"Master of Gu Poison, the Murong Clan has sent all their elites over, and they must have come here for the desert palace. Please attack so that they will be aware of the overwhelming odds against them."
The barbarian who had never spoken had a square face. His skin was bronze, and his eyes were rather long, narrow, and dark. When he heard this, he opened his eyes and nodded at Hu Baiwan. As everyone watched him, he stood up.
There were two spiders that were of a different skin tone from his skin tattooed into the back of his back. When he pushed against the table and got up, it was as if these two spiders were eating. They appeared even more monstrous and mysterious.
"A Gu poison disciple of the sorcerer's clan?"
The clan leader of the Murong clan had his expression change. His pupils shrank slightly.
No matter what, the Murong Clan had once lorded over the land, and they had a thorough understanding of the martial arts in the world. When the clan leader saw the exquisite box in the Gu poison user's hands, it was only par for the course that his expression became grave.
When the barbarian heard of the clan leader asking about his identity, he smiled arrogantly, and he said slowly, "The people in West Region prefer to call me the King of Gu Poison or the Master of Gu Poison."
The clan leader of the Murong Clan had his pupils shrink rapidly.
'King of Gu Poison?!'
"You're the Master of Gu Poison?!"
At the same time, the Murong Clan Lady frowned and gasped in surprise in the crowd. Her voice was grave. "Rumors have it that you're someone who managed to reach the dao of heaven three years ago through the path of Gu poison."
As one of the most outstanding of the younger generation in the Murong Clan, the Murong Clan Lady had a very clear understanding of the elites in the world. Naturally, she knew just how strong the King of Gu Poison was.
"No." The Master of Gu Poison did not have his smile fade away. He shook his head slowly. "It's impossible for anyone to enter the dao of heaven by rearing Gu insects. The world calls me the King of Gu Poison because my Gu insects are different from other people's!
"Other people rear their Gu insects by choosing elite insects and feeding them with human blood, but I use Gu insect blood to feed mine, and they mutated from there. They stepped into the dao of heaven on their own."
When he said these words, all the people in the inn were shocked, including the white-clad young man who had been paying attention to the elites from the Murong Clan. Even he was slightly amazed, and his attention moved from the Murong Clan to the unfathomable Master of Gu Poison.
'His Gu insects entered the dao of heaven?
'What exactly does he mean by his Gu insects entering the dao of heaven?'
"Can Gu insects enter the dao of heaven?"
"All manner of living in the world can enter the dao of heaven, so why can't Gu insects?" The Master of Gu Poison smiled arrogantly. "I don't have a clear grasp as to what a Gu insect's dao is, and I'm only known as the King of Gu poison because the Gu insects I rear can make those at the dao of heaven feel helpless against them. Besides, they have once killed those at the dao of heaven before…"
When he said this, his tone changed. A brutal look appeared on the Master of Gu Poison's face. "I've heard that the Murong Clan's Shifting Stars is peerless and can break all the martial arts in the world. I wonder if it's effective against my Gu insects."
When they heard the blatant mockery and provocation in the Master of Gu Poison's words, the three grand elders from the Murong Clan had their expressions turn sour.
One, it was because the Master of Gu Poison's fame was indeed great in West Region, and he was someone who had indeed entered the dao of heaven.
Two, there was something else incredibly troublesome about him. There was no way a Gu insect which could kill an elite at the dao of heaven was an ordinary existence. Shifting Stars could negate all the martial arts in the world, but they were not confident when it came to Gu insects.
But when two armies went to war against each other, morale was incredibly important. If they let the Master of Gu Poison gain an upper hand against them in Dragon Gate Inn, the Murong Clan's plan of looting all the treasures from the desert palace would go up in smoke.
The Murong Clan had been waiting in secret for a long time for this chance. They would not back down when this chance in a blue moon finally presented itself.
This was something that every member of the Murong Clan knew very well.
The Murong Clan Lady walked out from the crowd.
She whispered to her father, who was also the current clan leader of the Murong Clan. "Elites from the dao of heaven are very difficult to fight against. The chances of us losing are great if we don't know our enemies well. Father, only I have an understanding towards Gu insects in the family. Why don't you let me test the true strength of the Master of Gu Poison? Then, you can come to a decision with the three elders."
"No!"
"Third Lady…"
"You're not the Master of Gu Poison's opponent. I'm here, and I won't let you march to your own death. Go back!" Murong Xun gave his daughter a complicated expression. He knew that his daughter was thinking about searching for a weakness from the Master of Gu Poison, but the price for it might be her life.
But the Murong Clan Lady did not intend to give up just like this. "Father, only I am qualified to test the Master of Gu Poison's strength from among those in the Murong Clan. Right now, it's clearly not appropriate for you or the three grand elders to attack. Nothing must happen to you."
"The lady is right." One among the three old men spoke up quietly.
"Grand Elder Tai!"
Murong Xun glared at the grand elder who spoke behind him. The grand elder sighed in great remorse. "It is impossible for there to be no sacrifices when we try to achieve a great cause. The Third Lady is noble and righteous, and it is a blessing for the Murong Clan that she is this way."
