The three mysterious enemies mistook Li Yao for a common Cultivator in East Peace County.
If they had known that Li Yao was the infamous' Master Spiritual Vulture ', they would have run away immediately without daring to attack Li Yao.
Dozens of cold streaks mixed with cries and howls rushed at him, but Li Yao did not even bat an eyelash. He merely curled his lips and sniffed.
Spiritual energy immediately leaked out of his pores like tides and spread out in front of him in the thickest form, freezing the cold streaks half a foot away from him.
"Fish Bone Piercing Nails from Flying Spirit Island."
The cold lights in front of his eyes looked like tiny sea urchins or iron caltrops, but they were made of the sharpest bone spurs of the deep-sea demon beasts. They were emitting glamorous colors and emitting a dizzying fragrance. They contained dozens of natural toxins and were the unique weapons of Flying Spirit Island.
Li Yao had been familiar with the famous magical equipment of the major sects in the world during his stay in the Purple Pole Sword Sect. Naturally, he knew a thing or two about such iconic weapons.
"Flying Spirit Island is located in the east ocean. How did the unique Fish Bone Piercing Nails fall into the hands of the Heaven Battering Army in the northwest?
"Besides, the main force of the Heaven Battering Army was only dispersed by the Cultivators and the court at the end of last year. How did they train so many elite experts so quickly and march across the central plateaus from the northwest to the southeast?"
"Who are you exactly? Speak."
Li Yao glanced at the three of them casually. With his left hand behind his back, he opened his right hand casually and snatched the air.
Seeing that the dozens of Fish Bone Piercing Nails had been fixed in midair by the target easily and could not be moved at all however hard they tried, the three mysterious enemies immediately realized that they had run into a tricky person.
Li Yao's casual glance made their blood freeze, and they were scared out of their wits.
Looking at each other, the three of them roared and jumped at the same time, fleeing in three different directions.
Li Yao did not move. He opened and closed his hands, pulling them backward heavily. Three invisible claws seemed to have appeared in the air and grabbed the three of them by their necks, pulling them back brutally.
"Ka ka ka ka ka"
The three of them were cramping all over. Their heads were raised high, and their cervical vertebrae were emitting explosive sounds. There was nothing on their necks, but a lot of dents and bruises were appearing. They had been strangled by Li Yao with invisible hands of spiritual energy.
Under the surging spiritual energy, the three of them could no longer maintain their hunched bodies. After a series of cracking noises, their bones and muscles bulged, turning them into three brawny men. They did not look like the feeble disaster victims at all.
However, no matter how much the three muscular men bulged their muscles and unleashed their spirit energy, they were still held in Li Yao's hands like three dead fish.
The deafening explosion, the furiously burning fire, and such a weird scene made all the disaster victims in a mess. They covered their heads and fled like rats.
"You can't be the Heaven-Battering Army. Who are you? Why are you colluding with the army of ghouls? Tell me!"
Narrowing his eyes, Li Yao asked in a creepy tone.
The three muscular men's faces were pale, and they were cramping hard, but they gritted their teeth and did not say anything.
"None of you are willing to talk? You are truly good men. Then, let's see if your bones are as tough as your mouths."
Li Yao's voice was gradually mixed with brutality. It was as cold as the gloomy wind blowing from the depths of the cave.
"Well, you are choking them."
The mental devil reminded him kindly.
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Li Yao sniffed and threw one of the muscular men to the ground heavily. He curled his fingers, and four 'Fish Thorn Bone Piercing Nails' immediately rushed over and drilled into the man's elbows and knees, shattering the joints.
The muscular man vomited a mouthful of blood from deep inside his throat. He immediately screamed miserably and jumped on an iron plate like a half-cooked shrimp.
Another three Fish Thorn Piercing Bone Spikes, under the guidance of Li Yao's spirit energy, slowly hovered around him, emitting malicious brilliance.
Li Yao sneered, "You still have two companions. If you really don't want to talk, I'll ask them."
"I'll talk, I'll talk!"
The muscular man was in so much pain that he was crying. His voice was twisted into a high-pitched shriek as he said, "We — we are indeed not the Heaven Battering Army but the disciples of Flying Spirit Island. The Grand Mystery Sect, the Purple Pole Sword Sect, and the other major sects have joined hands to loot the headquarters of the thirty-three sects when most of the Cultivators in East Peace County were chasing the army of ghouls and the city was empty."
As if to prove what he said, the screams of some Cultivators echoed from the depths of East Peace County. "The Grand Mystery Sect, the Purple Pole Sword Sect, the Flying Spirit Island, the Thunderstorm Valley, the Monster Taming Pavilion, and the Gold Armor Sect. All the Cultivators from central plateaus will die a horrible death.
They were the desperate curses uttered by the Cultivators of East Peace County before they were killed.
They were not idiots. The Heaven Battering Army, which had collapsed last winter and was said to be the only one who escaped on his own, could not have been rebuilt to such a scale so quickly that it could traverse the entire Great Qian Dynasty without alarming anyone and infiltrate East Peace County without alarming anyone.
