131: Chapter 131 The First Drop of Poison in the Shadows

The world was completely silent.

I restrained all my aura, adjusting even the vibration of my wings to a frequency that was almost static.

Under the silent mode of 【 Overclocked Wing Vibration 】, my body seemed to have completely merged with this deep darkness, becoming an insignificant and inconspicuous speck of dust.

Beside me, Lin Qingzhi's cold, resolute intent came through clearly via the 【 Symbiotic Bond 】.

"Go, proceed according to the plan."

I did not respond, expressing my firmest resolve only through action.

My figure glided silently from her warm palm, stealthily heading toward the abandoned air-raid shelter hidden in the weeds, which exuded an ominous aura.

This was the first time since my 【 Rebirth 】 that I had become the "primary surgeon" of an assassination mission.

My mood was not the least bit tense; instead, I felt a sense of excitement and anticipation, as if I were about to taste a top-tier delicacy.

The entrance to the air-raid shelter, in my 【 Spiritual Energy Perception 】, was like the maw of a giant beast filled with fangs.

Invisible to the naked eye, energy traps filled with the aura of death and curses were like a crisscrossing spider web, sealing the entire entrance airtight.

Any creature attempting to break in from the front would be torn to pieces by these vicious traps in an instant.

But I am not an ordinary creature.

I activated 【 Spatial Perception 】.

Hum!

The entire world, in my compound eyes, instantly gained a brand new... dimension.

Those energy traps that should have been fatal to me now turned into clearly visible lines of energy, emitting a dark red glow and floating in three-dimensional space.

Like a higher-dimensional being walking in four-dimensional space, I regarded these "lines," which were full of flaws in my eyes, as nothing.

I vibrated my wings, my body tracing incredible trajectories in the air that completely defied the common sense of physics, easily and leisurely passing through the heavy blockades without triggering any alarms or attracting any attention.

Soon, I followed that deep, damp passage to the... deepest part of the underground shelter.

A huge secret chamber built from special alloys.

And, in the center of the chamber, that person—my final target for this trip.

Night Crow.

He was sitting cross-legged quietly on an ice bed made of millennium cold jade, his eyes closed, seemingly having completely fallen into a state of deep... breath regulation.

- In my 【 Heat Perception 】 field of vision, he was a mini sun that was slowly cooling down and covered in hideous cracks!

Majestic, vast, yet filled with an uncoordinated sense of stagnation.

After the tragic battle with the 【 Star Council 】, the 【 Demonic Power core 】 within him had long been severely damaged; every time it operated, it was like an old, about-to-break-down engine, filled with... teeth-grinding sluggishness and blockages.

He was very weak.

Even weaker than I had imagined.

This was precisely my... best opportunity!

I did not choose to attack his vital points immediately.

That was too risky and too easily resisted by his 【 Peak Demon Rank 】 protective 【 Demonic Power 】.

What I had to do was... draw the firewood from under the cauldron!

I slowly flew behind him, hovering above his long, silver-white hair.

Then, I mobilized all the 【 Advanced Hallucinogenic Toxin 】 and 【 Deep Paralysis 】 toxins within my body, which had evolved many times and had long since become incomparably pure and vicious!

I used my 【 Demonic Power Condensation 】 ability, which had already evolved to the 【 Demon Rank 】, to perform the deepest level of... 【 Fusion 】 and compression on these two deadly poisons—which could instantly kill any 【 Essence Rank 】 powerhouse—at the tip of my mouthparts in an extremely precise and dangerous manner!

"Hum—"

I felt my 【 Demonic Power core 】 let out a wail of being unable to bear the load at this moment because of this massive energy compression!

Finally, a "poisonous ice needle" that was thinner than a hair, sharper than a needle, and appeared eerily and almost completely transparent, slowly condensed and formed at the tip of my mouthparts!

Now is the time!

I pushed the instantaneous explosive power of 【 Overclocked Wing Vibration 】 to the limit!

"Swish!"

My figure turned into a bolt of black lightning that was impossible for the naked eye to capture!

In that split second, I pierced this "poison needle," which had condensed all my strength and will, with pinpoint accuracy into his... back of the neck, which was completely unguarded due to his healing!

That location was, as Lin Qingzhi had told me, a key 【 Meridians 】 node for his 【 Cultivation Technique 】 operation!

"Pfft!"

A sound, extremely faint, like a bubble popping, rang out.

The poisonous ice needle entered in response, and then, instantly, dissolved!

The toxin surged into his rushing 【 Meridians 】 within 0.01 seconds, like ice water dripped into boiling oil, it exploded... with a bang!

"Arghhh—!"

A roar filled with endless pain and disbelief suddenly erupted from Night Crow's mouth!

His healing process, which was running smoothly, was rudely interrupted by this sudden and incomparably overbearing toxin!

"Pfft!"

He suddenly spat out a mouthful of pitch-black blood!

His face, which was already morbidly handsome, became completely distorted by severe pain and shock, turning into a hideous and terrifying demon crawled out of 【 Hell 】!

"Who?! Who is it?!"

His powerful 【 Divine Sense 】 at the 【 Peak Demon Rank 】, like an out-of-control nuclear bomb, swept frantically in all directions with the force of destroying the world!

However, it was already too late!

Terrifying hallucinations, thick to the extreme and seemingly capable of dragging his 【 Soul 】 completely into an endless abyss, surged like the most turbulent tide, instantly drowning all his reason!

He saw that the cold jade bed beneath his feet had, at some unknown point, turned into a sea of blood and mountain of corpses formed by countless twisted, wailing, pale arms!

He saw the sturdy alloy walls of the secret chamber slowly squirming like melting candles, from which leaked twisted human faces—faces of those he had once killed, filled with endless resentment!

"No! Get away! All of you, get away from me!"

Night Crow clutched his head and let out a desperate and frantic roar!

He could no longer maintain even the most basic composure; the 【 Demonic Power 】 within his body, which was already chaotic due to severe injuries, completely went berserk at this moment!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Streams of pitch-black 【 Demonic Power 】, filled with the aura of death and decay, uncontrollably bombarded outward in all directions from his body!

The entire underground chamber trembled violently under this violent force, as if it would collapse completely at any moment!