Chapter 519: [Save Me] (Part 1)

Hu Xiaotian said: "What the hell does it have to do with me? Those seven Scorching Yang Burning Yin Pills weren't meant to be used against you; in the end they were all shoved into my stomach anyway. But what exactly happened that night? Can you tell me?" This bastard actually had a vague guess about what happened, but couldn't confirm it; saying it now is basically just to observe Wen Ya's reaction.

Wen Ya heard him ask about that night; her pretty face flushed slightly, then she became angry out of embarrassment and snapped: "Tell me honestly, was the Scorching Yang Burning Yin Pill given to you by Ji Feihua?"

Hu Xiaotian said: "You tell me what happened that night first, then I'll tell you."

Wen Ya said: "If you don't speak, do you think I really can't do anything to you?"

Hu Xiaotian smiled narrowly: "As it looks, you really can't do anything to me; if you can catch up to me, I might consider telling you something."

Wen Ya nodded, then suddenly turned and left. Hu Xiaotian suddenly realized something: Tang Qingxuan was still outside. Damn, how did I overlook something so important? Wen Ya's voice came from afar, sounding out of reach: "If you don't speak, I'll turn that girl into a corpse right now."

Hu Xiaotian panicked: "Wait! Come at me if you've got the guts!"

At that moment, hearing Tang Qingxuan's scream, Hu Xiaotian looked up, only to see that in just a moment Wen Ya had already grabbed Tang Qingxuan; Tang Qingxuan's acupoints were sealed, leaving her at Wen Ya's mercy, her beautiful eyes filled with panic as she looked at Hu Xiaotian.

Hu Xiaotian had thought she would call for help, but heard Tang Qingxuan shout: "Hu Xiaotian, go, don't worry about me, hurry up and leave!"

Hu Xiaotian had originally intended to leave; he and Tang Qingxuan had no feelings. Not only were they not friends, before this they could practically be called enemies. Yet hearing Tang Qingxuan say such a thing at a life-and-death juncture made him hesitate; he wasn't the type to act rashly for a hero-saves-the-beauty stunt and throw everything aside. Hu Xiaotian believed Wen Ya hadn't captured him here just to kill him; otherwise she wouldn't have gone through all this trouble. Could it be that he still had some use to her?

Hu Xiaotian sighed: "You win; this has nothing to do with her. If you have anything to say, let's talk alone."

Wen Ya said: "Good!" She waved her left hand in front of Tang Qingxuan, a puff of purple smoke spread; Tang Qingxuan inhaled a bit and fell asleep. Wen Ya released her grip, and Tang Qingxuan went limp, collapsing to the ground. Wen Ya said: "She's been poisoned with my exclusive secret concoction, Heart-Engraving; no one else in the world can cure it but me. If you don't want her to die, just obey me."

Hu Xiaotian laughed: "I can't just meekly obey. But we can do an equal exchange: you ask me something, I'll answer, and you likewise answer a few of my questions."

Wen Ya nodded: "That's fair enough." She didn't step forward, extended her flawless jade-like hand to tidy her hair, and softly asked: "Who gave you the Scorching Yang Burning Yin Pill?"

Hu Xiaotian said: "Ji Feihua!"

Wen Ya gritted her teeth: "Surely it was him! That night he used Yang Fusion Unbound Skill to heal my wounds; after that, where did you go with him?"

Hu Xiaotian said: "Now it seems it's my turn to ask. Are you Xu Mitian?"

Wen Ya's lip curled with a hint of disdain: "So what if I am?"

Hu Xiaotian said: "If that's true, I won't spare you; now it's my turn to ask again."

Wen Ya realized she had unintentionally wasted a questioning opportunity, silently cursing this brat's slyness.

"Did you use the Demonic Seed Great Law on Le Yao's body?"

Wen Ya said: "Yes! That night after Ji Feihua healed my wounds, where did you guys go? And what happened?" Perhaps to compensate for her earlier loss, she fired off two questions in a row.

"We went to Azure Cloud Lake. What exactly did you do to me that night?"

Wen Ya said: "Are you practicing the Formless Divine Skill?"

Neither answered the other's question, yet they kept firing questions; actually they each already guessed the other's situation in their hearts, just couldn't confirm. They stared at each other for a moment; Wen Ya broke the silence first, coldly: "You really are practicing the Formless Divine Skill! No wonder you're fine after taking seven Scorching Yang Burning Yin Pills."

Hu Xiaotian said: "I also don't know why swallowing seven Scorching Yang Burning Yin Pills left me unharmed; I thought it might have something to do with you." That hit the nail on the head: without Wen Ya's Profound Yin physique, Hu Xiaotian would have already burned up from lust, his meridians bursting and killing him that night; his still-unmastered Formless Divine Skill couldn't have saved his life.

Wen Ya said: "Where did you get the Bloodshadow Gold Beetle again?"

Hu Xiaotian said: "Also a gift from the Commander." The reason he didn't give up Lin Wan wasn't because he was lenient with her, but because he didn't want to tell the truth; anyway Ji Feihua doesn't mind extra trouble, he pushes everything onto him, Wen Ya too, Xu Mitian too—given her current strength she probably isn't a match for Ji Feihua. After answering Wen Ya's question, he thought it's his turn to ask, but looking up he saw Wen Ya's face as pale as paper, a chilling aura spreading around her, her lips trembling slightly—clearly the onset of cold poison from the Ice Soul Asura Palm.

