After drinking the noodle soup, the young man felt much better. He asked Li Xuan in a low voice: "Where are the others? Why are there only two of us left?
Why do they give us noodle soup? Are we going to be beheaded?"
Li Xuan smiled: "Where do you get so many questions?
You should recuperate first, and you will know after your injury heals."
The young man wanted to ask more questions, but his head felt dizzy again, so he could only lie down and rest quietly.
The next day passed quickly, and Li Xuan extorted several medicinal herbs from the jailer.
The jailers are dumbfounded. They have always been the only ones blackmailing prisoners. When will prisoners be able to blackmail jailers? Is there any justice in this world?
Regardless of whether the jailers like it or not, the shadow Li Xuan left on their hearts is still there.
The jailers had no choice but to bring medicinal herbs in the evening and refused Li Xuan's reward of several gold ingots - they heard that the warden had lost his temper and was preparing to deal with the prisoner. Who would dare to ask for his money?
The third day passed quietly again. Li Xuan practiced very smoothly. The young man also understood the situation a little bit. He looked at Li Xuan with a mixture of envy and fear in his eyes.
In the blink of an eye, on the morning of the fourth day, the jailers brought breakfast as usual.
"Why did you change the person?"
Seeing two unfamiliar faces serving breakfast, Li Xuan asked casually.
One of the jailers was lean. After listening to Li Xuan's question, he laughed and said, "Our jailers here work in shifts every three days.
Starting today, it will be the two of us to serve you."
He answered very appropriately and politely. Li Xuan nodded slightly and watched as he opened the food box in his hand and took out the breakfast inside.
The night before, Li Xuan conducted a test on the young man with the elixir he had just refined. The young man's injuries improved greatly. Although he still had some difficulty in moving, he could already do some simple work.
He also knew Li Xuan's intention of saving him. When he saw the jailer taking out breakfast, he was busy helping Li Xuan and setting it for Li Xuan to wait for him to eat.
Today's breakfast is quite rich, with steaming hot meat buns and fragrant tofu curd.
The young man had not tasted such delicious food for a long time, and his mouth watered just looking at it.
The two jailers exited the iron gate, exchanged glances, and waited.
It was like this every morning, but Li Xuan keenly noticed that something was wrong.
Li Xuan stretched out, but his eyes swept over the jailers, always feeling that something was wrong.
After he thought about it for a moment, it started ringing.
"There was a white mark on the thin man's finger, which was obviously from wearing a ring all year round.
Why did he take off the ring? What was he trying to hide?"
Li Xuan thought to himself.
"Unless he is not a jailer...but a monk."
Li Xuan thought of this, picked up the bun and smelled it.
The aroma of the steamed buns is very strong, but Li Xuan is an alchemist, so he can naturally smell a strange smell hidden in the aroma.
"It smells like bitter moss."
Li Xuan's mouth curled up slightly.
The person who poisoned him was quite smart, but unfortunately when he met a great master like him, he could only fall short.
Seeing Li Xuan go to smell the steamed buns, the two jailers' bodies moved slightly, looking a little nervous.
This scene fell in Li Xuan's eyes, which further confirmed his guess.
Li Xuan put the bun down again, looked at the young man and said, "Why don't you eat it?"
"Please...sir, please eat first."
The young man swallowed a mouthful of saliva and said cautiously.
"You should eat a steamed bun first, it seems to taste very good."
Li Xuan smiled and pushed the bun to the young man.
"Thank you sir."
The young man's stomach had been growling for a long time, so he was not polite, picked up the bun and started to chew it.
The expressions of the two jailers on the side changed. The thin one was fine, but the other hand quietly touched his waist, which was slightly bulging, and he didn't know what kind of weapon was hidden there.
Li Xuan snorted coldly and said, "You two, don't you have anything to say?"
"Let him see through it!"
The jailer roared, and with a flick of his robe, a dagger appeared in his hand.
There was a faint dark green color flowing on the blade of the dagger, which seemed to be quenched with poison. The jailer rushed into the cell with the dagger and stabbed Li Xuan straight at him.
His thrust was thunderous, and the speed was even more shocking. In an instant, it had hit Li Xuan's chest.
"Amazing!"
Li Xuan knew that the other party's strength was astonishing and could not be underestimated.
Li Xuan kicked the dining table into the air, blocking it right in front of the jailer. At the same time, he quickly retreated backwards. Shadow spiritual power flowed from his fingertips, and the spiritual arrow was ready to go.
With a "bang" sound, the jailer swung his dagger and chopped the dining table into pieces, then went straight to Li Xuan without stopping.
At the same time, the thin man outside the cell had already taken action. He opened his hands and muttered words, and a huge ice cone gradually condensed in front of him. It turned out to be an astonishingly powerful ice spell.
"What a great gesture."
Li Xuan was surprised.
He has already seen that the two people who took action are of great importance. One is a nimble and agile assassin, and the other is proficient in powerful and destructive spells. Both of them are comparable to his current strength, let alone two people working together.
"Excessive measures must be used."
Several tactics flashed through Li Xuan's mind, but he rejected them one by one.
If it were a mediocre battle, he would have almost no chance of winning. If he wanted to turn defeat into victory, he would have to fight against the odds.
"Die!"
Li Xuan's mind was faster than lightning, and the assassin's speed was not much slower than thunder and lightning. His body soared into the air, and the sound of the dagger piercing the air made a strange "hissing" sound, like a rattlesnake spitting a message.
Li Xuan's face was as cold as ice, and he advanced instead of retreating. Seeing that the dagger was about to stab his chest, Li Xuan raised his left arm in front of him to protect him.
"Pfft", the dagger stabbed into Li Xuan's arm hard, and blood spattered everywhere.
The assassin was delighted that the poison on the dagger was prepared by himself and could kill a bull in a few seconds, let alone a human being.
Since Li Xuan was stabbed, he was dead.
However, his excitement only lasted half a second. In a duel between masters, a moment of negligence can be fatal.
After Li Xuan's left arm was stabbed, his muscles immediately tightened, his copper skin and iron bones activated, and his body suddenly became as stiff as iron.
More importantly, the spell solidified the injured part, and the poison's power was trapped on the surface of the arm, unable to penetrate into the body at all.
Not to mention, Li Xuan fought hard to get a knife, and what he wanted was the chance to turn defeat into victory.
Before the joy on the assassin's face fully bloomed, Li Xuan's fatal counterattack arrived.
"Poof", a flame penetrated the assassin's body, leaving a claw-shaped bloody hole in his chest.
The assassin lowered his head in disbelief. Before he could see the hole in his chest, Li Xuan rushed to him and pushed him out.