avenged you, and you were moved by it?"
Liu Lang glanced at him sideways, cursing, "Go to hell, what am I doing here, what am I doing here..."
He was a master of the sword... no, it should be said that he had one foot in the perfect realm, so it was not appropriate to reveal the truth.
Otherwise, wouldn't a martial arts idiot like Zhang Dabao ask him some idiotic questions?
"You're right, I'm very touched. The boss... In short, a scholar will die for one who understands him."
"From now on, I will be a member of Baicaotang in life and a ghost of Baicaotang in death."
Liu Lang spoke these words with an almost wooden face, but Zhang Dabao and the others didn't find anything wrong with them at all.
I have the utmost respect for you.
"The boss is right. He's definitely someone who's going to do great things. Even if we don't become rich and famous by following him, at least our lives will be worthwhile."
Jin Peng was young and had not yet come of age, but he understood how much of a sensation his recent actions would cause if they were to spread.
In short—from this day forward, the name "Master" will be known throughout the martial arts world.
"It's a pity that Senior Sister and Senior Sister Shen had to protect the Xiao family, otherwise..."
"Shut your stinking mouth. Have you forgotten what Senior Brother Xue told you?"
"If our senior sister found out what we've done, wouldn't she skin us alive?"
"We absolutely must keep our mouths shut and keep quiet, otherwise..."
"Yes, yes, yes..."
The commotion and excitement here stemmed from the fact that, in their eyes, Chen Yi's one-shot kill of Yan Jingchen, the current leader of the Five Poisons Sect, was already an achievement of extreme skill.
But in Chen Yi's view, he had only gotten a bargain.
Or rather, Yan Jingchen was much weaker than he had imagined.
With a second-grade cultivation level and perfected fist techniques, plus those poisonous insects and drugs...
Logically speaking, it shouldn't be this weak.
Even with his current fourth-grade cultivation, perfected spear and body techniques, and mastered footwork and fist techniques, Chen Yi could only bridge the gap of two major realms.
It was absolutely impossible to kill Yan Jingchen so easily.
Chen Yi looked at the Gu worm in mid-air. Could it be it?
When the Dragon-Falling Spear struck, he could see that Yan Jingchen was frozen in place, as if she were under the pressure of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
After waiting a while longer, Yan Jingchen remained completely silent.
Pei Ze, Pei Gan, and the others were about to step forward when Chen Yi raised his hand to signal them:
"Step back."
Pei Zewei was slightly moved. He glanced at Yan Jingchen and then opened his hand to block Pei Gan and the others' path.
"Third Uncle?"
"Listen to him."
Pei Gan nodded and beckoned back the Gu worm "bee" that was flapping its wings in mid-air.
Chen Yi didn't explain much, but a glistening light flashed in his eyes as he looked at Yan Jingchen.
Under the art of observing qi.
Yan Jingchen's aura indeed dissipated, and the true essence within her three Qi Sea acupoints slowly dissipated and returned to the world.
His physical body also collapsed under that shot; his internal organs were damaged to varying degrees, his meridians were broken inch by inch, and his flesh was filled with the remnants of the gun's intent.
They were already dead beyond any doubt.
But Chen Yi still felt something was wrong, so he just stared at Yan Jingchen's "corpse" without saying a word.
One breath, two breaths... a quarter of an hour, two quarters of an hour...
He was certain—Yan Jingchen was not dead!
If he were dead, so much time would have passed; he should have already obtained his opportunity.
"Feigning death?"
Chen Yi flicked his wrist and fired a shot.
Golden light converged into a straight line, piercing through Yan Jingchen's chest and shattering her heart.
Even so, Yan Jingchen remained standing motionless.
Chen Yi smiled, held the gun in one hand, and thrust it several times.
Each spear strike shattered Yan Jingchen's body, and in the blink of an eye, he lost all four limbs, and even most of his chest was gone.
Chen Yi looked at the faint breath emanating from the intact head and sneered, "Still planning to keep pretending?"
"This is not how a leader of a religion should behave."
"Why……"
Yan Jingchen, now reduced to a human pig, lay amidst the mud and rubble, letting out a soft sigh as her lifeless eyes regained their sparkle.
"How did you see through my 'golden cicada shedding its shell' technique?"
He used this technique because the poisonous energy had been devoured by the Gu worms, causing him to suffer a backlash, which allowed him to withstand the spear.
Secondly, he also harbored a侥幸心理 (a sense of侥幸, a feeling of getting away with something) and wanted to find an opportunity to assassinate Chen Yi.
Little did they know that they were exposed from the very beginning.
Chen Yi, of course, was unaware of his thoughts and shook his head, saying:
"Even if I couldn't see it, given the Mountain Clan's animosity towards your Five Poisons Sect, how could they not have made thorough preparations?"
Pei Ze, Pei Gan, and the others then understood his intention.
