Chapter 3516 — Something's Off
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The way these two contended made the onlookers' jaws drop. Zhang Nai Pao put on great airs, Wang Xinyan looked adorably blank—it was not at all like a battle between proper cultivators, but rather as though they had agreed beforehand to a friendly sparring match.
Still, everyone present except Han Jingyi could more or less foresee Wang Xinyan's fate: drained of her vital qi to the point of death—a wretched way to die. Even if she did not die, with her strength gone she would wish she had.
Or else, once Zhang Nai Pao injected his Mother-and-Son True Qi into her, she could be tormented until death would be a mercy. Either way, it was utterly savage.
Wang Xinyan's palm and Zhang Nai Pao's met. Zhang Nai Pao had been full of confidence, ready to inject his Mother-and-Son True Qi into Wang Xinyan—but the moment his mantra and oral formula began to circulate, something felt wrong!
His true qi had, it was true, successfully entered Wang Xinyan's body—but to his astonishment he found that it did not stop there. Instead, it began flowing into her in an endless, unbroken stream!
What was going on? Zhang Nai Pao turned ashen with shock. Since when did true qi reverse-flow on its own? That was not right—the mantra and oral formula he was circulating was the Mother-and-Son True Qi of the Bee-Sucking Divine Art. It could only put a tiny bit of Mother-and-Son True Qi into Wang Xinyan's body; there was no way it could pour forth endlessly like this!
This art of his had no such function at all. What had gone wrong?
Wang Xinyan had never expected her Southern Darkness Divine Art to actually take effect, beginning to draw true qi from Zhang Nai Pao's body in an unending stream. Although Wang Xinyan was now a skilled hand at the peak of the late heaven tier and at great perfection, and this true qi was of little use to her, it did not stop her from drawing it in.
Zhang Nai Pao's face went deathly pale. He wanted to halt the circulation of his mantra and oral formula, but just as he had said earlier—it simply would not stop!
In truth, one might say Zhang Nai Pao was fated for this misfortune. Had it not been for Zhong Yongliang's order to give Wang Xinyan something nasty, he would have used the Bee-Sucking Divine Art against her. But the Bee-Sucking Divine Art and the Southern Darkness Divine Art both derived from the same illusionary mantra and oral formula—one might call them fellow disciples of the same school, their power evenly matched, neither able to get the better of the other!
In other words, the result in that case would have been that neither could drain the other's vital qi; the two would simply have immunized each other!
But now it was different. Zhang Nai Pao had injected Mother-and-Son True Qi into Wang Xinyan, and so he fell prey to Wang Xinyan's Southern Darkness Divine Art. The vital qi in his body poured ceaselessly into Wang Xinyan's, and there was no stopping it now.
Zhang Nai Pao's expression was hideous, yet it availed him nothing. Zhong Yongliang and the others, of course, still had no idea what was happening—they merely saw Wang Xinyan and Zhang Nai Pao locked palm to palm. Though Zhang Nai Pao's face looked somewhat off, they assumed he was simply exerting his full strength to dissolve the true qi Wang Xinyan was sending his way!
Only, gradually, they sensed something was wrong! For Wang Xinyan's expression had been calm from first to last, while Zhang Nai Pao's had turned badly wrong—not merely ashen, but with beads of sweat the size of beans dripping down his forehead...