Liu Chongming had just pierced the second brother's throat with this arrow, and now he had driven the same arrow through the third brother's heart.
With his eyes wide, filled with confusion and unwillingness, the third brother fell dead.
"Heh heh, trying to fight me to the death?" Liu Chongming gave a disdainful smile as he watched the third brother fall. "I can afford to gamble with my life. You can't. Cough, cough... This is bad. The wound is too severe. I have to pull this arrow out. I hope I can hold on."
At this point, Liu Chongming's breathing grew more hurried. The violent movement he had made to kill the third brother had clearly aggravated the wound in his chest, nearly leaving him unable to draw another breath.
By rights, an arrow through the heart should have killed Liu Chongming, yet he was still alive.
It was rather strange.
Liu Chongming hurriedly took the Jade Slip from inside his robe with his left hand. After glancing at it, he clutched it tightly in his palm.
The Jade Slip saved my life just now, but who knows whether I'll still be alive once I pull this arrow out! Liu Chongming thought.
He drew several deep breaths and steadied his breathing.
Then he closed his right hand tightly around the arrow shaft in his chest.
For a moment, however, Liu Chongming dared not move.
Often, leaving an arrow lodged in the body might allow someone to live a little longer, while pulling it out would mean almost immediate death. Liu Chongming could hardly have been unaware of that.
Yet if he left the arrow in, even if he could live a little longer, death would still be inescapable in the end.
"I can only take the gamble!" A trace of