Chapter 614: Treating Me as a Supplement?

A great battle has drawn to a close!

Countless pieces of news have arrived in succession, some good and some bad, weaving through all the various factions.

The good news: Du Taiyue was defeated; the bad news: he was defeated but did not die.

The good news: the Thousand Faces Hall won; the bad news: it was a pyrrhic victory, with Chi Riqianli poisoned and unconscious, escorted back by Gai Xianlu, while all other Martial Experts were killed in action, some even left without a complete corpse.

The good news: the Myriad Poison Secret Workshop was taken; the bad news: only insignificant territories were seized, while the most precious Medicine Fields, poison pools, and even Du Taiyue's massive wealth remain missing.

Even half a year after the end, Du Taiyue has long been missing.

Although it is clearly known that he is hiding within the Wanli Zhaohai, this swamp is vast, and even with the full force of the Thousand Faces Hall, there is no way to search every inch of land.

This great battle has finally come to an end; the Sea Martial Arts, represented by the Thousand Faces Hall, wiped out the Poison Martial Arts and occupied the power vacuum left by the Myriad Poison Secret Workshop, entering Beixuan Zhou in a grand and open manner.

The once-illustrious Poison Martial Arts have rapidly declined following the exit of Du Taiyue.

Aside from those who died in the great battle, the remaining tens of thousands of Poison Martial Arts practitioners scattered like birds and beasts; some abandoned their cultivation to join other places, some changed their names and went into hiding, and others left Beixuan Zhou to find a way out.

But there are also many remnants who, relying on the complex environment of the Wanli Zhaohai, have begun to wage guerrilla warfare against the outside world.

The swamp environment is harsh and filled with poisonous insects, naturally suitable for the survival of Poison Martial Arts practitioners.

The Thousand Faces Hall has no way to completely eradicate this malignant tumor for the time being, so more attention is focused on the missing Du Taiyue.

This Poison Martial Arts Du Wuzun was first injured by a siege and then ambushed by Kongque Laoliu while fleeing; according to insiders, he must have dropped at least one or two realms.

As for when his injuries will heal? Heh, let's set it at a hundred years for now, and add more if that's not enough.

In other words, even if Du Taiyue is still alive, he is a withered bone in his own home, barely able to save himself, with no possibility of revenge.

Is the truth really like that...

"Cough, cough!"

"A hundred years of hard work, gone in an instant, like a dream, truly sad and lamentable."

Inside a stone palace buried a thousand meters beneath the swamp, Du Taiyue looked pale as he sighed at the few remaining Inner Disciples before him.

Lu Zhigang and Chan Juaner were among them, both of them expressionless.

A cunning rabbit has three burrows; even in his desperate flight after being heavily injured, Du Taiyue still had a backup plan, avoiding Gai Xianlu's pursuit to finally settle in this secret chamber and summon his few loyal Inner Disciples.

"Everyone else leave, Lu Zhigang stay."

Before Chan Juaner left, her eyes signaled him to be careful.

A dog will jump over a wall in desperation, and big shots are much the same; Du Taiyue is now at the end of his rope, and there is no guarantee he won't kill to vent his anger.

However, Du Taiyue's intention in keeping Lu Zhigang was not what he thought.

"Zhigang, earlier, in order to turn the tide, I used up your Chuangmian Yuchong; Master wants to apologize to you."

"It's a pity for you; it hadn't been hatched long, yet it was already fed to over ten meters in length; given time, it would surely have become a great asset."

Du Taiyue sighed incessantly.

That Chuangmian Yuchong had its life force drained directly by him and died on the spot; afterwards, Zhou You only found a dried-up snake carcass.

The other party said so, but he could not take it seriously.

"It was a gift from Master in the first place; if Master wants to take it back, then take it back; this Disciple dares not have any complaints."

"Don't say that; your Master suffered a great defeat and lost his foundation; this time I have had a great awakening—I wasn't good enough to you Inner Disciples before, and my cultivation of you was insufficient."

"If my Myriad Poison Secret Workshop were as strong and well-staffed as Wanxiu Mountain, with more than a handful of Martial Experts, would the Thousand Faces Hall have dared to treat me like a soft persimmon to be squeezed!"

Among the three sects near Fucheng, Wanxiu Mountain has the most Martial Experts, and the ancestor of Dayin Mountain, the Tiger Corpse, is at the Qiangwu Qichongtian, not in the same league as them.

