"Who is it? Has someone gone mad?"
The woman's deathly voice, tinged with terror, said, "How dare you openly use Transcendent techniques in here!"
" The Divine Wind Technique can only be possessed by that madwoman," said Murong Yuntian, the head of the Murong Family, his voice tinged with fear.
Chen Qing looked up and saw that Shen Qi, who was standing next to her, had clearly lost her composure. Her hands were clenched into fists, and her nails were digging deep into her flesh!
"What's going on?" Chen Qing asked calmly, not rushing to rescue anyone, but instead asking about the situation.
"There's no time to explain, let's get away from here first," Murong Yuntian said coldly, and led the way towards a dark place, being extremely cautious and not daring to use any magic along the way, as if afraid of encountering something.
The woman beside him quickly followed, Chen Qing rubbed his fingers together slightly, a glint of blue light flashing in his eyes, and he too quickly followed.
"That madman wants to drag everyone here down with him!" Murong Yuntian said as he ran.
The Dowager Consort Beiyu, who was running alongside, didn't understand what was going on, but she immediately heard screams coming from afar. She was so frightened that her scalp tingled, and she ran for her life.
In fact, all four of them knew that among the five people present, the Dowager Consort Beiyu was actually the safest.
As for the screams in the distance, Chen Qing knew almost without guessing what was happening.
Clearly, Murong Yunji has been poisoned, and it's probably reached an unbearable level, forcing her to use her Transcendent powers to expel the poison!
Inside this King Xiang Palace, with the cover of Black Lantern, the Spirit Ghost wouldn't easily approach, for there was an aura here that frightened them. However, if you openly use your Transcendent powers, you still won't be able to hide here.
Murong Yunji knew this too. She wasn't particularly clever, but she wasn't stupid either. Clearly, she had found the only way to survive this life-or-death crisis!
At this moment, within that vast and magnificent hall, flashes of blue light appeared everywhere, and angry curses echoed all around. But before anyone could retaliate, screams of agony rang out as countless people had their heads or half their bodies bitten off out of thin air, with blood, flesh, and internal organs flying everywhere.
Everyone wanted to avoid that madman, but they couldn't. In this era, there was practically no one faster than the Divine Wind.
Murong Yunji's method was simple: use her speed to attack any passerby, forcing them to use their Transcendent powers to fight back!
Those who can enter this place are all experts, all of whom have practiced the sect's methods and techniques. If any sorcerer or bloodline martial artist resists, they will be targeted just like Murong Yunji in the next second.
Both were targeted, but Murong Yunji, being faster, was naturally the one who survived.
She might not be as fast as the man-eating Spirit Ghost in the shadows, but as long as she was faster than everyone around her, that was enough.
She kept trying, constantly pulling people into the fray. If she could manage to get even one person who could hold her own against the monster lurking in the shadows, she could hide in the darkness again in a few moments and perhaps escape unscathed.
After all, because of the Black Lantern in this place, even the best sense of sight and smell seems to be limited to no more than a kilometer. And as long as the distance is far enough, there is a chance to get rid of the other party.
This was her only chance to survive.
But to others, she was a madwoman, an utterly hateful madwoman!
But at this point, no amount of cursing would help; no one could stop the madman. All they could do was pray that he wouldn't target them.
However, they couldn't easily use their spells and scatter, fearing they would be directly targeted.
"My lord, what should we do?"
Shen Qi's voice was somewhat anxious; he rarely sounded so anxious and pleading, but after all, it was Murong Yunji.
Chen Qing pursed his lips and whispered, "Force out the poison!"
"Force the poison out?"
Shen Qi was taken aback, but then immediately realized that this was indeed the best opportunity. He hadn't dared to force the poison before because he wasn't sure of the monster's location, but now that he was, and someone was constantly attracting the monster's attention, this was the perfect time to force the poison!
However, Shen Qi's heart sank slightly. This was indeed the best time to force out the poison, but it was an opportunity gained at the cost of Murong Yunji's life.
Perhaps he shouldn't be so harsh, after all, doing this at this time is indeed the most beneficial course of action, and if the target wasn't Murong Yunji, he probably wouldn't have hesitated at all.
But unfortunately, she is!
Shen Qi ran towards Murong Yunji without hesitation.
But Chen Qing stopped him with one hand as soon as he took a step. "Force out the poison. Only after the poison is removed can we save the person."
Shen Qi paused slightly. He wasn't sure if Chen Qing was trying to trick him, because it seemed the monster was unsolvable. Would he really go to save them?
