The old woman stood up and unfolded a contract: "Have you thought it over? If you have, hurry up and put on your makeup, otherwise, you'll be the ones breaking the contract."

I laughed, "Take a good look yourself, is there my signature on it?"

The old woman turned the contract over and saw that it didn't have my signature at all.

I argued fiercely with the manager in the property office, infuriating him half to death, just to take advantage of his rage to slip away and not give him a chance to call me back to sign the contract.

The old woman casually threw the contract aside, "So what if you didn't sign the contract? You've already taken my money. I also have witnesses. Even if ghosts and gods come, I'm still in the right."

I sneered, "I didn't take all the money. If I didn't take the full amount, I can return the deposit. You should know the rules of the Jianghu, right?"

The old woman was trembling with anger: "Today, you have to do this business, whether you want to or not."

"If you don't keep your word, you won't be able to leave Shanglin Residential Complex."

I laughed loudly, "Ghosts and gods are faithless, yet you want me to be faithful? Who gave you the audacity?"

"Today, not only will I not give you face, but I will also slap your faces."

I was talking nonsense with the old woman all along, actually to buy Wang Xiaohuan time to recover.

When Wang Xiaohuan gently touched me from behind, I knew it was my time to act.

My twin blades were drawn simultaneously, two streaks of blade wind like crescent moons slashing towards the old woman. As she retreated hastily, the dried corpse on the bed leaped up and pounced at Wang Xiaohuan.

I brushed past the dried corpse. The instant my twin blades went straight for the target, a bang echoed in my ears.

The dried corpse, which had originally crossed paths with me, suddenly flew backwards, slamming into the opposite wall against my shoulder.

The other party originally wanted to capture Wang Xiaohuan, but unexpectedly, she slapped it back, pinning it to the wall along with the old woman.

As I exerted force in my arms again, I raised my power to the maximum. The two curved blades drew out shadows, like waves crashing against a reef, covering the two people in a dense, overwhelming attack.

In the next instant, a wall, along with the two figures, was simultaneously blown away by my blade. Shattered bricks, along with the vibrating window frames, fell into the residential complex courtyard.

Wang Xiaohuan and I didn't stop for a moment. One in front and one behind, we flew out of the window, our figures mixed in with the shattered bricks flying everywhere, chasing after the two people.

Before either side landed, the blade light and palm energy once again covered the opponents.

The old couple had been at a disadvantage since I made my move, and now they had no power to fight back at all.

Just as my soul-reaping, life-stealing blade was about to touch the target, a figure suddenly rushed out from the side, striking at my ribs with claws like hooks.

Unable to adjust my posture in mid-air, I could only defend with my blade.

Before my twin blades could be fully retracted, Wang Xiaohuan stepped on my back, causing my figure to plummet straight down. Wang Xiaohuan herself replaced my position, exchanging several palm strikes with the enemy.

As I landed, I heard Wang Xiaohuan shout, "You kill the person, I'll kill him!"

I did want to take down both ghosts and gods in one fell swoop, but the attack was interrupted by that person midway, and I had lost the best opportunity to kill. After landing, I could only swing a blade close to the ground.

The intersecting blade wind instantly severed the old woman's feet, but she pushed the dried corpse back several meters, flipped over, and straddled the dried corpse's neck.

Blood flowed straight from the old woman's feet, but she didn't seem to feel any pain. Clutching the dried corpse's head, she glared at me fiercely and shouted, "Old Wu, they don't keep their contract and dare to attack us. Why don't you hurry up and kill them both?"

The person fighting Wang Xiaohuan was the security guard, Old Wu.

In the short moment since we started fighting, the two of them had exchanged more than ten palm strikes. Finally, their palms collided, and they each retreated backwards.

That was the first time I saw Wang Xiaohuan fight without her white lantern.

I originally thought that the internal energy Wang Xiaohuan cultivated should be inclined towards yin and softness, following the path of using soft palms to shatter stone into powder. But I didn't expect that Wang Xiaohuan was actually fighting with black *gangqi* (internal energy), which was neither rigid nor flexible, neither yin nor yang, and didn't seem to have any power at all.

Especially the last palm strike that pushed Old Wu away, it seemed to rely solely on the strength of her arms.

Could it be that Wang Xiaohuan's *gangqi* was just something to bluff people with?

If that were the case, it would be terrible!

Old Wu stood with his hands behind his back, coldly looking at Wang Xiaohuan and saying, "Just a show!" Then he turned to me and said, "You've gone too far!"

"Bullshit!" I pointed at Old Wu with my blade and cursed, "Don't think you can spout nonsense just because you're a ghost and god. Today, I'm going to kill you!"

Old Wu sneered, "Just the two of you?"

"Now, I'll give you two choices. One is to complete the contract, regardless of life or death. The other is to be treated as a breach of contract and be killed on the spot, your souls imprisoned here."

The old woman said with a ferocious expression, "And they have to return my feet. I want that girl's feet!"

Old Wu nodded, "That's right, you have to return her a pair of feet, and also break one of your arms to compensate for your crime of injuring someone."

Wang Xiaohuan walked over unhurriedly, "Want my feet? See if your own hands can grow back first!"

The old woman standing behind Old Wu subconsciously glanced at his hands behind his back, and her expression changed drastically in fright: "Old Wu, what happened to your hands?"