Crack!
“Truly audacious, who is it that doesn't know death and dares to act against the Zhenshan Tower?”
In the headquarters of the Hunting Beast Hall, a burly man around 30 years old crushed the teacup in his hand into powder and spoke coldly.
The man was none other than Ouyang Shan's only son, and also the Young Master of Zhenshan Tower, Ouyang Yuan.
Below him were Tian Hu, Chai Lu, and the other three Tang Zhus of the Hunting Beast Hall.
“No matter who it is, since they attacked us, we naturally must retaliate doubly, otherwise, how will others view our Zhenshan Tower?”
Below, Chai Lu spoke in a deep voice, his words filled with ruthlessness.
Among the dead and injured transport team, there were many of his subordinates, and even a Master at the captain level.
“Naturally, it's been two days, I want to know what you all have found out, it's best not to disappoint me.”
Ouyang Yuan sat in the upper seat, his gaze sweeping over the three Tang Zhus below and the captains behind them.
It was still Chai Lu who spoke first, he slightly cupped his hands, his face showing a hint of solemnity.
“Since some time ago, the area outside the County Town has been quite chaotic, all because a group of Black Wind Bandits has been active, even within the County Town there have been rumors.”
“Therefore, I believe this matter is definitely related to these Black Wind Bandits, it's very likely they did it, even if it wasn't them, they definitely know something.”
Speaking of this, Chai Lu paused and added another sentence.
“It's also not ruled out that other forces are using the Black Wind Bandits as an excuse to target us.”
“Black Wind Bandits?”
Hearing this name, Ouyang Yuan narrowed his eyes, his expression becoming increasingly cold.
As the Young Master of a major power like Zhenshan Tower, his talent was naturally extraordinary, and he spent most of his time cultivating.
With good talent, coupled with Zhenshan Tower's vast resources, despite being only 30 years old, he had already reached Forging Tendons Completion, just waiting for his entire body's Qi and blood to fully integrate before stepping into the Blood Transportation Realm in one go.
His strength in the Forging Tendons Realm was hard to match, even that Iron Fan Scholar Yan Feng was absolutely not his opponent.
This was the confidence gained from cultivating a first-rate martial art, not to mention how many spiritual pills and precious medicines he had consumed to strengthen his physique and condense his Qi and blood, his physique and bone structure far surpassed ordinary people.
In Lin'an County, among the younger generation, he had almost no rivals.
He completely disregarded vicious bandits like the Black Wind Bandits who burned, killed, and plundered.
“Since there's a target, what am I waiting for? Find me the whereabouts of these Black Wind Bandits, I will personally deal with them.”
Ouyang Yuan said in a deep voice.
Hearing this, Tian Hu couldn't help but step forward, cup his hands, and speak.
“Young Master, these Black Wind Bandits are indeed suspicious, but their strength is not weak, numbering over a hundred, especially their leader, Black Bear, his strength reached Forging Tendons Completion many years ago, and he might have made further progress now.”
Speaking of this, Tian Hu's tone became serious.
“A few days ago, the entire White Elephant Martial Hall in the County Town was wiped out by these Black Wind Bandits, it's possible that Black Bear has already stepped into the Blood Transportation Realm, if that's the case and the Young Master acts rashly, there might be danger, in my humble opinion, it's better to wait until the Master arrives before making a decision.”
“Blood Transportation Warrior?”
Ouyang Yuan slightly furrowed his brows.
Although he didn't think there would be a Blood Transportation Warrior among a group of bandits, he had indeed heard some things about the White Elephant Martial Hall.
He was very clear about the strength of a Blood Transportation Warrior, although it was only a difference of one Realm, the gap in combat power between the two was huge.
Even though he was extremely arrogant, he didn't think he would be a match for a Blood Transportation Warrior.
Thinking of this, his gaze fell upon the two elderly men in gray robes standing beside him, who resembled each other.
These two were close bodyguards arranged for him by Ouyang Shan, although they looked old, both of them were at Forging Tendons Completion, and they were twin brothers, the martial art they cultivated was a family-inherited combined attack technique, its power was extraordinary.
Furthermore, they were taught the Zhenshan Tower's explosive secret technique, with their combined strength, even an Early Stage Martial Artist who had just entered the Blood Transportation Realm could be blocked, not to mention defeating them, but self-preservation was absolutely not a problem.
Although called bodyguards, the two held a significant position in Zhenshan Tower, much higher than the three Hunting Beast Hall Tang Zhus in front of him.
Moreover, the two old men were considered half-Masters to him.
