The moment she pushed Baili Weisheng aside, Meng Duo’er found herself face to face with Shiliang once more. She’d never seen Shiliang before, but she could guess easily enough—this creature in front of her was exactly what Jun Buli and Baili Weisheng had been searching for!
Fighting down her fear, she swept her hand through the air, carving out an invisible barrier of a ward right in front of herself, causing Shiliang, who had been about to attack, to slam right into it.
This poison corpse, despite lacking emotion, didn’t seem stupid either—she immediately tried to circle around toward Baili Weisheng instead.
“Ward!”
Meng Duo’er cried out sharply, pressing her fingers together and sweeping her hand through the air once more, casting another ward to protect Baili Weisheng.
Baili Weisheng marveled at how much Meng Duo’er’s ward-casting skills had advanced—she could actually carve out invisible walls out of thin air!
Shiliang shifted direction again, and Meng Duo’er kept up, until before long she had Baili Weisheng completely enclosed within a protective ward!
Only then did Baili Weisheng realize what was happening, roaring furiously, “Damned girl, what are you doing!”
Meng Duo’er, thoroughly focused, was jolted from her concentration, looking over in confusion, explaining, “Didn’t you all say Shiliang is dangerous, that her whole body is poison, and one touch would be the end of you?”
Baili Weisheng felt utterly defeated by this girl, roaring in fury, “I’m more poisonous than she is! Why would I be afraid of her!”
Only then did Meng Duo’er remember that Baili Weisheng was the genuine ancient poison-master here, and hastily withdrew the ward. Unfortunately, her timing for withdrawing it couldn’t have been worse—Shiliang, from behind him, immediately seized Baili Weisheng by both shoulders, her black claw-like nails plunging in!
“Ahh—”
Baili Weisheng cried out. It seemed the bad luck from a decade ago had fallen on him once more—whenever he was around Meng Duo’er, nothing good ever happened, all sorts of mishaps kept occurring!
He violently threw Shiliang off, silently vowing that from now on, he would keep at least a mile’s distance from this cursed girl.
“Are you all right! I… I… I didn’t mean to!” Meng Duo’er panicked, rushing over. Seeing him bleeding, she wanted to help stop the bleeding, but Baili Weisheng immediately shook her off fiercely. “Don’t touch me!”
Meng Duo’er froze, deeply hurt, and retreated dejectedly.
Baili Weisheng had meant to explain that his blood was highly poisonous, but then decided it wasn’t necessary—when had he ever explained himself to anyone in his life?
“What are you standing there for? Use a ward to trap her!” Baili Weisheng snapped irritably.
“Oh, right!”
Meng Duo’er nodded quickly. If she hadn’t been so frightened, if she hadn’t been so worried about Baili Weisheng, with her cleverness she would have already trapped Shiliang with a ward long ago.
Even ten years ago, her ward-casting skills would have been enough to trap Shiliang to death.
But she’d been scared, she’d panicked, and her most instinctive reaction had been to enclose Baili Weisheng in a ward to protect him.
“She’s yours to handle now! Be careful!”
With that instruction, Baili Weisheng immediately shot up into the sky, putting distance between himself and Meng Duo’er.
As it turned out, trapping Shiliang took Meng Duo’er only the blink of an eye—a single binding ward left Shiliang rooted to the spot, unable to move her feet no matter how she struggled!
Meng Duo’er then shot up into the sky as well, following after him, coming to a stop in midair beside Baili Weisheng.
In the sky, Jun Buli and the white-robed man were still locked in fierce combat, all the beast armies and poisonous beasts left idle on the sidelines—the two of them were actually engaged in a musical duel!
One sheng, one flute—it sounded like a duet, but anyone knowledgeable enough could tell that within this “duet,” the two were locked in a life-and-death struggle for dominance!
Watching the white-robed man from a distance, Baili Weisheng grew anxious, snatching the white jade flute from Jun Buli, shouting angrily, “Stop playing around! How did this foul girl end up like this—has she really lost her memory?”
No sooner had he spoken than Jun Buli’s flute music stopped, and the two poison dogs suddenly burst out of the ice lake, lunging straight at Jun Buli!
Jun Buli narrowed his eyes at the white-robed man’s provocation, making no move to defend himself at all!
This person is relying on having more poisonous beasts, is she? Today, I’ll show her that numbers alone mean nothing.
Just as the poison dogs were about to close in, Jun Buli was about to unleash the Heaven-and-Earth Poison Sack, when Meng Duo’er suddenly cried out sharply, “Ward!”
Another binding ward instantly froze both poison dogs rigid in midair, unable to move at all.
Well, having too many skilled fighters around was its own kind of trouble!
The white-robed man froze for a moment, then understood, sneering with contempt. “Hah, and here I thought it was some formidable technique—turns out it’s just a warding spell!” Jun Buli had been thoroughly enjoying the fight, but with the white-robed man’s contempt and the interference from Baili Weisheng and Meng Duo’er, his mood soured, his eyes narrowing into thin lines as he looked at Baili Weisheng. “Take her away. Right now.”
With that, he swept his hand through the air, and instantly the entire sky filled with poisonous beasts—large and small, every strange shape imaginable!
Even the two sea serpents that had mysteriously vanished from the beast clan over a decade ago were among them—though from the way their eyes had changed color, it was clear they’d already been raised into poisonous beasts!
Poisonous beasts!
Within the entire beast clan, there had only ever been two such creatures!
The Xiao couple, hiding in the underbrush, had long since been scared out of their wits—no matter how they racked their brains, they couldn’t fathom who this person really was, what background he came from, or what connection he had to the legendary world of poisonous beasts.
Seeing the white-robed man’s reaction, Jun Buli threw her earlier contempt right back at her. “Are you looking to fight me one on one, or would you rather face a mob?”
“Who exactly are you?” the white-robed man demanded furiously.
“Da Zhou’s Jun Buli!” Jun Buli announced without the slightest hesitation.
That name was known to virtually everyone across the entire continent of Longyuan. The white-robed man was startled, and at that very moment, Jun Buli raised his hand and not only withdrew all the poisonous beasts, but also took in the white-robed man’s entire mobilized beast army as well!
The once-crowded sky suddenly emptied out, leaving only the two of them facing off.
Seeing this, the white-robed man turned to flee.
Jun Buli’s figure flashed, appearing to block her path—but just then, a cold arrow came flying unexpectedly from behind him, its force and speed beyond what any ordinary person could withstand!
“Young master, watch out!”
A familiar voice suddenly rang out—Guxi! Had they turned back?
They hadn’t left yet after all. Jun Buli instinctively turned around, and at that moment, Guxi deflected the arrow off course with a palm strike—only for countless more cold arrows to follow, like a hail of arrows, coming at a speed that left no time to defend.
Guxi threw his arms around Jun Buli, shielding him with his own body, refusing to let him take a single arrow wound.
But just then, Situ Jing’er suddenly darted in from the side, grabbing hold of the fleeing white-robed man and yanking her forward, shoving her right in front of Guxi and Jun Buli as a shield!
“No!”
The two men cried out almost in unison, their expressions turning as fierce as wrathful gods, startling Situ Jing’er into a frozen stillness. In that split-second crisis, Meng Duo’er arrived just in time, throwing up several walls of ward to block the hail of arrows.
Before Jun Buli could even let everyone catch their breath, he glared furiously at Situ Jing’er, saying nothing, only wrenching the white-robed man out of her grip with great force.