Chapter 38: Scarface

A hint of surprise flashed in Ye Qingyi's eyes; however, seeing the somewhat urgent look in Lu Xuan's eyes, she still popped the pill into her mouth.

Lu Xuan felt relieved and turned to leave. At that very moment, Ye Qingyi raised her leg and kicked Lu Xuan in the butt, causing him to fall flat on his face.

"Hahahaha!"

Liu Er and Ma Dashi, who were by the stove, both burst out laughing.

Liu Er shouted out, "Miss Ye is quite polite; knowing he doesn't know martial arts, she didn't draw her blade!"

"Hahaha!"

Lu Xuan also looked at Ye Qingyi with a bewildered face, while Ye Qingyi snorted coldly.

"Hmph! A married man should stay far away from me."

Lu Xuan: "I..."

"Hahaha!"

By the stove, Liu Er continued to watch the spectacle, as if seeing his former self in Lu Xuan.

Ma Dashi glanced at the three of them and called out, "Alright, stop messing around and come eat!"

Ye Qingyi snorted and walked past Lu Xuan, while Lu Xuan remained rooted to the spot for a moment, still looking utterly confused. He then panted, stood up, dusted off the dirt from his clothes, and followed her.

"Time to eat! We're by the stream, so I stewed some soup. It's cold at night, so warm yourselves up."

Ma Dashi began serving the soup, giving one bowl to each person.

Liu Er took the bowl and gulped down more than half of it.

"Mmm, Brother Ma, your cooking is so good!"

Lu Xuan held the bowl and sniffed it, while Ye Qingyi also took hers and glanced at Lu Xuan.

Ma Dashi urged them, "Xiao Lu, drink up. Miss Ye, you too! This stream water is fairly clean. Staying by the stream at night is very chilly, so having some soup will warm you up."

"Right, right, right, drinking soup is good. Give me another bowl!"

Liu Er, having finished one bowl, started on his second.

"Here, don't rush, there's plenty!"

Lu Xuan thought for a moment and no longer hesitated, tipping his head back to drink it, while Ye Qingyi followed suit and drank as well.

They ate and drank their fill, and Ma Dashi began cleaning up.

Liu Er, who had just been rubbing his belly, suddenly started shaking his head.

"Hey! I... why do I feel a bit dizzy!"

Before he could finish, his body tilted, and he collapsed on the ground, unable to move.

Immediately afterward, Ma Dashi dropped the pot and collapsed alongside Liu Er.

"Oh no! I'm dizzy too!"

Lu Xuan shouted and fell to the ground with a thud, while Ye Qingyi rolled her eyes at Lu Xuan and then slowly collapsed without a sound.

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The four of them remained unconscious for a moment, but the "unconscious" Ma Dashi suddenly sprang up.

Looking at the three drugged people, he clapped his hands and then gave a loud whistle toward the dense forest behind him.

The whistle pierced through the forest, startling countless birds, over a dozen people walked out of the woods, led by a man in black with a scar on his face.

"Are they all out?"

"All out," Ma Dashi nodded. "That woman is Ye Qingyi, seventh level of the Martial Artist Realm. If it weren't for the drugs, we wouldn't be enough to stand before her."

Scarface glanced at Ye Qingyi.

"Steward Huang said to cut off that gatekeeper's legs and leave him alive, but kill the rest."

Ma Dashi looked at Scarface.

"Up to you. Where's the silver you promised me?"

Scarface nodded and slowly approached Ma Dashi.

"Look at my head, I almost forgot."

He waved his hand.

Squelch!!!

Ma Dashi only felt a chill on his neck as blood gushed out, his eyes bulged as he clutched his spurting throat, staring at Scarface.

A trace of contempt appeared on Scarface's lips.

"Go collect the silver in the underworld!"

Ma Dashi then slowly collapsed onto the riverbank like a pile of mud, "Do it!"

Scarface gave the command, and the men who followed immediately began to move.

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A flash of a blade.

