"I'm giving up the chase too. Like Wild Blade said, we haven't even seen the thing yet, let alone confirmed what it is, but so many people have already died. I'm starting to wonder just who's the hunter and who's the prey," said Du Juan, the Poison Lady.
As a woman, she was more sensitive to the finer details and had noticed something amiss.
The others' expressions shifted slightly at her words.
Perhaps their target really had been fleeing for his life at first, narrowly escaping death several times.
But later, he had rapidly learned from those experiences. Not only had his strength grown, but he had also made tremendous progress in other areas.
They could no longer surround him in time. Whenever they arrived, the battle was already over.
The last few times, he had even cleaned up the battlefield completely, leaving not a single scrap behind.
For a moment, the bandits could not help shuddering as they looked at the bloodstains on the sand.
"Lady Du is right. This job isn't worth it. We'll be in trouble if we've misjudged our mark."
One of the bandits spoke up.
The others were also thinking of retreating. The leaders exchanged glances, cupped their hands in farewell, and quickly dispersed. In the blink of an eye, everyone had left.
Only a few pools of blood remained, telling the whole story...
"No..."
Dai Qi, the Two-Tailed Snake, watched the razor-sharp blade light reflected in his violently contracting pupils, his eyes filled with regret and resentment.
In the next instant, his body was cleaved into two equal halves.
Had someone measured them with a ruler, they would have found that the two halves of Dai Qi's body were perfectly even, practically the ideal golden ratio.
Around Dai Qi's corpse, the bodies of