My dreams can simulate the future.

Chapter 15 Counterattack and Gains

Having made up his mind, Jiang Chen immediately began searching the house.

"My grandfather also rose through the ranks of rogue demon hunters, learning a wide variety of skills. He even learned some poison techniques."

"I remember he mentioned before that he hid some spare poison in the house. If I can find it and poison the Mother-Child Needles, I'll have a chance to kill the Bull."

After searching for a quarter of an hour, he finally found a small jade bottle at the base of the wall, with the three small characters "Soul-Severing Powder" engraved on it.

"I've heard my grandfather talk about the Soul-Severing Powder before. This poison can work whether it comes into contact with a wound or is inhaled into the body."

This poison primarily attacks the soul; once poisoned, one will experience dizziness and lightheadedness within moments, and will faint within a hundred breaths. Without an antidote, death is certain within fifteen minutes.

"He's used this poison to kill several opponents at the late Qi Refining stage, and also several first-grade demonic beasts. The Wild Bull is only a sixth-level Qi Refining cultivator; the Soul-Severing Powder should be able to kill him."

Thinking of this, Jiang Chen carefully probed the bottle with his divine sense. Inside, he saw half a bottle of black powder, exactly like the one that had caused his soul to dissipate from his memory.

He immediately fetched a bowl of water, carefully opened the jade bottle, poured out some Soul-Severing Powder, and prepared it into a medicinal solution.

Then, the three daughter needles of the mother-daughter needle were taken out and heated with fire. When the three daughter needles were slightly red from the heat, they were taken out and placed into the Soul-Severing Powder solution.

This is the most common method for poisoning weapons; it is simple yet extremely practical.

The red-hot needle was placed into the medicinal solution, immediately creating a cloud of white steam. Jiang Chen quickly dodged and cracked the window open to avoid being poisoned.

He removed the three needles only after they had cooled down.

Looking at the three needles that were constantly emitting a dark light under the lamp, Jiang Chen sighed: "Back then, when my grandfather taught me how to poison people, I wasn't willing to learn it."

Grandpa always said it's good to have many skills, and that I should learn as many things as possible, because they'll always come in handy. And wouldn't you know it, he was right.

"It seems I need to learn more about poisoning techniques. They're all legitimate skills; it's never a bad thing to learn more."

He entered the dream simulation, where a bull smashed through a window and rushed into the house. After being bounced off the barrier, it crashed into the wall where it hid a poisoned needle.

Then he bent down and looked at the spot where the bull's feet had landed, and buried two poisoned needles there.

Afterwards, Jiang Chen hid any useful talismans in his sleeve and held the mother needle of the mother-child needle in his hand, ready to control the child needle at any time.

After making these preparations, he took out several different tokens and manipulated the array in the courtyard.

The courtyards in the market were equipped with a warning formation, an isolation formation, and a defensive formation when they were built.

In the Jiang family's courtyard, there are two additional formations, one for killing and one for defense.

Jiang Chen only activated the standard alert and defense formations of the market, shutting down the other three layers of formations, and hung the control token on his waist for easy access.

Everything is ready; all that's left is for the bull to come to us.

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Time flew by, and the hour of Chou (1-3 AM) arrived. Jiang Chen stared intently out the window.

huh~~

A slight gust of wind blew, and Jiang Chen immediately became alert.

At this moment, all the formations in the courtyard had become ineffective, and the bull had already leaped into the courtyard.

After using his divine sense to pinpoint Jiang Chen's location, he rushed toward the window.

Click~~

The window shattered, and the bull charged at Jiang Chen. Jiang Chen didn't make any move, but simply held a golden needle talisman in his hand, ready to launch a sneak attack at any moment.

Thump~~

Just like in the dream simulation, the thick earth jade pendant on Jiang Chen's body was triggered, and the defensive barrier sent the bull flying.

