Medical and Martial God

"I just can’t get to sleep, so I figured I’d come have a drink!" Du Hang feigned a troubled expression. He grabbed two bottles of liquor, handed one to Du Hu, and sat down next to a Xu Family expert who had surpassed the War God realm.

Du Hu took the bottle and sat beside an expert from the Long Family of Guoyang, another one who had surpassed the War God realm. He asked casually, "Both our families have suffered heavy losses. What’s our next move?"

This was just idle chatter, a pretense to divert their attention so Xu Zengshan and the other five men wouldn’t notice where they had positioned themselves.

"Knowing Ye Xiu’s habits, he prefers to torment his enemies, not kill them outright. We don’t need to worry about the lives of Long Wu and the others," Long Xiaoyun said gravely. "What we need to think about now is how to eliminate Ye Xiu. Only when he’s dead can we rescue our people."

"We don’t even know where Ye Xiu is. How are we supposed to eliminate him?" Du Hang asked.

Long Xiaoyun was speechless. It was infuriating. Their side had already suffered heavy losses and they were desperate for revenge, yet they didn’t even know the enemy’s location. All this power and nowhere to use it!

"The men from Fire Seed have all gathered. I suggest we head to Guoyang tomorrow. Sitting around getting anxious in Han Jin City won’t help us find Ye Xiu," Xu Zengshan said.

"I suppose that’s all we can do," Long Xiaoyun sighed.

"Come on, let’s finish this bottle and get some sleep. We’ll leave for Guoyang first thing in the morning," Du Hang said, raising his bottle at the perfect moment.

"Let’s drink this bottle to celebrate killing Ye Xiu in advance! Bottoms up!" Du Hu chimed in.

Long Xiaoyun and the five others all raised their bottles and started to chug.

Seeing this, Du Hang and Du Hu exchanged a look. This was the moment Long Xiaoyun’s group was at their most vulnerable—the perfect time for a sneak attack.

"Now!" Du Hang roared, suddenly unleashing a full-power punch at the target beside him.

At the same instant, Du Hu also struck, hammering a fist toward his own target.

Just as they had predicted, Long Xiaoyun and his men were completely defenseless. In the middle of chugging their drinks, they never would have imagined that their own allies, Du Hang and Du Hu, would launch a deadly assault.

BANG!

BANG!

Du Hang and Du Hu’s fists struck their targets’ heads at almost the same instant. They had put their full power into the blows, a force that surpassed the War God realm. The two experts’ heads were instantly blown apart.

Just as the bodies fell, the four survivors—Long Xiaoyun, Xu Zengshan, Long Wen, and Xu Yihuo—reacted, leaping back reflexively.

"Du Hang! Du Hu! What is the meaning of this?" Long Xiaoyun demanded in disbelief.

Xu Zengshan, Xu Yihuo, and Long Wen were also completely stunned, unable to comprehend why their own allies had suddenly betrayed them.

Du Hang and Du Hu simply smiled, saying nothing.

At that moment, a deafening roar echoed from all sides. "Kill!"

Countless monsters surged forward, revealed to be the 1,287 transformed Fire Seed test subjects.

"Du Long... you..." Long Xiaoyun and the others stared in horror as they saw Du Long leading the charge.

"Du Long has turned against us," said Xu Zengshan’s son, Xu Yihuo.

"There are too many of them. Now that the War God test subjects have transformed, their strength is unknown. The four of us are no match," said Long Xiaoyun’s son, Long Wen.

"Break out!" Xu Zengshan roared, picking a direction and charging.

Long Xiaoyun, Long Wen, and Xu Yihuo also moved at the same time, attempting to break out in three different directions.

They knew that just the four of them stood no chance against Du Long, Du Hu, Du Hang, and the 1,287 test subjects; they would be swarmed and killed. They weren’t Huang Quan, after all, who possessed the strength to fight ten thousand men alone.

"No one is getting away!" Du Long bellowed, intercepting Xu Zengshan.

Du Hang and Du Hu moved to block Long Wen and Xu Yihuo, respectively, while Long Xiaoyun found himself swarmed by a horde of test subjects.

