“There’s a condition called Congenital Insensitivity to Pain.” Qiao Jiajin said. “This condition sounds like a special ability. As someone who loves fighting, I was fascinated by it for a long time. But later a smart guy told me that people with this condition have an extremely high mortality rate.”

Xiao Xiao’s expression was gloomy. She didn’t speak.

“Because people with this condition are completely unaware of danger. Pain is humanity’s self-protection mechanism, but you’ve thrown it away.” Qiao Jiajin moved his neck and said, “I broke your leg and you didn’t even dodge. Is this really a special ability?”

“My leg… is broken?” Xiao Xiao was stunned.

Qiao Jiajin stepped forward and smiled. “Big Girl, I’ll say it one more time. Admit defeat.”

Xiao Xiao felt the opponent’s aura had completely changed.

At this moment, his dangerous presence had risen more than a single level.

“Admit defeat, and you don’t have to die.” Qiao Jiajin said, enunciating each word.

After thinking for a few seconds, Xiao Xiao slowly swallowed. This man was too terrifying.

Now… perhaps there was only one method to knock him down.

“Luo Shiyi, take back Worry-Free!” Xiao Xiao shouted coldly.

“I can take it back, but the money still counts!” Luo Shiyi shouted from the distance.

“Cut the nonsense.”

Within a few seconds, Xiao Xiao felt pain throughout her entire body.

Her leg, chin, temples, ribs, and fingers simultaneously transmitted heart-wrenching pain.

“Ugh…” She grunted and used several seconds to calm down. Then she raised her eyes and looked coldly at Qiao Jiajin.

Qiao Jiajin snorted coldly.

Just as he was about to step forward and finish off Xiao Xiao completely, he suddenly felt something was wrong.

At this moment, his leg, chin, temples, and fingers were also faintly transmitting pain.

Qiao Jiajin walked forward one step with an unchanged expression, discovering his right leg had also lost sensation.

He had fallen for it.

The opponent’s ability seemed to be transferring pain.

What should he do now?

Qiao Jiajin couldn’t help but have his heartbeat accelerate. At this moment, all the injuries and pain on the opponent’s body had transferred to himself. One careless moment could create a huge opening.

“Liar, it’s time to borrow your ‘brain’ for a bit.” Qiao Jiajin thought to himself.

Qi Xia’s voice slowly rang in Qiao Jiajin’s ears. “If you’re desperate, you can try to make the opponent develop self-doubt.”

Qiao Jiajin took a deep breath. He steadied his mind, endured the intense pain throughout his body, and took a step forward.

Seeing the man before her walking toward her with an unchanged expression, Xiao Xiao felt something was wrong.

She immediately extended her right hand and struck her own leg viciously.

The instant she made her move, Qiao Jiajin had already understood everything. He stopped walking and stood in place without moving.

Sure enough, this strike made his thigh transmit intense pain.

But he still remained expressionless.

“What are you doing?” Qiao Jiajin asked with feigned confusion. “You can’t beat me, so you’re self-harming? Is this really okay?”

“What…?” Xiao Xiao’s eyes widened. She felt her Echo should have succeeded, so why was the opponent completely unaffected?

Before she had time to think more, she took out a large handful of capsules from her pants pocket and threw them into her mouth.

“Punk… you probably don’t remember how you died last time…” After saying this, she bit the capsules open and swallowed them all into her abdomen.

These were metronidazole capsules that, when taken in excess, would cause limb paralysis, abnormal sensations, and mental confusion.

Before long, Qiao Jiajin felt his brain transmit a bout of severe dizziness. His hands and feet gradually lost sensation too, but his face still showed a confused expression.

“Poisoning yourself?” He paused and said with a smile, “Big Girl, you can just admit defeat directly. There’s no need to poison yourself.”

Although his words were tough, a trace of cold sweat slowly flowed down Qiao Jiajin’s forehead. At this moment, he was mustering one hundred and twenty percent of his spirit to ensure he wouldn’t fall. This feeling was even worse than drinking a hundred bottles of beer.

He slowly extended his right hand, but watched with his own eyes as he extended his left hand instead. He didn’t show any abnormality. Instead, he used his left hand to push the opponent hard.

