Chapter 24 Desperate Situation

Mo Caiwei didn't know that Jiu Ci's hand had been placed on my waist and hadn't moved. She swiftly drew Ziye from behind me and stabbed it into the mountain wall.

Under the combined weight of the three of us, Ziye's blade left a trail on the mountain wall as if splitting bamboo.

Stone fragments, shattered by the blade, rained down on our faces. I turned to look at Jiu Ci.

Jiu Ci's hand was pressed precisely on my left waist, a vital spot. If she exerted force from her palm, even if it didn't kill me instantly, it would be enough to shatter my internal organs and render me unable to fight.

I forced three words through gritted teeth: "Do you want to die?"

Jiu Ci suddenly turned, embraced me around the waist, drew Bai Zhou with her left hand to stab the mountain wall, and kept her right hand pressed on my vital point without moving.

With the two blades providing simultaneous resistance, my falling speed decreased again and again. As I watched myself approach the ground, I kicked out with both feet, my soles striking the mountain and suddenly exerting force. As the rocks under my feet burst apart, I carried both of us and flew off into the distance.

Mo Caiwei took the opportunity to retract her blade, but Jiu Ci clung to me like a snake.

The moment my feet landed, Jiu Ci was already on my back, the copper pipe in her right hand pressed tightly against the artery under my neck: "Don't move!"

Mo Caiwei's first reaction was to raise her blade and point it at Jiu Ci: "What are you doing?"

"I want to trade for my grandfather!" Jiu Ci clutched the copper pipe against my artery. "Come back with me and trade my grandfather back!"

Mo Caiwei was furious: "Jiu Ci, are you crazy? Li Po just saved you, and you repay kindness with enmity?"

Tears streamed down Jiu Ci's face, dripping onto my neck: "I know, I'm doing wrong. I know I'm repaying kindness with enmity! But... I still have to get my grandfather back."

"Mo Caiwei, you've been an orphan since you were little, you don't understand the bond between us grandparents. As long as I can save my grandfather, I don't care about anything else!"

Mo Caiwei roared: "Bullshit! The village chief was possessed by a ghost god, he's already dead. Are you going to use your self-deceiving ideas to force Li Po to his death?"

"Even... even if there's only a one in ten thousand chance, I have to try! You don't understand!" Jiu Ci cried out in a hoarse voice, "If Li Po dies, I'll give him my life. But I must save my grandfather!"

Mo Caiwei's eyes blazed with anger, but she was helpless. I said calmly, "The Golden Serpent Entwining Body technique is quite good. But, pay attention next time, don't stick to just anyone's back."

"You..." Jiu Ci only managed to say the word "you" before the hand holding the copper pipe turned pitch black, and her fingers slowly opened as if uncontrollably.

As the copper pipe in Jiu Ci's hand clattered to the ground, the protective Zhen Qi (True Energy) around me suddenly erupted. Jiu Ci, who was on my back, was sent flying as if struck by a palm, crashing heavily to the ground three meters away.

Mo Caiwei rushed over and looked down at Jiu Ci on the ground. I reached out and retrieved Bai Zhou, which Jiu Ci had dropped: "Don't bother with her—she's not dead. If she's lucky, someone might be able to save her; if she's not, let her stay here and feed the bugs!"

"But..." Mo Caiwei obviously felt a bit sorry for her, but she knew she couldn't dissuade me. She could only follow silently behind me, walking towards the distant woods.

Before leaving, Mo Caiwei didn't forget to feed Jiu Ci a life-sustaining pill. Perhaps she was also gambling on that almost impossible chance—if someone could save Jiu Ci, she would have done her best.

Mo Caiwei hesitated before asking after following me a few steps, "How did you break free from Jiu Ci?"

"I'm least afraid of being attacked from behind." I wasn't lying. When the Nine Ghosts trained me, they would often attack me from behind, forcing me to constantly find ways to deal with enemies behind me: placing poisonous needles on my shoulders, using internal force to counterattack behind me—those were my usual methods.

At that time, I couldn't explain so much to Mo Caiwei, because I was already starting to feel that something was wrong.

Originally, I just wanted to...

I paused slightly and stopped: "Mo Caiwei, have you ever been under this cliff?"

Mo Caiwei also stopped: "No! This is a forbidden area of ​​Paper Village, no one is allowed to come here. Anyone who dares to step into the forbidden area will be executed. Except for the village chief."

"No one is allowed to come here?" I said in a deep voice: "I'm afraid even your village chief hasn't been here!"

Mo Caiwei was stunned: "Really?"

I pointed to the top of my head: "There's a killing array here."

No one was more familiar with killing arrays than Guizhenzi (Ghost Array Master). He had never played with any other arrays in his life.

I stepped forward, used my toe to pick up a stone, and kicked it forward. After flying several meters, the fist-sized stone seemed to hit an invisible barrier and exploded into powder in mid-air.

Mo Caiwei's expression changed immediately: "Then we..."

I jumped off the cliff to escape, but now I was in a dilemma.

There was no time for us to waste—the Peeling Ghoul couldn't stop the three ghost gods. It wouldn't be long before Tigu (Bone Carver) and the others came down after us.

With a killing array in front and ghost gods behind, wasn't this a certain death?