novelapdf Chapter 248 Feigned Flattery, Poison Hidden in the Pipa!
Chapter 248 Feigned Flattery, Poison Hidden in the Pipa!
Over the next two days, Lin Miaoyin's attitude visibly softened.
She began to proactively chat with the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect about some obscure operational insights into the Demon Dance Technique.
Occasionally, when walking, she would unconsciously shorten the distance between herself and the young master, from seven zhang to five zhang.
She smiled as she accepted the water pouch offered by the young master, took a sip, and then returned it to him.
Even the act of wiping the spout of the teapot carried a hint of ambiguous trust.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect was clearly very satisfied with her transformation.
As they walked through the spiritually barren ruins, her gaze would occasionally fall on a weathered rock face.
Beside a dried-up waterway, on the edge of a poisonous swamp.
Three hidden escape routes are linked together along these inconspicuous markers.
late at night.
Alone within the isolation formation, Lin Miaoyin pierced her middle finger with a silver needle.
Crimson blood seeped out and dripped into a stone bowl that had been prepared beforehand.
The bowl also contained bone-corroding poison extracted from the body of a Spiritual Realm demon beast killed during the day.
A viscous, dark green liquid slowly flowed down the bottom of the stone bowl.
The moment the blood essence fell into the poisonous liquid, the two liquids merged together at an eerie speed.
It turned into a colorless and odorless transparent grease.
She used a fine-tipped brush to apply the oil, inch by inch, to the five broken strings of the pipa.
The oil seeps into the strings and dries quickly, making them feel no different from ordinary strings.
But as long as someone touches these strings with spiritual power.
The toxins will then flow upstream along the spiritual energy channels and directly enter the other person's meridians.
After finishing the last string, Lin Miaoyin hugged the pipa to her chest, a cold smile appearing on her lips.
She never expected to overwhelm her enemies in terms of combat strength.
But she learned one thing when she was seven years old.
Always bury broken tiles in the hunter's path before you are hunted yourself.
Several months later, at dawn, the sky began to brighten.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect stood before a precipice, the demonic runes on his black and gold armor emitting a cold, dark light.
Behind him was a massive stone gate covered by a purplish-black barrier.
The stone gate was covered with ancient demonic patterns, with two symmetrical handprints inlaid in the center.
One emanated a dark red aura of yang fire, while the other emitted a ghostly blue aura of coldness.
"We've arrived at the Nine Nether Cold Spring Garden."
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect turned to face Lin Miaoyin, smiled, and gestured for her to enter.
"The infusion of Yin energy needs to be done at the core location. Your Highness, please proceed first."
Lin Miaoyin raised her head, the morning light shining on her stunningly beautiful face, her phoenix eyes sparkling with captivating charm.
"it is good."
She stepped toward the stone gate, the hem of her pure black Taoist robe fluttering gently in the morning breeze.
The hand hidden in the right sleeve silently gripped the pipa strings coated with deadly poison.
Lin Miaoyin stood in front of the huge stone gate engraved with ancient demonic patterns.
The morning light shone on the hem of her pure black Taoist robe.
She lowered her head slightly and raised her right arm.
Strands of extremely yin and cold spiritual energy emanated from his fingertips.
The aura climbed along her finger bones to the edge of the dark blue handprint groove on the right side of the stone gate.
Her movements appeared compliant and completely unguarded.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect stood less than three zhang behind her.
He crossed his arms and waited for the stone door to open.
Right at this moment.
A chilling glint flashed in Lin Miaoyin's eyes, which had been fixed on the stone gate.
Without hesitation, his left hand, hidden in the wide sleeves of his robe, gripped the broken pipa.
With nimble fingers, he plucked the strings of the zither, which were coated with rotten bone venom.
The immense spiritual power of the late-stage Core Formation stage flowed into the zither through the meridians.
Three eerie green, solid sonic blades, accompanied by a piercing shriek, slashed straight at the face and vital point of the Heavenly Demon Sect's young master.
The sonic blade sliced through the void, releasing a nauseating, fishy stench.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect did not retreat even a step in the face of this devastating attack.
His eyes, which always held a fake smile, were filled with mockery.
The intricate dark red magic patterns on the surface of the black and gold armor churned violently under the influence of spiritual power.
