The unknown is the most terrifying. This invisible method of death undoubtedly stimutes one's nerves of fear even more. Besides, the illusion array also has a disruptive effect. Uhis intangible guidance, everyone couldn't help but shiver, their legs turning weak, and their bat power instantly diminished by more than half.

  Among those present, only Xue Wuqing could barely remain clear-headed.

  In fact, Xiao Long didn't o go to such great lengths. A level ten Spiritual Qi killing array could easily kill everyone except Xue Wuqing, but he didn't do so.

  He could clearly sehat a rge number of experts from the Hidden Poiso were lurking nearby, and there was even a powerful force that made him feel vaguely threatened. Without a doubt, it was an Innate Expert from the Hidden Poiso.

  Instead of upgrading the level ten killing array, he enhahe level eight illusion array to a level ten peak illusion array, just oep away from an Innate-level illusion array.

  Under su illusion array, even Xue Wuqing would be affected, and the others would be uo protect themselves.

  The purpose of this was simple: to divert hatred and deal with the Hidden Poiso.

  "Huang Mao, kill them!"

  "Haha! Leave it to me."

  Huang Mao walked into the illusion array with a stick. He could clearly see the trembling members of the Fire Cloud Sect within the array. Except for Xue Wuqing, all the elders of the Fire Cloud Sect were trapped in terrifying illusions, uo even stand, let alo.

  Huang Mao found the person, walked up with his stick, and simply smashed it down.

  "Bang!"

  Without aahe head was smashed to a pulp.

  "You have killed a level 17 wild monster, gaining 22,000 experience points! (Level challenge experience bonus 100%, team reward 20%)"

  A Fire Cloud Sect elder at the seventh level of the Qi densing Realm was thus killed by Huang Mao with a single blow, pletely unprepared.

  Huang Mao ughed excitedly. Killing an expert dozens of times strohan himself with orike—what could be more exhirating?

  After killing one person, Huang Mao headed straight for the arget.

  Xiao Long emerged from his previous hiding spot, picked up a ste ring, and took out a bag of strange powder, sprinkling it on the corpse. The body immediately turned bck, creating the illusion of poisoning.

  While Huang Mao killed in front, Xiao Long hahe corpses in the back, everything proceeding in an orderly fashion acc to pn.

  "You have killed a level 18 wild monster, gaining 28,600 experience points! (Level challenge experience bonus 100%, team reward 20%)"

  "Ding! gratutions on reag level 11! You need 200,000 more experience points for the level!"

  "gratutions on being promoted to Demon General, allowing you to evolve once. Would you like to evolve immediately? (Evolution takes one hour, please ensure you are not interrupted midway.)"

  A string of system notificatioered Xiao Long's mind, leaving him momentarily stunned.

  Evolve?

  Though curious about what it entailed, now was not the time.

  "You have killed a level 17 wild monster, gaining 22,000 experience points! (Level challenge experience bonus 100%, team reward 20%)"

  "You have killed a level 17 wild monster, gaining 22,000 experience points! (Level challenge experience bonus 100%, team reward 20%)"

  "You have killed a level 15 wild monster, gaining 10,000 experience points! (Level challenge experience bonus 80%, team reward 20%)"

  …………

  Xiao Long's experience bar skyrocketed, and it wasn't long before the 200,000 experience bar was filled, leveling up to 12. Besides poisoning each corpse, Xiao Long finally found five supreme-grade spirit stones among the many ste rings he collected.

  "Truly heave! This is exactly what I needed!" Xiao Long's eyes lit up. Three of these supreme-grade spirit stones had been bought by Liao Qingfeng at an au, passed through an elder's hands, and ultimately ended up with Xiao Long.

  This became a crucial part of Xiao Long's pn, as only supreme-grade spirit stones could provide energy for an Innate-level array. Although these stones weren't enough to stru Innate-level killing array, they were suffit for a shielding array.

  The same se unfolded repeatedly in the illusion array. Many people were still in a daze one moment, and the , their heads were smashed without knowing how they died.

  There were no screams, only a series of sounds like watermelons bursting, "bang bang bang," eg tinuously.

  Only then did everyone realize that someone was harvesting their lives within the illusion array!

  Panisued, and they scrambled like headless flies within the illusion array, but it was futile; they still couldn't escape death.

  As more people died, despair finally set in.

  Uo escape, uo withstand—was death the only path left?

  "Who are you? Why are you targeting my Fire Cloud Sect!" Xue Wuqing shouted towards the sky.

  There was no response.

  After a long silence, a cold ugh echoed.

  "Targeting? Do you think you're worthy of being targeted by me? Your young master offended me, so I killed him. As for you, a mere ant, you dared to lead people to hunt me down. Since you want to kill me, be prepared to be killed!"

  "As for who I am, you're not qualified to know!"

  As the words fell, the killing i in the illusion array surged, like a meat grinder in motion. Many elders of the Fire Cloud Sect were instantly sughtered, their screams eg endlessly.

  Xue Wuqing's eyes widened, staring ily at the white expanse before him, as if trying to see through the illusion array.

  He couldn't believe it!

  Setting up su astonishing illusion and killing array, even the highest-level array master in Tianfeng Kingdom would take several days to aplish, indig that the oppo had phis ambush long in advance.

  The oppo must have a reason foing to such lengths to deal with the Fire Cloud Sect, and the flict with the young master was merely an excuse.

  However, Xue Wuqing guessed wrong. In fact, it was Liao Qingfeng who first provoked Xiao Long, leading to the subsequent series of events. One wonders if Xue Wuqing would be so angry he'd vomit blood if he khe truth.

  "Someone must be targeting my sect! It must be so!" Xue Wuqing's spiritual sense frantically probed outward, and as the Spiritual Qi circuted, his aura gradually rose, seemingly reag a critical point.

  In this moment of crisis, Xue Wuqing actually experienced a breakthrough!

  Suddenly, his spiritual seected a vague figure. Xue Wuqing immediately leaped out, and though the figure moved swiftly, disappearing in an instant, Xue Wuqing still saw it.

  "Vulture! It's you!" Xue Wuqing roared in fury. That vague figure—he would reize it even if it turo ash—it was his nemesis, Vulture!

  Indeed! So it art of the Hidden Poiso's pn!

  "Ahhh! Hidden Poiso, I won't let you get away with this!!!"

  Xue Wuqing spat out a mouthful of vital blood, his hand swiftly drawing straterns in the air. The vital blood followed the trajectory, f a rune resembling a snowfke.

  Xue Wuqing's rge frame instantly shrank, the fat on his face withering, but his aura suddenly surged, faintly toug the barrier of an Innate Expert.

  Then, he swallowed an Explosive Yuan Pill, his aura directly breaking through the Innate level, making this strike parable to that of an Innate Expert.

  "Flying Snow Sword Teique, Blood Stains the Sky!"

  Xue Wuqing grasped the snowfke ruransf it into a ghostly blue ice sword, which he held firmly in his hand.

  Then, Xue Wuqing swung his sword, and a blood-red sword light, dozens of meters long, shot up from the illusion array, slig through the sky.

  "Boom!"

  A deafening explosioed from the array, the white world seemingly split in two by the sword light. Under su attack, the illusion array was instantly shattered, and everything around became clear.

  Looking around, a dozen corpses y scattered, all elders of the Fire Cloud Sect who had just died.

  The only o standing was Xue Wuqing, all alone.

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