Almost forgot — it's the start of the month, so I'm asking for monthly tickets!!
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The saint pill in the jade bottle in his hand — who knew how many years it had been stored here? Over the countless passage of years, that pill cloud had been gathering the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, continuously nourishing the pill.
Such a saint pill was no longer just a simple medicinal pill. Its value was immeasurable!
Especially for a pill refiner like Yang Kai, it held enormous research value. If he could unravel the mystery behind the formation of the pill cloud, then in the future he too could refine pills that produced pill clouds.
All kinds of thoughts rapidly interwove in Yang Kai's mind, and his expression shifted again and again.
Inside the jade bottle in his hand, the pill cloud surrounding the pill emitted a subtle attraction, drawing the energy of heaven and earth into the pill's body.
Yang Kai suddenly turned his head and shot the thin man a cold glance.
The other party was also baring his teeth in a savage grin at Yang Kai. The very instant Yang Kai turned his head, the thin man's hand suddenly erupted with a burst of emerald-green radiance. In the blink of an eye, the entire chamber was engulfed in a poisonous mist.
"Heh heh, you fool, don't blame me for being ruthless," the thin man chuckled in a low voice, seeing Yang Kai standing motionless, wrapped in his poisonous mist.
As he spoke, he gathered his fingers into a blade, channeled his zhenyuan, and thrust straight toward Yang Kai's chest.
In that moment, he unleashed every ounce of his strength, swearing to kill Yang Kai in a single blow!
A saint pill that produced a pill cloud, stored here for at least a thousand years — such a treasure, Yang Kai wanted it for himself, but the thin man had developed the exact same desire.
As long as he could obtain this one saint pill, then this entire voyage into the sea would be an enormous harvest. Even if he found nothing else for the rest of the journey, it wouldn't matter.
In the midst of the emerald-green poisonous mist, his face was twisted with fervor and ferocity.
Clang—
Yang Kai's body didn't move a muscle. A spark flashed from his chest, without even breaking the skin. He continued to stare coldly at his opponent.
The smile on the thin man's face rapidly vanished, replaced by a look of utter shock in his eyes. Moments later, his features twisted in agony.
That strike just now had been his full-power attack. Not only had it failed to kill Yang Kai — his own fingers had actually fractured. The instant they made contact with Yang Kai's body, it felt as though he had poked solid steel. The opponent's body was inconceivably hard.
"Idiot!" Yang Kai said with an expression of casual indifference, brushing off his chest and smoothing out the wrinkles the man had made in his clothing. "If you hadn't made a move, I wouldn't have had any reason to kill you. You're digging your own grave, friend!"
"How is this... my Bone-Corroding Poison Smoke can suppress even Transcendence Realm cultivators — how can you be completely fine?!" The thin man's eyeballs trembled violently, terror flooding his heart and mind.
"Nothing is impossible," Yang Kai scoffed with contempt. Seeing the other party shift into a posture ready to flee, Yang Kai's figure flickered, blocking his path. A palm-blade chopped down on his throat bone.
The thin man's eyes bulged outward. Both hands clutched at his neck, a rasping sound escaping his throat. But he couldn't produce a single word. After stumbling a few steps, he collapsed to the ground, dead.
A peak Shenyou Realm warrior — dealing with one was far too easy for Yang Kai now.
Before the man was even fully dead, Yang Kai had already swept up the remaining jade bottles into his hands. He quickly opened them to inspect their contents, and only after confirming that none of the pills inside produced pill clouds did he dash swiftly outward.
"What happened? What's going on in there?" The three warriors from the outer area happened to be rushing over, running right into Yang Kai, and hurriedly asked.
Though the exchange and confrontation between Yang Kai and the thin man had been extremely brief, the sudden burst of zhenyuan energy from just a moment ago had put them on alert. Naturally, they had come to investigate.
"Run — a restriction has been triggered in there!" Yang Kai shouted with a dark expression on his face.
The three glanced past Yang Kai's shoulder, and upon seeing the room full of emerald-green poisonous mist, their expressions turned grim. Not daring to venture inside, they hastily followed Yang Kai in retreat.
"What happened in there?" Hai Wangu saw the four of them returning in a fluster with uneasy expressions and immediately asked.
"There was a restriction inside that inner room. When my friend and I were investigating, he accidentally triggered it," Yang Kai explained hurriedly. As he spoke, the color of his face kept shifting between green and blue.
"Where is he?" Hai Wangu's expression changed.
"He's dead!"
"Dead?!" The crowd was instantly alarmed.
They had been wandering through this ancient ruin for over half a day now without encountering a single danger. They had originally assumed this ancient site was completely safe. But now, someone had died for no apparent reason, and that left them feeling distinctly uneasy.
"How come you're all right?" Hai Wangu fixed Yang Kai with a piercing gaze and asked in a low voice.
"I was standing a fair distance away, but I think I might also have been poisoned..." Yang Kai coughed lightly, the greenish-blue hues on his face shifting even more rapidly.
Hearing this, the others all moved further away from him, as though afraid of being implicated. Yang Kai observed them secretly, his heart settling into calm.
That thin man had released a cloud of poisonous mist before making his attack — he had clearly come prepared with contingencies. Afterward, if anyone asked questions, he would have given exactly the same explanation that Yang Kai was now offering.