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"I am not thinking of this method. I am learning it.."

An Su shook her head and corrected him. She suddenly pinched Xiang Biao's chin as she said coldly, "There are no Snow Hawk here, and I also don't have any secret medicine from the Mongul tribe. But I do have some animals here. You Ming, get one for me. You can open your eyes wide and see whether I am a monster or not. Given that you have some guts, we’ll see if you can be as brave as the beautiful young girls of the Mengul Tribe and endure the whole torture ."

"Yes, Master." You Ming didn't dare to hesitate and turned around to leave.

He only cost 15 minutes.

When You Ming came back, there was something besides him. "Master, I find nothing other than the wolfhound that is kept by Old Man Wang in the backyard for watching his yard. Do you think it's suitable?"

"As long as it’s an animal."

An Su looked at the wolfhound led by You Ming. With pure golden fur, it was around ten feet tall. An Su turned round and swept her palm on Xiang Biao's body. The dagger in her right sleeve slipped out to her hand.

After a flash of the Silver Light, blood spurted out and five fingers dropped on the cold ground.

Even though his Mute Acupoint had been blocked, Xiang Biao still could not help but moan in pain. The wolfhound used its claws to slash the ground and freed itself from the rein, rushing to wrap the fingers into its mouth with its tongue. The sound of the wolfhound crunching on the finger was extremely clear in the night.

However, the people in the pavilion were completely silent as if the air froze in an instant.

You Ming, Xuan Yi and the other two frowned. Additionally, Zhen Zhu and Qing Xuan and the other one covered their mouths and went outside the door to lean on the little flower bed, throwing up their dinner.

Xiang Biao watched all his five fingers eaten by the dog; his face turned green. Like a bubbling frog, he stared straight at An Su, looking at the girl's frigid eyes. Only then did he realize that she was serious, and what was even more unbelievable for him was that his prey, whic he tought to be a little goose, turned out to be a ferocious Snow Hawk with a sharp beak and claws.

Well, she was even more ferocious than that man-eating Snow Mountain Condor!

"I beg you, give me a quick death." Xiang Biao took deep breaths and could not help but beg for forgiveness, "If you want to slice me, please kill me first."

An Su looked at him, raised her eyebrows and laughed, "Are you not afraid of death?"

"But no one in this world wants to die."

Xiang Biao’s voice trembled, "Even if I'm not afraid of death, I don't want to live a life worse than death, and even more so, I don't want a horrible death. I can tell you who the buyer is, and I promise that I won't look for trouble with you again. The Absolute Calamity Pavilion will follow your order in the future. All I want is that you can have mercy on me.”

"Yeah, who would want to die in this world?"

An Su suddenly laughed upon hearing this. Look, this was their principle; this was their so-called brotherhood. After she killed his brother, he also wanted to kill her to avenge his brother. But when he was facing death, he still got cold feet.

It was just like when the Emperor was helpless in the face of the nemesis, he would aim the blade at the An Family.

Even when thousands of people of An Family were slaughtered, none of them wanted to die, right? Just like Xiang Biao, they must have struggled, dreaded and begged for mercy. However, no one was willing to save them, and they couldn’t escape from the destiny.

Just because of that arrogant statement, that imperial edict, they must die.

This was human nature, men were born evil!

This was the law of the jungle, only strong man could survive!

The weak would be at the mercy of the strong.

An Su glanced at Xiang Biao and no one knew what was on her mind. After a long time, she reached out her hand to unblock their meridians. She only blocked the inner strength of the six people, then she took out a few portraits, and handed them over. "Look carefully. Tell me about these people, and you will survive.”

Four pieces of Xuan papers, four people.

A shriveled old man dressed in grey, with sunken eyes, low nasal bridge and wrinkled face. Two middle-aged men, who were tall and sturdy with a deadpan expression on their faces, had tumors on their hands. The last one showed a handsome Young man.

Seeing the last portrait, behind the girl, Xuan Yi's breath tightened slightly.

Xiang Biao and the other five killers looked carefully. The six of them had big beads of perspiration on their foreheads and stared blankly at the portraits as though they were afraid that they would miss this chance to live.

An Su looked at them quietly and waited for their answers. Xie Wentao was right. She wanted to find the clues from ronins, but she could not find the appropriate opportunity. After all, the Absolute Calamity Pavilion was also in the circle of martial arts practitioners. Although Xiang Biao was nobody, he might see these people in the past.

Since they were here, she had to give it a try.

There was a long silence.

"Now tell me, does anyone recognize any of them? If not, then we shall continue." An Su's voice showed a trace of displeasure. Her voice spread out in the pagoda and it was like the devil’s call.

Xiang Biao's right hand was still bleeding, but the left hand that was holding the portrait trembled, "Wait, I've seen this person before. I've seen this man before …"

"Are you sure?"

An Su stared at him for a moment, and she had a light smile. Xiang Biao was shortly still. Then, his neck seemed to float, and his entire head flew off his body. With a bang, his head smashed into the wall, bounced far away again, and in the end, stopped right on the side of the wolfhound.

"Crack ~ ~ ~"

The wolfhound opened its mouth and the face on that dead head was covered in blood and flesh.

An Su didn't even look at the bloody scene as she lightly flicked her sleeve, causing not a single drop of blood to splash onto her dress. She glanced at the remaining five people, "How about you guys? Remember, there is only one chance, and I hate liars!"

The few people who had wanted to speak remained silent.

