"Mr. Xiao, you arrived just in time."
Wu Sansi's brow eased slightly as he stood with his hands behind his back. The pale golden halo of earth qi around him remained sharply distinct from Xiao Changchun's black Plague Poison mist, yet the two seemed faintly complementary.
Xiao Changchun nodded slightly, his eerie green gaze sweeping through the pagoda. "Your Highness was in danger. Naturally, I had to... hmm?!" Before his hoarse voice faded, another sudden change struck.
Rattle-whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!!
Hidden mechanisms in all four walls of the pagoda, its beams and pillars, and even some of its floor tiles activated at once!
Hundreds of crossbow bolts, flying needles, bone-piercing spikes, iron caltrops... all manner of vicious hidden weapons, gleaming with dark blue and sickly green poison, erupted from every direction like a torrential downpour. The center of their barrage was precisely where Wu Sansi and Xiao Changchun stood!
Tang Sect Mechanisms, ten thousand arrows unleashed!
This utterly abrupt assault had clearly been prepared in advance, its timing viciously precise.
It struck at the very instant Xiao Changchun's energy slackened after he unleashed his poison art, and Wu Sansi let down his guard!
The shrill, piercing whistles of the hidden weapons filled the air, so densely packed that they almost blotted out everyone's sight!
"Paltry tricks!"
Wu Sansi snorted coldly without even moving his feet.
Pale golden ripples of earth qi suddenly spread beneath him. His Imperial Pole World-Reordering Art circulated at full strength, connecting with the earth veins. A dense, heavy layer of ocher Gang Qi instantly formed around him like an enormous inverted bell.
Xiao Changchun's gray robe billowed as still denser black Plague Poison mist poured out, forming a roiling poison cloud around him. The hidden weapons entering it gave off a succession of corrosive hisses. Their