Whoosh!
As soon as the words fell, light blazed, bathing the entire cave in gold. The air hummed, and loose stones bounced on the ground.
Zeng Mu pushed off with both feet and vanished. A second later, his hand closed like a tiger's claw around the throat of the Blue-Robed Envoy on the left. With a crash, he drove him into the stone wall.
Rubble flew and dust billowed. The tremendous force embedded the Blue-Robed Envoy an inch deep in the wall, shattering its smooth surface like a mirror of ice.
The blow landed in an instant. Had its thunderous crash not drowned out Feng Gu's cry to kill, the cold echo of that cry would still have been audible.
The other Blue-Robed Envoy had already retreated into the distance in that instant. Before an ordinary person could even process what was happening, he had grasped both his situation and his opponents' insane intentions.
He was furious beyond words. His face twisted, savage as a demon, and his mouth gaped open, exposing gray-black teeth and pale yellow gums. Each word came out like a blade. "Well, well, Feng Gu! You dare strike against your superiors! This is betrayal of the cult!"
"Hmph! Betrayal? Of course it is. I've waited seven whole years for this day!" With that, Feng Gu put two fingers in his mouth and whistled.
At the whistle, a vast black tide surged into the cave and crashed toward the Blue-Robed Envoy standing near its entrance.
As countless venomous snakes and insects rained down on him, no fear appeared in the Blue-Robed Envoy's eyes. Instead, a flash of vicious contempt crossed them.
"Petty tricks!"
He spread his sleeve, releasing a flash of black light that spread like smoke and instantly enveloped him. In a heartbeat, the black mist