191: The meridians are severed!

Xiao Chen used all his strength, crying and pleading.

Tears, mixed with blood, blurred his vision.

However, the Man in Black turned a deaf ear.

He merely slowly raised the black long saber in his hand.

On the saber's blade, a heart-palpitating, destructive aura began to gather madly.

"Stop!!!"

Xiao Chen let out a heart-wrenching roar!

The Man in Black raised his hand.

The saber fell.

A crescent-shaped Saber Qi, as black as ink, flashed away from the tip of his saber.

There was no earth-shattering Great Strength.

No scene of flesh and blood flying.

That Saber Qi just lightly swept across the bodies of those children.

Time, at this moment, seemed to stand still.

The fear on the children's faces was still frozen.

They didn't even show a hint of pain.

Then.

"Thump."

"Thump."

"Thump."

One after another, their small bodies softly fell.

On each of their necks, a faint, red thread-like bloodstain appeared.

Life, extinguished.

...

The world fell silent.

Xiao Chen stared blankly at the scene before him.

Watching those children who were just chattering in front of him, dreaming of the future.

Just like that, they turned into cold, small corpses.

His mind was blank.

His heart stopped beating.

His breathing also stopped.

An indescribable, extreme cold, enough to completely freeze his Soul, utterly engulfed him.

"Ah..."

A hoarse roar, like that of a wild beast, escaped his throat.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Two streams of blood-tears gushed wildly from the corners of his eyes!

Those children!

Those children who depended on him at the Iron Bone Martial Arts School!

Those children he swore to protect with his life!

Just like that, they died?

Just like that, they died in front of him?

An unprecedented, extreme rage and hatred, capable of incinerating heaven and earth, erupted!

That power even gave his already tattered body a trace of strength again!

He raised his head, his blood-red eyes fixed, absolutely fixed, on the Man in Black who had turned around, still wearing a calm expression!

"Wh-y..."

He used all his strength to squeeze out these three words through gritted teeth.

"Who... are... you... exactly?"

The Man in Black looked at him, his eyes hidden beneath the mask, without the slightest ripple.

"You."

"Are not worthy of knowing."

The cold voice was like a merciless heavy hammer, fiercely striking Xiao Chen's already shattered heart.

Immediately after, the Man in Black slowly spoke another sentence that plunged Xiao Chen into an endless abyss.

"If it weren't for the fact that you are still useful."

"Today, you would also die."

Boom—!!!

Xiao Chen's mind completely exploded!

Useful?

He was still useful?

He understood instantly!

None of this was directed at him!

All of this was directed at Big Brother Li!

It was Big Brother Li!

It was Big Brother Li who offended someone in the Royal Capital!

It was Big Brother Li becoming the Martial Selection champion, becoming Marquis Wuan, that blocked someone's path!

And they had no way to deal with Big Brother Li.

So, they resorted to such despicable means to use him to threaten Big Brother Li!!

He, a close associate of Big Brother Li, became the best chess piece in their hands!

"Heh."

"Hehehe..."

Xiao Chen suddenly laughed.

His laugh was uglier than crying.

"Hehehehe..."

Blood-tears streamed down his cheeks like crazy.

Hate!

He hated so much!

He hated this cold-blooded, merciless executioner before him!

He hated himself even more!

He hated himself for being so weak!

He hated himself for being so useless!

If only he could be a little stronger.

If only he had one-tenth, no, one-hundredth of Big Brother Li's strength!

Then today, would none of this have happened?

Would the children not have had to die?

It's all my fault!

It's all because I'm too weak!

An indescribable, extreme self-blame and pain completely engulfed him.

What's the point of living?

He was already a cripple.

Keeping this life would only burden Big Brother Li, becoming a tool for the enemy to threaten him!

No!

Absolutely not!

Even if he, Xiao Chen, died, he would never let Big Brother Li be constrained because of him!

Die!

He wanted to die!

He wanted to use his death to tell those scum hiding in the shadows!

He, Xiao Chen, was not a chess piece to be manipulated!

He suddenly opened his mouth, using the last shred of his strength, and bit down hard on his tongue!

Intense pain shot from the tip of his tongue.

Blood instantly filled his mouth.

However.

Just as he was about to bite off the root of his tongue and end his life.

A black shadow flashed past.

"Crack!"

A crisp sound of bone cracking echoed.

Xiao Chen felt a numbness in his jaw, and an irresistible Great Strength forcibly pried open his tightly clenched teeth.

Immediately after.

A cold, iron-vice-like large hand clamped his neck, lifting his broken body off the ground with brute force.

"Want to die?"

The Man in Black's hoarse, cold voice slowly echoed in his ear.

"Did I allow you to die?"

Xiao Chen, with his neck choked, struggled to breathe, his face turning purple like a pig's liver.

His blood-red eyes stared fixedly, absolutely fixedly, at the cold iron mask before him, filled with endless, bone-deep hatred!

That gaze seemed to want to devour this mask, the person behind the mask, and everything about him, alive!

"You... kill me..."

He painfully squeezed out a few words from his throat.

"If you have the guts, kill me!"

"Kill you?"

The Man in Black sounded as if he had heard something amusing.

"Wouldn't that be too easy for you?"

He looked at the unyielding, hatred-filled flame in Xiao Chen's eyes, and a cruel arc formed at the corner of his mouth beneath the mask.

"Your life, now, does not belong to you."

"It is a 'great gift' for your Big Brother Li."

"I wonder."

"When he sees his closest brother become a cripple who can neither live nor die."

"When he knows that everyone belonging to him died because of him."

"Will that calm, unruffled face of his also show an interesting expression like yours now?"

"You..."

"You... devil!"

Xiao Chen's pupils suddenly constricted!

An extreme fear, more terrifying than death, completely engulfed him!