One of them looked down at the portrait in the hand of another person. "I've seen that old man before, but I don't know who he is. But I can find him for you."

"What's your name?"

"Black Hawk."

"Bring him. Follow me."

An Su stopped looking at them and was ready to leave. You Ming and the others retracted the portraits and carried Black Hawk out. Zhen Zhu, Qing Xuan and Ya Rong, who throwed up too much and rendered themselves weak, did not dare look at the headless body that was still bleeding and the wolfhound that was still nibbling on the head. They supported each other and quickly followed the others out of the pagoda.

Inside the room, the young girl was sitting on a bed. The candle flame seemed to be giving the young girl an orange glow, "You said you had seen him before, but didn't know who he was. Then where did you see him? Who was beside him at that time. Tell me about the circumstance at that time and why you remembered him."

Black Hawk should just be a code name. But, this Black Hawk was the calmest among the six. Whether he had seen the old man or not, perhaps only he himself knew.

"I saw him in Yuzhou City."

Black Hawk looked up to see the doubt in the girl's eyes and thought for a moment, "At that time I was on a mission and accidentally met him at an inn. At that time, he was accompanied by two women. Later, some philanderers took advantage of one woman who was with the old man, then that philanderers were killed by that old man. The reason why I can still recollect is that he was expert in useing hidden weapons. He killed three people in a single strike with a long, thin and crescent-shaped knife made of Darksteel. Those who were killed all had a streak of redness on their necks, but they didn’t bleed.

As Black Hawk finished, the atmosphere became visibly colder.

An Su said coldly, "How do those two women look like. Now draw them carefully for me!"

Black Hawk shook his head, "I am a terrible drawer, and at that time they were all wearing veils, so I didn't see their appearances clearly. I only remember that I can tell one of them was a young lady by her dress, and the other was a middle-aged woman. Other details have eluded me because it was long ago.

A terrible drawer. Wearing veils.

It was not easy to find clues of her enemy, but she ended up hearing these words. She was like someone, who just climbed up a cliff, got kicked right into the abyss.

However, the so-called crescent-shaped Darksteel knife was exact. Of the two women that followed the old man, perhaps one was the woman she was looking for.

That day, the person who peeled off her facial skin in the Broken Temple also used a small knife like that. As for the reason why Black Hawk said that after the old man killing someone, there was only a red line on the necks of the dead people. No wound, and no bleeding.

No one knew the reason better than she did.

First, the blade was specially made. It was thinner than a cicada's wing. The one with the strong inner strength could break a person's Qi Meridian with one strike. As the wound was too thin, the blood would not seep for a short period of time. Secondly, the old man had applied a special medicine to the blade to prevent the wound from bleeding. When the corpse gradually solidified after death, it was natural that no more blood would seep out.

The first point could be achieved by many martial arts experts.

But the second point, an ordinary ronin couldn’t made. At the very least, it would be impossible for a person who was not proficient in medicine. Just like the skill he used when he peeled off her face. He gave her the ecstasy. However, she could still clearly feel the pain and saw with her own eyes that her whole face was skinned and held by the old man.

That was her personal experience.

It was also a very strange feeling. It was like how a snake shed its skin. Apart from the pain, there was no other blood seeping out. He was also not like those two ronins. She had escaped from the Broken Temple when the guys were careless, but due to the medicine in her body and her inner strength being blocked, she was caught in a short time. The two ronins wordlessly smashed apart her leg bones with their hammers.

The latter one was violent, while the former was meticulous.

The methods were completely different. The same thing was, they were all vicious and malicious. And What would the woman, who could make such a group of people serve for herself, be like?

An Su took a deep breath and wiped away the blurry, bright-red image in her mind. Her cold and indifferent face was cold and stiff, and the disappointment in her eyes could not be hidden. Even after searching for so long, she still didn't know what was her next move.

Seeing that, Xuan Yi stepped forward and reported, "Master, when I was ordered to monitor Xie Wentao and Wang Xuanlang, I found some clues. Mr. Xie said that that woman was familiar to him as if he had seen her at the Capital. So, maybe we can continue to monitor them and we will find that woman."

Hearing that, An Su did not say anything. It was already expected that the two of them would not be so honest with her. That was true. She knew that Xuan Yi would definitely give her a surprise. Xie Wentao's cover was perfect. Perhaps others wouldn't doubt him, but she had long ago given up on trusting anyone else.

How could she not suspect him?

The reason why she painted the female dress for that woman was because Wang Xuanlang and Xie Wentao usually hang out in the brothels and it was impossible for that woman to continue pretending to be a man in the Capital.

What a coincidence. Xie Wentao really said it's a familiar face.

He had seen her before, definitely.

Wang Xuanlang and Xie Wentao obviously hid the truth from her because they wanted to take the initiative.

She didn't care about that. The initiative had always been in her hands. It wouldn't be that easy for them to find that woman and put pressure on An Su. What she cared about was the results of her investigation over the past month.

She had seen that woman with her own eyes, and Xie Wentao thought that she was familiar to him. Even the killers of Absolute Calamity Pavilion had seen her subordinates before. These people were doing clandestine tasks everywhere. However, she was still unable to find woman’s whereabouts even though she had found some clues.

I have to say, this woman is too good at hiding her trace!

An Su pondered as she raised her head to look at Black Hawk, "You are Xiang Biao's subordinate, but I am curious as to why you would want him dead so much. What kind of enmity do you have with him?"

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