Chapter 222: One versus Three
Is it the follow-up of the last assassination by the envoys? Or has something new happened in Dajin?
Yuan Ming's mind was churning, and a trace of cold light flowed in his eyes. He quietly offered the incense burner, took out a poisonous incense and lit it.
The curling smoke rose up, and under his control, it spread out along the ground, and soon dissipated in the air, spreading towards Xu Changqing and the other two.
The green bag on Liu Su's waist suddenly fluttered, and a gurgling sound came from it.
"Someone is releasing poisonous gas! The source is in that area, hold your breath." Liu Su suddenly looked at the place where Yuan Ming was hiding.
Yuan Ming showed a look of surprise. His poisonous incense was colorless and odorless. How did this woman find it? And it seemed that she had seen through his hiding place!
He did not get up immediately, but quickly extinguished the poisonous incense, replaced it with mist incense and lit it.
Xu Changqing flew over when he heard the sound, and a golden light flashed in his hand. There was already a golden curved sword. The sword body was shaped like a golden snake, and the tip of the sword was forked, like the core of a poisonous snake.
He tapped the air, the tip of the sword lit up with dazzling golden light, and more than a dozen golden sword qi whistled out and hit the place where Yuan Ming was hiding.
Yuan Ming could no longer hide his tracks, so he jumped up and used the Bagua mirror that he had just repaired to block in front of him.
With a few loud "clang clang" sounds, Yuan Ming and the mirror were shaken back a few steps, and his tracks were completely exposed.
Xu Changqing seemed to be afraid of Yuan Ming's poisonous fragrance, and stood seven or eight feet away from him. The golden snake sword had already "clanged" out of his hand and shot straight towards Yuan Ming.
This was not the first time that Yuan Ming had fought with the cultivators in the early stage of the foundation-building period. He had already figured out their casting speed. When Xu Changqing just raised his hand, he urged the white jade belt to fly to the side and easily avoided the attack of the golden snake sword.
"Just hold your breath and protect your body with magic power, and you will be fine. There is no need to be too afraid." Liu Su shouted loudly, a layer of golden light appeared on his body, and he flew over from the other side.
The green bag on the woman's waist flashed, and a green monster snake flew out. There was a green flesh wing on its back, which could fly off the ground and surround Yuan Ming from the other side.
Lin Liumu's body surface showed a layer of green shield, and he flew to the back of Yuan Ming, blocking the last way out.
At this moment, white mist suddenly appeared in the dense forest and quickly became thicker.
"What's going on?" Xu Changqing and the other two were shocked, and Liu Su, who seemed to be very knowledgeable about poisonous mist, also changed his face.
Yuan Ming took the opportunity to activate the white jade belt, and even performed the wind-speed technique and shadowless step. The whole person turned into three or four afterimages that were difficult to distinguish between true and false, and shot in different directions.
Xu Changqing and the other two could not recognize Yuan Ming's true body for a while, and with the influence of the white mist, Yuan Ming easily broke out of the encirclement and flew away.
"We can't let him escape, chase him!" Xu Changqing's face suddenly darkened, and a piece of white light rose from under him, but it was the white jade shuttle.
His body lifted off the ground and turned into a streak of white light, chasing after him.
Liu Su and Lin Liumu also hurriedly caught up. They didn't have a flying shuttle, so they could only run with their legs. In the blink of an eye, they were left far behind.
The fog around them became thicker and thicker, and Yuan Ming and Xu Changqing both disappeared in front of them.
Seeing this, Liu Su and Lin Liumu hurriedly quickened their pace to catch up.
Although Yuan Ming's body movements were extremely fast, they were still far behind Xu Changqing's flying magic weapon. The distance between the two was getting closer and closer, and soon only three feet was left.
At this moment, Yuan Ming in front suddenly stopped and rushed back like lightning.
Boom!
Four streams of light of different colors shot out from his sleeves, which were the Cold Star Sword, the Nine Rings Golden Knife, and the pair of Wushan Claws of Elder Mengshan.
The four magic weapons burst out with powerful power, with four tail lights, and arrived in front of Xu Changqing in the blink of an eye.
