Chapter 113: Hei Feng Pursues

  In the depths of a dark forest, a person sat under a tree with a terrified and panicked expression.

  He was Shu'er who escaped from Xiao Chen's hands, but at this moment, he didn't have the joy of escaping with his life, instead, his face was full of horror.

  His hand was pinching a thin black needle.

  He had already escaped and walked in the forest for a night, familiar with the dark forest, he was confident that Xiao Chen couldn't catch up with him, feeling quite pleased with himself. However, as he walked further, he felt something was off, his neck seemed to be gradually numbing, and his strength was also slowly draining away.

  He finally felt something was wrong, and he fumbled around his neck, took it off, and pulled out a fine black needle as thin as a cow's hair.

  "Poison!" His face changed immediately, and he also remembered the stinging pain on his neck yesterday when he escaped, which seemed to have been bitten by a mosquito.

  At that time, he was so anxious that he didn't notice it then, but now he's certain that this black needle pierced his neck. Despite knowing the poisoning situation, he didn't panic particularly, but instead hurriedly drank a bottle of antidote, which was the Nine-Star Poison-Removing Elixir brewed by a high-priced poison master. Generally, no poison can resist its detoxification, however, what made him extremely terrified was that after two hours, the toxin in his body not only failed to be eliminated but also showed a tendency to spread further.

  He lifted his collar, and a large network of veins on his shoulder bulged out like a spider web. The terrifying sight made him more and more afraid. He desperately used various methods to expel the poison. As an adventurer, detoxification was an essential skill. However, no matter what method he used, the poison spread slowly but steadily along his blood vessels like a gu worm in his bones.

  At this time he sat down under the tree, staring blankly at his chest, that spider web-like black meridian had already spread to below his collarbone.

  He felt himself growing weaker, his heart pounding violently, life ebbing away, the sensation driving him nearly mad.

  "Xiao Chen! Xiao Chen! I must kill you!" Shu Er's face was twisted in a ferocious roar, mixed with an utterly desperate emotion.

  "I'm going to die, I'm going to die..." He stammered and muttered.

  One moment his face was ferocious, the next he was terrified and pleading, constantly switching between these two extreme emotions, his mind dazed.

  Suddenly, the leaves in front of him moved, and a black shadow appeared before his eyes. Shu's whole body trembled as he looked up to see a man in black standing in front of him. The man had no expression on his face, his eyes were dull, and his entire being was shrouded in dark and cold aura.

  He walked directly in front of Shul, looked at him for a moment, then suddenly drew his long sword. Shul hastily moved to resist, despite the fact that his life was hanging by a thread, he still had a desire to survive and did not want to be killed without knowing why.

  However, he soon stopped moving, and the black-clad man drew his sword only to scratch the ground. Before long, a string of words appeared before his eyes.

  "What did you just shout, Xiao Chen? Do you know Xiao Chen?"

  As he stared at the line of words, Shu'er was momentarily stunned. He hesitated for a moment, and a severe pain struck him. He let out a miserable cry as he clutched his palm, only to discover that his little finger had been chopped off. His neck felt cold, with the black-clad man's sword pressed against it, revealing a murderous intent in his eyes.

  "I said, I said, I know." A hint of resentment flashed in Shu's eyes, but he quickly shouted: "Xiao Chen, I was with him yesterday, he was in the Night Color Forest."

  The man in black looked at him, nodded, took out a scroll from his bosom and crushed it. Whoosh! A magic bullet shot up into the sky.

  Before long, the leaves around rustled and swished, whoosh! whoosh! whoosh!

  More and more people in black clothes kept coming, a total of ten. They gathered around, the first to discover Shule's black-clad man, gesturing with his hands, soon, all the black-clad men present revealed a murderous intent.

  They were the Black Edge Squad sent by Vincent, ten of them, tracking Xiao Chen to the Night Color Forest. However, this forest was too big and full of ferocious beasts lurking everywhere. They searched for many days in the forest but did not find any trace of Xiao Chen.

  But at this moment, the man in black heard Shule's roar, and heard "Xiao Chen".

  "Take us to him." A black-clad man with a silver stripe on his arm drew a row of characters on the ground, he was the captain of this group of Black Edge squad members.

  "Shu'er exclaimed: 'He was still at Purple Mist Lake yesterday, but I don't know where he is today.'"

  He feared that the group of black-clad men and Xiao Chen were in cahoots, then he would truly die without a place to be buried. Whoosh! Another sword strike, one of Shu'er's ears fell to the ground.

  "Lead the way, or die!" The captain of the black-clad men wrote out five words.

  Schul was afraid, this group of people, were simply madmen, acting without any regard. He shouted loudly: "I'll take you there, I'll take you there, but I've been poisoned, you see that, I don't have the strength anymore."

  The captain of the black-clad team gave a signal and immediately one of them came out and carried Shu on his waist.

  "Lead the way, let's go!"

  Schul hastily pointed in a direction, and the black-clad figures sprinted off, with a strong gust of wind rushing into Schul's nose and mouth. He was shocked to discover that this group of black-clad figures were moving at an alarmingly fast speed.

