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The time goes back to a few minutes earlier, before Sword Master Bi Xiao made his move to kill Suo Lun.
Suo Lun asked, "Yao Xing, with you around, does that mean I generally won't die?"
Yao Xing said, "If someone pierces through your head or heart, or even drains all the blood from your body, you will still die."
Suo Lun said, "That is to say, if someone strangles my life energy directly with their energy, I won't die."
"Correct," Yao Xing said. "Because even the faintest trace of my energy can sustain your life."
Suo Lun said, "So a Jueshi (peerless) master like Bi Xiao, when killing someone like me, would definitely quash my life force in an instant, letting me die without any pain, right?"
"Uh..." Yao Xing said, "If it were me, I wouldn't dare to bet on that."
Then, Suo Lun just made such a bet.
