System: I Can Open Martial Arts Chests

Chapter 312 - 187: Hiding Place (Part 2)

I just wonder if Tie Lingyun himself knows that not only is there a problem with Cheng Tieshan’s accountant.

Even his own Law Enforcement Elder might be a traitor?

Chu Qing and Gentle followed this contact person for a while, and only after confirming the person’s residence did they leave.

After that, they found the place where Deceitful Poison and the contact person conspired and followed the scent of Deceitful Poison from there.

This scent had already begun to spread outside the stronghold.

The contact person’s execution power was indeed formidable; as soon as they said they would send Deceitful Poison out, they didn’t stop for a moment, and within this short time, they sent the person away directly.

Chu Qing and Gentle pursued them for a distance and discovered that the group leaving the stronghold was a convoy responsible for transporting supplies.

However, halfway through, Deceitful Poison had already left the convoy.

Following the scent, they gradually arrived at the edge of the cliff at Ghost God Gorge.

This is an extremely vast gorge, spanning over a hundred yards, stretching hundreds of miles on the ground.

It is a natural barrier between Iron Blood Hall and Blazing Hall.

From here to the other side, if you take a detour, because of the terrain and the poisonous miasma, you need to travel hundreds of miles more.

Perhaps predecessors felt the detour was too challenging, so they thought of a way to draw massive chains on the edges of these cliffs, with eighteen in total front and back.

Each one spaced about a yard apart.

The fort of Iron Blood Hall, coming out of the front gate, faces directly these eighteen ropeways.

Chu Qing and Gentle, following the scent of Deceitful Poison, were far from the ropeways and came to the edge of the gorge, looking down, they could see the miasma churning within the gorge.

These miasmas are highly toxic; someone once chased beasts while hunting, and when the beast ran into the miasma, it immediately emitted painful howls.

Desperately running out... and when it ran out, half of its body had already turned into bare bones.

So much so that no one is willing to venture into this miasma casually.

Gentle pointed at a certain place and said:

"That person went down from here."

Chu Qing scrutinized for a moment, indeed, there were traces of someone passing through here.

He jumped down first, followed the rock wall for a while, and soon saw a huge crevice in the mountain wall that could allow a person to pass through.

Chu Qing looked in amazement, reached towards the mountain wall, steadied himself, borrowed the momentum, and leaped back to the cliffside.

He pulled Gentle over:

"Be careful, follow me."

According to Chu Qing’s thoughts, he didn’t want to lead Gentle into danger with him.

But leaving Gentle alone at the gorge’s edge, Chu Qing was not at ease.

There are risks to both choices, it would be better to have her by his side so he could protect her if anything happened.

And for Chu Qing, flying down the gorge, whether alone or with another person, didn’t affect his Lightweight Technique; in an instant, he returned to that crack.

Chu Qing stepped in first, then allowed Gentle to follow into the crevice.

Then Chu Qing asked:

"Is the scent here?"

"Yes."

Gentle nodded.

"Then stay behind me and take the Antitoxic Pill first."

"Okay."

Gentle always followed Chu Qing’s words without hesitation and directly swallowed the Antitoxic Pill.

Chu Qing also took one and hid it under his tongue.

The mountain fissure was initially small; after crawling in, it suddenly opened up before their eyes.

What lay before them was a hollow cave.

A crack in the ceiling cast daylight down precisely onto the roof of a thatched hut.

The sunlight illuminated this thatched hut, allowing Chu Qing and Gentle to see the dust dancing in the light.

From inside the thatched hut, a sound could be heard.

One could hear the noise of grinding...

Chu Qing and Gentle exchanged a look and slowly moved to the front of the thatched hut, peering through a window.

The thatched hut was small and could be seen in one glance.

They saw Deceitful Poison, dressed in black, grinding some powder next to a candle.

His behavior seemed strange... sometimes angry, sometimes happy, sometimes muttering to himself, sometimes laughing out loud.

Compared to the state they saw at Seven Plum Manor, he was like a different person.

At that time, Deceitful Poison was extremely quiet.

Now he seemed like a madman...

Chu Qing didn’t immediately kill this madman but watched him quietly with Gentle from outside the window.

They watched him place the ground material into bowls and jars.

He then took out something else and started crafting.

The poison he wanted to concoct was probably quite extraordinary; although Chu Qing didn’t know medicine, he recognized a few toxic plants and flowers among the ingredients.

After a full half-hour of tinkering, Deceitful Poison finally finished concocting the poison.

Carefully, he poured the powder into a bottle.

He held the bottle, looked at it quietly, and suddenly grinned and said:

"Good, with this, let’s see how you survive!

"This time, I absolutely won’t lose you."

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly felt his hand empty.

Deceitful Poison, who had just sworn he wouldn’t lose it, found the bottle had disappeared from his hand.

Surprised, he was instantly enraged:

"Who’s there?"

As soon as the words left his mouth, he hadn’t seen who had taken action, but a pale hand had already reached him.

Deceitful Poison wasn’t one to sit back; he raised his hand and struck out with a palm, wrapped in a sinister wind, and his palm carried a purple hue, clearly not ordinary.

However, the intruder didn’t even look, just turned a claw gesture, nudged his elbow, directly blocking the palm momentum, and then grabbed his shoulder.

Cracking sounds resounded, with the bones in his shoulder completely broken under the claw.

But it wasn’t over... The white hand slashed down, its powerful finger force and Claw Skill, breaking every bone as its five fingers passed through.

Finally, it grabbed his wrist’s pulse gate, lightly snapping it, rendering Deceitful Poison’s skills utterly useless.

His body involuntarily spun around, back facing Chu Qing.

"Who are you?"

When Deceitful Poison said this, it was not just in despair, but in humiliation.

All these actions were so fast that his proud status as a disciple of the Hundred Corpses Demon Monarch did not even allow him to see his opponent’s face before he was defeated.

He didn’t even know in whose hands he had fallen.

If word got out, it would be the biggest joke under the heavens.

Chu Qing didn’t answer his question but instead asked:

"What are these things you concocted?"

This sentence gave Deceitful Poison a wrong impression:

"Is he not here to kill me?

"No, the only ones who could find this place are those from Mirror of Sin themselves.

"This person’s martial arts skills are likely ranked on the Evil Extermination List.

"Is he the expert on the Evil Extermination List that the contact person mentioned?"

Immediately, he hurriedly said:

"Senior, please hold on, this junior has no intention of offending, just borrowing this place to mix some drugs.

"We are both from Mirror of Sin, and I ask Senior to forgive this junior this once."

Chu Qing looked puzzled; how did it suddenly become senior and junior?

"That’s not the correct answer."

Although Chu Qing was puzzled, he didn’t show any mercy with his hands.

The gesture of his five fingers changed, directly clutching Deceitful Poison’s throat, lifting him up.

The fear of suffocating death made Deceitful Poison’s face change color:

"Sen... Senior... don’t... don’t... kill me... I really... know... I’m wrong!"

But as he spoke, he finally saw Chu Qing’s face.

In an instant, his face changed:

"It’s you!! How did you find this place!?"

Chu Qing chuckled:

"A gentleman has his own cunning tricks!"

Actually, it was the gentle nature of the mountain man...

Though this is not something to discuss with a dying Mirror of Sin assassin.

With a little force of his five fingers, a cracking sound was heard.

This person’s neck was directly broken by Chu Qing.

But unexpectedly, as soon as this person breathed his last, his flesh suddenly swelled and pulsed.

Chu Qing’s face darkened; without hesitation, he threw him out of the hut.

It was followed by a boom; Deceitful Poison’s body shattered.

A mass of green toxic mist quickly spread in all directions.