You Gave It Away, Lu Da~

He clenched his whole body tight and threw a one-handed punch, power bursting forth.

The punch went straight for the head. Martial artists were still human; injuries could bring all sorts of conditions.

For instance, fainting, weakness, blurred consciousness, and so on.

In other words, after this punch, Flower Face would very likely lose the ability to resist and then be beaten alive to death by Lu Bai.

However, Flower Face was not someone without the strength to fight back.

After Lu Bai grabbed him, Flower Face tried using withering internal force to batter his way free, but when that temporarily failed, his body had already begun to change.

When Lu Bai's fist landed on his head, it felt as though he had struck the thousand-year-old timber of a martial hall.

That sort of old wood had endured who knew how many years of pounding; some pieces were even harder than steel.

At that moment, Flower Face's flesh and blood continued to wither, as though fresh meat had turned into old air-dried cured meat.

His body changed from that of a fairly tall, sturdy man into a terrifying skin-and-bones dried corpse, as though a gust of wind could blow him away.

Yet by Lu Bai's feeling, the other man had become incomparably heavier in that instant.

After taking Lu Bai's punch, Flower Face merely tilted his head back. There was no other reaction.

Instead, he twisted his body, and his pair of shriveled feet rose into the air and kicked Lu Bai in the chest.

His hands, thinner than a child's, took the chance to slip free from Lu Bai's grasp.

Though calling them ghost claws would have been more fitting now.

They were dry, black, skinny, and hideously twisted in shape.

At the same time, it was clear that Flower Face's body had grown far more rigid, and his formerly nimble movements had become somewhat distorted.

Seeing Flower Face like this, Lu Bai shook out his hand.

"Realized you couldn't win by taking shortcuts, so you changed your approach?" Lu Bai shook his body and spoke.

"In that case, I can only use the ultimate move I just came up with!"

Flower Face's expression turned grave as well.

They had discovered that someone had infiltrated Hundred Flower Grave some time ago, because the corpse in the latrine had been found.

During this period, the conflict between Hundred Flower Grave and the Holy Land had been completely ignited.

After noticing this, they suspected that someone from the Holy Land had slipped inside.

After a round of searching, they found Lin Bai, who had been asking around about the Withered Glory Scripture.

Once Lin Bai was caught, he immediately sold Lu Bai out.

Never mind whether Lu Bai's secret was important or not—if he did not confess, he would die.

The moment Flower Face heard Lu Bai's characteristics, he recognized him as the person who had snatched Phoenix Flying Lady from his hands back then.

According to their original plan, capturing Phoenix Flying Lady alive and bringing her out at the oath-taking assembly would have been far more effective than presenting a corpse alone.

After learning that his opponent was an external martial arts expert, Flower Face had deliberately entered the Withering State beforehand.

Yet he had not expected to still fall short and be forced into the Deathly Withering State.

Next, he could either use the Life-Eroding Flower to absorb Nutrients on a massive scale and transform from the Deathly Withering State into the Flourishing State.

Or he would have to enter the Withered Glory Tribulation, comprehend the changes of life and death, and see whether he could cross through it.

This was already a state of staking his life.

And according to the information he had tortured out of Lin Bai, Lu Bai had been studying the Blood Burning Technique lately.

Once that life-staking move was unleashed, he might not be able to hold on for long!

"Watch closely—my ultimate move!"

Lu Bai's aura rose without end. Then he suddenly flung a pellet at the ground, instantly blasting up a great cloud of smoke.

And Lu Bai, who had declared he would use a big move, immediately slammed into the window and raced away on flying legs.

Without pausing for even half a breath, he ignored the disciples who had come to watch the commotion and sprinted along the escape route he had long since mapped out.

"Only an idiot would use a life-staking move to fight you under these circumstances."

Lu Bai had never forgotten that he was inside Hundred Flower Grave.

Even if he fought desperately and killed Flower Face, the people who came afterward could surround him and trap him alive. He would be better off saving his strength to escape.

As for the Withered Glory Scripture, there was no rush. His modules were insufficient anyway, and he had no way to build a superior martial art in the short term.

At least he had a target now. Later, he could either infiltrate again or simply start from the source.

He could even directly target and hunt the elders of Hundred Flower Valley.

After all, Travelers were not local natives. Even if they obtained a secret manual, they could not cultivate it directly and still needed the corresponding modules.

So long as he obtained the modules, even without the relevant secret manual, he could gradually work it out bit by bit.

That was also the Traveler's advantage.

Lu Bai ran all the way like a humanoid cheetah.

When those disciples saw Lu Bai like this, they had no intention of intercepting him at all.

If this had been Hundred Flower Valley of the past, such a thing would never have happened.

Because this place had once been everyone's home, while now it was merely someone else's grave.

What most people wanted was to leap out of this tomb.

But in the next moment, quite a few people launched hidden weapons at Lu Bai and gave chase.

Because they discovered that Lu Bai was heading toward the flower fields.

The flower fields were bound to everyone's lives. If they died, the flowers could not live either; they would quickly wither and condense into modules.

And if the flowers died, they too would suffer qi deviation, their internal qi running wild as they became dried corpses.

It could be said that the Life-Eroding Flowers had become their lifelines and were the absolute top priority.

Previously, Lu Bai had easily infiltrated the disciples' living quarters, but he had stopped before reaching the flower fields.

Of course, the Life-Eroding Flowers were no pushovers either.

Lu Bai had asked Lin Bai about them. The Life-Eroding Flower fields were poisonous.

Though they were called flowers, they were actually more like venomous snakes.

Unless one was a death warrior who had undergone special modifications, anyone who entered there would be ensnared by the Life-Eroding Flowers. Their fine hairs could easily pierce through pores into the body, and the toxins they carried could cause swift sudden death.

Once, a disciple could no longer bear the cruel environment of Hundred Flower Grave and went mad, charging into the flower fields to wreak havoc. Yet he damaged at most two or three flowers before collapsing where he stood, dead from the poison.

Although Lu Bai's body was strong, he could not withstand such toxins.

As for relying on his own strength to seal his pores shut, do not ask him—he could not do that.

He was merely a physically powerful martial artist, not some freak.

Therefore, his purpose in running toward the flower fields was not to escape through them.

The flower fields soon came into view. A vast expanse of flowers in every color swayed in the cold wind, spaced apart from one another.

A large number of death warriors stood guard nearby. After noticing the disturbance, several of them moved out in an orderly manner to block the way ahead.

However, Lu Bai did not approach the flower fields. Once he reached this area, he ran off to one side.

On the contrary, the Hundred Flower Grave disciples pursuing him shifted their attention from Lu Bai to the flower fields. At once, they located the Life-Eroding Flowers symbiotic with themselves.

Then they warily watched the fellow disciples around them, freezing where they stood and blocking the path, while also forcing the pursuing Flower Face to stop.

He knew the atmosphere within Hundred Flower Grave very well. If he disregarded everything and continued chasing Lu Bai, more than half of the remaining disciples could die.

Thus, he could only watch Lu Bai's figure swiftly vanish.

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