Douluo Continent: The Peerless Tang Sect, Angels and Rakshasa Return

Chapter 294—You've been tricked! My real killing move is actually…

However…theoretically speaking, Qian Lingyun has two hostages, Liya and Lijing, so she should have the upper hand in negotiations.

"Stop right now, or I'll send her to be reincarnated!"

Taking a deep breath to gather her strength, Qian Lingyun roared and held the Frostbite Serrated Edge horizontally to Liya's neck.

"Do you have any dignity left as a strong person? You're resorting to such despicable tactics again!"

Having broken free from the constraints of resentment and poison, the Sea Princess looked at Liya, who was being held captive by Qian Lingyun, and the flames of anger were burning fiercely in her eyes.

The Demon Queen, watching from afar, laughed so hard she almost fell over, thinking to herself, "Hey, this little girl is a real character!"

"Aren't you tired of asking this all the time?" Qian Lingyun pouted, looking at the exasperated sea princess with a half-smile, and said sarcastically.

"Why are you old folks, all over 100,000 years old, talking to a kid like me who's not even a hundred?"

"I'm shameless, I'm despicable, so what? Are you satisfied now?"

"..." The sea princess's face darkened. She really had no way to deal with such a shameless and frank person!

Suddenly, she gritted her teeth, suppressing the urge to tear Qian Lingyun to pieces, and asked in a low voice, "What exactly do you want?"

Wiping the blood from her mouth and nose, Qian Lingyun shook her hand and said, "Look at me, injured like this. It wouldn't be right for me to go back looking so disheveled!"

"It's not appropriate!" the sea princess replied through gritted teeth, completely against her will.

Qian Lingyun nodded, pressed the knife against Liya's body, and said, "It wouldn't be appropriate for me to add to her injuries since I'm already wounded, right?"

"That's even more inappropriate!" the sea princess said decisively.

"Since neither she nor I can have any injuries, shouldn't you have more injuries...?"

"Okay, I promise you," the sea princess agreed without hesitation.

She still has a sliver of hope. If she misses this opportunity, she will lose her child forever, and this little daughter is her designated heir!

"That was satisfying!" Qian Lingyun nodded, broke off her own hand, and tore a piece off the scythe of death.

A black light flashed and landed in front of the sea princess.

When the sea princess looked down, she saw a purple fragment that was pointed at the front and narrow at the back lying at her feet.

"Very good. Now you have a choice: either stab yourself or I stab her. Here's what we'll do: you have five chances. Each time you must stab her in the torso; you can choose the exact spot. I'll count, and you stab her once. If you hesitate, I'll have her take one of the blows for you. After five stabs, I'll let her and her sister go."

Liya, who was held captive in Qian Lingyun's hand, was stunned upon hearing this. She never expected that this human would use such a method to deal with her mother.

She bit down on Qian Lingyun's wrist, and then... broke her own teeth. Qian Lingyun looked at the mermaid in her hand with slight embarrassment, and for a moment she didn't know what to say...

Finally, she patted Liya's tail with the blade of her sword to soothe her, saying, "I won't hold this against you. Let her stab herself one more time! Six stabs, how about that? Not too much, right?"

The fragments were unevenly chipped, but they were indeed sharp. When held in the hand, they felt cold to the touch, and some kind of evil power surged upwards from the palm of the hand, causing the sea princess to frown.

"Come on, first cut, begin!"

At Qian Lingyun's command, almost without hesitation, the shard of the scythe in the Sea Princess's hand transformed into a streak of purple light and instantly pierced into her own abdomen.

The cold shards pierced her abdomen, and the sea princess's eyes twitched, as if a strange power was spreading through her body along the wound.

"Oh, I forgot to tell you the most important rule of the game," Qian Lingyun said with a spiky flourish and a strange smile.

Liya turned to Qian Lingyun angrily and said, "Are you going to back out?"

"No, no, no, don't misunderstand, I'm just reiterating the rules," Qian Lingyun said with a smile. "I want to remind you that in our rules, every cut requires two holes."

The sea princess's face turned cold, but looking at the tearful Liya, she finally asked in a deep voice, "You have no other requests, right?"

Qian Lingyun thought for a moment, shook her head, and said, "That's it. Six cuts, six cuts to twelve holes, then I'll let her go."

"Okay, I understand."

The sea princess pressed down hard with her other hand on the fragment that was already embedded in her abdomen. Instantly, the dark purple fragment went even deeper, and the sharp tip of the dagger protruded from the sea princess's back.

"First cut complete, second cut! Begin!"

The sea princess swiftly pulled the shard from her abdomen with her right hand, then stabbed it into her other abdomen with lightning speed.

Two streams of black blood suddenly gushed out from the previous wounds, one after the other, and then flowed out in a gurgling stream.

Two cuts, four holes!

"Third cut! Begin!"

"The fourth cut..."

"fifth…"

"six…"

At this point, Qian Lingyun was too lazy to say more, and simply used numbers to replace her commands.

Blood splattered, six cuts, twelve holes!

With that final strike, the Sea Princess's face turned ashen, and her very breath seemed almost imperceptible. Even her once bright and beautiful eyes had turned a lifeless, deathly gray.

After a quick glance at the Sea Princess's current condition, Qian Lingyun finally breathed a sigh of relief.

With the incurable and soul-destroying poison of the Death Spider King penetrating her body, the Sea Princess's death was only a matter of time.

"Are you satisfied now?" Liya turned her head and glared fiercely at Qian Lingyun. Qian Lingyun was silent for a while, and the snake hair on her forehead made a soft hiss that was hard to understand.

Qian Lingyun's eyes flickered, and the corners of her mouth curled up slightly, as if she were mocking something.

But she didn't say it explicitly; she just nodded casually and released her grip on Liya: "Consider it a pass. You can go back now!"

Just as Liya walked ten steps away, a faint, cold smile appeared on the drooping face of the sea princess, who was barely breathing.

Before Liya could return to her embrace, the Sea Princess proudly raised her head and, without waiting for Qian Lingyun to react, she flashed to Qian Lingyun's side.

"Damn humans, you didn't expect this, did you!" The Sea Princess grabbed Qian Lingyun by the throat, pulled out a scythe fragment from her wound, and plunged it into Qian Lingyun's shoulder with the Sea Princess's blood.

"What did you not expect? Did you not expect that your expression just now was an act?" Qian Lingyun looked at the Sea Princess expressionlessly, as if the knife had not been stabbed into her.

"Hmph! What's the use of knowing now? I swear you'll pay tenfold, a hundredfold, for the pain you've caused me and my children."

The sea princess sneered, then plunged the knife into Qian Lingyun's abdomen again and twisted it around.

"I knew you were faking it all along!" Qian Lingyun spat out a mouthful of black blood, mocking, "Your aura may seem weak, but your soul power flow is still strong. You used your soul power to suppress the poison at the wound, and then let a lot of it out with the blood, right?"

Under the astonished gaze of the Sea Princess, Qian Lingyun spat out a mouthful of bloody froth mixed with internal organs and explained:

"I was already at my wit's end with you, but you still stood so close to me, thinking you were in control. I don't know whether to call you arrogant or stupid!"

"What did you say?" The Sea Princess's expression suddenly turned strange, her whole body stiffened, and she raised her right hand, pointing at Qian Lingyun as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

It was clear that she wanted to say something, but couldn't utter a single word; her eyes were wide with astonishment, as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.

"Two upgraded versions of the Death warrant flew into your wound the moment you stabbed me the second time!"

(End of this chapter)