'Special Agent Long' truly deserved to be a one-in-ten-thousand super assassin of 'Ghost Character', the most mysterious intelligence and assassination organization in the Ancient Sages Sector. She was still at ease even when she was caught unprepared.
Instead of advancing, she retreated. Her right leg was like a scorpion swinging its tail, silently kicking backward. A sharp blade as thin as a cicada's wing and blue like a cloud of smoke, lightly drilled out of the heel of her shoe.
In the meantime, spiritual energy was poured into the blade. The longsword roared and automatically bounced out of the sheath, shooting dozens of streaks of brilliance at the enemy behind her from various directions.
As it turned out, when she could have controlled the flying sword remotely with her telepathic thoughts, she had grabbed the handle of the sword instead. It had been a deceptive move to lure the enemy in and to shorten the distance between them so that she could perform the fatal move of the poisonous blade.
Pu!
The venomous blade pierced into a cluster of sticky gel without a sound. Not only was the venom unable to leak into the target's flesh and blood, even the violent spiritual energy contained in the venomous blade was completely blocked.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
The overwhelming auras of the sword were pierced through by the needles as thin as hair, too, as if they were just illusions.
Boom!
Special Agent Long's back suffered another heavy blow, as if a shooting star had hit her spine heavily. She could not help but vomit a mouthful of blood, and the spiritual energy inside her body was disrupted for a moment.
Crack! Crack!
A streak of cyan light whizzed from behind her and circled her three times. Taking advantage of the moment when her spiritual energy was in a mess, dozens of sharp thorns pierced into her body and completely sealed all the acupoints on her body.
The more she summoned her spiritual energy, the deeper the thorns dug into her bones and veins, triggering excruciating pain that felt as if thousands of ants were biting her heart.
Special Agent Long grunted and finally could not hold on any longer. She fell to the ground and shuddered as if she had suffered an electric shock, with foam flowing out of her mouth.
A shackle of a skeleton vulture made of jade appeared on her body. Her every critical part had been locked, and she had completely lost her combat ability. < >
Behind her, Li Yao stored the gel on his chest, which had a hole in it because of the poisonous blade, into his Cosmos Ring and walked toward her quickly.
Special Agent Long trembled violently and stared at Li Yao with hatred.
When Li Yao walked in front of her, she suddenly opened her mouth and spat out three sword pellets of different colors: red, yellow, and blue. They grew with the wind, and by the time they reached Li Yao, they had already grown into three incomparably sharp blades that were half a foot long.
Li Yao had long been prepared for that. His upper body blurred all of a sudden, but in the blink of an eye, he dodged hundreds of times at a very high frequency, messing up the locking of the three sword auras. They hovered in midair like headless flies and were pinched by him easily with two fingers. Then, as if he had an electric shock, he shook his hands and bounced them away quickly.
"Pa pa pa!"
Just as the three blades were sent flying into the air, they suddenly exploded with three popping sounds like beans being fried. The rice-sized metal fragments sputtered out a dozen meters away.
Although the explosion was not very powerful, it would have been more than enough to hurt two of his fingers, which were of paramount importance, if his reaction had been half a second slower.
Judging from the faintly stinky smoke that lingered in the air after the explosion, the three blades must have contained rather sordid poisons. Once they entered the flesh and bones, there would be very troublesome sequelae even if the wounds were fully recovered.
The Ghost Character was indeed a sordid person.
Li Yao did not have the time to hesitate. He walked forward quickly and grabbed Special Agent Long's jaw, forcing her to open her mouth. He examined her carefully from head to toe and was more or less relieved when he did not find any self-destructing magical equipment made of jade.
"There's no need to waste your time."
But Special Agent Long was still smiling.
From the moment Li Yao appeared in Wan Mingzhu's voice to the moment she was completely subdued, although the two of them had a few soul-stirring attacks, the whole process took only one second. < >
But Special Agent Long was neither frightened by the enemy's sudden appearance nor desperate because of Li Yao's suppression. Even the grudge on her face just now was only a disguise in order to numb Li Yao and create an opportunity for her three sword pills.
Seeing that the three sword pills had lost their effect, she soon calmed down. Observing Li Yao with great interest, she said casually, "I am not one of those low-level warriors. If I really want to be killed, I have a hundred ways to die painlessly at any time. Even if all the veins and nerves on my body are locked, they cannot stop me. There is no need to be so stupid as to stuff poison sacs into my teeth."
"What a delicate shackle! Not only did it lock the acupoints and veins all over my body, it also tied my neck with a metal wire that is as thin as a wolf's hair and stuck to my heart with a piece of explosive magical equipment similar to the Thunder Palm. As long as I make the slightest movement, the metal wire will be able to cut off my head at the same time when my heart explodes. What an ultimate treasure that even an immortal cannot escape!"
