[Got myptop back, sorry for the trouble :) ]


    I took out a human ranked shield that I just had lying around in my spatial ring. I had a feeling that this was not going to be a simple battle any longer.


    Dao frightened me. And sword dao was bound to be strong, stronger in attack than any other. I could not even expect what was going toe.


    "Do you think that I entered the Xiantian realm without having a Dao of my own? Us alchemists, we are masters of fire and earth, and you just don''t realize it. If alchemists were actually weak inbat, then the pill towers would have copsed centuries ago." You Fengughed.


    His fists startedbusting spontaneously, and he pointed them towards Cai Yun''er. She swung her sword once, and a ray of light shed towards You Feng.


    He threw a fire ball towards the sh, but it cut right through it and headed towards him. He gritted his teeth and threw another ball of fire forward, but this one was more powerful.


    The sh deflected and hit another side of the pill tower. I could see that every wall had runes on them to make them stronger, but this single attack was strong enough for those runes to beak, and the wall to copse.


    "That is why master told me that I had to enter the Xiantian realm if I wanted to leave that room. I need to master a dao and get to the xiantian realm, it seems that they are connected to each other." I nodded.


    Ethereal Weapon arts! Shield first form!


    A protective barrier formed in front of me in anticipation of some fallback. The moment that the residue attack approached me, I could feel the mortal danger. It struck the barrier that I created, and pushed me back ten feet.


    Cracks began to form on the barrier and on the shield. It was not going tost another attack. And I did not have a shield for every attack that they were going to throw out.


    "The weapon that I should get should be a protective armor or a shield. I have my spear, but my defense front iscking." I realized.


    I finally let go of the shield, and fell to the ground. The attack had gone past me to the rest of the crowd. I didn''t care what happened to them though.


    I had to make sure that these two died. They were talking about their systems in the open so easily, and that could only mean that they nned to kill us all eventually.


    I started getting close to them. This was the only time that I could attack them at. With both of them understanding how powerful the other was, they had their concentrations focused on each other.


    I nced at Ru Yutan, who proved to be worthless almost immediately. He was coughing out ck blood, and was on the floor still.


    "ck blood? ck veins? This guy was poisoned with venom from the Hidden Cloud snake! The same poison that thedy from the Cai family was poisoned by! For the first time, I got lucky!" I realized.


    With glee, I ran towards him. The fight had taken the other two to another ce after all, and they couldn''t care less about a vanquished enemy.


    I got to him, and saw that he was struggling to stay awake. He was strong enough to keep the poison at bay, but only that. He could not do anything else.


    I grinned and took away his spatial ring. This was my payment for saving his life. Then, I put the Cloud Suppression Pill in his mouth, and used Qi to shove it down his throat.


    I kneeled and whispered in his ears, "Wait for them to be busy, and then strike. You should injure both of them at once. Then, I can guarantee that you will kill You Feng." I said.


    Luckily, no one cared about me and Ru Yutan. Everyone was too engrossed with the fight that was taking ce in front of them.


    The ck veins all over Ru Yutan''s body started fading away slowly. I quickly left his side. I did not know what he would do. In the end, he was a bandit, and I could not trust him to not kill the person who saved his life.


    He started moving a little bit, and coughed out more blood. The blood was ck, and it had all of the venom that he had ingested. I knew that much. I smiled. He would make this fight interesting, to say the least.


    When battling someone who used a lot of poisons, it was best not to make them desperate. This would do exactly that.


    The fight between You Feng and Cai Yun''er was not any close to finishing. Although their attacks were still consuming Qi, because they were using their understanding of Dao to make their attacks stronger, this was going to be a long battle of attrition.


    That was why I needed this to take a quick turn. If the Pill Tower was under attack, the word would spread. Someone would send reinforcements. I needed to kill both of them before that happened.


    "You are too infuriating. Just die already!" You Feng shouted.


    "Phoenix wings of glory!" he shouted, and a pair of wings appeared behind them. They stared pping, sending piercing fire bullets toward Cai Yun''er.


    "Why the hell didn''t he do this before? He could have just used a trump card if he intended to kill anyone anyways. Why did he dy this so long?" I was furious now. His idiotic thinking was decreasing my chances of killing Cai Yun''er.


    "You will pay for your betrayal. Both of you! I will destroy you even at the cost of me!" Ru Yutan rushed towards them both.


    "I told him to sneak attack. Why is he rushing straight at them? Does no one here use their brain?" I shook my head.


    But the expression of both Cai Yun''er and You Feng changed.


    "He is about to self explode! He is going to kill both of us!" You Feng shouted with shock.


    I looked at them with shock as well. He was going to self explode. I turned around to run, just like everyone else who heard this.


    But I felt a suctioning force. No one else felt this. I was just close to Ru Yutan. Closer than everyone else. So were You Feng and Cai Yun''er. They were also getting sucked in.


    This was his final card.


    Boom!


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