The master went down the mountain

"this……"

Huang Quan was shocked and decisively abandoned his attack on the Demon Queen. He quickly withdrew his attack and used a strange movement technique to dodge Tang Zhan's kick. After retreating more than ten steps, he looked at Tang Zhan in astonishment:

"This is impossible! You're clearly poisoned, your meridians and muscles are rapidly stiffening, you shouldn't still be able to move, you shouldn't still be able to mobilize your internal energy, how... how did you do that?"

"Poison is a tonic to me. The stronger the toxicity, the more potent the tonic. The Living Dead poison is quite good, very nourishing!" Tang Zhan smiled.

Huang Quan and the Demon Queen were dumbfounded. It was unbelievable that someone in this world would use poison to nourish their body!

"I knew I underestimated you!"

Huang Quan's eyes, hidden behind the mask, stared at Tang Zhan like a venomous snake, and he said coldly:

"So what? Even if you're immune to all poisons, it doesn't change the fact that you're only at the peak of the sixth rank, while I'm at the peak of the fourth rank. I only need one move to render you powerless, and the remaining time is enough for me to torture you and force you to hand over the antidote for the Thousand-Day Intoxication!"

After saying that, he was about to unleash his full speed and rush over to finish off Tang Zhan in one move. He didn't have much time left before he fell asleep, and he couldn't waste any more time!

However, at that moment, he suddenly realized that the rain had stopped. It wasn't that the rain had truly stopped and the sky had cleared, but rather that all the raindrops within a ten-meter radius had stopped in the air, as if time had stood still!

The next moment, all the raindrops transformed into tiny water swords, which then rained down on him!

At first, he didn't pay attention, thinking that a mere sixth-grade peak cultivator couldn't break through his protective energy. However, when the first wave of water swords pierced through his protective energy as easily as piercing tofu, he realized that he had misjudged the power of Tang Zhan's move!

Startled, he quickly used his defensive technique, condensing a pale red, bell-shaped protective shield on his body to envelop him!

Water jets rained down like ping-pong balls, striking the protective shield with a series of metallic clanging sounds!

"Bang!"

In the blink of an eye, the protective shield shattered like glass, and countless water swords shot towards Huang Quan from all directions!

"don't want……"

In that instant, Huang Quan seemed to see his great-grandmother, which startled him so much that he let out a scream!

Then all the water jets that were shooting at suddenly stopped, and then turned into rain and fell to the ground!

"thump!"

The lingering fear of escaping death caused Huang Quan to collapse to the ground, his eyes fixed on Tang Zhan in disbelief:

"You, aren't you at the peak of the sixth rank? How can you possess such terrifying strength?"

The Demon Queen was equally shocked as she looked at Tang Zhan. In the afternoon, when she communicated with Tang Zhan using Morse code, she asked him if he was confident in defeating a peak fourth-rank cultivator. Tang Zhan said it wouldn't be a problem!

She thought Tang Zhan was also at the peak of the fourth rank, which is why she gave such a conservative answer!

Unexpectedly, Tang Zhan didn't even move, but simply remotely controlled the rain to turn into swords, and easily crushed Huang Quan!

"Peak of the sixth rank?"

Tang Zhan scoffed:

"I was already at the peak of the sixth rank when I was 7 years old!"

"What?"

Huang Quan and the Demon Queen exclaimed in surprise at the birth!

At 23 years old, being at the peak of the sixth rank is already a genius among geniuses!

Has a 7-year-old at the peak of the sixth rank ever appeared in history?

"So your current cultivation level is... third rank?" the Demon Queen asked.

In her opinion, only a third-rank cultivator could so easily crush a peak fourth-rank cultivator!

Huang Quan also guessed that Tang Zhan was a third-rank official. As for the second-rank or first-rank official, he dared not guess at all. How could there be a first-rank or second-rank official who was 23 years old? Even the third-rank official was not that young!

"My cultivation level... well, you can say I'm at the ninth rank, or even the peak of the fourth rank!" Tang Zhan said vaguely.

Huang Quan and the Demon Queen didn't understand, but they absolutely didn't believe that Tang Zhan was a ninth-rank cultivator. How could a ninth-rank cultivator crush a peak fourth-rank cultivator?

"I reached the peak of the fourth rank when I was 15, but I found that the cultivation method I was practicing was not perfect enough and did not match my unparalleled style. So I spent two years painstakingly studying all the cultivation methods collected by the Tang family and the Old Monster of Heavenly Secrets, and created a set of cultivation methods that were most suitable for me. Then, while retaining my peak fourth rank cultivation, I re-cultivated it..." Tang Zhanyun said calmly!

Huang Quan and the Demon Queen, however, were anything but indifferent!

Their understanding of spiritual practice shattered at that moment!

A 15-year-old at the peak of the fourth rank?

This is absolutely an unprecedented, monstrous genius, right?

Such a genius actually abandoned his previous cultivation methods and created his own to start over!

Furthermore, what does it mean to rebuild one's cultivation while retaining the peak of the fourth rank? Is it even possible to do that? How was it done?

Even more terrifying is that from the age of 17 to 23, a full six years, Tang Zhan practiced his self-created technique, but only managed to reach the ninth rank!

What kind of cultivation technique is this, with such a high difficulty level?

"We're both at the peak of the fourth rank, so how come your strength is so much greater than mine?"

Huang Quan finally asked the question that had been nagging at the bottom of his heart!

"It's not that I'm too strong, it's that you're too weak!"

Tang Zhan walked up to Huang Quan, placed his right hand on Huang Quan's head, and said:

"I've lost patience with your nonsense. Give me your last words!"

Huang Quan showed no panic or fear. With one foot already in the gates of hell, he calmed down and said:

"As long as you don't kill me, I'm willing to serve you as my master and give you the Blood-Clad Tower!"

"Wu Xiwu, even now you're still trying to play mind games with me? Do you think I'm as stupid as you?" Tang Zhan said impatiently.

What does "Wu Xi Wu" mean...? The Demon Queen wondered to herself!

"you……"

Huang Quan's pupils suddenly contracted, and he exclaimed in shock:

"How did you know I was Uruyuki?"

"Since you know I have a photographic memory, you shouldn't have taken off the mask covering your mouth and chin. Fifteen years ago, you went to Wuming Mountain to assassinate Tianji Laoguai, but you were defeated and captured. I remembered your face then, and the moment I saw your mouth, I recognized you!"

In these 16 years, not only the 361 waves of assassins who were trying to kill Tang Zhan infiltrated Wuming Mountain, but also a large number of Tianji Laoguai's enemies!

Some of them were defeated by the Old Monster of Heavenly Secrets, while others were captured alive by Tang Zhan's trap!

The Old Monster of Heavenly Secrets is very strange. He never kills anyone. After defeating those who try to assassinate him, he lets them go, such as Wu Xiwu!

Those who were captured by Tang Zhan through a trap were mostly subdued, such as the Ghost Emperor and Lei Zhen!

"So I was exposed all along..."

Huang Quan sighed, then kowtowed deeply to Tang Zhan, his head resting on the ground as he pleaded:

"Master, please accept me. I am willing to be your loyal dog, and only you are worthy to be my master..."

Bang!

Tang Zhan kicked Huang Quan over and roared angrily:

"Wu Xiwu, you claim to serve me as your master, but in reality, you want to infiltrate my inner circle. Do you think I can't see through you?"

Before Huang Quan could refute, Tang Zhan directly exposed Huang Quan's lie:

"You say you're willing to serve me as your master, but would your master agree? You say you're giving me the Blood-Clad Pavilion, but would the true master of the Blood-Clad Pavilion agree?"