Chapter 994

Chapter 994 Silencing Witnesses

 

“Bang!”

Lin Zhenxu only felt a cool breeze pass by his side.

A powerful aura moved toward the left direction.

He turned his head and saw that the ground beside him had been crushed by footsteps, but the figure had already disappeared.

Lin Zhenxu’s expression changed slightly as he turned to look in the direction Fang Yu had gone, released his true qi, and followed.

Beside the Triangle Ridge Road was a desolate forest.

Fang Yu moved extremely fast, arriving at the middle of the forest.

Here, there was an open clearing surrounded by many trees.

A white sedan was parked in this spot.

The car’s engine was still making a slight noise.

The front and rear doors on the right side of the car were open, with several dents on them, clearly having suffered attacks.

And less than twenty meters away from this car lay four bodies.

Two of them had heads that were already a bloody mess, unrecognizable.

The other two bodies, lying a bit farther away, had all their limbs broken, lying on the ground at extremely twisted angles, no longer moving.

Fang Yu’s expression was cold as he descended from mid-air and stood in front of these four bodies.

Three of the people on the ground were uniformly dressed in cyan robes. The other one wore a white robe.

All four of them were already dead.

But Lin Zhengxiong was not among them.

Fang Yu turned around and looked at an old tree behind him.

This tree had a very thick trunk.

Fang Yu walked toward the tree and went directly around to the back.

Then, he saw a person sitting against the trunk, already unconscious.

This person still had extremely faint breathing.

It was Lin Zhengxiong!

Fang Yu immediately crouched down.

A dagger with a black handle was stuck in Lin Zhengxiong’s right chest.

Fang Yu immediately extended his right hand and pressed it on Lin Zhengxiong’s head.

He silently recited an incantation.

A white light rose.

Gentle true qi entered Lin Zhengxiong’s body, sealing all his wounds to prevent further blood loss.

Afterward, Fang Yu extended his left hand and pulled out the dagger that was stuck in Lin Zhengxiong’s right chest.

The blade of the dagger still emanated a faint black gas.

This dagger was poisoned!

The attacker clearly wanted to take Lin Zhengxiong’s life!

Judging from the blood on Lin Zhengxiong, the murderer must not have gone far!

Fang Yu’s eyes were stern as his right hand continued to infuse true qi into Lin Zhengxiong, but at the same time, he released his divine consciousness, rapidly expanding it in all directions!

All information within a five-kilometer radius rushed into Fang Yu’s brain.

Broken stones on the ground, tire marks on the road, even a leaf on a tree… no detail was missed.

This process lasted for nearly a minute.

Fang Yu’s divine consciousness had expanded beyond five kilometers, but he still couldn’t find any human figures.

He was still a bit too late.

The attacker had already escaped.

Fang Yu withdrew his divine consciousness and looked at Lin Zhengxiong in front of him.

At this point, Lin Zhengxiong’s wounds had been temporarily sealed and were no longer bleeding.

But his face still had no color.

And his limbs, like those of the corpses seen earlier, were all twisted and broken.

Judging from the degree of bone fracture, they were forcibly twisted…

To be able to twist the limbs of a Huashen-stage cultivator like this, the attacker’s strength was clearly top-tier.

“Thud!”

At this moment, Lin Zhenxu also arrived.

He first landed and saw the four corpses lying in pools of blood, his face turning pale.

Then he looked around, saw where Fang Yu was, and quickly walked over.

Soon, he saw Lin Zhengxiong.

At this moment, Lin Zhenxu’s pupils contracted, and even his breathing stopped.

“Don’t worry, he still has a breath left,” Fang Yu said.

Lin Zhenxu glanced at Fang Yu, then looked at Lin Zhengxiong, and indeed could still feel his breathing.

However, it was extremely faint and difficult to detect.

“Is there… is there still hope?” Lin Zhenxu asked, his voice trembling slightly and his eyes reddening.

“The situation is quite serious, can’t be certain yet,” Fang Yu said.

If there had been no poison on the dagger, Fang Yu could have guaranteed that Lin Zhengxiong’s life would not be in danger.

But with poison on the dagger… the situation wasn’t so optimistic.

“Who… who did this!?” Lin Zhenxu asked, his voice hoarse.

Fang Yu didn’t answer this question but handed the dagger to Lin Zhenxu.

“This is an item left by the attacker. See if there’s anything worth noting,” Fang Yu said.

