Zhao Linchuan's gaze turned cold. With a flick of his wrist, he swung his sword, the blade whistling through the air as it smashed heavily into the back of Tang Hao's head, knocking him to the ground once more.
Then, moving as fast as lightning, he seized Tang Hao's jaw with his left hand and forced his mouth open. With his right, he swiftly pulled an exquisite jade vial from his robes and poured all the foul-smelling yellow powder inside straight down his throat!
"Cough, cough... Urgh! You... what did you make me eat?!" Tang Hao retched desperately, but it was useless.
"Don't rush. You'll know soon enough." Zhao Linchuan coldly tossed out those words, then vanished like a Ghost Charm and appeared behind Tang Xiao, who had just been about to move.
Crimson Soul Power gathered in his right hand, carrying the force of a thousand tons as he drove a vicious palm strike into Tang Xiao's completely unguarded back!
"Puh—!" Tang Xiao was struck as if by a sledgehammer. He spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of organs and crashed face-first onto the ground like a torn sack, his aura instantly weakening.
Zhao Linchuan stepped to his side, took out another jade vial, and crouched down. His left hand clamped around Tang Xiao's jaw like iron pincers as he forcibly poured the powder from the vial into his mouth as well.
"Cough, cough... You... what did you make me eat?!" Tang Xiao coughed violently, terror written across his face.
Zhao Linchuan casually tossed the empty jade vial before him. "See for yourself."
Tang Xiao picked up the vial with trembling hands and saw several crooked little words carved onto it: "I Love a Firewood (Extra-Strong Beast Version)."
"You...!" Tang Xiao's face instantly turned ashen.
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