“Young Master, regarding this matter, I think we should first follow Deputy Tang Zhu Tian's suggestion, and wait until the Master comes from the County Town before making a decision.”
The two old men in gray robes exchanged glances, and one of them spoke.
“Alright, since that's the case, let's leave it at that for now, and make a decision after father finishes dealing with the affairs in the County Town.”
Ouyang Yuan pondered for a moment, nodded, and then his gaze fell upon the three Hunting Beast Hall Tang Zhus again.
“Non-essential transportation will be suspended for the time being, essential transportation will have double the escort personnel, you can send out a few more empty teams to confuse the enemy, the number of guards I brought this time is not large, so the transportation task will mainly fall on your Hunting Beast Hall.”
“Yes!”
Tian Hu and the other two immediately cupped their fists in response.
...
On the other side, in the residence.
Lin Sheng's eyes were slightly closed, his two palms showing a faint blue color, as if painted with blue dye.
Looking closely, the light blue skin was like a living thing, slowly spreading across his body, extending into spiderweb-like patterns.
After the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, the spreading patterns gradually stained the wrist area with light blue as well.
At the same time, Lin Sheng's complexion also became somewhat pale.
Finally, he opened his eyes and heavily exhaled.
“Hoo... I can't continue anymore, this is my limit.”
Feeling the intense pain coming from his body, as well as the tide-like chill, he had a thought.
“Enter the Blue Flower Python.”
Instantly, Lin Sheng's skin tightened slightly, and the next moment he clearly felt the bone-piercing chill coming from his body begin to quickly dissipate.
The intense needle-pricking pain in his internal organs also slowly disappeared.
“The taste of swallowing poison is truly not for humans, with my early Forging Tendons physique, swallowing just a few petals of this Frost Flower is so painful, if an ordinary person were to Cultivate from scratch, they might die on the spot right after swallowing one petal, without even having time to Cultivate.”
Slightly shaking his head, this time he truly felt the difficulty of cultivating this technique.
The several petals containing strong cold poison that he swallowed at once, if not for being able to enter the Blue Flower Python to gain resistance to the cold poison, he would probably either die or have the cold poison enter his brain and become an idiot.
After the chill on his body completely dissipated, Lin Sheng didn't delay and picked up a small black grass with a fishy smell from the side, putting it directly into his mouth.
Immediately, he began to activate the Qi guiding method of the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm, mobilizing his Qi and blood to blend with the severe poison in his body.
What he swallowed this time was Black Corpse Grass containing potent corrosive poison, which did not conflict with the Blue Flower Python he had entered.
After the Black Corpse Grass entered his stomach, Lin Sheng quickly felt something, only feeling his stomach churning, and an intense pain continuously invaded his internal organs, as if it wanted to melt his five internal organs and six bowels.
He slightly furrowed his brows, took a deep breath, suppressed this pain, and began to Cultivate.
Under his deliberate guidance, his hands, which had just returned to their original skin color, quickly began to turn black at the fingertips, and spread upward at a speed visible to the naked eye, in just the time it takes for an incense stick to burn, more than half of his palm had turned blackish-brown.
Time passed quickly, soon half an hour had passed.
At this time, half of Lin Sheng's arm was stained blackish-brown.
At this moment, black Qi appeared on his cheeks, sweat beads the size of soybeans covered his forehead, and wisps of white smoke rose from the top of his head.
His clothes were already completely soaked with sweat, and his seated body was slightly trembling.
“Enter the Black Tiger Ape!!”
Finally, with his urgent low roar, the intense pain in his body, like his intestines and stomach were being torn apart, finally stopped, the black Qi on his cheeks also dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye, and soon returned to normal, but his complexion still carried an unconcealable paleness and weakness.
“Too greedy, I almost failed.”
He panted heavily, a trace of lingering fear rising in his heart, he had underestimated the toxicity of this Black Corpse Grass.
Or rather, he underestimated the degree of corrosion of the corrosive poison on the body, corrosive poison and cold poison were after all two different types of toxicity, although both were severe poisons, their focuses were different, the degree of corrosion and damage of corrosive poison to the body was much higher than that of cold poison.
He almost didn't last until the cooldown time for switching entries.
If he failed because of this situation, it would be too unfair.
“When cultivating in the future, I must absolutely not be so reckless.”
He secretly warned himself in his heart, and didn't rush to Cultivate, instead, he returned to the inner room, took two pieces of Silver-patterned Black Crocodile jerky, was too lazy to steam or cook them, and put them into his mouth, chewing and swallowing in large bites.
He looked at the jerky hanging from the beam, a hint of doubt appearing in his eyes.
He always felt that this jerky was a little different from before, it seemed like there was a little less.
