Nan Shiying was silent for two seconds, then asked, "Does the Ghost Fiend Gate also belong to the Myriad Caverns Tower?"
The crowd's legs went weak, not from poison, but from shock at her question. The Myriad Caverns Tower gathered all the experts in the world, but why did it only account for seventy percent? Because the remaining thirty percent, apart from those they disdained and established martial families like Ju De Manor, was the Ghost Fiend Gate.
Regardless of the number of experts in the Myriad Caverns Tower, most of them were merely nominal members. Although the Ghost Fiend Gate had far fewer members, if push came to shove, the Myriad Caverns Tower was definitely no match for the Ghost Fiend Gate.
This question, if the other party truly knew nothing about the martial world, then they were deliberately provoking them. But judging by the demeanor of the brother and sister, they didn't seem like newcomers to the martial world. So, were they throwing Gongzi Xun's face to the ground without satisfaction, and then wiping it with dog excrement, and then stepping on it again?
They never expected the other party to suddenly cut Poppy in half. Even more so, after Gongzi Xun displayed the might of the Myriad Caverns Tower, not only did they show no fear, but there was an indescribable emotion on their faces, as if they were watching a neighbor's child show off how sharp their wooden sword was.
Who were they?
Who exactly were this sudden pair of siblings?
Were they so fearless because they were prepared for a murder to silence witnesses, or did they truly not put the Myriad Caverns Tower in their eyes?
Gongzi Xun's expression turned extremely ugly, and he could no longer maintain his previous calm. A storm brewed beneath his gloomy expression, but in the next second, he sighed softly, "Then there's nothing to discuss?"
This sounded familiar!
Nan Shiying truly didn't know, but... forget it, it wasn't important!
She casually tossed牡丹 (Mudan) into the air, then swung her saber. Previously, they had tried to cut her in half, and Nan Shiying had very kindly given them the same fate, thus completing their earlier words in another form.
Gongzi Xun sighed again. He tilted his head slightly, and the flying blood splattered across the edge of his drooping hair. In the next moment, the flying water droplets stopped in mid-air. A woman, wrapped entirely in black gauze, stepped into the inn amidst a flurry of blood.
With every step she took, it was as if a bloody lotus bloomed on the ground.
A surprised shout suddenly reached Nan Shiying's ears, "It's the Myriad Caverns Tower's Chi Cu!"
The woman stepped into the inn and walked to Gongzi Xun's side. The blood droplets that had been suspended in mid-air suddenly transformed into sharp blood needles, shooting towards Nan Shiying from all directions.
This ability... Nan Shiying felt it was like a weakened version of Ji Jinmo.
She scooped up Xiaoman with one hand and grabbed the severed half of牡丹's body with the other, attempting to use her as a shield again. But Nan Shiying had overlooked one thing:牡丹's body contained the most potent blood.
The moment her hand grasped牡丹's mangled corpse, the blood within牡丹 suddenly began to boil. Nan Shiying's expression sank, and she instantly threw the mangled corpse away. However, the moment it left her palm, it exploded from within. The blood beads splashed out by the explosive force instantly turned into blood needles, their speed so great that Nan Shiying couldn't dodge them.
Xiaoman instinctively turned her body and spread her arms, trying to block the rain of arrows with her small frame.
The gold in Nan Shiying's eyes instantly spread to fill her entire pupils. The dazzling gold, like a Golden Crow gestating and multiplying from the sun, carried a scorching heat capable of melting everything.
Nan Shiying activated the next stage of her ability at the critical moment.
Her pupils seemed to appear as afterimages, splitting into two, four pupils.
The blood needles dissolved, turning into a patch of red mist.
The crowd only felt a heat capable of melting them, like surging flames, like boiling magma. Just as they thought they would be burned to ashes by the rising heatwave, the scorching sensation instantly subsided. If their skin were not still 'screaming in pain' and showing the redness of burns, they would have thought everything that just happened was nothing but a nightmare.
"Go!"
Chi Cu's pupils constricted. The crowd hadn't seen clearly what just happened, but she had seen it all. The opponent was also an ability user? And an ability user who also used poison? Had they no shame?
The opponent was skilled in poison, and their ability seemed to be no less than hers. Chi Cu made a decision in the first instant.
Nan Shiying, however, smiled, "Go?"
"You can't leave!"
Chi Cu didn't want to say more. She simply didn't want to fight desperately, not because she was afraid. She was confident that even if the opponent still had tricks up their sleeve, they wouldn't be able to stop her.
However, in the next second, dozens of experts in black brocade robes suddenly appeared around the inn. Two of them even gave Chi Cu a sense of overwhelming pressure that she found difficult to contend with.
Ying Yi slowly drew the soft sword from his waist and stood before Chi Cu, holding the sword. "Get back, or face death!"
As he uttered the last three words, the dozens of people simultaneously drew their weapons, surrounding Chi Cu and Gongzi Xun.
"Who exactly are you?"
Chi Cu almost bit her silver teeth to pieces. It was one thing for the opponent to be an ability user, and she could accept them using poison, but they clearly had so many capable individuals under their command, yet they still personally took action?
If you said they were not playing by the rules of martial arts, she truly didn't have the initial overwhelming numbers tactic. But if you said they were playing by the rules of martial arts, she actually directly used poison.
Ying Yi ignored Chi Cu's question. After a moment, he suddenly struck.
Chi Cu almost swore loudly. So the thinking time he gave was only a moment?
Chi Cu supported Gongzi Xun with one hand. The blood on the ground quietly congealed, then transformed into a large bloody hand, slapping towards Ying Yi's back.
Ying Yi didn't turn around. He acted as if he hadn't noticed the attack from behind, and continued to charge towards Chi Cu with unwavering determination.
Was this an attempt to trade injury for injury? Was it necessary to fight so savagely?
Chi Cu let out a cold laugh. Since the opponent wanted to die, then... The sinister smile on Chi Cu's face didn't last long. In the next moment, her sinister cold laugh, along with the blood hand that abruptly disintegrated, fell apart.
"This, how can it be?"
Chi Cu was greatly alarmed. She had seen the opponent's ability just now and knew her ability came from her eyes, but now she couldn't sense any fluctuation of abilities at all, as if the blood hand she had condensed had dispersed due to her own withdrawal.
This, how was this possible!
Chi Cu's mind was in turmoil. Ying Yi's soft sword was already approaching her dantian. Just as the soft sword pierced her body, a strange bluish-gray color suddenly appeared on Gongzi Xun's face.
His pupils vibrated up and down, and quickly lost their normal human coloration, his eyeballs and the whites of his eyes merging into one, presenting a bluish-gray color identical to his face.