Chapter 952: Long Feiye’s trap (2/2)

Xu Donglin immediately grabbed Baili Mingxiang and leaped into the air to avoid being penned in by Shi Jiuxia and his cronies. Everyone thought they’d flee, but they only landed next to the sect gates.

“You’re seeking death!” Shi Jiuxia immediately ordered his men to give chase, but they abruptly stopped after a few steps. Behind Xu Donglin and Baili Mingxiang, rows and rows of walking corpses emerged from the grass, all of them dressed in black robes and sporting ghastly pale faces.

“Poison corpses…” Shi Jiuxia sputtered as Bai Yanqing turned around in shock.

In the space of a few words, a huge legion of Poison corpses had already entered the scene. Very soon, more emerged from the surrounding forests. More and more of them filled the space like an endless flood without end. The audience grew tense while Shi Jiuxia sent Bai Yanqing a pleading look for help. How was he and a few disciples supposed to face off against them all?

Poison corpses were akin to suicide soldiers. They wouldn’t live past a year and were immune to mid-tier poisons--like those that affected the bones and blood. Shi Jiuxia could deal with a handful at most, not an entire battalion that left him in fear! These had been the Poison corpses that Gu Qishao ordered someone to bring over, and their command token rested in Baili Mingxiang’s hands.

“Climb!” Baili Mingxiang ordered with the token held high. Under the protection of the Poison corpses, she and Xu Donglin easily entered through the gates of Hundred Poisons Sect. Behind them, a few Poison corpses shuffled into place, completely blocking them from any poison attacks to their backs.

Bai Yanqing finally lost his cool and suddenly took to the skies to chase after them. Seeing this, Xu Donglin and Baili Mingxiang both rejoiced. He took her with him and started racing up the mountain under the protection of two more Poison corpses. Meanwhile, close to a hundred of the remaining force stayed behind to block the gates, delaying Bai Yanqing for as long as they could. Bai Yanqing landed in front of them while the crowd wondered if he’d keep giving chase.

At this moment, another disciple emerged from a side path and rushed over to report, “Old sect leader, Han Yunxi’s stolen all of the poisons in the poisons storehouse! Long Feiye and her are by the edge of the Poison Corpse Lake. Currently, he’s still trying to break through its entrance!”

Hearing this turned Shi Jiuxai ashen. He forgot all about Baili Mingxiang and Xu Donglin and rushed back up via a smaller path. While the poisons storehouse was the repertory of Hundred Poisons Sect, its Poison Corpse Lake was where the sect nurtured its Poison humans and corpses while conducting research on Poison Gu. Those were forbidden grounds! If that fell into enemy hands, then Hundred Poisons Sect would be ruined!

Unlike Shi Jiuxia’s panic, Bai Yanqing only peered after Baili Mingxiang’s disappearing form with conflicted eyes. Her sword strike just then had used up all her strength, but there was just enough held back for Bai Yanqing to tell that she’d been hiding her abilities. He didn’t care what kind of relationship Long Feiye and Baili Mingxiang had; he just need to ascertain whether the girl was Long Feiye’s dual cultivation partner and a martial arts genius. He was 90 percent sure before, but seeing her use martial arts in person had banished all his doubts.

When cultivating the Lustbite Seal energy, Long Feiye had to break through three barriers. The first was accepting the Lustbite Seal and using it to store energy until he cultivated the Lustbite energy. The second was mastering and controlling the energy as his own to use freely, and the third was melding its energy with his own internal reserves into one body. At this point, he would be unmatched in all the world. Even the strongest members of Celestial Mountain or the undying poison beast would be destroyed before his strength!

Long Feiye had long reached the point where he could use the Lustbite energy at will. Judging by how he’d dealt with the Carefree City father and son a few days ago, Bai Yanqing was certain that Long Feiye had started dual cultivating as well. Furthermore, everything was going smoothly for him.

Once dual cultivation began, Baili Mingxiang would need to be by Long Feiye’s side at all times until the cultivation finished. Then she wouldn’t be of any use to him. However, to get the best results from his dual cultivation, Long Feiye would have to fight together with Baili Mingxiang until their two swords were akin to one.

The more Bai Yanqing pondered, the more he was convinced his guesses were right!

Although Baili Mingxiang appeared to be merely supporting Long Feiye and Han Yunxi by holding Gu Qishao’s command token and leading the Poison corpses, it had to be all an act. Xu Donglin was bringing her up the mountain so that she could combine swords with Long Feiye and help him break through the Xuan stone door in front of Poison Corpse Lake! Baili Mingxiang had been hiding her strength this entire time. Long Feiye had been helping her keep up her act. She had to be his dual cultivation partner!

When was a better time to kill her if not now?

Finally, Bai Yanqing unsheathed his sword and began slaughtering his way through the Poison corpses, intent on giving chase after Baili Mingxiang.

He had no idea that she had been feigning “hiding her strength” with that counter, or that Long Feiye had masterminded this whole play for him below the mountain. Even the Xuan stone door had been left intact by him on purpose to draw out the act.

At last, Bai Yanqing was climbing the mountain…