Chapter 1329: Ambush! The Black-Clothed Men Strike! (1/2)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
It was worth it to pay an enormous price to get some Celestial Powder to deal with the three of you. You were actually rather cautious, even using a silver needle to test for poison, but that's too naive! This Celestial Powder is something that not even celestials can sense, let alone some silver needle! You've already eaten so much that I'd like to see if you're more capable than celestials! Fall, fall, fall!
The black silhouette silently repeated the word 'fall', and then, as if this was some sort of spell, the expressions of Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief went stiff and they collapsed onto the table.
The room was silent. After some time, a stream of air surged through the room, and then the man in black emerged like a ghost. He took two steps forward and stopped to carefully examine the three of them.
Although the three of them had collapsed, he had a policy to always be cautious. Until he was sure that his target had actually been struck, he would not act recklessly.
A few moments later, the man in black chuckled and relaxed. ”Haha, there's no food on the floor. They really did eat it.”
Thudthudthud!
The man quickly flicked out three fingernail-sized stones which each struck a critical acupuncture point on the backs of Wang Chong, the Demonic Emperor Old Man, and the Wushang Village Chief. After doing this, the man in black clapped his hands and strode forward.
”Kid, it's not your fate to die yet. If the venerable senior didn't want to ask you something, I would have killed the three of you right here.”
The man in black's eyes looked past Wang Chong and settled on the Demonic Emperor Old Man. Of the trio, the Demonic Emperor Old Man had the highest cultivation level and posed the greatest threat.
Buzz!
He walked up to the Demonic Emperor Old Man and thrust out his hand to seize him. But in a flash, a forceful palm suddenly reached out of the Demonic Emperor Old Man's sleeve and seized the vital acupuncture point on the man's wrist.
The man in black paled in fright, Stellar Energy erupting from his body as he tried to escape. But though his reaction was fast, the Demonic Emperor Old Man was faster. Before the man could make a break for it, the Demonic Emperor Old Man's fingers had already clenched around the man's right hand. At the same moment, immense power began to flow through the channels of the palm and into the man's body, allowing the Demonic Emperor Old Man to completely take control.
”This is impossible!” the man shouted in alarm, his eyes going wide and his face turning as white as paper. He stared at the old man before him like he was staring at a ghost.
”Impossible! No one can resist the poison of the Celestial Powder!”
The black-clothed man's face was stricken with fear.
”Heh, you still need to eat a poison for it to take effect. If you don't eat, it doesn't matter how poisonous it is.”
Wang Chong and the Demonic Emperor Old Man raised their heads from the table and smirked at the man in black.
Using a silver needle to determine if there was poison? How could he be that naive? All this was just a play being played out by the three of them for the man in black to see.
”Impossible! I watched you eat it! As long as you ate that food, you can't possibly be okay!”
The man in black ground his teeth, unable to accept this fact.
He was no boorish and sloppy man. He had only moved out after confirming that Wang Chong and the others had eaten everything.
”Are you talking about this plate of salted beef?”
The Demonic Emperor Old Man was unperturbed as he spoke, pointing with two fingers at the plate.
The man in black looked over and immediately grimaced. He saw that the pieces of salted beef had been distributed from one plate to seven. He was only paying attention to how much food was left on the original plate, not where the food was actually going.
Buzz!
The Demonic Emperor Old Man flicked out a bolt of energy, and a moment later, a piece of salted beef that was glistening with fat immediately began to shrivel up, upon which a white powder appeared on its surface.
The sight of this white powder made the man in black turn ghastly pale.
”Impossible… Celestial Powder is tasteless, colorless, and odorless. No method should be able to discover it.”
The man in black felt like his mind had been dealt a heavy blow that was overturning everything he knew about the world.
Wang Chong only smiled at these words.