**Chapter 1094: I Have More Than One Choice**
“Venomous?” Wen Ruo let out a cold laugh, “Heh, do you even know me?”
“Besides, are there few men who commit evil acts? Are they not venomous?”
Wen Ruo’s face showed a trace of cold indifference, her tone resolute, “This is merely my way of survival. Without it, I wouldn’t have survived so well in this dog-eat-dog world!”
Lin Xiao was almost speechless, his heart filled with rage.
“Let me go. Only I know where the antidote is,” Wen Ruo threatened finally.
“Do you think I’d believe you?” Lin Xiao retorted coldly.
Truthfully, he didn’t trust Wen Ruo’s words at all.
If he let her go, she’d likely flee, and he’d die without knowing how.
“Swish!”
In that instant, Lin Xiao’s mind stirred, and a surge of spiritual consciousness poured into Wen Ruo’s brow.
He intended to use his stronger spiritual power to control her mind, forcing her to reveal the antidote’s truth.
Of course, with the gap between his current strength and hers, he couldn’t achieve soul-searching, or it wouldn’t be so troublesome.
But as his spiritual consciousness entered her brow, it was instantly repelled.
Lin Xiao’s brows furrowed tightly. He couldn’t control Wen Ruo’s mind. Now, he was in danger.
“Heh, you can’t control me. You only have one choice,” Wen Ruo sneered coldly.
Lin Xiao’s brows knitted tightly. With this deadly poison, he likely couldn’t hold out long. Killing Wen Ruo wouldn’t guarantee the antidote was on her.
But letting her go, who knew what this woman would do? This put Lin Xiao in a dire dilemma.
Deep down, he had no intention of sparing her.
“Swish!” At that moment, Lin Xiao suddenly felt a pulling force within his body.
The wound seemed to be tugged by something, and the agonizing pain from the poison’s corrosion converged at one point, flowing through his meridians toward his dantian.
Lin Xiao was startled and quickly glanced at the wound. He saw the two-inch-long gash visibly change from deep black to blood red, and the pain from the poison’s corrosion gradually faded.
“It’s the Heavenly Eye! It must be the Heavenly Eye devouring the Black Tortoise Poison Scale’s toxin!”
Lin Xiao was shocked.
The first thing that came to mind was the Heavenly Eye.
Apart from it, nothing in his body had such capability.
The Heavenly Eye was near his dantian, and the poison must have been instantly absorbed by it.
This made Lin Xiao even more curious and shocked about the Heavenly Eye. It could actively absorb the material of the Prosperous Wall Stone, and now even deadly poison?
What exactly was this Heavenly Eye?
Of course, he didn’t think the Heavenly Eye was protecting him for any reason. More likely, the poison was a great tonic for it.
The Heavenly Eye absorbed special materials!
This time, it was a fortunate accident, saving his life.
With the Heavenly Eye’s absorption, his life-or-death crisis was instantly resolved.
He no longer needed to wrestle with whether to trust Wen Ruo or how to control her.
This surprised even Lin Xiao himself.
“Hahaha…” With the poison suddenly gone, Lin Xiao couldn’t help but laugh, saying to Wen Ruo, “Perhaps I have more than one choice.”
“Hm?” Seeing Lin Xiao suddenly laugh, Wen Ruo was momentarily stunned, puzzled. Then she heard him continue, “Look at my wound again. Is the poison gone?”
Wen Ruo was startled and glanced at Lin Xiao’s chest. Seeing the wound had completely turned blood red, she showed a look of shock, “How, how is this possible?”
“The Black Tortoise Poison Scale’s toxin, without any antidote, even a Martial Saint can’t survive. How could you possibly neutralize it?”
Seeing Wen Ruo’s astonished expression, Lin Xiao sneered coldly, “That’s something you might only figure out in the underworld. If there’s nothing else, you can die now. Blame your bad luck for meeting me and trying to kill me!”
“No, you, you can’t kill me!” Wen Ruo was horrified, her usually composed face now showing panic.
But Lin Xiao gave her no chance. With a surge of spiritual power, the Black Tortoise Poison Scale shot toward her heart.
Using her own method against her.
“Die!”
With Lin Xiao’s soft utterance, the Black Tortoise Poison Scale pierced through Wen Ruo’s chest and out her back, cutting through her body like tofu, blood spraying out.
“You!”
Wen Ruo’s eyes widened in disbelief. She hadn’t expected this young man to be so decisive, killing her immediately after neutralizing the poison, giving her no chance to retaliate or even speak further.
Lin Xiao’s eyes were filled with cold indifference.
She had nearly killed him, so she deserved her fate.
He was always decisive, and with such a dangerous woman, he wouldn’t spare her even a moment longer.
Of course, he didn’t deny Wen Ruo’s survival rules.
For her, perhaps this personality and methods were the best way to survive.
But she could only blame herself for meeting him.
Her survival rule treated everyone as an enemy, even him, who saw her as a friend, and she had planned to kill him from the start, violating his own rules.
He disliked her indiscriminate view of friend and foe and couldn’t tolerate someone who attacked him.
At this moment, Wen Ruo’s life force slowly faded. Her wound hadn’t fully blackened before she met her end in the underworld, dying with unresolved grievances.
Lin Xiao felt no pity. Releasing his grip, Wen Ruo’s body slowly fell.
He reached out, smoothly taking her storage ring.
At the same time, he controlled the Black Tortoise Poison Scale to fly back to him. After examining it closely, he stored it in his own ring.
Though a poisonous item, the Black Tortoise Poison Scale was undeniably a treasure. If revealed, it would likely spark fierce competition.
After all, something that could kill even a Martial Saint, let alone a Martial Emperor, was extraordinary.
With this scale, he gained another assassination method.
Checking Wen Ruo’s storage ring, Lin Xiao found it similar to those of the Jiang family members, containing some herbs, relatively common weapons, and some blue crystalline stones, but nothing else.
However, those blue stones were sixth-grade spirit stones, Blue Spirit Stones.
Once, he had been framed by Feng Lanyue and Chen Yan for possessing a single Blue Spirit Stone, which was extremely rare even in the entire Southeastern Region.
The common currency in the Southeastern Region was merely Green Spirit Stones.
In terms of energy, one Blue Spirit Stone was worth ten thousand Green Spirit Stones. It was a sacred cultivation item for Martial Lords, even useful for Martial Emperors, extremely precious.
Unexpectedly, in the Central State continent, Wen Ruo and the Jiang family members’ storage rings contained so many sixth-grade spirit stones.
Combined, Wen Ruo and the Jiang family members had ten Blue Spirit Stones.
This surprised Lin Xiao.
“Could it be that in Central State, the standard currency starts with Blue Spirit Stones?” Lin Xiao wondered to himself.
If Central State had an abundance of Blue Spirit Stones, or even Purple Spirit Stones, it was conceivable that the overall level of martial artists here would be a major tier above the Southeastern Region.
After all, Blue Spirit Stones could rapidly advance a low-tier martial artist’s realm, quickly nurturing a young genius.
“Central State, you haven’t disappointed me,” Lin Xiao said, looking ahead, his eyes faintly gleaming with hope.
With enough Blue Spirit Stones, he was confident he could break through one essence power cultivation realm in a short time.
In the future, he could even use them to directly advance to higher realms.
After using spiritual power to burn Wen Ruo’s body to ashes, Lin Xiao flew forward at low altitude.
With no one to guide him, he could only head in the direction he had come from through the spatial tunnel.
