Chapter 278 - Escape
Gongyi Tianheng pulled Gu Zuo, who promptly jumped onto his back. Then, he propped Gu Zuo up with his hands. Soon after, Tianheng shouted: “If you’re interested, let’s kill our way out of here!”
With his speech completed, he didn’t pay attention to the others. He sprang forward and jumped out of the window. He went straight to the bottom of the tavern!
Inside the room, that Gao Peng and Jiang Qin were still completely trussed up. Two medicinal pills had also been placed in front of them. Only, because they couldn’t free themselves, their faces soon overflowed with black qi. They were about to lose their lives.
Yao Yao’s beautiful eyes slightly turned. A slender jade-like finger stretched forward, and a line of qi energy slashed down. In the blink of an eye, the golden rope broke apart, and those two regained their freedom — As it turned out, although the martial artists bound by this object were powerless to operate the power within their bodies, if it was broken from the outside, it would be no harder to unravel than an ordinary rope.
Even though Gao Peng and Jiang Qin didn’t look upon Gu Zuo and Tianheng favorably, they also knew that preserving their small lives was the first priority at this moment. At once, they swallowed the medicinal pills. As for Yao Yao, after cutting their ropes, she promptly tugged Song He. Unexpectedly, the two were the first ones to respond to Tianheng. They also jumped out of the window, and closely followed them!
At the same time, the other detoxified martial artists furrowed their brows. There were calculations in all of their hearts. They swept a glance over those jet-black armored soldiers on the floor, and saw that their lives wouldn’t last long. Among the martial artists, there was a cold-hearted and ruthless individual. In order to prevent these people from having their poison cured by others later on, he took out a sharp blade and stabbed all of these people. He butchered them! A few other martial artists saw this, and did the same.
Meanwhile, among the poisoned individuals who didn’t get an antidote, there was Suo Qian. Previously, the other martial artists here had obtained lots of information from him. At first, they were alarmed that he didn’t get an antidote, but soon after, they developed suspicions. They simply ignored him and didn’t kill him. They similarly jumped out of the window and departed.
On the contrary, because Gao Peng and Jiang Qin were humiliated and furious, and because Yao Yao left just like this, they were emboldened to commit evil when they looked at Suo Qian. They both acted, and casually murdered Suo Qian.
Suo Qian acted as the mole of the Third Prince. His intelligence was unmatched, and his orations were as eloquent as lotus flowers. He wanted to convince these numerous martial artists, but he didn’t expect that he would die so tragically now…
Just before Suo Qian died, he was extremely unwilling. He reached out a hand to grasp into the empty air.
Amid those country bumpkins, there was actually a pharmacist who could refine such a toxic thing.
The Third Prince…he needed to be…careful…
Thinking up to here, his right hand fell. Not another word was uttered ever again.
Gongyi Tianheng carried Gu Zuo on his back as he jumped out of the window. He was graceful and silent.
The range of Gu Zuo’s poison was limited, and everyone who was near that building was poisoned to death without exception. At this moment, in order to wipe out a path forward as soon as possible, he promptly tossed out the poison pills again when they approached the ground. The guards and personnel throughout the entire tavern were all poisoned, and fell to the ground.
Immediately following this, the two didn’t linger for the slightest moment, and madly dashed through the shadows of each building along the street.
It wasn’t known how many people the Third Prince had brought along. The entire street was blockaded, and there wasn’t even a single pedestrian on the road. Unexpectedly, it seemed like martial law had been imposed. Those common people, who would turn into monsters at night, had received threats during the day, and had obediently returned to their own homes. They withdrew into their shells like tortoises and didn’t come out.
The street was spacious and empty. In Tianheng and Gu Zuo’s opinion, it was fortunate that there weren’t any obstructions along their path. However, it was also unfortunate that the Third Prince could seal off this lengthy street. It was reckoned that anyone at the end of the street wouldn’t let them pass by so easily. Let alone when they reached the edge of the city.
Sure enough, the facts were just so.
Gu Zuo’s psychic power immediately dispersed outwards. The closer they got to the end of the street, the more cautious he became.
In the distance, he “saw” a few dozen armored soldiers similarly keeping guard over there. Within the crowd, there was also a person at the rank of a commander. It looked like his strength wasn’t any lower than that of the Fourth Commander.
Gu Zuo couldn’t help saying in a low voice: “How many commanders does this Third Prince have under him?”
While Tianheng ran, he said: “Yesterday, we heard that person mention the Bingchen Guards. Since it’s named as such, it might be based on the ten Heavenly Stems and the twelve Earthly Branches. ‘Bing’ is the third Heavenly Stem, which corresponds to the Third Prince. ‘Chen’ is the fifth Earthly Branch…
“Previously, there was that self-proclaimed Fourth Commander. The subordinate troops under that Third Prince might be sequenced with the Earthly Branches, and there are probably squadrons for each of the twelve Earthly Branches. As for each squadron, each probably has several dozen people.”
Once Gu Zuo finished listening, he felt that this made sense.
When he thought about it, his dear big brother had two hundred Tianlong Guards. If each of the Third Prince’s squadrons had fifty people, then the total in his possession was six hundred. As a prodigy of a bronze-ranked empire, this amount wasn’t considered much.
Only, did the Third Prince bring all of his subordinates into the Road of Death this time around? If he did, then the squadrons were comprised entirely of Immortal Realm martial artists whose experiences were even more abundant. To the people like them who came from the Peripheral Continents, this was a terrifying force…
“Big brother, shall we rush past them?”
“Cast the poison first. Then, we’ll dash through!”
