"Cough, cough..."
When Daiyu stepped closer, the other woman coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood and tried to struggle, but eventually gave up.
After all, even when she'd been whole and her cultivation far surpassed Daiyu's, she'd still been no match for her. Now she was missing limbs and gravely injured, with barely enough spiritual power to keep her wounds in check. There was no point in continuing to resist.
So she simply lay there. After a few exhausted, feeble breaths, she finally spoke in a hoarse voice edged with gritted teeth.
"Who... who are you people, really?"
"I..."
"What grudge does my Carefree Manor have against you?"
"Why would you be so ruthless as to slaughter everyone here?!"
Even now, she still couldn't understand why such a calamity had befallen them.
She'd tried to escape earlier, and she'd even had a chance. She'd gone so far as to activate a precious escape talisman that should have carried her a thousand li away in an instant.
But after activating it, she'd discovered that her attackers had silently set up some kind of barrier formation around the manor. A hundred meters beyond the compound walls, there was an invisible wall. Her escape technique had sent her crashing straight into it, nearly killing her.
After trying and failing to escape with a talisman, fly out, or climb out, she'd grown utterly despondent. With no other choice, she'd fled back into the hall to cling to life, determined to die knowing the truth.
That was why she'd asked those questions.
"..."
Daiyu said nothing. She continued walking slowly forward and stopped less than a step from the other woman. The tip of the dark blue sword in her hand pointed at the woman's throat, blood droplets sliding down the blade and falling