Mei Lin opened the door and found two bandits in the room attempting to open the doors leading to the cellar. As the bandits noticed them, Mei Lin swiftly drew her crystal knife and charged towards them. Both bandits retaliated, rushing at her with their machetes.
Mei Lin charged forward, driving her crystal knife into the chest of the bandit, who was closer to her and just turned around. He had no chance to dodge, and the blade pierced through his heart. With his last ounce of strength, he grabbed Mei Lin in the hope of salvaging himself, but it was already late. As soon as the blade went into his body, he felt that death was his only way forward.
The other bandit, who was also present swung his machete, aiming to decapitate her as fast as possible, scared out of his wits. Despite being a bandit for a long time and killing many people he was not ready to die here at any cost not to mention decapitating someone so ruthless as Mei Lin. She was already covered in blood and seeing his fellow die on the spot right next to him made him resolute to kill her.
Mei Lin, unable to dodge due to their matching speeds, had no choice but to attempt to block the machete with her hand.
Mei Lin condensed all-natural energy from her cultivation sea and directed it onto her hand. Mei Lin tried to move the blood in her body to concentrate on her hand and reinforce it against the blade. With great force, the blade of the machete only penetrated the skin and flesh, stopping just before hitting the bone. The surprise was evident on all three faces as they witnessed the machete blade coming to an abrupt halt.
"How?" The bandit and Li Fey Lianhua simultaneously shouted in disbelief at what had just happened. Mei Lin's hand not only survived the machete strike but also managed to avoid getting her head severed.
Hit threw her to the ground, her crystal knife the chest of the dead bandit went through his chest poor bandit's chest smoother than a knife through the tofu still staying in Mei Lin's hand. As they witnessed the bandit being torn apart, blood started flowing all around the room, drenching Mei Lin's once more and painting the surrounding walls red.
The remaining bandit and Li Fey Lianhua looked at Mei Lin's crystal knife with fear in their eyes. The bandit attempted to go around Mei Lin to exit the room. Mei Lin was trying to stop him, but before she stood up, he was already gone.
Li Fey Lianhua starts screaming at Mei Lin and at the same time, she starts running away.
"What did you do?! You killed them all, you monster." Mei Lin didn't care about her and took his storage space and went outside the room to run away.
'As fast as we get out of this mess, no one will find us, and we will escape.' As Mei Lin ran to stop her, Li Fey Lianhua quickly left the followed her and despite screaming at her, she didn't say anything and followed her.
As Mei Lin also ran out of the main building, she saw Li Fey Lianhua and five bandits in the garden. Mei Lin managed to catch Li Fey Lianhua and as she tried to move her back into the house, Li Fey Lianhua was hit by an arrow and fell to the ground. Mei Lin tried to move her back, but bandits closed in and engaged in combat with Mei Lin.
Mei Lin wanted to help Li Fey Lianhua, but she felt that staying here any longer would only bring her death, and before everyone managed to react, she let go of Li Fey Lianhua and moved into the main building. Mei Lin, despite not wanting to fight, was also hit by an arrow in the back and sent to the ground.
The arrow became lodged between Mei Lin's ribs, nearly tearing her lungs and making it impossible for her to pull it out. The bandits slowly approached her and before she managed to get up, they started kicking her as she made minimal effort to defend herself.
Eventually, one of them ceased the kicks, attempting to move Mei Lin, so they would know what was going on. In response, Mei Lin slashed with her crystal knife, severing a few of his fingers as he tried to touch her.
Seeing his fingers fall to the ground sharp pain immediately spread through his body and the bandit screamed like crazy and hastily retreated from the mansion. The remaining bandits, who hadn't engaged in combat, also fled away from Mei Lin to save their lives.
After a few minutes of intense silence, both Mei Lin and Li Fey Lianhua burst into laughter. They were relieved that all the invading bandits had left just like that, and for the moment, no one was trying to harm them.
Mei Lin was not sure why was Li Fey Lianhua laughing, but she was sure that her fighting power was truly pathetic and if the bandits were not scared of just like that, she would be probably dead.
After a while, Mei Lin managed to pull out the stuck arrow. However, before she went to help Li Fey Lianhua and moved a little, she felt like she could fall asleep at any moment. Just as she felt in such a way, she discovered that the arrow was poisoned, and the toxin from the tip had already been absorbed into her bloodstream.
'Fuck! I should have detected it sooner. It is impossible that I am so tired just from fighting.' Thought Mei Lin and went to Li Fey Lianhua and started dragging her into the main building. Before they entered, Li Fey Lianhua had already fallen asleep, and Mei Lin couldn't wake her up. Mei Lin left her in the first room as they entered and hurried to the room with the cellar.
As she entered the room where the cellar was located, Mei Lin closed the doors and sat in the lotus position. She already felt worn down from the poison, but in the end, she was happy that the poison was not lethal and entered a cultivation state to rid herself of it.
Mei Lin started circulating her natural energy in her cultivation sea and slowly all her blood started slowly entering her cultivation sea to be refined and cleansed. As soon as Mei Lin collected all her blood, she started cleansing it.
Mei Lin immersed herself in the cultivation and in no time lost track of it and immersed herself in getting rid of the poison. It didn't take long before Mei Lin realized that something was wrong with her body.
Mei Lin was not aware of what was happening around her, but as she felt that nothing dangerous was around, she ended her cultivation state to find out what happened and how long she was cultivating.
As she ended the cultivation state, extreme pain spread through her body. The room where Mei Lin fell on her and she was deep underground in the cellar.
As the ceiling fell, one of the logs that were implemented in the ceiling fell on her shoulder, and stuck her hand between the floor and the log. As the doors down into the cellar opened, Mei Lin fell, and her stuck hand was ripped off.
She couldn't understand how this happened, but unknown to her, when she was in her cultivation state and absorbed all her blood back into the cultivation sea in her dantian, she didn't have any blood left in her body and looked like a mummy.
As she spread her blood back into her body, a lot of her blood started flowing out through the missing hand. Without thinking Mei Lin once again entered the cultivation state. 'What happened when I was in cultivation state? I need to figure the way, how to get out of this situation!'
Not long after, Mei Lin calmed her mind, and she attempted to stop the flow of blood from her missing arm with the last bits of her natural energy. With a swift movement of her only functional hand, which was also in very bad shape, a green bottle containing healing pills and a wine jar with the blood of the bandit she killed not long ago appeared in front of her.
Mei Lin took the rest of the pills which were in the bottle and after swallowing them, she began drinking the blood from the jar as much as possible. After consuming everything inside, Mei Lin wanted to vomit, but fear of death and the possibility of throwing up swallowed healing pills stopped her.
Mei Lin quickly entered her cultivation sea and started absorbing her remaining blood into the cultivation sea. It took a while, but after half a day of painful absorbing, she absorbed all her blood in cultivation sea and once again looked like a withered skeleton. Now her mind shifted back into cultivation, and she started to absorb large amounts of natural energy from the pills and blood she ate.
As pills and blood were slowly released large amounts of natural energy, Mei Lin absorbed it into the cultivation sea, and then already refined natural energy sent to the wound on her shoulder to close the wound. This process was very slow because she couldn't just close the exposed bone and flash. Her natural energy inside the cultivation sea could create just a little missing flash and skin and in the process deplete almost all her natural energy inside the cultivation sea.