"What!"
"He actually wounded me?"
The shock Yang Jingwei and the others felt was nothing compared to Chi Gongming's own. He was the one who had truly faced Fang Qianyuan and exchanged blows with him.
Before coming here, he had already heard others speak of Fang Qianyuan's unrivaled reputation. He also knew that Fang Qianyuan had slain Wei Huan and overcome an opponent with Tenth Transformation strength-feats that were not exaggerated in the slightest.
But however highly he regarded Fang Qianyuan, however seriously he took him, he had only considered him a top expert with Tenth Transformation combat strength.
He himself was an expert on the same level. Even if his strength had declined somewhat with age, he was only in his fifties, nowhere near frailty.
He could not believe that a mere moment's distraction had allowed Fang Qianyuan to seize the opening and wound him-and that single strike had nearly killed him!
Feeling the breath of death brush past his shoulder, Chi Gongming's expression immediately darkened. He hurriedly flew backward, retreating from Fang Qianyuan's deadly edge.
"Careful, Elder Chi!"
Seeing this, Red Scorpion advanced instead of retreating. With a beckoning gesture, he summoned an enormous venomous scorpion out of thin air, its entire body reddish-brown and seemingly cast from iron.
This was the Spirit Creature he primarily cultivated: the low-grade Earth Rank Redfire Yellow Spirit Scorpion!
It had originally been an ordinary Spirit Creature. But after undergoing sacrificial refinement amid the slaughter of countless venomous creatures in Ten Thousand Poisons Valley and devouring the essence of myriad poisons, it had transformed.
It was no longer an ordinary low-grade Earth Rank venomous creature, but the king of myriad poisons, the finest of all gu!
Moreover, after devouring vast quantities of a strange mineral called rust poison, it had accumulated iron-brown