useless people, and the East Palace even less so."Li Chen was making it clear to Li Canglan that while he had offered five spots, the rules of the academy couldn't be broken by anyone. Everyone was e...Chapter 969: Zhou Xingjia

The attacker hid extremely well. When he suddenly launched his attack, Sanzhao only had time to desperately twist her body to avoid the vital spot, but she was still hit on the shoulder by a palm strike.

A muffled sound, accompanied by Sabao's pained grunt, two figures clashed briefly. Sabao flew backwards for over ten meters, landing with a thump and stumbling back three steps, each step as if a mountain was trembling the earth. Wherever his feet landed, the ground cracked and the earth shook violently.

As soon as the Three Treasures landed, black insects all around seemed to be stimulated and frantically rushed up.

Sān Bǎo let out a muffled grunt, his Qi exploding outwards. All the insects crawling on him were instantly shattered and fell to the ground.

More black bugs, fearless and unrelenting, swarmed forward. Sanbao, seeing this, took a deep breath, holding his inner energy in his mouth, then opened his mouth and let out a furious roar.

This roar was like a sonic boom, forming a visible shockwave in the air. Wherever the shockwave passed, all the insects were instantly killed. Within a three-meter radius around Sānbǎo, a vacuum zone filled with dead insects was created.

Sān Bǎo raised his head and looked at the person who had attacked him. He saw that the other person was a man in his fifties, his whole body hidden in a black cloak, only revealing a face weathered by age.

San Bao narrowed his eyes abruptly and said in a cold voice, "Gu Wang, Zhou Xingjia, you are indeed not dead."

This person is Zhou Lao, Zhou Xingjia, who has been hiding in plain sight beside Li Yinhu all along.

Zhou Xingjia looked up at Sibaobao, his eyes filled with deep-seated resentment and hatred. He said: "As long as you, old eunuch, are still alive, I will never be able to die before you."

San Bao laughed heartily, "Back then, your Miao village refused to obey orders and defied the imperial court. This old man's Dongchang eradicated your Zhou family in one night, thirty-six souls from top to bottom. You alone escaped. This old man thought you would be a coward for life, but I never expected you would collude with King Zhao."

His gaze fell on Li Yinhu again, and seeing the emerald green snake coiled around his shoulder, Sanzhao said coldly, "The ancestral secret art of your Zhou family, using your own heart blood to nurture a snake for twenty years, has cultivated the most poisonous snake in the world. The snake feeds on human blood, and as long as the snake lives, the person lives; when the snake dies, the person dies."

"This snake was raised on the bloodline of the Zhou family and can only affect the Zhou family. I didn't expect you, Zhou Xingjia, to actually go against your Zhou family's ancestral precepts and give this green snake to King Zhao. Zhou Xingjia, you are truly a good descendant of your Zhou family."

Zhou Xingjia bitterly accused, "If it weren't for you destroying my family and leaving me destitute, I wouldn't be in this predicament today."

So all of this, it's all your fault!

Siba smiled coldly, calculating in her mind how to break the current stalemate.

And Li Yinhu was not going to give him any more time.

"Zhou Lao, don't waste time, take me away!"

Zhou Xingjia, upon hearing this, glared at Sanbao with venomous hatred and gritted his teeth, saying: "Sanbao, the mountains remain unchanged. You wait for me. I will kill you immediately and have you go to the underworld to atone for your sins against the Zhou family!"

After finishing his words, Zhou Xingjia flew to Li Yinhu's side, grabbed his arm, and leaped high into the air. They immediately took flight and fled.

Saba wanted to chase after the Three Treasures, but Zhou Xingjia let out a sharp whistle. The black insects then swarmed forward as if possessed.

Although Sānbǎo could kill these insects with his shakes, he couldn't withstand the sheer number of them. He killed one batch, and more came swarming in. By the time he dealt with the insects around him, Zhōu Xíngjiǎ and Lǐ Yín hǔ had already vanished.Zhou Ping'an gloating over Chen Tong."General Chen, you are hard to blame for this."Chen Tong was already miserable, and hearing this made him feel even worse. He glared fiercely at Zhou Ping'an, but...