“Ink Qi, bck Qi corrupts, corrodes and pollutes, the white Qi weakens, nullifies and takes. Be careful! Try to avoid direct tact!” Ming thrust the sharp tip of his walking stito the ground, breaking the square pte into pieces of t and popping them up into the air, with a swing of his right arm, the broken pieces shot at his oppo’s general dire.

  “So you know of us - then why don’t you just make it easier for all of us, and surrender?” The men in bck’s voices came from the depths of the subway station. “Just cut your own heads off, then you’d be spared all the suffering we have to offer.”

  “How about you freaks back down so we turn this fug pce upside down?!” Luoshan Zi shot back: “I thought you were sages of a fug ! Why’d you bee the city’s pdogs?”

  “The city?” The figure in bck wielding tw bdes shook his head: “You’re here yet you still uand nothing of what’s going on here.”

  “So how about you tie yourselves up and tell us the reason you’re all cooped up here and guarding this deserted train station with foul smell and dirt all over the pce?” Luoshan Zi scoffed.

  “Shut up you little bitch!” The figure in bck wielding a metal whip lu Luoshan Zi with his right arm filing the whip ready for an attack. Right after his st word dropped, shadows of the wip made of Qi and mist appeared along the whip, and swung down at Luoshan Zi at the same time.

  The er of Luoshan Zi’s mouth arced in a smirk as she shot backwards to evade the attacks. At the same time, she unleashed two handfuls of six throwing knives, kit knives and sharpened bdes at this oppo of hers.

  The shadows of the metal whip cracked and broke most of the flying ons as well as rge portions of the ground where Luoshan Zi was standing. Ruo and Liao shot up, lunging at the figure in bck wielding tw bdes. Liao infused his Qi into the two whips in different fashions, thrusting the whip in his left hand at the oppo’s chest like a spear, while swinging the one in his right hand at the figure’s left shoulder.

  “k!” “k!” The figure spun where he was and blocked off both attacks, his Qi rushed onto his oppos’ ons like snakes on an active hunt. But the touch of ons was quiough that only tiny traces of the Ink Qi made it onto Liao and Ruo’s ons.

  “It is but the fate of those ignorant and unenlighteo wander and face death!” The figure wielding a staff leapt out from the shadows, the sharp prongs on the front end pointing right at Luoshan Zi. A powerful thrust was unleashed, a giant shadow of the spear maed right at the end of the attad crashed down at Luoshan Zi like a pilr shot out of the barrel of a on.

  Luoshan Zi’s hands closed together palm to palm, the tips of her fingers fag each reen Qi flowed on her palms before she thrust her hands upward at the shadow of the staff, a spearhead of jade colored Qi shot upwards at the staff, fag it head on.

  “Boom!” Two Qi attacks cshed and exploded. A debilitating shockwave blew through the ey of the underground subway statio only dust rose after both of them and the surrounding individuals were pushed back - the iy of the building appeared to be quite sturdy.

  Ming and Keying stood still with their Qi infused in their lower bodies to stabilize their stao not be disrupted by the explosion. The very moment the shockassed through, they uhemselves at the figure in bck wielding a staff, f a fast assault at this oppo's left fnk.

  Their target was in no position to dodge or effectively guard himself. Yet before they were half way there, three crossbow bolts shot from the er behind them. Ming realized this just one single moment before Keying, so he turned his body around in mid air, swinging his walking stick across the space behind them.

  “Ting!” “Ting!” It was a defense move in a hurry, the walking stick bashed two of the bolts away, but missed one - ohat was shooting at Ming’s right shoulder. The Qi shielding his body was as strong as it could reasonably be, but the tips of these bolts were specially treated, and the fine sharp tip peed his skin and some of his muscles. What was worse, was that a numbing, paralyziion began to grow and expand from the wound. The bolts were tipped with poison.

  “Vile scum!” Ming roared, pumping his Qi into his walking stid tossed it right at the general dire from which the bolts came, while Keying roared and unleashed three secutive swift strikes while in the air, shooting three crest-shaped Qi bdes at their target. These Qi bdes burst shortly after taking shape, each splitting into three Qi bdes that were simir in size but much thinner. All of them hailed at the figure in bck wielding a metal staff, as well as the other tere close to him at this moment. At the same time, Ming’s walking stick exploded midway through its trajectory, raining splinters in a wide area covered by shadows.

  The other two figures in bck had to disperse to dodge the attack, while Keying’s target grunted and spun his staff, pushing his Qi into his on to harden its capability of defehe Qi bdes exploded and burst when crashing against the spinning staff, all of which were dissipated or at least greatly weakened. But right when all of the Qi bdes were either blocked or dodged, one prong from the meta staff’s head fell onto the ground.

  Another shadow in dark cloak crawled out of the shadow, coughing and grabbing his throat - he was the one who uhe three bolts earlier, and was in turn struck by Ming’s retaliation - splinters from Ming’s walking stick pierced through his chest and throat, blood ooling into his lungs and windpipe.

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