Chapter 133: Take Down! (1/2)

“Not good!”

Shen Hai’s heart fell into the cold abyss. After neutralizing the female assassin’s attack, Wang Chong didn’t come to group up with them. Instead, he escaped swiftly into the depths of the forest.

Even the group of them weren’t a match for the female assassin. Wasn’t facing her alone no different from suicide?

“The young master is in danger! Stop her! ——”

Upon seeing that Wang Chong was in danger, everyone disregarded their lives and charged straight at the Eastern Islands female assassin. However, they weren’t speed-based martial artists and their cultivation was inferior to her as well, so how could they possibly catch up with the other party?

“Hmph!”

Sneering coldly, the Eastern Islands female assassin didn’t pay them any heed. It would take a miracle for these guards could catch up to her.

In her eyes, only one person mattered—Wang Chong.

However, to her dismay, the swordsmanship the lad had learned was extremely peculiar, and it granted him bizarre and unreadable movements. The concept behind it was completely different from any other techniques she knew. He was able to change his directions freely, and to her astonishment, it wasn’t inferior to the Spectre Steps at all.

Despite her capability and the advantageous terrain, she found herself being unable to catch up with the other party at the moment!

“Let’s see where you can escape to!”

The Eastern Islands female assassin gritted her teeth furiously. That ridiculously strong gray-robed middle-aged man had been lured away by her, so she was safe at the moment. However, it wouldn’t be long before he returns, and before that happens, she had to take down this young lad. Once she did so, the other party wouldn’t be able to make a move on her.

Peng!

The right leg of the Eastern Islands female assassin pushed against the bucket-thick tree trunk in an attempt spring straight toward Wang Chong, as though an arrow on a drawn bowstring, when a dull thud suddenly sounded. Before many people’s astonished eyes, the Eastern Islands female assassin fell uncontrollably from the tree and smashed heavily onto the floor.

Sss!

At the same time, a black slithering bizarre snake with a triangle-like head which was previously camouflaged with the tree trunk fell from the tree, and it swiftly darted straight for the depths of the forest and disappeared.

“Be careful, it’s a Dark Mamba!”

From the back, a farmer shouted in alarm as he pointed at the escaping snake. Fear clearly shone through his face. The other guards of the Wang Family Residence might be unaware of its identity, but he happened to be familiar with it.

This snake possessed incredibly lethal poison, and as long as it draws blood, it won’t be long before the other party breathes his last.

“It’s a poisonous snake! It’s a poisonous snake!”

Shen Hai and Meng Long immediately reacted as well. When they were entering the mountains, the young master had told them that there were a lot of poisonous snakes here, and they had to be careful.

To think that the poisonous snakes would end up doing them a huge favor, biting that female assassin instead of them. This female assassin possessed incredible skills, and utilizing her supreme speed-based secret arts, she was able to maneuver around the forest freely, ‘flying’ here and there. No one could have thought that she would actually lose to a mere poisonous snake on her home ground.

“Well done! This is truly retribution!”

Shen Hai and Meng Long were delighted. Drawing their swords, they led the guards over and surrounded the Eastern Islands female assassin tightly. However, they didn’t take make a move on her immediately.

‘A centipede doesn’t topple over even when dead’. Who knew how much strength that female assassin still possessed, and how violent her retaliation would be?

“Don’t worry, she doesn’t have the strength to do anything.”

Wang Chong had been making use of the movements from the Single Character Consecutive Slash to maneuver adeptly around the forest to avoid the Eastern Islands female assassin’s pursuit. At this moment, he did a flip and landed softly from the top of the tree.

Turning his palm downward, he carefully threw some fruit shells in his hand out.

“You intentionally led me into this trap!”

Upon seeing Wang Chong, she immediately understood that this had to be one of Wang Chong’s schemes, and she felt both anxious and infuriated. Back then, at the Wang Family Residence study, Wang Chong made use of a sleeping gas pellet to trick her. This time, using some unknown tricks, he managed to get a venomous snake to assault her.

Having being done in by a person far weaker than her two consecutive times had made the Eastern Islands female assassin so furious that steam was almost puffing out from her apertures.

The core of assassination was being unscrupulous. All could be forgiven as long as one was able to assassinate one’s target. However, the means of this youngster before him seemed to be even more unconventional than hers.

For an assassin to be done in by her own target… If word were to spread out, even if she wasn’t poisoned, she would die of mockery.

“Don’t get angry. If you get agitated, the snake venom will act up even faster!”

Wang Chong chuckled as he slowly walked over. At the same time, he cleared himself of the scent that the fruit could have left on him.

“Bastard!”

Maddened, the Eastern Islands female assassin started cursing furiously with an incomparably awful complexion. The tenacity to fight to the bitter end welled up in her, but she found herself being unable to exert any strength.

——Wang Chong was right. The angrier she got, the faster the poison acted.

At this moment, even her lips had turned black.

The Eastern Islands female assassin couldn’t do anything but grab onto her injured ankle which the venomous snake bit with all her might in an attempt to delay the acting up of the poison.

“Seems like this woman is already at a corner!”

See the female assassin’s face turn black, everyone immediately realized that what Wang Chong had said was true. Shen Hai and Meng Long could finally put their hearts down. The duo walked forward and placed their swords by the female assassin’s neck.

“Hack me, kill me, do whatever you please!”

The Eastern Islands female assassin lifted up her neck and closed her eyes, deciding to give up on resistance. She had already suffered severe internal injuries during the battle with Li Zhuxin, and having been bitten by a lethal snake now, she had already lost all strength to retaliate.

She felt indignant, but at this point, there was nothing she could say or do anymore.

“It’s a pity. I still thought of sparing her life! …”

Suddenly, a deep voice with the hint of a sigh sounded from not too far away. Then, the gray-robed Li Zhuxin walked out from behind a huge camphor tree.

He was still dressed in the ragged gray-robed that Wang Chong saw him in at the Home of the Adventurers. Not a single trace of that five thousand gold taels appeared on him, and it seemed as though it had disappeared into the abyss.

“Li Zhuxin, you’ve already returned!!”

Meng Long suddenly realized this fact, and rage burst forth from him.

“It’s not that I’m already back, but I’ve never left before. I’ve been waiting in the vicinity for her to return all along.”

Li Zhuxin spoke calmly as he slowly walked over.