With no time to think, Shen Qi could only channel her spiritual energy under Chen Qing's sharp gaze and begin to expel the toxins.
When the two did this, Murong Yuntian and the woman beside them were taken aback.
"You've been poisoned too?"
also.
Chen Qing glanced at the two men without speaking, but he already had a judgment in his mind: at least these two men were not behind the scenes, but rather pawns in this deadly game.
"Yes, it forces out the poison!"
The two of them realized what was happening. Yes, the monster was now attracted; if they didn't force out the poison now, when would they?
The four of them activated their spiritual power together and began to expel the toxins from their bodies.
At the moment of activation, the killing monster in the distance was noticeably a beat slower.
"Run east!"
At that moment, Murong Yunji was attacking her next target in the distance, froze for a split second. But it was only for a moment. Without hesitation, she activated all her power, transforming into a streak of azure light and speeding eastward.
At that very moment, Chen Qing grabbed Shen Qi without hesitation and transmitted his voice, "Withdraw the spirit!"
Shen Qi reacted extremely quickly. Although he didn't understand why Chen Qing wanted him to withdraw his spiritual power after he had already expelled half of the poison, he almost subconsciously trusted her and withdrew his spiritual power. Instantly, a powerful wind rose around him, and he was pulled up by Chen Qing and sped off to the west!
Murong Yuntian and the woman, who were left behind, were stunned for a moment. After they realized what was happening, they secretly thought, "This is bad!"
But it was too late. Almost the instant Chen Qing disappeared, the two were bitten in two.
Blood and flesh were instantly scattered all over the ground. Beiyu Yan, who had been among the group, sat slumped on the ground, stunned, trembling with fear as she stared at the surrounding carnage, completely bewildered by what had happened!
A kilometer away, in a dark corner, Chen Qing held Shen Qi, hiding behind a pillar, motionless. At this moment, he was also pale, his hands were trembling, and he was waiting for something with his eyes closed.
One breath. Two breaths. Three breaths
There was still no movement, but Chen Qing remained stiff, sweat dripping onto the ground.
This was probably the least certain he had ever been since he transmigrated, and also the closest he had ever come to death!
The Spirit Ghost program is not intelligent; it's just a regular reactive program. If it were coded intelligently, the monster would have its own logical judgments, making such a buggy monster too unsolvable. Therefore, it can only be a reactive program without emotions.
If there is no emotion, then the judgment is rigid, and the logic of judgment is very simple.
Quite by chance, he personally wrote the code for this monster!
He understood the monster's attack logic perfectly. First, it would prioritize attacking the Transcendent force closest to it. And if it encountered two Transcendent forces together, it would prioritize attacking the one that was easier to catch.
This is why Murong Yunji has survived until now; she is fast enough that as long as she can keep finding targets, she can keep finding scapegoats.
There's another layer of logic on top of this process: if there are two Transcendent energies in different directions, then quantity will take priority. The reason I had Shen Qi use his spiritual power to expel the poison was to lure the other two to do the same.
Actually, he wasn't sure at the time whether Murong Yuntian and the other woman were poisoned. He was just taking a gamble and seeing what would happen. It didn't matter if he lost the gamble, because the monster followed the principle of proximity. If multiple streams of Transcendent spiritual energy weren't activated here at the same time, it wouldn't be able to attract the monster to abandon Murong Yunji and attack his own area instead.
The worst-case scenario is that Murong Yunji will continue to be entangled or even die, but at least the two of them can be cured of the poison, so it won't be too much of a loss.
But if the gamble pays off, Murong Yuntian and his companion are also poisoned, and they try to expel the poison like the two of them, then there will be a chance to save Murong Yunji.
That's why Chen Qing grabbed Shen Qi and quickly ran away the moment he saw the two of them expelling the poison.
He didn't remember the monster's speed, but he estimated it wouldn't be faster than the Divine Wind, at most the same speed. Otherwise, Murong Yunji wouldn't have been able to hold out for so long. As long as he anticipated that the monster would be attracted, he could retreat in advance, even if the monster only stayed with Murong Yuntian and the other person for a fraction of a second.
With his speed, he could pull Shen Qi at least a kilometer away.
This place is shrouded in Black Lantern, limiting sight and smell to a range of only a kilometer. In other words, if you run out of that range and conceal your spiritual power, you can re-enter the Spirit Ghost's blind spot.
Having survived the three breaths without being killed, Chen Qing could almost guess without looking back that everything was proceeding according to his plan.
But the crisis is not over!
If they're unlucky, the two of them will still die here.