Whoosh!

The stark-white bone arrow whistled through the air when the elder loosed his bow, arriving in front of Lu Yun’s throat almost instantaneously.

So fast! The thought had just arisen in his mind when a bitter almond taste welled up in his throat.

“It’s poisoned!” It suddenly connected that he knew this poison. He’d encountered it before when tasting all of those herbs and it’d almost killed him. It was a deadly poison similar to the Poison Arrow Trees of ancient China, and he’d written down in the Myriad Herbs Classic that it was exceedingly dangerous. [1]

To think that the Dongyi would already be making use of this poison!

Thankfully, his...