Qi Xia stepped forward one step at a time, raising the dagger in his right hand.
Xuanwu gave him a cold glance and also raised her right hand. With a slight squeeze, something appeared in her grasp.
It was a finger.
Qi Xia froze for a moment, feeling a sudden chill in his left hand.
He looked down and saw that the index finger of his left hand had been cleanly severed.
Excruciating pain radiated from the wound, yet not a single drop of blood spilled.
Slowly, he lifted his left hand to examine it. The cut was precise, the cross-section clearly visible, but the blood inside seemed locked in place, refusing to flow.
“Strange power…” Qi Xia sneered. “This is absurd. Are you people really ‘gods’?”
“Audacious.” Xuanwu clenched her fist again, and another finger appeared in her grasp.
Qi Xia realized that this woman didn’t even need to touch him—she could snap his fingers one by one from a distance. The agony was unbearable.
“Damn it…” His left hand trembled slightly. Though no blood spilled, the pain was searing, as if his heart were being torn apart. “Is this what you call ‘enjoying torture and slaughter’?”
Xuanwu tossed the two severed fingers onto the ground like trash, then swept aside the long hair obscuring her face.
Qi Xia saw that the woman was smiling.
“You’re not afraid?” she asked.
“Afraid?” Qi Xia chuckled. “I’m about to kill you. What do you think?”
“Kill me…? You said kill me?!” Xuanwu nodded, her hair swaying with the movement of her head. “Good. Very good. Come kill me. Hurry up and kill me…”
Gritting his teeth, Qi Xia rushed forward and plunged the dagger straight into Xuanwu’s chest.
But the sensation was all wrong.
It felt like stabbing a sandbag.
“Am I dead?” Xuanwu asked.
Qi Xia steeled himself and twisted the dagger viciously.
He had died from this very move before. Even if he couldn’t defeat Xuanwu, he would make sure she suffered.
Yet, just like before, the sensation was bizarre.
Xuanwu didn’t feel human—more like a blade of grass.
Her body was easily pierced, as if hollow inside.
“Am I dead now?” Xuanwu paused, genuinely puzzled.
Her question sent a chill down Qi Xia’s spine. In the distance, Li Xiangling trembled in fear.
This woman was too eerie.
Qi Xia knew this might be his only chance. He had to try every possible method.
He pulled out the dagger and aimed for Xuanwu’s throat, stabbing again.
Same sensation—illusory, intangible.
“Oh?” Xuanwu blinked in surprise. “Would that kill me?”
Qi Xia swallowed hard and slowly withdrew the dagger, only to find a clear incision on her neck—yet still, no blood.
“Why didn’t I die?” Xuanwu asked.
“I…” Qi Xia felt like he was going insane. “Yeah… why didn’t you die?”
“What?!” Xuanwu suddenly wore an exaggerated look of disappointment. “You can’t kill me?!”
Qi Xia was completely at a loss.
This woman had a dagger thrust into her neck, yet she stood there unfazed. What kind of creature was she?
“Is there no other way…?” Xuanwu shrieked. “Think of something!!”
“I… I…” For the first time in the “Land of the End,” Qi Xia felt true fear.
“What about the ‘eyes’?” Xuanwu suggested.
“Eyes…?” Qi Xia was stunned.
“Yes! Yes!” Xuanwu nodded eagerly and raised her right hand. “This thing!”
The moment she spoke, an eyeball appeared in her palm.
It rolled around as if bewildered by its sudden displacement.
Meanwhile, Qi Xia’s left eye saw only darkness.
“Ahhh!!!” He clutched his eye in agony, the pain nearly knocking him unconscious. “You lunatic…”
Every hair on his body stood on end. This was pure terror.
Xuanwu had promised to make him “enjoy torture and slaughter,” and now he understood—she meant every word.
“Oh! Sorry!” Xuanwu panicked and tossed the eyeball to the ground. “I went too hard, but you can’t die yet. You have to kill me!!”
Qi Xia lifted his head, his left socket now empty, and viciously drove the dagger into Xuanwu’s eye.
This time, it worked.
Xuanwu actually let out a scream.
She felt pain.
Qi Xia didn’t hold back. He pulled out the dagger and stabbed the same spot again.
But strangely, there was no second scream.
Xuanwu raised her head in disappointment, the dagger still embedded in her eye—a horrifying sight.
“Strange…” She blinked, her eyelid splitting as it scraped against the blade.
Li Xiangling covered her eyes in terror. This was too horrifying.
“I thought it would hurt, but it didn’t.” Xuanwu spoke dully. “The eyes don’t work either?”
Qi Xia yanked the dagger out through gritted teeth. Xuanwu’s eyeball now had two gaping wounds, yet she remained unaffected.
She was as fake as a mannequin in a store.
“How about… the ‘stomach’?” She murmured, and a red, pulsing organ appeared in her hand.
At the same time, Qi Xia vomited a mouthful of bile.
He knew his stomach was gone.
But Xuanwu’s method of killing was unique—no matter the wound, there was never any blood.
Even if the wound was inside his body.
Qi Xia collapsed to his knees, feeling his life slipping away.
“Hey!!” Qiao Jiajin’s voice roared from outside the door. “Scammer, are you in there?! Open up!!”
Qi Xia knew he couldn’t open the door. If he did, Qiao Jiajin would suffer the same fate.
“Or… the ‘lungs’?” Xuanwu discarded the stomach and grasped a lung.
“Monster…” Qi Xia’s breathing became labored. “You’re a monster…”
Xuanwu’s face fell into deep disappointment. She crouched, reached out with a pale arm from beneath her hair, and grabbed Qi Xia by the scalp.
“Tell me… how do I die?”
“Cough…” Blood trickled from Qi Xia’s lips.
He lifted his head to speak, only to see Li Xiangling standing behind Xuanwu, a chair raised high.
“No!! Don’t!!” Qi Xia’s sudden shout startled her.
“Qi… Brother Qi…” Li Xiangling looked at him, terrified. “What are you doing?”
“Don’t throw your life away…” he groaned. “Just stay back. She won’t hurt you…”
“But…” Tears welled in her eyes. “Brother Qi, we’re going to die tonight anyway…”
“Not like this… not by this monster’s hands…”
Qi Xia forced himself to his feet and stabbed at Xuanwu again.
This time, he had lost all hope—just mindlessly slashing, leaving countless wounds on her body.
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