Kidney Hammering Technique

As if sensing Liu Xu's doubts, Xu Bai leaned closer again and said, "You'll find out soon enough."

After saying that, he caught a fragrance.

—Very fragrant.

It was not the greasy scent of powder and cosmetics, but a faint sandalwood aroma that soothed the heart and refreshed the mind.

Liu Xu had not noticed Xu Bai's movements either. Listening to him, she was still pondering exactly what kind of death he had in mind.

After that, the two stopped talking and waited quietly.

As night deepened, the voices inside the room gradually softened.

The oil lamp was blown out, and the room fell into darkness.

Xu Bai waited until faint snores came from within before drawing the long saber at his waist.

"Do you have a way to make them sleep more deeply?"

Liu Xu froze for a moment, then nodded.

She reached into the front of her clothes and pulled out a long tube.

Then, Liu Xu inserted the tube through the hole Xu Bai had just made. After hesitating for a moment, she held the tube in her mouth through the black cloth covering her face.

Because the hole was low down, Liu Xu had to squat halfway as she held the tube in her mouth.

As she crouched, the curve and outline of her waist and hips, coupled with that half-squatting, tube-holding posture, made Xu Bai admit that his thoughts had gone astray.

Naturally, he said nothing and kept a perfectly normal expression, though he was already mulling over the sight from just now.

He had asked that deliberately, intending to see what methods she had.

Yet she had used Sedative Smoke without revealing the slightest thing.

She really is cautious, Xu Bai thought.

Liu Xu was no rigid scholar.

She knew full well how treacherous the martial world was. Her home was stocked with plenty of things, and she carried quite a few with her as well.

Something like Sedative Smoke could only be counted as a small trinket.

The real heavy stuff had not even come out yet.

After the Sedative Smoke was blown in, the two waited quietly.

After a while, Liu Xu judged that the drug had taken effect and nodded to Xu Bai.

"It can only handle ordinary people."

Xu Bai grunted, used his long saber to lift a corner of the window, fiddled with it from outside, and opened it.

There was still a faint fragrance in the room—the smell of Sedative Smoke.

Xu Bai did not enter immediately. Only after the wind outside had dispersed the smoke did he climb in through the window.

That was what she said, but what if it could affect more than ordinary people? Better safe than sorry.

Seeing Xu Bai's actions, Liu Xu understood that his caution at a time like this was only natural.

After the two climbed in, Liu Xu casually shut the window behind them.

Xu Bai lit an oil lamp and looked at Lin Fenghua, who had passed out cold on the bed.

The woman beside him was still completely naked.

Xu Bai glanced at the woman, then at Liu Xu, and nodded.

Liu Xu still had the better figure.

That look was far too obvious. Liu Xu sensed it too, and anger flashed through her eyes.

Xu Bai knew his limits. He only took one glance before violently dragging Lin Fenghua onto the floor. At the same time, he found a large piece of cloth in the room and stuffed it into Lin Fenghua's mouth.

Not only did he find cloth, he also found a red rope.

The red rope had been polished smooth and fine. Xu Bai looked again at Lin Fenghua's wrists, where there were marks from being bound.

"You play pretty wild. Just saves me the trouble."

Following the binding marks on his wrists, Xu Bai tied Lin Fenghua up with the red rope.

"How do we wake him?" Xu Bai asked.

Liu Xu was baffled, but she still ran to the table, picked up the wine jug, and splashed its contents over Lin Fenghua's face.

Stimulated by the wine, Lin Fenghua slowly came to and quickly understood his situation.

He tried to struggle, but the ropes bound him tight. He tried to shout, but his mouth was stuffed, leaving him able to make only muffled whimpering sounds.

The two people before him terrified him to the extreme.

"What do you plan to do?" Liu Xu asked.

Xu Bai did not answer. He used the long saber to lift Lin Fenghua's face and said with a smiling expression, "Young Master Lin, it seems you're quite fond of women. Judging by your features, you have the look of kidney deficiency. A man ought to take better care of his kidneys."

The words came out of nowhere, leaving Liu Xu somewhat confused.

Lin Fenghua, lying on the floor, was not confused at all. He only felt terror.

He was afraid.

Unarmed, tied up, and gagged, he could cry to heaven and heaven would not answer; call to earth and earth would not respond.

He twisted his body with all his strength until he was lying face down, then began banging his head against the floor. Tears and snot splattered everywhere.

"Xiao Yue was such a good girl. How could you bring yourself to lay hands on her?" Xu Bai added.

Lin Fenghua froze, then came to his senses and understood why they had come.

He continued banging his head, trying to make them spare him.

He had never imagined that merely playing with a woman would bring someone to kill him.

He regretted it deeply, but now he could not even speak.

"Didn't you just ask how I planned to deal with him?" Xu Bai raised his hand and hammered Lin Fenghua's waist. "Like this."

—Hammering Kidney Method!

This skill could be used not only on himself, but on others as well.

Its side effect, however, was kidney deficiency.

And when used on an ordinary person, it truly forced an increase.

Xu Bai had True Yuan Power, so using it caused him no harm. But Lin Fenghua was different. Kidney deficiency meant genuine weakness, and if anything became too deficient, it could kill.

A warm current flowed through Lin Fenghua's body, and his kidneys suddenly became incomparably powerful.

Then an intense, scorching heat erupted from within him. Lin Fenghua turned to look at the unconscious woman on the bed, his eyes bloodshot as he tried to crawl toward her.

One foot stepped onto Lin Fenghua's body.

"Enjoy it slowly." Xu Bai smiled.

That burning sensation, with no way to release it, made Lin Fenghua wish he were dead.

He looked at Xu Bai, his terror bursting his courage apart.

By the time the effect ended, Lin Fenghua had already collapsed on the floor.

He looked at Xu Bai with pleading eyes, wanting to beg for mercy, but what greeted him was another punch to the waist.

The burning sensation erupted once more. The agony that made him wish for death left him unable even to die.

"Uuuugh!"

With his mouth stuffed, he could only whimper incessantly.

Lin Fenghua felt as though he had been thrown into flames, his skin on the verge of melting.

This was even more unbearable than killing him outright. Yet the weakness that followed left his entire body powerless.

Kill me, Lin Fenghua wailed inwardly.

But Xu Bai did not care. Seeing Lin Fenghua's suffering eased the gloom in his heart.

In the dim room, Xu Bai's voice rang out.

"Again!"

"Again!"

"Again!"

The Hammering Kidney Method was used again and again, making Liu Xu's skin crawl as she watched from the side.

Lin Fenghua weakened at a visible rate. Dark circles appeared beneath his eyes, and his legs trembled without end.

Again and again, unable to live and unable to die.

Pain—extreme pain.

Lin Fenghua desperately wanted to die and be done with it, but he could not.

Punch after punch, until the final blow landed. Lin Fenghua's body stiffened, and he died.

Xu Bai released him, untied the red rope from Lin Fenghua's wrists, and placed the corpse on the bed.

"Tomorrow, when someone finds the body, they'll think he died on a woman's belly—dead from kidney deficiency."

Liu Xu could not see Xu Bai's face, but she could see the ease in his eyes.

"You did this for Xiao Yue too," she said.

"More or less," Xu Bai said.

"I..." Liu Xu wanted to continue.

At that moment, Xu Bai suddenly cut her off.

"I want to do one more thing."