"You've only got this much strength," Qin Xuan snorted coldly and pushed out with his staff. Vast dragon energy flickered on the wooden staff, directly repelling Leng Xi's thrust.
As Leng Xi retreated, she kicked up cement from the ground, her leather boots wearing down and revealing toes tinged with blood.
"Such... immense strength!" Leng Xi's hands were still trembling. Qin Xuan's last blow had almost made her short blade fly from her grasp.
Despite this, a gash had appeared on the palm of her hand, causing her hand to shake slightly.
Qin Xuan glanced at Leng Xi and said coldly,
"I don't kill women. You can go. I'm here for Jin Shikai today, no one else is involved."
Leng Xi didn't speak, but froze on the spot. Leaving was out of the question, as her master Jin Shikai was still here. However, Leng Xi no longer dared to advance.
Qin Xuan clearly hadn't used his full strength in that last strike. If he had, her hands would likely have been crippled.
Qin Xuan paid her no further mind, his cold gaze shifting to Jin Shikai.
Jin Shikai met Qin Xuan's gaze and trembled, a chill running down his spine.
He never imagined that this good-for-nothing Qin Xuan could possess such power.
Just a month ago, he was the live-in son-in-law of the Dan family, afraid to make a sound at home. Yet today, he had defeated Leng Xi.
Had he been hiding his true abilities all along?
"Jin Shikai, today is the day you die!" Qin Xuan pointed his staff at Jin Shikai and roared. With a leap, he was on the rooftop in the time it took to take a breath.
Jin Shikai's jaw dropped in terror!
How in the hell did he do that! Was that even humanly possible?
This unfinished building was eight stories high, and each story was about three meters, meaning it was over twenty meters!
Jin Shikai swallowed, seeing Qin Xuan slowly closing in on him. Gritting his teeth, he pulled out a remote control, held it up, and yelled at Qin Xuan,
"I... I'm telling you, don't make any rash moves! If I press this, Tantai Yue on the tower crane will fall and be smashed into a bloody pulp!"
Saying this, he moved to press the switch for the tower crane.
Seeing this, Qin Xuan quickly stopped and yelled,
"Wait! Don't press it!"
Jin Shikai wasn't foolish; having a hostage in his hand meant he had a lifeline.
Thus, he regained his arrogant demeanor,
"Qin Xuan, you beg me! Aren't you so amazing? Come on, come kill me! If I die, I can take a beautiful woman with me, it'll be worth it, hahahaha!"
Qin Xuan took a calm breath and asked,
"What do you want?"
"What do I want?" Jin Shikai sneered,
"I want your wife!"
Qin Xuan's face darkened. He clenched his fists tightly, suppressing the rage within him.
Jin Shikai continued,
"Qin Xuan, you son of a bitch! If it weren't for you, Tantai Yue would have been in my bed long ago. You, a live-in trash son-in-law, I could crush you without even lifting a finger. What right do you have to challenge me?"
"Kneel down quickly and break your own legs. That way, I might consider returning your wife to you after I've had my way with her. Otherwise, after I'm done with her, I'll find others to gang-rape her, hahahaha!"
As the saying goes, to make a person perish, you must first make them mad.
Qin Xuan was determined to kill this beast today, his rage overriding his reason.
"Jin Shikai, you're asking for death!" Qin Xuan raised his wooden staff and swung it directly at Jin Shikai's head.
Jin Shikai trembled all over in fear. He hadn't expected Qin Xuan to attack him, disregarding his wife's safety.
The remote control in his hand, in his fright, fell to the ground, accidentally hitting the switch.
The next second, the tower crane began to emit a creaking sound.
The steel cable binding Tantai Yue instantly loosened, and she, along with her ropes, plummeted to the ground with a swoosh.
"Tantai!" Qin Xuan cried out in alarm, dropping his staff and jumping from the balcony.
Jin Shikai, as if granted amnesty, escaped death's clutches and, dragging his trembling legs, hobbled down the stairs.
Because the tower crane was slightly higher than Qin Xuan's current floor.
Qin Xuan's jump was perfectly timed, allowing him to catch Tantai Yue's delicate body.
Then, Qin Xuan rapidly scanned for a place to land.
The surroundings were all concrete. Although Qin Xuan was now a cultivator, landing anywhere would shatter at least eighty percent of his bones. Even with the Dragon Pill, it wouldn't heal in a day or two.
Suddenly, Qin Xuan spotted over a dozen bags of cement in the outermost corner of the unfinished building.
They were unopened bags of cement, soft, and landing on them should be somewhat gentler.
Qin Xuan tightly held Tantai Yue, enveloped her with his dragon energy, and adjusted their angle as much as possible.
In the blink of an eye, their bodies were like shooting stars, plummeting directly onto the cement.
"Bang!"
"Crack!"
The sound of bodies hitting objects, the sound of bones breaking – two sounds rang out almost simultaneously.
Qin Xuan endured the pain and looked at Tantai Yue in his arms. He used his dragon energy to check her condition. Seeing that she was unharmed, merely still unconscious, he breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, Jin Shikai had fled the unfinished building and was running towards a small path with Leng Xi.
Qin Xuan was burning with rage. He couldn't let this beast escape.
He glanced around, then at the wooden staff that had also fallen. Qin Xuan channeled his dragon energy and pulled it to his hand.
"Die, you scum!" Qin Xuan roared, then threw the staff with a piercing whistle.
Jin Shikai shivered violently. Perhaps sensing his impending death, he turned around and saw Qin Xuan's thrown staff hurtling towards him at a visible speed.
In a moment of desperation, Jin Shikai grabbed Leng Xi next to him and pulled her in front of him.
Although Leng Xi had been with the Jin family for nearly ten years and had done many favors for them, even saving Jin Shikai's life several times.
At this moment, Jin Shikai could no longer care. It was a matter of life and death; he'd sell his own father to survive!
Before Leng Xi could react, Jin Shikai had already pulled her forward.
Before she could even process what was happening, the wooden staff pierced through her abdomen.
Jin Shikai had intended to escape once the staff hit Leng Xi.
But to his dying regret, he never understood how the staff possessed such penetrative power.
After passing through Leng Xi's abdomen, its momentum did not diminish. It directly went through Jin Shikai's midsection and then embedded itself in a rock far behind him, standing upright. The staff was still vibrating, demonstrating the immense force of the throw.
Jin Shikai and Leng Xi both collapsed.
And Jin Shikai, even as his eyes closed, stared wide open, his death filled with disbelief. Why could a single wooden staff possess such destructive power?