A black dagger, Nether Azure in color, its blade engraved with vicious beast runes.
Pierced through his chest.
Bathed in blood, it gleamed!
At that moment.
That streak of crimson.
Was so vivid it stabbed the eyes.
Yet.
That scorching, fresh blood from his heart.
The instant it touched that Nether Azure blade.
Rapidly corroded and blackened.
Like Shu Ze's already rotten heart and liver.
"Mystic Beast Blade, Gu Du..."
Shu Ze lowered his head in stunned disbelief. With only one glance at the sinister blade piercing out from his heart, he recognized the killer's identity.
The blade had been poisoned.
Once blood was drawn, it sealed the throat.
Not to mention.
What Gu Du had stabbed into.
Was the vital point of his heart.
Unable even to turn his head for one last look.
Shu Ze lowered his head and breathed his last.
Gu Du, his face hidden beneath a wide black robe, sheathed his blade, tossed the corpse to the ground, then slowly raised his head and walked toward Xiao Chen and the others. "I truly never expected you to survive. Back then, if I had been braver and taken the responsibility myself..."
"Perhaps my wife and children would still have had a sliver of hope!"
Gu Du's eyes were bloodshot, his voice hoarse.
His hands formed seals.
Mysterious runes burst from his fingertips.
In an instant.
He actually erased every cage seal.
After guarding Divine Medicine Purgatory for so many years.
How could he not have prepared a contingency?
There was a secret passage within Divine Medicine Purgatory.
It led directly to the Demon Forest outside the sect.
Wu Liu and he had spent years digging it.
It was meant for the day they made one wrong step after another and needed to flee swiftly.
After returning