LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 84: Reward
Lin Fan didn't know what the black-colored smoke did, but he was sure that it was dangerous.
And he was right.
The disciple standing nearby took in the smoke, started to thrash around and cough out blood.
Slowly, blood also oozed out of his nose, tear ducts and even his ears.
"Here, take this. It should help a bit," Lin Fan passed a Hundred Poison Recovery pill to Ho Ming.
He also took one himself.
The pill was supposed to help counter different types of poison.
"Remember our training?" Lin Fan asked as he looked at the three men in front of him.
"Yes."
"Then let's go!"
On his cue, Ho Ming thrust his twirling wind strike, and the man sidestepped again.
Before he could do anything next.
Lin Fan shot his hammer at the man's head.
Thud!
The man tumbled across the ground, sending out muted thuds as he hit the ground.
[Ding! Congratulations on terminating malevolent intent.]
[Vengeance points + 70.]
[Current Vengeance Points: 800]
When the other two men saw this, both of them lunged at Lin Fan.
When they got close, one blew out white-colored smoke and the other some red-colored smoke.
The two different types of smoke mixed with each other and formed into a sticky mass.
The sticky mass then moved toward Lin Fan.
Lin Fan quickly used his remaining hammer, injected Qi into it, and the sticky mass slowly began to freeze.
When the sticky mass froze, the two men began to turn and run.
Ho Ming, being on the left, had an angle on the two men.
He was ready and he used his twirling wind strike at one of them.
The twirling wind hit the man's back and tore him apart into two pieces.
When the last man saw this, he hurried his pace.
But Lin Fan was waiting.
He used his Magnificent Leap and did a flying kick at his back.
Crack!
He smashed through the frozen mass and hit the man on his spine.
Sending out a loud bone-cracking sound.
With the spine broken, the man dropped to the ground.
A familiar sound erupted in Lin Fan's mind.
[Ding! Congratulations on terminating malevolent intent.]
[Vengeance points + 70.]
[Current Vengeance Points: 870]
Finally, he had enough vengeance points to level up his physique.
He could then be able to get the ability of demonic beasts.
And also, one more slot for his beast ability.
But right now, he had more important things to tend to.
Lin Fan looked back and saw the mess that the three men had created.
There were only five disciples left standing.
With their lives at stake, they had to kill the disciples consumed by the yellow smoke.
"What now?" the remaining disciples asked.
They had sustained too many casualties.
This was only their second encounter.
Lin Fan thought for a moment.
"Report back and see what the seniors have for us."
He decided it was best to see what Zhao Qing Ying would do.
Even though he and Ho Ming were unscathed, he preferred others to help distract the Dark Lotus sect.
"Who should run back to report?"
Someone asked in a shaky voice.
The disciples were now scared of carrying on and what they would encounter.
Things weren't looking good for Zhao Qing Ying.
"Ho Ming, go with one of them. I shall stay on guard with them here."
Lin Fan proposed for Ho Ming to go with one of them.
Letting them have confidence.
When the disciples heard this, they volunteered to report back.
"I'm injured, best for me to report back."
"No, my injury is more serious, look."
"Stop it. My hand is dangling off the wrist and I hadn't said anything."
"If you are so seriously injured, you might not make it, so best for me to go."
The disciples went into an argument.
They tried to outdo each other about how seriously injured they were.
"If you want to, all of you should go."
Lin Fan finally had enough of them and let them all leave.
"Thank you, brother."
Upon hearing what Lin Fan said, they bowed to Lin Fan and quickly left with Ho Ming.
Lin Fan shook his head and turned to his actual business.
He rummaged through what the three men had on them.
The first had some copper coins and nothing else.
The next two had more on them.
A tael of silver, a small toad statue made of copper and a manuscript.
Lin Fan wasn't sure if the small toad statue was some precious artifact.
He decided to keep it just in case.
As for the manuscript, it was titled, "Devouring Qi to Poison Transformation Technique."
Lin Fan got intrigued and kept it.
...
"Senior martial brothers!"
When the disciples ran back and met with the senior disciples, they cried out in joy.
The senior disciples saw that they were injured and asked them what had happened.
When they got to the part about why they came back out, they stammered.
They tried very hard to hide the fact that they were too scared to continue.
Shooting glances at each other, they decided to lie.
"It's that Lin Fan. We find it hard to continue with him around."
"Yeah, he is just not cooperative and puts us at risk."
"He tried and sold someone his pills for a hundred contribution points."
"That should say a lot about him."
They started to chime in with whatever bad they could think of about Lin Fan.
Thud!
Ho Ming couldn't hold it in and punched one of them in the face.
The disciple flew in the air and turned a few rounds before dropping onto the ground.
"Ho Ming! What are you doing!"
The seniors shouted and stopped Ho Ming.
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"They are lying! We helped to kill the three men and the pills were sold willingly. Lin Fan didn't force anybody."
Ho Ming shouted as he stared at the few lying disciples.
They hesitated for a while.
But it was too late for them to retract.
So, they said, "He is lying. He is with Lin Fan, it's five of us against him."
They clasped their hands and bowed.
"We hope senior martial brothers can see that we are the ones telling the truth."
"You..." Ho Ming gritted his teeth, held the scabbard of his sword tightly.
This was the first time for him to witness someone's face changing so fast.
And it was on someone he knew.
Now he understood why Lin Fan always kept his distance from everyone.
Suddenly a hand tapped on his shoulder and a familiar voice was heard.
"Don't worry, Ho Ming. I trust you and Lin Fan."