Chapter 1 There's No Point in Using Poison If It Doesn't Work!

"Only an idiot would do something toxic that doesn't work!"

Watching the Demon General Beastmaster panic, directly cutting off his left hand at the shoulder with a single strike, Su Zhou, who had just landed nearby, couldn't help but curl the corner of his mouth: "Having learned from the Chi-di (Red Earth) experience, I saw long ago that your humanoid form was just a target."

"But what if it's a target? Poison doesn't care whether you're stabbed in the appendix or the heart. Whether the organs are useful or not, you'll still be poisoned!"

[Chi-di (Red Earth) Demonic Poison Affliction: Highly corrosive hemolytic poison that circulates through bodily fluids, destroying all tissues and organs along the way. It causes severe blood contamination, hindering nutrient exchange between systems in carbon-based organisms.]

[Yinhui Dimai (Gloomy Underground Vein) Crystal Affliction: Upon impact, ignores physical defense, damaging spirituality, causing the target to feel weak, dizzy, and disoriented.]

[Bixie (Evil-Repelling) Rune: Upon impact, damages spirituality, with the best effect on non-corporeal targets.]

The dark green cross-shaped gun head, flickering with three colors of spiritual light, this series of arguably 'righteous' additional effects, is enough to make any evildoer who understands its power tremble with fear!

Su Zhou has never been one to mind using poison—yes, crushing others with brute force is very satisfying, but isn't poison also his power? Aren't both the Yinhui Dimai (Gloomy Underground Vein) Crystal and the Chi-di (Red Earth) Demonic Soul part of his spoils of war and supernatural powers?

There's nothing to be pretentious about—take a shot of my righteous poison gun!

Casually glancing at the pack of wolves fighting fiercely with Zhou Buyi and the others, Su Zhou picked out a pre-prepared diamond-shaped iron block from his waist, aimed it at the wolf pack, and threw it with injected spiritual power—he didn't even pay attention to the results, but continued to raise his gun and charge towards the Demon General Beastmaster, who was roaring and charging towards him again!

"How is this poison so similar to that Chi-di (Red Earth) bastard's demonic poison... Damn it, death is one thing, but to have my own weapon used by the enemy!"

This time, it was the Demon General Beastmaster who was cautious, cursing inwardly—it had just urged the growth of wood roots to force out the Chi-di (Red Earth) Demonic Poison and regenerate its arm, but this action consumed too much of its reserves, and it really didn't want to do it a second time.

So, instead of the injury-for-injury strategy most commonly used by the Undying Demon Generals, it played cautiously and defensively, using two cavalry sabers to block the long spear, guarding airtight, and when it felt truly dangerous, it would directly have the blue wood centipede lash its tail, forcing Su Zhou back.

Clang! Figures intertwined, blades clashed, emitting the friction of steel colliding, but this time it was Su Zhou who was rare in losing strength. The Demon General Beastmaster and the centipede combined, and the force of the charge directly sent Su Zhou flying, forcing him to do several backflips in the air before heavily landing on an overburdened pine tree.

"Again!"

But this was just a small exchange, Su Zhou immediately exerted force under his feet, stepping hard on the pine tree trunk, and then his whole person flew towards the Demon General again amidst the creaking sound of the tree trunk breaking!

In the forest, a scene similar to the Hongcheng (Hong City) sewers appeared. Su Zhou relied on his high mobility to use various points of leverage in the snow forest to launch all-round attacks, while the Demon General Beastmaster, who had the advantage in strength, had his wolf pack blocked by Zhou Buyi and others, and even retreated steadily under the hands of the trio who had taken pills. He was completely in a passive position, and could only keep parrying.

"Miscalculation—I originally thought that young grandmaster might be strong, but I didn't expect that the three ordinary Houtian (Post-Celestial) martial artists following him would also have some tricks up their sleeves!"

The Wood-Armored Ash Wolves were its masterpiece. Ordinary Houtian (Post-Celestial) martial artists below the first tier would find it difficult to deal with just one, and being besieged by three would basically be a death sentence. But now, with nearly a hundred wolves, they were blocked by three Houtian (Post-Celestial) first and second tier youngsters, which was really beyond its expectations!

However, the Beastmaster was not worried, because its purpose was not to kill Su Zhou and Zhou Buyi and others on the spot in the first place.

What it needed was to stop them!

Boom! The two clashed again, and this time, Su Zhou, pouring all his strength into a powerful spear swing, directly fractured the Demon General's parrying arm, and even the humanoid's spine was crushed by the force... But that humanoid didn't have any vital organs anyway. As long as it wasn't stabbed by the spearhead, this damage was insignificant and would soon heal itself and continue to block.

