"Anyone who could disguise themselves as another so easily and remain undetected by us for so long must be the 'Hundred Transformations Scholar,' one of Duo Ercha's four Innate Experts!"
"Watch out for his poison!"
Zhang Yuanshan warned them even as he drew his sword and charged forward.
Sure enough, just as Zhang Yuanshan's intelligence had described, a cloud of pungent Red Mist erupted from where the Hundred Transformations Scholar stood the next instant.
He had no intention of prolonging the fight. The moment he threw out the poisonous smoke, he prepared to break through the encirclement.
As had been said before, despite being at the Aperture Opening level in this low-martial world, the Hundred Transformations Scholar was no match for any one of Qing Ying, Zhang Yuanshan, or Jiang Zhiwei in terms of combat strength.
But he had lived many more years than they had, and anyone who could cultivate to such a level in a low-martial world was bound to be talented.
Naturally, he was far more proficient in the miscellaneous arts he specialized in than these geniuses, who had devoted themselves wholeheartedly to martial arts and were not yet twenty.
Even surrounded like this, he relied on the poisonous smoke to flee, successively evading Zhang Yuanshan's and Qing Ying's interceptions. Though his weapon was sent flying after a brief clash with Jiang Zhiwei, he used the momentum to break free once more.
He twisted through the air in a lightning-fast Z-shaped series of turns, then abruptly changed direction and lunged toward Xu Yue and Ke Biqun.
Palm force gathered and surged in his hands. As he rapidly closed in, he pressed both palms toward them.
In the shortest possible time, he had found the best route of escape—and even intended to kill the two of them along