chapter 9

Only the middle-aged man remained in the room as he rolled on the ground in pain.

Yin Xuezhuo seems to particularly hate this person. He crouched down and broke off a small piece of the knife that he was holding.

He sliced the man’s skin with the knife and then inserted the small broken piece of the blade under the man’s skin.

He pointed his finger at the blade inside the man’s skin and said, “Go.”

The blade suddenly became alive as it bore deeper into the man’s skin frantically. The man Let out a blood-curdling scream as he twisted his body in pain. Fresh blood spilled on the floor from the man.

When Ji Yan saw the scene, her eyelid twitched.

The man screamed until his voice became hoarse. Because of the pain from the small blade under his skin, he had twisted his body into the shape of a fried dough twist. He didn’t struggle for long because he soon stopped breathing. He laid there without moving after dying a horrible death.

Now, Ji Yan was the only left in the room.

Ji Yan…Ji Yan began panicking.

She still remembered what Yin Xuezhuo had told her before he left.

——“You should run away quickly because the next time we meet, I will snap your throat just like I did to those girls.”

Yin Xuezhuo was not someone who will go back on his words.

In the original novel, even after Yin Xuezhuo was seriously injured, he still went to kill someone off because he promised that he would.

Since he said that he will step on Ji Yan’s neck until it snapped, then he probably will do as he had said.

He only needed to raise his leg and step on Ji Yan’s neck; then, it will be game over for Ji Yan.

Ji Yan stood there motionlessly as she awaited her death when Yin Xuezhuo suddenly removed the rope from her body. He picked her up and walked out of the front hall. He carried her all the way to the courtyard before he threw Ji Yan into the lake.

Yin Xuezhuo remembered that Ji Yan had consumed a poison that could harm him. So, if he was going to trample her to death, then he had to wash her clean first before he stepped on her.

Ji Yan soaked in the lake for a few minutes before she was fished out by him again.

She laid on the ground as she coughed continuously. Yin Xuezhuo didn’t seem to want to wait any longer. He stepped on her neck with the soles of his feet and began to apply some pressure.

Ji Yan felt a pang of sharp pain from her neck. Tears pricked her eyes as she dug her finger into the muddy ground from the pain.

She had crossed over because of him and she will also die by his hand.

Ji Yan felt that there was no one who died more unjustly than herself.

She closed her eyes as she waited for death, but before her neck was snapped by his foot, Yin Xuezhuo suddenly withdrew the foot that was on her neck.

She was forced to raise her head because he squeezed her cheeks with his ice-cold hands. Yin Xuezhuo leaned over to her ears and hissed like a viper.

“What did you do to me?”

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A day ago, Yin Xuezhuo wanted to leave the area. However, he only took ten steps before he returned to where he was originally standing before he started walking.

His body was currently in the form of an invisible mist. He was bewildered by what had happened, so he tried to walk out of the room again. Once again, he ended up at the same place he was standing before he started to move.

He repeated again and again. He continued to return to his original spot.

He was unable to leave.

Yin Xuezhuo stood in the shadows as he watched the mortal woman who had no spirit roots, struggled all day and night to free herself from the ropes.

He found the scene to be quite amusing.

He had never seen anyone weaker and more incompetent than her. He suspected that there must’ve been a magical tool hidden in the room that prevented him from leaving. After a while, he was tired of seeing her struggle with the ropes, so he moved his finger and cast a spell. The ropes soon fell off of her.

Who would’ve known that once she took a step, he was also forced to take a step forward?

They were also within ten steps of each other.

Yin Xuezhuo thought: Perhaps the mortal woman had a magical tool hidden on her?

But he didn’t feel any magical energy radiating from her.

He followed her all the way to Linshuang City and witnessed all her experience. Although she was somewhat different from the other people he had encountered, he could not quell his desire to kill. He gradually became impatient and finally decided to kill her.

But what had just happened?

When she was slapped in the face by the middle-aged man, he also felt a pang of pain on his face. When he stepped on her neck, the back of his neck was in pain.

This was the first time Yin Xuezhuo encountered such a situation. It seemed as if he was being manipulated by an invisible force.

She must’ve done something to him.