The owner of that hand squatted down, reached out and turned Qi Yu's face, who was lying on the ground and seemed to be unconscious, and examined her carefully for a moment.
"Hahaha, it really was you. Did you think you could rest easy just by changing your face? How naive! Even God is on my side."
The cold light of the Compassionate Sword shone on the man's arrogantly laughing face; it was Li An, the Qiankun Fortress disciple who had recently chased after Qi Yu.
He stroked the Compassionate Sword with feigned regret, saying, "What is destined to be yours will be yours, and what is not, you cannot force. This precious sword will ultimately belong to me."
“Now that this sword has changed hands, its former owner has no reason to exist.” Li An lightly patted Qi Yu’s face with the Mercy Sword. “Ending you with this sword would be quite interesting, wouldn’t it?”
He stood up, twirled his sword, and pointed the tip directly at Qi Yu's neck, intending to kill her with a single blow.
Just when things were at their most critical, Qi Yu, who should have been waiting to die, suddenly opened his eyes, dodged the sword's trajectory, summoned the fire phoenix within his body, and attacked Li An.
Li An, who thought victory was assured, hurriedly took a few steps back to dodge the fire phoenix.
Even though he hadn't witnessed the power of the fire phoenix firsthand, he had learned from other disciples about the tragic end of Pharmacist Wang, who died without a complete corpse.
We must not be touched by this evil fire!
He summoned several talismans, intending to kill the Fire Phoenix's master, Qi Yu, directly.
Qi Yu survived the system's punishment period. With a thought, the Compassionate Sword, which was held in Li An's hand, flew straight towards her.
She gripped the sword hilt with both hands and slashed straight at Li An.
Li An's eyes were filled with surprise. Only a sword that has already nurtured a sword spirit can be able to communicate with its master's mind!
This woman clearly has no spiritual power, so how could she possess such a precious sword!
With his mind reeling, he was pursued by the fire phoenix in front and Qi Yu's sword strike from behind. His dodging movements were a fraction of a second too slow, and the fire phoenix pecked at his calf, instantly burning his trousers to ashes.
Seeing that the fire phoenix had already swallowed half of the lower leg, Li An endured the pain, drew his sword, and without hesitation, cut off the lower leg!
"Aaaaaah!!!" The pain of the severed limb penetrated to the bone. He watched as the fire phoenix devoured his severed leg in an instant, his eyes filled with boundless rage as he glared at Qi Yu. "This is an irreconcilable feud! If I don't avenge this, I'm not Li An!"
Qi Yu turned around and sheathed her sword, and the fire phoenix flew back into her body.
"You can't just say things like that," she sneered. "Otherwise, I'm afraid the judge won't be able to find your name on your way to the underworld."
Li An tried to dodge more nimbly, but he was tripped by a stray pebble and stumbled. Qi Yu seized the opportunity and pressed the Compassionate Sword against his neck.
She took out the chain that had trapped Feng Xiao in the Netherworld Cold Pool and bound Li An with it.
"What should I do with you..." she said leisurely, resting her chin on her hand. "You've tried to kill me time and time again. Shouldn't we eliminate you completely?"
"..." Li An gritted his teeth, trying to break free of the chains, but he couldn't break free no matter what he did.
Qi Yu looked at him, and after much deliberation, decided not to kill him directly.
Firstly, she wasn't the one who devoured the beast; she killed the Pharmacist Wang because she hadn't expected the Fire Phoenix to have such power.
Secondly, the Mother Goddess System will punish her after she kills someone. She has already experienced it twice. If it happens again, she will definitely be traumatized.
Qi Yu opened the system panel, ignoring the conspicuous "-2" in the merit section, and browsed back and forth in the system shop.
The "Memory Erasure Pill" is a good idea; it can make Li An forget everything about her. Unfortunately, it's too expensive, costing 200 points, which isn't worth it.
She looked at it for a while longer, and then her eyes lit up.
The "Dementia Pill" seems pretty good. It can directly turn Ang Lee into an idiot, and then he won't be able to tell who messed with him. Most importantly, the "Dementia Pill" only costs fifteen points, which is a pretty good way to get rid of a troublesome person.
She clicked to buy, and a pill emitting a strong, foul odor appeared in her hand.
Li An, who had been lying in wait for his do-or-die battle, turned green upon smelling the odor. "What is this?!"
Qi Yu chuckled fiercely and said, "This is a good thing that can make you forget your troubles and live a happy and carefree life."
She forcefully pried open Ang Lee's mouth and shoved the dementia pill inside.
Li An gagged a few times, his gaze gradually becoming vacant, muttering something unintelligible. Qi Yu looked at him, thinking that the medicine was really effective.
She retrieved the chains, put them into her system inventory, and was about to walk out of the alley when Li An suddenly grabbed her by the neck and pulled out a handful of talismans.
Qi Yu's pupils shrank suddenly. He raised his sword to cut the talismans to pieces, but it was too late.
"Boom!" A burst of fire erupted in the dim alley, and Qi Yu was blasted, sustaining multiple injuries and immediately losing consciousness.
Meanwhile, inside a room in the Spirit Academy, the sleeping Feng Xiao suddenly opened his eyes, clutching his chest, overwhelmed by a sense of helpless rage. He looked towards where Qi Yu was.
The moon was high in the sky, and all was quiet.
A figure dressed in a white feather robe suddenly stepped into the quiet alley.
His face was expressionless, but his eyes were filled with raging fury. He silently picked up Qi Yu from the ground, almost losing his mind to anger. However, when he touched the fragile girl whose clothes were torn to shreds, his movements were excessively gentle. He brushed the sweaty strands of hair from the girl's cheeks behind her ears and walked into the night...
Not far away, a handsome young man dressed in fiery red robes and wearing a vermilion headband watched the two people, shook the paper fan in his hand, and put on a knowing smile.
"I see……"
On the other side of the street.
"Where's Li An? Didn't he say he'd discovered traces of the monster?"
A disciple of Qiankun Fort asked Wan Jiayu, who was standing next to him, with a puzzled look.
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