Comprehension I

"Black Light Hand... Silver Hand... Augustus..." Hols's face turned deathly pale, all his earlier composure gone. He had finally confirmed exactly what kind of force he had provoked.

Eye of God... Devil's Fang... That young man was not very old. If the titles he had spoken were real, then he was truly in deep trouble this time. Lu Sheng's expression remained calm, even carrying a faint smile and a trace of appreciation as he watched Augustus approach step by step.

The Black Light Hand's troops were rapidly dwindling, while the poisons in the Blood Spirit Guard Unit's high-ranking Painters had all been removed.

"I never expected you to perfectly undo the Mixed Poison I personally administered." Lu Sheng's tone held deep astonishment.

He could sense that it was not only the poison in the Blood Spirit Guard Unit that had been removed.

The control poison he had placed upon every Painting Saint of the Silver Hand had also been undone. That meant that, from this moment onward, he had completely lost the vast Dark Painter Empire and become a lone man with nothing.

And all of it had been caused by Augustus completely removing the control poison he had administered.

"I never expected that the one truly pulling the strings behind everything would actually be..." Augustus did not continue. He walked all the way to a rooftop level with Lu Sheng, and the two looked straight into each other's eyes. His gaze held both intense fury and solemn gravity, two nearly contradictory emotions appearing together in his eyes.

Yet Lu Sheng's eyes held more calmness—pure calmness, mixed with a trace of appreciation.

"Surrender without resistance." Augustus said coolly. "The Silver Hand's Four Great Halls have already secretly allied with me. Every expert at Painting Soul Painting Heart and above has