Gu Zuo silently calculated.
He only had a total of thirty-something poison pills that targeted Immortal Realm martial artists. Just now, he had already used quite a few of them. Following this, he needed to conserve as many as he could.
For this occasion, there were dozens of people. He needed to use at least four pills…
Soon, the pair approached the end of the street. The armored soldiers on that side reacted very quickly. They turned around right at this moment. However, how could Gu Zuo allow them to respond in time? He was even faster than them, and smashed the poison pills in their direction!
After the pitch-black poison fog emerged, those armored soldiers were unable to resist. They collapsed to the ground one after another!
Only that mid Immortal Realm commander had a slightly stronger resistance. Right now, he was still capable of turning his head.
Tianheng’s gaze slightly deepened. He lifted a hand, and pulled a bow. An arrow was shot!
The bowstring was like a full moon, and the power was like a brilliant sun.
A fiery, shooting star-like arrow slashed a lengthy mark through the air. The reddish-gold power immediately struck the commander. If that commander was still at his peak state, then he could’ve at least stopped or evaded this arrow. But he was poisoned at this moment. Even though he could temporarily sequester some of this poison, the poison had still reached his blood and had circulated throughout his body. It made his body very sluggish.
Therefore, the commander wasn’t able to dodge it.
That arrow plunged into his throat, bursting a hole into his neck. However, the physical body of a mid Immortal Realm martial artist was strong. The commander had gorged on the nourishment of resources, and his skin was tough and durable. The present matter of almost being pierced through startled the commander. After that, he swiftly grabbed a jade bottle in his possession. He wanted to take a Detoxification Pill!
How could Gu Zuo let him take such a pill?
Although this Detoxification Pill wasn’t suited to this poison, he didn’t have any understanding of the inheritances of the pharmacists on the Central Continent. He also didn’t know if this Detoxification Pill really could inhibit the poison.
Thus, a silvery light flickered in the space between his eyebrows. A dagger whistled out.
At the exact same time, several silver awls flanked from the sides, and immediately shattered that jade bottle! That dagger took advantage of the Immortal Realm martial artist’s alarmed fury, and instantly penetrated his forehead!
In the blink of an eye, a crack split across the skull of that Immortal Realm martial artist. Tianheng pulled his bow and shot another arrow, which shot along the crack that Gu Zuo opened!
In an instant, under Tianheng and Gu Zuo’s string of coordinated and tacit attacks, that commander was finally blown apart by these two different powers…
As for the remaining armored soldiers, they would pass away after a few more seconds. Their life signs were very weak.
Gu Zuo didn’t pay them any attention. He only patted Tianheng’s shoulder: “Big brother, shall we go?”
Tianheng stamped the bottom of his foot, and pushed his way through this haphazard pile of human bodies.
Presently, they were dashing towards the edge of the city.
Upon reaching the edge of the city, Gu Zuo carried out the same actions as before. He sent out poison pills, which poisoned that group of armored soldiers who guarded the city limits. Immediately following which, Tianheng and Gu Zuo joined hands to eliminate the equivalent commander of that group. Just like this, they killed their way out of this place.
Tianheng’s body techniques were extremely fast, and each half step followed the next. Without any forks in the path, they rushed onto the single, straight, and expansive road!
At a location south of the city, there were several lone peaks.
Upon the summits of three of those lone peaks sat three young men with terrifying auras.
One wore a bright-yellow dragon robe with four-clawed dragons. The next wore a black, brocaded changpao. And another wore dark-blue robes. Each person bore qi emissions that were sometimes proud and aloof, sometimes violent and fierce, and sometimes graceful and elegant. They were as deep and immeasurable as the abyss.
Originally, the three people were recuperating with their eyes closed. Suddenly, many people hurriedly rushed over from down below.
They abruptly opened their eyes, and a streak of radiant light flickered within.
The people who arrived were all wearing clothes of different colors, and all of them were mid Immortal Realm martial artists. Among them, one party had fear and trepidation plastered across their faces. Meanwhile, the members of the other two parties had vague traces of schadenfreude in their expressions.
In a split second, that young man wearing the bright-yellow dragon robe slightly narrowed his eyes.
A yellow-robed commander hastily kowtowed: “Reporting to the prince, something has happened on Huanglong Street!” His tone was urgent, “Today, we captured a batch of captives. Who would’ve thought that, after the captives didn’t resist and pretended to be unable to rest and reorganize for a day, they took advantage of the time just before nightfall to poison over a hundred experts of my Binglong Army! The Sixth Commander and Seventh Commander were also unfortunately killed. After the Eighth Commander, who was originally on guard, took Detoxification Pills, he used all of his willpower to go and explain this matter to the Fourth Commander. Right now, his body is seriously injured. If we can’t thoroughly suppress the toxins, I’m afraid he’ll also…”
With just a few words, raging waves and stormy seas would be stirred up in one’s heart!
The young man wearing the bright-yellow dragon robe spoke in a cold and detached voice: “Poison?”
The yellow-robed commander was heart-pained and enraged: “We originally thought that we didn’t need to pay attention to those insignificant people from the Peripheral Continents, but among them, there’s an extremely remarkable pharmacist… We treated them lightly, which gave rise to this problem. I ask for the prince’s punishment!”
T/N: If anyone is wondering, the Fourth Commander leads the Bingmao Guards, while the unidentified Fifth Commander leads the Bingchen Guards. If any names come up in the future that reference the Heavenly Stems or Earthly Branches, and aren’t explained in-text, I’ll make a one-time notation for the readers.
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