Sword Among Us

Gu poison cannot actually be considered a poison art, but in World of Martial Arts, it was treated by many players and NPCs alike as a poison art that was incredibly profound.

The goal for normal poison arts was to poison a person and make him or her die.

But this sort of poison cannot break away from this law: all manner of things in the world countered each other in relation to the five elements.

Poison was also very dangerous to the user itself, but it was different for Gu poison. It placed a larger emphasis on the user’s understanding and control over Gu poison.

It can allow the user to easily manipulate his or her enemies and toy with them.

Normal Gu poison can make a person suffer from headaches and fevers, causing them to experience discomfort all over the body. Powerful Gu poisons will be like Purple Heart Gu Poison, which the mysterious cloaked woman released by unleashing a whole swarm of worms containing the Gu poison, and through the air, she can spread the children of the worm producing the Gu poison into the air. Once the target sucked the children into their bodies, they will swiftly turn into terrifying poisonous creatures, and the damage was incredibly shocking, fierce, and swift.

However, if the damage from the Gu poison was great, it will be very difficult for the caster to control it. They can only allow the worms containing the Gu poison to recognize the parent body, and there was no way to heal someone afflicted with Gu poison.

Happy’s method of freeing Xu Xin from the Gu poison was something that multiple elites in his previous life came up with after they pooled their experiences together. His prompt decision had managed to let Xu Xin escape from the disaster.

Originally, Happy was prepared to tear apart the caster, but when he saw the caster’s wretched face under the cloak, he suddenly sucked in a sharp breath and held his breath before he stopped his Dragon Saber from touching the caster’s neck. His killing intent calmed down, for some strange reason.

“You’re not from Class One Hall.”

Class One Hall’s emblem was not on her chest, and there was no form of persistence or killing intent on her. In fact, hidden under that disgusting presence was a gentle and tranquil air that will cause a person to cast her a sidelong glance. There was no way Happy can attack a person like this.

Besides, a woman will usually pay great attention to their appearances. No woman will be willing to take the initiative to practice the sorcerer clan’s Gu poison, which was something only men were willing to practice in Happy’s previous life.

The girl in front of him did not seem like someone who had a crazed personality.

The mysterious cloaked girl said nothing. She stood outside the pavilion quietly and remained inside Happy’s attack range while she stared at Happy in surprise after he stopped his attack. After a few seconds, she nodded, but shook her head immediately after before she answered, “I’m not from Class One Hall, but I’m Dream Clouds’ younger sister.”

“Blood related sister?” Happy frowned.

The mysterious cloaked girl did not answer that question. “If Purple Heart Gu Poison is useless against you, then the other Gu poisons I have will not be able to invade your body as well. I can’t complete the mission my sister gave me. Please, kill me.”

She did not even cast a glance at Xu Xin.

Even though Purple Heart Gu Poison was incredibly fatal to a normal person, the mission Dream Clouds gave her was to kill her, not a woman unrelated to this entire thing.

“She asked her own younger sister to practice this evil art and create your personal Gu poison. This sort of woman… is not worthy of you calling her your sister. She is just someone who will do everything for her own goals. What a twisted personality.”

Happy said those words with his qi, and everyone could hear it clearly.

In an instant, the crowd burst into commotion.

Even the people in Class One Hall’s lineup were stirred up slightly. Quite a number of people snuck glances at Dream Clouds to watch how she would react.

Although Dream Clouds did not lose her composure, her red face still showed that she was livid. ‘Sister, why aren’t you attacking?! What are you still waiting for?! Kill Happy and his woman!”

The underlying meaning was that she was giving an order to the mysterious cloaked woman to poison and kill Xu Xin.

When she heard Dream Clouds’ order, the mysterious cloaked girl looked at Happy in a troubled manner. “If you don’t attack me, she will really die.”

As she spoke, she caressed the goblet containing the sorcerer clan’s Gu poison in her hands.

Happy said nothing, he just closed his eyes and sighed.

