Chapter 102: The Plan Failed, and the Summer Flow Ended!
Crack! Crack!
As Shen Anyu flicked his fingers casually, two incomparably sharp streams of [True Qi] shot out. Like invisible swords, they directly shattered the alloy handcuffs binding Xia Liu's wrists and ankles.
The metal snapped and fell to the floor with a clatter, yet the Qi did not harm Xia Liu in the slightest. It was a display of astonishing control, a subtle flex of power that Xia Liu recognized instantly.
"You..."
Xia Liu looked at Shen Anyu in surprise, rubbing his wrists. He didn't know why Shen Anyu would unlock the handcuffs. Now he was a fish on the chopping board, completely at Shen Anyu's mercy. Was this a trick?
And that wasn't all!
Shen Anyu brought his index and middle fingers together. He pointed repeatedly in the air, his movements fluid and precise.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Several soft sounds echoed, as if the air was being torn apart. Invisible projectiles of Qi struck Xia Liu's body at key meridian points.
Xia Liu's whole body trembled. He felt a sudden warmth, a rush of power. The surging flow of his [Innate] internal energy, which had been sealed, came flooding back.
"Shen Anyu... what trick are you playing now?"
Despite his pale face and battered body, Xia Liu still looked at Shen Anyu with a sneer, trying to maintain his dignity.
"Haha... do you want to play cat and mouse again? Do you enjoy giving false hope?"
He didn't think Shen Anyu would let him go. Now that the alloy handcuffs were broken and his acupoints were unlocked, Shen Anyu definitely didn't have good intentions.
Shen Anyu looked at Xia Liu with a half-smile. He leaned against the wall, crossing his arms.
"Your mind is quite sharp for a dead man. I really do want to play a game of cat and mouse with you. One last game."
Xia Liu: "..."
Xia Liu was momentarily speechless. But then he simply plopped down on the cold concrete ground, crossing his legs. He said nonchalantly:
"Shen. Do whatever you want. Kill me or slice me. I, Xia Liu, won't even bat an eyelid. I'm done playing."
"I'm not playing any cat and mouse games with you to satisfy your perverted idea of fun."
In Xia Liu's view, Shen Anyu was simply insane. A sadist. He could have killed him long ago, but insisted on dragging it out. Was it really that fun to torture a defeated foe?
He didn't know that Shen Anyu just wanted to drain his Destiny Value to the last drop!
"Heh heh... whether we play or not is up to me, not you!"
Shen Anyu smiled slightly. He moved with blinding speed.
He directly pinched Xia Liu's jaw with one hand, forcing his mouth open with an iron grip. With the other hand, he forcibly stuffed a small red pill down his throat.
"Gah! Cough cough... you... what did you make me eat?!"
Xia Liu coughed violently, trying to retch. But he felt that after the red pill entered his mouth, it quickly melted into a hot liquid that slid down his esophagus.
Almost instantly, his whole body's blood began to flow violently, like a galloping horse. His heart rate spiked. His skin immediately turned crimson, flushing red like a boiled lobster.
"Poison, of course."
Shen Anyu said with a smile, wiping his hand on a handkerchief.
Xia Liu: "..."
"Xia Liu. If you can detoxify this poison... then I will let you live. I will open the door and let you walk out."
"If you can't... then within ten minutes, you will become a corpse. Your blood will boil until your veins burst and your heart explodes!"
At this point, Shen Anyu stepped aside and gestured to a table behind him.
"I am a fair man. Here are silver needles and medicinal herbs. Everything a Divine Doctor could need. Do you understand the rules of the game?"
Xia Liu looked. He watched as Shen Anyu pushed a medicine cabinet over from the shadows. It was filled with various expensive herbs: ginsengs, snow lotuses, snake galls... everything imaginable. And a set of high-quality silver needles gleaming under the light.
He looked at Shen Anyu's smiling face. It was as if he had prepared everything in advance for this specific moment.
Xia Liu cursed inwardly. But soon, a glint of hope flashed in his eyes.
"Shen... if I can detoxify this poison, will you really let me go?"
Xia Liu was extremely confident in his medical and poison skills. It was his pride. His identity.
Now that he had silver needles, medicinal herbs, and his [Innate] cultivation had recovered... what poison in this world could stump him?
However, Xia Liu felt that Shen Anyu, this perverted bastard, was very likely to go back on his word.
Shen Anyu raised an eyebrow.
"A gentleman's word is his bond. What I say is naturally trustworthy. Besides... you have no capital to bargain with."
"If I say I'll let you go, I will. Of course... only for one day. I'll give you a twenty-four-hour head start. After one day, the hunt resumes!"
Upon hearing this, Xia Liu actually believed him.
If Shen Anyu said he would let him go forever, he wouldn't believe it. But only letting him go for one day to hunt him down again? That sounded exactly like something this arrogant villain would do.
'Hmph! Shen! One day is enough time for me to escape from Modu! To escape from Yanxia! By then... I will definitely return for revenge. I will study this poison and use it against you!'
With that thought, Xia Liu immediately sprang into action.
He took the silver needles. Drawing internal energy from his Dantian Qi Sea, he swiftly inserted them one by one into his own body.
Zip! Zip! Zip!
Dan Yu, Pi Yu, Wei Yu, Sanjiao Yu, Shen Yu... the needles vibrated ceaselessly, humming with Qi.
