The barbed and serrated military dagger, under Lei Dong's violent force, pressed inch by inch toward Lu Qingshan's throat, the aura of death more chilling than the cold rain.

Lei Dong's face, contorted with excitement and rage, loomed close to Lu Qingshan, his hot breath mixed with the smell of blood spraying onto his face.

"Kid, you're good at fighting and you're also good at scheming. You even managed to outmaneuver that good-for-nothing A-Jiu to death."

Lei Dong let out a beast-like growl, his triangular eyes filled with a sadistic pleasure.

"But you shouldn't have tried to outmuscle me! To me, you look like a woman!"

The cold rain mixed with mud slid down Lu Qingshan's forehead and into his eyes, causing a stinging sensation.

He could clearly feel the serrated blade had cut through the skin of his neck, and a slight stinging sensation accompanied the flow of warm blood.

"Do you know how long this knife has been with me?"

Lei Dong reveled in the feeling of having complete control over the lives and deaths of others, his voice lowered, filled with a smug cruelty.

"In the forests over there in Yue, I used it to slit seventeen throats with my own hands. Their cries were fucking better than any woman's! Don't worry, I'll make you the eighteenth, and I promise, I'll slit you very, very slowly..."

In my sight, Lei Dong's ugly face was blurred into a blur by the rain.

Lu Qingshan's right wrist, which was holding the knife, was pressed firmly into the mud by Lei Dong's elbow. The unreasonable and tyrannical force made it impossible for him to raise his arm to block.

Life and death are separated by a hair's breadth.

Lei Dong's bloodthirsty ecstasy had reached its peak; he seemed to already see the other man's throat completely slit open, his blood staining the muddy water.

However, there was not a trace of fear on Lu Qingshan's face.

His eyes, which appeared particularly deep in the rain, coldly stared at Lei Dong, as if he were not the one being pressed down and about to have his throat slit.

He suddenly spoke, his voice hoarse and calm, yet it felt like an ice pick piercing Lei Dong's excited brain.

"You're right, my strength is indeed no match for a piece of trash like you who weighs over 200 pounds."

Lei Dong's sinister smile froze, and his downward thrust of the blade paused instinctively for a moment: "What?"

"I said," Lu Qingshan said, staring into his eyes and enunciating each word clearly.

"What you're so proud of is nothing but your stupid strength. All your brothers are dead, and I pinned Ajiu to a tree with one spear. From this day forward, the foundation you painstakingly built is completely severed. Now, you're nothing but a homeless ghost."

"You...you're asking for it!"

Lei Dong, whose sore spot had been touched, instantly flew into a rage. All his reason was consumed by hatred. He pressed down with all his weight, ready to completely end this brat who dared to humiliate him!

He focused all his attention on enjoying the thrill of this final, brutal killing.

Lu Qingshan had been waiting for this moment! His left arm, which had been trapped under the mud, moved!

He didn't try to push away the military dagger because he knew that a pure contest of strength was tantamount to suicide.

He risked his serious injuries for a chance to kill with one blow!

"Since you enjoy slitting throats so much," Lu Qingshan's voice was icy cold, "then you can have a taste of my arm first!"

His left arm suddenly rose upwards, actively meeting the downward-pressing blade!

"Pfft!"

A dull thud as if flesh was being torn apart by a blunt object sounded exceptionally clear amidst the pouring rain!

The barbed serrations dug deep into Lu Qingshan's forearm.

Lei Dong could even feel the resistance coming from under the blade, as it cut through flesh, severed tendons, and finally rubbed against bone!

The excruciating pain was like a red-hot iron clamp, twisting Lu Qingshan's nerves hard.

Blood gushed out instantly from the deep, bone-revealing wound, staining the surrounding muddy water red in a flash.

Lei Dong was completely stunned. He had spent half his life in the underworld, killing countless people, but he had never seen such a ruthless person! To actually use such an extreme self-harming method to fight for one's life!

He instinctively wanted to increase the force and completely cripple the arm.

But Lu Qingshan didn't utter a single groan. His face, washed by the rain, remained unchanged, and the coldness in his eyes only intensified, as if he himself was not the one who was injured.

It was this moment of stillness!

Lu Qingshan traded his severe injury to his left arm for less than an inch of freedom of movement in his right hand!

His right hand, which had been buried in the mud, gripped the steel hunting knife, and moved silently like a venomous snake lurking at the bottom of the water.