  "This group of people, what's their background, their strength is so powerful!" Shu'er was certain that each and every one of these black-clothed individuals had a strength of nine stars or above. Strong, too strong! A team like this would be almost invincible on the outskirts of Night Color Forest.

  Xiao Chen and others were also walking in the forest at this time.

  Got the Moonlight Flower, this trial is now complete. The three girls, after going through the Night Forest's cruel trials, have greatly improved their abilities and more importantly, have matured internally, with a completely changed temperament, reborn and transformed, no longer the sheltered flowers of the academy who haven't experienced wind and rain.

  Led by Xiao Chen, they walked out along the magical emblem.

  Going out is much faster than coming in. In half a day, they walked fifty kilometers. Now they have gone deep into the dark forest for about three hundred kilometers. If you want to walk out completely, it will take three days.

  They didn't know that a few kilometers away from them, Shu was leading a group of ten Black Wind Squad members to rush towards the Purple Mist Lake. Their speed was even faster. The Nine-Star Swordsmen relied on their physical speed to far exceed the Law Enforcers. Even the Nine-Star Wind System Law Enforcers would find it difficult to keep up, let alone these swordsmen who were all carrying speed-enhancing potions and the like, making them even faster.

  They spent more than an hour and finally arrived at Ziwu Lake.

  At this time, the Zi Wu Lake no longer had that year-round shrouding purple mist. A huge black-purple giant snake was floating on the lake surface, without any signs of life.

  "He's dead, that Purple Flower Snake is really dead." Shu'er's face changed color.

  Even when he encountered the Purple Flower Snake, he only had a chance to escape with his life, but was beheaded by Xiao Chen. The group of black-clad men saw the corpse of the Purple Flower Snake, and Gu Jing's face also showed a hint of shock.

  "Xiao Chen was here yesterday, but he must have left by now..." Shu Er said with certainty.

  The members of the Black Edge team conversed in sign language for a while, and Shul suddenly felt a chill. He shouted: "I know where he is, I know."

  The members of the Black Edge squad stopped talking and looked at him. Shule was gritting his teeth, knowing that if he had no value, he would likely be killed by this group of ruthless black-clad men. This was his intuition from years of adventure. He calmed his rapid breathing and said, "They are preparing to leave the Night Color Forest, I know which direction they will go."

  He was completely guessing, Xiao Chen and others came here to pick the moon-colored flower. Since the purple flower snake is dead, Xiao Chen must have picked the moon-colored flower, then he should be leaving the night-colored forest.

  It has to be said that Shu Er is quite clever, his guess was surprisingly accurate.

  The members of the Black Edge team fell silent, Shu looked at them tensely. The captain of the Black Edge team waved his hand and a black-clad man picked up Shu again. They ran in the direction of leaving the forest under Shu's guidance. Shu could only guide by feeling. The members of the Black Edge team also dispersed to search.

  After they left, Ziwu Lake seemed to have regained its serenity.

  But everyone was unaware that at this time, under the Heart Island of Ziwu Lake, at the bottom of the deep pool connected to the lake floor, that extremely dense purple mist was trembling at an unparalleled speed... Xiao Chen and others did not realize that a team of cold-blooded inner guards from the Kingdom of Vinas was tracking them.

  They continued on at a normal pace towards the outer reaches of the Night Forest, and before nightfall, they arrived at a sheltered flat area with a small stream running alongside it.

  "Tonight, let's rest here first and continue tomorrow." Having walked 100 kilometers in such a treacherous forest environment, the group of people were extremely exhausted. The three women sat there resting.

  "I'm going to hunt some wild beasts, dried meat is running out."

  Xiao Chen held the Shadow Sword and swiftly entered the thicket. Before long, he saw a two-meter-long wild boar with flower-like spots rooting in the mud with its snout. He quietly approached it, then made a swift move, and the sword's gleam flashed in the darkness as the Shadow Sword stabbed into the boar's brain, then withdrew and retreated.

  The wild boar let out a loud squeal and charged at Xiao Chen for several steps before crashing to the ground, its body convulsing violently.

  Xiao Chen didn't drag the whole wild boar back, but instead cut off two huge hind legs and returned to the campsite. Under the busy hands of the three women, they were washed, dehaired, and roasted.

  After everyone finished eating and drinking, the three women fell asleep quickly. Xiao Chen, on the other hand, was full of energy and sat cross-legged on a nearby rock, tempering his star power under the weak moonlight. The night forest was quiet, but he wasn't without benefits - continuous tempering made his body stronger and stronger.

  Of course, it's absolutely impossible to tell from his appearance, but his skin is actually becoming more and more delicate, seemingly even smoother than a woman's.

  A layer of oily luster spreads over the body, this is the scene when the skin tempering is close to small success. If it is further tempered and absorbed, this layer of oily luster will gradually transform into a membranous substance, at that time, even a sword or knife would find it hard to cut through.

  Sitting quietly, feeling the heavens and the earth.

  Xiao Chen's spirit was also faintly diffusing, gradually spreading out. Suddenly, he felt a strong and cold aura approaching from that direction.

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