They all thought that the six major sects were doing insane, unpardonable things under the banner of the Heaven Battering Army.
It was like the Black Devil Cult burning, killing, and looting under the banner of the White Lotus Cult.
Li Yao, however, did not buy it at all.
"What kind of robber disguise themselves and use the symbolic magical equipment of their sect? Are you worried that other people will not guess that you are not the Heaven Battering Army?
"Also, you all carry the air of obedience and decisiveness, which can only be cultivated in a regular army. Neither the Heaven Battering Army, nor the major sects in the world, such as the Grand Mystery Sect and the Purple Pole Sword Sect, can have such an air.
"You are all Cultivators in the army.
"In the entire world, there are only two forces that boast such a strong army. They are either the Imperial Guards of the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty or Ghost Qin."
Li Yao's fingers moved quickly. The three Fish Sting Bone Piercing Stings were spinning faster and faster, drawing closer and closer to the muscular man's face. "Speak now. Are you Emperor Phoenix's men or Han Baling's?"
The complexions of the three brawny men changed. Their eyes suddenly revealed an incomparably resolute light. When Li Yao realized that something was wrong, the corners of their mouths had already evoked a mysterious smile. Their faces gradually turned green, and their pupils and the whites of their eyes mixed together, turning into a piece of jade.
The three muscular men had been killed without leaving a trace. Even their souls were not affected at all. There was not the slightest information that could be used.
What a powerful suicide drug!
What a weird way to commit suicide!
Li Yao's face was extremely awful as he cursed in his heart.
Of course, he knew that those who carried out such a mysterious mission were probably the most determined men of sacrifice.
Therefore, after the three of them were under control, he had spread his spiritual energy to every part of their bodies, ensuring that their every joint and every muscle was under his absolute control.
How did they die?
Li Yao opened the mouth of one of the muscular men and observed the inner wall of his oral cavity carefully.
There should have been a molar on the left side of the man's mouth, but it had been plucked and replaced by an ivory false tooth made of jade. There was even a tiny hole on the jade.
If one did not observe carefully, the jade and the tooth were almost identical in color and color. It was very easy to pass them off as genuine.
Li Yao extended one of his spiritual threads into the false tooth through the hole. As he expected, he sensed the residue of venom. The way in which the venom was stored made his blood freeze, too.
The suicide methods of the regular men of sacrifice were mostly 'triggered'. When they were forced to sacrifice themselves, they would bite and crush the venom sac through a certain special movement of their body, for example, by biting their teeth or pushing the tip of their tongue hard, allowing them to swallow the venom and end their lives.
The shortcoming of such a method was that, once the bones and muscles of the body were controlled by an expert such as Li Yao, it would be impossible to trigger the venom sac.
The venom sac inside the false tooth, on the other hand, adopted a 'counter-triggered' method. The tongue that had been specially trained had to be pressed against the false tooth neither too lightly nor too heavily in order to ensure that the venom sac would not be activated. As long as there was a slight relaxation, the pressure between the tip of the tongue and the false tooth would change slightly, and the venom would be released automatically. There was no need for any unnecessary movement of the muscles at all.
As far as Li Yao knew, there was only one organization in the entire Ancient Sages Sector that was best at such a brutal and clandestine method of suicide.
It was led by Lead Eunuch Wang Xi, known as the strongest spy and assassination organization in the Ancient Sages Sector.
Is it because Wang Xi, the wretched eunuch who has been hiding for almost a year, finally can't wait any longer and is about to jump out and stir trouble again?
Li Yao thought quickly and touched the faces of the three men of sacrifice carefully. He felt that the shape of their bones was somewhat weird. They seemed to have been modified to a certain extent, as if they were hiding something.
Their cheekbones should've been higher. They should've been a typical northerner.
And here. Their ears.
Li Yao grabbed the ear of one of the men of sacrifice and rubbed it softly. A few lumps of mud the color of flesh were removed. A few tiny holes immediately appeared on the ears of the man of sacrifice.
He did the same thing on the ears of the other two men of sacrifice. As he expected, there were holes all over the ears of the three men of sacrifice. They must've been used to wearing earrings.
The Cultivators from the central plateaus of the ancient Cultivators did not have such a cool and unmainstream custom yet. If they were men, they would never wear earrings.
Only the men of Ghost Qin from the Dark Cloud Prairies were used to wearing clanking gold earrings. The higher their position was, the bigger their earrings would be. The women, on the other hand, could only wear inconspicuous earrings.
They were three people of Ghost Qin.
No wonder they carried the intense air of soldiers. There were no Cultivation sects in Ghost Qin. All the Cultivators were soldiers in the first place.
A bunch of Cultivators from Ghost Qin have installed the suicide magical equipment of the men of sacrifice of Wang Xi's Ghost Character. They have disguised themselves as members of the six major sects and joined hands with Mother White Lotus under the banner of the Heaven Battering Army. What are they up to exactly? "
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