"Father, there is no need for you to say anything else. We've come to a decision." When the Murong Clan Lady saw that the three grand elders seemed to be convinced, her tone became even firmer.
Once she finished speaking, she did not wait for Murong Xun to speak. She jumped out from the crowd and landed in front of the Master of Gu Poison.
The Master of Gu Poison gave the Murong Clan Lady a derisive look.
"Murong Clan, you're sending a young girl to fight against me?"
"You are strong, Master of Gu Poison, if I went against you alone, I would be underestimating your fame. Chun Lan, Qiu Zhu, Xia Mei, Dong Xue!" The Murong Clan Lady called out to the group behind the Murong Clan, and immediately, four pretty figures dressed in different colored clothes shot out.
These four women were pretty in their own ways. Each of them held a sword in their hands, and they appeared beside the Murong Clan Lady. All five attacked at the same time.
"Oh?" The Master of Gu Poison quirked an eyebrow. Before he could continue speaking, the Murong Clan Lady had already spoken, since the situation was extremely critical. She spoke firmly, "Form the Spring Autumn Sword Formation!"
"Understood!"
The four girls responded clearly.
They moved, and in the blink of an eye, they surrounded the Master of Gu Poison.
Chapter 1155 - Attack
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The Autumn and Spring Sword Formation set up by the Murong Clan Lady and her four servant girls was indeed extraordinary. It already gained a spirit and essence that would not lose to the Four Matchless Sword Formation. When the sword formation was activated, a tornado that was formed by fierce sword forces showed up in the inn, and its momentum was highly aggressive.
But it was a pity, because the person they faced was an elite in the dao of heaven, and the disparity of strength between them was too great. Besides, if Shifting Stars, an ultimate technique from the Murong Clan, could do nothing before the Gu insects, then the Autumn and Spring Sword Formation would be even more helpless before it.
When the Gu insects reared through the sorcerer clan's methods were sent out, the sword formation was destroyed on its own, and the four servant girls were easily forced back.
The Murong Clan Lady was currently at the middle stage of Myth Realm, and she could parry a few more attacks from the Gu insects.
"Murong Clan Lady, your servant girls have great potential. I can take them under my wing and serve them as snacks for my babies. As for you, you're pretty, and you're a good seed as well. You can serve as my thirty-seventh concubine."
"How preposterous!"
Murong Xun flew into a rage. When he saw that his beloved daughter was unable to force the Master of Gu Poison to use his true strength but all five of them were about to be defeated, he was unable to control himself, and he jumped out.
"Hmm?"
The Master of Gu Poison had his eyes sparkle. He flung his sleeves, and a faint sonic boom rang in the air.
A silver thread shot out of his sleeve and sank into the air.
"Careful!"
Murong Xun was at the later stage of Myth Realm. He immediately noticed the Master of Gu Poison's actions, and his expression instantly changed. A familiar light rose from his body.
Everyone in the inn knew that Murong Xun had activated the ultimate technique of the Murong Clan—Shifting Stars!
It was different from the Murong Clan Lady's Shifting Stars, the qi flow and light from Murong Xun was clearly more restrained and powerful. it froze a little at the instant it came into the contact with the silver thread that shot at him.
Thud!
The silver thread suddenly broke free of Shifting Star's control. It stabbed into Murong Xun's body fortification and pierced through his arm.
Clang!
Murong Xun was injured. He staggered backward with a grunt, and his sword fell to the floor.
"Clan leader!"
"Protect the clan leader!"
The three old men and the group of Murong Clan elites were shocked. They surrounded him and protected Murong Xun as he retreated. They formed a circle formation around him.
The tides of the struggle of power in the inn were instantly turned.
The sounds of people s.u.c.k.i.n.g in sharp breaths immediately rose in the inn.
The clan leader of the Murong Clan—someone at the later stage of Myth Realm—was not the Master of Gu Poison's enemy at all!
The fight was not over.
The Master of Gu Poison did not seem to want to continue attacking Murong Xun. He snorted coldly and seized the injured Murong Clan Lady with one hand. He laughed madly. "Hahahahaha! I heard that someone in the Murong Clan knows plenty of the martial arts in the world of martial arts, and she also happens to be an intelligent descendant with a quick wit. It will not be a disgrace for you to be my concubine."
"Dream on!"
The Murong Clan Lady had a resolute gaze. Calmly, she tapped against the floor, and a sudden force exploded from the floor under his feet. While she moved back, the wooden floorboards swept to the Master of Gu Poison, along with a countless amount of wood fragments. She let out a cold snort, and she tapped against the wooden beam behind him lightly. She flicked her sword lightly, and a sword force took the form of a dragon at the tip of her sword. It charged straight at the wooden fragments and broken porcelain and launched a desperate counterattack.
"Good! You're wild! This is what I want!"
The Master of Gu Poison was not angry, but delighted. He swept at the air with his hand, and the shattered bits in the air instantly lost their aggressive edge they once possessed.
He flung his arm again.
Bang!
The situation was critical. She had a thought pop up in her head. She flipped her wrist around, and her sword slipped from her grip. It flew.
At that moment, both of them were already incredibly close to each other.
