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"Anyway, it won't be a good thing." The cook didn't smile, his eyes moving up and down with scrutiny.

"Why choose me?" Qin Xiao took a sip of tea.

It contains ghost grass, a special drug that is said to make one fall asleep within five minutes just by smelling it, and the effect will be even greater if taken ingested.

At least half an hour had passed since Qin Xiao drank it, and he was still energetic, his eyes like the cool moon.

"One is that you are born to be an evil cultivator, you have good talent, and the other... is your character." The cook raised his eyelids and smiled at him, "We have observed you, you have an extreme temperament, although you don't seem to be dangerous in daily life, but you and I know very well that for you, killing is not a big deal, it's not even a big deal, it's as common as eating and sleeping."

"Although there are many people who hold this view, that is only true for other countries. For a country like Yuhua that values ​​order and suppresses Qi cultivators from killing each other, people like you are considered an outlier."

"Do you understand? We are the same kind of people, and from what we have observed, you yearn for community, but because you are surrounded by those pedantic and rigid people, you are isolated and lonely..."

"We can give you a place to stay and keep each other warm, as long as you join us..."

"..."

Qin Xiao lowered his eyes and looked at the tea without saying anything.

The man talked for a long time, until his throat was smoking, but he didn't get a response. He couldn't help but feel a little dissatisfied and looked at Qin Xiao, but for some concerns, he endured it.

"You are thinking about Yun Qi, right?" Jiang Xue suddenly spoke up, and smiled slightly at Qin Xiao's sudden gaze. "You are right. He is there and has agreed to join us. You can rest assured about his safety."

"Where is the evidence?" Qin Xiao's expression remained the same, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

"We can take you to see him." Jiang Xue said.

Qin Xiao shook his head: "Maybe you just want to trick me over first and then subdue me."

Saying that, he was about to get up.

"But how can we prove it if you do this?" Jiang Xue caught a glimpse of the man's face and had a bad feeling. She asked hurriedly, as if she wanted to stop something. "You can't--"

"That's impossible." Qin Xiao looked at her calmly, "Bring him to me to prove it."

"Can--"

"Don't be so arrogant, kid! Damn it!" The man suddenly got angry and raised his hand to slap Qin Xiao.

Qin Xiao had sensed the change in aura before this and dodged in time. He did not panic but looked at him calmly.

"Jiaojiao, calm down!" Jiang Xue had been working with the man for such a long time, how could she not see what the man wanted to do? Her eyelids twitched and she quickly tried to stop him.

She had a feeling that if she really let the man do this, the target might get angry.

She had done this many times before, but for some reason, many moments this time always made her feel a little scared.

Just like this time.

"Qin Xiao, why don't we both take a step back? You go to the front of the mountain, and we let him—"

"No, I want to see it now." Qin Xiao refused again.

The man could no longer suppress his anger. He was annoyed by Qin Xiao's attitude and cursed angrily, "Who do you think you are? Bah! Do you know how many people want to join us? We kindly gave you a choice and a chance, but you are shameless and want to step on your grandfather's head. I tell you, it's impossible!!"

"Horns!" Jiang Xue looked at Qin Xiao's face. Although he looked calm, the ominous feeling in her heart became more and more serious. She said sternly, "Shut up!"

"I won't!" Who would have thought that the man would get so angry that he ignored the attempts to stop him and pointed at Qin Xiao and cursed, "I'm telling you, you can go if you want to, and you have to go if you don't want to! Don't you care about your classmate? I'm telling you, he is indeed there and he is still alive. But... hehe."

The man thought of something and suddenly laughed: "If you don't go, he will become a corpse."

"Everything I said is true. You don't have to doubt it. Don't you want to see the evidence? I have..."

The man took out a small box from his arms and opened it in front of Qin Xiao with an evil smile.

A faint smell of blood floated at the tip of his nose. Qin Xiao lowered his eyes to look, his eyes moving slightly.

A bloody eyeball lay quietly in a palm-sized box, along with a finger.

Qin Xiao was sure that the breath he could smell was from Yun Qi's eyes and fingers.

"Look, this eyeball... How beautiful it is, much more beautiful than those beads." The man pinched the bloody eyeball and smiled at Qin Xiao as if showing a work of art, "You can't fail to recognize your classmate's eyes, right?"

"..."

The atmosphere suddenly turned cold, and Jiang Xue even felt a little suffocated.

Qin Xiao's expression was unclear, but his aura did not fluctuate at all, and he looked at him quietly.

"Aren't you his classmate? You're his... friend, right?" The man smiled, wishing he could stick his eyeballs on Qin Xiao's eyelids so that he could get a closer look. "You'd better go over there, otherwise what you'll see next will be his head..."

Jiang Xue frowned, looking at the scene, and suddenly felt a chill.

Obviously, this kid shouldn't be a threat to them...

But why couldn't she control her heart palpitations?

