It happened out of nowhere. Lady Hundred Flowers never expected someone to ambush her, much less that someone to be her own people. Her guard was down because everyone around her was her aide. By the time she reacted, it was already too late. The shortsword had already pierced her back.
Shocked and furious, Lady Hundred Flowers unleashed a palm strike at her backstabber. However, the move failed to land before the energies dissipated, and she felt weak all over.
The next thing she knew, the backstabber had already wrapped an arm around her waist.
A taunting voice entered her ears. “Tsk tsk... long time no see, Lady Hundred Flowers. I see you are as attractive as ever!”
“It’s you! Wan Bo!” Lady Hundred Flowers exclaimed in shock. “I knew this was a conspiracy!”
Wan Bo, the Hundred-formed Great Sage, was a master at hiding his energies and changing his appearance. He could disguise himself as a male, female, old or young; tall, short, fat or thin. Such was his disguise that few people ever saw through it. Hence the moniker.
Clearly, Wan Bo had slipped into the island long ago and took the appearance of her aide. It was for this very moment.
“I am honored that you still remember me, lady!” The man behind her back whispered into her ear.
“Let go of me!” Lady Hundred Flowers struggled, but it was useless. Whatever that shortsword did, it had robbed her of her strength.
“Tsk tsk... and why would I do that? It is a sin to let go of such a beautiful woman!” Wan Bo replied in a frivolous tone while holding Lady Hundred Flowers tighter. “Besides, your subordinates are going to kill me as soon as I let go. That would leave you without a husband, wouldn’t it? No, no, that is unacceptable!”
“You shameless bastard!” Lady Hundred Flowers was so angry that her complexion was beet red. “What on earth are you planning?” “What are we planning?” Wan Bo cackled as he tried to caress Lady Hundred Flowers’ face, though she managed to dodge out of the way. “Do you really need to ask, my lady?”
“You shameless rapist! Let go of me!” Enraged, Lady Hundred Flowers kept struggling to no avail.
“Tsk tsk... your angry face seriously is something, lady!”
Wan Bo’s grin widened. “But you really should give up already. My Colorless Bone Softening Poison temporarily cuts off your energy flow, restricts your mind, and turns your body limp. It will be a while before you can move, and even death is denied to you. So just let me have you, okay lady?”
As he said this, Wan Bo removed the veil covering Lady Hundred Flowers’ face and was instantly charmed by her supernatural beauty. He looked like he wanted to eat her alive as he murmured, “Beautiful. How beautiful. The people weren’t lying when they say you are stunning enough to topple cities, my lady.”
Wan Bo’s hands were beginning to move to places that were absolutely forbidden to the likes of him, and a hint of humiliation and anger flashed across Lady Hundred Flowers’ gorgeous features. However, she knew keenly that there was absolutely nothing she could do. She had no choice but to close her eyes in choking despair and helplessness and waited for the inevitable.
Strangely, nothing happened. Wan Bo’s hands had suddenly frozen in their tracks, and considering that he wasn’t saying anything, it probably wasn’t because he was trying to toy with his prey or something. Confused, Lady Hundred Flowers opened her eyes to see what Wan Bo was doing.
“Hahaha... Wan Bo must have done it.”
As soon as the array broke, a boorish, tyrannical laugh resounded throughout the island. “Boys and girls! The Hundred Flowers Island is colluding with the traitorous dragons. Do not allow a single human or Stranger to escape! Kill them all!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
A chorus of battle cries came from the sea, and a group of warriors disembarked their warships and rushed straight toward Hundred Flowers Island.
“Brother? What’s wrong?”
Suddenly, Green Daylily realized that something was off with Wan Bo. Her heart skipped a beat, and a bad premonition gripped her all of a sudden.
“Brother? Brother? What’s wrong with you?”
A tall, muscular man appeared beside Green Daylily next and stared at the lifeless Wan Bo on the ground for a moment. Then, he erupted in anger, “Who was it? Who was the bastard who killed my brother?!”
He then saw Lady Hundred Flowers and her entourage and roared, “You! You must be the one who killed my brother! I’ll rip you apart, you lowly bitch!”
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Yuan Xiang charged toward them, his footsteps thundering across the ground and shaking it like an actual elephant. Even worse, every time Yuan Xiang took a step, he would grow three meters taller. In just a couple of steps, he had grown into a thirty-meter tall elephant with a head as big as a millstone. His face looked savage, and his horns looked big and sharp enough to skewer a dozen people effortlessly. His “arms” were as thick as pillars, and his legs resembled mini hills. His skin was bluish black in color and tough like rocks. He was overflowing with primal, animalistic strength.
Yuan Xiang practiced a martial art called the “Wild Elephant Mountain Splitting Scripture”. It was an ancient body-tempering martial art created based on the ancient Stranger, the Mountain Splitting Wild Elephant. At the adept stage, the practitioner would gain the Mountain Splitting Wild Elephant True Body and be able to transform into the Stranger itself. They would become exceedingly durable and strong.
Yuan Xiang might look like a big, dumb oaf, but it was the opposite. He was, in fact, very smart and cautious.
Whoever had killed Wan Bo, they must be incredibly strong to do it without them noticing until it was too late. That was why he did not hesitate to manifest his Mountain Splitting Wild Elephant True Body and go all out from the beginning.
1. Anyone still remember our Uncle Feng? Yeeeeeeeeeeah this almost turned into an NTR story LOL. ☜