"Am... am I still alive?"
Watching the phantom of the blazing sun vanish before her eyes while she herself remained unscathed, Xuan Yu touched her face, feeling as though none of it was real.
Just moments ago, she had already prepared herself to perish.
Then, a tremendous crash rang out beside Ye Lin. The two men from before lay sprawled on the ground in utter disarray, both staring at Poison Venerable in midair with terror written across their faces.
"As expected of Poison Venerable. We are deeply impressed."
Xu Xing rose to his feet, clutching his chest with a bitter smile.
Yet in the next instant, before his disbelieving eyes, a streak of green light entered his sea of consciousness.
Lion beside him was unable to escape it either. Both had been afflicted with Poison Venerable's poison bell.
"What is this? What exactly did you do?"
Xu Xing sensed the additional cluster of green light within his sea of consciousness and roared at Poison Venerable in the air.
"Just a little trick. This is what losers ought to bear."
Poison Venerable merely cast Xu Xing a faint glance as he spoke slowly, then walked toward Ye Lin.
In his eyes, losers were not even worthy of a proper look.
"Thank you."
Xuan Yu thanked Ye Lin, then turned and left.
"Are you still not planning to come out?"
Ye Lin did not dwell on that minor interlude, instead calling out toward the empty canyon.
After waiting for quite some time without any further movement, Ye Lin curled his lip and walked toward Dragonhead City with his hands behind his back.
"We're just going to let them enter Dragonhead City like this? We won't stop them? If they enter Dragonhead City this time, we'll never have another chance."
From the shadows,