Although Huang Sheng was powerful, one should not forget that Zhao Shuning was a fourth - rank alchemist.
Moreover, Zhao Shuning practiced both spiritual energy and spiritual power. Huang Sheng was seriously injured at the moment. Even if he were at his peak instead of being in this state, Zhao Shuning was confident that she could subdue him.
Now, for Zhao Shuning, all of Huang Sheng's petty moves were in vain. As long as she didn't let him go, he had no chance.
"You're pushing me too far!" Huang Sheng roared. The muscles in his arms were twitching non - stop.
"Well, I admit it."
Zhao Shuning didn't think of herself as a great hero. Huang Sheng had a point. At this moment, she was indeed pushing him too far.
"As a senior, such behavior of yours is truly despicable!"
"Despicable or not, I don't intend to let others' opinions influence my decisions."
Zhao Shuning's voice remained calm. As long as her master thought well of her, as long as her parents and elder brother thought well of her, what did the opinions of strangers matter to her?
"Senior, aren't you afraid of the assassination order from the Four Great Families?" Zhang Tianyuan lowered his voice and softly uttered this sentence.
The assassination order from the Four Great Families... When they killed Ye Ling back then, they had united many so - called righteous people in the martial world on false charges and launched a crusade against her. That was the assassination order from the Four Great Families.
"Do you think the Four Great Families would be so reckless for the sake of Huang Sheng and you?"
As Zhao Shuning said this, she stared at Zhang Tianyuan all the time. She always felt that there was something different about Zhang Tianyuan. She hadn't figured out exactly what it was, but she trusted her intuition.
There must be something wrong with Zhang Tianyuan. The fact that he could say such a thing meant that he must have a connection with the Four Great Families.
"Senior, are you really going to kill us?"
"Yes."
Zhang Tianyuan was startled. The girl's voice showed no killing intent, yet it made fear well up from the bottom of his heart.
Only those from that organization could achieve this.
"I'm afraid you won't be able to kill me."
Zhang Tianyuan took out a signal flare from his sleeve and fired it in a flash. Instantly, a gorgeous light illuminated a small area of the sky red.
When Zhao Shuning saw this signal flare, her heart tightened.
Back then, when the army breached the city, such a signal flare had also appeared.
Previously, Zhao Shuning had thought it was just an ordinary signal flare. But after so many years, seeing the same signal flare here again, she couldn't help but connect the two events.
"It won't be so easy to trap me."
While Zhao Shuning was still thinking about the signal flare, Huang Sheng had already leaped into the air.
He pulled out a soft whip from his waist. The whip was silver - white all over, with a faint flowing light. It seemed to be a fine magical weapon. It could be used as a belt to tighten the waist and also as a weapon.
If Huang Sheng hadn't suddenly drawn it out this time, perhaps no one would have noticed that this gorgeous belt was actually a fine magical weapon.
The silver whip cut through the sky, making a clear sound when colliding with the air.
"Not bad! It's a fine spiritual weapon. Huang Sheng, as just a steward of the Misty Rain Tower, you actually possess such a superior spiritual weapon. It's really surprising."
Huang Sheng knew the girl was teasing him and didn't want to waste any more words with her. If he weren't seriously injured at the moment, he wouldn't have planned to use this magical weapon.
"I'd like to see how you can stop me now."
"The Sky - Reaching Spiritual Whip is indeed powerful, but it's not beyond my ability to handle."
The girl sneered and then quickly attacked. She was like a gust of wind, quickly passing by Huang Sheng. Before Huang Sheng could react, he saw the girl's palm wind coming towards his vital point. He quickly dodged. Just when he thought he had escaped this move, he saw a glint of cunning in the girl's eyes.
Immediately afterwards, the girl's hand directly covered the magical weapon, trying to snatch it away forcefully.
The Sky - Reaching Spiritual Whip was Huang Sheng's life. So he held it very tightly. Zhao Shuning's first attempt to snatch the magical weapon failed.
When Huang Sheng looked again, the girl who had just appeared had disappeared from his sight.
"What a fast speed."
As a result, not only Huang Sheng but also Zhang Tianyuan was on guard.
"Huang Sheng, I really like your Sky - Reaching Spiritual Whip. Are you going to hand it over quietly, or do I have to beat you until you hand it over?"
The Sky - Reaching Spiritual Whip was the ancestor of all whips. Even Zhao Xiangxiang's whip was made in imitation of this one. But compared to Huang Sheng's magical weapon, Zhao Xiangxiang's whip was like a descendant many generations removed.
One was the ancestor, and the other was something that couldn't even be considered a great - great - grandson.
The reason why Zhao Shuning took a fancy to this whip was very simple. She wanted to give it to Zhao Xiangxiang.
The whip that Zhao Xiangxiang had given her before had been completely destroyed by the Qingyun Sword that Zhang Tianyuan had summoned at the second height. Zhao Shuning had said that when she went back, she would bring a suitable weapon for Zhao Xiangxiang. Since Zhao Xiangxiang was used to using a whip, the Sky - Reaching Spiritual Whip should be the most suitable magical weapon for her.
"You're dreaming!"
"Really?"
The girl's voice still echoed in the air when Huang Sheng's body began to distort.
Zhao Shuning's spiritual power was extremely powerful.
Huang Sheng's legs involuntarily knelt towards the ground.
"Thud!"
The sound was so loud that it seemed his knees had already been worn away for most of the part.
"Huang Sheng, I now, on behalf of the laws of the Eastern Swamp Wilderness, officially sentence you."
"What right do you have to sentence me! I'm a fourth - stage spiritual herb master and a steward of the Misty Rain Tower. Do you dare to kill me?"
Zhao Shuning had indeed killed many people in her previous life, but in this life, she hadn't taken a single life yet. She didn't mind making Huang Sheng, this villain, the first.
"Huang Sheng, you hunted spiritual beasts without permission and killed the cubs of the demonic beasts just to obtain their demon cores. Your behavior violated the peace treaty between alchemists and the beast world."
"Secondly, for your own self - interest, you ignored the lives of your fellow disciples. Your life - disregarding actions also violated the rules of spiritual herb masters. You even wanted to kill your own students. According to the laws of the Misty Rain Tower, you definitely shouldn't be allowed to live."
This girl? How did she know what had happened in the maze cave?
"And—" The girl's voice changed, as if she was announcing his last sin.
"Many years ago, for your own promotion, you damaged the spiritual root of your fellow disciple Su Nian without permission. Your sins are too numerous to be written down."
A villain like Huang Sheng had no place in this world.
Zhao Shuning clenched her hands, crossed her arms, and the spiritual power that suddenly burst out from her body made Huang Sheng, who was under the control of the spiritual power, distort his face extremely. Then, blood slowly flowed out of his seven orifices.
Under everyone's gaze, he slowly fell to the ground, his eyes full of unwillingness.
Huang Sheng was dead.