Hu Xiaotian hadn't expected her to have the cold poison flare up at such a critical moment; he first felt some worry, then immediately felt overjoyed—worry was instinctual, deep down he still saw her as Le Yao, but Hu Xiaotian is extremely rational; he quickly realized that perhaps only this body before him belongs to Le Yao; she is neither Le Yao nor Wen Ya, but fundamentally Xu Mitian, the world's top poison master, a ruthless demon that makes countless people tremble at the mere mention of her name.

Xu Mitian originally still wanted to control her bodily reaction, but it seemed to have no effect.

Hu Xiaotian deliberately said: "What's wrong with you? Are you sick?" His right hand furtively went for the Violent Rain Pear Blossom Needle; he worried Xu Mitian might be feigning, and also thought that if she truly had the cold poison flare up, now was the best chance to eliminate her; although he felt somewhat reluctant, he knew that if he missed this opportunity future troubles would be endless—if he didn't kill Xu Mitian, once she recovered both he and Tang Qingxuan would surely die.

Xu Mitian's teeth clenched and trembled; she seemed to see through Hu Xiaotian's true intent, her voice shaking: "If you dare to act against me, Tang Qingxuan will surely die..."

Hu Xiaotian smiled narrowly: "Don't think of me as like you; I never take advantage of someone in danger." His words were as smooth as honey, yet his right hand had already quietly taken out the Violent Rain Pear Blossom Needle; he feigned concern: "Are you alright?"

Xu Mitian said nothing, slowly sitting among the flowers, legs crossed like in meditation, hands resting on her thighs, palms upward; threads of cold air seeped outward, and with her body as the center, the surrounding flowers flashing with five-colored light were quickly shrouded in a layer of white frost.

Hu Xiaotian stepped forward: "What's wrong with you?"

Xu Mitian remained motionless, as if in deep meditation.

Hu Xiaotian's heart pounded; Xu Mitian was now within range of the Violent Rain Pear Blossom Needle—if he pulled the trigger, he might be able to blast her into a porcupine. Looking at her pretty face, he involuntarily recalled Le Yao's former gentle, charming look; he felt a twinge of reluctance, but in this situation any womanly compassion could cost him his life. He glanced at Tang Qingxuan unconscious far away on the ground, poisoned by Xu Mitian's secret Heart-Engraving toxin; killing Xu Mitian would indirectly kill Tang Qingxuan as well. Right now he felt like a mud Buddha crossing a river—he couldn't worry about all that. Hu Xiaotian bit his lip, his expression growing firmer, raised the Violent Rain Pear Blossom Needle, finger resting on the trigger.

Hu Xiaotian seemed to see himself shooting Xu Mitian into a porcupine, readying to fire, when he felt something odd on his hand; looking up, he saw a golden glittering thing on the back of his hand; closer inspection revealed a golden-light flashing insect, lying lightly wriggling at the base of his thumb; Hu Xiaotian gasped, holding his breath, daring not to move.

Xu Mitian suddenly opened her eyes, a piercing chill shooting toward Hu Xiaotian: "This thing is called the Bloodshadow Beetle King, forged from slaughtering among ten million Bloodshadow Gold Beetles, then refined in my body; after that I fed it hundreds of poisons, shaping it into what it is now; if it bites you once, what do you think the consequence would be?"

Hu Xiaotian's face was ashen, he struggled to force a smile, but it only made his expression look more twisted and ugly; though his finger rested on the trigger, he couldn't bring himself to press it—even if the Violent Rain Pear Blossom Needle were lightning fast, even if he shot Xu Mitian dead, he couldn't escape the Bloodshadow Beetle King's bite; forged from countless venomous creatures and tempered with hundreds of poisons, such a venomous insect is inevitably extraordinarily toxic; letting it bite him would be worse than death.

Xu Mitian suddenly opened her eyes, raised her right palm, and an invisible strike slammed into Hu Xiaotian's chest, sending him flying sideways; the Violent Rain Pear Blossom Needle in his hand flew off to the side.

Hu Xiaotian felt as if her strike would shatter his bones; a chill seeped from his chest into his body, his heart seemed to freeze instantly, his pulse halted—but in a flash, a warm current naturally welled up from his Dantian Qi Sea, rushing along the extraordinary meridians to his heart, easing the cold sensation, yet his limbs remained numb and uncontrollable. Looking again at the golden insect on the back of his hand, he still vividly remembered the scene of the Bloodshadow Gold Beetle burrowing into Xu Mitian's body; even someone as formidable as Xu Mitian could do nothing about it, let alone him. (To be continued~^~)

Sumitian's expression was colder than an iceberg: "Hu Xiaotian, you are indeed vicious—taking advantage of someone's peril isn't enough, you even drag your companion into death." She stepped toward Hu Xiaotian. Hu Xiaotian wanted to flee, but his body had gone numb from her palm strike, leaving him unable to move normally for a short while. Looking at the Blood Shadow Moth King on the back of his hand, he still vividly remembered the scene where the Blood Shadow Gold Moth had burrowed into Sumitian's body; even someone as formidable as Sumitian could do nothing about it, let alone himself. (To be continued~^~)