Chapter 340: Still Need More Practice

"Sect Leader, what are you doing?"

Faced with such a turn of events, even the most slow-witted among them knew what was happening: their own Sect Leader was clearly plotting against Shen Yu.

What grudge could we possibly have with Shen Yu that you would do this? Isn't this just offending someone?

Besides, it's one thing to plot against Shen Yu, but why keep us here too?

Shen Yu is right next to them; if he were to fly into a rage and do something, they wouldn't feel safe!

"What am I doing? Haven't you seen it?" Wu Su's voice came from outside, laced with a hint of madness. "I want his life. To be precise, I want the essence of his body to nourish my origin!"

"How bold!" Knowing the other party was ill-intentioned was one thing, but he hadn't expected such audacity. "Plenty of people have wanted my life; who do you think you are!"

He braced himself and slammed a palm against the wall with all his might, but his full-force strike only left a palm print; he couldn't penetrate the wall at all.

By all accounts, even if it were cast from refined steel, it should never have withstood his palm strike. Shen Yu then discovered that these cage walls were covered in Runes, and they were clearly carved from a special material.

The combination of Mechanisms and Runes—this wasn't an Array, yet it was even more troublesome than one. The Runes carved into the walls not only made them indestructible but also sealed the space.

If one couldn't break both simultaneously, there was no way out. The design was indeed ingenious.

"What's wrong, kid? You still have energy left? But it should be soon. Don't you feel bloated now? Bloated to the point of painful discomfort, bloated to the point where your limbs are gradually losing strength!"

"Hmph, you think a little poison like this can hurt me? Keep dreaming. Wait—how can this poison have no antidote!"

Inside the cage, Shen Yu was enveloped by the Seven-Colored Star Butterfly. The Seven-Colored Star Butterfly was known as the King of Ten Thousand Poisons and could neutralize a hundred toxins. Therefore, he hadn't been worried at all about anyone poisoning him.

As long as it was poison, even if it couldn't be fully neutralized, the Seven-Colored Star Butterfly could help him stabilize. But the current situation showed no signs of easing; he could even clearly feel his condition worsening.

By all logic, it should have had some effect. Why did he feel like things were getting worse?

"Shen Yu, don't waste your effort. Morning Dew Drink is a poison, but it is also not a poison. To be precise, Morning Dew Drink is a tonic—a highly potent tonic!"

"You must know that sometimes it's not just poisons that kill; tonics can be even more terrifying than poisons when they kill. You think you are gaining benefits, but in reality, you are already not far from death!"

Wu Su outside didn't mind telling him these things at all, as if wanting Shen Yu to die with clarity. The triumph in the voice sounded like it was showing off something.

"After you consume the Morning Dew Drink, the medicinal effects will take hold rapidly. Initially, it will make you feel great, but then the effects will persist, with the medicinal power flowing endlessly, causing you to swell continuously."

"Slowly, you will swell to the point where you cannot move at all, to the point where you can only be slaughtered!"

"So I don't need to do anything; I just need to watch. Soon, your meridians and dantian will be completely blocked by the swelling, and you will be unable to move. At that point, I will simply harvest the essence of your body!"

"Bitch, you dare to strike at me?" Suddenly, Wu Su's furious voice rang out from outside, followed immediately by a scream.

That scream was Su Ningxue's voice; she seemed to be heavily injured. However, Shen Yu then heard muffled groans; it should have been a severe injury rather than death.

"Master, why? Lord Shen has been a benefactor to our Wuqiu Mountain. Why would you do this? Isn't this returning kindness with enmity!"

"Bitch, shut up! If your body weren't useful to me, do you think I would have spared your life after you just tried to strike at me?"

Wu Su outside appeared very angry, the crazed state a far cry from the usual demeanor.

Even the experts of Wuqiu Mountain looked at one another in dismay. Their Sect Leader was not like this on ordinary days. Was this still the same Sect Leader who spoke constantly of benevolence and righteousness?

"Little Xue, you really have disappointed me, Master. If it weren't for you, this useless thing, failing to lure Shen Yu to bed and failing to absorb his cultivation, would I have needed to take such a risk!"

