Qiao Jiajin’s face was ashen.

He looked at the empty hole to the side, then at Xiao Xiao before him.

Why hadn’t this woman died?

She had fallen down and then came back up?

Could this also be an “Echo”?

Right now, Qiao Jiajin was suffering even more than being deep in a quagmire. After all, his four limbs were all locked by enormous rocks.

He couldn’t pull away. Forcefully struggling only caused his skin to suffer massive abrasions until blood covered the ground.

How could they win this game?

“Punk, where’s that energy you had just now?” Xiao Xiao walked forward, crouched in front of Qiao Jiajin, and showed an extremely arrogant expression.

“Hehe…” Qiao Jiajin laughed. “My energy is still here. What can you do to me?”

“What can I do?” Xiao Xiao sneered and stood up. “If I could kill you once, I can kill you a second time.”

She reached back and said to Old Sun, “Give me a rock.”

Old Sun looked dully at Xiao Xiao. After being stunned for a long time, he finally answered, “Don’t stand there bullying people…”

“Old Sun!” Xiao Xiao shouted angrily. “Stay clear-headed. Our purpose in coming here this time is to kill all three of them!”

“As long as we win… don’t bully people…” Old Sun shook his head with vacant eyes. “I won’t give it… no matter what you say, I won’t give it.”

“Hmph… I can beat him to death with my fists too.” Xiao Xiao no longer paid attention to Old Sun and slowly raised her fist. “Punk, aren’t you very agile? Can you dodge this punch?”

“Dodge…?” Qiao Jiajin grinned. “You big woman, your punches are soft and powerless. I don’t need to dodge at all.”

“Hahaha! Good!” Xiao Xiao said with a laugh. “Then try taking it!”

In the time it took to speak, that thick arm swung its huge fist and flew toward Qiao Jiajin’s face.

In an instant, a nimble figure leaped out, kicking away Xiao Xiao’s fist with one foot, then immediately soaring into the air again, kicking several times in succession, forcefully kicking Xiao Xiao back five steps.

After this figure landed, she stabilized her horse stance, then moved her right foot forward into a suspended horse stance, next extending one hand horizontally in a crane form while positioning the other forward in a tiger grip.

“Oh?” Xiao Xiao moved her aching arm that had been kicked and said, “I almost forgot about you. What, you alone are planning to defeat all three of us? Do you think you have any chance of winning?”

Cold sweat slowly flowed down Li Xiangling’s forehead.

“I don’t know if I can do it, but I absolutely won’t admit defeat.” She took a deep breath and murmured to herself, “Grandfather, I’m sorry. My mental state is chaotic, but this time I truly have no other choice.”

Luo Shiyi smiled and shook his head, saying, “Xiao Xiao, there’s no need for you to make a move. Let me do it.”

He moved his limbs and stood in front of Xiao Xiao.

“What? Are you interested?”

“I really enjoy killing people…” Luo Shiyi said with a smile. “Especially women with delicate features.”

Old Sun looked at him dully. “Don’t bully people…”

“Shut up.” Xiao Xiao said coldly.

Li Xiangling wasn’t affected. She moved the wrists of both hands and said to herself, “It’s just unfortunate that I don’t even have a staff… I keep using martial arts I’m not familiar with.”

“Ha?” Luo Shiyi was amused. “What? You’re not expecting us to conjure up a staff for you, are you?”

Conjure… a staff?

Li Xiangling looked at Old Sun to the side and suddenly thought of something.

“Hey!” She shouted at Old Sun. “Watch my moves carefully!”

After saying this, Li Xiangling silently closed her eyes, gave up the Tiger-Crane Double Form, and instead slowly clenched her hands as if grasping a long spear.

“Aunt Tong said… for an ‘Echo’ to activate, the most important thing is ‘belief’…”

Thinking of this, she began wielding this non-existent spear on her own.

“Eyes merge with the heart…” She suddenly thrust her empty hands forward and shouted loudly, “Qi merges with strength!”

Then her hands continuously changed as if rotating the spear.

“Steps merge with moves!”

Relying on muscle memory, Li Xiangling kept her eyes slightly closed, continuously rotating the “spear” in her hands, then suddenly threw it toward the sky before jumping up and reaching out to catch it again.

“The three internal unions of essence, qi, and spirit!”

She leaped into the air, her hands swinging down steadily, her posture extremely beautiful.

“The three external unions of waist, hands, and eyes!”

“Kung Fu girl… you…”

Qiao Jiajin blinked, seeming to have thought of something. If this could really succeed… this would be an absolute killing move.