He raised his right hand, which was enveloped in powerful demonic energy.
The five finger bones left several afterimages in mid-air.
The emerald green poison blade, powerful enough to slice through a fine steel magic weapon, was crushed by his bare hands.
The highly corrosive venom splashed onto the breastplate of the black gold armor.
A series of teeth-grinding corrosive sounds rang out, accompanied by puffs of white smoke.
The surface of that armor, which was touted as having absolute defense, was completely untouched, not even leaving a shallow dent.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect leisurely flicked away the few drops of green liquid remaining on his fingertips.
The warm and welcoming facade on his face completely vanished.
The surrounding air became stagnant and difficult to perceive under the demonic pressure of the late-stage Core Formation Realm expert.
"Saintess Lin, what skillful methods you have."
"You really think I can't see through your little schemes behind my back these days?"
"From the very first day you agreed to travel with me amidst the ruins, you were already in my trap."
Lin Miaoyin knew that if she missed her target, there was no chance of survival.
She tapped her toes several times, causing her to retreat thirty feet backward.
She raised the hand holding the pipa and let out a cold, mocking laugh.
"Young Master, is the Mind Control Powder you've gone to such lengths to feed me along the way what you call sincerity?"
"We, the people of the Hehuan Sect, have never had the habit of being treated like dogs."
"You think you can use me as the key to unlock this Netherworld Cold Spring Garden? That's just wishful thinking."
As she spoke, Lin Miaoyin's hands rapidly formed seven or eight complex hand seals in front of her.
Those magic seals triggered the array foundations she had secretly laid down every night during her meditation and rest over the past few days.
The surrounding ground immediately emitted a dull cracking sound.
The three concealed, interconnected poison arrays were fully activated simultaneously.
Large sections of the originally solid stone road were transformed into a foul-smelling swamp of decaying bones under the backlash of the formation.
More than ten chains of poisonous mud, each as thick as an adult's thigh, shot into the sky from the swamp.
The top of the chain transformed into a sharp snake head shape, which came from all directions to block and strangle the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect, instead of being angry, burst into wild laughter as he watched the swamp chains raining down from the sky.
Laughter echoed above the empty ruins for a long time.
"You even managed to see through the secret forbidden medicine of our sect."
"Truly worthy of being the perfect furnace I selected after careful consideration."
"With your intelligent and ruthless nature, you'll surely have a unique charm if you're slowly trained in the future."
He strode forward with his booted legs amidst wild laughter.
The soles of my feet are on a strange position that contains some kind of celestial principle.
Each step he took left a lotus phantom in the void, formed from pure black demonic energy.
He managed to evade the seemingly dense and seamless chains of poisonous mud with an uncanny gait within that small space.
Even when a few chains grazed his cloak, they only stirred up a gust of bloody wind.
"Every night you secretly carve array patterns in the cracks of the rocks, thinking you're doing it without anyone noticing."
"You really think you can fool me with these underhanded tricks?"
Lin Miaoyin's expression grew even colder upon hearing this.
She knew very well that all her schemes were already under the other party's control.
Today, the only chance of survival is to risk our lives.
She held the broken pipa horizontally to her chest.
His left hand rapidly plucked a mournful melody filled with a murderous aura on the broken strings.
She played the Killing Wolf scale from the Heavenly Demon Dance, the strongest killing move of the Hehuan Sect, with all her might.
A visible pink sonic storm surged out from the base of the pipa.
The eye of the storm contained countless tiny wind blades formed from spiritual energy.
The young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect clenched his fists and unleashed two thick streams of dark demonic energy to meet the pink storm.
The spiritual power of a late-stage Core Formation cultivator and a peak late-stage Core Formation cultivator collided head-on in front of the Nine Nether Cold Spring Garden.
The deafening sonic boom directly overturned several partially damaged stone platforms nearby.
Amidst the flying sand and stones, the two engaged in an extremely dangerous close-quarters battle in the ruins.
Every punch from the young master of the Heavenly Demon Sect carried a violent force.
Using the unique movement techniques of the Heavenly Demon Dance, Lin Miaoyin narrowly escaped and moved through the gaps in the fist winds.
This tactical maneuvering lasted for only a dozen or so rounds.
The vast gap in their cultivation levels caused Lin Miaoyin's physical and spiritual strength to rapidly deplete.