Essence The Prohibition Canon: Revision Chapter 16 - Do or Die!!

The small hill where the Long family's house was located was some distance from the Qitan Town market and did not belong to an area with densely packed houses. As far as the townspeople of Qitan Town were concerned, by this time, those who were supposed to go out and work had long left home. The nearby houses were basically empty, and the main road leading to Qingtian City was naturally quiet and deserted, stretching straight into the thin white mist.
Long Qian, hit hard, rolled several times on the avenue, kicking up dust and falling into the roadside ditch. Before he could get up and gather strength to escape, a shadow swiftly descended from above. Pain immediately shot through his shoulders, and a tingling numbness spread throughout his body, instantly robbing him of all strength to resist, causing him to curl up in the ditch like a dead cat.
The one attacking Long Qian was naturally Long Tao. In fact, when Long Qian pushed open the gate in the fence at the foot of the hill, Long Tao happened to be stepping over that fence, originally planning to directly break into the house at the top of the hill to deal with the family of three. He did not expect Long Qian to return from outside.
Long Tao had studied Long Yan's family of three for a long time. He concluded that only six-year-old Long Qian was easiest to kill, while Long Yan would require more effort.
As for An'an, Long Tao was somewhat uncertain because this woman was too mysterious. He never judged people by appearances and certainly would not, like Long Buren, foolishly assume An'an was just an ordinary woman.
Since Long Qian had actively run into the gate, and the person Long Zongzheng most wanted to kill was also Long Qian, because this was a ruthless move to completely sever Long Yan's lineage, Long Tao would not foolishly go and kill Long Yan and An'an first. Doing so might accidentally give the child a chance to escape.
However, Long Qian's sudden appearance still disrupted Long Tao's plan. After taking action, he obviously could not stay here for long. He was unsure whether Long Yan and An'an had noticed the earlier commotion, so he had to control Long Qian first and then leave for a more secluded place to take action, to avoid the worst outcome.
After lifting Long Qian with one hand, yellow rings of light swirled around Long Tao's feet. His whole body resembled a whirlwind as he sped into the mist, heading deep into the old forest north of Qitan Town.Long Tao ran while keeping an eye behind him to see if anyone was following. He didn't dare to attack Long Qian before making sure that Long Yan and An An hadn't noticed him. He was not a reckless man; he treasured his life. Because of this, Long Tao habitually kept a trump card that could ensure his survival, as this was the only way not to die in vain. If An An truly had some formidable means, or if someone was secretly protecting the Long Yan family, Long Tao believed that these hidden people were the most likely to appear in such a situation. If he ultimately found out that it was a force he could not confront, Long Tao would have no choice but to use Long Qian as a hostage to find an escape route, and it had to be a living Long Qian. While running, Long Tao placed some small black insects into the forest. These insects could help him sense strangers entering the pine forest. As an insect-type mystic, he had a natural advantage in this area. These were not real insects but were created by Long Tao using a special ability called 'virtual insect reproduction' extracted from a second-level mother insect known as the Black Crow Maggot. This ability is very common among insect-type mystics, and it can be said that any insect-type mystic possesses this power. The insects produced using this ability by a mystic are called virtual insects. The Black Crow Maggot has a very strong reproductive ability and high environmental sensing capacity. With Long Tao's early-stage insect lord strength, he could create thousands of virtual black crow maggots as his eyes and ears. The old forest north of Qitan Town was vast and home to many ferocious beasts. This made the townspeople work as apple growers, fishermen, and occasionally as hunters. Long Qian was of course familiar with this old forest, though it took him nearly half a month to get used to it. After running at high speed for nearly two hours, they found that no one had entered the forest. Long Tao immediately stopped, angrily cursing, 'It seems that that woman named An really has no backing. All the time spent on her was damn wasted!' Infuriated, Long Tao forcefully threw Long Qian out, hurling him heavily against a large tree with great strength. Like a cannonball, Long Qian slammed into the tree trunk. With a thud, he rebounded, hitting the ground and kicking up a cloud of dust, after which a bunch of dry fruits fell from above, hitting him with a series of pops.

If it were an ordinary child, let alone crashing into a tree trunk like now, when he was struck hard outside the fence, his bones would have been broken with only a few intact bones left. If he didn't die, he'd be disabled.

After being reborn into this world, Long Qian didn't naively believe he would live a happy life just because he had loving parents. He never stopped exploring profound energy and training himself, so he was still alive now.

Facing two merciless blows from a low-level Insect Lord, Long Qian only broke a few ribs, his internal organs slightly damaged, and his clenched gums cracked, oozing some fresh blood. Long Qian felt a bit uneasy, because this skinny young man who suddenly appeared and attacked him was extremely cautious. He was so cautious that, knowing full well that an ordinary child would definitely be seriously injured and unconscious, he still used the insect-type Xuan practitioner's abilities to paralyze his entire body. If he didn't have the special advantage of switching to control mode, he might not even know what would happen in the end.

As Long Tao ran deeper into the old forest, Long Qian kept using his mysterious energy in control to expel the venom in his blood that slowed his nervous system. It wasn't just simple poison; if it were just ordinary poison, he could neutralize it instantly without taking about ten minutes.

Long Qian had already learned about the various toxic abilities of insect-type Xuan practitioners from the broken book. The poison in his body was a paralyzing ability formed by the mysterious energy within the insect-type Xuan practitioner's body. The only way to dispel it was to use his own profound energy to force it out of his body to restore normal. Otherwise, he could only silently wait for the poisonous insect profound energy to dissipate on its own. With Long Qian's constitution, it would take at least ten hours to recover. Obviously, Long Qian had already expelled that paralyzing insect profound energy, and the injuries on his body did not affect his mobility at all. He was now fully capable of quickly standing up and running, but he simply didn't dare to do so now. Long Qian knew very well that his maximum speed was high. When entering this old forest, he was also measuring his own speed against the other person's speed and ultimately concluded that the opponent was faster. So, even if he stood up and ran now, he would eventually be caught. If he exposed his speed and unknown physique, he would be dead for the day. "What should we do?""Lying on the ground, Long Qian kept asking himself in his heart. He didn't want to die, but this time was the most dangerous yet in his life, even more perilous than the time at Qingrong River. Back then, he could at least rely on being a child to pretend to be crazy and act foolish, but this time, it was obvious that the other party had come to take his life, leaving no room for maneuver.
Beg for mercy? That's simply a joke! Negotiate? It seemed like he had no capital to negotiate with! Play dead? The other party was so cautious, they probably wouldn't leave without cutting off his head!
This was bound to be a life-or-death situation!
—Chapter Sixteen, End. (Currently temporarily recruiting a character who can adjudicate cases, you can apply via a private message to me)"