Chapter 41: The Origin of the Trouble

  Shi Sheng looked at the two people staring at him, and with a slight movement in his heart, he quietly condensed a small fireball. A blue spark flashed before him, and a blue fireball the size of a palm slowly appeared.

  "Get to work!" Lu Yuanshen's expression solidified, and with a single order, he snapped his fingers. With a whooshing sound, a sharp, cone-shaped ice block about the length of a foot shot out.

  Zhou Tao was a single-handed slash, a foot-long wind blade spinning out, and immediately followed by a collision that arrived before the blue fireball.

  Shi Sheng couldn't help but narrow his eyes, it seemed that wind attribute magic was a lot faster than fire attribute.

  With a dull thud, the small fireball shook violently and the sparks scattered in all directions. The wind blade seemed to have average attacking power, flashing twice before dispersing.

  Right after that, the small fireball that Lu Yuan had released also came crashing in. With a loud explosion, a dazzling flash of light burst open, and the blue fireball shook twice before shattering Lu Yuan's small fireball once again, shrinking it down to the size of a fist. It then shot towards Lu Yuan.

  "This person's Fireball Technique is actually so formidable!" Lu Yuan's expression solidified, and with a flick of his sleeve, a silver ring about the size of a foot in diameter suddenly appeared.

  Bang!

  Just as the small fireball hit the silver ring, a light flashed on it, and the blue fireball burst open, while the silver ring was intact.

  "Spiritual artifact?" Shi's eyes narrowed slightly.

  "What? Don't you have a nianju? Why don't you take it out and use it?" Zhou Tao sneered with a smile, although he himself didn't have a spiritual instrument, but he remembered that Shi Sheng also didn't have one.

  Shi Sheng sighed silently to himself, his own nian ju had long been destroyed by that white-clothed youth. Although it was a pity, now that he had the Blood Congealing Needle, the nian ju was almost unnecessary anyway.

  Brush!

  Before Stone Sheng could open his mouth to speak, Zhou Tao shook his sleeve and a purple sandalwood dagger shot out, slashing towards Stone Sheng.

  "That day, the one who ambushed me outside Li Yuan's house was indeed you!" Shi Sheng said with a change in his expression as soon as he saw the purple sandalwood dagger. In a hurry, he released a small fireball to counter Zhou Tao's magical artifact.

  "Haha, let's see how you defend against the Lingqi!" Lu Yuan sneered and immediately channeled his energy, and a silver ring flew out in a blurry motion, shooting straight at Shi Sheng.

  "Hmm!" A cold hum, Shi Sheng had just used a small fireball to resist Zhou Tao's magical tool. At this moment, he didn't have time to cast the fireball technique, so he could only shake his sleeve, and with a few swift movements, nine silver lights flashed out.

  Crack! Crack! Crack! A series of crisp sounds rang out!

  Lu Yuan and Zhou Tao's expressions solidified, only to see the silver ring slightly tremble, being blocked by nine pale silver semi-transparent flying needles. It turned out to be a spiritual artifact as well. This set of spiritual artifacts generally had a value much higher than that of ordinary spiritual artifacts of the same rank, but were also not easy to control.

  "I didn't expect you to have a spiritual artifact, and of such high quality!" Lu Yuan's expression was slightly solemn. Zhou Tao didn't have a spiritual artifact, wanting to deal with Shi Sheng, it seemed that they could only rely on the two people's magic techniques.

  "What's going on here?" Just then, Lin Wan'er suddenly walked in from outside the courtyard, carrying a vegetable basket with some green vegetables and a few eggs inside.

  Zhou Tao, who was standing beside her, quickly moved to Lin Wan'er's side with a swift motion, grabbing her arm and revealing a ferocious smile on his face.

  "Haha, Shi Sheng, you should know that with our status, killing a mortal is not something the authorities would bother with. Our fellow disciples may not dare to kill you, but killing your fiancée wouldn't be a big deal!" Zhou Tao said with a smirk, glancing at Lu Yuan, who smiled and nodded in agreement.

  "Don't be reckless!" Shi Sheng's eyes narrowed, worried that Zhou Tao would really take action. To be honest, even if he really killed Lin Wan'er now, no one could punish Zhou Tao.

