Huan Yushan was also greatly shocked to see a green light emanating from behind his palm, realising something was wrong, but the sudden change happened in an instant and it was already too late to react.
The intense pain from his palm made him both shocked and annoyed. Realising this was another person fighting desperately, his striking palm naturally turned into a claw, grabbing those two fingers and snapping them! Crack! The fingers broke.
A Lan’s face was full of pain, and her other hand had already thrown a punch.
However, Huan Yushan simply refused to fight her head on, knowing he could not win in a direct clash of cultivation. At the same time he broke her fingers, his body spun and dodged away.
A Qing’s torn body plummeted towards the ground. The Bee King on the ground looked up with a tense expression.
Huan Yushan, who had spun away in the air to dodge, took the opportunity to glance at his pierced palm. He found the wound was not large, just a small puncture, but he had no idea what that green light just now was.
Thus, he could not care about so much for the time being. His gaze flashed downwards, locking onto the Bee King, and he directly flipped over and dived down, pouncing straight at his target. To catch a band of thieves, one must first catch their leader, which is always the best choice.
He had wanted to do this before, but he was entangled by two women with higher cultivation. Now there was only one left, which naturally made it much more convenient. Only by capturing the Bee King could he possibly resolve the hidden worries brought by that green light.
He estimated that whatever they were desperately casting on him at this time was most likely some kind of poison. By capturing the Bee King and threatening his life, he might be able to exchange for an antidote, and even if that failed, he could still kill enough to make it worthwhile.
Watching the Great Elder rushing down from above, Qin Fujun, whose head could not move and whose field of vision was limited, was a bit excited because she witnessed the Great Elder’s bravery.
Yu Qing and the others, however, were extremely anxious.
The Bee King, on the other hand, continued to stare coldly, indifferent to the figure rushing down from above. He also knew there was nowhere to hide, but he would not submit to humans.
Xiang Zhen released Nan Zhu and Mu Aotie, drew his sword, and prepared to fight.
Nan and Mu, however, did not dare to run. Firstly, their cultivation was restricted and they could not run fast. More importantly, Xiang Zhen’s sword could not only be used against enemies but might also chop them down.
The Bee King, however, raised his hand and pressed down Xiang Zhen’s sword, casually saying, “No rush.”
Yu Qing also waved to Baili Xin, signalling her to prepare to stop him with arrows. He himself grabbed Qin Fujun and jumped out, placing his sword across Qin Fujun’s neck to warn Huan Yushan.
Regardless of whether he could threaten Huan Yushan or not, he wanted Huan Yushan to know that it was fine to kill the Bee King, but if he dared to touch his people, he would make the last disciple of their Law Enforcement Elder be buried with them.
A Lan, who had lost two fingers in the air, was greatly shocked and rushed down rapidly. Using her superior cultivation, she quickly closed the distance between them. However, the distance to the ground was not far, which did not give her enough time to catch up.
Huan Yushan looked back at the ground and then looked down, his face already showing a few sneers, but suddenly his expression changed drastically. His diving figure suddenly lost some balance, and his limbs flailed messily for a moment, losing his composure for some unknown reason. Taking advantage of this momentary chaos, A Lan instantly caught up and, seizing the opportunity, punched Huan Yushan squarely in the back.
Boom! The figure that was struck and sent flying diagonally crashed into a massive tree root, coughing up blood as he tumbled down.
A Lan’s cultivation was inherently stronger than his. Taking such a solid hit naturally meant he could not just brush it off lightly.
Xiang Lanxuan raised an eyebrow, watching the scene of Huan Yushan being severely injured with a seemingly amused expression, appearing quite satisfied with it.
Qin Fujun widened her eyes, her gaze full of anxiety.
Yu Qing and the others were also very surprised. Just as it seemed they were about to suffer a misfortune here, and just as Huan Yushan seemed to have victory in his grasp, they did not expect such a sudden change to occur.
The Bee King remained expressionless and calm, as if everything was within his expectations.
Huan Yushan, who had fallen to the ground and was spitting blood, had a face full of pain. It was not the pain from his injuries. He quickly raised a hand, only to see his five fingers had become as stiff as a chicken claw, and his palm had turned iron brown. Trying to control his fingers, he found they had completely lost all sensation.
He shook his arm, tearing his sleeve to shreds with a ripping sound to expose his entire arm. He saw the iron brown colour rapidly spreading up his forearm. Wherever it reached, it caused him excruciating pain, as if it were pinching every inch of pain nerves in his body. As soon as the iron brown colour reached his elbow, his elbow immediately became immobile as well.