The tip of the knife traced an almost invisible path through the murky mud, precisely and fiercely stabbing into the back of Lei Dong's right ankle, the foot that supported his entire weight!

That's where the major tendon in the heel is located!

Lei Dong's entire attention was focused upwards; he had no idea of ​​the attack coming from underwater.

"puff!"

The sensation of the hunting knife piercing flesh was clearly felt in Lu Qingshan's palm, without the slightest resistance.

Without the slightest hesitation.

"Cut it off right now!"

Lu Qingshan let out a low growl that was suppressed to the extreme. His arm muscles bulged, his wrist twisted suddenly, and he exerted force, shoving upwards fiercely!

"Snap!"

A sharp, teeth-grinding crack, mixed with the sound of tendons being brutally torn apart, suddenly rang out!

Lei Dong's right Achilles tendon was completely severed by this extremely vicious knife!

"ah--!!!"

A heart-wrenching pain, far exceeding any knife wound, surged from my ankle to my trembling brain like the most violent electric current!

He let out a mournful howl that sounded inhuman, his whole body trembled violently, and the force pressing down on Lu Qingshan instantly dissipated.

Those triangular eyes, bulging from the excruciating pain, were filled with unbelievable horror.

He's finished!

As a ruthless bandit, he knew better than anyone what a severed Achilles tendon meant.

In this man-eating old forest, he had become a cripple who couldn't even catch a rabbit! His once-proud strength and speed would now become a joke!

The excruciating pain instantly transformed into boundless anger and fear.

"I'll kill you!!"

Lei Dong abandoned his plan to press down on the blade. His only thought now was to use the most primal method to crush the man beneath him, who had destroyed everything, to death!

He suddenly swung his head and slammed his forehead against Lu Qingshan's face!

"Bang!"

Another dull, muffled sound of flesh and bone colliding.

Lu Qingshan was just about to turn the tables when he couldn't completely avoid the beast-like, dying counterattack and took a solid hit to his brow bone.

He felt stars flashing before his eyes, and a stream of scalding liquid instantly gushed from his forehead, blurring his left eye. The whole world in his vision turned blood red.

The two men, like two wounded wild beasts, rolled and fought wildly in the knee-deep mud.

There was no rhythm, only the dull thud of fists slamming into flesh and the heavy, animalistic panting.

"I'll bite you to death!" Lei Dong went completely mad, opening his mouth to bite Lu Qingshan's shoulder.

Lu Qingshan winced in pain, roared, and used his waist and abdomen to twist his body and sink his elbow!

He used all his strength to deliver a vicious elbow strike, which slammed into Lei Dong's exposed left rib area!

"Snap! Snap!"

Two crisp cracking sounds rang out, and Lei Dong winced in pain, releasing his grip. Lu Qingshan seized the opportunity to slide away, forcibly creating a three-step distance between them.

He shook his heavy head, wiped the blood and mud from his face, and staggered to his feet from the mud.

The torrential rain lashed his muscular upper body, and the deep, bone-revealing wound on his left arm appeared deathly pale under the rain. The bloodstain on his forehead added to his gruesome appearance.

Across from him, Lei Dong struggled to stand up, but his right leg was like a broken stick, limp and dragging in the mud, completely powerless.

He could only support his body with his left leg and hands, kneeling half-kneeling in the mud, like a vicious dog with its spine broken.

One was standing, and the other was kneeling.

The outcome is decided.

"You're just a piece of trash."

Lu Qingshan gasped for breath. The cold rain had slightly restored some sensation to his blood-depleted body. He looked down at Lei Dong.

"You kill people for money, for women, for your laughable sense of power. I kill people simply because you beasts got in my way and touched people you shouldn't have."

Lei Dong raised his head, and a strange and cruel smile appeared on his fleshy face.

"Hehe...hehehe...cough cough..." He coughed up blood while laughing, dragging his crippled leg slowly backward, while his right hand quietly reached into his pocket.

"Kid...you really are...a man..." His voice was hoarse like a broken gong, "You're the first person to have pushed me to this point..."

"But... do you think you've won?" Lei Dong's smile grew increasingly manic.

"You're right, I'm crippled! But even if I go to hell, I'll take you down with me, you little bastard!"

The moment he finished speaking, Lei Dong suddenly pulled something out of his pocket!

That's not a gun.

Instead, it is a thin, hollow tube made of bamboo, only about the length of a palm.

Blowgun!

At the mouth of the tube, a poison needle gleaming with a ghostly blue light was poised to be fired.

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