At the same time, Xia Liu smugly glanced at Shen Anyu. With his [Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles] mastery, even if he only had one breath left, he could be saved. Let alone now that he was still full of life and energy.
Shen Anyu, however, watched with a half-smile. He leaned back, checking his watch. He allowed Xia Liu to perform acupuncture and treatment without interference.
That red pill was a poison called [Boiling Blood Pill].
It was drawn from the [Destiny Plunder System's] lottery. It was at the Golden Reward level—a systemic poison even more terrifying than the [Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder] that Xia Liu had used to poison him before.
As the name suggests, after swallowing the Boiling Blood Pill, the entire body's blood temperature rises rapidly until it boils. Even a [Martial Arts Grandmaster] would die within ten minutes as their organs cooked from the inside out. A [Martial Dao Grandmaster] might not even be able to withstand it without immediate, specific antidotes.
Xia Liu had poisoned Shen Anyu twice. Once with infertility poison, once with lethal nerve toxin.
So Shen Anyu naturally had to return the favor. An eye for an eye.
Moreover, he wanted to deal a heavy blow to Xia Liu in his most confident field—medicine. He wanted to completely shatter his [Child of Destiny] halo by beating him at his own game.
What could be a more fitting end for a Child of Destiny of the Divine Physician lineage than to die from a poison he couldn't cure?
As for the possibility of Xia Liu having a burst of Luck and actually detoxifying the poison?
Shen Anyu would not go back on his word. He would let him escape for one day.
Heh heh.
Xia Liu still had Shen Anyu's [Nanometer Monitoring Robot] embedded in his clothes. Every move was under Shen Anyu's control, known like the back of his hand. Where could he possibly run?
Tick! Tick! Tick!
Time passed minute by agonizing minute.
Half a minute. One minute. Two minutes. Three minutes...
Soon, seven minutes had passed.
Xia Liu's skin was so red it almost bled. Steam was rising from his body. He was drenched in sweat, practically sweating blood.
"How... how is this possible? What kind of poison is this?!"
At this moment, Xia Liu was panicked. His hands trembled as he held the needles.
His current body temperature had probably reached over sixty degrees Celsius. If he hadn't entered the [Innate] cultivation level and used his medical skills to suppress it with Qi, he would have already died of hyperthermia.
What terrified Xia Liu even more was that his body temperature was still rising. Constantly rising. And he couldn't stop it at all.
The [Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles] failed.
The [Zaohua Divine Needles] failed.
Various ancient secret remedies he quickly concocted from the herbs failed.
At this moment, the System's prompt sounds rang out in Shen Anyu's mind like a funeral bell.
[Ding! Child of Destiny Xia Liu is panicked! Plundering +5,000 Destiny Points!]
[Ding! Child of Destiny Xia Liu's confidence is shattering! Plundering +8,000 Destiny Points!]
Xia Liu's Destiny Value was constantly being plundered. His face became increasingly ashen beneath the redness.
As a Child of Destiny of the Divine Physician lineage, his core identity was his medical skill. At this moment, Xia Liu lost confidence in his own art. His [Dao Heart] collapsed. And as one could imagine, his Destiny Value naturally flowed away rapidly like water from a broken dam.
"Xia Liu... oh Xia Liu..."
Shen Anyu's voice cut through the haze of heat.
"You poisoned me twice. With the Yang-Dispelling Powder and the Seven Emotions Severing Pulse Powder. Now I've poisoned you once... and you can't hold on anymore?"
A faint light flashed in Shen Anyu's eyes, and he chuckled lightly.
"Is this the extent of the Divine Doctor?"
"No! I can detoxify it! I can definitely detoxify it! I am the best!"
Xia Liu's face was contorted in a grimace of pain and madness. He gritted his teeth, blood leaking from his gums.
He even started to try the unfamiliar [Shennong Nine Needles]! A technique he hadn't fully mastered!
However... if it were at the Peak of his Luck, he might have succeeded. A miracle might have happened.
But now? Now that his Luck had fallen to a low point? How could he succeed?
Nine minutes and fifty seconds.
Xia Liu fell to his knees. His blood was boiling. His vision went black.
As ten minutes arrived...
Xia Liu, in endless panic and despair, breathed his last.
His heart stopped, cooked in his chest.
The dignified Child of Destiny of the Divine Physician lineage ultimately died from poison. Which was quite ironic.
[Ding! Child of Destiny Xia Liu has completely collapsed! Plundering +26,666 Destiny Points!]
[Ding! Xia Liu's Destiny Value has been cleared to zero!]
[The Child of Destiny Halo has shattered! He has lost his Child of Destiny status!]
Shen Anyu looked at Xia Liu's corpse. The face was contorted, panicked, fearful, and desperate.
His expression filled with a sigh.
"If one day I lose to a Child of Destiny... I'm afraid I'll meet the same end."
"I want to live. To live well and comfortably. So... you Sons of Destiny must die!"
Having said that, Shen Anyu shook his head. The beautiful, unparalleled smile returned to his handsome face.
"It's getting late. Time to go home."
"Time to listen to my little maid tell bedtime stories. That surprise she mentioned..."
Ding-a-ling!
Just then, his phone suddenly vibrated in his pocket.
Shen Anyu took it out and glanced at the caller ID.
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