Chapter 359
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Chapter 359: Exploding Alchemy Pills
“Putting on an act?” Ye Yun was filled with surprise but quickly understood. Though Sage Huo Yun was a seventh-level Golden Core expert, breaking Bi Hao’s Five Elements Subduing Demons Array would have drained his soul and true qi severely.
“Master, we might have a chance to escape,” Ye Yun whispered, turning to Elder Seven and Su Hao.
The two exchanged puzzled glances.
“Bi Hao’s group isn’t badly injured, and while Sage Huo Yun broke the array, his energy is spent. They’ll clash again—likely ending in mutual ruin. Even if Huo Yun wins, he’ll be weakened to a fraction of his power,” Ye Yun explained.
“But Ling’er’s spirit perception mark remains,” Su Hao frowned.
“If both sides are crippled, their sensing range will shrink. If we flee far enough, we’ll buy time to remove the mark,” Ye Yun urged.
Elder Seven and Su Hao stared, surprised by the logic from a border town youth barely years into cultivation.
Unaware of their doubts, Ye Yun trusted the Ancestor of the Sword Path’s earlier whisper—this was their moment. The Ancestor, even with only one-third of his soul, dismissed Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages as trivial, hinting at his own transcendent past.
“A Golden Core expert’s mark after surviving the heavenly tribulation can’t be erased easily. Fleeing buys only time. Once Huo Yun recovers, he’ll hunt us down effortlessly. We must end this here while they’re vulnerable,” Shui Qingxuan interjected calmly.
Ye Yun and the others turned, startled by her resolve.
“Xuan’er, even weakened, they’re beyond us,” Su Hao said, gripping her hand.
“We won’t know unless we try,” she replied, a flicker of steel in her eyes.
Murong Wuqing’s cold voice cut in. “Madam Su is right. Facing a seventh-level Golden Core expert at full strength is hopeless. But if they’re crippled, a sliver of hope remains.”
Su Hao brightened. “You’ll help?”
“I seek to comprehend a late Golden Core’s Dao through combat,” Murong Wuqing stated flatly.
Elder Seven nodded. “Then we strike when they’re weakest.”
Ye Yun sighed, pushing aside hesitation. Survival demanded full focus.
“Fools!” the Ancestor of the Sword Path raged in Ye Yun’s mind. “Even tenfold stronger, you’d be ants to him!”
“Perhaps fate favors us today,” Ye Yun countered inwardly.
“Fate? If you die, the Soul Turning Tower’s array halts, and I fade! Yet you charge to doom!” the Ancestor spat, helpless.
Sage Huo Yun chuckled, observing them. “Not fleeing? Admirable. I’ll spare your lives—just a minor punishment and taking the two girls with Demon Race Bloodline.”
Ye Yun snorted. “A ‘true man’ keeps his word. Will you?”
Huo Yun laughed. “I’ll merely drop your cultivation by one level. Now…” He turned to Bi Hao’s group, coldness returning. Five glowing alchemy pills materialized in his palm. “Injure me, and these are yours.” He flung them into the distance.
Bi Hao’s team, battered from their shattered array, exchanged grim looks. “Take these Exploding Alchemy Pills,” Bi Hao hissed. “After victory, each gets a pill and first pick of Huo Yun’s treasures.”
Du Hua Sheng and Jiang Chong hesitated. The pills granted explosive power—but at the cost of cultivation regression. Yet with death looming, they nodded.
