Chapter 442: Poison Thunder Strikes to Level the Earthly Path

When Zhou You found Pang Dahai, he had already rendezvoused with Du Wuyao.

Pang Dahai's pair of chubby, fleshy hands practiced a fist technique capable of cutting metal and snapping jade, and his strikes were peerlessly sharp.

An iron fence was split diagonally into two halves, and the copper lock was shattered into pieces, as if dismembered by a sharp blade.

"Elder brother, you have suffered!"

Pang Dahai took out beef and strong liquor, serving them to Du Wuyao to enjoy.

The bumps on Du Wuyao's face were a few sizes larger; he drank and ate heartily to replenish his stamina and Qi and blood.

Footsteps rang out; Zhou You appeared at the end of the corridor, and the previously noisy prison instantly fell silent.

Pang Dahai looked back to see corpses strewn about in disarray; the prisoners he had just released were actually dead, silent and still.

Looking again at Zhou You's palms, which were emitting mottled poisonous gas, it was clearly his doing.

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Pang Dahai instinctively felt that the newcomer was ill-intentioned, so he stood up to meet Zhou You, "Zhigang, you've come just in time; help me escort Big Brother out."

Zhou You did not look at him, but instead looked at the eating and drinking Du Wuyao.

"Not bad, you've broken through to Martial Master. Coming to find me this time, is it for the path ahead?"

Du Wuyao cast a glance and said indifferently.

Zhou You cupped his hands, "To be honest, I have a request for you this time; I want to ask for a chance to enter the Ten Thousand Poisons Secret Workshop."

"Hm?"

Du Wuyao finished the liquor and meat like a whirlwind, smacked his lips, and asked, "Didn't Fatty tell you that I can only bring one person into the Ten Thousand Poisons Secret Workshop?"

This sentence instantly made the atmosphere at the scene extremely tense.

Zhou You thought to himself that it was as expected; he and the other accomplices were just pawns to be discarded after use.

Pang Dahai had made beautiful promises, but in reality, he never intended to bring them all into the Ten Thousand Poisons Secret Workshop.

"One person's quota is enough."

Zhou You grinned hideously as he looked at Pang Dahai, "The others are all dead; Pang Dahai, go and join them!"

"I knew you, Lu Zhigang, were ruthless and would want to bite back at me—dream on!"

Pang Dahai did not forget to cup his hands in salute to Du Wuyao, "Big Brother, wait a moment; once I kill him, I will take you out along the tunnel."

"I am not in a hurry!"

Du Wuyao smiled calmly; with a single sentence, he incited the two to turn against each other and engage in a brutal slaughter.

Both of them had come out of the tunnel; as long as one of them was alive, they could take him and escape through the original path.

"Jade-Dissolving Gold-Melting Hand!"

Pang Dahai took a few deep breaths, and his pair of fat hands instantly became extremely sharp, especially his fingernails, which were like divine weapons.

This fist technique of his was unique; he consumed gold leaf and jade powder to strengthen his bones and fingernails, forging his physical body into a weapon of Qi and blood, capable of piercing anything.

Although Zhou You's Poison Palm was formidable, he was confident he could take the lead to cripple the opponent's hands and kill him on the spot.

Swish, swish, swish! Pang Dahai's palms danced, leaving no room for air; his fingertips grazed the corner of Zhou You's clothes, possessing the power to pierce through flesh and blood.

The skin on his arms and palms vibrated at high speed, and the sound waves emitted acted like a barrier, repelling the approach of the poisonous palm wind.

Zhou You unleashed his palm technique, a giant poisonous python coiling around him and raging, snapping at Pang Dahai from time to time.

Pang Dahai's shoulders, elbows, and knees turned into blunt weapons one moment and sharp weapons the next, striking the giant python until it buckled and trembled, unable to pose a threat for the time being.

The air gradually grew scorching, sparks flew, and the collision and friction of limbs caused the temperature to rise sharply from the impact of Qi and blood.

Pang Dahai suddenly shouted, "Time is tight, I won't tangle with you anymore."

He abruptly pulled back, his palms waving repeatedly; ten fingernails peeled off and shot out at close range like Flying Knives.

The result of long-term consumption of gold and jade was that his fingernails had been tempered into Qi and blood weapons; the roots were stained with a trace of blood, and through the manipulation of Qi and blood, they were more flexible than ordinary Flying Knives. Zhou You did not dodge or evade, taking a deep breath, "Thousand Snake Ten Thousand Scale Armor."