Old Sun stared blankly at this scene, slowly furrowing his brow.

What was this woman doing?

What was she wielding?

Why did it look so incongruous?

Her appearance seemed like…

“This is bad…” Xiao Xiao finally reacted and hurriedly turned around, reaching out to cover Old Sun’s eyes. “Old Sun! Don’t look!”

She knew that Old Sun had overused his “Echo,” and his entire cognitive thinking had developed serious problems.

Although his eyes were covered, Old Sun still slowly revealed a trace of a smile.

“That’s right… she’s wielding a staff…” Old Sun said with a smile. “So it’s a staff… I knew it…”

As his words fell, a slender stone staff appeared in Li Xiangling’s hands.

Li Xiangling suddenly opened her eyes, thrust the stone staff forward, grabbed the end of the staff with her right hand, and swept it upward, flying toward Xiao Xiao’s neck.

“Azure Dragon Presents Its Claws!”

This spear strike was both accurate and fast. Xiao Xiao didn’t even have a chance to dodge. She only felt something hit her throat. She couldn’t breathe at all and was directly struck down.

“Crowd-Blocking Style!”

Li Xiangling swung the stone staff horizontally at extremely fast speed again, sending Old Sun flying. Xiao Xiao, who was lying on the ground, immediately reached out and grabbed him.

Seeing the situation was unfavorable, Luo Shiyi rushed forward to take advantage.

But the attack range of the stone staff was too large.

Li Xiangling pulled back the stone staff, spun it around her waist, then fiercely swept it toward Luo Shiyi’s legs.

“Parting Grass to Seek the Snake!”

Luo Shiyi had no sense of pain, but he suddenly lost his center of gravity. His entire body crashed onto the steel with a “clang.”

“Damn it…” He immediately got up and ran toward Li Xiangling again.

“Erlang Carries the Mountain!”

Seeing the powerful stone staff chopping down from above, Luo Shiyi suddenly had an idea.

This time he didn’t dodge. He actually used his own head to meet the staff head-on.

“Crack!”

With a crisp sound, Luo Shiyi’s forehead splattered with blood and flesh, and the stone staff also broke in the middle.

The texture of the stone staff was too fragile after all. It was extremely easy to break when striking hard objects.

“This is bad… Kung Fu girl! Run!” Qiao Jiajin shouted. “Run under the bridge!”

He knew that although Li Xiangling’s spear technique had extremely strong lethality, she had too little real combat experience after all. The opponent was preparing to stake everything on one throw. Her situation was very dangerous.

“Oh no…” Li Xiangling’s expression changed, but she saw that Luo Shiyi had already rushed forward.

She hurriedly re-gripped the remaining section of the stone staff, set up her stance again, and thrust toward the opponent’s chest.

“Thud!”

A muffled sound—the stone staff hit the opponent’s chest.

Luo Shiyi smiled slightly, spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood from his mouth, but his steps didn’t stop. He stepped forward and grabbed Li Xiangling’s collar, forcefully pushing her to the ground.

“Kung Fu girl…!” Qiao Jiajin twisted his body but found he couldn’t move at all.

Only then did Li Xiangling see clearly how terrifying the man grabbing her was.

The strike that hit his forehead just now had knocked off a large piece of flesh from his forehead. Now a yellowish-white piece of skull was exposed, and a large amount of fresh blood flowed down from his forehead, staining his entire face red.

He looked like an evil ghost that had crawled out of a grave.

“I’ve caught you…” Luo Shiyi said with a sinister smile. “What a pity. Even if you pierced my heart, I wouldn’t stop.”

Li Xiangling was truly somewhat frightened.

The person before her… was he really still human?

“This time the goal is to kill all of you…” Luo Shiyi laughed loudly. “Whether I die or not doesn’t matter at all!”

Li Xiangling gritted her teeth and continued using the remaining section of stone staff to strike the opponent’s body, but the opponent was like a corpse that had long since died, completely unaffected.

“Come, come, come… let’s die together…”

Luo Shiyi grabbed Li Xiangling’s neck and brought her step by step to the edge of the bridge.

“You… you madman… let go of me…” Li Xiangling struggled and said, her eyes already full of fear.

Qiao Jiajin also turned his head with difficulty at this moment. “Hey… don’t do this… kill me first… you can only kill her after killing me…”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry. None of you can escape…” Luo Shiyi said with a smile to Xiao Xiao. “Then I’ll take her first. I’ll leave the rest to you guys.”

Before Xiao Xiao could answer, Luo Shiyi showed a smile on his face, brought Li Xiangling with him, and leaped straight down, both of them jumping off the bridge together.