Lin Zhenxu took the dagger and examined it carefully.

Meanwhile, Fang Yu used his divine consciousness to check Lin Zhengxiong’s internal condition.

Multiple meridians were broken, true qi was chaotic, and due to poisoning plus massive blood loss, his life was at its most critical moment.

Fang Yu silently recited an incantation, and the technique in his right hand immediately changed.

From infusing true qi to absorbing it.

He wanted to absorb all the chaotic true qi from Lin Zhengxiong’s body.

Fang Yu’s right hand emitted a faint red glow.

Soon, all the true qi in Lin Zhengxiong’s body was completely absorbed.

This way, he avoided the secondary damage that the true qi could cause to Lin Zhengxiong.

Next was detoxification.

“Do you have any silver needles?” Fang Yu looked at Lin Zhenxu and asked.

Lin Zhenxu was stunned, shook his head, and immediately said, “I can ask Fifth Uncle and the others…”

“There’s no time,” Fang Yu shook his head, then had a flash of inspiration.

He remembered the trace of Xuanran qi within his body.

Fang Yu focused his thoughts, and the Xuanran qi emerged from his palm.

With a flash of light, it transformed into seven silver needles.

“Hold him steady, make sure not to move. I need to apply acupuncture,” Fang Yu said.

Lin Zhenxu immediately held Lin Zhengxiong’s shoulders with both hands, not daring to move.

Fang Yu tore open Lin Zhengxiong’s back clothes, exposing his back, and then used the silver needles to pierce seven different acupoints.

This acupuncture technique was the same as the one he had used on Lin Zhilan before.

The Non-Invasive Seven Needles.

After the silver needles pierced the seven acupoints, Fang Yu used his right palm to release true qi to expel the blood poison.

This process lasted for nearly half an hour.

During this time, Lin Zhenxu didn’t even breathe heavily, holding Lin Zhengxiong slightly with both hands, not moving a bit.

“Done.”

Fang Yu let out a long breath and removed the seven silver needles from Lin Zhengxiong’s back.

At this point, pale green sweat was coming out from all over Lin Zhengxiong’s body.

The poison had been completely expelled.

Fang Yu stood up and said, “After taking him back, he’ll recover after some rest.”

Lin Zhengxiong was very lucky.

If Fang Yu had been three to five minutes late, even a god would have had difficulty saving his life.

After Lin Zhengxiong’s condition stabilized, Fang Yu walked back to the four corpses lying in pools of blood, his eyes cold.

“What cultivation level were these three attendants?” Fang Yu asked.

Lin Zhenxu was stunned for a moment, then looked in Fang Yu’s direction, saw the three corpses on the ground again, his eyes full of reluctance, and said, “Uncle Dashan was at the middle stage of Huashen, the other two… I can’t see their faces clearly.”

Hearing Lin Zhenxu’s words, Fang Yu’s brows slightly furrowed.

Lin Zhengxiong’s cultivation was at the early stage of Huashen. And among his three attendants, one was at the middle stage of Huashen.

Even if the other two were only at the early stage of Huashen, the combined strength of these four people would have been quite formidable.

Based on the scene, the attacker was likely just one person.

To easily kill three Huashen-stage cultivators and seriously injure one with just one person…

Such strength must be at least at the peak of Huashen stage or above.

As for the white-robed elder, he should be the healer that Lin Zhengxiong had invited from the Wancao Sect to treat Lin Zhilan.

The attacker killed this elder as well to silence him.

Who would do such a thing?

Fang Yu’s eyes were cold.

Lin Zhenxu, standing behind, looked at Fang Yu’s back, took a deep breath, and asked, “Do you… have any clues?”

Fang Yu turned around, shook his head, and asked, “Does that dagger have any information?”

Lin Zhenxu looked at the dagger at his feet and also shook his head, saying, “This is just an ordinary dagger, I can’t see anything special about it.”

“Did the attacker know we were coming? How did they run away so quickly?” Fang Yu rubbed his chin, thinking with an icy expression.

Lin Zhilan was unconscious because of poisoning.

And the poison she had been subjected to would also cause her internal true qi to become chaotic, creating the false appearance of qi deviation.

The situation was basically similar to Lin Zhengxiong’s.

Of course, with Lin Zhengxiong’s multiple broken meridians, the cause of his chaotic true qi might not necessarily be poison.

But with father and daughter both having incidents at almost the same time, these two events were clearly not independent and must be related.