Chapter 2613 — Enduring Torment
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"I already told you, it was You Panhu..." Han Jingyi said.
"Looks like I need to teach you a lesson before you learn what I'm capable of!" Xiao Shiyi's silver needle shot out once more, this time stabbing straight into Han Jingyi's abdomen. Then she studied Han Jingyi with a playful look. "I don't want to waste words with you. Is Zhang Lifeng's alchemist's notes in your hands? Give me a copy and I'll spare your life—but if you keep playing games with me, my hand may just slip. Believe me, I can make sure you'll never be a woman again."
Han Jingyi was indeed a little frightened now; a flicker of terror passed through her eyes. The needle was positioned exactly at the place that made a woman able to bear children—if it exploded the way the last one had, then, just as Xiao Shiyi said, she truly would never be a woman again.
"If I tell you, will you let me go?" But Han Jingyi was a calm and clever person. From Xiao Shiyi's expression and tone throughout, she could tell the woman had no intention of sparing her at all. "I'm afraid that if I tell you, you'll just kill me, won't you?"
"That's not certain. Maybe I'll be in a good mood and let you go!" Xiao Shiyi said mildly. "Besides, being tortured to death and dying quickly are two very different ways to die! And I don't mind telling you—I already know a great deal. I know you're an alchemist, and that your success rate is extremely high. You can produce large quantities of top-quality second-grade pills in a short time! Don't bother hiding it—if I didn't know all this, I wouldn't have come to ask you! So don't even think about lying to me. I'm an alchemist myself; the moment you speak, I'll know whether you're telling the truth!"
"Fine, I'll talk. The truth is, Teacher Bai gave me a copy of his master's alchemist's notes, and I've been learning from them..." Han Jingyi said with a sigh.
"Playing me for a fool?" Xiao Shiyi's expression turned savage. The hand gripping the end of the silver needle gave a slight twitch. Han Jingyi screamed again, and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed from her lips—straight into Xiao Shiyi's face.
"Ah..." A flash of pain and despair crossed Han Jingyi's eyes. But she had promised Wei Zhao that she would never tell anyone about Zhang Lifeng's alchemist's notes! And even if she did tell, what good would it do?
The alchemy methods in those notes could improve the quality of pills, but they could not increase the speed of alchemy or the success rate. Even if one cultivated according to them, it would be absolutely impossible to produce so many top-quality pills in such a short time!
Since Xiao Shiyi was an alchemist, even if Han Jingyi told her, she ought to realize that following those methods could never produce such results. And if she kept pressing, it would inevitably expose Wei Zhao's secret—Wei Zhao, who could help her restore her physical strength and true qi, and who could work with her to refine pills!
But once those things were spoken, it would ruin Wei Zhao. At this moment Han Jingyi did not know that Wei Zhao was also a target of Xiao Shiyi and her people, so to protect him, she was determined to grit her teeth and hold out.
"You filthy whore, you dare spit at me?" Xiao Shiyi lashed out with her foot, kicking Han Jingyi square in the chest and sending her flying into the wall!
"Ah—" Han Jingyi screamed again. Her chest felt as though it had been kicked apart, and tears of pain nearly burst from her eyes! She lay sprawled on the ground, without even the strength to climb up!
Although she was an Earth Rank cultivator, her cultivation was mainly oriented toward alchemy—she could not heal her own injuries, nor could she use true qi to shield her body! Then again, before an expert like Xiao Shiyi, whose strength stood at the peak of the early Heaven Rank, an Earth Rank true qi shield would not have been of much use anyway.