The Fuxi Physiognomy School's Inheritance

Hongku did not care how badly he got along with his students, nor did he care that the people they had brought along meant to target him.

Hongku cared only about the variables that had appeared in his contest with the Venerables.

Every variable had a role to play.

If Hongku fought Venerable Wenhuang, the latter's all-encompassing plague poison would leave him wishing he were dead.

Yet Jin Chang had reduced Venerable Wenhuang to a lone head with a single sneak attack, and was even wearing the Venerable's head as a disguise.

Hongku had not gone out for many years and knew nothing of the shifting winds and clouds in the outside world, but he could vaguely recognize the Yin-Yang School methods Jin Chang possessed.

He needed those methods to help him.

"He's someone Senior Brother Wu Chao knows. There's no way I can persuade him for you!"

Zhang Xuezhou wore a troubled expression after hearing Hongku's request.

Zhang Xuezhou thought anyone dragged away from squatting over a privy to risk his life would feel miserable.

But faced with Hongku sending a sky-and-earth-covering mass of venomous snakes to fetch him, Zhang Xuezhou could not remain on the privy. He tightened his waistband, took some poison from Hongku's collection, and helped him unleash it, poisoning Venerable Daode and bringing him down.

Hongku's body had been ravaged by Zhang Xuezhou and injured by Wu Chao. Then Venerable Sanxiao's magic sword had cut down the formation ghosts he controlled, and Venerable Daode had broken his Snake Head Incantation. Hongku's body could not have been in worse condition.

If not for the Snake Head Incantation coiled around his waist, Zhang Xuezhou thought the idea of taking a risk would surely have entered his head again.

But Hongku did have a sliver of a chance