Most of the ten fingernails struck him, only to be bounced off one by one by the snake-skin scales, sparks flying as the surface slightly dented.

Zhou You took this opportunity to change his palm technique, "Giant Python Transforms into Flood Dragon Palm."

The massive head of the giant python had a swelling bump on top, from which circles of black light emerged, the halo forming a ring shape.

A circle of black light forcefully invaded his vision, allowing no room for resistance.

Du Wuyao thought to himself that it was bad, and thrust his fingers into his own eyes, the tips piercing half an inch into his eyelids, black blood flowing out along the corners of his eyes.

He pulled his fingers out and opened his eyes; although the eye sockets were overflowing with black blood, his eyeballs remained intact.

By comparison, the other person on the scene was much more miserable.

Pang Dahai was blinded directly by the black light, falling into the state of a crazed beast; he punched and struck wildly, causing the railings on both sides of the corridor to dent and break, and every strike on the walls and ground created a crater, debris flying everywhere.

Zhou You utilized his superior Lightness Skill, grazing his edges and weaving back and forth; although Pang Dahai's attacks were fierce, they missed like a headless fly.

He raised his palm, aiming for Pang Dahai's fat-filled nape, when he suddenly heard Du Wuyao's voice, "Spare his life."

It must be said, he was quite loyal!

However, Du Wuyao's next sentence made Zhou You change his mind.

"For you and me to escape safely, we must delay the actions of the City Gate Guard; I have a move called Poison Thunder Strike, which requires a living Martial Master as a catalyst."

Zhou You also wanted to see what was special about this Poison Thunder Strike.

After three or five rounds, Pang Dahai was finally exhausted; Zhou You swept a palm across his lower legs, melting his ankles and causing him to collapse to the ground.

At this moment, due to Zhou You's wanton use of the Poison Palm, the concentration of poison in the air reached a new high.

The corpses on the ground began to dissolve one after another, along with the wood and stones in the prison, which bubbled away.

Du Wuyao grabbed Pang Dahai; the fatty was blind, his feet severed, and covered in poison wounds, crying out, "Big Brother, Big Brother."

The "Big Brother" he called, Du Wuyao, gently placed his palm on his back, "Little Fatty, don't be afraid; just sleep and you will be fine when you wake up."

"Brother, hurry and kill him, let's go out together."

A moment later...

The two great gates at the entrance of Zhenxiong Yu stood wide open, with a three-person-tall Shui Jing Lu erected in each of the four corners—southeast, southwest, northeast, and northwest.

Each Shui Jing Lu was powered by a martial master of Captain rank, frantically absorbing the poisonous gas surging up from underground.

The multicolored poisonous gas converged into streams, leaving not a single drop behind as it was all sucked into the interior of the Shui Jing Lu.

In the blink of an eye, the poisonous gas at the exit was completely sucked dry.

A few cats, dogs, chickens, and ducks were thrown down, and they remained lively and jumping about.

Zheng Qing gazed at the underground passage of Zhenxiong Yu and gave an order, "Enter in batches, cover each other front and back; if you encounter anything abnormal, do not hold back—kill without mercy."

Zhang Shiyu led a team of subordinates and entered the underground in one of the earlier batches.

The underground was deep and quiet, with broken corpses visible everywhere, from which flowed eerie, multicolored blood.

Suddenly, a sound came from ahead, "Found a survivor, it's a big fatty, why is he splitting..."

Zhang Shiyu picked at her ear; why could she suddenly not hear any sound? She looked at the comrades around her, each of them wearing a bewildered expression.

The next moment, the poisonous gas in the air appeared from nothing, its concentration rapidly rising to a lethal state.

Boom! The shockwave of the explosion took less than the blink of an eye to travel from the direction the sound came from to in front of Zhang Shiyu.

Bone-piercing pain, a chill upon contact, a mix of hot and cold...

Before Zhang Shiyu lost consciousness, she vaguely saw strange objects flying in the air, and only just before she completely blacked out did she see clearly that those strange objects were actually the shattered, broken bodies of the comrades who had entered Zhenxiong Yu with her.

The area at the entrance of Zhenxiong Yu suffered a sudden explosion, causing it to collapse and cave in directly, burying over a thousand City Gate Guard.

(End of this chapter)