Chapter 411: Truly Cutting the Weeds and Pulling Up the Roots

Ye Lin roared, enunciating every word.

These seven words undoubtedly awakened the memories he and Duan Ling once shared; Duan Ling met his gaze and couldn't help but let out a snort of laughter.

Realizing she had lost her composure, she bit her lip and stubbornly turned her head away.

She hadn't forgiven Ye Lin yet, so she couldn't be laughing right now.

"I can't be bothered with you!"

Duan Ling walked straight toward Edogawa Kazuki and the other two; with every step she took, dark green ripples spread across the ground beneath her feet.

Having digested all the toxins from the Poison Venerable, Duan Ling's strength had now reached a level that even Ye Lin found difficult to fathom.

Edogawa Kazuki and his two companions, having just broken free from Ye Lin's ice seal, were immediately confronted by a Duan Ling at the peak of her power.

"Inside both of your bodies, there seems to be some poison left behind by my good master."

Duan Ling's bright, lively eyes looked toward Edogawa Kazuki and the horse-faced man.

Although these two had suppressed the poison the Poison Venerable had left in their bodies, they had not completely cleared it.

"Ten Thousand Poisons Devour the Heart!"

Duan Ling used the same technique as the Poison Venerable, instantly triggering the toxins within the two men once again.

"What?!"

Their expressions changed wildly as they desperately tried to suppress the poison in their bodies, but by then, Duan Ling had already struck at Hayato, who had not been poisoned.

She had seen clearly how these three had dealt with Ye Lin just moments ago, and now she was going to pay them back double!

"Yellow Springs Bone-Eroding!"

An aura of extreme, chilling cold spread from Duan Ling, causing Hayato to shiver, his fingers stiffening as he held his bow.

He bit down hard on the tip of his tongue, the sharp pain helping him regain much of his clarity.

Hayato drew his bow and nocked an arrow, seizing the moment to shoot an arrow straight through Duan Ling's head.

Hayato let out a long sigh of relief, but he had forgotten that the Eternal Balance was currently with Duan Ling!

With a large hole in her head, Duan Ling remained completely unaffected, and the terrifying poison she had condensed in her hand struck Hayato instantly.

Hayato let out a miserable scream as the extremely yin and cold Yellow Springs poison invaded his heart meridian, and frost even began to coat his eyebrows.

Edogawa Kazuki now had only one feeling: the sky was falling!

They had clearly come to deal with the Poison Venerable, but first, a terrifying Forbidden Spell Master appeared, wielding the Eternal Balance and killing everyone in sight, and then a poison expert appeared whose strength was even greater than the Poison Venerable's.

If he had known this mission would be so difficult, he never should have come!

Duan Ling struck again, and dark green poisonous mist swept out, enveloping Edogawa Kazuki and the other two.

"Under this Bone-Eroding Poison, enjoy the feeling of your bodies rotting away bit by bit."

Duan Ling's eyes were filled with cold, murderous intent; the screams of Edogawa Kazuki and the other two rang out incessantly, the intense pain even making them beg Duan Ling to kill them with a single blow, but she remained unmoved.

"Amitabha, how benevolent, how benevolent. Heaven has the virtue of cherishing life; Benefactor Duan, how can you recklessly commit such slaughter?"

Ye Lin took out his prayer beads, burned five of them black, and put on a face of profound compassion.

Combined with his white-haired appearance, he actually looked the part.

"Stop putting on an act for me! You've killed more people than I have; how are you going to return that broken balance?" Duan Ling glared at Ye Lin with a cold face.

"It's very simple: if you kiss me once, the Eternal Balance will automatically return to my body," Ye Lin said with conviction.

"Do you think I'd believe such a lame excuse?" Duan Ling rolled her eyes.

"If you won't kiss me, then don't. Why are you being so fierce?"

Ye Lin raised his hand in a beckoning gesture, and the Eternal Balance flew out from Duan Ling's body, returning directly into his own.

The moment he re-fused with the Eternal Balance, Ye Lin felt reborn, his youthful appearance restored.

"Fine, the item is returned to you. From now on, we go our separate ways!" Duan Ling turned her head with a dark face, wanting to leave.

"Wait a moment!"

Ye Lin called out to her.

"The Eternal Balance is back, but what about my Human Emperor Flag? Just now, to save you, all the soul bodies in my Human Emperor Flag self-destructed!"

"Then what do you want me to do? I'll compensate you, that's all!" Duan Ling said coldly.

"How about this: I see your mastery of poison is already perfect. Come with me to slaughter a city and replenish the number of soul bodies in the Human Emperor Flag to what it was before I saved you. We'll call it even, how about that?" Ye Lin asked.

"I'll go, who's afraid of you?" Duan Ling huffed with feigned arrogance.

"Alright, it's a deal! You can only leave once my Human Emperor Flag is replenished to its previous count," Ye Lin said.

"Hmm, how many soul bodies did your Human Emperor Flag have before?" Duan Ling asked.

"Four hundred million."

Duan Ling: "How many???"

"Four hundred million!" Ye Lin spread his hands.

"Did you pull that number out of thin air?" Duan Ling rolled her eyes.

"Are you going to help me or not?"

"I'll help!"

"That's more like it."

Ye Lin stood up and walked over to the five of them, Edogawa Kazuki and the others; five Bright Moon Realm experts were very nourishing, directly raising his level to 84.

Ye Lin didn't waste their five soul bodies either; the Human Emperor Flag was in dire need of them right now.

After finishing them off, Ye Lin brought Duan Ling to the nearest city in the Sang Kingdom.

After slapping the city's Starry Sky Realm powerhouse to death, Ye Lin looked at Duan Ling and said.

"What are you waiting for? Use your poison!"

Duan Ling's eyes turned dark green, and the next second, terrifying poisonous mist spread out from her body.

"Forbidden Spell: Void Gale!"

Ye Lin followed up with a wind-type Forbidden Spell, and the terrifying dark green poison swept through the entire city instantly under the howling gale.

The noise and vitality of the entire city were wiped out in an instant.

Anyone who came into contact with Duan Ling's poison, whether they were ordinary people or class-changers, anything with life was poisoned to death in an instant.

Even the buildings were covered in a layer of eerie green film.

Trees withered, flowers wilted, and the air was filled with a silent and desperate aura of death.

"My god..."

Ye Lin felt his scalp tingle.

In less than three minutes, an entire city had completely turned into a dead city; even the cockroaches in the sewers couldn't survive.

This efficiency was much higher than when he used his army of soul bodies to slaughter a city; it would have taken him nearly half an hour to slaughter a city by controlling hundreds of thousands of soul bodies.

Slaughtering a city in three minutes—with such terrifying efficiency, as long as he could block the Sang Kingdom's Blazing Sun Realm experts, he could wipe out the entire Sang Kingdom in a single day!

Moreover, Duan Ling's poison would remain on this land; if they didn't spend specific manpower, material resources, and money to clean it up, this place would remain uninhabitable for many years to come.

As the saying goes, when will the cycle of vengeance end? Cut the weeds and pull up the roots, and there will be no more trouble.

Ye Lin's eyes were filled with excitement; using poison to slaughter a city—this was the true way to cut the weeds and pull up the roots!