The Game Is Over

The rest of Shui Gaoge's words were, he couldn't fully utilize his Gang Qi. After taking the pill, he could only use up to thirty percent of his Gang Qi, rendering over half of his strength useless.

Furthermore, he had added a potent ingredient to the pill – the Thread Gu Worm Queen!

Once inside the human body, it would rapidly attach itself to the heart. If necessary, it would inject poison into the heart, or even detonate itself to destroy the heart.

At that point, no medicine would be able to save them.

Especially when used in conjunction with the Soul-Binding Silk Poison, it would prevent the victim's Gang Qi from enveloping the poison pill. This was because the Soul-Binding Silk Poison would continuously erode the Gang Qi; the more Gang Qi invested, the faster the erosion.

It was like a snowball effect, turning into an avalanche, and then it was game over.

But Zhao Ping'an was fearless. His physical body was already immune to all poisons.

"Good! I'll eat it!"

Zhao Ping'an opened his other hand and said.

"Haha, good! Truly a young hero, fearless!"

Shui Gaoge laughed heartily, unable to hide the smile in his eyes. The four Grandmasters behind him exchanged glances and looked at Zhao Ping'an with smiles, their eyes full of mockery.

He directly tossed the poison pill in his hand to Zhao Ping'an, then watched him swallow it.

"Very good, hand Zhao Xiuyun over to him!"

Seeing Zhao Ping'an swallow the poison pill, Shui Gaoge waved to Qian Yingying beside him.

"Here you go! I have to say, you're foolishly cute..."

Qian Yingying flashed in front of Zhao Ping'an, directly tossing Zhao Xiuyun, who was on her back, to him. She whispered softly, her tone full of pity.

Zhao Ping'an didn't have time to pay attention to her. After taking his Mistress, he immediately circulated his True Essence within her body. Finding no poison or foreign objects, he carefully placed his Mistress on his back.

As for the poison and Gu Worm within his own body, he merely wrapped them with True Essence for now. The Soul-Binding Silk Poison, being a specialized poison targeting Gang Qi, had no effect on True Essence. As for the Thread Gu Worm Queen, it was impossible for it to break through the seal of True Essence.

And now, that thing was useless.

"Bang!"

With a sound so faint it was almost imperceptible, Zhao Ping'an heard a noise in his ear. The poison pill within his body, along with the Gu Worm, shattered, turning into powder.

He then opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of black saliva, which hissed and sizzled on the ground, quickly corroding a hole.

Qian Yingying, who had been happily smiling, suddenly changed her expression. Disbelievingly, she took out a thumb-sized worm and looked bewildered.

"What's wrong? Why did you take out the Worm King?"

Guan Liang, standing beside her, looked at Qian Yingying's troubled expression and asked curiously.

"The Worm Queen... is dead!"

"What? The Worm Queen isn't..."

The few of them immediately turned their gazes to Zhao Ping'an, and then saw him spitting out a mouthful of black blood.

"I don't know who gave you the guts to target me, but that doesn't matter anymore. I will find out who it was. Now, the game is over!"

Looking at the four Grandmasters and one Great Grandmaster before him, Zhao Ping'an crushed the martial arts manual in his palm into powder and threw it into the nearby bonfire. His voice was like a frigid spring from the deepest abyss, chilling to the bone.

"No! My martial art! Kid, you're courting death!"

Seeing the martial arts manual turn to ash in an instant, Shui Gaoge's face contorted with rage as he roared and lunged at Zhao Ping'an.

"Imperial Extreme Raging Waves Fist!"

A vortex about ten feet wide instantly appeared between Shui Gaoge's fists. A stream of water, condensed entirely from Gang Qi, transformed into a ferocious dragon and charged directly at Zhao Ping'an.

Clearly, Shui Gaoge's mind was clouded by rage. He had forgotten that Zhao Ping'an was a living martial arts manual. If he were killed, everything would truly be lost.

However, Zhao Ping'an, now unburdened, was too lazy to waste words with these people. Seeing Shui Gaoge attack first, a tiny red glow appeared on his fingertip, which he flicked out.

It was the fire-attribute True Essence from the Four Symbols Gathering Essence Art, combined with the technique of the Yellow-grade perfect Martial Art, Phantom Flying Dagger.

The tiny point of True Essence grew rapidly in the wind, instantly transforming into a massive fireball that conjured a sky full of flames, swiftly crushing down towards Shui Gaoge ahead.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye. The others were still in a state of confusion, bewilderment, and shock.

"Hiss!..."

"Boom!"

With a series of sounds of steam evaporating, the Gang Qi water dragon formed by Shui Gaoge's full-power Imperial Extreme Raging Waves Fist was completely vaporized by the giant fireball.

Then, the unstoppable fireball directly struck Shui Gaoge's chest, which he had no time to defend. A massive roar erupted, followed by a piercing scream from Shui Gaoge's mouth.

When the smoke and dust cleared, everyone saw that Shui Gaoge's exposed skin was covered in blisters and bloody wounds from severe burns, a truly tragic sight. He continued to scream from his mouth.

"True Essence! You're not a Grandmaster, you've actually reached the Martial Venerable realm! A young Martial Venerable!!! I'm not reconciled!!!"

Lying on the ground, rolling in agony, Shui Gaoge roared intermittently amidst his screams, his voice filled with confusion, shock, fear, and even despair.

He hadn't expected the gap between intelligence and reality to be so vast, so vast that he couldn't even dare to imagine it.

This was an eighteen-year-old Martial Venerable expert, someone who could top the entire Latent Dragon Ranking. And what had he done? Kidnapping and extortion!

Fortunately, Zhao Ping'an didn't intend to take Shui Gaoge's life for the moment, otherwise, he would have already turned into a pile of charcoal.

As for the others, he had no intention of letting them go.

He watched in shock as the four Grandmaster peak experts and twenty Black Underworld Guards (the last ten had arrived with Qian Yingying) were instantly impaled through the skull by earthy yellow True Essence spikes, utterly dead.

Perhaps these people held high status, but anyone who dared to cross him, Zhao Ping'an, would only find death.

Immediately after, Zhao Ping'an, his eyes filled with a dense purple light, appeared before Shui Gaoge.

Soon, within the deserted Thousand Guts Valley, sounds of absolute misery continuously echoed, chilling anyone who heard them to the bone.

The screams were overheard by two herb pickers who had entered the mountain. The news spread from one to ten, then ten to a hundred, eventually evolving into a tale of man-eating demons emerging in Thousand Guts Valley, dragging anyone who approached into its depths to be skinned and have their tendons pulled, then their flesh eaten, blood drunk, marrow sucked... ultimately dying without a burial place.

For a time, Thousand Guts Valley, already a place no one dared to enter, became a renowned deadly forbidden zone, and even the surrounding hills were no longer trodden.

"Shui Gaoge? The King of Equal Rank from the Profound Water Dynasty? The Poison Wolf Gang? Truly unexpected..."