Chapter 1621 [Holy Covenant

　　This sword was strangely fast under Lin Qiye’s full power, An Qingyu only felt a touch of coldness coming from his own side, and chilling hairs stood up all over his body!

　　He dodged to the other side like lightning, but he still couldn’t avoid the sharpness of this sword, the broken blade cut across the corner of his forehead, and a strand of scarlet blood splashed into the air.

　　One sword cut out, Lin Qiye’s second sword followed closely behind, An Qingyu’s gray eyes contracted, his body quickly transformed into thousands of rats, scattering in all directions, the sword blade sliced through the rats, but didn’t leave the slightest trace.

　　The rats tumbled over the ruins and eventually converged around the church, and An Qingyu’s figure stepped back out.

　　He reached out and touched the corner of his forehead, but the wound did not heal itself, he looked at the blood between his palms in a daze, his expression somewhat complicated.

　　In mid-air, Shen Qingzhu’s figure gradually fell down, splitting into three places with Lin Qiye and No. 27, surrounding An Qingyu.

　　”Come back to Daxia with us, Lieutenant An.” Shen Qingzhu slowly spoke, “You have no way back.”

　　An Qingyu’s gaze swept around, and there wasn’t the slightest bit of panic in those gray eyes.

　　”Daxia?” An Qingyu shook his head, “I can’t go back anymore.”

　　His right hand raised and pressed heavily on the ground, and in the next moment, the earth beneath the stone platform dozens of meters away from him suddenly turned into quicksand, directly engulfing the platform along with the young girl sleeping above it.

　　At the same time, the space-time around An Qingyu violently disturbed, and a spatial vortex bloomed behind him.

　　”Stop him!” Lin Qiye immediately swept out, Shen Qingzhu, and No. 27 also moved at the same time, rushing towards An Qingyu from three different directions!

　　An Qingyu lifted her toes lightly, and her entire body fell on her back towards the spatial vortex behind her, and those gray pupils gazed at the rapidly approaching Lin Qiye as she calmly opened her mouth:

　　”Goodbye …… Captain Lin Qiye.”

　　Lin Qiye threw the Heavenly Clouds Sword in his hand with great force, cutting out a terrifying sonic boom, but it only lightly passed through the center of the fading vortex, and the figure clad in tattered black robes had already disappeared.

　　The three people’s figures stopped in place.

　　The cold wind whipped through the London covered in fallen leaves, the gray rain curtain gradually dissipated, Lin Qiye looked at the empty nothingness in front of him, his fists clenched tightly ……

　　”The escape piece, he has always been good at it.” Seeing this, Shen Qingzhu sighed helplessly.

　　”He took Chloe away.” No. 27 looked at the quicksand in the distance, his face under the hood was gloomy, “We can’t just let him leave like this, I’ll continue to go after him!”

　　As the words fell, No.27’s figure transformed into a wisp of smoke and haze, directly disappearing from the spot.

　　”Seven Nights, what do you say? Are we still chasing?” Shen Qingzhu turned his head and asked.

　　Lin Qiye stood in place and shook his head after a moment of silence:

　　”His spatial ability comes from the Gate of Truth, he can span extreme distances in an instant, even if we chase now, we won’t be able to catch up …… Even if we do, we may not be able to leave him behind.”

　　Lin Qiye slowly walked to a piece of broken wall, picked up the Heavenly Clouds Sword on the ground, looked at the remnants of blood on the sword, and bitterness surfaced in his eyes.

　　He clearly remembered that when he saw the future An Qingyu in hell, the other party had a scar on his forehead that he didn’t know whether it was a sword mark or a knife mark……. At that time, he still wondered how it would be so easy to leave a scar with Qingyu’s recovery power.

　　Now it seems that the one who left that scar to An Qingyu was none other than himself.

　　”Then …… what about them?”

　　Shen Qingzhu pointed aside.

　　On top of the remnants of the drifting ruins, a handful of knights were kneeling down in front of the piece of quicksand that had originally held the stone platform, stabbing their knight swords into the earth, tears streaking across their cheeks as if they were repenting for something.

　　After this great battle, originally there were still seventy to eighty people in the Holy Ruling Knights, now only eight people were left, even if they added Charles, there were only nine people, the church was also almost destroyed, and the most crucial thing was that the Holy Maiden Chloe, whom they believed in and guarded, was also snatched away by An Qingyu.

　　On top of this ruined earth, they had nothing left.

　　Clank-!

　　After one of the knights finished his penance, he violently drew the longsword in front of himself and swung it straight towards his throat!

　　The remaining few knights followed suit and drew their long swords without hesitation, wanting to die in thanks for their sins.

　　Shen Qingzhu frowned, and the six gray wings behind him shook with force, and the gust of wind directly smashed away the knights’ swords in their hands, plunging backwards into the broken wall in the distance.

　　The knights froze slightly and turned their heads to look.

　　”Although there are some of you whose behavioral practices I don’t like, your sense of conviction and loyalty are truly praiseworthy.” Shen Qingzhu spoke indifferently, “It’s too much of a pity to just seek your own death.”

　　The knights looked at each other and shook their heads:

　　”Guarding Lord Holy Maiden is a vow we made several years ago, now that this pact has not been fulfilled, we naturally deserve to die to thank for our sins, there’s nothing not to be regretted.

　　Previously, for the sake of the Holy Maiden, we have offended you all, on behalf of the other knights and Lord Taylor, we sincerely apologize to you ……

　　And please don’t stop us anymore.”

　　Previously, they fought Lin Qiye and the others because the Holy Maiden Chloe took the initiative to attack Lin Qiye, causing some of the knights to mistakenly think that they were enemies rather than friends, but after that guardianship battle just now, Lin Qiye and the others’ stance couldn’t have been more obvious, and the knights, although they were loyal, weren’t stupid, and by this point in time, they had also realized their mistake.

　　As the words fell, they slowly stood up, still resolute, and walked towards the knights’ swords that were stuck upside down on the ground.

　　Just then, a figure stopped in front of them.

　　”Lord Charles, do you wish to break your oath?” Seeing the figure clad in red and white armor, the knights frowned slightly.

　　Charles swept his gaze over the crowd and shook his head.

　　”Our oath has not yet been completed, so why would we break it?”

　　”Not yet completed? But the Holy Maiden Lord has already been ……”

　　”The Holy Maiden-sama was only taken away, she was not killed, moreover, with the strength of the Holy Maiden-sama, if she really felt that she was in danger, how could she not awaken until now? She was intentionally taken away by the attackers.”

　　Hearing the second half of Charles’ sentence, the knights froze in place at the same time.

　　”What are you talking about? Taken away on purpose?”

　　”Didn’t you guys realize? The Holy Maiden-sama, in fact, woke up long before.” Charles stretched out his hand and pointed at Lin Qiye, “He is the best evidence.”

　　All the knights turned to look at Lin Qiye at the same time, and at the place of his ragged chest, a mysterious golden seal was emitting a shimmering light.

　　”[Holy Covenant]?!!!” The moment they saw this seal, all the knights’ pupils suddenly contracted.

　　”[Holy Covenant]?” Lin Qiye looked down at his chest in confusion, “What is that?”