"...You are Zhuge Qian?"
The man stood in the air, black qi swirling around his entire body. Hearing this, he let out a cold laugh.
"Good, good, good! Since you know my name, you still dare come here and run wild!"
Shen Hui rose from the cliff's edge and said calmly,
"The Plague Emperor Sect spreads plague and pestilence, ravaging living beings. Heaven's justice cannot tolerate it. I have come for no other reason than to rid the world of this scourge."
A cold gleam flickered in Zhuge Qian's eyes as he said icily,
"So, a debt collector has come."
Before his words had even faded, he gave his sleeve a violent shake.
With a low "buzz," three balls of inky green light flew from his sleeve and shot straight at Shen Hui.
They came without a sound, yet their speed was astonishing.
In the blink of an eye, they had reached within several yards of him.
Shen Hui focused his gaze. Those were no light balls at all, but three strange insects.
Each was the size of a fist, dark green all over, with abdomens swollen like eggs. Fine cracks ran across the shells on their backs, faintly leaking a dim, ghostly glow.
A warning flared in his heart, and he did not dare be careless.
At a thought, two streaks of sword light shot from his sleeve.
One red and one white, they flashed forth like startled rainbows. With a single twist, they minced the three strange insects to dust.
"Pop! Pop! Pop!"
The insect corpses exploded, bursting into three clouds of thick, inky green mist.
Yet when the mist met the wind, it did not disperse. Instead, it suddenly swelled, like three green demon flowers blooming in midair.
Shen Hui flashed away, already retreating over a hundred