Puchi!

The person closest to Ye Qingyi was pierced through by a long blade.

"Ugh!"

Hearing the noise, the others turned their heads to look, and they saw that the supposedly unconscious Ye Qingyi had already stood up with her thin, long blade unsheathed.

"Ah—!"

"Boss, that woman is awake!"

Ye Qingyi's face was expressionless, but her eyes were as cold as ice.

"You... you weren't poisoned?"

Scarface stared at Ye Qingyi in disbelief, but Ye Qingyi didn't speak and instead stepped forward and swung her blade again.

The blade light was like moonlight, and someone's arm was cleanly severed, shocking everyone.

Scarface shouted, "Don't panic, all together!"

With the command, eight men with long blades instantly surrounded Ye Qingyi, but she was neither surprised nor afraid as she flicked her long blade.

Executing the Demon-Subduing Righteous Sun Blade, her seventh-level Martial Artist Realm strength allowed her to deal with these low-level thugs with ease.

In an instant, she sent them sprawling and scrambling, screams were constant, and blood splattered everywhere.

Seeing his subordinates fall one by one, Scarface's expression became increasingly grim, he hadn't expected this woman to be so ruthless, he pulled three flying needles from his robe and held them between his fingers.

The vast night was his best cover, Ye Qingyi had her back to him, having just cut down the last man.

Scarface raised his hand.

Lu Xuan was lying not far away, his eyes fixed on Scarface.

Under the moonlight, he saw silver light flickering between Scarface's fingers, at once he knew what they were, hidden weapons.

There was no time to shout, so Lu Xuan picked up a pebble from the ground, flicked his wrist, and sent it flying.

"Whoosh—"

The pebble broke through the air, fast and accurate, just as Scarface raised his arm, the pebble struck his wrist like a meteor.

"Whoosh!—"

The pebble pierced through the wrist.

"Crack—"

The sound of bone shattering came, the flying needles fell from his hand to the ground.

Scarface screamed and knelt on the ground, clutching his wrist, hearing the commotion, Ye Qingyi spun around.

She saw Scarface kneeling and wailing while clutching his wrist, and she was stunned for a moment, but without thinking much, she swung her blade again.

Blades crisscrossed, sending them tumbling, in the blink of an eye, those few men fell under Ye Qingyi's long blade.

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After dealing with the men who had surrounded her, Ye Qingyi slowly walked toward Scarface, who had clutched his wrist and fled over a dozen yards away.

Ye Qingyi tapped her toes lightly, like a flying leaf, she chased after him.

A flash of a blade.

Squelch!

One of Scarface's legs was severed.

"AAAAAHHHH!!!!"

The scream pierced the night sky, Ye Qingyi walked up to the wailing Scarface and held her blade to his neck.

"Who sent you?"

Scarface was sweating profusely from the pain, his lips trembling.

"Steward... Steward Huang..."

"Steward Huang? The Lu Family?"

Ye Qingyi thought back to yesterday, to that arrogant and nauseating man.

"Yes, yes! It's the Lu Family. Please, don't kill me... don't!"

Scarface seemed to see a glimmer of hope for survival.

"If you kill me... the Lu Family..."

Puchi!

The pleas for mercy came to an abrupt end.

She sheathed her blade.

Just as she was about to turn around, Ye Qingyi's brows furrowed, and she slowly crouched down, staring in a daze at the hole that had pierced through Scarface's wrist.

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After a moment, Ye Qingyi walked slowly to Lu Xuan's side and kicked his foot.

"Get up. They're all dead."

Lu Xuan "drowsily" opened his eyes and climbed up.

"They... they're all dead?"

Ye Qingyi looked at him.

"What did you see just now?"

Lu Xuan shook his head, "I was unconscious; I didn't see anything."

Ye Qingyi stared at him for a long time looking for something but his eyes looked innocent.

Ye Qingyi withdrew her gaze once finding nothing.

"Go wake Liu Er up."