Chapter 139 – Strong, Because of Determination

The dull light, for the first time this night, illuminated the side room of the Hall of Containing Light. A faint dim glow seeped out from the palace lamp on the table, making the entire room seem a little gloomy, not even as bright as the moonlight that came through that big hole in the roof of the hall.

The palace maid looked at the dusty Fan Xian with a face full of horror, and opened her mouth to cry out, but no sound came out.

With a snort, Fan Xian staggered his feet, swept eight steps in a flash, and stabbed his sword straight out, hitting the courtesan squarely in the throat.

With a splash of blood, Fan Xian’s head was slightly lowered, his wrist flicked, and the Heavenly Son Sword in his hand came out again, stabbing out under his armpit, hitting the throat of a eunuch.

He then withdrew three steps sharply, his left toes as a pivot, the whole person is like a dancer like a very beautiful spin up, the hand of the Heavenly Sword shining with a cold light, along with this turning trend, in front of his body within a few feet, drawing a cold aura.

Where the cold aura reaches, the eunuchs and court ladies who woke up all fell to the ground, collapsed in a pool of blood.

His right foot again stomped on the lapis lazuli floor, the lapis lazuli plate slightly broken, Fan Xian’s body like a big bird was bound, in a strange shape, violently backward, ruthlessly hit in a person’s arms, hit the person sinews and bones are broken.

He lowered his head, his right elbow suddenly popped out like a spring, and the Heavenly Son Sword came out of his hand, hitting the chest of a person rushing over from the right side.

The right fist without the sword in his hand violently struck out to the left, knocking the last person to the ground with a punch, snapping, the person was simply unable to react and fell heavily to the ground, his head shattered like a watermelon!

In an instant, killing eight people in a row!

Fan Xian, who broke into the Hall of Containing Light in a violent and incomparable manner, did not say a word, and struck out with all his might in the silence, his Heavenly Son Sword, and his overbearing true qi, making him look like a wandering spirit with supreme magical power, seizing the lives of all the enemies in the room in a moment, without letting the other party make a single sound at all!

His sword technique was inherited from the Four Gu Swords, but it had less of the Four Gu Swords’ unrelenting heavenly killing intent, and instead had more of the coldness in the Shadow’s nature.

His fist and palm techniques from the Ye family, but there is absolutely no Ye Liuyun that kind of floating on the sea of dashing tantalizing meaning, but more overbearing true qi naturally flow out of the feeling of bravery.

So killing, who can stop?

The people in the side hall, besides those who died on the ground, only Yi Gui Concubine’s mother and son and Ning Cai Ren were left. Tonight, Ning Cai Ren came to visit the third prince’s injuries, so she didn’t go back to her own chambers, but instead, it was a great convenience for Fan Xian.

None of these three nobles could sleep this night, so when Fan Xian crashed into the palace like a heavenly god, they reacted within the first hour, nervously watching Fan Xian’s every move through the light veil.

Even though they had the utmost confidence in Fan Xian, they had not expected that young Lord Fan would actually use such a violent method to kill all of the inner court personnel who were watching and guarding around him in such a short period of time!

Lifting the gauze curtain, the three of them walked down, looking at Fan Xian, with different expressions on their faces, but with the same hint of shock, they felt that this Fan Xian in front of them, seemed to be in some ways, already different from the Fan Xian that existed before the Great Eastern Mountain.

Concubine Yi’s face was filled with joy. Since Fan Xian had taken the risk of killing his way into the palace to save his own mother and son, the worries that he had previously expressed to Chengping in the twilight hours naturally did not exist. In this Hall of Containing Light, Yi Gui Concubine did not know when her mother and son would die. Tonight, when she suddenly saw her savior, her mind was relieved, and then looking at the room full of dead bodies and limbs, she could not help but let her legs go limp, and she wanted to fall down. The third prince Li Chengping held his mother’s body on the side, looked at his own Mr. with grateful eyes, nodded vigorously, his eyes have been wet.

