Chapter 1108: Chapter 1109: The Mystery of the Bronze Wedge
Carrying the limbless Egger, they journeyed several hundred miles before Tianshan Poison Immortal King and Crooked Dragon finally stopped.
Egger had a look of relief on his face; he had even thought about how to shout with bravado before he died.
"Thank you both for the rescue. I can’t express my gratitude enough. If there’s anything I can do in the future, I will definitely..."
Before he could finish, Tianshan Poison Immortal King and Crooked Dragon exchanged a smile that made Egger’s scalp tingle with fear.
The Tianshan Poison Immortal King, Pi Yanping, was a bald man in white attire, with a white scorpion sprawled on his head, its venomous tail curled high, looking like a pigtail braid from afar.
"Brother Crooked Dragon, does this man really have what you said, something that can take us out of here?"
Crooked Dragon nodded, "Of course, otherwise I wouldn’t have risked being killed by a True Immortal Level expert to bring him back."
Pi Yanping rubbed his hands, eyes sparkling at Egger. Once they extracted that thing, this guy would be useless. Then he could be used to test a newly concocted poison.
This guy’s flesh and blood were excellent materials for refining poisons. The poison refined from his flesh and blood might be several times stronger than his most potent ’Human Heart Poison.’
’Human Heart Poison’ was Pi Yanping’s strongest poison, of which he only had two doses.
Each dose required the blood from the hearts of hundreds of heinous criminals, a type of villain hard to find, as they needed to be extremely wicked.
So, in a way, Pi Yanping thought he was contributing significantly to the peace and stability of Xia Mansion’s Land.
He was a poison enthusiast. Although considered an eccentric expert, he had little interest in harming others, preferring to study poisons.
But as his research deepened, he encountered a bottleneck unrelated to him; it was the world itself limiting him. From that moment, Pi Yanping realized the world was incomplete.
Afterward, he accidentally met Crooked Dragon, who was exploring this world. Upon learning Crooked Dragon was from the outside, Pi Yanping actively befriended him.
This time, Crooked Dragon reappeared, claiming there was a ’Divine Artifact’ hidden on someone’s body. Once they obtained it, they could leave this world.
However, Egger was a True Immortal Level expert, so Pi Yanping hesitated, unsure whether to join Crooked Dragon’s plan.
After secretly observing and finding Egger at his weakest, Pi Yanping steeled himself and decided to join Crooked Dragon’s scheme.
"If you can leave from here, take me with you, okay? I’m a Catastrophe-Level superpower user. By helping you, you can’t even imagine the benefits you’d gain."
Crooked Dragon shook his head, "Before, I might have given you this chance, but seeing your actions upon arriving in this world, I knew you were a complete menace."
"Collaborating with you, who knows when I might be quietly eliminated, no matter how much benefit there is, I wouldn’t live to enjoy it."
Then the two began to set up a small altar, throwing Egger at its center.
Retrieving the Bronze Wedge projection wasn’t as simple as killing Egger, as the projection would then transfer to someone else, but required a simple ritual to extract it.
The first person to hold the Bronze Wedge projection could choose to leave alone or take others with them.
Pi Yanping busied himself joyfully, never suspecting that Crooked Dragon never intended to take him out from the start.
Trapping Ishna and Black Night Knight in this world forever was what Crooked Dragon really wanted.
Egger’s expression was grim; now he regretted not being killed by Black Night Knight.
If he died at the hands of these two small-timers, his legendary reputation would be ruined.
Thinking this way, Egger completely forgot he was also a small-timer not too long ago.
But Egger hadn’t given up hope. He focused on recovering his strength, believing that once he regained a certain level of power, he could escape.
Mere True Order psychics could never grasp the terror of a Catastrophe-Level expert!
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While the three harbored their own motives, Wen Wen hid behind a tree, observing the entire scene. Wen Wen memorized all they had said.
When Wen Wen began his pursuit, he used the spatial ability of the blue monster and the shadow ability of Nie Ying. Even without activating Catastrophe Mode, his speed far surpassed Crooked Dragon and the others.
So for the second half, Wen Wen followed right behind them, using the ’Mystery’ ability to hide his presence, making it impossible for them to detect him.
Wen Wen was delaying taking action not because he feared their strength, but to secretly figure out how to leave this place.
Once the altar was half constructed, Wen Wen had already deduced how to extract the Bronze Wedge projection from Egger’s body.
The ritual to extract the projection merely used an entry-level Rune Array. As a prospective Rune Master, Wen Wen immediately understood the entire rune just by observing Crooked Dragon’s first stroke. He knew how to activate the rune and what effect it would achieve.
Hence the saying, knowledge is power. Without his profound understanding of runes, Wen Wen wouldn’t have dared to act against Crooked Dragon so lightly, as he wouldn’t have been able to reproduce the ritual, thus cutting off the escape route.
Once he was confident in his grasp of the whole ritual, Wen Wen quietly drew the Blood River Sword, ready to strike Pi Yanping and Crooked Dragon hard at any moment.
These two were top-tier at the True Order level, and Egger was still lying on that side. Wen Wen’s Catastrophe time was only ten minutes a day. To ensure everything was foolproof, he wanted to first understand the abilities of the duo, to ensure he could swiftly take them down once transformed.
Crooked Dragon’s lips nearly twisted to his ears. This time, due to an accident, the Catastrophe-Level expert intruded into Yuriano.
Before, he had always kept Yuriano’s passage open to ensure monsters could come and go freely, because he believed no one from the Hunter Association could get into Yuriano without his permission.
After leaving, he planned to close Yuriano’s passage. With him personally overseeing monster comings and goings, who else could infiltrate?
He stood before the altar, carefully channeling energy to ignite the energy nodes of the Rune Array.
Meanwhile, beside him, Pi Yanping continually administered poison to Egger, suppressing his strength to prevent him from struggling fiercely.
This scene made Wen Wen smirk, feeling it was making a big deal out of a minor entry-level array, as if it were some kind of forbidden ritual.
As the last energy node was about to be lit and the Bronze Wedge projection would be extracted from Egger’s body, Wen Wen flicked a booger at the altar.
The small altar instantly erupted in sparks, leaving Pi Yanping and Crooked Dragon bewildered, having no idea what had happened.