Su Jiu's exquisite face was as pale as ever.
Under the gray-clothed man's gaze, she staggered to her feet and pulled the sword from her chest, spraying blood across the ground once more.
"Cough... cough... I... have never, never... seen a lunatic like you." She had used her own life as bait to claim her enemy's.
Su Jiu tilted her head back and smiled faintly. "Snow Sprite, well done!"
The claws withdrew from the gray-clothed man's body, and black demonic qi gushed out. At the same time, the Snow Sprite returned to Su Jiu's side.
"You... you were... pretending all along?" He had clearly seen that Su Jiu was dying. How could she still have had the presence of mind to plan all this?
Su Jiu said nothing. In truth, she had not been pretending. Her condition really was dire. But precisely because she had sensed earlier that she would not last, she had planned this with the Snow Sprite in advance.
Against a demonic beast like the gray-clothed man, an act would have been easily exposed. She had simply gone all the way and turned his own scheme against him.
Su Jiu had always despised sneak attacks most of all, yet she had never imagined the day would come when she used one herself.
The Snow Sprite could become invisible, but could not conceal its aura. However, the instant Su Jiu seemed about to die, the gray-clothed man clearly had no attention to spare for anything else. Indeed, it was because Su Jiu had drawn all his attention that he had unwittingly overlooked the Snow Sprite.
With all the groundwork she had laid beforehand, their chances of success had grown even greater.
At that moment, the gray-clothed man seemed to realize something as well, and suddenly burst into laughter.