73: A sudden attack!

"Not hungry, no appetite." Facing Wu Xiang's goodwill, Tian Tian rejected the food she offered without hesitation.

Chu Yuan had long warned Tian Tian to be careful, so she was naturally on guard; furthermore, she was one of the great qin people and was stronger... so she wasn't the least bit worried about the act of 'not giving Face.'

As expected, Wu Xiang's expression stiffened, but she dared not say anything and silently withdrew her hand; it seemed that to prove her food was safe, she directly took the piece intended for Tian Tian and ate it herself...

Although Chu Yuan knew they harbored ill intentions, he did not expose them; he still needed them to lead the way, and if they could reach the urban area obediently, that would naturally be best.

The shitty terminal issued by the military had nothing on it except information about the trial and Secret Realm No. 7; it didn't even have internet access; but in reality, even if it did, it would be useless, as the networks between Mu Island and Great Qin were not connected...

"By the way..." Wu Xiang suddenly put away the food in her hand and looked at Chu Yuan with a smile: "If I am not mistaken, the ring you are wearing, Your Excellency, should be a storage ring, right?"

"No." Chu Yuan shook his head.

"How can that be? I have seen similar rings on Martial Artists of the royal family... Your Excellency, there is no need to be modest."

"It really isn't." Chu Yuan was rarely sincere; the one on his hand was indeed no longer a low-level item like a storage ring, but a Space Ring that had been converted by the System!

Originally, after obtaining it from Xiang Ning, the space inside was only one cubic meter; but in the Secret Realm, apart from converting the Geng Metal Primal Dao Art, there was nothing else worth converting.

Therefore, the day after converting the Cultivation Technique, Chu Yuan had converted the storage ring...

The Space Ring had no other flashy functions; it simply, in an unadorned manner, expanded the internal space by a thousand times, reaching one thousand cubic meters!

It also gained a master-recognition function, and only Chu Yuan's own Divine Sense could open it; it was enough to store some of his commonly used items anyway.

It was just that no one believed his truth; Tian Tian knew that Chu Yuan's ring was obtained from Xiang Ning, so she only thought Chu Yuan was deceiving them.

As for Fujiki Yu and the others, they were already certain that it was a storage ring!

Besides, things had reached this point...

Wu Xiang licked the corner of her mouth, her eyes filled with undisguised heat: "Then I wonder if it would be convenient for Your Excellency to let me admire it?"

Chu Yuan looked at her steadily and suddenly smiled: "I am also quite interested in your dagger; shall we swap?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Wu Xiang was stunned; her dagger was just a common weapon used by Martial Artists; how could it compare to a precious treasure like a storage ring?

Chu Yuan made such a request... Could it really not be a storage ring in his hand?

"Fine!"

Wu Xiang threw the dagger over, and Chu Yuan carelessly took off the ring and tossed it over; she couldn't open it anyway...

Wu Xiang's dagger was of low quality, far inferior to the predecessor of the "wind slasher" he had spent a large sum to buy; it was only slightly better than the standard longsword Chu Yuan used when he first started practicing the "wind slasher Sword Art."

But it didn't matter; it would do for temporary use.

"Convert!" [Conversion successful...]

Patterns began to emerge on the dagger, and its overall color became deeper; Chu Yuan couldn't be bothered to observe it, nor did he have the spare time to give it a name.

"Strike!" A stream of light shot out from his hand! In an instant, it attacked Fujiki Yu!

Fujiki Yu's expression changed drastically, and he was about to hold his war blade to counterattack; but the next moment, a blood hole appeared between his eyebrows...

The stream of light did not stop, weaving through the crowd like a nimble butterfly; one figure after another fell, and in the blink of an eye, only Wu Xiang remained standing in place!

This sudden turn of events caught Tian Tian off guard; she then gripped her war blade and stood up, seemingly wanting to create some tense atmosphere... but she suddenly felt her legs go weak, a feeling of being unable to exert any strength?

"Ah~!" Wu Xiang finally reacted and screamed in a breakdown.

In an instant! In just an instant, all her teammates were dead! The captain who had taken such good care of her, Wucheng who had secretly had a crush on her, everyone who had fought side by side and grown together in their daily lives! They had actually died in an instant at the hands of the boy they had looked down upon the most at the beginning!?

The dagger hovered in Chu Yuan's hand, and noticing that his body, which had just been slightly repaired, had returned to its original state, he couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

"Tian Tian, go get my ring."

"Ah? Oh, okay!" Tian Tian walked over carefully and pried open Wu Xiang's fingers to retrieve the ring; Wu Xiang's body trembled, and she didn't react at all throughout the process.

It wasn't until she saw Chu Yuan put the ring back on that she shrieked hysterically: "Impossible... Impossible! You should have already been poisoned! Why are you fine!?"

Judging from the girl's performance, she was indeed poisoned, but... why was Chu Yuan fine!?

Tian Tian felt a bit guilty and asked in a low voice: "Chu Yuan, when did we get poisoned?"

"From when we started resting, I suppose... The food they ate should have had the antidote." Chu Yuan said nonchalantly.

An old trick... "Ah!? I thought they would put poison in the food." Tian Tian exclaimed, then had another doubt: "Then what if I had taken it and eaten it?"

Chu Yuan laughed: "Then I wouldn't let you eat it... I would intentionally drop it by accident when handing it to you; there are plenty of methods like that..."

Tian Tian had an expression of having learned something: "Chu Yuan! I didn't expect that not only are you so powerful, but you also know so many despicable methods!"

As for why Chu Yuan was fine, she wasn't surprised; Chu Yuan could fight head-to-head with Tong Han, so what was this little bit of poison?

"..." Chu Yuan's smile stiffened; he would just take it as a compliment.

"Stop wailing, lead the way."

Wu Xiang gritted her teeth, the hatred and fear in her eyes almost solidifying: "You devil..."

Chu Yuan directly interrupted her: "If you wanted to avenge your companions, you should have acted long ago; who are you putting on this act for now? To relieve yourself of moral pressure? Heh~ your companions were killed by your own dagger..."

Chu Yuan mocked: "Tell me, do you think they were wondering before they died... So your dagger is this sharp?"

Large teardrops fell from Wu Xiang's eyes, and her body trembled with every word Chu Yuan said; it seemed she should do something... but her feet felt as if they were glued to the ground, and she never had the courage to lift them.

"Since you want to live, be obedient... Don't force me to kill you!"

After a moment of silence, Wu Xiang suddenly wiped away the tear stains on her Face, lowered her head, and whispered: "Yes... My Lord, please follow me!"