Chapter 46: Untitled

The short sword in Haitang’s hand was like a wind breath, silkily wrapping around Fan Xian, who was either jumping or leaping or crouching or lying down in all sorts of strange and comical postures, but between each of them, he used his strong body control to ensure that the postures were coherent.

The tip of the sword pierced the mud next to his left ear, pierced through the blades of grass under the tail finger of his right hand, and picked off the dewdrop next to his throat.

It just couldn’t pierce his body.

Haitang’s eyes gradually showed a trace of color, she has been practicing martial arts since childhood, talent is outstanding, confident in the hands of a short sword has long been the natural way of heaven and earth, in addition to the world’s four great masters, she did not put anyone in the eyes of the eyes of the young man in front of her, called Fan Xian, regardless of which aspect, are not their own rivals …… but, why? He was already in such a sorry state, yet the sword in his own hand was always a little short of him? Whenever he was about to stab the other person, the other person’s body seemed to anticipate and move away a few inches in the most sinister moment!

Fan Xian forehead sweat has also dripped down, at this time the situation is too dangerous, there are several times are close to losing their lives under the sword, the other hand in the hands of the sword is not as fast and accurate as the five bamboo uncle, but it is really a bit mysterious, he has some regrets, shouldn’t dodge, should be like the previous that, go to fight with the same life, with the courage of the other side of the blandness overwhelmed.

But the situation has been so, there is no other way.

In the moment between life and death, Fan Xian tumbled on the wet grass, dodging in a sorry state, not having the chance to complain about Five Bamboo’s level of education and hurt himself for his lack of martial arts genius.

With a snorting sound of breaking wind, a black feathered arrow broke through the air and shot straight at Haitang’s face. At this time, Haitang’s whole mind was on Fan Xian, and she was about to kill the other party, but she just turned around lightly, and let the arrow pass by her cheek.

Immediately afterward, there were two more arrows, three more arrows!

A shower of arrows avoided Fan Xian’s body, who was rolling around like a puppy, with extreme precision, and shot towards Haitang’s body in a dense, murderous manner.

Haitang sighed lightly in her heart and swung her sword back, sweeping down these feathered arrows one by one, but she realized that her wrist was also a bit numb, and she couldn’t help but be slightly shocked, thinking that the light bows of those cavalrymen were able to shoot arrows with such a large amount of energy!

Immediately after that, there is a long knife that flies over like a bamboo, this is the …… flying knife of the Tiger Guard Gundam! The tip of the knife ruthlessly plunged into the mud in front of Haitang, forcing this strong man back several steps.

The sound of horses’ hooves rang like thunder, the black cavalry outside the town finally arrived on top of the meadow, more than a hundred steeds stamped their hooves uneasily, seeming to have some kind of fear for the air in the meadow, while the black cavalrymen with masked faces on their horses all raised the long bows and crossbows in their hands, aiming at the absolute expert in the village girl’s clothes.

“You’re lucky.” Haitang lightly floated, pulling away from this group of terrifying cavalry for a long distance, then gently stroked her long hair and said to Fan Xian, who was having some difficulty getting up in the distance.

Fan Xian smiled bitterly, did not do anything verbally, looked at the village girl standing playfully in the distance, and waved goodbye.

The meadow cleared for a moment, and the black cavalrymen, listening to the password, dismounted and droned in unison, “Greetings to Lord Tiji.”

Fan Xian turned back, looking at these powerful cavalrymen who were permeated with a shadowy coldness, his heart finally settled down a lot, and said with some fatigue, “It’s poisonous here, and the horses will be irritable and restless in the meantime, so you guys be careful.”

Back in the camp, there were already accompanying physicians who took out things to treat Lord Fan’s injuries, and after casually wrapping them up, Fan Xian walked into the tent with a cold face, and instructed his men to take a break for a day today, and only enter the town of Misty River tomorrow.

“Who is it?” Fan Xian was not in a very good mood, and gave Wang Qinian a cold look.

Wang Qinian bowed and replied, “The person who drove the gate was from the Xinyang side, and the spies in the courtyard should be related to the Xinyang side as well. As for the group of troops that was responsible for receiving the troops outside of Mudu River Town, although it was disguised, it has been verified that it was the private soldiers of the Northern Qi general Lu Jing. This one called Lu Jing used to work in Uesugi Tiger’s army ten years ago, and has since been promoted extremely quickly.”

Fan Xian nodded, realizing that the subtle wound on his shoulder was starting to hurt, and frowned, “I can guess a little bit about Xiao En’s relationship with Uesugi Hu, so it’s normal for Lv Jing to come. Xinyang side …… This time, Xiao En was able to get out of prison, it was originally the means of Xinyang side, I just don t know that it is clear that he can reach the upper capital of Northern Qi peacefully, so why is it necessary to arrange for such a midway hijacking of a prisoner?”

He had a bit of a headache and couldn’t figure out what kind of agreement the Eldest Princess actually had with the Northern Qi side.

“Obviously, both the Rapunzel and Uesugi Tiger don’t want, Sean the man to fall into the hands of the Northern Qi royal family.” Wang Qinian analyzed, “It seems that the secrets that Sean holds are what the Northern Qi royal family wants, while Sean the person is not what the Northern Qi royal family wants.”

“In that case, if Sean reaches Beiqi safely, I’m only afraid that he will die of old age in prison instead of regaining power. No wonder he’s in a hurry to escape.” Fan Xian frowned and muttered to himself, “It seems that the young emperor of Bei Qi isn’t a fool, and I’m only afraid that he also understands the relationship between Uesugi Tiger and Sean.”