He desperately cast spells to suppress his cultivation, but he was completely helpless against this spreading momentum.
What was even more bizarre was that his skin was still cracking, and things that looked like moss or grass threads were actually growing out of it.
Little did he know that this was the green glowing liquid the Bee King had previously asked A Lan to fetch from the black gourd on the divine tree. It was the essence of plant origin, the very same “Earth Origin Immortal Dew” that the Vine Demon constantly thought about. It was originally a good thing, but if used improperly, it was also a highly toxic substance.
For example, right now, it was rapidly turning Huan Yushan’s flesh and blood body into wood.
A Lan naturally would not let him go. Having succeeded with one strike, she took the opportunity to rush over again quickly, intending to finish the job in one go.
Huan Yushan glanced over. Even though he was severely injured and his body was still trembling, he did not dare to hesitate his movements in the slightest. In this frantic and urgent moment, he exhausted all his strength to leave the ground. At the instant he flew up diagonally, his other hand suddenly grabbed his opposite shoulder, and he actually tore off the mutating arm right at the shoulder while he was still alive. Blood splashed everywhere, erupting from the severed shoulder. Even Yu Qing and the others were surprised to see that Huan Yushan did not cast a spell to stop the bleeding, actually letting the blood in his body gush out like a spring.
Bang! Huan Yushan swung that severed arm and directly cast a spell to blow it into dust and smoke, which also swallowed his figure.
A Lan had already turned and rushed over. Grabbing at the air, her powerful palm force instantly blasted the exploding dust and smoke away, revealing Huan Yushan’s tottering figure.
How could she be polite? Flashing there in an instant, she threw another heavy punch at Huan Yushan’s back.
Huan Yushan’s body suddenly became like paper mache, crumbling instantly and being blasted into a burst of red dust.
The Bee King’s pupils contracted, and he shouted sharply, “Be careful!”
The warning was late, and it was too late. At the very instant Huan Yushan’s figure exploded, a hand drilled out from the red mist, bringing a flash of cold light that plunged into A Lan’s throat. The cold light flickered, and A Lan’s head flew off.
A Lan’s body, however, was still moving, waving her arms in a wild attacking posture.
Huan Yushan’s figure drilled out from the red mist again. Waving a short blade he carried with his single arm, he slashed continuously, chopping off A Lan’s waving arms.
The flashing blade light instantly dismembered A Lan in mid air.
The Bee King’s cheeks tensed up.
The others were almost all dumbfounded. What the hell was that move? It made Yu Qing and the others shudder in fear. However, Huan Yushan’s gaze ultimately fixed on Xiang Lanxuan, who was leisurely watching him. He slowly took a deep breath, and his single arm suddenly flicked his sleeve.
The hovering arrow suddenly reversed direction and shot back with a swoosh, returning at an even faster speed, whistling as it shot towards Xiang Lanxuan.
Clang!
With a loud ringing sound, the arrow flew off course, brushing past Xiang Lanxuan and nailing into the tree root behind her.
The speed of the returning arrow was indeed very fast.
But the speed of Yu Qing drawing his sword was not slow either. Not only was it not slow, it was also very fast. In his anxiety, he moved the blade away from Qin Fujun’s neck and swatted the arrow away, but his sword holding hand, currently placed in front of Xiang Lanxuan, kept trembling. The hand holding the sword was dripping blood, and the webbing between his thumb and index finger had been split open by the shock.
No matter how severely injured the person above was, the power of his strike was not something he could easily block.
He himself did not know why he had acted so hastily. Only after making the move did he realise he wanted to know if the woman from last night was her.
Xiang Lanxuan also seemed to be stunned. Looking at the trembling sword holding hand in front of her, the hand dripping blood right before her, her gaze slowly shifted to Yu Qing’s side profile. Her bright and beautiful eyes stared with a momentary trance, and then she suddenly chuckled and said, “Weren’t you quite capable? Now you know what it feels like, right? Is your hand so numb you cannot even pull it back? That is what you get for showing off.”
Huan Yushan in the air naturally had good eyesight as well. He saw that the lingering power of the previous attack was still echoing within Yu Qing’s body, preventing him from moving freely. How could he miss this excellent opportunity to rescue Qin Fujun? In an instant, he flashed over again, blasting out a palm strike through the air while simultaneously reaching out to grab Qin Fujun.