Chapter 2613 — Enduring Torment

"I already told you, it was You Panhu..." Han Jingyi said.

"Looks like I need to teach you a lesson before you learn what I'm capable of!" Xiao Shiyi's silver needle shot out once more, this time stabbing straight into Han Jingyi's abdomen. Then she studied Han Jingyi with a playful look. "I don't want to waste words with you. Is Zhang Liju's alchemist's notes in your hands? Give me a copy and I'll spare your life—but if you keep playing games with me, my hand may just slip. Believe me, I can make sure you'll never be a woman again."

Han Jingyi was indeed a little frightened now; a flicker of terror passed through her eyes. The needle was positioned exactly at the place that made a woman able to bear children—if it exploded the way the last one had, then, just as Xiao Shiyi said, she truly would never be a woman again.

"If I tell you, will you let me go?" But Han Jingyi was a calm and clever person. From Xiao Shiyi's expression and tone throughout, she could tell the woman had no intention of sparing her at all. "I'm afraid that if I tell you, you'll just kill me, won't you?"

"That's not certain. Maybe I'll be in a good mood and let you go!" Xiao Shiyi said mildly. "Besides, being tortured to death and dying quickly are two very different ways to die! And I don't mind telling you—I already know a great deal. I know you're an alchemist, and that your success rate is extremely high. You can produce large quantities of top-quality second-grade pills in a short time! Don't bother hiding it—if I didn't know all this, I wouldn't have come to ask you! So don't even think about lying to me. I'm an alchemist myself; the moment you speak, I'll know whether you're telling the truth!"

"Fine, I'll talk. The truth is, Teacher Bai gave me a copy of his master's alchemist's notes, and I've been learning from them..." Han Jingyi said with a sigh.

"Playing me for a fool?" Xiao Shiyi's expression turned savage. The hand gripping the end of the silver needle gave a slight twitch. Han Jingyi screamed again, and a mouthful of fresh blood sprayed from her lips—straight into Xiao Shiyi's face.

"Ah..." A flash of pain and despair crossed Han Jingyi's eyes. But she had promised Wei Zhao that she would never tell anyone about Zhang Liju's alchemist's notes! And even if she did tell, what good would it do?

The alchemy methods in those notes could improve the quality of pills, but they could not increase the speed of alchemy or the success rate. Even if one cultivated according to them, it would be absolutely impossible to produce so many top-quality pills in such a short time!

Since Xiao Shiyi was an alchemist, even if Han Jingyi told her, she ought to realize that following those methods could never produce such results. And if she kept pressing, it would inevitably expose Wei Zhao's secret—Wei Zhao, who could help her restore her physical strength and true qi, and who could work with her to refine pills!

But once those things were spoken, it would ruin Wei Zhao. At this moment Han Jingyi did not know that Wei Zhao was also a target of Xiao Shiyi and her people, so to protect him, she was determined to grit her teeth and hold out.

"You filthy whore, you dare spit at me?" Xiao Shiyi lashed out with her foot, kicking Han Jingyi square in the chest and sending her flying into the wall!

"Ah—" Han Jingyi screamed again. Her chest felt as though it had been kicked apart, and tears of pain nearly burst from her eyes! She lay sprawled on the ground, without even the strength to climb up!

Although she was an Earth Rank cultivator, her cultivation was mainly oriented toward alchemy—she could not heal her own injuries, nor could she use true qi to shield her body! Then again, before an expert like Xiao Shiyi, whose strength stood at the peak of the early Heaven Rank, an Earth Rank true qi shield would not have been of much use anyway.

"Are you going to talk? Tell me about Zhang Liju's alchemist's notes, and I'll give you a quick death. Otherwise, I'll torture you to death!" Xiao Shiyi was truly getting impatient. This Han Jingyi would not yield to either persuasion or force—her mouth was astonishingly stubborn. Xiao Shiyi stepped forward and planted her foot on Han Jingyi's fingers, grinding down hard, crushing them into a bloody pulp. "So you like alchemy, do you? Then I'll ruin your hands!"

The fingers are connected to the heart. Han Jingyi's delicate body, lying prone on the ground, convulsed violently and shuddered, and she spat out another mouthful of black blood.

"Are you going to talk? Are you going to talk or not?" Seeing that Han Jingyi still said nothing, Xiao Shiyi delivered another kick, this time stamping on her other hand and doing the same—grinding her fingers into a bloody pulp!

"I... I... I already told you... Teacher Bai... is Zhang Liju's successor... his notes are Zhang Liju's... alchemist's notes..." Han Jingyi said haltingly, her voice weak and breathless.

"You're asking for death!" Xiao Shiyi was beside herself with rage. She had never expected Han Jingyi to still refuse to loosen her tongue after such torment! In a fury she kicked viciously at Han Jingyi's crotch. "Since you won't talk, I'll finish you off and then go search your place! I don't believe you memorized it all with no backup copy!"

"Oh..." Han Jingyi could no longer feel the pain. Her eyelids felt terribly heavy, and her consciousness was growing blurred. Brother Wei Zhao, Jingjing is going to die... I'm sorry, Jingjing won't be able to make pills for you anymore... This woman is truly hateful. She has not only ruined Jingjing's hands so that I can never make pills again, but also made it so that Jingjing can never be Brother Wei Zhao's girlfriend...

In her daze, Han Jingyi thought of Wei Zhao, thought of the happy months she had spent in Donghai City. But all of it seemed like a phantom, finally freezing on Xiao Shiyi's hideous, terrifying face.

"You won't find it... Jingjing is clever, Jingjing memorized it all!" Han Jingyi seemed to be enjoying a brief rally before the end; suddenly her speech became fluent. "But Jingjing won't give it to you. Jingjing is going to die soon! Jingjing will wait for you—in a few years, you'll come keep Jingjing company!"

Han Jingyi believed that in the short term Wei Zhao might not be able to avenge her, but once he advanced to the Heaven Rank, he would certainly cut down this wicked woman before him with ease!

"Little slut, what did you say?" Hearing Han Jingyi say she would wait for her, Xiao Shiyi flew into a towering rage. She was about to kick again, but then saw that Han Jingyi was already at her last breath, the true qi in her body rapidly draining away—the omen of a cultivator's demise. Xiao Shiyi frowned.

What especially enraged her was hearing Han Jingyi say that she had memorized the alchemist's notes and that there was no backup at home. Although she did not know whether Han Jingyi was lying, she dared not gamble on it!

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