Chapter 1547: Chapter 1547

Seeing the swordsmen launch their attack, Mu Zixin and the other two immediately crouched down, holding their heads and screaming. However, the swordsmen completely ignored them and charged directly towards their target.

"Tang Ming, brother, help!"

Li Xiaoli had just gotten up from the ground when she saw this scene and immediately screamed in fright.

Lu Xiaolu urgently rushed in front of Liu Mengting and Li Xiaoli, turning around to shield them from the swordsmen’s assault with her back.

Watching the steel blades closing in on Lu Xiaolu’s back, Wu Xiaoxia cursed angrily and quickly flung the broken sword clamped between her fingers.

The broken sword sliced through the air in a flash of silver light, then exploded into fragments, directly hitting the ones nearest Lu Xiaolu and the others.

"There are still experts."

The remaining four mysterious figures cried out in astonishment, waving their hands abruptly, and a dense black smoke suddenly appeared, enveloping everyone.

"Don’t breathe, it’s poisoned."

Finding her vision obscured, Wu Xiaoxia covered her nose and shouted a warning.

"Ruin those women’s faces."

The voice of the mysterious person rang out again, followed by a flurry of motion.

Wu Xiaoxia swayed slightly, the enemy’s toxic gas was very peculiar, and she fell victim as well. Though she sensed that the figures were once again charging towards Liu Mengting and the others, she was too late to rescue them.

"Anyone who dares to touch my people is tired of living."

At that moment, Tang Ming’s voice suddenly rang out, followed by a series of miserable screams.

Just as those mysterious figures were about to harm Liu Mengting and the others, Tang Ming arrived just in time, kicked away several swordsmen, and then cultivated his energy to inhale sharply, swallowing all the surrounding toxins into his stomach.

At that moment, Meng Xianjun arrived and saw that aside from Wu Xiaoxia standing there with her eyes closed cultivating, the other girls were all lying on the ground, life or death unknown.

Meng Xianjun ran to Mu Zixin and the others, took a look, and nearly died of fright.

"What kind of poison is this? It actually disfigured them all?"

Meng Xianjun swallowed hard, staring in disbelief at the three girls whose faces were covered in large black spots.

After clearing the poisonous gas, Tang Ming immediately crouched in front of Liu Mengting and the others to begin detoxification: "This kind of poison can penetrate the body’s interior through the skin. While not fatal, if not promptly neutralized, those poisoned will have their skin rot."

"What kind of people are these, that they would use such vicious methods against a few girls?"

Upon hearing Tang Ming’s words, Meng Xianjun furiously roared.

"I don’t know either, let’s just help them detoxify first."

Tang Ming quickly took action, extracting the poison from the girls’ bodies. Fortunately, he was able to detoxify them; otherwise, their looks would have been entirely ruined.

After dealing with the girls, Tang Ming walked over to Wu Xiaoxia, asking uncertainly.

Wu Xiaoxia exhaled, slowly opened her eyes, "Was careless, inhaled a little bit of the toxic gas, but I’ve already neutralized it myself."

"You are very powerful."

Tang Ming looked deeply at Wu Xiaoxia, having seen her actions from afar.

Solely using her fingers, she was able to crush a steel blade enveloped with Gang Qi, a feat requiring at least the strength of a Seven-star Martial Master, yet Wu Xiaoxia didn’t use Gang Qi. Her true ability is unfathomable.

"Ha, still got caught though?"

Wu Xiaoxia coldly laughed, "My master was right, I have too little Jianghu experience."

"Damn it, why are they all dead."

At that moment, Meng Xianjun couldn’t help but curse.

Tang Ming looked suspiciously at Meng Xianjun.

"You went too hard, left not a single survivor."

Meng Xianjun looked at Tang Ming and Wu Xiaoxia with a face full of reproach.

"Impossible, I didn’t kill them."

Tang Ming shook his head decisively, looking uncertainly at Wu Xiaoxia.

"I didn’t kill them either."

Wu Xiaoxia confidently replied.

"Then what’s going on?"

Meng Xianjun was puzzled.

Tang Ming immediately knelt down to examine the deceased’s condition.

Aside from the injuries caused by Tang Ming and Wu Xiaoxia, there were no signs of external wounds on these assassins.

"I’ve already checked, there’s no sign of external injury, it seems like you beat them to death."

Meng Xianjun stared at Tang Ming with bewilderment.

"It wasn’t us, there was someone who used special methods to kill them."

After some inspection, Tang Ming reached out to search one of the deceased’s heads.

"What are you doing?"

Wu Xiaoxia and Meng Xianjun looked at Tang Ming with curiosity.

"Looking for the murder weapon."

Tang Ming replied, soon finding the murder weapon hidden in the deceased’s hair.

"This is what killed them."

Tang Ming said confidently, holding up two fingers.

"Brother, what kind of trick are you playing? I don’t see anything."

Meng Xianjun looked for a long time, but saw nothing but Tang Ming’s fingers.

Tang Ming directed his fingers toward the streetlight.

Wu Xiaoxia squinted, seeing a glimmer of silver between Tang Ming’s fingers, her expression turning to surprise and doubt.

"Strictly speaking, this isn’t a needle, it’s more like a thread."

Tang Ming flicked his fingers, his face tense as he said, "The person who struck is very skilled, able to use such hair-thin silver threads as hidden weapons to hit the fatal points on the heads of the deceased from afar. Since these threads are so fine, they’re hard for people to detect."

"Oh my god! That’s incredibly fine, this thing can kill?"

Meng Xianjun squinted long enough to finally see the five-centimeter-long silver thread.

"That’s why I said the one who struck is an expert; even a High Level Martial Master could potentially be killed by it if caught off guard."

Tang Ming discarded the silver thread, "Is there anyone in the Jianghu who uses this weapon?"

Wu Xiaoxia and Meng Xianjun shook their heads dumbfoundedly.

"Then there are no leads."

Tang Ming sighed hopelessly.

Just then, Li Xiaoli woke up, immediately crying out in terror.

"Xiaoli, it’s okay, it’s okay."

Tang Ming promptly stepped forward to hold Li Xiaoli.

"Eww, I remember being splashed with acid, disfigured!"

Li Xiaoli sobbed bitterly.

"A nightmare, it’s just a nightmare."

Tang Ming grim-facedly consoled.

Soon after, Liu Mengting and the others also woke up, each alarmed, but calmed down once they confirmed they were unharmed.

Not long after, Chen Cang came running back cursing.

"How did it go, did you catch anyone?"

Tang Ming immediately asked Chen Cang.

"Didn’t catch them, they ran too fast, and had bikes to assist them. I chased for ages but couldn’t catch up."

Chen Cang cursed in frustration, then looked at the scene of corpses around him, utterly bewildered: "What’s going on here? Things got really bloody on your side."