Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 492: Three Lives Suspended (Part )
The sound of breaking wind arose, and Dugu Yong's sword style also began.

And this new move was clearly at a higher level in terms of sword theory than the "Crazy Sword Slaying Dragon" he had just used.

Seeing this, Huo Ming did not dare to be arrogant. He immediately used his internal strength, which was even stronger than before, and met the attack with all his strength with a more sophisticated and swift move.

However, his counterattack had an effect that even he himself could not believe...

At that moment, the two men's bodies shifted, and Dugu Yong was knocked down by the sword. He staggered a few steps as if he had lost his strength, and fell to the edge of the ring.

"No!" At this moment, the first person to react was Huo Ming.

As Dugu Yong's opponent, he knew better than anyone else what had happened during the fight between the two...

But at that moment, Dugu Yong had only performed half of his move when an expression of extreme pain suddenly appeared on his face, and then his body trembled strangely as if convulsing.

After this sudden change, not only did Dugu Yong's sword style become distorted and weak, but even the internal energy he used to attack seemed to dissipate on its own.

Thus, Huo Ming's fist, which could not be retracted, hit Dugu Yong's chest without any hindrance.

Although Huo Ming realized something and quickly retracted most of his power at the last moment, causing himself to suffer some internal injuries due to his strong restraint, but his punch... was still too heavy.

At least for a person whose meridians have been severely damaged, this is an unbearable burden.

The book implies here that when Dugu Yong used this second move, he was obviously poisoned, and he was poisoned by the strange poison "Chongmai San" given by the Shadowless Poison Lord.

Normally, this kind of poison will take effect several hours after being ingested, and during these hours, the poisoned person will hardly notice anything unusual; until shortly before the onset of the disease, the poisoned person will feel a little tingling in several acupuncture points on the body, but it is not obvious.

But after a while, this stabbing pain will come back again and again, gradually turning into severe pain. At this time, the poisoned person may realize that the true qi has stagnated in many places in his meridians and gathered into small lumps.

However, at this stage, it is too late to do anything, and the poisoned person will soon die from ruptured meridians.

Some people may have discovered by now that this kind of poison can only befall those who practice martial arts and have a certain level of internal strength.

If a person has no internal strength, he will not feel anything and will not be in any danger until the poison is metabolized by the body.

And if a person's martial arts skills are very shallow, and the amount of his/her true energy is not enough to condense into small clumps at the many acupuncture points, then he/she still has a great chance of surviving this poison. Of course... depending on the amount of his/her internal strength, it will still cause different consequences ranging from "minor damage to the meridians" to "martial arts being abolished".

There is another situation, that is, this person's internal strength has reached perfection, all his meridians are unobstructed, and there is nothing that can be called a bottleneck. In that case, this kind of poison is also ineffective against him. However, this kind of person... Looking at the entire martial arts world, there are only a few of them in the past thousand years.

In short, the Dugu father and son happen to be the type of people who can be killed by this poison.

Dugu Yong's luck was really bad. Although he was poisoned later than his father, because he had practiced high-intensity martial arts in the ring, the effect of the poison broke out prematurely.

What's even more unfair is that he was not the person that the Poison Lord wanted to kill. The Poison Lord had only poisoned Dugu Sheng's bowl at the beginning, and the Poison Lord was very cautious and took back the bowl after successfully poisoning it.

Who would have known that later Shao Shanhu would come over and try to give him a laxative, and after a tug of war with Shuang Xie, he proposed the idea of ​​"sharing a table"... All this time, Du Zun wanted to "play".

So far, it's actually fine...

Because Du Zun just wanted to play tricks on the "Young Master of the Yellow Gate" at that time, most of the cups, bowls, spoons, chopsticks, wine, food and sauces on the table were just filled with laxatives by Huang Donglai. Only the wine bowl in front of Huang Donglai was filled with "Chongmai Powder".

According to Poison Master's idea: How much internal strength can a kid like Huang Donglai have at his age? After he finishes taking this Chongmai Powder, he will probably not die, and in the end, his meridians will probably be damaged, which can also be regarded as letting you Huangmen know what I am doing.

But in the end, Sun and Huang and the Shao father and son were completely shameless and staged a "collective shit escape". The Poison Lord felt that it was meaningless and just walked away.

The remaining Dugu Yong and the Gao family father and daughter soon left the table because they lost their appetite and felt embarrassed.

But the bad thing was that... when Dugu Yong was leaving the table and passed by the other side of the "shared table", he was attracted by the aroma of the daughter's red wine...