"You have to know that he was not in our hunting range at first, but because of you..." The man was still provoking Qin Xiao, trying to evoke his guilt, "Because the target was you, I specifically asked her to lure you and put a chain on you, so I attacked him...haha."

"Even if I break your legs, I will take you there. I just did that to comfort you... We are now outside the barrier set up by the Pei and Yu families. No matter how much you ask for help, no one will respond."

"Of course you can run away desperately, but what about your classmates? What about your friends? Are you going to abandon them?"

The man's eyes were bloodshot, and he looked at Qin Xiao, who remained silent, cruelly and indifferently: "Why, you're not going over?"

"..."

Qin Xiao lowered his head, slowly took the box from the man's hand, closed it under the different gazes of the two people, looked at the man, and asked him in an extremely calm tone: "I want to ask you a question, and you must answer truthfully."

The man sneered, obviously not taking it seriously.

"How... did you know my itinerary?" Qin Xiao felt that if Jiang Xue didn't know him a little, she would not have been able to create "chance encounters" with him repeatedly in a short period of time.

Although the answer is not important.

"Of course your friend—"

The man didn't finish his words and fell silent.

——There was no more sound.

Jiang Xue's pupils suddenly shrank and she trembled violently, not only with fear but also with disbelief.

The man's head exploded right in front of her eyes, like a watermelon being smashed by a punch, with the flesh splattering everywhere.

No signs, no perception...

Scarlet blood mixed with brain matter splashed onto Qin Xiao's face.

Qin Xiao took the box and turned his head slowly. His scarlet eyes were cold and indifferent to the extreme. The way he looked at her made her feel as if she was an ugly, tiny insect.

"You..." Qin Xiao opened his mouth slowly, and asked in an extremely calm voice, "What do you say?"

"me--"

Jiang Xue couldn't help but start to tremble, and her body's instinctive screams kept telling her to quickly get away from this space.

It's not because he killed the man, but because he couldn't see any way out.

Isn't he a lightning attribute? Why did Jiaojiao die like this? She couldn't feel him attacking her at all.

Jiang Xue was trembling all over, looking at Qin Xiao in fear, her finger reaching towards the door, trying to escape quickly.

But suddenly, her brain stopped her.

She had a feeling that if she really did that...she would die quickly.

"We actually—"

"It's not important anymore." When Jiang Xue was about to say it, Qin Xiao stopped her, retracted his gaze, and looked out the window, "Go back and tell your superiors to replace them with someone who can talk."

After saying that, he sat down, obviously letting Jiang Xue leave on her own.

Jiang Xue observed nervously for a long time, and seeing that he did not react, she slowly approached the door, walked onto the deck, looked back and saw that he still did not move, so she summoned the attribute "Water Horse" instantly without hesitation.

A tall horse made of water appeared on the surface of the river. Jiang Xue jumped on it and didn't stop at all. She neighed and ran quickly on the river. In the blink of an eye, she was dozens of miles away.

Qin Xiao listened to the noise of her leaving without reacting. He carefully put away the box and sat quietly, as if waiting for something.

……

The dark room was only illuminated by a beam of gray sunlight, which illuminated the weak boy. Liquid dripped onto the wooden board, and the floor, which had not been repaired for many years, was already full of potholes. His bare toes made a creaking sound when he stepped on it.

The young man was covered in blood, his hands and feet were tied, his hands were chained, and a steel needle was inserted into the back of his neck, making it impossible for him to circulate Qi.

Maybe even if he could, he wouldn't be able to escape in his current condition.

Yun Qi stared blankly at the ground with his only remaining eye, his pupils dilated and his breath hanging from his chest.

The blood on the severed fingers had dried up, and some liquid was still overflowing from the empty eye sockets from time to time. Because there was no treatment, some of the wounds on the body had begun to fester, and blood plasma mixed with pus flowed through the naked body and finally dripped from the toes.

"This kid is really lucky. He's still alive even after taking so much blood. He's much more likely to live longer than the woman who came with him."

Outside the door, the evil cultivator on guard was still chatting with his companions, and I couldn't help but admire his tenacious vitality.

"Yeah, if I hadn't seen this kid using the wind attribute to resist that day, I would have thought he was a wood attribute. He's really lucky."

"By the way, why haven't Jiang Xue and the others come back yet? It's been a while this time, right?"

"He's the boss's main focus, so it's normal for him to take a little longer. If he resists, we have to control him and not beat him to death. We have to beat him into submission, which is indeed a bit difficult."

"Wouldn't it be better to break his arms and legs?"

"Hahaha, that's true."

The jokes between the two were chilling.

Qin Xiao...

Yun Qi lowered his eyes. With every breath, the taste of blood in his mouth became stronger, making him wonder if he was about to die.

"How long do you think this kid in the room can live?"

"He won't survive tonight. The Second in Command will turn him into a corpse soon."