“But …… exactly what kind of secret can make the Beiqi imperial family look so closely? Why would even Bitter Lotus send Haitang to kill him to silence him? Why would Chen Pingping be willing to let Sean go? Why didn’t she give up killing him in the first place?”

“I feel so foolish.” Fan Xian looked at the severely injured Cane and propped his jaw up in contemplation, things in the world are like this, when there was no fight with Xiao En before, the other party was a tiger, and only after the fight did he realize that it turned out to be just a paper tiger, he said in his heart, the words that his mother had taught Chen Pingping were indeed very reasonable.

He continued, “I obviously wanted to kill you, but it turned out that I had worked so hard to arrange it for so long, but at the last minute, I turned into your bodyguard.” The development of this matter was indeed very absurd.

Sean’s pale voice rang out, “This is how things are every so often in the world, and if it wasn’t absurd, it wouldn’t be a thing of the world.”

Fan Xian smiled and said, “But the temptation to kill you is still great.”

“Haitang is a student of Bitter Lotus, and no one dares to disobey that bald head of Bitter Lotus when he speaks in Northern Qi.” Sean said indifferently, “Since she knows that I’m alive, it doesn’t make sense that you planted those dead corpses outside the town, and if you kill me again at this time, I’m afraid that that Mr. Yan will have a hard time going back alive as well.”

“Just what kind of secret are you harboring in your heart?” Fan Xian looked at him quietly, “Able to make even Bitter Lotus tear down his face to kill you.”

“Just some old stories.”

“When we were on top of the meadow, speaking of the secret of your heart, that was when she revealed her form and showed up to kill.” Fan Xian looked at him indifferently and said softly, “That secret sure seems to be something, and it can make the heart of a strong person on the ninth rank go into turmoil.”

Sean scoffed and looked at him, “Why don’t you think that she is preparing to kill you?”

“I have no grudge against her, why would she want to kill me?” Fan Xian stared into Sean’s eyes, as if he wanted to discern the secret that had been hidden for so long from those eyes that were no longer filled with the smell of blood.

“You’re wrong.” Sean said with a gentle smile, and the chilly smell that had been circling around his body had long since disappeared when he came out of the prison of the Supervisory Court.

“It seems that Bitter Lotus very much doesn’t want you to return to Northern Qi alive.”

“Not bad, the reason why I dared to take the risk of escaping even though I knew it was a trap set by you was because I knew that at the end of the day, no matter if it’s the Beiqi royal family, or even that Eldest Princess that I’ve never met, they won’t let me die so easily. That Eldest Princess you mentioned might be using my life and death to reach some sort of agreement with Tiger’s Child. After all, she is too young to know some of the secrets of that year ……”

Sean continued, “What’s more crucial is that Bitter Lotus wants to shut me up, so he’ll come to kill me before the embassy leaves the country …… And you’re a very curious person, you’ll definitely wonder what kind of secret would provoke him to come and kill me. Since that’s the case, you’ll have to change from someone who snipes me to someone who protects me.”

Fan Xian was silent.

“You set up a trap, I break it, and in the end, I fail. But I have the final credentials, I just need to lay out that last card, so you can’t spare the time to kill me, and tomorrow when you enter the border, you’ll have even less of a chance to do it, so this …… time it’s you that loses.” Sean face expressionless, this real old fox although the strength is not as good as it was long ago, but that calculating extremely accurate brain, but it seems to be able to see through everyone’s heart.

“That card of yours, I am indeed interested in it, even more than anyone else. I admit that this is enough for me to keep you alive for the time being.” Fan Xian didn’t seem to be how disheartened, instead smiling to himself, he said, “But you didn’t escape, and by the time you reached the upper capital, Shangsuguhu wouldn’t have been able to save you from yourself, and then you’d still have to be locked up and tortured by the Beiqi royal family until you died of old age, just waiting for you to reveal that secret.”

Sean’s eyes suddenly flashed with a trace of trepidation, this old man seemed to have even weakened his heart defenses a lot after he was seriously injured today.

“What kind of secret is it?” Fan Xian repeated his words from the meadow, “Since you’re not even afraid of death, why don’t you dare to say it out, don’t say that something is more terrifying than death, I simply don’t believe in this kind of nonsense.”

Sean seemed to have realized the cold hue within Fan Xian at this point, and smiled and closed his mouth.

Fan Xian suddenly closed his eyes and thought for a moment, reaching out like the wind and gently flicking off the poisoned needle from Sean’s neck. This needle had not been removed since it had been stuck into Sean’s acupuncture point in the short fir forest. The tip of the needle slowly left Sean’s body, the old man suddenly let out a muffled grunt, a very painful look appeared on his face, and several injuries on his body, big and small, actually burst into blood at the same time!

“This needle can block the flow of your blood, but it’s actually also helping you to stop the bleeding, after pulling it out, you’ll probably only count to two dozen strokes before you die from excessive bleeding.” Fan Xian spoke softly, gently flicking the tip of the needle, “This is the only weapon that I have for my own cultivation, so I have always been extremely attentive.”

Blood dripped from Sean’s body, wetting his clothes and dripping down the seat. The old man’s face grew paler and paler, and the old man’s smell he carried on his body grew stronger and stronger, seeming to gradually transform into the smell of death.

But he still kept his mouth tightly shut.

Drip, drip, I don’t know how long it took, but Fan Xian frowned slightly, his fingers reaching out like electricity, re-entering another of Sean’s acupoints to help him stop the bleeding, and then carefully smearing an ecstasy at the semi-conscious Sean’s nose.