Xu Changqing was startled, but he was a cultivator in the early stage of foundation building after all, so he reacted quickly and stopped immediately. He controlled the golden snake sword with his left hand to intercept the cold star sword.
A black light flashed on his right hand, and a black inkstone artifact appeared out of thin air, which suddenly grew to the size of a table and collided with the other three artifacts.
"Boom boom" a series of fierce collisions, the cold star sword and other four artifacts were all blocked.
Xu Changqing's eyes were filled with cold light, and the golden light on his fingertips was bright. He pinched the formula and pointed it out in the void.
The golden snake sword burst out with dazzling golden light, which swept away the cold star sword and turned into a blurred golden shadow and rushed straight to Yuan Ming.
Yuan Ming was not panicked at all. He waved his right arm lightly, and a tall white ape appeared in front of him. It was the body of the Heavenly Snake Master who was fused with the white ape's skin. His hands suddenly grabbed forward.
With a loud "clang" sound, the golden snake sword suddenly stopped and was actually firmly grasped by the white ape with both hands.
Xu Changqing was frightened by the sudden appearance of the white ape, and hurriedly urged the golden snake sword. The golden snake sword struggled hard, but could not break free.
Yuan Ming showed a cold smile at the corner of his mouth, and gently hooked his right index finger.
A faint black needle shot out from the white mist behind him, piercing Xu Changqing's head with great speed, but without making any sound.
The black needle was two feet behind Xu Changqing, and he woke up with a shudder. He opened his hands to the left and right, and the blue light in his palms shone brightly. In an instant, a water-blue spherical light shield formed around him.
As soon as the light shield was formed, the black needle magic weapon pierced it, and the tiny black needle suddenly burst out with amazing mana fluctuations, and the power of the top-grade magic weapon was fully demonstrated.
This blue light shield was just an ordinary water-attribute shield, and Xu Changqing was unable to inject too much mana into it. The black needle magic weapon pierced it with just one stab.
The light shield shattered with a "bang" and turned into countless blue lights that drifted away.
The black needle paused slightly, then continued to shoot out, piercing the back of Xu Changqing's head.
But Xu Changqing wanted this little buffer, and he opened his mouth and sprayed out a golden round bead the size of an egg, which flew behind him at an extremely fast speed, barely blocking the black needle.
However, a black shadow flashed on the black needle, and a black crow shot out from it, bypassing the golden bead and pounced on Xu Changqing at an astonishing speed.
Xu Changqing failed to react this time, and the black crow hit his forehead and disappeared.
The body of this foundation-building cultivator was shocked, and the whole person froze there, and the several magic tools he was controlling all stopped.
The black needle took the opportunity to throw away the golden bead, and flashed into the back of Xu Changqing's head, piercing through his forehead, leaving a streak of blood.
The spiritual light on Xu Changqing's body quickly dimmed, and he fell out of the jade shuttle magic tool and fell to the ground motionless.
The spiritual light on the surface of the jade shuttle, golden snake sword, golden bead, black inkstone and other magic tools disappeared, and fell to the ground with a clang.
Yuan Ming's face relaxed, he put away the white ape, took out a wood-attributed spirit stone and held it in his hand to restore his mana, and raised his hand at the same time.
The white jade shuttle, the golden snake sword, the golden round bead, the black inkstone, and Xu Changqing's storage magic weapon flew over and fell into his hands.
Liu Su and Lin Liumu finally caught up at this moment. Seeing Xu Changqing's body on the ground, their faces changed drastically and they all stopped.
"Now you two can talk to me, who sent you here?" Yuan Ming looked at the two and said slowly.
Liu Su and Lin Liumu showed fear on their faces, and the next moment they fled separately.
Yuan Ming sneered slightly and waved his hands left and right.
The four magic weapons including the Cold Star Sword were divided into two groups. The pair of Wushan claws chased Liu Su, while the Cold Star Sword and the Nine Rings Golden Knife hit Lin Liumu.
A soul crow flew out from his forehead again and sank into the black needle magic weapon floating nearby, and the black needle magic weapon also disappeared.