At this time, deep inside the Hall of Containing Light, with an unknown number of guards surrounding them outside, and the eunuch masters of the inner court of the former hall still present, Fan Xian knew that his violent assault, although he had managed to reach these three, was still a dead end if he did not save them from being taken out.

So he didn’t say one more word of nonsense to Lao San and his aunt, and said directly and coldly, “Follow me and break out!”

How easy was it to break out, with just these two hundred people that Fan Xian had brought into the palace, if he wanted to control the entire harem, it was simply impossible, and on the part of the forbidden army at the Imperial City, he didn’t know if the internal cleansing could be resolved before the situation became dangerous.

Fan Xian pulled his own longsword from that eunuch, and glanced with his afterglow at the ever-silent Caiyin Ning, seeing a hint of a pleased smile permeating her face, he couldn’t help but smile as well, and fished out the black dagger from his boot.

The Third Prince’s dagger had already been hidden in the bushes next to the cinnabar porch, and when he saw Mister touching out the dagger, he thought that it was for his own defense, and helped his mother to take a step forward.

Unexpectedly, Fan Xian actually reversed the dagger and handed it to Talent Ning.

As she gripped the slender black dagger, an aura of valor immediately emerged in her, after all, she was a slave girl who had survived the Northern Expedition, and she had not forgotten about bloodshed even after all these years.

Fan Xian did not look at the three women and children again, and without a moment’s delay, he directly walked towards the doorway of the side hall.

This doorway did not lead to the outside of the palace, but to the front hall!

Yes, if breaking out of the palace wasn’t easy, then it would be better to break into the palace.

A palm affixed itself to the wooden door, and with no warning at all, this wooden door was like it was made of paper, being pulled by countless strands of immense force, shattering apart and flying all over the sky!

Before the wood shavings fell, Fan Xian’s palm had already stuck to the palm of a eunuch. Fan Xian let out a muffled grunt as his true qi charged full force. With just a single palm encounter, he had already sensed the eunuch’s power;there were indeed hidden dragons and crouching tigers amongst the inner court guards, and the disciples and grandchildren that Old Eunuch Hong had trained were truly no slouches.

The eunuch’s five senses erupted with a sound of fresh blood, his body was being attacked by the overbearing true qi, and he was simply unable to resist. However, his mission was only to stall Fan Xian for a moment, making sure to get the experts in the front hall and the Empress Dowager’s old ancestor ready.

Fan Xian didn’t give him a chance to stall.

Smoke blossomed between his palms, and the poisonous mist pushed straight into the face of the eunuch who was highly skilled in martial arts.

The eunuch’s face changed.

Fan Xian’s right hand shook, and his longsword buzzed, slashing horizontally past his own shoulder height. This was the difference in strength, and the eunuch, under the simultaneous attack of the overbearing true qi and the poisonous smoke, simply did not have the spare capacity to react any further, and was forced to watch the bright light flash past his own eyes.

With a flip of his left wrist, Fan Xian incorporated the Heavenly Son Sword into his sleeve, and without a second glance at the eunuch expert, he crouched slightly on both knees, and crashed through like a giant bird throwing itself into the forest.

Instead of crashing into the path where an unknown number of experts were pouring in, he directly crashed into the wall of the side hall!

There was a loud rumbling sound, and the wooden and brick structure of the wall was actually crashed into a large hole by him. Fan Xian didn’t pay attention to the safety of the three people behind him, and directly swept in through that large hole.

And at this moment, the eunuch expert who stood frozen in the doorway, his neck thumped, severed from it, and his bloody head fell off!

Concubine Yi’s mother and son stared at this scene dumbfounded. With a sullen face, Talentress Ning carried the black dagger that Fan Xian had given him, leading the frightened mother and son along that large hole. She guessed why Fan Xian was so terrified and why he had to break through the large hole to enter the front hall, and she was also clear that until Fan Xian got the situation under control, the safety of these three people rested entirely on the dagger in her hand.