The Murong Clan Lady's sudden attack looked as if it was an attack from heaven. Even the Master of Gu Poison had not been able to react to it immediately. When he turned to the side, the sword drew a faint gash on his c.h.e.s.t.
"You're asking for death!"
The Master of Gu Poison lowered his head to look. His once arrogant eyes instantly turned bloodshot. It was filled with a ruthless look. He seized the air with a hand, and five fierce finger-generated gusts of wind headed to the Murong Clan Lady without hesitation. At that moment, she was laying limply on the floor.
"Milady!"
"No!"
The people from the Murong Clan Lady were still fending against the elusive, silver thread-like Gu insect. When they saw that the fight was swiftly going badly for the Murong Clan Lady, they immediately had their faces turn pale, and they cried out in surprise.
The Murong Clan Lady watched the fierce gusts of wind. They turned into something similar to a ghost's claw, and they enveloped her with a suffocating pressure. She could not move, and her face gradually turned pale.
Clang!
For the time being, everyone ignored the center of the hall. So, they missed a white figure suddenly moving once more.
"No…"
Osaya's expression changed drastically.
She had been keeping an eye on the Murong Clan. When she noticed that the Murong Clan members did not seem to have recognized the white-robed young man, she quickly understood that Gusu's Blue-robed Hero might not have any direct contact with the Murong Clan. It was because of it that she temporarily had her attention toward the white-clad young man go slack.
However, what she did not expect was that during the critical moment, the person who took action to save her were not the three Murong Clan grand elders who were at the peak of Myth Realm, but was the person next to her.
The white-clad young man moved too quickly.
When Osaya noticed what was happening, the white-clad young man had already easily shattered the gusts that had already arrived in front of the Murong Clan Lady with a wave of sword qi.
Bang!
The powerful impact still caused the Murong Clan Lady to feel horrible. Her delicate body trembled violently, and she blew backwards.
But the Master of Gu Poison did not have an easy time either.
Not only had the mysterious white-clad young man's slash easily destroy the gusts of wind he generated with his fingers, the remaining force had traveled up the trajectory where they came from and arrived in front of him.
The Master of Gu Poison's expression changed drastically.
In his hurry, he summoned a Gu insect.
Bang!
The Gu insect the Master of Gu Poison summoned was naturally not something ordinary.
A Mother of Gu Poison Creatures that would be fought over by multiple sorcerer clan's disciples lost its balance because of the sword qi. The Mother of Gu Poison Creatures was famed for being invulnerable to all attacks, but it was pushed to the side, and it seemed to be dizzy for a moment.
The people in the inn were all people who had great knowledge of the world.
When the people looked at the white-robed young man, their gazes instantly changed.
The white-robed young man did not attack the King of Gu Poison any further after he managed to force him to move back.
Whoosh!
He moved and arrived in front of the Murong Clan Lady. He did not give her any chance to be shocked. Brusquely, he yanked her to her feet.
"Thank you for saving me, sir." The Murong Clan Lady was confused for a short moment before she thanked him sincerely. Even though she did not know who he was, his skills made it clear that he was extraordinary, and she was not to be rude to him.
The white-clad young man…
Oh, he should really be referred to as Happy now.
At that moment, Happy stared at the third Murong Clan lady in his arms, and he felt a myriad of complicated and strange emotions in him.
Truly, the world was a small place.
In truth, ever since Happy received the second stone plate from Evil King, he rushed to Heaven Mountain and obtained the F
our Matchless Sword Formation from Qing Xue at the Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction. Then, he rode in a carriage and followed a camel fleet to West Region so that he could activate the Dragon Gate Inn Quest, which was a quest that was at the rank of a forbidden land.
However, what surprised Happy was that even after both of them put on a disguise to Dragon Gate Inn, when Happy had Thousand-faced Human Fox activate Dragon Gate Inn in his place, something that he did not expect happened.
The system announcement!
At the moment he activated the quest, a sandstorm rose in the desert. The ruins of the former Dragon Gate Inn came out of the ground, and the world was informed of this.
An unnatural phenomenon has occurred in the desert. A black blizzard, which was only seen once several decades, arrived!
Then, multiple NPCs in West Region started speaking of a legend.
On the day the black blizzard arrived, which meant two days later, the tunnel to the desert palace would appear in the desert.
Those who discover the treasures in the desert palace can create a kingdom!
Fine, Happy accepted the system announcement. He could do nothing about it, anyway.
What made him really frustrated was that he actually had to wait for two more days before he could officially activate Dragon Gate Inn. This made Happy incredibly frustrated. He knew that he had truly miscalculated things this time.
With the span of two days, there was a high possibility that the system could make whatever arrangements it wanted.
Because of it, all the powerful players in the world might gather in this place.
And the truth verified Happy's guess.
First, all sorts of West Region elites came to observe the ruins of the former Dragon Gate Inn.
Then, the army tasked to protect the borders showed up.
They were soon followed by the mobilization of the Embroidered Uniform Guards from the Chinese plains.
Right now, all the elite players had gathered in this place as well.
Even Hu Baiwan, the ric.h.e.s.t merchant in the world, heard news about it and brought a large group of elites over.
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