Blood, poison and a large pile of bodies

All of a sudden something fell down towards his body which was a small smoke bomb which shielded what was happening from any outsiders view.

As it grew it slowly enveloped his body further, as his wounds opened up more his own blood became infected and he became even worse.

After suffering from the intense pain and blood loss he passed out again while his body was surrounded by the poisonous blood mist.

It didn't take a long time before he had died of blood loss along with the other man and the poisonous blood mist travelled up towards Ki's location within the grey smoke.

Just as another couple of enemies got closer to her the mist had arrived up the ledge and attacked them from behind while Ki was put on the defensive against many close ranged enemies.

Narrowly avoiding a slash, thrust or punch while she was against the wall still she avoided their attacks and sent out a palm towards one of the forearms of the enemies and then flexibly bent her body to the side to dodge again after taking her hand back.

She reached out with both hands and touched two enemies at once on their exposed skin on their arms as the poisonous blood mist began to spread onto and make contact with the enemies further at the back that were attacking her or waiting for an opportunity to join in.

Some foolish people had accidentally wounded their own allies during the messy fight and by the time the mist joined the fight many at the front had been poisoned.

Ki was able to reduce the use of her energy with every movement and attack that she received as she was put under further pressure as their numbers had increased but she was able to overcome it with every passing moment.

From the front many people had been infected by the poison and were going crazy and hurting themselves and others and the same was for those at the back who either did the same or fell from the ledge into the pile of bodies that was only increasing as time passed.

Many maddening screams were heard that echoed within the icy ravine.

Those caught up in the middle were struggling to also avoid being harmed and were a little trapped in place so they could not escape the poisonous blood mist from behind but they could also not fight against Ki because of those in front of them that were causing problems and blocking the way.

One man was smart enough to use their time to escape and avoid the poisonous mist but as a result he pushed some of his allies off the ledge as he tried to run away.

Although he was somewhat safe it did not mean that he was free from harm.

Just as he thought he was fine a friend approached while wailing in pain. "Help..help me.."

Seeing his infected friend approaching he became frightened and backed off. "Get. Get away!"

The man moved closer as if seeking for something to overcome their current crisis and moved to grab the man. "Help…"

After being grabbed he began to panic further and began to hit his friend who had forced him towards the edge of the ledge but before he could be released they both fell down towards the ground below. "Aaah…"

Meanwhile Ki continued her onslaught of palm attacks, touching or grabbing towards any places that they had exposed skin whether it be their neck, arms, hands or their lower legs if needed.

As the smoke bombs helped to shield her from the eyes of others like the archers that were hiding nearby or the others who had yet to attack she could confidently defend herself in the small space that she had without being restrained.

If anything the idea that she could be restrained would be a lie if she decides to make use of her poison palm and her mystical arts or even uses them both together.

Even now she had yet to use her mystical arts main ability to boost her bodies strength by using some of the blood that was stored within her runic tattoos.

If she made use of that then she was unsure of what the limit of her overall strength increase would be for a limited amount of time and how long she could hold it for since her body had already reached a stage where it had become very resilient and durable but at the same time had very high vitality and potential within it.

Every mystical arts users body would have a limit on how they could use their abilities and the blood strengthening was one of the abilities that was demanding.

Even during her experiment in her previous life blood axe who was a peak unrestrained realm blood sect martial artist had a hard time dealing with her aide who was using the blood sects martial arts and the blood mystical arts strengthening method.

Even though he was well trained and had good potential, the time of training he had only allowed him to reach the early unrestrained realm so he could not deal with a peak unrestrained realm but the strengthening method provided him with a boost in strength that could help him bridge that gap for a short time allowing him to trade his life for a deadly blow towards blood axe.

However compared to him Ki was a martial artist who had undergone the bone metamorphosis and also had tempered her body so she should have a higher limit.

If she was truly put in a desperate situation then she would have no choice but to call upon that power but right now did not seem to be one of those times.

In fact while she was a little under pressure and in a restricted space she found a chance to improve her martial arts further along with gaining further familiarity with her poisonous qi as she continued to attack or counter her enemies.