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Chap 731

Chapter 731

Chapter 731: Show of strength, struggle just for this day Original and most updated translations are from volare. If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen. Please stop supporting theft.

That’s right, Duanmu Yao flew to Nine Xuan Hall. Over the past few days, she had recovered some of her lightness techniques with master’s help, although that was all she had now. Despite the heavy injuries to her dantian, which still couldn’t collect qi, master had somehow found a way to heal the injuries by twenty percent via channeling true qi into her body again and again.

She had vaguely heard her master mention about finding a certain “thing” before he could help her heal completely. Actually, she wasn’t worried about her martial arts at all. She knew that master would definitely find a way to save her.

On the ninth floor of Nine Xuan Hall was the sword sect master’s living quarters. Here was a sanctuary that even Duanmu Yao didn’t lightly disturb. But she’d obviously lost all sense of reason today. Nine dragon-head locks secured the door to the top floor quarters. Duanmu Yao rejoiced at the sight, because only she and Long Feiye knew that the sight meant that their master had relapsed into his insanity again. He locked himself inside whenever he had a spell.

Before Duanmu Yao could speak, a shadow guard emerged and said respectfully, “Princess Duan, no one is permitted to approach without the grandmaster’s orders. Please leave.”

“I have to find master for something. Unlock the door immediately!” Duanmu Yao ordered.

“Princess Duan should know the rules of the ninth floor. Please don’t cause difficulties for this subordinate,” the guard replied. Hearing this, Duanmu Yao was now certain that master had really gone mad this time.

Perfect!

She was planning to provoke him until he succumbed to an insanity spell, but now she just saved tons of effort. As long as master didn’t interfere, killing Han Yunxi would be almost guaranteed. She’d murder her first, then report it afterwards. Master loved her so much that he wouldn’t do much against her.

“Fine, this princess won’t trouble you then! Haha!” Duanmu Yao turned on her heel and left. The guard could tell that something about her was peculiar today, but as long as she didn’t insist on entering the ninth floor chambers, it had nothing to do with him.

Meanwhile, Duanmu Yao returned to her own rooms, took out a bottle of poison, and downed the contents. It was a gift from Jun Yixie upon their first meeting, a famous, hypertoxic poison in the poisons world called Rose Rattan. Any victim afflicted would have strange, vine-line lines appear on their fingertips and then crawl up their arms to cover their entire bodies. Once the lines had fully covered the victim, they would start to suck their blood and blossom into scarlet red roses. At their peak, the blossoms would kill their host, because by then they’d gush with fresh blood until the victim was sucked dry.

It took three full days for the growth of the vines to develop into roses. Anyone who didn’t get the antidote after that would definitely die! Jun Yixie had given Duanmu Yao the antidote along with the poison, but she hadn’t taken it. She told him once that she’d never cure her victim after poisoning them with Rose Rattan. She never thought the day would come when she used it on herself.

Here was her last gamble for the next three days. Between Han Yunxi and herself, one of them would definitely die!

As Duanmu Yao watched the vein-like patterns bulge out from her fingertips and start climbing up, a cold smile rose to her face. Then she ran back to Lockheart Courtyard to find Cang Qiuzi. It wasn’t clear what she told him, but he only asked her one question.