Lin Liumu's body movement was slow, and he was soon caught up by the Cold Star Sword and the Nine Rings Golden Knife. The two magic weapons shone brightly and chopped down on his head.
Lin Liumu was full of fear, and he used all his magic power to inject into the flywheel magic weapon.
This round of white light surged wildly, and it became ten times larger against the wind, turning into a white giant wheel, and collided with the two magic weapons.
With two loud "clang" and "clang" sounds, the white giant wheel was chopped away, and Lin Liumu's body was also shaken, and he fell directly to the ground, his face turned pale because of the shock.
Behind him, a figure flashed, and Yuan Ming's figure flashed like a ghost, holding a red fireball the size of a human head in his hand. It was the Burning Explosion Technique, and it seemed that he had accumulated a lot of magic power.
"Go!" He shook his wrist, and the red fireball hit Lin Liumu's back.
Lin Liumu hurriedly sacrificed a black cloud bag magic weapon to protect his body, but before the black cloud bag completely protected his body, the Burning Explosion Technique fireball had already hit him.
"Boom!" A loud explosion!
The rolling red flames engulfed Lin Liumu's body, forming a hot column of fire that rushed out several feet high, and the nearby ground shook constantly.
Lin Liumu's charred body flew out of the flames and fell heavily on the ground. Half of his body was bloody and looked like he was breathing out more than breathing in.
Yuan Ming flashed and appeared beside Lin Liumu, pressing his right hand on his head, performing the soul-searching magic, and a ray of crystal light shot out from his palm, quickly penetrating into him.
This was the first time he searched the soul of others. The soul-searching crystal light quickly touched the origin of Lin Liumu's soul and checked his memory.
After a moment, Yuan Ming retracted his palm and frowned.
Lin Liumu was not very clear about the whole process of assassinating him. He completely followed Xu Changqing's arrangement. He only knew that if he completed the task, he would be rewarded with a large amount of spirit stones.
However, in Lin Liumu's memory, Yuan Ming learned an important news that Xu Changqing and the other two were not members of the Guangli Sanmeng at all. They were all cultivators from Changchun Temple.
To be able to drive the monks of Changchun Temple of Dajin to hunt him down, the assassination must be from a big person, definitely not something that Lin Junsheng and his ilk could do, right?
Lin Liumu was already seriously injured, and was tortured by the soul search, and his last breath finally dissipated.
Yuan Ming put away the white flywheel and the man's storage magic weapon, and rushed towards the direction of Liu Su's escape, and soon came to a small puddle in the nearby woods.
Liu Su sat in the puddle, with a claw mark deep enough to see the bone on each leg, and the nearby flesh was black and purple, swollen.
There were traces of blood on the woman's lower abdomen clothes, and a small blood hole was pierced through the lower abdomen Dantian, and her magic power had dissipated completely.
The Wushan Claw and the Black Needle Magic Weapon were suspended in the air, slowly rotating.
Yuan Ming controlled the entire battle through the Soul Crow in the Black Needle Magic Weapon.
Liu Su seemed to be a cultivator, with swift movements and fists as hard as iron, able to fight against magic weapons. He was much stronger than Lin Liumu, but the black needle had already been upgraded to a high-grade magic weapon, and was controlled by the soul crow, so Liu Su could not deal with it at all.
While Liu Su was dealing with the attack of the black mountain claw, the black needle attacked from behind, piercing through the man's dantian with one blow, causing his qi to dissipate and his power to disappear.
Yuan Ming raised his hand and the black mountain claw and black needle magic weapons flew into his sleeves.
"Yuan... Yuan Ming, I was forced to come here by those two people, and I don't want to be your enemy. I am willing to tell you the name of the person behind the scenes, just to exchange my life." Liu Su begged hurriedly when she saw Yuan Ming appear, trying to put on a pitiful look.
But this woman looked big and strong, pretending to be pitiful, which made Yuan Ming feel a chill, and he calmed down after calming down.
"Your voice is so steady, it seems that you are not seriously injured. Even though your magic power was wasted, you can still withstand the poison of the Black Mountain Claw. This is beyond my expectation." Yuan Ming said slowly.