"A bit troublesome."

At this time, Su Zhou also felt quite棘手—knowing that his gun was poisoned, this Demon General defended seven parts and attacked three parts. If the situation was not right, he would directly let the wood centipede swing its tail, or even roll to avoid the direct strike of the gun head.

It wasn't that he hadn't stabbed the wood centipede... But just like when he encountered it in the sewer, the wood centipede had a layer of anti-freeze mucus on its surface, which was slippery and difficult to get a hold of, and even if he managed to stab it, the other party would directly shake its body and shed that part of the wooden armor, and then regenerate to detoxify.

Domesticated war beasts are indeed more powerful in this regard than wild ones.

Su Zhou was very clear that if he slowly exhausted it, the other party would definitely die, but wasn't this a race against time? He needed to quickly kill this Demon General and then lead the team to retreat, lest they really be surrounded by four or five hundred magic soldiers, even with Qi-powered cannons... That wouldn't be a fun thing. No matter how brave he was, he couldn't possibly take on so many martial artists, not to mention that the other party also had bows, crossbows, and guns.

For a time, the situation was very strange... A ten-meter-long wood centipede knight was fighting like a low-down street gangster, lying down directly when things didn't go well, and then frantically waving its centipede tail—good heavens, the tail weighed at least two or three tons, and being swung wildly by the great force of a spiritual plant demon beast, the evil wind alone could blow people away like pieces of paper!

Even Su Zhou would suffer a broken bone if he was grazed by it.

But if Su Zhou pretended to retreat and didn't entangle with it, the Demon General would immediately turn around and charge, with incredible speed, forcibly forcing Su Zhou to fight it, shameless to the extreme!

After nearly ten rounds of fighting back and forth, Su Zhou felt annoyed: "No, this Demon General is playing it safe and steady, determined to hold me back..."

"I can only take a risk." With his mind racing, Su Zhou thought so and sold a flaw.

When the Beastmaster charged again, forcing him to attack head-on, Su Zhou deliberately jumped up, allowing his spear to be deflected by the other party's cavalry saber using the centipede's power. Immediately, the huge spirit iron spear spun in mid-air, and Su Zhou's upper body was wide open.

"Opportunity!"

The Demon General's decades of combat instinct immediately seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He didn't see any way Su Zhou could hurt him after losing his weapon. Immediately, the wood centipede under him shook, and he slashed down with all his strength, intending to cut Su Zhou in half from head to toe!

But how could Su Zhou, who was prepared, be so easily cut down? The sacred geometry was condensed with the Qi Conglomeration Body Method, and the whirlwind armor brought by the Storm Seed was even more turbulent. Hundreds of air currents began to impact and deflect the opponent's power the moment the blade was cut down!

Bang! The incomplete storm armor was broken by the Demon General's full-strength strike, but the power of the blade that had been driven by the wood centipede's force had already been greatly reduced when it broke through the storm armor. When it chopped onto Su Zhou's head, it didn't have much power at all and was directly bounced off by the smooth, hard, and triangular spirit-patterned glowing forehead.

The only one affected might still be Yala, who was hiding in Su Zhou's hair. It hurriedly dodged the strong wind of that blade, hung on the back of Su Zhou's head, and couldn't help but sigh: "Although there are some tactics, and you can say that he is bold because of his skill, he is still reckless..."

"I've only been practicing spear for more than two months, but guess how long I've been practicing unarmed combat?"

Speaking trash talk unscrupulously on the battlefield, at the moment when the cavalry saber was bounced off by his forehead in the Demon General's shocked eyes, Su Zhou laughed loudly, one hand grabbing towards the Demon General's chest, and the other hand grabbing towards the Beastmaster's hand holding the cavalry saber.

Crack! The Demon General's physical fitness was indeed terrifying. Without weapons, just touching it with bare hands felt like grasping reinforced concrete. Ordinary martial artists might not even be able to cut through its skin, let alone kill it—but in the next instant, Su Zhou grinned and directly exerted force with his palm, crushing the Demon General's hand along with the grip of the cavalry saber!

Concrete? He could crush it to pieces when he had just awakened, let alone now after several months of cultivation!

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by a puff, Su Zhou's other hand also directly inserted into the Demon General's chest, and a series of muffled sounds of bone breaking rang out in the Beastmaster's body, which was the sound of a row of ribs being crushed. Su Zhou also quickly found his target: the Demon General Beastmaster's spine.

"Got you."