I'm sure you've all experienced this mentality. It's like when you go out to have a meal with relatives and friends, and you eat at a round table and order a table full of dishes. When the dishes are served, everyone is about 90% full, but at least half of the dishes are still left on the table. Then everyone eats, drinks and chats for an hour or so, and before leaving, you may feel that there is room in your stomach again, so... you have already stood up, but you can't help but drink the last glass of wine in front of you, or just pick up another bite of food, as if you can't leave without taking this last bite.

It was in this situation that Dugu Yong didn't think much about it. He picked up the bowl of wine in front of Huang Donglai and drank it down in one gulp. After he finished drinking it and wiped his mouth, he felt a sense of "accomplishment" after this lunch.

Who knew that this bowl of wine would be fatal.

At this moment, Huo Ming, who had noticed something unusual, just finished his move and immediately turned around, used his lightness skills to leap forward a few feet, then stretched out his hand and picked up Dugu Yong, who had lost consciousness and was about to fall off the stage.

When he carried the man on his shoulders, Huo Ming broke out in a cold sweat, because he could clearly feel that Dugu Yong was on the verge of death and his life was in danger.

As a local tyrant, Huo Ming knew very well what it would mean if Dugu Yong died on stage, in his hands...

What he will face at that time may not be the issue of competing for the Silkworm Ring and the hosting rights of the Young Heroes Association, but he will have to think about what to do if Dugu Sheng comes to challenge him.

Just then...

Then two figures suddenly jumped out from the commentary booth.

"Come on, let me lend a hand." Huang Donglai, in a tone that sounded calm but as if he was busy with something, led Huo Ming and quickly moved Dugu Yong to the backstage. "Oh, Brother Yong, you are too careless. Let's go backstage and rest first." In the process, he also pretended to talk to Dugu Yong, giving people the impression that Dugu Yong was actually fine.

On the stage, Sun Yixie came close to Wen Taiqi and whispered to the referee to read out the result as usual. After Wen Taiqi finished speaking, he personally announced that the game would be suspended for a while, but would continue soon.

For a moment, the audience was a little confused about the situation, but fortunately the scene did not fall into chaos. After all, there was a certain interval between each game; but... many people who could see clearly were discussing that Dugu Yong's injury was probably not light.

At the same time, backstage.

This competition was well prepared, so there was even a "medical tent". Dugu Yong was carried in immediately, so that what happened next would not be exposed to the attention of so many people backstage.

"Brother Dugu!"

No outsiders are allowed to enter this tent, but Dugu Sheng and the Gao family father and daughter can of course come in.

Look at Gao Yadian, he ran faster than Dugu Sheng and was the first one to lean forward to check on Dugu Yong’s injuries.

But as soon as she got closer, her expression suddenly changed and her heart sank.

Almost at the same time, a doctor who was on standby in the tent came over and quickly checked Dugu Yong.

"He... I'm afraid he's dying." The results of the examination were not surprising. A person whose meridians were completely destroyed and who was in a coma had no hope of being saved given the emergency treatment capabilities at the time.

"Huo Ming." After a moment, Dugu Sheng's voice sounded.

At this point, he would no longer use the honorific title of "Master Huo"; he simply asked in a cold, low, and slightly trembling voice: "Do you have anything else to say?"

When asking this question, Dugu Sheng's hand was already on the hilt of the sword.

Dugu Sheng is over 60 years old this year. He has only one son, Dugu Yong, and the relationship between them has always been good. Originally, he came to Cangzhou to solve his son's lifelong event, and things were almost going to happen. Who would have thought that in just a cup of tea, he fell from heaven to hell and was about to send his son off... At this moment, Dugu Sheng was still able to keep his rationality and asked this question before taking direct action to "revenge", which was already good enough.

"Senior Dugu, I'm not trying to shirk responsibility, but something strange happened on the stage just now..." Huo Ming tried to calm the other party politely while secretly using his internal energy.

Huo Ming also understood that when things had come to this point, his explanations were just formalities. Even if there was another hidden story behind Dugu Yong's experience, he had to survive the hands of this grieving father before he would have the chance to investigate.

Just when the two masters were on the verge of a life-and-death fight, ready to break out at any moment...

"Don't panic!" Sun Yixie suddenly shouted, "Brother Yong can still be saved!"

It would have been fine if he hadn't said this, but after he did, Dugu Sheng became a little angry. He glared at Sun Yixie and said with gritted teeth, "People are like this now, and you still say that there is..."

