“Xu Liunian…” Qi Xia said with a furrowed brow. “You won’t shed tears until you see the coffin? Right now, the one with a throat being choked is you.”

“It… it doesn’t matter…” Xu Liunian smiled painfully. “In this ‘Land of the End,’ no matter who it is, as long as you’re on guard, the success rate of killing you is very low… but I want to prove that I can do it anyway.”

Qi Xia frowned: “I don’t care what you’re thinking. I just want to ask what you did to Qiao Jiajin?”

“It doesn’t matter what happened to him…” Xu Liunian slowly revealed a crazed expression. “Chu Tianqiu is even more insane than I imagined… hahaha… tonight he wants everyone here to die…”

“You’re no less insane yourself.”

Qi Xia paused, then ultimately released his grip on Xu Liunian’s throat.

“Stop your futile struggling,” Qi Xia said. “If you work together with us now, we still have hope of escaping.”

“No…” Xu Liunian lay on the ground, slowly pulling out a small knife from her pocket. “My mind is made up… only by killing you here can I make you understand what I’m capable of.”

“Brother Qi, be careful!” Seeing the opponent pull out a weapon, Li Xiangling wanted to run forward to help, but she forgot her ankle was sprained. After just three steps, she fell to the ground.

But Qi Xia’s reaction wasn’t slow either. Upon seeing this, he immediately reached out to grip Xu Liunian’s wrist: “Hey! I said enough! Can’t you understand?”

“I don’t want to keep pretending anymore.” Xu Liunian said with a smile. “I don’t want to be anyone’s chess piece… I just want to be myself.”

She slowly pointed the knife in her hand toward Qi Xia, but Qi Xia gripped her wrist tightly, preventing her from advancing even a fraction.

“Stop struggling,” Qi Xia said. “You said it yourself—when I’m on guard, ordinary people can’t possibly kill me.”

“So you think this is the extent of my capabilities?”

Xu Liunian smiled and flipped the dagger in her hand, actually pointing it at her own chest.

Qi Xia’s brow furrowed slightly, not quite understanding what she was doing.

In the next second, Xu Liunian gripped Qi Xia’s hand and drove the knife into her own heart.

“Cough…” She coughed heavily and spat out a mouthful of blood.

It looked like the stab had gone straight into her lung.

“You…” Qi Xia’s eyes slowly widened. “You’re insane?!”

“Qi Xia…” Xu Liunian revealed teeth covered in blood. “Do you think this move is clever or not?”

Qi Xia felt Xu Liunian’s other hand touch his pants pocket, then immediately lost all movement.

“What…?” Looking at Xu Liunian, now lifeless, Qi Xia felt utterly confused.

She had kept saying she would kill him, yet she had committed suicide instead.

Li Xiangling also climbed up from the ground, looking at this scene in bewilderment.

She too had clearly seen the opponent reverse the blade and then plunge it into her own heart.

“Brother Qi… are you alright…?” Li Xiangling asked.

Qi Xia stood up in a daze. This feeling of personally killing someone was truly a first-time experience, inevitably causing some turbulence in his state of mind.

“I… I’m fine…”

After Qi Xia spoke, the entire room suddenly began to shake.

In the next second, something resembling a person abruptly appeared in mid-air, startling the two people in the room.

“Audacious…” that person said in a low voice.

Qi Xia and Li Xiangling simultaneously looked up, only to discover a woman floating above the room. Her hair was inconceivably long, draped over her body like clothing. At this moment, not only could they not see her skin, they couldn’t see her face either.

“Divine Beast…?” Qi Xia was stunned.

The woman in mid-air extended one hand and slowly parted the hair before her face, revealing a pale and austere countenance. She looked at Qi Xia, then repeated: “Audacious…”

Qi Xia only felt a chill run down his back. Just being stared at by this woman was enough to make him break out in cold sweat.

“Are you talking about me…?” Qi Xia asked boldly. “Where am I being audacious?”

“Killing to seize ‘Dao,’ rule violation,” the woman said coldly.

“Seize…” Qi Xia was shocked and instantly thought of something.

He hurriedly felt with his hand—there was indeed an additional small sphere in his pocket.

This must be the “Dao” that Xu Liunian had stuffed into his pocket when she died.

“Wait, wait a moment…” Qi Xia was rarely somewhat flustered. “The person committed suicide, and she stuffed the ‘Dao’ into my pocket herself. How can this count as me breaking the rules?”

“Audacious.” The woman coldly rebuked again. “The person died beneath you, the ‘Dao’ resides in your pocket. Rule violation.”

“Damn it, this is completely unreasonable…” Qi Xia said through gritted teeth. “You only look at the surface? If this counts as me breaking the rules, then this method can kill anyone in the ‘Land of the End.'”

The woman in the sky paused, as if trying to understand what Qi Xia was saying. After a moment, she uttered two more words: “Rule violation…”

An expression of resentment appeared on Qi Xia’s face as he pointed to the door beside him: “Just beyond this door, two teams are at war with countless casualties… yet you only care whether I broke the rules?”

“Qi Xia, death.”

Seeing that she was completely intractable, Qi Xia’s heart turned half cold.

He had already encountered three “Divine Beasts.”

Although Baihu and Zhu Que were quite insane, they could barely maintain simple communication.

But this woman before him appeared to have lost normal thinking ability.

What should he do now?

A ridiculous thought appeared in Qi Xia’s mind.

Escape?

As a normal person, to flee before a god-like madman?

What were the chances of survival now?

“Liar!”

A reckless voice rang out from outside the door. He pushed the door but found it was locked from the inside.

“Damn, Liar, Kung Fu Girl, are you still in there?” the voice outside asked.

Qi Xia looked at the door with a serious expression, then turned back to look at Li Xiangling and said: “Tell that fool that if he can’t win this fight, he must run away.”

“Brother… Brother Qi… what exactly is this…”

Qi Xia bent down and pulled the dagger from Xu Liunian’s body.

He knew he was doomed to die.

Since death was inevitable either way… was there any possibility of fighting against this woman before him?

“Hey, which ‘Divine Beast’ are you?” Qi Xia asked.

“I am ‘Xuanwu.'” The woman slowly descended to the ground, her hair also spreading across the floor. “Put down your weapon and enjoy the slaughter.”

“Heh…” Qi Xia sneered. “Already fallen to this godforsaken place… do I still have to follow your commands?”

Qi Xia walked forward step by step without fear, anger gradually building in his eyes.

“You bastards… give Yu Nian’an back to me…”

Xuanwu slowly raised her eyes: “Audacious.”