Ling Tian's skill with poisons was absolutely top-notch.
His third master, Gong Hemin, a master of medicine, had spent his entire life dealing with various medicinal materials. Many traditional Chinese herbs were inherently toxic.
These doctors could neutralize the toxins in medicinal herbs through compounding with other drugs. Similarly, they also knew how to maximize the potency of these toxins.
Ling Tian's fourth master, Xiang Yuntian, the King of Assassins, was also an expert in using poisons.
For an assassin, using poison to eliminate a target was the most economical and safest method.
Poisons could eliminate targets without anyone knowing, and also create evidence of one's absence.
As a top assassin, his methods of using poison were naturally top-tier.
Furthermore, Ling Tian's sixth master, Yan Yu, was also proficient in the use of many poisons. The Yan Yu Pavilion had also passed down many recipes for poisons and soporifics through generations.
After all, many in the Yan Yu Pavilion were women, and quite a few did not practice martial arts. To protect themselves, they had to resort to other means, with poisons being one of them.
Ling Tian's spiritual realm space contained nearly a hundred different types of poisons.
He had intentionally revealed himself earlier to lure these Gauls into chasing him. He had also set up traps on the ground beforehand. As a result, Campbell stepped into a noose and was pulled into the air, triggering a mechanism that fired several crossbow bolts at him.
The crossbow bolts were coated with snake venom secreted from the oral venom glands of a poisonous dragon that Ling Tian had collected.
In less than two minutes, Campbell was dead, his body still hanging in the air.
Kalunbu was greatly alarmed. He drew his dagger, stepped forward, and cut the rope, lowering Campbell from the air. By then, Campbell was already on the verge of death and beyond saving.
The matter was not over. As Kalunbu turned around, he discovered that Bellamy, who had been closely following him, had disappeared!
However, he did not know that Bellamy was less than 20 meters away, hanging in the air, a noose having descended from above and ensnared Bellamy's neck.
Bellamy struggled in mid-air for a while, his tongue lolling out, becoming a hanged man!
It turned out that this was also a trap set by Ling Tian beforehand!
Ling Tian had truly inherited the teachings of his fourth master, Xiang Yuntian, the King of Assassins.
He had learned to set various traps since he was a child. On Longpan Mountain, even in many secluded places, Ling Tian had set traps, which were mainly intended to deal with wild animals in the mountains.
Ling Tian had used these traps to catch countless animals, all of which were then sent to the kitchen to provide some meat for his masters.
Especially now that Ling Tian possessed the spiritual realm space, it was equivalent to carrying a large amount of trap-setting materials with him, which was like adding wings to a tiger.
In the blink of an eye, this team of five had lost two members, leaving only their captain, Kalunbu.
Only then did Ling Tian emerge from the forest.
"You... why did you kill my companions, why!"
Ling Tian had not expected that these Gauls, while quick to surrender, were also first-class at shifting blame.
"Don't you know why I killed your companions! You came into the forest in the middle of the night to kill me for a bounty, so you should have been prepared to pay with your lives."
Kalunbu's expression was somewhat awkward; he hadn't expected Ling Tian to already know.
"What are you talking about? There's no such thing..."
"Heh, you're not the first group I've dealt with, and you certainly won't be the last.
The US$50 million bounty from the Americans is indeed a very tempting lure. I'm even tempted to kill myself and then claim the reward from the Americans."
"This is a misunderstanding!" Kalunbu explained.
"Heh, I'm sorry, I don't consider this a misunderstanding!
Pick up your weapon and accept the judgment of death!"
Hearing Ling Tian's words, Kalunbu knew that he couldn't talk his way out of this today. Now, the only way for him to survive was to kill Ling Tian.
Kalunbu was a hyper-sensitive, an ability he possessed. As the name suggested, his reaction time and explosive power were several times stronger than that of an ordinary person.
In martial arts, speed is paramount. This person was already a martial arts master, and with such an ability awakened, he was even more formidable, becoming the leader of this team.
In the world of ability users, interpersonal relationships were simple: the strong were respected, and the winner took all!
Thinking of this, Kalunbu suddenly unleashed his full power. He stomped his feet hard on the ground, and his body blurred into an afterimage, disappearing in an instant.
The next moment, he appeared before Ling Tian, wielding his dagger.
Ling Tian did not dodge or evade, appearing as if he were stunned by his movements. Kalunbu was pleased, as many of his opponents had been eliminated in this manner.
However, the next moment, he couldn't be happy anymore, because a long saber directly struck his chest.
This long saber was the "Onikiri," the very saber that had cleaved a Japanese devil in half on the arena that day!
Even in death, Kalunbu couldn't understand why this saber had appeared out of thin air, in Ling Tian's hand!
Ling Tian hadn't made any drawing motion; how had he done it?
Before he could figure out this question, he had already met his end. Ling Tian directly pulled the Onikiri long saber from the man's chest, wiped the blade clean on the corpse, and then sheathed it.
Next, Ling Tian began to search the bodies. He found some good items on these Gauls, including a signal flare.
Ling Tian dragged all the corpses over, stacked them like a human pyramid, and made some arrangements around the bodies. Then, Ling Tian picked up the captured signal flare, aimed it at the sky, and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!" A red signal flare shot into the sky and exploded, like brilliant fireworks.
At this moment, dozens of people from other teams were still painstakingly searching for Ling Tian inside and outside the forest. Their teams lacked someone with a nose as sharp as a dog's like Bellamy, so they could only search by luck, like finding a needle in a haystack.
At this moment, they all saw the signal flare. Almost everyone immediately concluded that Ling Tian must have appeared in that direction!
This signal flare most likely indicated that a team had discovered Ling Tian, but their strength was inferior to his, and they couldn't defeat him, hence the signal flare!
Thus, for a time, the entire forest became excited. Large numbers of people changed direction and converged towards the forest from which the signal flare had been fired.
At this moment, Ling Tian stood on a tree more than ten meters high, watching it all with cold eyes, a sneer on his lips.
"The hunting feast begins!"