“Is it an illusion?”
He didn't delve too deeply, slightly shook his head, quickly finished eating the two pieces of jerky, the feeling of weakness quickly disappeared, replaced by an unspeakable feeling of energy.
“Continue cultivating.”
Without hesitation, after preparing properly, he immediately began to continue cultivating.
First, swallow cold-natured poisonous plants, and when unable to bear it, enter the Blue Flower Python, then Cultivate the Ape Embryo Skill during the cooldown time for switching entries, and when the cooldown time ends, in turn, swallow the Black Corpse Grass.
Repeating this cycle, soon a day passed.
On the second day, as the sky slightly brightened, Lin Sheng looked at his two hands, one black and one blue, a smile appearing on his face.
“The Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm has broken through the first layer.”
This martial art is different from the Ape Embryo Skill, it only has four Realms, lacking the entry stage.
As long as one successfully incorporates the toxicity into their body and doesn't die, it is considered entry.
And now he had incorporated both types of toxicity into his body, and his own Qi and blood had achieved a preliminary Fusion with these two severe poisons.
This meant that he had already passed the first Realm, which is equivalent to a Body Tempering Martial Artist.
The increase in physical fitness was not very obvious, after all, he had already cultivated many martial arts, it was normal for the Body Tempering stage not to provide much improvement.
Moreover, he hadn't truly completed the cultivation of this Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm yet, only when he swallowed and integrated another type of severe poison, causing it to fuse with his own Qi and blood, would it be considered true Three Corpse Soul Severing.
Compared to the improvement in physical fitness, the true power of this martial art lies in the poison.
Looking at his black and blue hands, Lin Sheng silently circulated his Qi, and then his two palms began to slowly change.
On the fingertips of his black right palm, threads of blue began to appear, and on his blue left palm, streaks of black patterns began to appear, extending outwards like water droplets.
Soon, both palms changed to a similar dark blue color.
Looking at the fused palms, Lin Sheng placed them on a corner of the wooden table in front of him, and the next moment the wooden surface changed color, wisps of black mist began to drift out, and a pungent smell immediately filled the room.
However, after just a few breaths, the corner of the wooden table was clearly corroded to almost nothing.
“The power is quite good, Body Tempering Martial Artists will basically die upon contact, and it will cause a lot of trouble for Forging Tendons Martial Artists.”
Seeing this scene, Lin Sheng's mouth curved up.
What he used just now was a technique that could theoretically only be used after entering the second layer of the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm, it could also be considered a killing move.
And because he had been swallowing the two types of severe poisonous grasses without restraint all day and cultivating non-stop, his control over these two severe poisons was already quite high, so he just tried using this Fusion technique, and unexpectedly, it actually succeeded.
“If I can swallow another type of severe poison, the power of this technique will increase significantly.”
“Even to the extent of not just condensing these three severe poisons within the range of the hands, but condensing them throughout the entire body and combining them with the muscles, Qi, and blood of the entire body, in this way, the amount of severe poison contained within oneself would absolutely far exceed the current level, reaching a quite terrifying degree.”
This idea had actually sprouted after he had read through the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm.
Now that he had personally tested it and the effect was confirmed, this method was feasible.
“If I can truly achieve this step, then this martial art might no longer be considered a second-rate martial art, I think it should be considered a first-rate martial art.”
In his opinion, this martial art was different from the other martial arts and techniques he had encountered, since the power of the technique was directly proportional to the strength of the swallowed poison, this clearly meant that this technique had room for growth, with an extremely high upper limit.
For others, the poisons and poisonous grasses they choose must be within their tolerance range, otherwise, they will die before they even Cultivate it successfully.
Therefore, even if someone was lucky enough to Cultivate this martial art successfully, its strength would not be too high, which is why it was considered a second-rate martial art.
Relying on the effect of poison resistance from strange beasts, the upper limit of the severe poisons he could swallow was very high, poisons that would be fatal to Martial Artists of the same Realm were nothing to him, naturally, the effect and power he could exert were much stronger than others.
After a period of cultivation, Lin Sheng was very satisfied with this martial art, and became even more certain of his original choice.
However, he did not continue cultivating the Three Corpse Soul Severing Palm, it wasn't that he didn't want to Cultivate, but that all the poisons he had purchased had been consumed.
Looking at the brightening sky outside, he got up to boil water and soak in a medicinal bath.
“Perhaps I should find a servant, otherwise boiling water and cooking every day takes up a lot of time.”
This thought popped into his mind, he himself wanted to spend all his time on cultivation now, and these miscellaneous tasks were indeed a bit of a waste of time.
