Unparalleled Duo
Chapter 41 - 41 28 Poisonous Silver

41: Chapter 28: Poisonous Silver 41: Chapter 28: Poisonous Silver That moment, Zhu Xiaowan almost instantly understood that she had been poisoned, but at that time, she had no time to recall how it had happened.

Actually, Huang Donglai’s method was not complicated at all, merely because Zhu Xiaowan was solely focused on whether others drank the Knockout Drug while she was toasting, neglecting whether her own glass had been tampered with, which gave Brother Huang an opportunity.

Of course, at that time, Zhu Xiaowan didn’t expect that Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai, who seemed young and inexperienced in Martial Arts, would silently execute a series of underhanded tactics…

From pretending to be enchanted by beauty, to feigning escape by bodily functions, to faking unconsciousness for a sneak attack, to poisoning, to throwing lime powder…

Could two seemingly seventeen-eighteen-year-old Martial Arts youths really do such things?

Even if you replaced them with two old-timers, without a certain degree of shamelessness, it couldn’t be done.

But now, it was too late to regret her carelessness; Zhu Xiaowan could only quickly use her Inner Strength to seal some of her meridians to prevent the poisoned blood from attacking her heart and fought against the two under such conditions.

However…

this didn’t mean she had no chance of winning.

Zhu Xiaowan’s Martial Arts were the strongest among all the “enemies” Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai had ever encountered.

Not only had she practiced Martial Arts from childhood, but she also had no small amount of talent.

In the same realm, a person like Ma Si would need ten years to practice, but Zhu Xiao might need only five or even less; Ma Si practiced Sword Skill for ten years using the Master’s way, but after integrating Soft Fist, Iron Sand Palm, and Finger Skill, Zhu Xiaowan created her own “Chopsticks Skill.”

This gap in talent was the most despairing thing; it was the barrier between “a generation’s grandmaster” and a “Martial Arts myth”, set by heaven itself, and as long as you walked the orthodox path of Martial Arts, there was no possibility of crossing it.

That instant, Zhu Xiaowan reached into her collar, pinched with her fingers, and pulled out a pair of iron chopsticks vertically, immediately flipping her right hand and stabbing, drawing a cold light in midair, attacking Sun Yixie, who was closer to her.

Just a second ago, Sun Yixie was marveling at her method of concealing weapons, but the next second, seeing the chopstick tips coming at him, he hurriedly performed a “reverse carp flip”, rolling backwards and then finishing with a backward roll.

Though the movement was clumsy, it was indeed effective…

He escaped three meters away in an instant.

At the same time, Huang Donglai had also leapt off the wall, jumping into mid-air, partly to provide Sun Yixie with a path to roll back, and partly to facilitate launching Hidden Weapons from above.

“Hmph…

Small tricks.” Zhu Xiaowan sneered after observing just a move and a half from the two.

People highly skilled in Martial Arts are like that, she really only needed to see that much to gauge your strength; unless your martial realm was significantly above hers, it was possible she might misjudge.

Ding ding ding—

The next second, an unbelievable scene occurred.

Zhu Xiaowan’s figure flickered, her jade arms swiftly moving, and in an instant, she struck three times with the chopsticks, amazingly catching all three Hidden Weapons thrown by Huang Donglai.

“Ha?” Huang Donglai, who had just stabilized himself on the cooking stove, stretched his neck upon witnessing this; only then did he realize that this woman’s Martial Arts were much higher than he had anticipated, and combined with that bizarre weapon, she likely attained the level of a top-notch master.

What kind of level was that?

About the strength of a Sect Leader from some minor factions; for a reputable Sect, however, her strength was probably between the Vice Sect Leader and the chief disciple.

Such a person, if on the right path, could easily become a lone hero even without joining any organization; unfortunately, Zhu Xiaowan was inherently cruel and unfeeling.

In her younger days, she caused chaos in the Martial Arts world, and the righteous path couldn’t accommodate her, which is why she hid in this remote place and opened a shady inn.

Today, being discovered by Sun Yixie and Huang Donglai was indeed unlucky for the pair…

“Brother Sun!

It’s tricky!” Seeing that things were going wrong, Huang Donglai quickly shouted a warning to Sun Yixie.

“Damn it, what use is telling me now?” Sun Yixie said, “And why hasn’t your poison taken effect yet?”

“I guess she’s sealed her meridians with her Inner Strength,” Huang Donglai replied.

While the two spoke, one had already retreated to a corner of the kitchen, the other kicked up a kitchen knife from the stove and held it in his hand.

Zhu Xiaowan saw their reaction, still sneered, and leisurely lifted the Hidden Weapons she had caught with her chopsticks to look at: “Oh?

Huang Sect’s Hidden Weapons?” She paused for half a second, smiling, “Then it’s easy, Huang Sect’s people must carry the corresponding antidote no matter what poison…

So, are you going to hand it over yourselves, or shall I break your limbs slowly and ask?”

She now felt confident in achieving victory, believing her chances of winning to be significant even while part of her meridians were sealed.

On the other hand, Huang Donglai was also regretting…

Although he had seen that this shady inn’s owner was not lacking in Martial Arts, he hadn’t thought she would be this skilled, which is why he only used very common poison; if he had known her power was strong enough to “seal part of her meridians and still manage to fight two to one with an advantage,” he would definitely have chosen a more potent poison.

Now, he and Sun Yixie had two options—

First, to run.

This had a relatively high success rate because Zhu Xiaowan might not choose to pursue.

The poison in her could be immediately neutralized with the antidote, but even without it, if she took some time to channel her energy and expel the poisoned blood, she could remove about sixty to seventy percent of the toxicity, and the remaining thirty percent wasn’t deadly; just by consuming some common detoxifying herbs and resting for a few days, she could gradually eliminate it.

Thus, for Zhu Xiaowan, not pursuing might be a safer bet to preserve her own life.