LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 411: Hostage
"In that case, take care of yourself, Xue Fang. We will go to you as fast as possible."
Xue Fang nodded, "Just be careful. We have checked every nook in this building, and there are no traps, but who knows what those sect members are capable of now?"
"Seeing what happened to this one, I don't think we have much of a problem," YanYu said with a smile.
The group then separated. Xue Fang made her way out, not directly going to attack the ritual place. Instead, she moved toward the location where the array core should be.
She took out her puppets and made them separate all over the place.
To make sure no one found out, she went to each area before sending the puppet out, then moved them as she also moved to another place.
Her brain now multi-processed more than 25 puppets going in separate directions. Continue your saga on empire
This was possible now because of how she learned programming from Alex's world. It was like inputting sequences of commands with many 'what if' situations, allowing them to move almost independently.
While she only need to make sure everything run smoothly.
Otherwise, no matter how used she was, maintaining 25 parallel minds would have made her brain crash.
Alex had tried to achieve something like this and failed multiple times. Only now that he had lost his emotions did he have the capability to do something like this.
While she did this, MingHao also began to make his move. Inside the mansion, the wall and ground were cracked.
Yang Yu was standing on his side with a sword pointed forward, while YunYun was holding two daggers that were linked with a chain.
"DIE!" She screamed coldly as she threw them like a boomerang. The chains of the knife spun in the air, turning into a deadly whirlwind toward her target.
A shameless cultivator was now using one of her cousins as a shield.
MingHao's eyes, meanwhile, were red with anger. A few moments ago, they had entered the room where he knew his family was kept.
He wanted to take care of them first and then make those he helped rescue the others.
But things didn't turn out as he expected. The moment he entered, MingHao directly punched one of the four, his fist boosted with life force, allowing his punch to smash through the man's heart.
Crimson blood spurted out, but MingHao didn't stop there. Asking for help from Xueqi's Ancestor, he captured the cultivator's soul.
Just like him, Xueqi Ancestor was also fuming in anger; it was his descendants who were being degraded and tortured.
With the danger he posed, MingHao expected they would all gather together to attack him. That was what they usually did in the past.
Ganging up on someone, thinking they had an advantage in numbers. Unfortunately, they had grown and learned since being exiled from the family.
What they did now was take their captive and use their body as a human shield.
"All of you are hopeless!" MingHao angrily said.
Meanwhile, YunYun's knife hit its target, spinning accurately, making the chain envelop the hostage's body while the sharp edge stabbed the perpetrator right in the neck.
The man groaned in pain as part of his skin turned black. "ARRGGHH!!! Bitch, you used poison!"
He used both hands to hold his neck as the pain was unbearable. It felt like all the blood in his body was boiling.
"How does it feel to be on the receiving end? Don't worry, mine is better than the one you gave to me. With your current cultivation level, it will kill you instantly," YunYun said with spite.
She purposely used the strongest poison she had. YunYun kept it hidden in a small storage space on her robe. This was done in case of an emergency if she somehow lost her storage ring, as very rarely would a cultivator do something like this.
Rather than putting a storage space on a robe, they would prefer using it to add more defensive formations to raise their survivability in a fight.
Seeing the fate of his two comrades, one of the men spoke up, "Any of you make a move, even a single qi fluctuation, and we will kill all the hostages."
YunYun and YanYu frowned, while MingHao asked back, "What do you want?"
He was now holding a knife, putting it on the neck of the woman in his grasp. "Seal your qi, then we can talk." He said while his eyes lasciviously looked at YanYu, making her body shiver.
"Hahaha, some people are really beyond redemption." MingHao's eyes then glinted with killing intent.
His qi exploded outward, and he moved so fast, like a blur, appearing behind the man. His hand grasped over his neck from behind.
Meanwhile, the other one, seeing this, decided to fulfill their threat. He broke the neck of the cultivator in his captive, effectively killing her, then threw the body toward YanYu and YunYun.
"WE HAVE AN INTRUDER!" He screamed out loud, using his qi, while he utilized his secret technique to escape.
YanYu quickly reacted. She leaped forward, following the man.
"YunYun, follow YanYu, help her," MingHao said coldly. Right now, in the room, there were only his helpless cousin and nephew, with the only threat being choked by him.
YunYun nodded, agreeing this was the best choice.
"Release me!" The man screamed while trying his best to get out of his grasp.
He tried to utilize his qi, but each time it wanted to form, it always failed. He didn't know why, but he suspected it was related to MingHao's grip on his neck.
He could feel searing, hot pain coming from it.
What happened was similar to what Alex did using qi to infiltrate the enemy's body.
The only difference was the scale. While Alex did this to cut things at a cellular level, MingHao was just injecting his qi into his opponent's body.
It was something that every cultivator could do; the only difference was that MingHao had practiced Xueqi family secret techniques.
This allowed him to change the nature of the qi he sent as an attack.