Chapter 3501 — The Five Miasma Divine Art
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The Dongfang family had thus been a leading power—and Wei Zhao had beaten it into a crippled, bottom-tier clan. How could Dongfang Badao not seethe with fury and venomous hate? So the moment he found an opportunity, he would kill Wei Zhao.
Dongfang Badao had also learned that both Zhang Naipao and Zhong Yongliang bore grudges against Wei Zhao. They had already joined forces once to besiege the three ancestors of the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect, so he did not mind joining forces a second time.
That brat Wei Zhao had paid a fortune to hire bodyguards from the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect. In the secular world, Dongfang Badao had not dared to touch him; later, when Wei Zhao advanced in rank, he dared even less. But in a trial it was different—if one died in a trial, who would care?
Surely even the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect could not run into the trial to protect Wei Zhao? Besides, thinking back on it, they had all been so shaken by those fellows called the Twin Vajras that they had overlooked Wei Zhao's presence.
Now, on careful reflection, even if Wei Zhao had money and could hire the Blood-Robed Yellow Springs Sect, he could hardly keep them as bodyguards at every hour of every day. Had they struck him down then, before he advanced, all this trouble would never have arisen.
Ah—one step slow, and every step after is slow! Now he pinned his hopes on Zhang Naipao and Zhong Yongliang. Along the way he had learned that Zhong Yongliang was the reincarnated legacy of the Mad Dragon Ancestor of the Tomorrow Upon Tomorrow sect, which only deepened his confidence that Wei Zhao could be killed.
As for the other man who had joined them, he was the Fawu Boxer of the Divine Fist Hall. He had come seeking Zhang Naipao to avenge his pitiful disciple, only to be subdued by Zhang Naipao at the first encounter, left in a state worse than death. Now he could not voice his suffering: Zhang Naipao had driven a poisonous qi into his body, and could at any moment make it flare up and leave him in agony.
This poisonous qi was in fact a special true qi transformed through the Bee-Devouring Divine Art working in concert with the Chrysanthemum Treasury, akin to mother-and-child true qi. Zhang Naipao could project it into another's body and thereby control that person.
Imagine: should the man disobey, Zhang Naipao need only trigger the poison, and he would writhe in unbearable pain, unable to summon the slightest strength—and at such a moment, a sneak attack would mean certain death.
Of course, this trick had lasting effect only on external-school experts. Internal-school experts who cultivated true qi, once they reached the Heaven rank, could dissolve it themselves—it was merely a question of how long it took.
But if they could not dissolve it at the time, it was bound to have some effect, briefly robbing a person of the ability to attack. So the move was ruthless and formidable indeed, and only Zhang Naipao, who cultivated both the Chrysanthemum Treasury and the Bee-Devouring Divine Art, could unleash it—both were indispensable.
Thus the Fawu Boxer of the Divine Fist Hall was temporarily held in Zhang Naipao's grip. He was an external-school expert with no true qi in his body, utterly unable to dissolve Zhang Naipao's poisonous true qi; so long as Zhang Naipao was within a hundred meters of him, he could stir the true qi inside him to flare, leaving him in ecstasy and agony by turns, wishing for death.