I Can Transfer the Side Effects of Evil Skills

Chapter 239: Chapter 178: Backdooring Each Other

The power contained within that one finger made Tian Yun, standing right beside Zou Feng, feel her heart palpitate uncontrollably.

After all, she was quite familiar with that finger.

Tian Yun knew how formidable that finger was, but she had never expected it could reach such a terrifying level of power...

Just as Zou Feng finished gathering strength for the Crimson Poison Needle, bringing it to its absolute peak, a sense of alarm finally registered with Zhang Yinxiu.

”An ambush!”

He roared, but it wasn’t to warn his Personal Guards to take cover and prepare for a fight.

Instead, he needed these loyal hounds to step forward and serve as his human shields.

As they were his, the Marshal’s, Personal Guards, their loyalty was beyond question. Before he even finished shouting his warning, the four men closest to him rapidly converged, acting as human shields.

Using Gang Qi Realm Martial Artists as human shields might sound overly extravagant.

However, these Personal Guards had all been handpicked from the army by Zhang Yinxiu. He had them consume a Secret Medicine that sacrificed their future potential to forcibly raise them to the Gang Qi Realm.

Unfortunately, it was too late.

Zhang Yinxiu was a veteran of a hundred battles, and his combat prowess was the real deal. He should have sensed the danger much earlier.

However, influenced by the nightmares tailor-made for him by Zou Feng, he was in terrible shape.

After two consecutive nights of mental torment, on top of being poisoned, it would have been a miracle if he were in any normal condition.

As the Personal Guards converged on Zhang Yinxiu, Zou Feng’s fingertip erupted!

A deep red flash tore through the air, streaking toward Zhang Yinxiu at a speed nearly invisible to the naked eye.

Zhang Yinxiu instinctively knew he couldn’t take this attack head-on and jerked his head back.

As he dodged, he was also positioning the Personal Guard to his right to shield him.

But while the Personal Guard served as a human shield, his Protective Gang Qi was like paper-mâché. It couldn’t slow the red flash in the slightest.

”HRAAAGH—”

With a great roar, Zhang Yinxiu was ultimately forced to rely on his own Gang Qi Shield to weather the blow.

In the blink of an eye, his Gang Qi Shield materialized as a round buckler, seemingly emblazoned with a giant beast that opened its cavernous maw and roared without end.

But when it was struck by Zou Feng’s fully charged and enhanced Crimson Poison Needle, the beast’s roar instantly turned into the pathetic whimper of a beaten dog.

The shield was pierced through, and now it was Zhang Yinxiu’s turn to suffer.

With a blood-curdling scream, Zhang Yinxiu was struck in the waist by the Crimson Poison Needle and knocked from his horse.

Unfortunately, the needle clearly hadn’t pierced all the way through him.

There was no helping it; a man like him was bound to be wearing a formidable Protective Magical Artifact.

Even so, the impact still gave Zhang Yinxiu a significant internal injury, and blood trickled from the corner of his mouth.

Regrettably, the Poison Force had failed to penetrate his body.

But Zou Feng had long been prepared for the possibility that a single strike wouldn’t be fatal. He was already performing a leap of faith, plummeting down from the cliff.

With the momentum of a heavenly descent, he struck downwards with his Great Universal Hand.

A deafening roar suddenly echoed. Zhang Yinxiu, who had just been knocked from his horse, looked up in horror. He felt as if a great mountain, resonating with Brahma Sound, was about to crash down upon him.

The other Personal Guards panicked. They might have wanted to act as human shields for Zhang Yinxiu, but how could they possibly block an attack with such a massive area of effect?

Zhang Yinxiu knew he couldn’t count on his Personal Guards. Without a moment’s hesitation, he used Bursting Qi, his Gang Qi instantly forming a Giant Axe.

With a roar from cultivating at full power, Zhang Yinxiu directed the Gang Qi Giant Axe to viciously cleave toward Zou Feng’s Palm Technique.

As a desperate, life-or-death gamble, Zhang Yinxiu’s strike was naturally quite formidable.

However, not only was he already injured, poisoned, and his strength limited, but the Great Universal Hand at the level of Peak of Perfection was a Cultivation Skill far beyond what Zhang Yinxiu could currently hope to match.

The Gang Qi Giant Axe couldn’t even last for a single breath before it shattered on impact.

The overwhelming Palm Force then descended, crushing Zhang Yinxiu and blasting him into a five-fingered crater left by the impact.

As for the Personal Guards, the two weakest among them were sent crashing to the ground, immediately bleeding from all seven orifices. It was clear they were beyond saving.

Some of the others were lucky enough to get out of the way, while some only suffered minor injuries because Zhang Yinxiu had taken the brunt of the Palm Force.

But that didn’t matter. While Zou Feng was on a killing spree, Tian Yun wasn’t just standing on the sidelines to cheer him on.

It was a simple matter for her to swoop down and finish off the stragglers.

The main target, Zhang Yinxiu, was still left for Zou Feng to handle.

The man’s Protective Magical Artifact was incredibly effective. Even after being slammed into the crater, he was only bleeding from three of his orifices. He then managed to scramble back to his feet and try to escape.

His choice was an exceedingly wise one. He clearly couldn’t win a direct fight, so he had to pour all his remaining strength into escaping.

After all, this place wasn’t far from Cheetah Camp. If he could send out a distress signal while he fled, the experts from the camp would surely rush to his aid...

Huh!?

Zhang Yinxiu’s plan was a good one, but unfortunately for him, he had already been firmly ensnared by ”Love That Can Stretch and Contract at Will.” There was no escape for him, neither to the heavens nor into the earth.

He had fled less than ten zhang before Zou Feng, who had now landed steadily, simply raised a hand and pulled him back with a suction force.

”Wai—wait! Whatever you demand, sir, we can negotia—PUAH—”

The Poison Fury Fire Lotus Seal had already been heavily imprinted on Zhang Yinxiu’s back.

His Protective Magical Artifact had already been completely depleted and was no longer effective.

And once imprinted on its target, the current Poison Fury Fire Lotus Seal would continue to spin and writhe before finally blossoming inside their body.

Already severely injured, how could Zhang Yinxiu possibly withstand such a Critical Strike? His body was instantly sent arching like a shrimp from the force of the blow.