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Chapter 81: Chapter 81 Black Tornado
In the blink of an eye, five days had passed. During these days, Lin Feng had been cultivating the Wind Fire Thunder Tribulation Seal indoors. At present, he had reached the Sixth Layer as a martial master, with a strength of 1999 jin, stronger than the typical Ninth Layer Peak.
Clang
Just at this moment, the gate to the courtyard opened. Lin Feng suddenly opened his eyes and saw someone stumbling into the room.
It was Yang Min, but she was covered in blood, and the two people who had gone out with her were nowhere to be seen. A chill ran through Lin Feng’s heart, recalling he hadn’t seen those two in the Divine Wind Camp before. Could it be that something had happened?
Lin Feng thought thus and moved towards Yang Min’s direction. Inside the room, Yang Min was rummaging through boxes and cabinets, hastily swallowing several bottles of elixirs. Her body was still emitting a faint hint of green, clearly severely poisoned.
Hearing footsteps outside the house and seeing it was Lin Feng, Yang Min’s face changed. She mustered her last bit of strength to prevent herself from fainting, "You... what are you doing here... get out!"
Lin Feng glanced at her condition and said nothing, walking straight into the room, "You’re poisoned. Without someone to help you expel the poison, those couple of Detoxification Pills worth one or two hundred Gold Pearls each won’t be sufficient to clear it."
"You... How did you know I was poisoned?" Yang Min weakly said.
Lin Feng was speechless, "Little sister, your face has turned green, and there’s such a large pus-and-blood oozing wound on your arm. Am I blind not to see that?"
"Not only do I know you’re poisoned, but I also know it’s a deadly poison that seals the throat upon contact with blood. Once this toxin reaches your heart, not even a Daluo Golden Immortal could save you."
As Lin Feng spoke, his hands kept moving, making a cut on Yang Min’s wrist with a dagger, from which black blood sprayed out, emitting a foul, fishy odor.
Lin Feng fetched a bowl to collect the venomous blood, then had her sit cross-legged. Surprisingly, she didn’t talk back. Lin Feng knew she must be too weak to speak and wasted no more words, immediately helping her to channel her energy to expel the poison.
Although it was a severe poison, fortunately, Yang Min’s cultivation wasn’t weak and protected her vital pathways. Lin Feng’s emergency rescue had saved her life. Soon, the unconscious Yang Min woke up, and her first action was to go search for her elder and second brothers.
"My elder and second brothers are still in the hands of that vile Black Tornado!"
Yang Min gritted her teeth as she said this.
Seeing her reaction, Lin Feng did not try to stop her. Knowing her temperament, stopping her was futile, "I’ll help you."
Yang Min turned back to look at Lin Feng. She always felt this person seemed familiar, but she truly couldn’t recall where she had met him.
However, she was currently preoccupied with rescuing her brothers and didn’t bother about whether Lin Feng was a familiar stranger. She rushed out hastily, with Lin Feng following closely behind. Black Tornado wasn’t considered a major bandit outside the Imperial City. If he were, he would have been killed long ago. The rest were just minor soldiers, relying on the natural advantages of dense forests and mountains to barely survive.
This Black Tornado had somehow acquired a batch of crossbows equipped with poison arrows. With a volley of coordinated shooting, they could easily riddle anyone with holes, even martial masters of the Sixth or Seventh Layer could easily fall into their trap if not careful.
It was an ambush like this that Yang Min and her brothers fell into, and later her elder and second brothers were captured by these bandits while covering for her.
Upon seeing her brothers hanging at the entrance of the stronghold, barely alive but still breathing,
"Elder brother! Second brother!"
Yang Min’s eyes reddened instantly, they were three orphans. Their parents were bounty hunters too, but they were betrayed by a companion on one mission.
At that time, the three of them were just seven years old. Fortunately, they were talented; children from poor families had to grow up early, and they started learning to kill by the age of eleven or twelve.
They followed the same path their parents had taken; it was generally a close call but safe. Just when they planned to retire after one last job and join the Divine Wind Camp, an unexpected incident occurred.
"Ha ha, I was wondering who it was, turns out it’s you, scum woman. What, it hasn’t been long and you’re already back in action like a lively dragon."
There was a burly man with double axes inside the stockade, wearing a tiger skin, looking majestic.
He was the Mountain King of this residence and nicknamed the Black Tornado.
"Ha ha, King, not just lively like a dragon, look, we just hung up two pretty boys. This foxy woman has changed her companion again," a sly-looking bandit said jokingly.
The dozen or so bandits burst into loud laughter.
"I want you all dead!"
Yang Min shouted low, holding the Xuan Yue Scimitar, and charged forward in frustration. Simultaneously, a gorgeous flower blossomed behind him.
Eighth Grade Star, Mandala Flower.
The Mandala Flower among the Stars was a type of plant star that provided Yang Min with stealth ability, allowing silent close approach to prey.
However, charging in this way, unless invisible, any stealth would still be suicidal.
Seeing this, Lin Feng just shook his head slightly, just like before, always impulsively emotional, he chose to take immediate action.
"Brothers, two more coming to die, take them all! Fire arrows!!"
With a grand wave from Black Tornado, over a dozen poison-tipped crossbow arrows blanketed the sky in a simultaneous volley.
Lin Feng immediately deployed his Star Body, the Shield Bone Dragon, shielding Yang Min at the front.
Instantly, clanging sounds of metal clashing erupted, and the moment the opponents brought out their crossbows, Yang Min’s mind regained some sense of rationality and she tried to dodge; but with more than a dozen people in a line, no matter how they dodged, it was futile. Just as she faced despair, a strange figure appeared in front of her, blocking all the poison arrows.
Seeing this scene, Yang Min’s eyes reddened again, because she remembered the two brothers who had shielded her from arrows.
"You stand back, I’ll handle this."
Lin Feng looked back and spoke to her, guessing she was probably too moved to cry right then.
Lin Feng didn’t wait for Yang Min to respond and charged forward. Midway, he conjured the Wind Fire Thunder Seal, then swung his hand towards Black Tornado and his men.
Except for Black Tornado who was a martial master, the rest were no more than Martial Apprentices at Seventh or Eighth Layer. Using their crossbows, they could manage an ambush, but once someone broke through their barrage and got close, they were like tigers without claws.
