Outside Divine Capital, a mile away on the official road.
The ground was still emitting black poisonous smoke, and bodies lay scattered about, the once bustling official road now as eerily silent as if haunted by ghosts.
A "Black Spirit Rain," within a matter of breaths, had poisoned and killed five hundred Divine Capital City Guard Army, leaving the carriage that had been in the middle of the troop desolately without aid.
Even the steeds pulling the carriage had died from the poison, and for Eunuch Wei with his late-stage Divine Origin Realm cultivation, trying to safely take away Feng Chaonan was harder than ascending to the heavens.
Moreover, there were still assassins lying in ambush.
A black iron spike protruded from the woods beside the official road, trailed by chains as thick as a child's arm of the same sinister color.
The chain spike moved swiftly through the air like a black Spirit Python, quickly reaching above the carriage.
"Hiss clang--"