What does a surprise attack require? It was to be as fast as lightning, and as unexpected as thunder on the ground. Fan Xian’s actions this night perfectly carried out this purpose, from the moment he entered the harem to the moment he was discovered by the guards, he and his subordinates suddenly increased their speed and swept through the harem like a gust of wind.

He stepped on the stone fence, slapped the golden tiles, fell into the palace, and struck down the crowd, all of this happened in a flash of lightning, and if you start counting from the first shouts of the guards, it only took him more than ten strikes of the palm before he managed to kill his way into the core palace of the Hall of Containing Light.

It was really lightning speed, not only the enemy could not react, even Fan Xian did not leave himself any time to think and judge, he relied on several years of intelligence collection of the palace, by virtue of the eyes in the palace, by virtue of the extraordinary intuition of the sensitive beyond the ordinary people, and just like that he killed in!

Of course, this action relied most on the courage that he had lacked in the past, the arrogance of putting his life on the line!

When Fan Xian entered the Hall of Light, the fifty to sixty swordsmen from the Sixth Division who had followed him also fanned out in the darkness and surrounded the Hall of Light. It was only that the speed of these people was deliberately suppressed, and they had arrived at the periphery of the Hall of Containing Light precisely at this time.

Fan Xian’s calculations were extremely accurate, although he had somewhat underestimated the reaction speed of the Harem’s guards, these fifty to sixty swordmen of the Sixth Office were just the right amount to hold off the inner guards who were rushing over at breakneck speed.

Supervisory Yuan’s swordsmen, skilled at killing in the dark, and the inner guards, is the elite of the personal force of the Qing Dynasty, although far from the long-sword tiger guards that Fan Jian secretly trained for the Royal Family, however, the force is still very strong.

Outside the Hall of Containing Light, killing was going on in all directions, and in an instant, swords and knives were exchanged, and it was unknown how many people were killed and how much blood was spewed out. In just a few breaths of time, the circle line constructed by dozens of black-clothed swordsmen was pressurized to retreat quite a distance in the direction of the Hall of Contained Light.

However, if one looked closely, one should be able to see that these sword hands were not passively retreating, but rather an active choice, and although they appeared to have been killed by the guards and retreated, they had also tightened the circle line, and tightly surrounded the main hall of the Hall of Containing Light.

The smaller the defense circle, the greater the rebound force, the field has been a lot of people fell, while those black-clothed assassins, but also blocked the main door of the Hall of Contained Light, if the people inside want to escape, the difficulty is extremely great.

And let’s not forget that the Hall of Containing Light was not calm at this time.

This was exactly the tactic Fan Xian had drawn up to surround it with chaos on all sides and blossom in the center. While the loyal subordinates of the Supervisory Court were circling around the growing number of great inner guards by virtue of the darkness, a bright and venomous flower was to blossom in the center of the entire palace, the Hall of Containing Light.

This flower must be pinched between Fan Xian’s fingers.

At the beginning of the palace chaos, the guards and inner court masters reacted extremely quickly, however, the nobles in the palace did not have this ability. The old sisters in the Hall of Containing Light opened their dazed eyes and silently cursed a few times, but they had no idea what was happening outside.

Some of the leggy little palace maids heard the coughing on the bed and hurriedly climbed up to help that de facto mistress of Qing Guo on the bed.

The empress dowager had been suffering from a headache for the past few days, and a yellow silk thread was bundled around her forehead; she reclined somewhat tiredly in the palace maid’s arms, a hint of doubt flashing in her eyes.

The old man’s ears weren’t good, so he didn’t hear the loud noise when the roof of the side hall was broken by Fan Xian, nor did he hear the sound of Fan Xian killing eight people in a row in a matter of moments. However, the old woman had lived in the palace for many years and had seen many storms and waves, and her immersion in politics and intrigue had immediately alerted her.

