Chapter 1002: That’s why you have to live well (2/2)

“It’s the sword spirit. Moye’s sword spirit has shown itself,” Long Feiye muttered.

As soon as the red light touched the vines, they relaxed and fell away, scattering flower petals into the air. At last, everyone saw Gu Qishao! He hadn’t been burnt or stabbed, but looked completely unharmed. However, the bones that were hanging off his body had all disappeared. Now the gentle red light was slowly flowing into his own body. Once all of the vines fell away, the Qi Sha dagger dropped as well.

But then!

The one-armed man flew into the air with the proprietress and sword in tow. Long Feiye’s lips rose in a cold smirk as he rose into the skies with Han Yunxi. The one-armed man seemed to be in abject pain, but he gritted his teeth to slash with his sword again, aiming to propel the Qi Sha dagger back at Gu Qishao’s body. Long Feiye’s ferocious sword qi soon blocked the dagger, so the man tried once more. Caught between two sword qi, the dagger was left hanging in mid-air.

Before Long Feiye could strengthen his energy, the Qi Sha dagger suddenly vanished! Collective alarm rose in the crowds. The one-armed man was completely lost and glanced towards Gu Qishao, but there was no sign of Qi Sha there. Long Feiye only chuckled and said, “As expected, it’s Metal of Ten-Thousand Poisons. You should have made your move long ago.”

Han Yunxi smiled helplessly. So much had happened that she completely forgot about their mission. Now that she’d finally opened the second level of the poison storage space, she could only take in poisons that directly threatened her safety. However, that didn’t apply to any of the Ten-Thousand poisons. After all, she had absorbed the Water of Ten-Thousand Poisons without trouble even before she knew she had the poison storage space! Logically speaking, that meant the Qi Sha dagger had to be Metal of Ten-Thousand Poisons if it could be taken into her space too!

Han Yunxi muttered back, “It really is it. We finally got it.”

Without the Qi Sha dagger, the one-armed man had already given up to despair. He glanced at Gu Qishao before his eyes filled with murderous intent. However, he’d hardly moved when Long Feiye landed in front of Gu Qishao while still protecting Han Yunxi in his arms. He stared back coldly while Xu Donglin, Baili Mingxiang, and a team of shadow and poison guards all charged forward to surround the man and the proprietress.

The proprietress was still smiling indifferently, but the one-armed man finally gave up on Gu Qishao when he realized they were hard-pressed to escape.

“All of your bones must be in pain by now,” Hna Yunxi drawled.

The one-armed man remained calm. “What will it take for you to give me the antidote?”

“Tell me what all this is about,” Han Yunxi replied.

The one-armed man really was feeling pain in all his bones, including his skull. He knitted his brows and finally had to land back on the ground. Despite his agony, he didn’t release the proprietress.

“Save me first. I’m not demanding terms, it’s just impossible to tell you the full story in such a short time,” the one-armed man finally showed traces of anxiety.

“That’s your problem. I don’t care how much time you use as long as you tell me the story clearly to a point where I’m satisfied. Then I’ll naturally save you,” Han Yunxi said mercilessly. Although the one-armed man had no way to escape now even if she treated his poison, she had to be vicious to get the truth.

The longer the one-armed man dawdled, the more time he would waste. He didn’t fear death, but he didn’t want to leave the person in his arms defenseless.

“The Qi Sha dagger is a metal of extreme yin. Those who die by its blade become corpses of extreme yin with yin bones. That red-robed man holds a strong killing aura in his lifeline that means he must have been born on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month at midnight in a year of the element Fire. His body is thus a body of extreme killing aura. Using swordfire to burn the metal of extreme yin, supplemented with bones of extreme yin and body of extreme killing aura can eliminate Moye’s killing intent. Then one could forge a sword for its spirit anew. Now the red-robed man didn’t die, the Qi Sha dagger didn’t melt, the bones of extreme yin were destroyed, the swordfire extinguished, and Moye’s killing intent dispersed, I have no idea where its sword spirit will go!” the one-armed man explained.

Han Yunxi was stunned. She never thought the one-armed man was capable of divining Gu Qishao’s birthday. Completely unsatisfied with his answer, she asked, “Tell me, what’s Gu Qishao’s situation now?”

Moye’s sword spirit was streaming into Gu Qishao’s body at this instant. He was a human, not some sword. Could he take it?

The man was about to reply Han Yunxi when his legs gave way and sent him tumbling to the ground. His bones already hurt too much to support his weight. Very soon, they would start breaking apart. The proprietress simply kept laughing, but the one-armed man had given up all struggle to piteously plea for mercy. “Miss, I’m begging you….save me, I can’t die. I promise I’ll tell you everything, trust me.”

Han Yunxi knew that the poison had just about ran its course. She was about to save him when Long Feiye…