“Shut up!” Unexpectedly, Sun Yixie actually dared to interrupt him and said in a decisive tone, “If I say there is hope, there is hope.” He paused for half a second and immediately explained, “A few years ago, I almost died, but Brother Huang saved me. Now Brother Yong is still breathing, right? There must be a way, right, Brother Huang?”

Huang Donglai cursed in his heart when he heard this. He thought: So you shouted so confidently, just to say this? Can you do the same? You were able to do the "Hell Chasing Soul" because you had the "Soul Guarding" given by my master. What does Dugu Yong have now?
"Eh?" Thinking of this, Huang Donglai suddenly remembered something, and then he fumbled around for a while and took out a pill from his arms, "Don't mention it... I actually have something here that you can try."

"What is this? A soul-resurrection pill?" Sun Yixie narrowed his eyes and opened his mouth.

"Are you dreaming? With something as convenient as the 'Resurrection Pill', would I have to perform a ritual to save you?" Huang Donglai retorted, and then continued, "This pill is..."

He stopped talking here, and then pulled Sun Yixie aside, a few steps away from the crowd, and whispered: "This is the only Xuanqi Sect elixir I have left. My master gave it to me secretly before I went to the capital to subdue Si Xiao. My uncle didn't even know about it... My master told me that this is a 'Yuan Dan' that he personally refined. Because he knew that I only had a hobby of refining elixirs, he gave me one, specifically for me to practice alchemy. It is said that this elixir will change color according to the situation of my refining, and it can be reused, but I haven't had the chance to use it in recent days."

"So you're planning to practice now?" Sun Yi asked jokingly, "Isn't the time a bit tight?"

"Of course not..." Huang Donglai said, "It's strange. I clearly haven't refined this Yuandan before, but when I came back from Japan, I happened to look at it and found that it had changed color at some point."

"What do you mean? Could it be..." Sun Yixie thought for a moment, "It was affected by the Dragon Jade and something changed unknowingly during our transportation?"

"I don't know either." Huang Donglai said, "Anyway, it's now golden. According to the theory of Taoist alchemy, this is at least the color of high-quality or even immortal products. However... because we don't know what caused it to change color, the effect is unknown... But if there is any chance to bring Brother Yong back to life, then we have to give him this and fight him."

We have to mention something here again. What Shuang Xie didn't know was that the color of this "Yuan Dan" was not changed because of the influence of the Yulong Bi, but because it was close to the Fallen Eater and experienced the "tide".

Although that experience has become "something that never happened", this pill has become a witness to it all.

Let’s talk about Dugu Sheng again…

When Sun Huang was whispering there, Dugu Sheng was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan. It would have been fine if you didn't tell him that Dugu Yong could still be saved, but if you did, you would have given him a glimmer of hope. How could he not be anxious?

"You two, do you have a solution or not? Please be definite." Dugu Sheng couldn't help but urged.

And then, he saw the two guys turned around...

"No more talking, let's fight!"

"Okay, just give it a try!"

After saying two words that didn't sound very reliable, Sun Yixie went up and pried Dugu Yong's mouth open, and Huang Donglai poured a "pill" into his mouth.

And guess what?

Hey! Dead!

The effect was so immediate that the person died within seconds after the pill went down his throat.

So what do you think Dugu Sheng was feeling at this moment? Should he first help Wulin get rid of these two... these two scums before he goes to Huo Ming to settle the score?

But what he didn't expect was that the next second, Huang Donglai actually dared to speak: "Oh my god, it really works!"

Huo Ming on the other side heard this and thought: "Is it useful? He is still breathing before he eats it, but he is dead after he swallows it. Ordinary poisons don't work that fast."

"What on earth are you two doing?" Gao Yadian couldn't stand it any longer, and pointed at Sun Huang and scolded him in a crying voice, "Usually you guys are so close to Brother Dugu, but now you are playing with his life?"

“Be patient!” But at this moment, Huang Donglai’s tone was more confident than before, “You only saw that his breath was gone, but I can see that his seven souls have entered a state of meditation, and there is a chance of revival!”

"Okay~" Sun Yixie also immediately said, "I understand. I will go find someone to get water, rice, talisman paper and incense burner. Brother Huang, you set up the altar first. I will be there soon."

This time Sun Yixie was really reliable. After all, he was impressed by everything required for this process.

But Brother Sun doesn’t know at the moment that he will soon be dragged into the underworld with Huang Donglai to “chase souls in the underworld again.”

(End of this chapter)