Nine Chapters of Strange Cases

Chapter 60 Feigning Death to Claim a Life
Master Qi's heart skipped a beat. Wasn't that the very same bastard who had recently massacred Yao Guang Hall?
That's it!
The moment Master Qi turned around, Zhou Zhao, who was sitting on the ground, tightened his grip on the dagger and, without even looking, slashed at Master Qi's right hamstring.

At the same time, Liu Huang, who was lying motionless on the ground, suddenly grabbed the large stone covering his straw hat and threw it at the back of Master Qi's head.

All of this happened in the blink of an eye, and Master Qi's expression darkened.

His attention was completely drawn to the large rock that Liu Huang had thrown. Although he didn't have time to see it, the heavy, rushing sound it made as it pierced the air was no less powerful than when Ye Xuan, the Xuanwu Hall Master, swung his great cauldron. With a flick of his longsword, he twisted his upper body and cleaved the rock into pieces.

Before Master Qi could feel any joy, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his leg, and his right leg buckled, causing him to kneel down.

There's a second attack coming!
Master Qi was horrified. He suddenly realized that the large rock that had deliberately made him make noise was a diversionary tactic to conceal the ghostly girl below. However, he realized this too late.

As he was thinking, he saw Zhou Zhao suddenly leap up, gripping the still-bleeding bluefish dagger, and attack his neck directly.

Although she clearly wanted to kill him, there wasn't a trace of ferocity in the girl's eyes. She looked just like an executioner who was about to behead someone and then turn around to ask what they wanted for lunch.

At this moment, Master Qi didn't care about appearances at all. His leg was in excruciating pain, so he had to roll on the ground to barely avoid it.

But the moment he fell to the ground, his pupils suddenly contracted and he was terrified.

This time, the little girl's move was a feint. Her second leap was to block the attack from the boy in the straw hat behind her. At this moment, the faceless guy, like a snake, moved close to the ground and used his gleaming gold-ringed broadsword to perform a "sweeping attack"!
why!
The two of them didn't even exchange a glance before completing an exchange of reality and illusion!
It all happened so fast!

Master Qi gritted his teeth, braced himself against the ground with his longsword, and forcefully pushed himself backward. However, he forgot that the training ground was now filled with the corpses of the Xu family members. He crashed into them and had nowhere to retreat!

Liu Huang's long sword slid straight over and cut open his stomach!

"Yaoguang! Consider it a debt I owe you!"

Master Qi winced in pain and cried out.

Most of the seven hall masters of the Inner Seven Halls are highly skilled in martial arts, especially the newly appointed hall master of Yaoguang Hall. Even when he was just a newcomer, he was known for his ferocity. Later, he became famous for his decisive victory in the Inner Seven Halls Grand Competition, where he directly crushed his opponent and became the number one new talent in the entire Inner Seven Halls!
Just a few days ago, this man single-handedly stormed Chang'an and brought back Chen Qifu, who had been arrested by the imperial court.

They even massacred Yaoguang Hall and found the spies who betrayed Tianying City!

But he was different; he was skilled in poisons and Gu techniques, but not in physical martial arts.

Zhou Zhao and Liu Huang caught him off guard, giving him no chance to use his true abilities.

Thinking it over, he gritted his teeth and reached for his waist. The moment he touched the medicine bag, he was overjoyed and suddenly stood up, rushing towards Zhou Zhaotong and Liu Huangyang who were attacking again!

Become!

Once his poison is used, no matter how skilled one is in martial arts, they will still bleed from all seven orifices and turn into a pool of corpse water!
Upon seeing the bluish-green powder, Zhou Zhao and Liu Huang became extremely wary. Although they couldn't see the details clearly, Zhou Zhao was certain that it was definitely not a medicinal powder, but rather a dense mass of green poisonous insects...

Just by looking at the color, you can tell this is definitely the Grim Reaper coming to claim your life! You absolutely cannot afford to be near it!
Thinking it over, Zhou Zhao grabbed Liu Huang and the other man and quickly distanced themselves from the strange green mass.

Seeing this, Master Qi chuckled sinisterly. He sat on the ground, clutched his abdomen, took out a pill, put it in his mouth, then squeezed it and applied the pill directly to his abdomen. The bleeding stopped at a visible speed.

"You ambushed me before, now it's my turn! I never expected Xu Qifang to be so useless!"

As he spoke, his gaze instantly turned icy. "Yaoguang, you retrieve the tortoise shell from that woman and kill them. In return, I can give you a pair of love potions, which you can use on your little lover to guarantee that she will love only you from now on!" "What do you say?"

As Master Qi spoke, he turned his head and looked over, finally getting a clear look at the person who had come over.

The person who had called him earlier was not the head of Yaoguang Hall as he had imagined. Instead, he was a tall, thin man with fair skin, dressed in a black robe with a black hairband fluttering in the wind. His gaze was exceptionally deep, as if it were the endless underworld.

This was not the newly appointed head of Yaoguang Hall; it was someone he didn't recognize.

He stood there, a long sword slung across his back.

Master Qi felt a chill run down his spine; he had a bad feeling.

"Damn it! You three are in cahoots!"

He imitated Yao Guang's voice to create an opportunity for those two to ambush him! They were perfectly in sync!
Master Qi was taken aback; several insect pellets had already appeared between his fingers!
None of the four moved. The greenish mass had fallen to the ground, where poisonous insects were wriggling, looking extremely horrifying.

The boy with the tiger teeth sticking out his tongue didn't dare to utter a sound.

His eyes were wide open as he stared blankly at the crescent moon in the dark sky.

No! So it turns out I was the only one who was genuinely faking death to save my life, while you were all faking death to take my life?

He felt somewhat ashamed; he had only thought of sticking out his tongue and hadn't considered drawing his sword.

Suddenly, all four people who weren't lying down moved at the same time!
Master Qi scattered the insect pills he was holding between his fingers toward the three of them. These insect pills were not medicine pills, but Gu worms that were eager for flesh and blood. The bloody atmosphere in the training ground made them restless. The vigorous blood energy of Zhou Zhao and the other two was like a beacon in the night sky, attracting them straight to it.

Zhou Zhao's gaze darkened, and he continued to move forward to meet them, showing no intention of retreating.

In an instant, the three of them rushed in front of Master Qi with perfect coordination, and their daggers, longswords, and broadswords struck him almost simultaneously.

Aside from being able to fly or teleport, he really didn't know how he could have escaped from these three men while he was seriously injured!

Master Qi groaned, and a mouthful of blood flowed from the corner of his mouth. He then suddenly let out a cackling laugh.

Zhou Zhao sensed something was wrong and shouted in unison with Qianmian, "Scatter!"

The two grabbed one of Liu Huang's hands and leaped upwards, landing directly on the nearest, still-standing stone pillar belonging to Zhou Zhao.

The stone pillar was too small for three people to stand on at the same time. Liu Huang, who was in the middle, stood firmly, while Zhou Zhao and Qianmian flanked him from the left and right, with one foot dangling in the air.

The three looked at Master Qi on the ground, and upon seeing him, they couldn't help but cover their mouths and noses with their sleeves.

The living person who had been sitting there suddenly exploded, turning into a cloud of scarlet blood mist.

The blood mist writhed and clung to the corpses on the ground. In the blink of an eye, the closest Xu family members' bodies were completely devoured...

The boy with the tiger teeth lying on the ground was terrified. Like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, he screamed and jumped up from the spot, running away as fast as he could!
If we don't run now, we'll start pretending to be dead and it'll actually turn into a real death!