Only the Myriad Poison Secret Workshop had only Du Taiyue as a Martial Expert, and only at the third-tier level. No wonder the Thousand Faces Hall chose him as the breakthrough point; he was notorious with no friends, his disciples were at each other's throats, and his overall strength was the weakest—Du Taiyue was the easiest to fight.

Just look at now; after the destruction of the Myriad Poison Secret Workshop, everyone outside is rejoicing, tacitly accepting that the Sea Martial Arts have replaced the Poison Martial Arts.

Hmm, let's see what kind of trouble Du Taiyue is going to stir up now!

"You have long since mastered the Poison Pet Palm Force and can exert the power of a Martial Expert across realms."

"According to this progress, breaking into the Martial Expert realm is no longer a problem; Master will give you a helping hand."

What? Lu Zhigang couldn't help but ask, "What virtue or ability does this Disciple have to deserve such cultivation from Master?"

"Sigh, one person's strength is hard to sustain; I have finally realized that without loyal and capable helpers, no matter how strong one is, one cannot withstand the siege of open spears and hidden arrows."

Du Taiyue stroked the sword wound on his chest, "At the end of my rope, even a mere peacock dared to swing a sword at me."

"Zhigang, let us two agree: I will help you break through to the Martial Expert realm, and you will kill Kongque Laoliu for me to avenge that sword wound."

Lu Zhigang was extremely grateful and knelt down on the spot, "Thank you, Master."

The old thing definitely has a conspiracy.

In the dead of night, inside the solitary stone chamber! Lu Zhigang activated the panel to check the progress of the 'Regicide' mission: "Trial Project (Seven-Star): Regicide. Entering a brand new stage: Du Taiyue is heavily injured and is plotting against you, using the method of pulling up seedlings to help them grow to force you into a Martial Expert, using 'Snake Metaphor' as a supplement to restore his injuries."

Excellent, there really is a ghost.

Zhou You thought of the dried-up corpse of the Chuangmian Yuchong and wondered, is it my turn?

The old thing is worthy of being a Poison Martial Arts Du Wuzun, ruthless and calculating his whole life; even his feigned awakening just now was a hypocritical means to trick him.

Not only is he not helping him, but he wants to turn him into a 'Medicine Human' for supplementation—who could endure this? In this underground stone palace, besides Du Taiyue and a few Inner Disciples, the rest are all Zha-slaves, numbering in the hundreds.

Du Taiyue has the means to control the Zha-slaves; he doesn't even need to act himself to steadily suppress these Inner Disciples.

If one wants to turn the tables, the only hope is to break through to the Martial Expert realm, even if it is by pulling up seedlings to help them grow.

Du Taiyue wants to supplement; what he values is the flesh of a Martial Expert. Even if the foundation is damaged and the combat power is weak, it has no effect—after all, who cares if a side dish can fight? He will inevitably adopt the same means as with the Chuangmian, squeezing out life force and potential.

Thinking of this, Zhou You raised his palms, rubbed the dried corpse of the Chuangmian into powder, and unleashed the final 'Step Heaven Flood Subduing Palm'.

At the same time, he circulated a secret technique within his body called the 'Embryonic Spirit Technique'.

After getting the corpse of Fu Manlun, he interrogated it with the Corpse-Punishing Whip for several days and obtained many secrets.

One of the most important ones was this secret technique for nurturing a spirit embryo, which allows one to brew a 'Spirit Embryo' of a Martial Expert in advance while at the Martial Master realm.

It is just like a middle school student learning the three-year high school curriculum in advance.

Combined with the Martial Expert power generated by the Step Heaven Flood Subduing Palm, this technique successfully opened the door to a new world.

As his palm struck out, the poisonous malevolence condensed into the shape of a venomous flood dragon; spurred by the Fetal Fist, the bloodline within his body surged, briefly summoning a shadow of the Poison Dragon.

Zhou You nearly lost his grip, and the Poison Dragon almost flew away from his palm.

The next moment, lines emerged on his chest, outlining an oval shape the size of a fist.

The phantom of the Poison Dragon flashed past and was swallowed into the oval, immediately followed by a cry as faint as a hanging thread.

The cry fell into Zhou You's ears, and it was unmistakably... the cry of a phoenix.

Infant Phoenix Swallows Dragon Art

(End of this chapter)