"Xiao Chun, Qin Xin, don't stand in the water!" I called out to the two girls and used the Thousand-Pound Drop technique to root my feet in the water. "Ye Yang, brace yourself against me!"

Ye Yang went behind me, his right leg bent in a single-knee bow, his left foot dug into the ground behind him. He leaned forward, using both hands to brace against my back.

Just as we stood firm, the torrent from upstream surged towards us. Under the impact of the water, both Ye Yang and I swayed several times before managing to keep our footing.

Yi Lu, who was nearby, was swept away by the water and disappeared. Lü Peng cried out in alarm and chased after her downstream.

The rapid current came and went quickly. After the surge, the water receded rapidly and soon returned to its clear state.

Just then, Nie Xiao Chun shouted, "Li Po, look behind you!"

When I turned my head, I saw a red dress floating in a pool downstream.

Then, like seaweed floating on the surface, the red dress slowly straightened up in the water like a person sitting up, revealing Yi Lu's face.

"Yi Lu!" Lü Peng also stood up not far from Yi Lu. But Yi Lu didn't even look at him. Instead, she floated straight up to the surface of the water.

When Yi Lu's feet touched the water's surface, I finally saw the red shoe on her foot.

Lü Peng waded towards Yi Lu. "Yi Lu, it's me. What's wrong?"

I called to Ye Yang, "Don't worry about them. Let's go upstream."

Ye Yang followed me without hesitation, heading towards the canyon waterway. Behind us, Nie Xiao Chun shouted, "That Yi Lu is catching up."

I glanced back and saw Yi Lu walking on the water, rapidly moving upstream, chasing after us.

I shouted quickly, "Stop her!"

Nie Xiao Chun and Qin Xin simultaneously opened their blood umbrellas, blocking the entrance to the canyon. Through the gap between the two umbrellas, they watched Yi Lu rush towards them.

When Yi Lu was about ten meters away from them, she suddenly stomped hard on the water and leaped into the air. Like an osprey skimming over the water, she swooped down towards the two girls' heads.

Qin Xin raised her blood umbrella and spun the handle rapidly, firing hundreds of Cow Hair Steel Needles from the tip.

The blue steel needles whistled through the air for half a meter before colliding with the Yin Qi on Yi Lu's body. In the blink of an eye, the needles changed color from a cold, clear blue to a dazzling fiery red.

The instant a shower of fiery red needles pierced Yi Lu's body, sparks erupted.

When Zhu Xiaoyu came to visit Liangjie Tang (Two Realms Hall), Cang Jian took her Yama Umbrella while she wasn't paying attention.

Although Lao Liu didn't dismantle the umbrella, he tested all its functions and wrote them down.

Afterward, he found Shang Xingyan and asked him to commission two top-quality ghost artifacts from master craftsmen in the underworld.

According to Lao Liu, although these two blood umbrellas were a notch below the Ten Great Evil Weapons, they could at least be ranked thirteenth or fourteenth if they were seriously ranked.

Hit by the hidden weapons, Yi Lu cried out miserably, but she still fell in the same trajectory.

Nie Xiao Chun gripped the umbrella handle and pulled back, drawing a foot-long three-edged spike from the blood umbrella.

As soon as Yi Lu landed, the spike in Nie Xiao Chun's hand pierced her heart, protruding directly from her back.

Before Yi Lu could make another move, Qin Xin struck her with a palm, sending her flying more than two meters away.

Nie Xiao Chun and Qin Xin coordinated perfectly, preventing the enemy from getting close.

However, a few seconds later, they both froze.

They saw a visible wave of corpse energy rising from where Yi Lu had fallen into the water.

In the blink of an eye, a vortex appeared in the water where Yi Lu had fallen. The corpse energy that had been spreading around suddenly began to converge towards the center of the vortex.

Yi Lu, wearing her red dress, stood up from the water again.

As the two girls reactivated their blood umbrellas, my voice came from a distance: "Don't linger! We're at the exit of the canyon. Follow us."

The two girls put away their blood umbrellas, took out a few wax balls from their backpacks, threw them into the water, and turned to run.

The unsuspecting Yi Lu, chasing from behind, ran straight into the wax balls floating downstream. A blinding flash of light and a deafening explosion erupted at the canyon entrance. The spray of water created by the explosion momentarily obscured everyone's vision, and the two girls took the opportunity to rush out of the canyon.

The moment the two girls poked their heads out of the canyon exit, Ye Yang and I reached out and grabbed them.

Just as Nie Xiao Chun was about to scream, I covered her mouth with my hand: "Don't make a sound!"

Nie Xiao Chun followed my gaze and saw a towering ancient tree growing in the water. A corpse was hanging from a branch directly opposite the canyon exit.

The person's outer garment was gone, the right foot was bare, and the left foot wore a red shoe.

Nie Xiao Chun transmitted her voice quietly: "Is that Xiao Hong?"

"How was she hanged?"

"Shouldn't Xiao Hong have drowned in the water?"

To thank the beautiful fan Tao Xiao Yao for recording the promotional video "Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren - Qin Xin Chapter" for *Yang Jian Jie Ming Ren*, there will be an extra chapter tonight.

In fact, Qin Xin's model is Tao Xiao Yao, hehehe.

Let me tell you a secret, all the members of Liangjie Tang are my reader characters!