The mysterious cloaked girl seemed to have noticed what was about to happen. She paused in her movements, closed her eyes, and waited for the moment to arrive. There was some degree of relief and satisfaction in her movements.

“Tremble!”

With one remote Wandering Souls Palm, Happy used hidden force to strike the mysterious cloaked woman, who did not put on any form of resistance. He faced no resistance when he crushed her heart meridian, and he gave her the fastest and most dignified death.

At that moment, Happy finally knew the girl’s name.

Jade Vine.

It was a normal but very gentle name.

As he watched Jade Vine fall limply to the ground, Happy suddenly remembered that moment in his previous life.

When he was surrounded by multiple Class One Hall elites, he lost his reasoning in his anger, and he charged out of Guanlin Temple again and again.

His consciousness was destroyed repeatedly, and he could see his corpse lying on the ground in a miserable state outside the reincarnation hall.

Even though Jade Vine’s situation was different from him, she was also betrayed by a person she trusted and was close to her. She also suffered through a tragic fate, and she must also feel resigned to it when she found that she cannot control her own fate at this moment.

When he thought of this, Happy cannot help but feel his mind wandering.

Then, he felt a warm hand holding his hand tightly. Happy turned his head around, and he saw Xu Xin’s worried gaze. He sighed in relief before he patted the back of her hand to comfort her. “Don’t worry. I’m fine.”

*****

“That piece of trash!”

When Jade Vine died in battle, Dream Clouds also felt enraged, as if she was betrayed. She also felt a chill through her entire body.

She was indeed the one who made arrangements for Jade Vine in what path she should take in the game.

To obtain the title of the disciple of the sorcerer clan’s Gu poison users, Dream Clouds made her own sister, who was the only person who passed through the test of having ten thousand poisons penetrate her body, to withstand the fate of having Gu poison worms enter her body, and those Gu poison worms were the most diabolical of worms—Evil Origin Gu Poison Worms. They can increase the survival time and damage for Gu poison worms by thirty percent.

Jade Vine had always been the trump card Dream Clouds was unwilling to reveal to the public. She had never allowed her to reveal her strength to other players, and to test Jade Vine’s strength as the disciple of the sorcerer clan’s Gu poison users, she made Barren Murderer, who only got to know about her a few days ago, to personally experience Jade Vine’s personal Gu poison—Purple Heart Gu Poison.

Barren Murderer’s Undying King of Abyss Art can allow him to last through a long period of time when he faced top-class elites, but when he faced Purple Heart Gu Poison, he could not fend against it, and he died before he can even last through ten seconds.

He died in the same manner as the group of Class One Hall members when Jade Vine walked into the battlefield.

Moreover, Barren Murderer still died swiftly even when he was prepared for her. This was enough proof to show just how terrifying was the damage in Purple Heart Gu Poison.

Dream Clouds thought that she had a trump card and a killing move in her hands that will allow her to challenge all the elites on the International Influential Rank of the Strong, but she overlooked a problem.

Purple Heart Gu Poison might be strong, but everyone’s understanding toward it was not deep enough. Dream Clouds did not know that Purple Heart Gu Poison’s greatest enemy was fierce qi cultivation techniques like Nine Yang Divine Skill, which also produced pure yang qi.

She also did not expect that Happy had a lot of experience from his previous life, and he coincidentally understood some of the ways to control Gu poisons. Purple Heart Gu Poison also happened to be one of the more famous Gu poisons from the sorcerer clan as well.

When she saw Happy and Xu Xin remaining safe in the face of the Gu poison, she already had a bad feeling, but since she personally witnessed how Barren Murderer died, she still cannot help but have a bit of hope linger in her.

But in the end, the miracle did not appear.

She clenched her teeth in exasperation and released the order to retreat resolutely. “Let’s go! We’re leaving Mount Song!”

Her final secret killing move was also destroyed. Right now, Dream Clouds did not want to have all her elites die in Shaolin Temple.

Class One Hall left like a receding tide.

