Madness

Pfft!

Two flashes of cold light gleamed. Bai Cangshu instantly let go and retreated several steps in succession along the cliffside.

The woman attacked with incredible speed. In Bai Cangshu's eyes, she was like two venomous snakes rearing up, her instantaneous attack speed already far beyond his own.

This woman was strong.

Her daggers repeatedly stabbed through empty air, venom scattering through the air. Qing She's heart sank slightly. This handsome man with peach-blossom eyes was no ordinary person.

But she did not give up. Her feet slid across the ground as she advanced.

Though she was not fast, she was extremely steady and would not slip. Her center of gravity shifted freely, allowing her attacks to continuously cover Bai Cangshu from every direction.

Bai Cangshu tried several times to attack the woman's lower body, but her thrusts forced him back each time.

Such a viciously underhanded move from Street Fighting seemed to lose its element of surprise against a truly ruthless assassin like Qing She.

Bai Cangshu kept retreating, his heart beating faster and faster. He was not the sort to become constrained by nervousness.

On the contrary, the intense surge of adrenaline made Bai Cangshu feel increasingly light on his feet.

He suddenly halted his retreat, planted one foot against the cliff wall to his left, and leaped directly behind Qing She.

It was an extremely daring move. This mountain path had a cliff on only one side; on the other lay mist and an abyss without even a guardrail.

The path was less than a meter wide, and the rain and fog had made it slick. One careless misstep would mean falling into the abyss and dying without a trace.

Qing She had not expected Bai Cangshu to make such a bold move. She did not leap up to fight him. Qing She's movements were agile, and aerial combat was her greatest taboo.

Bai Cangshu leaped two or three meters and landed behind Qing She. A flash of light appeared in his right hand, and a silver-white revolver materialized.

Qing She's heart suddenly skipped a beat. She turned and saw that Bai Cangshu had already raised his gun.

Bang!

Qing She suddenly dropped her waist. Her entire body truly twisted across the ground like a nimble snake, her figure darting a great distance toward Bai Cangshu in an eerie motion.

Bai Cangshu stepped back and pulled the trigger again.

Bang!

The gunshot rang out again, but Qing She continued to cling to the mountain path, constantly twisting. Her movements were completely impossible to predict, and Knocking on Misfortune's Door seemed not to have triggered its effect either.

Qing She was extremely fast. By the time Bai Cangshu fired his third shot, she was already before him. Cruelty filled her face as she violently swung her head aside, dodging the bullet while her right hand stabbed straight at Bai Cangshu's face.

Bai Cangshu's pupils contracted. A stench of blood rushed over him. He tilted his head aside and dodged the thrust. At the same time, the handgun vanished again, and he seized the woman's arms with both hands before suddenly leaping backward.

Ha!

With a sharp exhalation, Bai Cangshu pulled Qing She off balance in an instant, then forcefully bent her arms downward with both hands.

Crack. The sound of joints cracking was much quieter than expected.

Bai Cangshu sensed something was wrong and tried to let go, but Qing She had already coiled around him.

This woman's body was astonishingly flexible. Whether it was Bai Cangshu forcefully pulling her arms apart and bending them just now, or her current technique of wrapping her legs around his lower body and circling behind him, it all faintly exceeded the limits of an ordinary person.

"Kid, you've got some strength. Struggle a little more..."

The woman spoke with an exhaled breath, a cruel smile curling her lips.

She always dressed seductively, but strangling powerful men like this was when she felt most delighted.

Bai Cangshu gripped both of Qing She's arms to keep her daggers from piercing his body, but he was already entangled. The woman had locked his joints with her entire body and was now using her strength to wrench his hands behind his back.

Creak~

The terrifying contest of muscle against muscle made his joints grind violently. Bai Cangshu could feel the muscles in his shoulders beginning to tear with searing pain.

Once Bai Cangshu lost his strength, the daggers would instantly stab into his neck.

The breath of the serpent of death was clearly audible. The skin on Bai Cangshu's neck rose bit by bit.

Thump!

Thump!

The violent sound of a heartbeat suddenly rang out.

Qing She froze, then leaned back with even greater force.

"Your heartbeat's so violent. Are you... that afraid of death?"

She grew increasingly excited, to the point that a dampness began to spread beneath her.

Bai Cangshu felt his hands being bent farther and farther back, while his neck seemed able to sense the icy daggers already.

His heart beat faster and faster, its sound growing louder and louder. Then suddenly—

Thump!

After his heart gave a heavy beat like a drumbeat, Bai Cangshu's entire body shuddered.

Creak~

The arms Qing She had been gradually wrenching backward suddenly froze, then began to pull back the other way with unstoppable force.

Feeling the tremendous power transmitted through her arms, Qing She was startled. In an instant, she released the legs wrapped around Bai Cangshu's lower body, planted both feet on his back, and used the strength of her entire body to pull.

This was already her full strength.

After a brief moment of deadlock—

"Ha."

A strange chuckle sounded, followed by an overwhelming burst of force.

Qing She instantly lost her balance, her entire body slamming face-first into Bai Cangshu's back. The tremendous impact flattened her nose in an instant, and the excruciating pain shattered her nerves.

"Ah!"

She cried out miserably, but the next moment, the world spun around her. Amid the rain and mist, she could only feel that this man's body was terrifyingly hot, as though steam were rising from every inch of him.

Boom!

Qing She was grabbed by the arm and violently smashed into the ground. As her spine broke, blood sprayed from her mouth and nose.

"Urgh, ah!"

The strength drained from her body in an instant, and the dagger clenched in her hand fell to the ground.

Through her hazy consciousness, she saw the man crouch down, revealing strange eyes that showed only the whites.

"Mon... ster..."

Bai Cangshu's skin was now flushed red, the muscles all over his body slightly swollen, making him seem somewhat larger. He crouched down and looked at the woman barely clinging to life, the smile on his lips far more unrestrained than her expression had been moments ago.

Bang!

With one punch, Bai Cangshu smashed Qing She's lovely face apart. Then punch after punch, he completely caved in her head.

You killed Assassin Qing She and gained 200 Dimensional Points.

Bang!

Bang!

Bai Cangshu tirelessly drove down punch after punch, feeling as though this sensation was so wonderful.

He had seen many doctors. Some had arranged psychological counseling for him, while others had prescribed psychiatric medication.

But in the end, Bai Cangshu was still Bai Cangshu.

He did not think he was insane. He only thought himself an anomaly born out of time.

It was not that he was too mad. It was that everyone around him had been tamed like lambs.

Splat~

A sound like a watermelon bursting rang out, and red and white matter sprayed in all directions.

"Urgh!"

In the distance, someone vomited. Then the fat figure of someone scrambling and tumbling away down the mountain path appeared.

Bai Cangshu ignored him. He merely stood and used the rain and mist to wash the filth from his hands.

Tang Badan's face was deathly pale, his entire body stiff. He did not know how many times he had fallen. Even after returning to his inn at the foot of the mountain, he still had not recovered.

"Madman... That guy's a complete madman!"

With trembling hands, Tang Badan contacted Mercenary Tao. At that moment, he only wanted to slap himself several times for saying just days ago that this young man was suited to studying under a true Martial Artist like Master Roshi.

A madman like this—apart from Mercenary Tao, probably no one would take him in.