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Yun Che shook off her hand. "Isn't this exactly what you want?"
"It is what I want." She tossed him a jade vial. "This is an antidote that releases toxins gradually; you must take it once a month."
"And the condition?"
"Kill someone for me."
In the dead of night, Xixia Town was drenched in heavy rain, washing over the cobblestones as Yun Che tightened his cloak and stepped into the inn.
An elderly man at the counter was dozing off, but his pupils constricted sharply when he caught sight of the insignia on Yun Che's sleeve.
"Room number three," Xiao Qingli said, tossing a Ling Crystal onto the counter. "Prepare hot water and don't ask unnecessary questions."
As the door closed behind him, Yun Che collapsed to the floor. The poison had spread to his neck, and veins throbbed like wriggling earthworms.
Xiao Qingli extended her fingers and sliced open his chest, retrieving a glass vial—inside coiled a blood-red insect with three eyes on its forehead.
"Using poison to counter poison," she said, crushing the insect. Toxic blood splattered into Yun Che's wound. "The Three-Eyed Ghost Arrow's poison requires his life insect as a catalyst..."
The excruciating pain blurred Yun Che's consciousness. In a daze, he heard the sound of a bamboo flute outside the window.
The melody was hauntingly familiar.
"Qi Yue Diao"… It was the lullaby his mother sang to him on the night of the Yun Family massacre!
He stumbled and crashed through the window.
Through the curtain of rain, he saw a slender figure walking down the long street with a paper umbrella, a jade pendant at her waist that looked just like his own.
"Wait!" Yun Che shouted as he leaped down from the inn.
Xiao Qingli's strings ensnared his ankle. "Are you trying to get yourself killed? The poison hasn't cleared yet..."
The string snapped.
Yun Che fell into the puddles, but when he looked up again, that figure had vanished without a trace.
Only the sound of the flute remained, mingling with the weeping rain.
After chasing through three alleys, Yun Che stopped in front of a dilapidated apothecary.
The half-engraved character "Xing Wen" on the doorframe perfectly matched the crack in the jade pendant.
As he pushed the door open, a sharp pain shot through the back of his neck. Silver needles sealed his acupoints, and his spiritual energy was locked away.
From behind the screen stepped a figure in a blood-stained gray robe—the black-clad assassin who had escaped in broad daylight!
"Young Master of the Starfall Clan, I've been waiting for you," he said, lifting his mask to reveal the sinister face of Mo Qianshan.
Yun Che felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave. "Xiao Qingli is working with you to set a trap?"
"She's smarter than you," Mo Qianshan replied, playing with a piece of Nine Nether Dark Iron. "Using you to lure out the true heir of Xing Yun is quite a profitable deal."
Suddenly, the medicine cabinet exploded, and Xiao Qingli emerged, stepping on Fu Mo Qin, her Sound Blade aimed directly at Yun Che's throat!
"Sorry, I never cooperate with trash."
At the moment the Sound Blade was about to strike him, Yun Che crushed a jade vial. The poison burst forth along with the medicinal power, temporarily breaking open his acupoints!
He rolled aside to avoid the deadly attack, and sensing the fragrance of herbs from the cabinet, Xing Wen instinctively evolved into "Bai Cao Jing."
"Seven Steps to Heartbreak Powder... Gui Xu Vine... Got it!"
He grabbed a pestle and smashed it against the medicine cabinet, causing dozens of types of poisonous powders to mix and splatter everywhere.
Mo Qianshan waved his sleeve to disperse the toxic mist but found that Yun Che had already escaped through the broken window.
"Chase him!"
However, Xiao Qingli's Qin Yin blocked their path. "Elder Mo, our deal does not include silencing him."
"You!"
"Shh—" She gently stroked the strings of her zither. "If the host of Xing Wen dies, the secret of Heavenly Gang will remain forever asleep."
Yun Che ran wildly through the rain-soaked alley, battling against both poison and medicinal energy within him.
As he turned a corner, the sound of a flute echoed once more. The Girl in the Green Robe stood by a dry well, slowly turning around.
When moonlight illuminated her brows and eyes, Yun Che felt as if struck by lightning—
"Sister?!"
The woman's scarred neck bore the mark of the injury she sustained during the massacre of the Yun Family. She raised her hand to reveal the bracelet on her wrist, a sign of Xing Wen, and smiled sorrowfully. "Che'er, is the jade pendant still with you?"
Yun Che trembled as he took out the jade pendant.
In that moment of resonance between the two patterns, a cold glint suddenly appeared from her sleeve!
With a swift motion, a poisoned dagger plunged into Yun Che's abdomen.
"Why..." he coughed up blood.
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