"..."

Jiang Xue staggered into the village, and it was not until the moment she stepped into the village gate that she released her attributes and fell to the ground.

She didn't dare to take a breath along the way, as if there was something terrible behind her to take her life.

The village is located on a mountain with the most lush vegetation, surrounded by tall trees that seem to have lived for more than a thousand years. There is an illusion outside the village, which looks like a cliff from the outside, but the whole picture can only be seen from the inside.

The room where Yun Qi was imprisoned was located in the inner part of the village, not far from the main hall. Jiang Xue was greeted by the guard on her way to the main hall to report, but unfortunately she didn't notice it at all.

"What is she doing? Why is she so anxious?" The guard was still a little confused.

"Boss, Boss!" Jiang Xue couldn't wait for the people outside to report, so she rushed in and told them everything that happened. After she finished speaking, she reacted and looked around.

The hall was not illuminated by sunlight, and the whole hall was immersed in a dim environment. Sitting on a high seat opposite the door was the leader of the organization, dressed in a black robe and wearing a mask with fangs. No one in the organization had ever seen his face, but they only knew that he was cruel and ruthless.

There were four people sitting on each side of the leader, with different appearances, staring at her, as if they were having a meeting.

Jiang Xue realized her recklessness and quickly knelt down to confess to the leader: "I'm sorry, it's me... I was reckless."

"Failed?" The feminine-looking man standing next to the leader raised his eyebrows, "It seems that he is indeed not easy to deal with."

"He's just a little kid, what can happen to him?" Someone below disagreed.

"But when he was 6 years old, he killed Xie Er... a man." A woman with flowers on her head retorted. She had a charming face and seductive eyes. Her eyes were full of charm. "Don't underestimate him."

"Xie Er has been hiding for more than ten years, so it's normal for his strength to drop sharply." The man still didn't agree.

"But don't forget, he's a corpse binder." The woman with a broken eyebrow said coldly, "If Xie Er wanted to, he could have sucked the child dry, but he didn't. Did he not want to, or could he not?"

“Is it okay for us to do this? His father is Qin Xiuyun after all. That guy…” The Flowery Woman rolled her eyes, “had already broken through to the Heaven Realm two years ago.”

"What are you afraid of? With over 200 people in the organization, are you afraid of a person in the Heaven Realm?" the man said arrogantly, "Besides, you've already provoked me, but you're still cowering now. You're really a woman!"

"I am not like you. I don't have any brains, so it's useless to do anything."

"you--!!"

The chairs made a loud, harsh, noisy noise.

Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, the leader finally took action - he stretched out his hand and made a gesture to silence everyone.

The whole audience could hear the needle drop instantly.

"Jiang Xue, you said Horn is dead?"

Unexpectedly, the leader's voice was exceptionally young, sounding as if he was only a teenager.

"Yes." Jiang Xue replied.

"Tell me again how he died."

Jiang Xue swallowed and recounted the process of Horn's death.

“Isn’t his attribute thunder and lightning? We have already investigated it clearly before.” The woman wondered.

"This kid is too presumptuous. He really doesn't know his place." The man snorted coldly.

"He is not the only one who is ignorant of the immensity of the world." The feminine man seemed to be hinting at something.

The man looked at him, and surprisingly, he did not get angry, but instead wilted.

"Boss, I'd like to ask for your permission to go meet him." The woman with broken eyebrows stood up, and the armor on her body collided with each other, making a sound.

"No need." The leader said calmly.

"Why?"

Everyone is puzzled.

The leader supported his chin with one hand and pointed at Jiang Xue with the other.

Jiang Xue didn't understand what was going on. Suddenly, she felt a force pulling her and she floated up uncontrollably. She flew towards the leader, then stopped below the leader and fell down.

Before everyone knew what was going on, a blood mark suddenly appeared on Jiang Xue's neck, and then the whole person exploded.

Like a water balloon punctured by a needle, the skin, blood, bones, flesh, and internal organs were all blown away. Before the man could react, a section of intestine was stuck to his face.

"This is--?!!"

Everyone was shocked and stood up, looking around, but they did not find any external presence.

"Did that kid do that?!" Broken Eyebrow reacted and looked at the leader, his anger almost ignited, "Is this a demonstration?"

"It's more like a provocation." The woman with the flowery look was somewhat dissatisfied because of the blood splattered on her skirt.

"Don't worry." The leader was still slow. It was obvious that Jiang Xue's death was not worth mentioning in his eyes.

"Let's go and kill his partner right now! That student..." he said grimly with a cold look in his eyes.

"It's a good idea, but..." The leader slowly sat up straight, his voice calm, "He's already here."

"Varied--?!!"

"Or rather, on the way."

On the Yangtian River, in the light boat tent, the young man slowly put down the black knife in his hand and wiped it, and raised his head.

His eyes were cold, with a hint of murderous intent.

"found it."