Perhaps sensing Leng Mei’s terror, after launching his attack, Sun Shang did not dare linger and turned to flee.
His escape direction was actually toward the palace.
This guy was quite clever.
This place was closer to the palace. As long as he could alert the palace guards to the situation here, he could survive.
Watching Sun Shang flee, Leng Mei surprisingly did not pursue, merely sneering disdainfully before lightly flicking her fingers.
A black plum blossom shot like a black meteor through the dark night.
“Ah—!”
With a scream, Sun Shang plummeted to the ground like a bird struck by an arrow. One of his legs was severed clean off.
That seemingly dainty plum blossom carried terrifying sword qi, forming a massive gear-shaped killing weapon.
Sun Shang’s face was filled with horror.
He did not know where this assassin had come from or why she was so terrifying, but he knew clearly that he might be done for.
Black substances continuously spread from the wound on his leg into his veins. It was laced with deadly poison.
He had toyed with poisons his whole life, yet in the end, he was to die from deadly poison. This was what he could least accept.
“Help! Help!”
Sun Shang had never been so disheveled, never so pathetic. All he could do now was desperately cry for help.
Unfortunately, his voice could not carry out. Ling Xiao had already sealed the space within a hundred-meter radius. Neither sound nor aura could penetrate.
This was also to make Leng Mei safer.
On Leng Mei’s hand, a larger plum blossom gradually condensed, exuding an intense aura of death.
“Who exactly are you? Even if I die, let me die understanding!”
Sun Shang shouted for a long time with no effect. He knew the opponent must have done something to the surrounding space.
Now, all he could do was stall for time.
He could only hope that people in the palace noticed his prolonged absence and came looking for him. Then he might still have a chance to live.
Leng Mei said nothing.
Her icy eyes fixed on Sun Shang as the plum blossom in her hand flew out again.
“Ah—!”
Sun Shang’s other leg was also severed directly.
“You really are forgetful, noble one.”
Leng Mei sneered coldly: “Forgot the little girl by Ling Xiao’s side?”
“You! You are Leng Mei! Impossible! How is that possible! How do you have such strength!”
Sun Shang had a good memory and finally recalled that Leng Mei had appeared at the square that day.
Moreover, he had always sent people to monitor Ling Xiao and was very clear about who was by Ling Xiao’s side.
“Now you understand why I want to kill you? Betraying the homeland, harming my master Ling Xiao. These two points alone make your death well-deserved! Not to mention you deliberately instigated Ximen Bumie and Li Chengxiu to molest us on the street. If you do not die, even the heavens would be furious.”
Leng Mei did not mind Sun Shang stalling. The black plum blossom’s toxin was extremely terrifying. Spreading from both legs, it had already reached Sun Shang’s entire body.
Before long, Sun Shang would turn completely black and die like charred remains.
However, she did not mind giving Sun Shang more pain.
Another plum blossom flew from her hand.
This time, it was not an arm that was severed, but Sun Shang’s head.
“In this form, I would never willingly use it, but for my master, I am willing to become a fierce ghost and endure the greatest pain in this world! What you should not have done is target him!”
Looking at the already stiff-dead Sun Shang, Leng Mei’s body gradually returned to normal. Her face was somewhat pale, looking very weak.
After speaking, she did not linger and turned into a black shadow, disappearing into the pitch-black night.
Watching Leng Mei leave, Ling Xiao could not help shaking his head with a bitter smile.
He knew Leng Mei was very grateful to him, but to go this far for him left him wondering how to repay her.
Sigh!
He sighed and stood up, looking at the corpse on the ground, which surprisingly wriggled.
“You really are a cunning old ghost, but you escaped Leng Mei’s assassination only to die by my hand in the end!”
Ling Xiao jumped down from the rooftop and walked toward the wriggling rotten flesh, sneering: “The ‘Eternal God Pill Scripture’ records a pill that can bring people back from the dead. Even if only a piece of rotten flesh remains, it is fine. Though you failed to refine it, this modified pill is not bad. It preserves the soul and allows revival by borrowing another’s body, right?”
“Who!”
Sun Shang was utterly despairing.
He had used all his trump cards. As long as he timely obtained a body to possess, he could revive. Though he might need to change bodies every year, it was better than dying now.
But he never dreamed that after one wolf left, a fox would come.
A cunning fox had been watching him from the side all along, spying on him.
“Who exactly are you? How could you know about the ‘Eternal God Pill Scripture’?”
Sun Shang’s weak voice echoed in the air.
“You do not need to know who I am, because I love making people die in confusion!”
Ling Xiao sneered. Activating his soul force, the Immortal Pot appeared above his head and directly sucked in Sun Shang’s soul.
“Without a soul, let us see how you revive.”
The esteemed Miaoshou Tianzun, the best alchemist on Tianlong Continent and Shenhuang Continent, a yellow-grade advanced alchemist, died just like that in confusion.
Thoroughly dead, never to appear again.
At this moment, Die Nu also brought Moyan Tianzun captured.
Looking at Moyan Tianzun, Ling Xiao felt a myriad of emotions.
“Moyan Tianzun, you betrayed the sect. Do you admit your guilt?”
Ling Xiao simply removed the ghost mask, revealing his true face.
He had to let Moyan Tianzun know who killed him.
“It’s you!”
Seeing Ling Xiao, Moyan Tianzun completely collapsed.
If it were someone else, he might beg for mercy, but facing Ling Xiao, he knew he had no right to beg.
“For the sake of our past as fellow disciples, end it yourself.”
Ling Xiao said indifferently.
“If you kill me, you will never get the Hui Bone!”
Moyan Tianzun said coldly.
“Hui Bone?”
Ling Xiao said disdainfully: “Looking at your current state, I know that Hui Bone is nothing special. I can do without it. I will give Bai Yun a better martial soul, absolutely more useful than a mere Hui Bone. Threatening me with this, you really refuse to repent even in death.”
After speaking, Ling Xiao wasted no more time and drew all the Death Dark Flames from Moyan Tianzun’s body in one pull.
The Death Dark Flames entered his body and were quickly sealed.
They still could not be used in combat, but for alchemy and artifact refining, there was no issue.
“Die. This settles the debt between us completely!”
Having extracted the Death Dark Flames, Moyan Tianzun was of no use to him anymore. A scorching light emerged on his hand, and he gently patted it onto Moyan Tianzun’s body.