Especially Pei Ze.
He glared at Yan Jingchen, who was trying to fake her death and escape, and squeezed out a sentence through gritted teeth:
"You son of a bitch!"
No wonder Yan Jingchen, who was initially thought to be dead, survived; it turns out he had such a hidden skill.
Despite his anger, Chen Yi's words had hit the nail on the head.
Even though he didn't know beforehand that Yan Jingchen wanted to fake her death to escape, he was determined to turn her to ashes this time to comfort the spirits of his two sons in heaven.
Pei Gan, Li Yunjun, and the others didn't say anything, but Lan Yanni cursed him as a shameless bastard.
If Chen Yi and Pei Ze hadn't been there, someone else might have actually fallen for Yan Jingchen's trick.
Chen Yi looked at Yan Jingchen and flashed to his side.
Using his Qi Observation Technique, he could see that after Yan Jingchen woke up, the true essence within her Yintang acupoint was rapidly circulating.
In addition, there are some tiny things that spread out with the true energy, like insects invisible to the naked eye, moving through its meridians.
In just two breaths, Yan Jingchen's wounds healed slightly, and the broken flesh and bones of her limbs began to grow back.
Chen Yi examined it for a moment, then raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is this a poisonous insect?"
Before Yan Jingchen could answer, Chen Yi thrust a gun into the wound in his chest, pulling out a chunk of flesh along with it.
Strangely, the moment the flesh was separated, the tiny insects attached to it instantly died.
Yan Jingchen watched his movements, her face contorted with pain, and gritted her teeth, saying, "Don't waste your energy."
"How could I allow others to seize the treasures I have crafted?"
"That's true."
Just as Chen Yi was about to blow his head off, he suddenly remembered something and asked:
"Whose idea was it for you all to come here?"
Yan Jingchen snorted coldly and turned her head away. "Kill me or torture me, it's up to you!"
"kill?"
"I originally planned to end you with a single shot, but now I've changed my mind."
While waving to Pei Ze and the others, Chen Yi asked, "Even if you don't speak, I know that Liu Hong was the one who sent you here."
"He must have planted some people in the grain store, and he knew that the grain store was going to trade grain with someone tonight, which is why he asked you to make the move."
Yan Jingchen's face froze, filled with hatred. "How did you know?"
"Not only here, but he's also the one who ordered you to poison the people of the prefectural city, isn't he?"
After Chen Yi finished speaking to himself, he stabbed him repeatedly in the wounds on his limbs.
Chunks of newly grown flesh were plucked out, killing all the tiny insects on them.
However, he did not touch Yan Jingchen's chest, nor did he use silver needles to seal her meridians and acupoints, allowing the flesh and organs in her chest to be repaired completely.
Yan Jingchen roughly saw through his thoughts, and then growled in a sinister tone:
"If I live, you and everyone after you will die!"
Chen Yi continued his actions without comment, and only spoke after Pei Ze and the others arrived:
"I need this man very much. Could you please keep an eye on him for me?"
Pei Ze was about to agree, but after noticing the unusual appearance of Yan Jingchen, he turned to Pei Gan beside him and said:
"You decide."
Pei Gan was well aware of his feud with Yan Jingchen, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Since you have spoken, we naturally cannot refuse."
"However, given his current situation, if we spare his life, I'm afraid..."
Chen Yi understood what he meant and nodded, saying, "Wait a moment."
Pei Gan and the others have no problem with it.
Not long after.
Once Yan Jingchen's chest injury had healed, Chen Yi used several silver needles to seal his three vital energy centers: Tanzhong, Yintang, and Dantian.
Then they saw that all the small poisonous insects that had been moving around had died.
Seeing this, Chen Yi confirmed his guess. Then, without stopping, he flicked out silver needles to seal the acupoints on Yan Jingchen's front and back.
Yan Jingchen glared at him hatefully: "Even as a ghost, I will not let you go!"
Chen Yi glanced at him. "I believe you won't have that chance."
At this moment, the golden light shone brightly—
[Refuse Yan Jingchen's attack on Liu Lang and his group led by the Five Poisons Sect; capture Yan Jingchen alive and kill most of the Five Poisons Sect members...]
[Reward: Hundred Flowers Palm's rank upgraded to Heavenly Rank, Luck +282.]
[Comment: The person arrived, their voice was heard, and the scene was impressive; the performance was quite good.]
Chen Yi glanced at her, then with a single thrust of his spear, he sent Yan Jingchen flying into Pei Ze's hands, saying:
"There should still be some members of the Five Poisons Sect remaining in the city. I'll trouble you all to take care of them."
Pei Ze held Yan Jingchen's head with one hand and grinned maliciously, "Don't worry, young friend. After we take care of this sect leader, the others are nothing to fear."
Pei Gan glanced at Yan Jingchen and silently put away the buzzing, fluttering Gu worm.
