CHAPTER 429: CHAPTER 103: A CENTURY OF HATRED AVENGED IN ONE MORNING

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"Explode!"

Wang Shouzhe softly muttered, intensely gathering the thick, light cyan profound qi within his body. As he struck out with his palm, the qi exploded, sprinkling down on the vines like spring rain.

In an instant, the already rapidly growing Blood Witch Vine No. 3 surged again, becoming wild in a sudden burst. Within just a few breaths, the vines grew and formed, wildly thrashing like a witch’s long hair.

This was Wang Shouzhe’s self-created "Rain-Transforming Essence-Promoting Palm," based on his bloodline talent characteristics. It wasn’t a particularly profound skill and wasn’t meant for attacking people, but simply to foster and enhance battle plants.

The ones Wang Shouwei had let through were two mid-stage Spirit Platform Realm elders of the Huangfu Family.

Their strength wasn’t weak, each wielding a lower-grade spirit sword. When they executed their swordsmanship, fierce sword qi shot in all directions, slicing the Blood Witch Vines as easily as cutting through vegetables. In an instant, the vines’ wreckage flew everywhere.

One of them practiced the Huangfu Family’s clan-defining cultivation technique, the "Red Dragon True Technique (Spirit Platform Chapter)." The lower-grade fire element spirit sword roared and whirled, slicing and burning the Blood Witch Vines, momentarily displaying its might.

However, although they destroyed the vines quickly, they still couldn’t outpace the vines’ growth speed.

Because while they were rampantly destroying the Blood Witch Vines, Wang Shouzhe continued to swing the Cosmic Palace Sword, sending out arcs of sword qi to interfere with them, occasionally launching a Rain-Transforming Essence-Promoting Palm to foster the vines.

The Blood Witch Vines, even if mostly chopped off or burned dry, would wildly regrow as long as their roots remained, like grass after a spring rain.

By this point, the expressions of the two trapped Huangfu Family elders turned grim.

The vines grew faster than they could cut. How could they possibly break free?

Furthermore, within the Vine Array, Wang Shouzhe was still releasing sword qi, continuously harassing them.

After just two or three rounds, one of the elders, trying to dodge a sword qi from Wang Shouzhe, was caught off guard and had his foot entangled by a vine.

Though he quickly reacted, slicing it with his sword and using profound qi to shatter the vine remnants clinging to his foot, a few barbs from the Witch Vines still pierced his skin.

Even severed, those dense barbs were like venomous snake fangs, immediately injecting paralyzing venom into his body. Then, the empty venom sacs of the barbs swelled like syringes, starting to draw blood.

Even though the bloodthirsty barbs were tiny, the venom injected was but a trace, and the amount of blood drawn wasn’t even a drop, but there were just too many barbs on the vine!

The Huangfu Family elder felt a numbness in his foot, causing his speed and reactions to slow ever so slightly.

He secretly thought this was bad.

As expected, Wang Shouzhe seized the opportunity to target him, using the vines as cover, continuously suppressing him with sword qi.

To defend against Wang Shouzhe, he inevitably showed openings, repeatedly getting attacked by the Witch Vines.

Within just seven or eight breaths, his body had several vine remnants that he couldn’t deal with in time, feeling a growing paralysis and his blood rapidly draining away.

A great fear gripped him, knowing that if he didn’t escape, he might perish in this terrifying Vine Array.

Escape! Escape! Escape!

The Huangfu Family elder immediately burst forth with sword qi, attempting to dash out.

Little did he know, hidden among the countless regular Witch Vines, a darker, thicker vine lay in wait like a deadly snake.

Seizing the moment when the Huangfu Family elder revealed an opening, it explosively shot out, its speed like a red lightning bolt.

Believing it to be just an ordinary Witch Vine, the Huangfu Family elder reflexively struck it with his sword.

"Splat~"

The Bloodthirsty Vine’s sap splattered.

Yet his lower-grade spirit sword got stuck in the vine, cutting barely half way through and unable to advance further.

The Huangfu Family elder’s heart sank with panic, sensing impending disaster.

But it was too late.

Before he could draw back his lower-grade spirit sword, the Bloodthirsty Vine had wrapped around him like a giant constricting serpent.

It was even more terrifying than a giant serpent. Its barbs were sharper, and the paralyzing venom far surpassed the ordinary Blood Witch Vines.

In just a moment, countless barbs pierced into his body, yanking him from the air to the ground harshly.

The Huangfu Family elder let out a scream, desperately struggling and rolling to resist, but the surrounding Blood Witch Vines all came alive, entangling his body like witch’s hair.

As time passed, the screams continued, but the resistance grew weaker.

Countless vines wrapped him into a cocoon, completely obscuring his form from the outside; even the screams and pleas for mercy gradually faded until they eventually ceased.

This all happened in just a few dozen breaths.

"Fourth Great Uncle!"

Huangfu Jinhuan stared wide-eyed in disbelief.

The faces of the other Huangfu Family members grew exceedingly grim.

Everyone knew that the fate of that Huangfu Family elder was bleak.

"Wang Shouzhe, I will kill you!"

In great sorrow, Huangfu Jinhuan grabbed a lower-grade spiritual artifact long sword, intending to avenge the Fourth Great Uncle by killing Wang Shouzhe.

Unfortunately, Wang Shouwei, as a guard puppet produced by the Divine Martial Dynasty, wasn’t powerful offensively, but defensively he was as immovable as a wall of steel.