“I don’t have time to waste with you.” Qiao Jiajin said. “Are you admitting defeat or not?”

Xiao Xiao looked at the man before her in disbelief, feeling as if her Echo had disappeared.

But… was there any possibility the opponent was just holding on?

Qiao Jiajin also keenly noticed Xiao Xiao’s expression. He knew the opponent’s conviction was wavering.

There was only one final step left before the opponent’s conviction shattered completely.

But this final step was too difficult.

If he didn’t demonstrate thunderous methods, how would Xiao Xiao believe?

As the saying goes, fortune favors the bold.

Qiao Jiajin worked hard to control his left and right legs, slowly retreating several steps. Under Xiao Xiao’s shocked gaze, he rapidly ran toward her.

Then both feet stomped the ground hard. His entire body flew up, using his knee to crash into Xiao Xiao’s chest.

The plan in his mind was to use his right leg to strike Xiao Xiao’s chin. The result was using his left leg to strike Xiao Xiao’s chest instead.

After landing, Qiao Jiajin staggered a few more steps before stabilizing his form.

His entire body hurt. It hurt terribly.

What hurt most was his own chest. This strike had stopped his own breathing.

He cursed internally, thinking, “Even though I’ve practiced martial arts for so many years, I’ve never tried giving myself a knee strike… turns out my power is this impressive?”

Qiao Jiajin paused, took a deep breath, and asked, “Big Girl, do you… submit or not?”

After hearing this question, Xiao Xiao’s expression changed, revealing a terrified look.

And in the next second, the injuries and pain on Qiao Jiajin’s body suddenly disappeared.

The Echo was lifted.

“Phew…” Qiao Jiajin smiled. “That really wasn’t easy…”

He slowly walked toward Xiao Xiao. “I heard that if we lose this battle, you’ll take away the Liar, right?”

“The, the Liar?”

“I once lost my ‘brain.’ This time, no matter what, I won’t.” Qiao Jiajin grabbed Xiao Xiao’s wrists and pulled her up from the ground. “If you take away my ‘brain,’ I’ll become stupid.”

He grabbed Xiao Xiao’s wrists and pulled her step by step to the edge of the single-log bridge.

“You, wait a moment…” Xiao Xiao said in terror.

She discovered that the position where Qiao Jiajin gripped her wrists was very tricky. This position prevented her two hands from grabbing onto anything.

Qiao Jiajin’s eyes gradually revealed a trace of sadness.

“I’m sorry.”

He suddenly pushed outward. Xiao Xiao’s two hands spread wide. Her entire body fell backward. She frantically tried to grab something, but there was only air around her.

“Ahhh——”

With a scream, Xiao Xiao fell down. The scream was interrupted midway as she struck the hemp rope again.

Dull sounds came one after another. Xiao Xiao’s screams also came intermittently, one after another.

Until she fell rapidly. Until the sound could no longer be heard at all.

Xiao Xiao had fallen from the bridge.

Luo Shiyi and Old Sun in the distance were both so shocked by this scene that they couldn’t speak.

They could accept that someone could kill Xiao Xiao, but found it hard to accept that the man before them looked completely unharmed.

Qiao Jiajin moved his aching neck and said coldly toward the distance, “Since the killing has started, I won’t hold back today. Which of you two will come first?”

Qiao Jiajin walked forward with an icy presence. Li Xiangling and Zhang Shan along the way both cleared the path.

Zhang Shan had been a soldier for several years. He recognized this kind of gaze.

This was the gaze of someone who had killed before.

Old Sun and Luo Shiyi didn’t feel sorry for Xiao Xiao. They just felt the problem was somewhat thorny.

Xiao Xiao was not only a famous combat expert in the Land of End, but also possessed Scapegoat, which was very suitable for combat. Yet she had actually been killed completely unharmed by an ordinary person they had never seen before.

This meant the opponent’s skills and scheming were both stronger than hers.

Old Sun slowly walked forward and reached out to strike at Qiao Jiajin.

Qiao Jiajin swung his left hand, blocked that non-existent stone club, then delivered a front kick to the opponent’s chest, directly kicking Old Sun to the ground.

“Losers, if your skills are only this much, this game is about to end.”