"Du Long, why have you suddenly rebelled?" Xu Zengshan demanded furiously while fending off Du Long’s attacks.

Du Long didn’t bother to answer, simply pressing his relentless assault. Seeing this, Xu Zengshan stopped asking questions and focused all his might on attacking Du Long.

Ye Xiu didn’t join the fight. Instead, he led a few dozen test subjects into the Xu Family mansion. There, they neutralized the Martial Prowess of all the sleeping family members and gathered them in a single room. Afterward, Ye Xiu and the black man, T6, climbed to the mansion’s roof to watch the battle unfold in the backyard.

"So this is the extent of their strength after transforming?" Ye Xiu murmured.

The last time, on Qingfeng Road, the Night Banquet bounty hunter known as "King" had turned into a Werewolf before being intercepted by Dong Fangbai. Ever since, Ye Xiu had been curious about how strong a perfect test subject truly was after transforming. Now, his wish was granted. He watched as 1,287 perfect test subjects transformed, yet they were powerless against Long Xiaoyun, only able to endure his attacks with their high defensive power. Even then, not a single test subject could survive more than two of Long Xiaoyun’s moves.

"Bro, if we weren’t on the same side, I’d smack you for saying that," T6 retorted, clearly displeased. He added proudly, "When our perfect test subjects transform, they are powerful enough to rival the number one master on the War God Ranking."

Ye Xiu had to stop himself from telling T6 that the top master on the War God Ranking, Yin Tianxi, was his own godson. Instead, he said, "I overestimated Fire Seed’s strength. With just Du Long, Du Hu, Du Hang, and these test subjects, they won’t be able to kill Long Xiaoyun’s group of four. If those four are determined to escape, they can break through, even if it means taking some injuries."

"They can’t escape," T6 said with mysterious confidence.

Just as Ye Xiu was about to ask what gave him that confidence, he heard Du Long shout, "Second Brother, Third Brother!"

He then saw Du Hu and Du Hang each use a powerful blow to force back Long Wen and Xu Yihuo. They quickly pulled small vials filled with a blue liquid from their pockets, uncapped them, and poured the contents straight into their mouths. Ye Xiu watched as the auras emanating from Du Hu and Du Hang began to surge dramatically.

"What are they drinking?" Ye Xiu asked, shocked.

"Boiling No. 1," T6 said with a proud smile. "The Boiling Potion is a type of Genetic Potion. There are two models, No. 1 and No. 2, developed by our Dailuo Country branch. They’re classified as top secret, so it’s perfectly normal that you haven’t heard of them."

Ye Xiu was astonished. He hadn’t expected the Fire Seed Company to have developed such a game-changing drug. It also seemed the Long Family knew nothing about it. He asked, "What does the Boiling Potion do?"

T6 explained, "Boiling No. 1 doubles a person’s combat power for fifteen minutes. Afterward, the user collapses from exhaustion. Boiling No. 2 is even more potent. It heightens the senses, triples speed and combat power, and makes the user impervious to pain. The effect lasts for five minutes, after which death is certain."

Ye Xiu was speechless for a moment. The performance boost from the Boiling series was impressive, but the side effects were extreme. It was the kind of thing you’d only use in a truly desperate situation. He looked back at Du Hu and Du Hang. Their auras had now peaked, their power roughly double what it was before. So they took Boiling No. 1.

Their strength had been on par with Long Wen and Xu Yihuo’s before, but now, after taking the drug, the two were completely outmatched. Their deaths were only a matter of time.

「Two minutes later.」

Du Hang cut down Xu Yihuo and charged toward Long Xiaoyun.

"Son!" Xu Zengshan roared, his voice thick with grief and rage as he watched Xu Yihuo die.

Long Xiaoyun saw it too. As Du Hang charged toward him, he bellowed, "Xu Zengshan, what are you waiting for?!"

The shout made Ye Xiu pause. From the sound of it, does Xu Zengshan have a trump card?

The next moment, he saw Xu Zengshan, who was still locked in fierce combat with Du Long, pull a medicinal pill from his pocket and throw it into his mouth.

A Blood Pill?