"You… you're the Young Master of Glazed King City?" King Gu Nuo's mind was sharp. He sensed it instantly—at this age, with this bearing, this kind of presence, there was no way he could be someone from the Tianlong Sect.
King Gu Nuo's expression shifted drastically. At last, he understood—the thing he'd been worried about wasn't an ambush at all. It was a poison formation!
What made the poison formation so clever was that there had been absolutely no trace of it along the way.
By the time he realized what had happened, the poison had already penetrated deep into his consciousness.
King Gu Nuo looked at Jiang Chen, eyes narrowing to slits, thinking rapidly: If I can capture this boy, perhaps I can force him to hand over the antidote! This is my last chance!
King Gu Nuo knew his condition had deteriorated to a terrible state. Once he engaged in combat, the poison might spread even faster.
But at this point, he had no other choice.
His figure lunged forward, dissolving into an afterimage as he closed in on Jiang Chen in an instant.
The four brothers of the Megalith Clan needed no command from Jiang Chen. They stepped forward together, their massive weapons falling on King Gu Nuo without mercy, every strike delivered with practiced precision.
King Gu Nuo's strength was at the fourth rank of the Celestial tier—formidable beyond measure. Even two or three warriors at
But that was King Gu Nuo at his peak.
Right now, King Gu Nuo could barely muster a third of his full power, and it was deteriorating rapidly. That was precisely why he had risked everything to come after Jiang Chen.
"Get lost!"
King Gu Nuo instinctively assumed these four burly, crude guards couldn't amount to much. He shook his shoulders, unleashing his Celestial-tier aura to blast them aside.
What he hadn't expected was that his charge didn't budge them at all.
"How is that possible?"
At that moment, four Celestial-tier warriors among King Gu Nuo's escort charged in from behind with a roar. Clearly, they had seen through their master's intentions.
Jiang Chen laughed heartily—come one, come all. He pivoted, raising the Sacred Dragon Bow from a distance. "Take this!"
Jiang Chen was now at the quasi-Emperor realm. In his hands, the Sacred Dragon Bow's power had increased dramatically. One arrow tore through the void, deciding life and death.
Under normal circumstances, no matter how strong he was, he couldn't have killed a Celestial-tier warrior with a single arrow.
But these Celestial-tier warriors were clearly far from their best. An arrow he could normally have dodged flew straight through one warrior's skull—his speed had lagged by half a beat—and his body exploded, flesh and blood scattering in every direction.
"Again."
Jiang Chen roared, snatching three more arrows and aiming at the remaining three Celestial-tier warriors. The three warriors froze in their tracks at the sight of their companion's grisly end.
There was no denying it—they were afraid.
King Gu Nuo nearly went mad when he saw them hesitate. Now was the time to worry about staying alive?
If all four charged in together, there was a very real chance of capturing Jiang Chen alive. Even if they couldn't capture him, killing him would let them search his body for the antidote!
But this delay, this hesitation, this fear—it changed everything.
The window of opportunity had slipped away.
In the instant they faltered, Jiang Chen flung out the Nine Palaces Maze Formation Map. Its pages unfurled and swept the three warriors into the formation before they could even recover.
The three found themselves engulfed in the formation, panicked and disoriented, fleeing in every direction like stray dogs.
Jiang Chen couldn't be bothered wasting energy attacking them.
His goal was simply to trap them and let them fend for themselves.
Jiang Chen's true target was to kill King Gu Nuo. He was the real threat. Although King Gu Nuo was poisoned, he could still suppress it to some degree—that was what set him far apart from the others.
Fortunately, the four brothers of the Megalith Clan were fierce and tenacious. Seeing King Gu Nuo trying to escape, they threw everything they had into keeping him pinned down.
Jiang Chen let out a cold laugh and raised his hand. Two Spirit-Bewildering Puppets materialized in the wind, hurling themselves fearlessly at King Gu Nuo as well.
Fighting four to one had already left King Gu Nuo gasping. Adding two more puppets that knew no fear pushed him even further to his limit.
And Jiang Chen, with three arrows nocked on the Sacred Dragon Bow, locked on from afar.
"Go!"
One arrow, two arrows, three arrows—a perfect arc of arrows piercing the void, streaking toward King Gu Nuo.
King Gu Nuo was already in a desperate tangle. The three consecutive arrows made it impossible for him to guard front and back at once.
Boom! A massive hammer from one of the Megalith Clan brothers crashed into King Gu Nuo's back.
King Gu Nuo staggered forward, on the verge of activating an escape light to flee.
But Jiang Chen wouldn't even give him that much time. The three arrows in rapid succession shot straight for King Gu Nuo's face.
King Gu Nuo cried out, executing an iron bridge maneuver, throwing his body backward to barely dodge.
But in that very moment, Jiang Chen's two Spirit-Bewildering Puppets had already closed in from either side, lunging between King Gu Nuo's legs.