He brought the mountain tribe's most precious treasure down the mountain this time, intending to use it to annihilate the Five Poisons Sect.
Before he could even make a move, most of the Five Poisons Sect members were eliminated by the person in front of him.
We chatted for a while.
Lan Yanni pointed to the corpses on the ground and said, "Brother-in-law, can I take them with me?"
Chen Yi raised an eyebrow. "Brother-in-law?"
"You are the lover my sister Guanli has chosen, so it's not inappropriate for me to call you brother-in-law, is it?"
Chen Yi chuckled to himself; this girl probably didn't know that Pei Guanli also called him brother-in-law.
However, he didn't explain much, only agreeing and letting Lan Yanni dispose of the corpses as she pleased.
"Thank you, brother-in-law."
Pei Gan glanced at the beaming Lan Yanni, then his gaze fell on Chen Yi, and he coughed, "Sister, cough cough..."
"Well, the matter is urgent, we'll head back to the prefectural city first."
Unlike Lan Yanni, he was too young to say the words "brother-in-law".
Chen Yi had already guessed some of it, and nodded with a light laugh, "Thank you all for your trouble."
"polite……"
After Pei Ze and the others left with Yan Jingchen and the corpses, Chen Yi arrived at Zhang Dabao and the others' location.
He looked at each one, then waved his hands repeatedly, using "qi to control the needles".
The silver needles fell on the injured people, quickly healing their injuries.
Only Liu Lang, who was the most seriously injured, still leaned weakly against the rut, looking eager to try again.
To everyone's surprise, after Chen Yi finished treating the others, he put away the silver needles, as if he had forgotten about him, and said:
“The disaster situation outside the East Gate is serious. Let’s take advantage of the darkness and transport some of the grain to Linzhuang first.”
Zhang Dabao, Jin Peng, and the others nodded in agreement.
Chen Yi gave a few more instructions and then turned to leave.
Liu Lang could no longer hold back and hurriedly said, "Boss, boss, I still have myself, I... I'm still injured..."
Chen Yi stopped and turned to look at him, his face showing realization: "I almost forgot."
Liu Lang chuckled and said, "Boss, you're a busy man, no rush..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Yi flashed away, saying, "Since that's the case, then you'll have to bear with it for now."
"Don't worry, you won't die."
Liu Lang's smile froze as he stared blankly at the figure that had vanished in the blink of an eye, somewhat caught off guard.
After a while.
He turned to look at Zhang Dabao and asked blankly, "Did I offend the boss in some way?"
Zhang Dabao suppressed a laugh, his body trembling slightly as he said, "I don't think so...?"
"Then why didn't he heal my wounds?"
"I almost died at the hands of those old poisoners before."
"Don't overthink it, Brother Liu. Maybe the boss is just testing you."
"Tempering? He's tempering me? Damn it, I've never experienced the tempering of having most of my meridians severed."
"Isn't that it?"
"You son of a bitch..."
...
A few breaths later.
Chen Yi arrived at the banks of the Chishui River.
Tonight he only saw Yan Jingchen and others attack Liu Lang and his group, but he didn't see Lin Zhenghong anywhere.
So he followed the tracks of the train.
Sure enough, there were corpses lying on the ground, including Lin Zhenghong.
Chen Yi scanned the area, making sure there were no survivors, then stood by the Chishui River, looking towards the prefectural city.
After thinking for a moment, he suddenly laughed: "The Liu family?"
The corpses here showed no signs of poisoning; instead, they bore crossbow bolts from the military town, indicating that someone else had killed Lin Zhenghong.
Just that.
The Liu family members who came to rob us are likely to fail in their attempt.
"Trying to get something for nothing?"
"Heh, too late!"
Not long after.
Chen Yi sneaked into the city and saw that most of the city was brightly lit.
In the distance, some noise could be faintly heard.
"Quick, open the door!"
"Sirs, what are you doing? In the middle of the night... Do you know the identity of my master?"
"I don't care who you are, this is a matter of life and death, get out of the way!"
The same scene was playing out all over the city, with some cooperating and others not.
The initial commotion and shouting quickly turned into panic and fear, mixed with some crying and screaming.
The commotion was no less than when Xiao Wan'er was abducted by Du Cang the last time.
The city guards, government officials, and even soldiers stationed outside the city were all mobilized.
They were all fully armed, with even their faces covered with wet cloth strips.
In addition, the doctors from the pharmacies in the city were also forcibly conscripted to prepare medicines or accompany the yamen runners to various parts of the city.
Seeing this, Chen Yi understood that Old Master Xiao had made a move.
"Alas, water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it..."
Such a simple truth, yet there are always some people who don't understand it.
Not only do they not understand, but they even attempt to poison the local area to satisfy their own selfish interests.
His crime deserves death!
(End of this chapter)
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