The group of Class One Hall elites had long since lost all their morale at the moment Happy started using his Dragon Saber to kill. When they heard the orders, they turned around unhesitantly and without any shred of uncertainty. They squeezed to the mountain trail, not daring to remain idle, and they moved away like water flowing downstream.

“Since you’re already here, why are you thinking about leaving?!”

A loud and angry shout rose from behind the Class One Hall members like a loud clap of thunder, and it quickly closed in on them.

A number of people turned their heads around to look, and they saw a golden saber swiftly expand before their eyes. It filled their entire vision, and they were terrified.

Dream Clouds and her group walked at the front of the group. “Have a group of people serve as rearguards. Others, leave as quickly as you can!”

At that moment, she can only sacrifice the pawns to protect the most important pieces.

But reality showed that retreat will not be easy for them.

It was only at that moment that those from Class One Hall noticed just how frustrating and annoying the environment they were currently in was.

The pavilion was at the center of the mountain trail.

The entire mountain trail was narrow, and it was the same width regardless of whether it was at the foot of the mountain or at the top. Even if they used lightness skills, it was very difficult for all of them to pass in one go. Besides, there were also a lot of Shaolin Temple disciples up and down the mountain trail.

For a period of time, countless people were stuck on the mountain trail, and they could not move. They could only watch Happy execute the might of his Dragon Dragon and slaughter his way to them with the force of a bulldozer.

There were plenty of Class One Hall members blocking Happy’s path, but when Happy was still far away from them, he will cut them into two with fierce saber glares. They did not even have the chance to attack.

Some of them might have been able to attack Happy, but they will soon experience the power within the Murong Clan’s ultimate technique, Shifting Stars. They suffered the full power from their own attacks, and they were either sent flying with grunts, or were pierced through by a blinding golden saber glare.

Bang! Boom!

Blood and dead bodies crashed violently into the mountain around them.

No one was able to stop Happy in his tracks. While terrifying waves of saber qi rose, the area around Happy turned into a place where no living being stood.

Pained screams, panicked shouts, the sounds of people moving with lightness skills, and the sound of true qi surging up intersected with each other on the narrow mountain trail. They filled everyone’s ears, and they were incredibly chaotic.

Countless Shaolin Temple members just watched the fun by the side.

Before Happy reached them, they will also take the initiative to move to the side.

Even though they also provided passage for Class One Hall, there were still a lot of people who had their paths blocked at the back. Besides, there were no branches on this mountain trail.

In the blink of an eye, Class One Hall lost hundreds of lives.

Corpses were strewn all over the place on the mountain trail.

At that moment, Happy was immersed in recalling his most painful and helpless moment in his previous life, along with the crazed feeling of taking revenge. He held his Dragon Saber, and with Kuo Zhong’s Ten Styles for War, he brought forth astonishing power while he chased after Class One Hall.

A murderous, blood red qi fused together perfectly with the golden saber glares. Wherever they went, the place will instantly be reduced to the most horrifying sight that can be possibly found on a battlefield.

The Shaolin Temple disciples were originally watching by the side because they were feeling gleeful about Class One Hall’s demise, but when they saw the Class One Hall members being sent flying to the sides of the mountain trail because of the impact from the saber glares, plunging down from the mountain, or crashing to their deaths against the mountain, all while being completely powerless to resist or block Happy in his footsteps, they sucked in sharp breaths.

While they sucked in their breaths, they noticed one thing at the same time.

“Dream Clouds is finished this time.”

Happy did not bother about the Class One Hall members he did not manage to kill. Instead, he just continued slaughtering his way down the mountain trail to continuously shrink the distance between him and the core Class One Hall members.

But there was also a group of people who scowled.

“It’s not just Dream Clouds’ who’s finished this time. I feel that Class One Hall is going to be in real danger.”

“During the battle on the plains, Class One Hall suffered a huge blow to their core, and yesterday night, Class One Hall was ambushed, causing them to lose the initiative in this war. Right now, they had their edge taken off by Happy. The north is about to change!”

When they heard the pained screams and enraged shouts coming from the foot of the mountain, some of the more observant people began sending messenger pigeons to deliver news.