Chapter 672: I Have Waited a Hundred Years for This Day

"Sect Leader, what are you doing?"

Given such a turn of events, even if everyone were slow-witted, they would know what was happening; it was clear their own Sect Leader intended to ambush Shen Yu.

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

Besides, it's one thing to say you're ambushing Shen Yu, but why keep us here too?

Shen Yu is right next to them; if he were to do something in a fit of rage, they wouldn't feel safe!

"What am I doing? Haven't you all 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 want my life; who do you think you are!"

Straining himself, he struck a palm against the wall with all his might, but his full-force blow only left a palm print on the wall; he couldn't penetrate it at all.

By rights, even if it were cast from refined steel, it shouldn't be able to withstand his palm. 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, but it was 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, one couldn't get out. This design was indeed ingenious.

"What's wrong, kid? You still have energy left? But it should be soon. Do you feel bloated now? Bloated to the point of discomfort and pain, bloated to the point where your limbs are gradually losing strength!"

"Hmph, you think you can hurt me with this little bit of poison? Keep dreaming. Wait—how can this poison be unsolvable!"

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 about anyone poisoning him.

As long as it was poison, even if it couldn't be 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 getting worse and worse.

By rights, it should have had some effect. Why did he feel his condition worsening?

"Shen Yu, don't waste your effort. The Morning Dew Drink is a poison, but it is also not a poison. To be precise, the Morning Dew Drink is a tonic, and a powerful one at that!"

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

Wu Su outside didn't mind telling him these things at all, as if letting Shen Yu die with clarity. The smugness in his voice sounded like he was showing off something.

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

"Slowly, you will swell to the point where you cannot move at all, swell 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 blocked by the swelling, and you will be unable to move. At that point, I will simply harvest the essence of your body!"

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

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

Wu Su outside appeared very angry, his crazed state a far cry from his usual self.

Even the experts of Wuqiu Mountain looked at each other 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?

"Xiao Xue, you really have disappointed me, Master. If you, this useless thing, hadn't failed to lure Shen Yu to bed and failed 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. It took me nearly twenty years to craft 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 lied to you constantly in the past, and you believed it all without question. Today, your master is telling you the truth, and you don't believe it instead. Humans, truly, are base creatures!"

"Do you really think this face of yours was born this way? Do you really think you could captivate the masses from birth? It was just something I slowly sculpted later on."

"Because before long, this face of yours—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, and the experts of Wuqiu Mountain inside the cage all had grim expressions.

Putting it this way, it wasn't just Su Ningxue who had been deceived for so many years; they had also 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 ancestor's inheritance? The Cultivation Method you obtained was merely what I wanted you to practice, to make it easier 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 turn against her.

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

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

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

"This, this..." The information outside was more explosive than the last, leaving the Wuqiu Mountain experts in the cage not knowing 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 inside the cage immediately responded loudly, "Shen Yu is already so weak he cannot stand. Please, rest assured, he has no power to resist. Can you let us out!"

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

"Sect Leader, you can't 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 for being cowardly, 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 think you are worthy!"

"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, and you grew up in Wuqiu Mountain since childhood, yet you have never seen any elders 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 such a 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, 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?"