This was a threat from Bai Youxian, the third leader of the Hong Sect. In Jiangzhou, no one dared ignore his words!

Unfortunately for him, Bai Youxian was facing Xue Qingyi...

Xue Qingyi had fought alongside Lin Feng in the Middle East for five or six years. The thing she understood most deeply was that on the battlefield, anything could happen. No matter what kind of enemy you were facing, staying alive was the only real rule.

So, Xue Qingyi never believed in authority. No matter how strong someone was, as long as they got careless, they could die!

"We’re not going with you..." Xue Qingyi stayed on guard as she spoke to Bai Youxian in a flat tone. "And I suggest you think this through. No matter who you are, if you stop us here, you’re not going to end well."

"Hm?" When Bai Youxian heard Xue Qingyi actually threaten him, his face immediately darkened. But he also understood what she meant. He frowned slightly, looked at Xue Qingyi with some doubt, and spoke, "You’re Lin Feng’s people?!"

Just when Bai Youxian thought Xue Qingyi would honestly reveal her identity, Xue Qingyi clamped her mouth shut...

Xue Qingyi’s mind was spinning at high speed. She silently thought to herself that the man in front of her not only knew Lin Feng, but didn’t seem to be very respectful toward him. Even if she threw Lin Feng’s name out, it might not scare this guy at all! Since that was the case, she might as well let him guess!

"What do you think?" Xue Qingyi glanced at Bai Youxian with a smiling look and shot back.

"Hmph..." Bai Youxian gave Xue Qingyi and the other women a once-over, and thought to himself that these beauties were all so eye-catching that it was unlikely they all had ties with Lin Feng. At most, one of them might know Lin Feng!

"Miss, to actually bring up Lin Feng to threaten me, you’ve probably latched onto the wrong thigh..." Bai Youxian stared greedily into Xue Qingyi’s beautiful eyes and said with a smile, "Even right in front of him, whatever I want to do, I won’t give him any face..."

"Oh yeah?" Xue Qingyi’s eyes narrowed slightly as a mysterious smile appeared on her face. "So it looks like we have no choice but to go with you?"

"Of course..." Bai Youxian nodded with some smugness and was about to continue speaking when his keen senses suddenly picked up two abruptly rising, extremely icy auras from Xue Qingyi’s body. It was like a gust of cold wind blew past, instantly making every pore on his body stand up from tension...

Then, Bai Youxian saw Xue Qingyi’s wrists suddenly give a slight flick. The movement was tiny, like she was just casually shaking out her hands...

"Swish! Swish!" 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

What followed were two invisible sounds that tore through the air at a frighteningly high frequency, instantly stabbing toward Bai Youxian’s chest!

It all happened in a split second. Bai Youxian didn’t even think; by pure instinct he activated the vast majority of his Inner Strength, instantly forming a nearly tangible protective qi shield around his body!

"Buzz..."

With a strange vibration of the air, Bai Youxian’s clothes billowed without wind, puffing up high. Two invisible ripples also appeared in front of his chest...

Those two sounds turned out to be two Silver Needles, thin as silk and almost invisible to the naked eye. At this moment, both needles were being bound by Bai Youxian’s protective Inner Strength, suspended right in front of the Xuan Ji and Tanzhong acupoints on his chest!

These two Silver Needles were Linglong Needles unleashed by Xue Qingyi using the Shadowless Needle technique!

Bai Youxian’s reaction was impressively fast, yet those two needles from Xue Qingyi had been custom-crafted under Lin Feng’s guidance, and he still got hit...

"Protective Inner Strength is better at blocking blunt strikes than piercing needles, better at resisting brute force than Inner Strength, and better at stopping hard force than soft..." Lin Feng had first explained the characteristics of the protective True Qi of experts above the third level of Inner Strength to Xue Qingyi, then guided her in choosing her own killing move. "Linglong Needles have to be fine enough, and the material can’t be too hard—they should be soft as silk, and they must be coated with poison. That way they’re easier to hide, impossible to guard against, and terrifyingly lethal!"

The Linglong Needles were twelve centimeters long. Right now only about eleven centimeters were outside Bai Youxian’s body. Discounting the thickness of his suit, both Linglong Needles had pierced at least half a centimeter into his flesh...

"What exquisite hidden weapon technique... and what a terrifying choice of timing..." Bai Youxian stared fixedly at Xue Qingyi, eyes burning, and said in a deep voice, "A beauty like you, and your first move is a killing strike like this—don’t you think that’s a little too vicious..."

Bai Youxian was about to lecture Xue Qingyi in righteous tones, but when he realized that where the Silver Needles had pierced there wasn’t the slightest pain, and his chest skin and muscles were gradually going numb, he finally panicked...

"You fucking poisoned the Silver Needles?!" Bai Youxian couldn’t be bothered to keep posturing. He glared viciously at Xue Qingyi and roared in a low voice!

"Go!" Xue Qingyi finally seized her chance. She shoved Ning Aoxue, Tang Rou, and Li Liping toward Bai Youxian’s side and shouted, "Go find Lin Feng!"

At the same time, to cover the three girls’ retreat, Xue Qingyi pulled another long Silver Needle from her sleeve. Unlike the hair-thin Shadowless Needles from before, this Silver Needle was so large it was almost exaggerated—its diameter was a full two millimeters, looking practically like a chopstick...

Bai Youxian’s eyes widened. If not for the grim look on Xue Qingyi’s face, he might even have wondered where a beauty like her had pulled out such a big Silver Needle from. But right now, he had no time for that.

The two needles Xue Qingyi had just flicked out with the Shadowless Needle technique had already gotten him. Now Xue Qingyi was clearly going for a desperate ultimate move. Bai Youxian didn’t dare take her lightly. He took a deep breath, ready to circulate his qi and unleash a technique to project his Inner Strength and subdue Xue Qingyi, but suddenly discovered that because the Xuan Ji and Tanzhong acupoints on his chest had been hit, he’d lost sensation there and his Inner Strength circulation had gone haywire. On the other side, Xue Qingyi was already about to launch her Throwing Needle...

Bai Youxian could no longer hold back his panic and shouted at his subordinates, "Idiots, hurry up and stop her for me!"

Only then did Bai Youxian’s men react. They almost simultaneously lunged toward Xue Qingyi from behind, trying to tackle her to the ground...

A look of grim resolve flashed in Xue Qingyi’s eyes. She ignored whatever was happening behind her, channeled all the Inner Strength in her body into the Silver Needle in her hand, and with everything she had, unleashed the strongest move within the Linglong Needles—Penetrating Needle—straight at Bai Youxian!

"Swish!"

The Silver Needle left Xue Qingyi’s hand and instantly turned into a wailing gust of wind, howling as it shot toward Bai Youxian...

Horrified and with nowhere to dodge, Bai Youxian gathered a swirling vortex of hazy Inner Strength in his right hand. Locking onto the incoming Throwing Needle, he struck out fiercely, slapping down hard at it...

As for Xue Qingyi, who had launched the Throwing Needle, it was as if all the strength had drained from her. She was about to be tackled to the ground by Bai Youxian’s men!