The Demon General Beastmaster heard such a voice. It originally wanted to mock the other party for hurting its human body being useless, but in an instant, Su Zhou directly grabbed the Demon General's spine with one hand, grabbed the Demon General's shoulder bone with the other hand, and then the whole person quickly fell towards the ground next to him, with spiritual light overflowing from his arms, waist, and legs. His muscles were knotted and exerted force, and then—

He unleashed a full-force shoulder throw!

[Dragon-Serpent Strength!]

Generally speaking, no one can perform a shoulder throw on a large centipede weighing more than five tons, but why did the Demon General Beastmaster leave a humanoid target? And this target was so tough—immediately, under the violent force driven by Su Zhou, the body of the wood centipede was directly rolled sideways by Su Zhou, completely losing its center of gravity!

—Rumble!

The huge centipede rolled uncontrollably, and then a huge cloud of blue blood spurted out from its back!

It could be seen that the six-eyed humanoid of the Demon General Beastmaster had been directly pulled off the centipede by Su Zhou with brute force, and then casually thrown aside, with a soft, lifeless aura!

—Ugh ah ah ah ah ah!!!

It seemed that a silent soul scream could still be heard echoing in the spirit world... Heaven knows how painful this was! But to give an example: there are similar protruding parts on human male individuals. The pain experienced by the Demon General Beastmaster was probably similar to that protruding part being crushed and broken off.

"Click clack!"

After losing the protruding part, the centipede, which was the Beastmaster Demon General's main body, immediately lost its courage. Its mandibles trembled and knocked against each other, and it immediately turned around to run, while Su Zhou, who had picked up the fallen spear next to him, immediately shouted loudly 'Where are you going!', and ran with qinggong (light body technique), chasing after it like a chariot.

Leaving the trio of Zhou Buyi who were fighting fiercely with the demonic wolves, and the demonic wolves who were fighting fiercely with the trio of Zhou Buyi, in place, falling into confusion.

"...Did we miss something just now?"

How could suddenly one person spray blood two zhang high and the other scream not to run?

The trio of Zhou Buyi, who were left in place and fighting with the Wood-Armored Ash Wolves whose fighting techniques were gradually becoming sluggish due to the loss of flute instructions, were stunned. They looked in the direction where Su Zhou and the Demon General Beastmaster had disappeared, and then the three shouted in unison, exerting all their strength.

Zhou Buyi was good at using swords, and like his teacher, he was good at using sword qi (sword energy), but in essence, he had mastered a hundred schools of thought, and was proficient in both spells and martial arts. He was not a pure martial artist.

Facing the wolves, which exposed flaws due to the controller's departure, this somewhat prematurely aging swordsman narrowed his eyes, held the steel sword horizontally in front of his chest, and pressed two fingers of his left hand on the sword, chanting incantations.

Suddenly, a strong wind rose around Zhou Buyi. He gathered all his inner force on the sword—in the next instant, a cold light flashed, accompanied by a pure white air wave splitting out. The seven Wood-Armored Ash Wolves in front of him were cut in half along a bright arc that flew horizontally, and the raging wind blew away all the internal organs and blood of these demonic wolves.

At the same time, as blue wolf blood splattered, the martial monk Fang Hui also poured his strength into the ironwood long staff and swept it out with a loud shout—his figure was already tall and large, and his innate true force was extremely high, so every move had great power.

Now, driven by the medicine candy and inner force, this horizontal sweep of the iron staff was simply a road roller, directly sweeping away the wolf pack in front of everyone, clearing a path full of flesh and blood wreckage!

"Go, chase after them!"

Seeing that there were no more demonic wolves blocking the way in front of him, Zhou Buyi immediately ordered, and the others did not hesitate. They exerted force and ran towards the direction where Su Zhou and the Demon General Beastmaster had disappeared. Just before leaving, Liu Xizhao took out a small medicine bag and threw it directly on the ground. In an instant, a light blue mist filled the air—the remaining Wood-Armored Demonic Wolves, who had reacted and were about to howl and chase, stopped in place with hazy eyes when they came into contact with this mist, foolishly wandering around. It wasn't until seven or eight seconds later that they shook their heads, and their wolf eyes regained clarity.

But this time, without the smell and without the controller, they howled a few times after looking at the remains of their clan around them and did not continue to chase.

The Zhou Buyi trio's handling of the situation was already very fast. Whether it was breaking through or tracking, they could be called first-class reactions.

But Su Zhou was faster.

In just such a short time, he had already beheaded the Demon General Beastmaster with his spear.

The dark green gun head flickered with crimson spiritual light, and the entire spear was like a nail, inserted from the back wound of a blue centipede, directly piercing into the ground, pinning it in place.

The gun of justice, cutting down the evil and poisonous, was that simple, easy, and a bit boring.