The reason for the silence was simple: another person had emerged.
Judging by her figure, she was a woman. But not a single person looked down on her for that. Everyone's pupils shrank to pinpoints in an instant. They stared fixedly at the vine in her hand.
Flexible Assassins could specialize in many kinds of weapons, but supple vines were among the most difficult to master. A Flexible Assassin holding a vine was enough to alert everyone to danger. And if that vine was starvine, practically no one dared come within twenty meters of its wielder. Starvine-the most famous and powerful vine weapon.
The techniques for using vines differed from those of every other weapon and were passed down in only a handful of tribes.
Flexible Assassins who wielded vines were the most dangerous of all. That saying had circulated in Hundred Abyss Prefecture for centuries.
Her splendid equipment was every bit a match for the man's. Each of her fingers was wrapped in fine strands of different colors, drawn from the tail feathers of Spotted-Hole Birds. Dark gold soft gold vine wound around her wrists. A black vine encircled her waist: black dodder silk. Two more unidentified kinds of vine were tied around her legs, but their texture and luster alone showed they were anything but ordinary.
Unfortunately, none of the Flexible Assassins here specialized in vine weapons. Otherwise, the sight of the myriad vines wrapped around this female Flexible Assassin would have made them faint on the spot. Any single vine on her body was a priceless treasure countless people dreamed of possessing, yet on her, they looked like mere ornaments.
Seeing humans other than themselves for the first time in two years filled Chen Mu with wild joy.
Despite being attacked, Chen Mu had a rough understanding