Chen Nan felt that being hit by a dart might cause a minor external injury at most, but if he got distracted and was hurt by Gongsun Yudie’s Inner Strength, that would be dozens of times more serious than the dart!
Little did he know, Chen Nan’s darts were coated with deadly poison.
Although the wound was shallow, the poison was fatally potent!
Ignoring the bleeding minor wound, Chen Nan frantically circulated his True Qi, competing with all his might against Gongsun Yudie in Inner Strength, but just then, a sudden intense pain erupted from his chest. As he circulated his Inner Strength, the toxin had already invaded his heart channels at an alarming speed.
Chen Nan’s face turned pale with terror, and from the corner of his eye, he glanced at his chest and noticed the wound had blackened, with dark poisonous blood continuously oozing out.
At the same time, the pain in his chest intensified once more, his complexion began to darken, and he could no longer freely circulate his Inner Strength.
The dark Qi was completely scattered, and Gongsun Yudie struck Chen Nan’s chest fiercely with a palm, sending him flying nearly a hundred meters away, harshly colliding with the steep cliff beside the road, producing a "crack" of breaking bones.
Chen Nan struggled to stand up, but the deadly poison had already started to corrode his internal organs, and dark poisonous blood kept spilling from his mouth, leaving him completely powerless.
Suppressing his wounds with Inner Strength, Chen Nan leapt down from the hillside and struck him with another dart.
Black blood splattered, and Chen Nan’s dart pierced directly through Chen Nan’s throat, causing him to die instantly, beyond any hope of revival.
"Should I thank you or resent you?"
Looking at Gongsun Yudie, Chen Nan’s expression was ambiguously smiling.
With a flash of the Sword Light, Gongsun Yudie’s face was cold, and her Golden Soft Sword pointed directly at Chen Nan’s chest, her voice icy, "I saved you simply because I didn’t want you to die at someone else’s hand."
Chen Nan frowned, "So, you still want to kill me?"
"Had you not killed my fellow disciples back then, we could perhaps have been friends," Gongsun Yudie took a step forward, the tip of her sword now only five inches from Chen Nan’s chest, "But now, I must obey my master’s orders and take your life!"
Chen Nan shrugged, chuckling, "Anyway, I’m seriously injured now, I can’t escape, and I’m not your match in a fight, so you do whatever you want."
Gongsun Yudie gripped her Golden Soft Sword tightly, looking at Chen Nan who seemed resigned to his fate, she found herself unable to strike.
Just one step forward and the sword tip could pierce his heart, yet she couldn’t bring herself to take that step.
Seeing Gongsun Yudie seemingly hesitant to strike, Chen Nan secretly breathed a sigh of relief; he was really worried she might stab him immediately, and that would be too ignoble a death.
It must be said that he was very shameless, knowing well that he was no match, so he acted like he was ready to die to gain sympathy.
Gongsun Yudie bit her red lips, her eyes fixed intently on Chen Nan.
She really hated her own weakness, a single strike could have ended everything, yet she couldn’t bring herself to deliver that strike.
I’m really too useless!
Inwardly scolding herself, Gongsun Yudie, with a swish, withdrew her Golden Soft Sword and wrapped it around her waist, her tone cold as she stared at Chen Nan, "In consideration of you having saved me at the river that time, I will spare you today. Next time we meet, I will surely kill you!"
Chen Nan touched his nose, a trace of a smile appearing on his face, and mumbled, "It seems like you’ve said that quite a few times before."
Gongsun Yudie’s expression chilled, "Do you believe that I could kill you right now?"
Chen Nan grinned and shook his head.
Gongsun Yudie directly drew her sword and stabbed it into Chen Nan’s chest, then pulled it out, and blood spurted out with a "plop".
"Damn, you really stabbed me!"
Chen Nan clutched his wound and cried out in pain, tears streaming down his face.
"I just wanted to tell you, I won’t go easy on you!" Gongsun Yudie wiped the blood off her sword and glared at him fiercely. The sword she had just thrust was only two centimeters deep, just a flesh wound. It didn’t hit any organs.
Chen Nan pressed on his chest a couple of times to stop the bleeding and looked at Gongsun Yudie with a gloomy face, "Didn’t we just agree not to kill me? How come you went back on your word!"
"It’s your own fault for running your mouth, you deserved it!"
Chen Nan slapped his forehead and said, "How is it my fault? It was you who said you wouldn’t kill me, and I just responded that I didn’t believe you would, just following your line of thought. Where did I run my mouth?"
"I can’t be bothered with you!" Gongsun Yudie turned around, "Next time I will definitely kill you, I mean what I say!"
With that, she walked away briskly.
Watching Gongsun Yudie’s retreating figure, Chen Nan revealed a slight smile and shouted, "Miss Gongsun, it’s a bit far from the downtown area here. Do you want a ride back in my car? I won’t charge you."
Gongsun Yudie’s body trembled slightly, then without pausing, she quickened her steps and walked away.
"This chick is quite interesting."
Muttering to himself, Chen Nan seemed to have forgotten the pain of his wounds.
After finding a pond to wash the blood off his body, Chen Nan returned to the road, ready to drive back, only to discover someone sitting in the car he had driven here.
"Poison Wolf, what the hell are you doing here?" Chen Nan opened the car door and got in.
Poison Wolf pulled out a cigarette and handed it to him, "I was worried about you, so I followed you to check things out."
Chen Nan almost smashed the cigarette butt on his face, annoyed, "So when I was being ambushed earlier, why didn’t you help out?"
Poison Wolf took a deep drag on the cigarette and sighed, "I had figured it out, knew that beauty would save you. Besides, I would only intervene as a last resort, otherwise where would you, the Crown Prince, put your face?"
"Forget it, just get out of the car, seeing you is annoying me."
"No, no, no!" Poison Wolf quickly locked the car door to prevent Chen Nan from kicking him out, chuckling and said, "Out here in the wild, I have nowhere to catch a taxi, just give me a ride back, and I’ll buy you a few drinks to celebrate afterward."
Chen Nan glared at him, "I’m giving you a ride back, and I also have to treat you to drinks? How is your face even thicker than mine!"
Poison Wolf shook his head, "You can’t say that, you are the Crown Prince, the commander of the entire Sky Team, my immediate superior. All leaders are wealthy, should a subordinate still be the one treating to drinks? That doesn’t make sense!"
Chen Nan started the car, "What kind of twisted logic is that, I still have classes to attend, no time to drink with you."
"Such a miser, fine, I’ll treat you then."
"You should have said so earlier, where are we going?"
Poison Wolf rolled his eyes and gave him the middle finger.