"Bang--!"
The wooden door collapsed with a crash, sending debris flying everywhere!
Qi Huaiyu, inside the room, sprang up like a startled venomous snake! The powder in his hand spilled all over the floor! He turned around abruptly, his face filled with extreme shock and disbelief! When he saw Xin Jiuwei standing against the dim light at the doorway, holding a short dagger, her eyes burning with boundless hatred, his shock instantly transformed into twisted resentment and a hint of...morbid excitement!
"Xin Jiuwei?!" Qi Huaiyu's voice rose in surprise, filled with deep-seated hatred, "You actually... tracked me here?! You're like a persistent ghost!"
Xin Jiuwei didn't waste any words with him! Time was of the essence for Xiao Xun! Like a cheetah pouncing on its prey, ignoring the excruciating pain in her heart, she grabbed a short dagger and, with a resolute determination to take him down with her, charged straight at Qi Huaiyu! Her target was clear—the bulging leather pouch at his waist and the black jade bottle on the table!
"You're asking for death!" Qi Huaiyu's eyes flashed with ferocity! He reacted extremely quickly, grabbing a broken table leg from the side and smashing it hard at Xin Jiuwei! At the same time, he retreated rapidly, trying to create distance!
Xin Jiuwei dodged the whistling table leg, wood chips grazing her cheek! Her speed didn't diminish; her short dagger drew a cold arc, aiming straight for Qi Huaiyu's weapon-wielding wrist! It was a completely reckless fighting style, all offense and no defense!
Qi Huaiyu hadn't expected Xin Jiuwei to be so fearless, and with his arm injured, his movements were slightly slowed, and his wrist was slashed open by the sharp tip of the dagger! He groaned in pain, and the broken stick in his hand flew out!
"You wretch!" he cursed, his eyes filled with even more venom! Seeing Xin Jiuwei's dagger thrust at him again, aimed directly at the leather pouch at his waist, he suddenly rolled away like a lazy donkey, dodging the fatal blow in a sorry state, while grabbing the black jade bottle on the table and clutching it tightly in his hand!
"Want the antidote? Dream on!" Qi Huaiyu's face revealed a ferocious and triumphant smile. He raised the black jade bottle high, as if to smash it! "What I can't have, you can't have either! Xiao Xun can just wait to die from the poison! Hahaha!"
The maniacal laughter, like the hooting of an owl, echoed through the dilapidated mud house.
Xin Jiuwei's eyes widened in fury! Looking at the jade bottle clutched in Qi Huaiyu's hand, a symbol of Xiao Xun's only chance of survival, a surge of bloodlust rushed to her head! She lunged forward again, disregarding everything! This time, her target was no longer his physical appearance, but the hand Qi Huaiyu held that jade bottle!
"Give me the antidote!" she hissed, her short dagger whistling as she viciously stabbed towards Qi Huaiyu's wrist!
A ruthless glint flashed in Qi Huaiyu's eyes. Instead of dodging or avoiding, he suddenly pulled a poisoned dagger from his waist with his other hand and thrust it towards Xin Jiuwei's heart! He was willing to trade injury for life!
In the blink of an eye!
A resolute glint flashed in Xin Jiuwei's eyes! She actually turned slightly to the side, using her still-healing left shoulder blade to meet the poisoned dagger! At the same time, the short dagger in her right hand continued its momentum, carrying a ruthless determination to destroy everything, and fiercely stabbed towards Qi Huaiyu's wrist that was holding the jade bottle!
"Pfft!"
"Ugh—!"
Two muffled thuds sounded almost simultaneously!
The poisoned dagger pierced deeply into Xin Jiuwei's left shoulder blade, instantly spreading a cold, numbing sensation! Meanwhile, Xin Jiuwei's dagger pierced Qi Huaiyu's right wrist bone with precision and ruthlessness! The excruciating pain caused him to instantly lose control of his fingers!
"Snap!"
The black jade bottle slipped from his loosened hand and fell onto the dusty ground!
"The antidote!" Xin Jiuwei's eyes blazed with ecstatic joy! Ignoring the excruciating pain and rapidly spreading numbness in her left shoulder, she lunged at the jade bottle on the ground!
"Don't even think about it!" Qi Huaiyu's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked like a madman! A thin, cicada-wing-like throwing knife appeared in his left hand, which he hurled at Xin Jiuwei's back! At the same time, ignoring the excruciating pain and blood streaming from his right wrist, he grabbed the scattered medicinal powder on the ground with his left hand (the very powder he had prepared to use to heal himself) and threw it violently at Xin Jiuwei's face!
Xin Jiuwei had just grabbed the jade bottle on the ground when she felt a gust of wind behind her head! She instinctively rolled to the side! The throwing knife grazed her hair and embedded itself in the ground! But she couldn't completely dodge the white powder rushing towards her!
"Ugh!" The pungent and acrid medicinal powder choked her nose and mouth, her eyes stung instantly, tears streamed down her face, and her vision blurred! At the same time, the numbness in her left shoulder wound intensified rapidly, and half of her body began to stiffen and become unresponsive!
"Die!" Qi Huaiyu roared like a wounded beast, picked up the broken stick from the ground with his left hand, and smashed it hard on Xin Jiuwei's head, whose movements were slowed by the powder and paralysis!
A life-or-death situation!
With her blurred vision and last bit of strength, Xin Jiuwei shoved the black jade bottle into her bosom, right up against her body! At the same time, she rolled away on the spot!
"Bang!"
The broken stick slammed down on the spot where she had just been standing, kicking up a cloud of dust!
His attack missed, fueling Qi Huaiyu's madness! He raised the broken club again! However, at that moment—
"call out--!"
A sharp crossbow bolt, like a venomous snake, whistled through the air and shot in through the broken window! It pierced Qi Huaiyu's left wrist, which was holding the broken club high, with perfect accuracy!
"Ah—!" Qi Huaiyu let out a shrill scream as the broken stick slipped from his hand again!
Immediately afterwards!
"Bang!" The already rickety back window of the earthen house was violently smashed open! A lithe figure pounced in like a cheetah! A flash of cold light appeared in his hand, and a short knife was precisely placed against Qi Huaiyu's neck! The cold blade instantly pressed a bloody gash!
"Don't move! Move an inch and you're dead!" A cold, murderous female voice rang out! It was Xin Kui! She had actually come!
At the same time, hurried footsteps and the light of torches came from the front door of the earthen house! You Ye rushed in with several blood-stained, murderous guards! Upon seeing the scene inside, You Ye's eyes blazed with wild joy and relief!
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