"If I hadn't made backup plans, this time would likely have been all for nothing. Tell me, aren't you a useless thing!"

"Look at this face of yours, look at that near-perfect body. I spent nearly twenty years crafting you to be this perfect."

"Even I feel moved looking at this face of yours, yet you couldn't take down a mere Shen Yu. You really are useless!"

"I... Master, what are you saying? Have you lost your mind?"

"Heh, I fed you lies every day and you believed them implicitly. Today, as your Master, I tell you the truth, and you don't believe it instead. People, truly, are just base!"

"You really think this face of yours was born this way? You really think you could captivate the masses from birth? It was just me slowly sculpting it later on."

"Because before long, this face—no, this body of yours—will be mine!"

"I am not sculpting your face; I am sculpting myself!"

"What, you, you!" Su Ningxue's terrified and uneasy voice rang out from outside, while the Wuqiu Mountain experts inside the cage all had grim expressions.

Putting it that way, it wasn't just Su Ningxue who had been deceived for so many years; they had all been deceived for just as long.

For all these years, had they been living in a World full of lies?

"What's wrong, my silly disciple? You really thought there was some Ancestral inheritance? The Cultivation Method you obtained was merely what I wanted you to practice, to make it convenient for me to occupy your body."

"You are not Master, you cannot be Master, who exactly are you?" Su Ningxue outside was truly panicked; she did not believe that the Master who cherished her would lay a hand on her.

The person before her must be a fake; she was impersonating her Master and had been deceiving her for so many years.

"Little Xue, I was indeed your Master back then; I even carried you back myself. To find someone with your constitution, I traveled for nearly ten years!"

"The day I found you, I was ecstatic. For this, I even specifically killed your entire family, so you would have no attachments and could stay in Wuqiu Mountain with peace of mind!"

"This, this..." The information from outside was more explosive than the last, leaving the Wuqiu Mountain experts in the cage at a loss for what to do.

Watching Shen Yu beside them swelling more and more, and seemingly becoming weaker, they appeared even more panicked.

Looking at Wu Su's posture outside, Shen Yu, along with them, likely wouldn't survive.

"Shen Yu, are you still alive?" After waiting for a long while, Wu Su asked again.

"Sect Leader, Sect Leader!" When Wu Su's voice came from outside, someone in the cage immediately responded loudly, "Shen Yu is already so weak he cannot stand. Please rest assured, he no longer has the strength to resist. Can you let us out!"

"Out? You still want to get out? The usefulness of you Chess Pieces is already limited; just die here!"

"Sect Leader, you cannot do this. We are your fellow disciples; we grew up together!"

The Wuqiu Mountain experts trapped in the cage with Shen Yu, although they all disdained the person who had just spoken out of cowardice, all wore expressions of resentment once Wu Su's voice came from outside.

Being abandoned like trash by the person they trusted most, the hatred in their hearts could be imagined.

"Haha, fellow disciples? You are worthy of that?"

"Who do you think you are? Elders of Wuqiu Mountain? Experts revered by ten thousand? What a joke. If it weren't for me, there would be no Wuqiu Mountain at all!"

"You don't really think Wuqiu Mountain has been passed down for a thousand years, do you? Aren't you curious? The oldest among you is only ninety-something. You grew up in Wuqiu Mountain since childhood, yet you have never seen any seniors of Wuqiu Mountain?"

"So you are just a bunch of fools. You never ask anything; you only believe whatever I say!"

"A hundred years ago, if Mu Zishan hadn't sealed the Forbidden Land, causing the Spiritual Qi Surge to come to an abrupt end, how would I have ended up in this state? I was supposed to be the first to awaken and should have taken the lead in the Great Contention Era!"

"But now? Do you know that in this era of scarce Spirit Qi, my origin is almost exhausted."

"So many years, oh, I have waited for so many years, finally waiting for this day. Over a hundred years, I have waited for this day, I have waited for too long!"

"Sect Leader, you, what exactly are you talking about?"