Chapter 70: The Poison? What Poison?

## Chapter 70: Poison? What Poison?

"Poison? What poison?" Xu Kang feigned a startlement, deliberately playing deaf and foolish. "Ye Chen, food can be eaten indiscriminately, but words should not be spoken lightly."

"Exactly! You're afraid you can't defeat Senior Brother Xu, so you're deliberately framing him!" From the crowd below, a voice piped up.

As soon as these words were spoken, they were quickly echoed by others.

"I didn't see Senior Brother Xu use poison. You're measuring a gentleman's heart with a villain's!"

"Unable to win, you claim Senior Brother Xu used poison. Ye Chen, you are truly too sinister!"

Below the stage, a chorus of accusations rose like a tide, clearly twisting black into white, yet each face displayed an expression of righteous indignation.

"This time, you surely won't escape death!"

"This is the price for provoking my Human Yang Peak and Earth Yang Peak."

"Today, you are destined to spill blood on the Wind Cloud Platform!"

Compared to the disciples below, the true transmission disciples of Human Yang Peak and Earth Yang Peak each wore a cold smile.

On the stage, Ye Chen silently listened to the scolding from below, his eyes growing colder and colder.

He could see clearly now: Human Yang Peak and Earth Yang Peak, in their pursuit of vengeance against him, had truly gone to great lengths. They had deployed their true transmission disciples in such a grand formation, and yet, still feeling it insufficient, had secretly arranged so many followers to stir up commotion.

"The words of the people can be feared," he once again witnessed the meaning of these four words.

"Two fists are no match for four hands," how could his single voice contend with a tide of accusations?

But who was he? He was Ye Chen! How could he simply accept this injustice and eat a silent loss? With the protection of his True Fire, the poison was rendered useless against him. Next, he would return the favor, treating them with their own medicine.

Amidst the scolding voices, he had already secretly mobilized the True Fire within his body, burning away all the rampant toxins.

However, on the surface, he still feigned a poisoned state, staggering on the stage and creating a false impression to paralyze Xu Kang, and then strike him down with a thunderous blow.

"Ye Chen!" Below the stage, Xiong Er saw Ye Chen afflicted by the poison and was about to rush up, but he subtly caught Ye Chen's eye and saw him blink.

The two shared an extreme level of tacit understanding. With that single look, Xiong Er seemed to grasp everything, and he consciously held back the foot he had just stepped out.

"Aiya, Junior Brother Ye, what's wrong? You seem quite ill!" On stage, seeing Ye Chen's entire body turn black, Xu Kang still feigned concern with false sincerity.

"Dealing with a half-dead person like me, and you still resorted to poison? You're truly something."

"Junior Brother Ye, you might have truly misunderstood me."

"Enough with the nonsense, come on!" With a stern shout, Ye Chen coldly stared at Xu Kang.

Hearing these words, Xu Kang smiled playfully, no longer concealing his sinister and cunning face. "Since Junior Brother Ye is so eager, then I, your senior brother, will indulge you in a little game."

With that, he took a step, moving like the wind, and pointed a dim light with his finger towards Ye Chen.

Seeing Xu Kang's finger pointed at him, Ye Chen remained perfectly still.

To outsiders, it appeared as though he was poisoned and had lost the ability to move. In reality, he was waiting for the right moment, solely because Xu Kang's cultivation had reached the eighth layer of the Human Origin Realm.

"Die!" Only at this moment did Xu Kang reveal a sinister and ferocious smile.

However, just as his finger was about to land on Ye Chen's body, he saw a hint of sarcastic laughter at the corner of Ye Chen's mouth.

Seeing Ye Chen's peculiar smile, a sense of unease suddenly arose in his heart.

Soon, to his shocked gaze, Ye Chen suddenly shifted his body, dodging the dim light from his finger. Then, taking advantage of the momentum, he grabbed his arm. Following that, he was directly swung away by Ye Chen.

Bang!

Several *zhang* away, he heavily crashed onto the battle stage.

Scrambling to his feet, Xu Kang stared at Ye Chen with disbelief. "This is impossible! You clearly..."

"I clearly what?" Ye Chen let out a cold laugh. The black color on his body, visible to the naked eye, gradually faded, returning to its original hue.

"He wasn't poisoned?"

"I clearly saw Senior Brother Xu's poison needle hit Ye Chen's body."

Not only were the true transmission disciples of Earth Yang Peak, but even the disciples of Human Yang Peak displayed expressions of extreme doubt.

Looking back at the stage, Xu Kang's face was no longer playful; his expression had become extremely ferocious.

He knew he had been played by Ye Chen. Ye Chen had not been poisoned at all. But what could he say? Could he say he had clearly seen the poison needle hit Ye Chen's body? Saying that would be tantamount to admitting his own deceit.

"Senior Brother Xu Kang, didn't you want to have a good play with me, your junior brother? Come on!" On the opposite side, Ye Chen hooked his finger.

