Black and White Twin Fiends

Boom!

Terrifying power of qi and blood erupted, as dreadful as a hidden dragon ascending to the heavens. Even though Gu Han had merely risen casually, his immense strength still made the several-meter-long boat tremble and creak, as though it would shatter the next moment.

"No! Impossible! Gu Han, you clearly drank the Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder I put in the wine! With such a large dose, even if you were a master comparable to the Barbarian King A Yanda, you should have been weak in bone and soft in flesh, collapsing powerless to the ground! How could you still rouse your qi and blood and possess such formidable strength?!"

Seeing Gu Han radiating such a powerful aura, the Old Boatman and the delicate-looking young woman changed color at once. They cried out in unison, their faces full of disbelief.

"Heh! I was wondering who it was. So it was the renowned Black and White Twin Fiends, husband and wife. You two truly have some nerve. After learning of my strength, you still dared to make a move against me. The mere Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder may be useful against ordinary martial artists, but using it on Gu was barking up the wrong tree!"

Gu Han sneered upon hearing this, saying no more.

By now, his physical body had gradually developed toward perfection through the complementary cultivation of martial arts from two worlds, far surpassing others of the same rank.

If one compared only physical bodies and disregarded Inner Qi, even the First-rate Masters of the Yue Kingdom, whose true qi could transform into astral force and slash out blade qi and sword qi spanning thirty meters with a wave of their hands, were far inferior to him. Only the immaculate bodies of the legendary Innate Masters, tempered by the cleansing of heaven and earth's spiritual qi, might possibly surpass him.

Thus, saying he was immune to all poisons might have been somewhat exaggerated, but achieving the effect of the Great Accomplishment of the Nine Yang Divine Skill from the martial arts novel The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber in his first life—impervious to a hundred poisons—was no problem at all.

"Die!"

Thoughts turned through Gu Han's mind, but none showed on his face. Nor did he intend to explain anything to the two of them. He merely flipped his palm, and in an instant, the area several feet around them suddenly darkened, as though the entire world had been swallowed up. His palm descended first toward the Old Boatman.

This palm was precisely one of Patriarch Bodhidharma's three supreme martial techniques: the Heaven-Overturning Palm!

After several months of cultivation, Gu Han was still far from even Minor Accomplishment, but he could barely be considered to have entered the gate. At the very least, he was now capable of using it.

"Zhaodi, don't worry about me! Run!"

Seeing that Gu Han truly seemed unaffected by the Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder and was striking at him with a fierce palm, the Old Boatman recalled the rumors about him. His eyes split with terror as he shouted to the "delicate young woman" on the other side, telling her to leap into the river and flee. At the same time, rather than retreating, he advanced and charged toward Gu Han.

"Hmph! What a deeply devoted couple. Unfortunately, today, you will both die!"

Killing intent flashed through Gu Han's eyes. Mercilessly, he ignored the delicate woman's figure as she leaped into the river, accelerating his palm. The next instant, it collided with the Old Boatman's palms.

Pfft!

The sound of blood being vomited rang out. At the instant Gu Han's palms met the Old Boatman's, a mouthful of blood sprayed through the air, tracing a beautiful arc. Then the Old Boatman was struck until his bones shattered and tendons snapped, his body turned to mush, and he died on the spot.

Meanwhile, in the river, the black shadow speeding away from the boat paused slightly upon hearing the sound. Yet it swiftly resumed swimming outward.

"Where do you think you're going?!"

Looking at the black shadow in the river, Gu Han stomped his foot, and a slender bamboo pole immediately fell into his hand. Then he swung it with all his might.

Whoosh!

Empowered by Gu Han's boundless strength, the sound of countless layers of air being torn apart rang out. That slender bamboo pole seemed to transform into an iron javelin, carrying incomparable sharpness as it shot into the distant river. It directly pierced through the black shadow in the water, then continued onward without losing speed, plunging into the mud at the bottom of the river. Only after penetrating several feet did it slowly come to a stop.

Splash!

On the tranquil river surface, nearly a hundred meters from the small boat, blood suddenly dyed the water crimson as the bamboo pole entered it. A woman's corpse floated into view, her eyes filled with unwillingness and terror, a huge bloody hole in her chest.

Thus, the Black and White Twin Fiends—renowned throughout the martial world and said to have tricked several Internal Qi experts to their deaths—met their end!

At the bow of the small boat, Gu Han stood with his hands behind his back. Looking at the two corpses around him, he shook his head, without the slightest ripple stirring in the lake of his heart.

It was not that he slaughtered people like grass. Rather, on this journey, Gu Han had encountered far too many people seeking to intercept and kill him by every possible means. They were simply impossible to kill off completely, like spring grass that could never be cut clean.

After all, no one knew when the rumor had begun circulating through the martial world that he carried within him Treasure Pearl Temple's final and most precious inheritance. Moreover, as the number of people he killed over the past few months increased and the strength he displayed grew greater, more and more people in the martial world came to believe the rumor.

The Black and White Twin Fiends were not the first batch, and it seemed they certainly would not be the last.

"Come, let's see what I gained today!"

Looking at the two corpses, a trace of delight appeared on Gu Han's face as well.

Others could kill me for wealth; I could naturally kill others for profit.

In truth, over these past months, Gu Han had gained quite a few benefits by counter-killing those who came to ambush him.

For aside from the first few waves of bandits, those who later dared to intercept and kill him generally did not have poor methods.

Though not one of these people could withstand even a punch or kick from him in terms of strength alone, they occasionally carried things that interested him or were even of great use to him.

For instance, the Black and White Twin Fiends before him.

This husband-and-wife pair possessed ordinary strength, their martial cultivation having only barely reached the Blood Tempering realm. Yet in the martial world, their reputation surpassed that of many wicked experts at the Internal Qi level. They could even stand shoulder to shoulder with evil titans who had reached Great Accomplishment of Internal Qi.

That was because they had far too many tricks. It was said that they had inherited the lineage of the Shadow Poison Sect, a sect that had once dominated the Yan Kingdom a hundred years ago. They were especially skilled in the Disguise Technique and poison-making arts, particularly their famous poison, Ten Fragrance Soft Bone Powder!

This medicine was a white powder, colorless and odorless, and easily dissolved into all kinds of wine, food, and dishes. Its medicinal effect was extraordinarily potent. Often, merely around one qian was enough to make an Internal Qi expert who stood invincible in the martial world lose all Inner Qi, leaving their entire body weak and limp, worse off than an ordinary person.

Back then, the Shadow Poison Sect had relied on this precious medicine to run rampant for a time, its might shaking all directions. Countless experts had fallen for it. Unfortunately, the sect later acted too recklessly, wantonly harming people of the martial world, and was ultimately exterminated by the joint efforts of the major martial sects.

A hundred years later, no one knew how these two had obtained the Shadow Poison Sect's inheritance once more. Yet they had actually used their mere Blood Tempering cultivation to dominate, suppressing countless wicked experts of the Internal Qi Realm.

Curious, Gu Han began searching the bodies.