Chapter 240: The Heart-Devouring Silver Snake

For any gang established in the martial world, three things are of utmost importance:
First is the gang’s base and its members. The location’s quality, to some extent, determines its rise and fall and reputation, while a strong membership is the foundation of the gang.
Second is the gang’s plaque!
Although a plaque is an inanimate object, its significance lies in whether its name is grand, its material is sturdy, and its inscription was crafted by a master calligrapher. All three factors are crucial—whether it can inspire respect among the martial world folks, whether it can be easily destroyed by rivals, and whether its font exudes dominance—all reflect the gang’s fate.
Finally, and most importantly…
is the gang’s foundation stone.
Purchased from the imperial court for 100,000 taels of silver, it is not only expensive but also unique. Once destroyed, it cannot be rebuilt unless a higher price is paid to recreate it.
Destroying a gang’s plaque only inflicts a psychological blow and insult, but destroying the foundation stone within the gang’s headquarters would completely erase the gang from the martial world records. Its base would be taken back, all members would lose their positions, and they would revert to ordinary citizens.

The moment Happy invaded the Wudu Sect’s headquarters, hundreds of its members, tense and anxious, gathered around the foundation stone, crowding it tightly.
Yet Happy continued advancing without pause. Holding his sword in one hand and staring straight ahead, he stepped forward slowly toward the stone, his momentum growing stronger by the moment…

The crowd pushed and encouraged each other:
“What’s there to fear? It’s just one person! I don’t believe we can’t overwhelm him!”
“Attack together!” “Yes! Together!” “Kill!!”

The outermost group protecting the foundation stone rushed forward with swords and knives—over thirty people. Under Happy’s relentless pressure, they finally couldn’t hold back and charged out.

Hmph.
Trying to wear him down with a swarm attack using ordinary gang members?
Happy smirked coldly, sheathed his Silver Wolf Breaker Sword, and grasped his Battle-Tested Blade. With a flick of his wrist, a thin layer of Wind Spirit energy covered the blade. Before the crowd could react, he vanished from his spot and reappeared among the shocked Wudu Sect disciples…

Flower Knight Slash!!
A deep blue blade light burst forth from the crowd, slicing the unprepared members apart in all directions.
Over half of the thirty-plus people were killed in an instant!

A few who were farther away luckily weren’t knocked down, but before they could feel relieved, a strong wind blew, and deep blue blades swept past their necks. With cries of pain, they staggered into the air before crashing heavily to the ground. The eerie and sudden nature of techniques like “Illusion Demon Movement” was brought to its extreme by Kai Xin, combined with the deadly moves of “Flower Boy’s Song,” instantly eliminating a group of Wudu Sect disciples. This not only made the Wudu Sect members even more fearful and tense but also caused the onlooking experts to show solemn expressions… “So it can be done this way too.” As the corpses hit the ground, Bai Zhan Dao pointed downward with immense force. Kai Xin raised his eyes again, glanced at the silent Wudu Sect disciples, and continued walking. “Bastards! Don’t even think about it!” A young Wudu Sect disciple roared and rushed out from the crowd, throwing a dark pottery jar straight at Kai Xin’s head. “…” Frowning slightly, Kai Xin paused briefly, staring at the flying jar. Reflexively, he swung his sword, shattering it before it could reach him, then prepared to use the wind spirit power from “Flower Boy’s Song” to crush any toxins inside. But the moment the jar shattered, a chilling coldness emanated from it, causing the temperature in the air to drop sharply. At the same time, a silver-white light flashed by like lightning! The wind spirit power from “Flower Boy’s Song” was completely ignored by that silver-white thing, which, following the jar’s trajectory, shot toward Kai Xin like lightning… No good! His expression changed, and the name of a poison he had encountered in a previous life during an ambush flashed through his mind. His arm trembled, and an alarm bell rang in his heart. Without hesitation, he closed his eyes and unleashed the second move of the True Dragon Ten Styles—Little Dragon Form! With his internal energy flowing freely, Little Dragon Form allowed him to evade threats most effectively, increasing evasion success by 80%, at the cost of 20 points of internal energy and 20 points of physical strength per second. The silver-white, light-like thing instantly pierced through Kai Xin’s body. On the high wall, the people of the Xiyi Sect paled in horror. As the black jar shattered, although Kai Xin quickly performed difficult evasion moves with astonishing agility, he still couldn’t avoid the silver-white thing emitted from the jar. The young man who had thrown the jar grinned triumphantly upon seeing Kai Xin shatter it. “Cunning scoundrel!”

Lin Xiao clenched his fists in anger. Here, he was the only one who had channeled his internal energy into his eyes to observe the entire scene, so naturally he saw everything most clearly. He had sensed something was wrong the moment that person threw the pottery jar, and then he recognized at a glance that the thing attacking Happy seemed to be a small silver-white snake as thin as a thread. Its speed was incredible, and it was so close that it was no wonder Happy couldn’t dodge it.

Thud! Thud! Thud!

Happy’s face turned pale as he stepped back several meters, clutching his chest where he had been hit. Anyone paying close attention could see a dark red stain spreading from between his fingers at the location of his heart…

The young man across from him, seeing Happy hit in the chest, finally relaxed and laughed maniacally, revealing his wild nature: “Hahaha… Who would have thought you’d meet your end too, huh? Underestimating our Five Poisons Sect. Let’s see if you can still survive! Haha…”

His laughter echoed above the headquarters of the Five Poisons Sect.

The other disciples of the Five Poisons Sect seemed still to be in shock, not understanding how this usually obscure guy had managed to seriously injure Happy, and it seemed Happy’s condition was very poor.

“Heart-devouring Silver Snake! I never expected you to have such a thing.”

Happy struggled to pull out a Jade Dew Pill and an antidote pill from his Qi Bag and swallowed them. Staring at the young man in front of him, he spoke in disbelief, his voice slightly hoarse.

“As expected of the famous Happy from the list of masters—your insights are truly remarkable!” Although surprised, the young man from the Five Poisons Sect still couldn’t hide his sneer and arrogance. Spreading his hands, the silver-white snake was already back in his grasp. After a pause, he said confidently, “But it’s no use taking the antidote now. The greatest threat of the Heart-devouring Silver Snake isn’t its icy venom but its craving for heart blood… It only eats human hearts. With the heart already damaged, how can there be any hope of recovery? Why waste the pills?”

Everyone around turned pale upon hearing this!

Their gazes at the silver-threaded snake in the young man’s hands became extremely solemn and fearful…

Heart-devouring Silver Snake!

The Five Poisons Sect actually had such a thing!

“Haha! Good! Very good!”

Aozhengsheng’s delighted laughter also came from behind, as he stepped closer to the severely injured Happy, his voice growing sharper: “Now tell me, how can you still destroy our Five Poisons Sect? Ah!!”

Unnoticed by the two people standing back to front in the scene, Happy had somehow put away his Battle-Tested Sword at some point:

“Master Aozheng! Speaking such things so soon… Isn’t it too early?”

A cold, clear, and powerful voice reached their ears.