"You..."
Caught utterly off guard, Shang Poyue suffered a grievous injury. Feeling plague poison enter his body as well, he was overcome with shock and fury!
He violently surged his Grandmaster true qi, blasting Wu Lingyun backward like a volcanic eruption. Blood spilled from the corner of her mouth, but the wound left by her short sword and the plague poison invading his meridians instantly threw Shang Poyue's qi into turmoil!
He whipped his head around to look at Wu Lingyun. Her eyes were vacant, yet she struggled to rise, intent on attacking him with her sword regardless. His heart chilled. She's... under the Mind-Control Art? When?!
In his shock and fury, Shang Poyue held nothing back. True qi erupted around him, and an enormous Spirit Vulture Dharma Form, condensed from pure true qi, manifested with him protected at its center!
Wu Lingyun hacked wildly with her short sword. Its blade struck his Gang Qi with piercing screeches, but could no longer breach that solid defense.
Shang Poyue's icy gaze shot like a knife toward Lu Changfeng, who had watched calmly all along. With plague poison steadily eating away at his waist and Wu Lingyun standing before him like a woman possessed, an unprecedented sense of humiliation and rage welled up inside him. Through gritted teeth, he said, "You little brat! This was your doing!!"
Meeting his gaze, Lu Changfeng smiled calmly, his voice dripping with undisguised mockery. "Did you think my flattery came free? Who did you think I was talking to when I said 'do it' just now?"
He turned toward the frenzied Wu Lingyun, his voice abruptly sharpening as he ordered, "Watch him! If he dares take another step or circulate his qi to expel the poison, sever your own heart meridians immediately and die in front