Chapter 2614 — Not Dead After All?
The Blossom Guardian · Page 1 of 2
After a moment's hesitation, Xiao Shiyi drew a small box from her bosom, opened it, and took out a Great Rejuvenation Pill. Then, thinking better of it, she swapped it for a Lesser Rejuvenation Pill and stuffed it straight into Han Jingyi's mouth.
By now the Lesser Rejuvenation Pill could do nothing at all for Han Jingyi's injuries; it would merely keep a thread of life in her a while longer. Given the state she was in, even a Great Rejuvenation Pill would likely not be enough to save her.
Han Jingyi's consciousness had already been fading, but when she suddenly felt Xiao Shiyi feed her something, a warmth spread through her whole body, and then the wounds on her body began to hurt even more.
Though she had briefly come back to her senses, the pain wracking her body set her teeth chattering. "A Lesser Rejuvenation Pill..."
Being an alchemist, Han Jingyi could naturally tell what Xiao Shiyi had fed her.
"The torment has only just begun! There's something even better coming!" Xiao Shiyi smiled cruelly and produced from somewhere a most peculiar knife. Along its sharp blade ran a row of tiny blades like centipede antennae. "This knife—I suppose you can guess what it's for? One little slash across that pretty face of yours would be quite delicious! Even the finest elixir couldn't heal a wound like that. Tsk, tsk, you'll die looking hideous—isn't that fun?"
"Oh..." Looking at the knife in Xiao Shiyi's hand, a flicker of terror crossed Han Jingyi's eyes. All women love beauty, and Han Jingyi was no exception. She knew she could not escape death this time, but she had wanted to show Wei Zhao her most beautiful side before she died. She had never imagined this woman could be so vicious, scheming to torment her in such ways.
And each method was crueler than the last. Han Jingyi wondered whether this person was some kind of madwoman.
"Swish..."
With a flick of her wrist, Xiao Shiyi drew the blade across Han Jingyi's face. At once, the delicate right side of Han Jingyi's face was a bloody mess, the skin torn open and gushing blood—a truly horrifying sight.
"Are you going to talk?" Xiao Shiyi asked coldly.
"Jingjing is going to die of pain..." Han Jingyi cried out, desperate to release the last trace of true qi in her body and end her life as quickly as possible, for the woman before her was utterly insane, and Han Jingyi could bear it no longer.
"Die? After taking a Lesser Rejuvenation Pill, dying won't come so easily." Xiao Shiyi gave a cold snort. "If you want less suffering, tell me the truth!"
"Oh..." Han Jingyi responded weakly.
"Have you lost the ability to speak?" Xiao Shiyi was furious. She had interrogated many people, but never met anyone as stubborn as Han Jingyi. "What are you hiding? Zhang Lifeng's alchemist's notes—you can't take them with you when you die. You're about to die, so what's the point of keeping them? Tell me, suffer a little less—what's not to like? The sooner you die, the sooner you're reborn. You enjoy holding out, do you?"
"Oh..." Han Jingyi closed her eyes.
"You..." Xiao Shiyi raised the blade once more.
At the gate of Donghai Engineering University, the flying sand and hurled stones gradually subsided. The destruction wrought by that tremendous power had been vast: a trench fully ten meters deep now gaped between Wei Zhao and Xiao Yi. Fortunately, the area before the school gate was open ground; had there been buildings, they would all have been brought down.
"Eh? You're not dead?" Xiao Yi stared at Wei Zhao in shock, unable to believe he had survived her Heaven-Rank Nineteenth-Stance martial technique. Unleashing a single Heaven-Rank Nineteenth-Stance technique had cost even a cultivator of Xiao Yi's caliber nearly half her physical strength and true qi; combined with the two techniques she had unleashed earlier, she would now find it rather difficult to unleash another Nineteenth-Stance Heaven-Rank technique.