Special Agent Long's voice was still as mellow as the spring breeze, mixed with heartfelt compliments, as if the dangerous shackle was not tied to her vital parts. She went on commenting, "Ghost Character once collected the interrogation magical equipment of the past dynasties. Of course, there were also a lot of magical equipment related to barriers and shackles. However, after more than ten years, we still failed to produce such marvelous shackles by collecting the expertise of all the sects."
"You boast such marvelous treasures, and your Cultivation is immeasurably high. The needles that broke my sword aura just now were marvelous, too. I believe that you must be Master Spiritual Vulture from the Sword Sect of Great Zhou, who has risen to fame in the world of Cultivators recently.
"Lord Wang has been mentioning Master Spiritual Vulture a lot recently. He speaks very highly of you and claims that you are one of the top ten experts in the world. Had it not been for the fact that it was inconvenient for him to show up in public due to the unusual situation recently, he would have tried his best to meet Master Spiritual Vulture in person so that we could have a good talk over wine.
"I thought that it was just Lord Wang's compliment. I didn't know what it meant until I fought you in person."
"Long Yangjun of the Ghost Character, under Lord Wang's command, greets Master Spiritual Vulture."
Long Yangjun struggled to kneel on one of her knees. Holding the heavy shackle, she bowed to Li Yao solemnly. < >
Li Yao knew that the super assassin was only trying to stall for time until Mother White Lotus' reinforcements came back.
He had no time to waste on Long Yangjun and simply turned a deaf ear to her. Sorting through the components on the ground for a moment, he activated his Cosmos Ring and set the storage range to be all the components in front of him. Then, he activated it.
There was no response from the Cosmos Rings at all.
"What's going on?"
Li Yao secretly frowned. He extended his telepathic thoughts into the few Cosmos Rings and examined them. There was no mistake. In order to store such a large cluster of components, he had reorganized the space inside the few Cosmos Rings and made room for three Cosmos Rings. It should be enough to store the components without any space conflicts. Why couldn't they be absorbed?
"If I may be so bold as to ask, are you trying to steal the Thousand Stars Tray and the map core left by the primeval gods, Senior Spiritual Vulture?"
Long Yangjun asked politely.
Li Yao glanced at her but did not reply. He was focused on studying the Cosmos Rings.
Were the Cosmos Rings broken? It did not make sense that the three Cosmos Rings were broken at the same time.
"You may not know, senior."
With a smile, Long Yangjun said slowly, "Nothing is wrong with your Cosmos Rings, senior. It's just that I've imposed special barriers on the Thousand Stars Tray and the map core. They are essentially invisible locks. Only the Cosmos Rings that I carry with me that match the barriers can absorb them.
"Otherwise, wouldn't it be hilarious if such a critical item was absorbed into a Cosmos Ring and taken away by somebody else casually?"
Li Yao was slightly dazed. He glanced at the four Cosmos Rings on Long Yangjun's fingers maliciously.
"Senior, you must be thinking that as long as you cut off all four of my fingers and take away my Cosmos Rings, you will be able to absorb the Vientiane Heavenly Star Disk and the map core and take them away without leaving a trace."
Long Yangjun intentionally opened her fingers in front of Li Yao and said unhurriedly, "Lord Wang thought of that for me before I set off. He has planted special barriers on the four Cosmos Rings and inside my body. The four Cosmos Rings can only be worn on my fingers so that they can sense my body temperature, breath, heartbeat, and pulse. Also, I have to send special telepathic thoughts to them every half an hour to ensure their stability.
"If any of the above conditions are not met, the self-destruction rune arrays inside the four Cosmos Rings will be activated, destroying the interstitial worlds inside the rings instantly and turning them into four common iron rings. They will not be able to retrieve or absorb anything anymore.
"It means that, whether you want to take away the four Cosmos Rings or blow up my soul and leave me as a walking corpse that keeps breathing and heartbeat, it will not work, senior."
Li Yao cursed aloud in his heart.
He observed the movement of every muscle on Long Yangjun's face carefully, trying to figure out whether she was telling the truth or not from her micro-expressions, but he found absolutely nothing.
The super assassin of the Ghost Character must've received the harshest interrogation training. Neither the shivering lips nor the constriction of pupils revealed any valid information.
"If you don't believe me, senior, you can take off one of the Cosmos Rings on my finger and test it. Lord Wang has been admiring you for a long time. As his subordinate, I dare not lie to you, senior," Long Yangjun said calmly.
"Of course, you are a renowned grandmaster of refining, and you may know a lot about barriers, senior. If you are given a few days, you should be able to crack all the barriers that Lord Wang set up."
Li Yao's eyelids were twitching violently.
Everybody had their own specialties, and their fingers had different lengths. Although he was a master of refining, his studies on barriers were not deep enough. It was one of his weaknesses.
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