  "Hand over your Taoist robe to me, and the spiritual instrument to Zhou Shi-di. Not only will you avoid physical suffering, but your fiancée will also be spared from death." Lu Yuan said coldly, now that he had reached the stage of Hua Hai, killing an ordinary person seemed to be without any concern.

  "Ah Sheng, don't bother with me..." Lin Wan'er struggled, but how could she escape the grasp of a demon in the Hua Hai realm.

  "Want to run? Hehe, it's a pity if such a beauty dies directly!" Zhou Tao flipped over the vegetable basket with one hand, and the eggs fell to the ground and shattered. Then, he reached out and stroked Lin Wan'er's face.

  Under the urgent emotions, Shi's mind moved and a flying needle flashed with a silver light. With a "whoosh" sound, it pierced through Zhou Tao's palm, and a thread of blood flowed out along his palm. However, that blood was black in color.

  "Ah!" Zhou Tao seemed to be unable to bear the severe pain, and hastily let go of Lin Wan'er. His other hand tightly grasped his own wrist, his body trembling violently. Lu Yuan's expression solidified.

  Lin Wan'er took the opportunity to escape, Shi Sheng quickly caught up with her and shielded her behind him. His face was filled with anger as he glared at the two of them. How could Shi Sheng tolerate them using his woman as a bargaining chip?

  "Cough, cough..." Just then, Zhou Tao coughed twice and suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood. His lips turned purple, his face turned dark, and his eyes took on a dull grayish hue. He collapsed to the ground with a thud.

  "Save me, Brother... save me, Flying Needle... it's poisonous!" Zhou Tao said with a mixture of desperation and fear in his eyes, his voice weak and barely audible, to the point where even Lin Wan'er had trouble hearing him.

  "How vicious, you actually added deadly poison to the flying needles?" A hint of fear flashed in Lu Yuan's eyes. Although the authorities didn't dare to intervene when it came to killing ordinary people at the Hua Hai realm level, these few were all newly promoted to the Hua Hai realm and had never really killed anyone before. They hadn't even seen a real fight, let alone someone as lively as Zhou Tao now on the verge of death. Lu Yuan's heart couldn't help but be shrouded in a layer of gloom.

  Shi Sheng also secretly called out, remembering that the girl had specifically instructed him that the flying needles were coated with a deadly poison, and if they pierced the skin, the opponent's blood would coagulate and they would die. However, earlier when Zhou Tao attacked Lin Wan'er, Shi Sheng was caught off guard and didn't have time to think twice, and his fireball technique couldn't be used in time, so he could only use the flying needles to attack Zhou Tao. Now that things had come to this point, it seemed like there was no room for recovery.

  However, Shi Sheng found it somewhat strange that he had never seen anyone else kill someone on Earth, yet after killing Zhou Tao with his own hands, he didn't feel much fear. He was only worried about the trouble that might come afterwards.

  Of course, it's impossible to be completely unafraid. Shi Sheng had killed a living person, and his heart still found it somewhat difficult to accept. Even Lin Wan'er was stunned, standing behind Shi Sheng with her hands covering her mouth, her expression frozen.

  "Dare to move Wen'er sister, he deserves to die!" Shi Sheng shouted sternly, trying to boost his own courage.

  "Hmph, Shi Sheng, you killed Zhou Shidi, but you're only at the Hua Hai realm, you can't escape punishment!" Lu Yuan pointed at Shi Sheng with a slightly trembling finger, as if trying to bolster his own courage.

  "It was you who broke into my house, I was just defending myself, if I didn't kill him would I wait for him to kill me? I don't believe there's no place for reason. Shi Sheng didn't quite understand what kind of punishment he would receive, but he didn't believe that the law had truly been abandoned."

  "Even if the sect doesn't pursue it, Master Zhou will not let you off, you're dead for sure!" Lu Yuanzheng said fiercely, suddenly discovering a flash of fierce color in Shi Sheng's eyes. Without thinking, he controlled the silver ring to smash towards Shi Sheng, and then turned around and ran! (End of this chapter, next chapter is more exciting!)

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