This guy is problematic!
Chen Nan became alert in his mind.
After thinking for a while, he suddenly pulled away from Poison Wolf, picked up a bowl of "Mountain Treasure Soup," sniffed it, and nodded in approval, "Not bad, it really smells great."
"Right? I told you I wasn’t just talking nonsense. Come on, have some to warm up." the shop owner quickly said with a smile.
Seeing the eagerness of the man, Chen Nan suddenly grinned, "Boss, you didn’t add any messy stuff in here, did you?"
The shop owner’s body suddenly shook, but he soon regained his composure.
Looking at Chen Nan, he showed a face full of anger and huffed, "What’s this, soldier? I kindly offer you some soup, and you say things that hurt our feelings!"
"I was just joking, Boss. Don’t be mad. I meant the soup smells too good, I thought you might have added some essence or something."
Chen Nan picked up the soup bowl, tilted his head back, and drank it all in one gulp, then casually wiped his mouth while quickly brushing his other hand over the remaining two bowls of soup.
After "adding something extra" to those two bowls of soup, he signaled to Poison Wolf and Ye Yiyi with his eyes.
The two quickly understood his intention and also picked up their bowls to drink to the last drop.
The soup was off, Chen Nan tasted it as soon as it touched his lips.
Even though he knew there was something wrong with the soup, he still drank it all and had Poison Wolf and Ye Yiyi do the same. It wasn’t that he was reckless, but the poison put in the soup couldn’t harm him at all.
He did it to draw out the mastermind behind the scenes and retrieve the treasure.
After Poison Wolf and Ye Yiyi put their bowls down too, Chen Nan suddenly clutched his stomach and feigned distress, "Ah, my chest hurts so much, what’s going on?"
Poison Wolf was even more dramatic, clutching his stomach and screaming before he thudded to the ground.
Seeing the three of them fall one after another, the shop owner immediately showed a fierce look, "You ignorant bastards, you dare to chase after me with just this little ability? Today, I will let all of you die here!"
With a cold snort, he pulled out a dagger and turned back toward Chen Nan.
The dagger gleamed coldly, radiating a menacing killing aura as it thrust fiercely towards Chen Nan’s chest!
Excitement sparkled in his eyes as he believed these leaders of the Sky Team were surely going to die.
But just then, Chen Nan suddenly opened his eyes, swung his hand, and slapped, sending the grinning shop owner flying through the air.
After spinning twice in midair like a rolling gourd, he tumbled on the floor of the stilt house, his body messed up from the smack, and blood all over the ground.
"I told you, kiddo, this soup lacks flavor, how come it stopped hurting so soon?"
Chen Nan flipped to his feet, a chilling killing aura emanating from his body.
Seeing Chen Nan not only alive but vigorously standing up, the dark-faced man’s expression changed drastically, filled with fear and hatred.
Without a moment to think, he tried to endure the excruciating pain, scrambled up, and rushed toward the door.
However, Poison Wolf blocked his path ahead, lifted his leg and kicked him in the stomach, sending him flying back into the room, screaming in agony as he clutched his belly.
"Come on, man, that’s not very nice of you to try to leave, is it?"
"You bastards, don’t even think about retrieving the treasure!"
Knowing he was doomed, the man started cursing loudly, and with a lifted dagger, he rushed towards Poison Wolf, still desperately shouting, "Brothers, come out and kill these bastards of the Sky Team!"
Facing this man’s desperate struggle, Poison Wolf showed no mercy. He struck fiercely with his palm, and his unbreakable True Qi instantly broke the man’s arm and ferociously struck his chest.
Blood and shattered organs sprayed wildly from the man’s mouth.
At the same time, the originally tranquil stronghold erupted into chaos.
Suddenly, from each stilt house, almost a hundred shadows burst out, rushing toward the small building where Chen Nan was and the members of the Sky Team outside.
"Damn their ancestors, there was an ambush!"
Draco cursed, his body swirling with True Qi, as he suddenly dashed out of the bamboo building.
Chen Nan and Ye Yiyi quickly followed, only to see that in the center of the stronghold, roughly the size of half a soccer field, their brothers of the Sky Team were surrounded by more than a hundred black-clothed, masked men. Several of these men, astonishingly, possessed the cultivation of the Second Level of Imperial Realm.
"Heaven has a path which you did not take, hell has no door yet you scramble to enter. Do you still think you can retrieve the treasure? Today, I will ensure you come but never return!"
Chen Nan cast a cold glance around and discovered that among the ambushing black-clothed men, most had cultivation lesser than the Qi Dao Ninth Layer. More than a dozen reached the Qi Dao Ten Layers, and the three leaders were even strong practitioners of the Master Realm.
With a chilly smile, Chen Nan raised the Demon Sword, pointed at the speaking man, and sternly said, "Just with this trash?"
"Without even one Master Realm powerhouse, how dare a few lowly Qi Dao juniors speak so arrogantly?" The leader of the black-clothed men burst out laughing wildly and suddenly shouted, "Watch how I slaughter you all like lambs!"
After saying this, he charged forward, leading the assault.
After a piercing scream to the sky, in an instant, this man charged straight at Chen Nan, his hands emitting surges of gray True Qi, smashing directly towards Chen Nan’s chest.
Inner Strength poured into the Heavenly Punishment Demon Sword, and after a crisp sound of the sword’s howl, Chen Nan held the Demon Sword and ferociously chopped downward.
White True Qi surged out, the sword light collided with the gray palm force.
With a "splat" sound, the sound of the blade slicing into flesh could be heard, and the gray palm force instantly dissipated, subsequently being completely severed by the sword edge.
Back at the Corpse Control Sect, Chen Nan, with the power of the Jade Lotus Platform, had slaughtered many, even slaying Master Realm practitioners of the Third Level. The power of the Heavenly Punishment Demon Sword was comparable to that of the Jade Lotus Platform, both being supreme Divine Weapons.
And this leader of the black-clothed men, despite his cultivation in the Master Realm, was still like a mere ant under the unparalleled edge of the Demon Sword, and had his hands directly severed.
The black-clothed man stared at his bare wrist, wailing miserably, his voice filled with intense agony.
But before he could continue screaming, Chen Nan struck again with another slash.
Blood sprayed across the sky, the unparalleled sword light fell from above his head, cleaving him in two from head to toe.
On the ground, blood and organs flowed out from the two sections of the corpse, instantly staining the ground red.
The remaining two Master Realm black-clothed men’s eyes suddenly turned blood red, filled with terror.
They could not understand how this young man, who evidently only had the cultivation of the Qi Dao Ten Layers, could kill a high-level practitioner of the Second Level of Imperial Realm?
Such sensational combat power was unprecedented!