Chapter 744: Ten Thousand Poisons, Demonic Sounds

The area under Yipin Hall was undoubtedly the hardest-hit zone—the most dangerous and most likely to be attacked immediately. Although Yin Hu noticed the peril in the backyard, he couldn’t deploy troops there.
The troops in all four directions were carefully arranged; moving troops from any one direction could create gaps and vulnerabilities here.
So…
As the situation in the backyard grew increasingly urgent and the voices around him grew more anxious, Yin Hu remained eerily calm and unshaken!
His damaged silver mask shone brilliantly under the flames.
It was precisely because of his stillness and composure that, despite hearing the growing intensity of the fighting in the backyard, the men of the Mu Family didn’t dare look back without Yin Hu’s orders.
On the side of Yipin Hall!
A large number of Mu Family experts pursued their enemies outside the courtyard walls with gritted teeth, then used swords and spears to block arrows as they retreated through the collapsed openings back to their base.
After a fierce counterattack, the Mu Family’s base was littered with corpses, creating a grim and spectacular sight.
Those outside saw that the Mu Family’s forces remained unharmed, despite the deafening sounds of battle in the backyard. Blocked by the impassive, icy experts of the Mu Family, who acted like a “wall,” they dared not take a step forward.
With the three other directions now completely secure…
Most people turned their attention to the backyard!
As the Mu Family suffered increasing casualties, Lingxiao Palace clearly regarded this area as a key target for a forceful breakthrough!
More and more experts flew in continuously, aiming to overwhelm the Mu Family’s forces with a sheer numbers advantage and bring them down completely.
The people of Lingxiao Palace were indeed skilled. Seizing the moment when the Longmen experts disrupted their formation at the cost of a few lives, a large group led by Hao Tian completely disrupted the rear defenses of the backyard, turning both sides into a chaotic mess.
Although the Mu Family had many experts with excellent equipment, Hao Tian, Li Qing, and over twenty Longmen experts were none easy to deal with…
Half of the experts in the front line were quickly eliminated, with the rest injured.
However!
Lingxiao Palace also wasn’t untouched. While the Mu Family experts fought to the death, archers kept killing enemies behind them. In a short time, Lingxiao Palace lost no less than a hundred experts. Several Longmen experts were also killed in the chaos.
“Well done!!”

Nevertheless, Qin Qing was exhilarated on the makeshift platform outside Mu Family’s altar. Seeing her troops quickly occupy nearly half of the backyard of Mu Family’s altar, with more people trying to widen the gap, she seemed to already envision Mu Family’s altar collapsing under the pressure.
“Send another team to support Deputy Palace Master Hao and Deputy Palace Master Li!”
For the first time, Qin Qing felt a sense of relief as if all her pent-up frustration had been released.
Yet the middle-aged man beside her, the deputy head of Longmen, was staring at the situation in Mu Family’s backyard without any sign of joy. Instead, upon noticing that attacks from the other three directions had been repelled and things had calmed down, with no reinforcements sent, he frowned deeply, sensing something was wrong.
With attacks from three directions repelled, logically, Yin Fox should have sent troops from each direction to replenish losses in the backyard… But Yin Fox remained indifferent.
Why?!
The middle-aged man frowned deeply until he heard the music coming from the altar again—those soft, almost leisurely tones suddenly set off an alarm in his mind!
“Something’s wrong!”
…
It was clear that Yin Fox had observed the backyard for a while, spotting Hao Tian and Li Qing among the crowd, as well as identifying a dozen highly skilled fighters. After pointing them out one by one to Feng Ling, Yin Fox said to Xiao Bei, who could no longer hold back: “Go. Be careful.”
“Don’t worry!”
Hearing this, Xiao Bei clenched his fists tightly. The arms of his thousand-year-old corpse king body made cracking sounds as he growled through gritted teeth, “If I can’t kill these bastards this time, I’ll voluntarily give up my spot as the third strongest fighter in the main palace!” Xiao Bei, who usually spoke politely, rarely used such vulgar language. It was understandable—his first death had filled him with resentment and anger!
…
Xiao Bei was enveloped in a mist, moving silently like a ghost through the dark night into the backyard.
Mu Family’s disciples who saw the mist stepped aside.
He made his way unhindered toward a Longmen fighter…
“Hmph.”
Though hindered by many Mu Family fighters, the Longmen fighter moved skillfully through the crowd and quickly noticed the sneaky Xiao Bei, his gaze turning cold.
But just then…
A strange melody suddenly pierced his ears!
Alarmed, his internal energy slowed down abruptly.
With a loss of internal energy in the crowd, problems arose immediately.
Several others also encountered issues.
All of them were plagued by the sudden demonic music invading their minds, causing them to hallucinate everything around them.
They had just realized something was wrong.

The sword light danced wildly as the latter prepared to temporarily ward off the dangers around him and strive to break free from the demonic sounds first. But just then, his feet suddenly felt constrained! Not far away, Haotian watched closely: The expert from Longmen hesitated for a moment and even lowered his head; almost simultaneously, Xiao Bei, in the form of a misty figure, suddenly transformed into a black lightning bolt, zipping past the Longmen expert and leaving several dark claw marks on his body. In that instant… Haotian’s heart tightened. He knew that expert from Longmen was done for. Xiao Bei’s nickname in the martial world was “Marquis of a Thousand Poisons”! Once poisoned by Xiao Bei, even using an antidote immediately would be useless—ability would drop by over 50% instantly, rendering such a person practically dead in that situation. As expected… Before Haotian could look again, the Longmen expert, with a gaping wound on his body, was quickly killed by the surrounding people with chaotic slashes—killed in an instant! At the same time, the other few people also found themselves in quite dangerous situations. When the second person was grabbed by claws emerging from the ground, although he immediately severed the claws restricting his movement with a sword strike, he was soon pierced through from behind by Xiao Bei, who arrived like the wind. “I told you not to bully my pet!” Xiao Bei glared viciously as the man took his last breath. Without pause, he picked up a zombie’s claw from the ground, stuffed it into his Qiankun Bag, then took out a bamboo tube and quietly opened it. A golden flash skillfully slipped into the crowd, followed by a brief, muffled groan from within… After all, those gathered at Mu Family’s branch temple were all powerful fighters from all over the land. The top experts in each branch, in terms of both equipment and strength, were far beyond the reach of the people from Lingxiao Palace and Yipin Hall. Those who could pose a threat to them were essentially only the experts from Longmen, along with a few others like Haotian and Li Qing! As Fengling, Xiao Bei, and the Mu Family’s experts focused their attention on these individuals, and as these experts continued to fall, the situation in the back courtyard was quickly brought under control!