184: Poisoning

Old Ancestor Qing Feng pointed his sword at the last remaining Wei Xun, his voice icy, “Do you have any more tricks now?”

At this moment, Old Ancestor Qing Feng’s sword was only an inch away from Wei Xun’s neck; with just a slight movement from Old Ancestor Qing Feng, Wei Xun’s head would fall.

“I have many tricks!” Wei Xun smiled faintly.

“Is that so?” Old Ancestor Qing Feng sneered, not wanting to waste any more words with Wei Xun. He flicked his wrist and directly chopped off Wei Xun’s head.

However, the moment the last Wei Xun’s head separated from his neck, it also transformed into a broken strand of hair.

“Hmm?” Old Ancestor Qing Feng’s eyes widened at this sight. “This was fake too?”

At the same time, Wei Xun was sprinting through the forest.

“Only a fool would fight you!” Wei Xun was covered in electricity, releasing as much Spiritual Qi as possible from his body, which also allowed him to accelerate his escape.

However, due to consuming too many Medicinal Pills earlier, he was still sweating profusely and his body was burning hot.

“Prodigy, where are you running?”

Just then, Wei Xun heard a shout from above him, behind him.

What Wei Xun hadn't expected was that Old Ancestor Qing Feng had caught up so quickly.

“He found me this fast?” Wei Xun gritted his teeth. “What an old monster.”

“Qing Feng Sword Rain!”

Old Ancestor Qing Feng flew in the air and unleashed another rain of Sword Qi towards the ground.

Wei Xun sensed the whistling sound behind him and dared not use the Earth Escape Technique to burrow underground, as that would allow Old Ancestor Qing Feng to catch up to him instantly.

Thinking of this, Wei Xun enlarged the Golden Bell Shield in his hand and placed it directly on his back.

Clang, clang, clang ~

The second after he put the large golden bell on his back, dozens of Sword Qi strikes continuously impacted the bell.

Although he blocked a round of Sword Qi attacks, what Wei Xun hadn't expected was that his escape route led to a massive cliff ahead.

There was no way out.

“Now let’s see where else you can run!”

Daoist Qing Feng smiled faintly, accelerating his pursuit.

Wei Xun rushed to the edge of the cliff and immediately stopped, terrified by what he saw below.

This cliff was terrifyingly high, almost a bottomless abyss, with a rushing river flowing below.

However, Wei Xun looked back and saw Daoist Qing Feng getting closer and closer. If he were caught, he would surely die.

“Spirits of Heaven and Earth!” Wei Xun clasped his hands and prayed to the sky, “Please grant me a Protagonist Halo, so I don’t die if I jump down!”

After finishing his prayer, Wei Xun immediately stomped his foot and leaped off the cliff without hesitation.

“You can’t escape!”

Seeing this, Daoist Qing Feng, still some distance from Wei Xun, narrowed his eyes, pinched his fingers in the air to conjure a pitch-black silver needle, and then threw it at Wei Xun, who was airborne.

Wei Xun sensed the anomaly and tried to twist in the air to dodge.

However, the black needle was too fast and still pierced Wei Xun’s shoulder from behind.

Wei Xun felt a sharp pain in his shoulder, and then he fell directly from the cliff.

Old Ancestor Qing Feng landed on the cliff edge and looked down. Wei Xun had already fallen into the river below the cliff and disappeared.

“With my poisoned needle in you, there’s no way you’ll survive!” Old Ancestor Qing Feng squinted his eyes, looking in the direction the river below flowed, then leaped down as well, intending to find Wei Xun’s corpse.

However, Wei Xun, who had fallen into the river, still retained a sliver of consciousness and immediately used the Fan Jiang Technique to swim vigorously upstream.

Wei Xun knew his head was valuable, and Old Ancestor Qing Feng would definitely come looking for his corpse, so he couldn't just float downstream.

He swam upstream with all his might for an unknown duration until Wei Xun felt his consciousness gradually blurring and his strength beginning to wane.

“Is the game really ending like this?” Wei Xun lost his last bit of strength and could no longer swim, only able to drift with the current of the river.

Then his brain also lost consciousness.

After an unknown amount of time, Wei Xun reopened his eyes only to find himself awake in a hospital bed, with various tubes inserted into his body, and no one else around.

The empty hospital room was eerily quiet.

Wei Xun pulled out the tubes from his body and slowly got off the bed onto the floor, feeling utterly drained of strength.

“Am I back?”

Wei Xun staggered to the hospital room door, intending to open it.

However, he found that the door seemed to be locked tight and couldn’t be opened at all.

Helpless, Wei Xun walked to the window to look outside, but found that it was foggy outside, and he couldn’t see anything.

“What exactly is going on?”

Wei Xun felt his mind was very confused, and he had trouble distinguishing what was real.

“Big Brother, wake up!”

A girl’s voice called out from above Wei Xun’s head.

“Who?”

Wei Xun looked up at the ceiling, his face full of confusion.

“Big Brother, are you okay?”

The girl’s voice sounded again. This time, Wei Xun recognized it; it was the voice of Xiao Ling, the medical girl he had saved.

“Ah?” Wei Xun felt his consciousness becoming more and more chaotic. The hospital room before his eyes began to twist and disappear, eventually becoming completely invisible.

When his vision returned, Wei Xun opened his eyes and saw Xiao Ling’s anxious expression directly.

“It’s you…” Wei Xun couldn't feel his body, as if he were paralyzed.

His upper clothes had been removed at some point, revealing his well-built muscles.

However, Wei Xun’s left shoulder was now a dark black, and the poisoned needle had already been pulled out by Xiao Ling.

“Big Brother, you’ve been poisoned, don’t move!”

Xiao Ling was currently grinding herbs in a small jar.

“I’d like to move… but I can’t!”

Wei Xun coughed twice and immediately felt intense pain throughout his body.

“I will definitely cure you!” Xiao Ling’s tone was firm, and she sped up her grinding of the herbs.

“Why are you here?” Wei Xun felt both cold and hot all over now, experiencing a sensation of both ice and fire.

“This is Hundred Flowers Valley. There are many herbs here, and I often come here to gather them!”

Xiao Ling rolled the ground herbs into a ball and brought it to Wei Xun’s mouth.

“Big Brother, eat this!”

Hearing this voice, Wei Xun opened his mouth slightly, and then felt a bitter taste enter his mouth.

But at the moment, Wei Xun didn't even have the strength to swallow the Medicinal Pill.

Xiao Ling seemed to sense this and immediately picked up a gourd full of water and brought it to Wei Xun’s mouth.

Only after the clear water poured into Wei Xun’s mouth did he have the strength to swallow the extremely bitter Medicinal Pill.

“Big Brother, it might be a bit painful next, you must endure it!”

Xiao Ling said, picking up a sharp small knife and warming it over the nearby campfire. Immediately after, she cut into Wei Xun’s poisoned shoulder.

When the skin was cut open by the small knife, Wei Xun felt no pain, only the sensation of his skin tearing.

After the wound was cut open, dark black blood immediately flowed out.

Seeing this, Xiao Ling’s face instantly froze.

“What’s wrong? Is it serious?”

Wei Xun saw the difficulty on Xiao Ling’s face.

“I can cure you!” Xiao Ling smiled faintly at Wei Xun, then surprisingly opened her mouth and leaned close to Wei Xun’s injured shoulder, then sucked out a mouthful of poisoned blood and spat it aside.