At this moment, Jiang Chen waved his hand and summoned three golden needle talismans, aiming them at the upper, middle, and lower dantian of the bull.

The bull slammed its back against the wall, right where Jiang Chen had hidden the needles. Its feet landed on the ground, each step landing on a poisoned needle.

The poisoned needle pierced the flesh, and the bull cried out in pain.

Just then, three golden needles formed from condensed magical power flew right in front of them.

The bull was extremely experienced in combat, and in the blink of an eye, it forcibly moved its body to avoid vital points.

All three golden needles, formed from concentrated magical power, missed their mark, causing only superficial wounds.

Long before he used the Golden Needle Talisman, Jiang Chen used the mother needle in his assistant's hand to activate the three child needles, which continued to penetrate deeper into the flesh of the bull.

In pain, the bull's eyes turned bloodshot, and its whole body emitted a blood-red mist that condensed into blood-red armor, forcing out all three poison needles.

He drew his heavy sword from his back and roared, "I'll kill you!"

Before he could finish speaking, the heavy sword swept across.

Knowing the power of the heavy sword, Jiang Chen didn't try to block it head-on. Instead, he crouched down and rolled on the ground, dodging the attack.

In the process of turning over, he also picked up a token from his waist and activated it with his magic power and divine sense.

In an instant, a gray barrier enveloped the entire courtyard. Jiang Chen understood immediately; it was a defensive array.

At that moment, the bull's heavy sword came crashing down on his head again.

Jiang Chen activated the token again, and the defensive barrier instantly contracted, protecting his entire body.

Thump~~

The bull slashed at the defensive barrier with its sword, but the barrier only trembled slightly before completely neutralizing the force of the attack.

This is the power of formations, especially meticulously arranged long-term formations, whose power cannot be shaken by brute force from cultivators of the same level.

Seeing this, the bull knew that it would be difficult to achieve anything on this trip, so it turned around and tried to escape.

Just then, his legs gave way and he fell to the ground. In his eyes, the whole house was shaking, as if it were about to collapse at any moment.

His consciousness blurred, and the blood-red armor on his body instantly collapsed.

He immediately realized he had been poisoned and cursed, "Despicable! If you have the guts, fight me head-on!"

As he spoke, he reached for the storage pouch at his waist, intending to take an antidote to suppress the poison.

Jiang Chen naturally wouldn't let this opportunity to kick someone when they're down slip away, so he immediately took out another array token and activated the killing array.

A golden sword shadow appeared out of thin air and pierced directly through the bull's brow.

Jiang Chen once again manipulated the defensive formation, covering the entire courtyard.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

"If you got away with this, I'd be so angry I wouldn't be able to sleep for days."

After catching his breath, Jiang Chen immediately searched the bull's body and found an empty spirit beast pouch and a storage bag containing items.

He immediately opened the storage bag and emptied its contents.

There wasn't much inside, only twenty or thirty spirit stones, a bunch of fasting pills and detoxification pills, but not a single one of the more precious first-grade pills like spirit gathering pills and spirit nourishing pills.

There were only three talismans, all mid-grade first-rank talismans, but of ordinary quality. There were no magical artifacts, only two jade slips.

Jiang Chen sighed, "Everyone says that killing and robbing can make you rich, but after all this effort to kill someone, this is all I've gained. I hope this jade slip contains some useful information."

After saying that, he picked up a jade slip, probed it with his divine sense, and examined its contents.

Then a look of disappointment appeared on his face: "【Hundred Battles Sword Technique】, it's a common, overused technique. Although its power is not bad, it has too high requirements for physical strength. I can't master it with my physique."

He picked up the second jade slip, examined its contents, and a look of joy immediately appeared on his face.

"I really got something good, the [Spirit Armor Body Forging Technique]. This body-refining technique is much better than the Wild Bull Body Forging Technique."

No wonder the bull's body is so strong; even the mid-grade first-rank magic weapon, the Mother-Child Needle, couldn't pierce it.