"Han Qingmian is poisoned. Without my antidote, even if she escapes, she won't live past seven days."
The hook-nosed man stared coldly at Xu Zijing and spoke with a sinister tone, seemingly confident in his poison.
"Did you poison Lord Han?"
Xu Zijing's expression was one of disbelief upon hearing the hook-nosed man's words. He glared furiously at Cheng Haijun.
Cheng Haijun hadn't expected the hook-nosed man to reveal this matter. He had initially intended to keep his identity hidden. However, since the hook-nosed elder had spoken, he saw no reason to conceal it further. After all, Xu Zijing couldn't do much to him.
Amidst his anger, Xu Zijing's voice trembled, "Cheng Haijun, why did you frame Lord Han?!"
"I've been in the East Sea War Zone for over twenty years. There's nothing here that I need anymore. If I inform the Easterners of Han Qingmian's whereabouts, I can gain much more." Cheng Haijun's face was calm, but his eyes held a hint of madness. "Xu Zijing, if it were you, you would agree too!"
"Nonsense!" Xu Zijing was enraged. "Guards, arrest these two! They framed Lord Han!"
"Heh heh." Cheng Haijun laughed upon hearing this, as if looking at a pitiful worm. "Xu Zijing, under my and Feng Zhan's management for the past two years, the East Sea War Zone has long been ours. You are one of the three generals, but how many people truly listen to you?"
"You!" Xu Zijing knew Cheng Haijun was not lying. In recent years, most matters, big or small, in the East Sea War Zone had been handled by Feng Zhan and Cheng Haijun. He had originally thought that as long as the East Sea War Zone existed, it wouldn't matter whether he was involved much or little. But he never imagined that Cheng Haijun and Feng Zhan would collude with the Easterners and betray Lord Han!
Xu Zijing drew his gun and aimed it at Cheng Haijun, shouting, "Cheng Haijun, surrender obediently and come with me to confess. I'll spare your life!"
Seeing Xu Zijing pointing a gun at him, Cheng Haijun's gaze turned icy. "With Senior here, the gun in your hand is just scrap metal!"
The hook-nosed man let out a cold snort, and the gun in Xu Zijing's hand slowly twisted into a ball of scrap metal!
"Xu Zijing, I give you two choices. One is to join us..."
"Never!"
Cheng Haijun, seeing Xu Zijing interrupt him, sneered, "Then there's only the second choice: you can die!"
"Even if I die, I will never betray the East Sea War Zone, never betray Huaxia!"
"Cheng Haijun, you will definitely pay the price for what you've done today!"
Cheng Haijun drew his gun, aiming at Xu Zijing, a fierce glint in his eyes. He barked, "Since that's the case, I'll send you on your way first."
But at that moment, Cheng Haijun shivered, as if being targeted by something terrifying! The hook-nosed elder beside him also sensed something and looked towards the direction of the explosion. Two figures were walking out of the flames, becoming clearer and clearer until they could see Ye Kunlun and Wudao's appearances.
"Impossible, how is this possible?!" Cheng Haijun's eyes widened in disbelief as he watched Ye Kunlun and Wudao emerge from the explosion site. The hook-nosed man had said that with that amount of explosives, even a top-tier expert at the Foundation Establishment realm wouldn't survive. He rubbed his eyes, thinking he was mistaken.
The hook-nosed elder's face twitched slightly, also startled by Ye Kunlun and Wudao emerging from the center of the explosion.
"He, how is that possible!" The hook-nosed man was equally incredulous. After all, the intensity of the recent explosion was something even experts at the Kai Ling realm and Foundation Establishment realm couldn't withstand, let alone the so-called Land Immortals. Yet Ye Kunlun was walking towards them as if nothing had happened. The terrifying flames seemed to shy away from Ye Kunlun, parting around him and Wudao.
Ye Kunlun's eyes were filled with coldness. He had heard the entire conversation between the three clearly. It turned out Cheng Haijun and the hook-nosed elder had colluded to frame Han Qingmian, leading to the leakage of her whereabouts. Combined with the poisoning, she was severely injured and unconscious.
Ye Kunlun's body emanated endless killing intent. The killing intent spread outwards, directly engulfing the hook-nosed man and Cheng Haijun. The hook-nosed man snapped back to reality, his gloomy eyes fixed on Ye Kunlun. He refused to believe Ye Kunlun was unharmed. Even if Ye Kunlun wasn't killed by the explosion or burned, he was still poisoned. The moment Ye Kunlun stepped into the East Sea War Zone, he had been poisoned!
"You all, you truly deserve to die!" Ye Kunlun made no attempt to hide his killing intent. "Dongyang Sanshenhui, I will surely annihilate it!"
"Ye Kunlun, stop spewing such bravado. Even if the explosion didn't kill you, you are still poisoned by me!" The hook-nosed man confronted Ye Kunlun directly. Cheng Haijun, standing beside them, let out a slight sigh of relief. He was just an ordinary martial artist, his strength not even reaching the level of a Grandmaster. Without the hook-nosed elder by his side, he would be crushed to death by Ye Kunlun like an ant.
"Is that so?" Ye Kunlun instantly flashed, appearing before the hook-nosed man and grabbing his neck. The hook-nosed man's eyes widened in shock. He hadn't expected Ye Kunlun's speed to be so astonishing; he couldn't even track a trace of his movement.
"You, you..." The hook-nosed man struggled to speak, looking into Ye Kunlun's殺意 filled eyes. "If you kill me, no one will be able to give you the antidote!" As he spoke, a poisonous insect as thick as a thumb crawled out from the hook-nosed man's sleeve, lunging towards Ye Kunlun.
Whoosh—
The poisonous insect was directly incinerated into ashes by Ye Kunlun's pure Yang fire.
"You like playing with poison, do you? Then enjoy my little poison!" Saying this, Ye Kunlun pried open the hook-nosed man's jaw and flicked a black pill inside.
The next second, Ye Kunlun released his grip.
"You give me... Ah!!" Before he could finish speaking, the hook-nosed man let out a piercing scream, as if countless knives were carving his internal organs!
"Ah, it itches so much, it hurts so much!!" Immediately after, an indescribable itchiness spread through him, causing the hook-nosed man to uncontrollably claw at himself. In an instant, his face was covered in blood, a horrifying sight!
Cheng Haijun was utterly terrified! In his eyes, the omnipotent and terrifying hook-nosed elder was now completely helpless in Ye Kunlun's hands, without even a chance to retaliate.
Thump—
Cheng Haijun collapsed to his knees, his eyes filled with fear as he stared at Ye Kunlun. Ye Kunlun's methods were simply too horrifying. He didn't want to suffer the same inhuman torture as the hook-nosed elder. The hook-nosed elder's excruciating screams made Cheng Haijun tremble all over. He knelt before Ye Kunlun and begged in a trembling voice, "I, I was all instigated by him. This really has nothing to do with me. Whatever you want to know, I... I will tell you everything truthfully..."
"Feng Zhan deserved to die, and so do you!" Ye Kunlun's voice was as cold as a grim reaper.
"But, for you, death is too easy!"