The last glow of the setting sun vanished completely. The sky dimmed, and everyone present scarcely dared to breathe. Silence blanketed the scene.
Quite a few people had already begun slipping away quietly, terrified of being caught in the crossfire.
Before Tianya Tower, corpses now lay strewn everywhere.
Yan Haochun, along with several members of the Yan family, was still fighting Wan Qingqing and the others.
The moment they saw this scene, their expressions changed drastically. They swiftly disengaged and retreated, intending to flee.
But Zhou Rong was faster than them.
He had already entered Tianya Tower and rescued his family and kin. Unfortunately, every one of those relatives he had saved had been poisoned.
The Lock Poison Wei He had concocted from seven different poisons could not be cured by anyone in a short time.
This Lock Poison technique drew upon the concept of a combination lock, using a poison formula in which the effects of seven medicines interlinked and activated one another.
One link clasped another; all seven had to be resolved in sequence before the poison could be fully neutralized.
Yet because only one poison activated at a time while the other six remained deeply concealed, only one poison could be dealt with at each attempt.
Once that poison was resolved, it would activate the second, then the third, the fourth, and so on.
If one guessed wrong even once, it would become a dead-end situation.
Now that Yan Junshan had died and the Water Punishment Department had collapsed, the situation had reversed in the blink of an eye.
After this battle, the Lishan Sect and Wei He had become locked in a struggle to the death.
Yet the lives of Yan Junshan and the two military commanders from the Water Punishment Department, along with the hundred-odd