Return to the City: The Strongest King
Chapter 788 - 789: Stealing the Snake Saliva Fruit

Chapter 788: Chapter 789: Stealing the Snake Saliva Fruit

All the attention of those people was on the group of poisonous snakes and the Snake Saliva Fruit, so when Song Xiaodong and his companions showed their heads, those people didn’t notice them immediately.

That group of poisonous snakes formed a circle over twenty meters in diameter around the Snake Saliva Fruit. If anyone wanted to get past, they had to drive away the snakes; otherwise, they would surely be injured by the venomous creatures.

However, those people were clearly well-prepared, one of them even had a flamethrower on his back, which he was now ready to use. A tongue of flame shot out, reaching more than ten meters in length.

Wherever the blaze passed, countless poisonous snakes were burned to death. Many more rapidly fled to both sides, leaving behind a small path paved with snake corpses. Even more snakes didn’t die instantly and were rolling violently on the ground.

Then the person with the flamethrower tilted it to the side, clearing another large swath of injured or dead poisonous snakes.

This method of killing snakes was incredibly effective. In a short time, they had cleared a passage.

The people stepped directly on the snake corpses and moved forward. Song Xiaodong exchanged a glance with Sun Yiyi. At that moment, Song Xiaodong still had no idea what to do, but Sun Yiyi suddenly darted out, directly following behind those people.

Song Xiaodong almost cried out in alarm; Yiyi’s action was simply too bold. If anyone behind turned around, they would see Sun Yiyi.

Song Xiaodong didn’t hesitate any longer and immediately followed suit, quietly trailing behind the group, making their footsteps extremely light.

Lately, Song Xiaodong could say his strength had greatly increased, but at that moment, he suddenly realized that in terms of the lightness of footfalls and movement technique, he couldn’t compare to Sun Yiyi. Her landings were almost silent, and she seemed to float through the air.

This was an incredibly bold move. If anything went wrong, they would be in immediate conflict, but since a conflict was inevitable, this was definitely the best way to steal the Snake Saliva Fruit.

Fortunately, the other group’s attention was all on the snakes, and the two of them were so light-footed. Furthermore, the hissing of tens of thousands of snakes confused everyone’s Perception Ability, so no one noticed the two uninvited guests following behind.

Of course, that also happened because they would never expect anyone to follow them at this time, or they wouldn’t be so careless.

When the group was three to four meters away from the Snake Saliva Fruit, the person in front turned down the flamethrower’s intensity, making the flame reach only a little more than a meter, to avoid burning the Snake Saliva Fruit.

And when they were only two meters away from the Snake Saliva Fruit, he didn’t dare to spray fire anymore. Everyone wielded katanas, far-fending off the poisonous snakes in front of them.

Without the flames, poisonous snakes swarmed from all sides and quickly surrounded the group. The people quickly changed positions, and the one with the flamethrower swiftly moved to the rear, firing it once more to push back the snakes on both sides and behind.

What amused both Song Xiaodong and Sun Yiyi was that the individual moving to the back failed to notice them and ended up protecting them inside the circle as well.

Several people at the front faced the last batch of snakes before the Snake Saliva Fruit. These folks were experts, extremely fast and well-coordinated. Three of them were flicking away the snakes, protecting the one in the middle who rushed to the Snake Saliva Fruit. With a slice, he cut off the branch of the Snake Saliva Fruit, with another hand reaching for it...

Just as their hands were about to touch the Snake Saliva Fruit, a dark figure fell from the sky—Sun Yiyi. Her dagger flew straight toward that person.

The guy was instantly startled, instinctively raising his katana, and sent the dagger flying, but his other hand grasped at thin air, as the Snake Saliva Fruit had already ended up in Sun Yiyi’s hands.

"Damn it!" With a roar of rage, the man swung his katana at Sun Yiyi, timing his strike to hit the advancing Sun Yiyi.

But Sun Yiyi’s body didn’t charge forward, instead, she arced through the air like a large bird, turning back around, making the blade cut nothing but air.

It was then that everyone realized she was tied to a rope, which had pulled her back.

Then everyone noticed Song Xiaodong, holding the rope, and also realized that a stranger had somehow infiltrated their team.

"Hey!" Song Xiaodong, completely ignoring them, shouted loudly, spun his body halfway, not only pulling Sun Yiyi back but also flinging her forcefully backward.

Sun Yiyi described a half-circle in the air, then like a cannonball, whooshed backward.

These men were unwilling to simply watch the Snake Saliva Fruit slip away right before their eyes, with the two closest to Song Xiaodong already slashing their katanas at him.

At this moment, Song Xiaodong had already leaped off the ground, using the force of the throw to jump up, the same move that they had used when facing crocodiles in the river, now repeated.

With his feet planted firmly on the ground, the force of the throw was tremendous, and the speed at which his body leaped up was equally swift.

However, they were no longer facing crocodiles but these martial experts, whose reaction times were far faster than those of crocodiles. As Song Xiaodong leaped up, two katanas aimed to slash at his ribs simultaneously.

Song Xiaodong, hanging in mid-air, had no time to dodge and seemed doomed to be cut in half at the waist.

But at this critical moment, Song Xiaodong’s katana was held horizontally at his waist, intercepting the katanas coming at him from both sides, striking precisely the tips and hilts of their blades.

With two crisp clangs, their katanas were deflected, almost flying out of their hands as they watched Song Xiaodong sail away.

This left the two attackers in utter shock, realizing the strength the opponent must possess.

But they were completely mistaken, Song Xiaodong hadn’t used any of his strength in that move; he had merely precisely calculated the angle and direction of their strikes, aligning his katana against their blades.

The force of their katanas’ strikes was transmitted through Song Xiaodong’s blade back onto themselves, it was merely their own strength recoiling upon them.

However, while this move may sound simple, executing it was extraordinarily difficult. Song Xiaodong would not have been capable of such a feat before, it was only after the recent improvement in his Perception Ability that he managed to pull off this incredibly subtle and clever move.