"Watch as I destroy you!" Xu Kang roared fiercely, purple light surrounding his palm and fingers.

However, just as he took a step, he froze.

"This..." He subconsciously looked at his own palm, which had already turned black, and was rapidly spreading towards his arm and body at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Poison!

Xu Kang instantly discovered why his body was acting so strangely. As someone skilled in using poison, how could he not see that he had been poisoned?

"Was it that instant when I was hit by Ye Chen..." Xu Kang pondered when he might have been poisoned.

Puff!

Suddenly, he coughed up a mouthful of black fresh blood, leaving the onlookers utterly bewildered.

"Ye Chen, you actually dared to use poison on me!" Xu Kang's eyes turned blood red, and he gnashed his teeth as he stared at Ye Chen across from him.

"Poison? What poison?" Ye Chen feigned fright, mimicking Xu Kang's earlier act of playing deaf and foolish. Even the words he spoke were the same. "Senior Brother Xu, food can be eaten indiscriminately, but these words should not be spoken lightly!"

"Exactly, exactly! You're afraid you can't defeat Ye Chen, so you're deliberately framing him!" From below the stage, a voice rang out, and it was undoubtedly Xiong Er.

"Tacit understanding, this is tacit understanding!"

Xiong Er was smart. If the people from Human Yang Peak and Earth Yang Peak could twist black into white, he naturally would help Ye Chen turn the tables.

"I didn't see Ye Chen use poison. Instead, you, Xu Kang, are measuring a gentleman's heart with a villain's."

This long speech was entirely in Xiong Er's voice, and the lines he used, the words he spoke, were all copied from those earlier speakers.

"Unable to win, you claim Ye Chen used poison. Xu Kang, you are also too sinister!"

"You..." Xu Kang's blood surged, and he coughed up a mouthful of old blood.

"Ye Chen clearly used poison!" At this moment, the followers from Human Yang Peak and Earth Yang Peak began to stir up trouble again.

"Wind Cloud Duel forbids the use of poison. Ye Chen ignored the sect rules, sanction him!"

"Ye Chen, you are truly too vicious!"

"Are you all f**king eating shit?!" The next voice was particularly harsh and loud. Xiong Er, who had been holding his breath for a minute, finally roared out this sentence.

This roar was truly earth-shattering, overbearing, and leaked dominance. His single voice actually drowned out the scolding of everyone present. Perhaps his sound waves were too strong, causing many people to involuntarily cover their ears.

After this fellow's roar, the entire field fell into a short silence.

"Ye Chen did use poison, and no amount of quibbling is useful!" After the silence, a disciple in green robes jumped out.

"Ye Chen's heart is too sinister!"

"Sanction him!"

"All you mothers, scram!" Xiong Er once again displayed his divine power. His sound waves were too strong, and with one roar, too many people covered their ears again.

"It's the Xiong family's sound wave secret technique!" A true transmission disciple of Human Yang Peak's eyes narrowed slightly.

"No wonder he can drown out the voices of so many people."

"This little fatty actually has this kind of secret method." Ye Chen touched his chin, secretly thinking he should find Xiong Er for a chat someday.

Ah...!

After a short silence, before the followers of Human Yang Peak and Earth Yang Peak could speak, this lump of Xiong Er, again opened his throat and roared loudly.

Looking at his posture, he was determined to wholeheartedly help Ye Chen by becoming the instigating force below the stage.

"Eat rice."

"Sleep."

"Flirt with girls."

Xiong Er's sound wave secret technique was truly not to be underestimated. Roar after roar, he shook the heavens and the earth, and the words he roared were still so strange, to the extent that those followers who had just spoken were rawly suppressed by his sound waves.

"Is this fellow a beast?" One by one, the followers covered their ears, unable to lift their heads under the onslaught of the roars.

"You're truly something!" On the stage, Ye Chen couldn't help but laugh.

Perhaps, in such a scene and situation, a lively treasure like Xiong Er was truly needed. Most importantly, he possessed that kind of shameless spirit.

"For freedom!" Xiong Er roared again with earth-shattering force.

After roaring out this sound, he only then sipped his hair and scanned the followers hiding in the crowd. His small eyes still held a provocative meaning, as if to say: Scold! Go ahead and scold me, old man! If you scold again, old man will roar you into half-paralysis.

Looking at those disciples who were acting as followers, each of their faces was red, unsure whether it was from holding back or from anger.

"Withdraw!" Xiong Er had already signaled Ye Chen with a look.

Even without Xiong Er saying anything, Ye Chen had already jumped off the battle stage, thinking of leaving this place as quickly as possible.

However, if he wanted to leave, some people would not let him.

As soon as he jumped off the battle stage, a true transmission disciple from Human Yang Peak blocked his path.

"What? In such a hurry to leave?"

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