A cold aura flashed through her pupils, and she violently sat up from the palace maid’s arms, sternly shouting, “Close the palace gate! All of you retreat in!”

The Empress Dowager’s old ancestor’s reaction could not be described as swift. Since she guessed that there was chaos in the palace, within the first hour, she had to concentrate all her force and surround herself. She knew her own weight, and since the enemy had entered the palace, naturally she was the first target.

Such a reaction, just like when she first heard the news of her son’s death, was simple and precise, and had to be admired.

It was just that tonight she was destined to be disappointed, because before she gathered her strength, a man had already killed his way into the midsection of the Hall of Containing Light!

Just as the sound of the first exchange between the guards outside the hall and the swordmen of the six divisions rang out, the side and back wall of the Hall of Containing Light, suddenly let out a loud bang!

Bricks and trees flew about, a hollow hole suddenly appeared, and a black silhouette, flew out from this hole, like a pale dragon walking in the night, instantly swept through the mid-air, and directly attacked the Empress Dowager’s phoenix bed!

The closest distance between a house and a house is not the distance between the door and the door, but the wall – two rooms seem to be extremely far away, sometimes only half a foot thick wall, as long as through the wall, the end of the world will be like a stone’s throw. It was just that there were a few people in this world who could be like Fan Xian, who could transport the overbearing innate true qi to his entire body, and use the pure heart method of the Heavenly Dao to protect his heart and veins, in order to prevent the overbearing true qi from backfiring on him, and thus turn himself into a sledgehammer that would directly smash the thick wall to pieces!

Fan Xian, dressed in black, pounced towards the Empress Dowager with the force of wind and thunder!

All the way through, the air emitted a tearing, mournful shriek, so one could imagine how terrifyingly his speed had been boosted to.

From the hole in the wall to the bed where the Empress Dowager was sitting, there was a distance of four feet.

Along this route, any old maids or courtesans who brushed against the edge of Fan Xian’s robe were all shaken to the ground by the overbearing true qi that was held in every nuance of his body! Undressed, blood spurted wildly as they fell to the ground!

Right at this moment, the eunuchs and experts who had been staying in the Empress Dowager’s palace finally unleashed. Four violent shouts! Four dry palms grabbed at the body of Fan Xian, who was rapidly surging forward, like an old tree blossoming, to bind that giant dragon in the forest!

In the four dry and old palms, there was an unknown amount of pure true qi that could only be practiced over many years. The Empress Dowager was sitting comfortably in the palace, and if she didn’t have her own powerful force to guard her, how could she dare to use Caiyin Ning’s life to threaten the Great Prince who had a heavy hand?

After hearing the sound of the wall tearing apart like paper, the Empress Dowager had twisted her head around and happened to look at this scene, her eyes cold and full of confidence, as if Fan Xian, who was like a heavenly god at this moment, would turn into a dead body in the next moment.

To everyone’s surprise, Fan Xian didn’t slow down, but the aura he carried with him became all but absent in this instant, and his entire person was in mid-air, as if he had suddenly disappeared.

His body was still flying, but the overbearing true qi on his body had all converged in, and his entire body appeared to be extremely supple, calm, and tranquil.

From extremely overbearing and extremely gentle, these two very different true qi would actually appear on a person’s body at the same time in an instant!

The pupils of the eyes of the four powerful eunuch experts shrunk slightly, their hearts felt very appalled, in their lives, more than not, they had never seen, nor had they ever heard of anyone who was able to practice such two types of true qi, which clashed very severely in nature, to the peak.

Moreover, these two types of true qi techniques were obviously the topmost mastery in the world!

Although their hearts were shocked, their men did not slow down, and they did not lose their confidence. These were the four strongest of the inner court experts under Eunuch Hong’s command, and had always been responsible for protecting the Empress Dowager’s safety.

They believed that even if Fan Xian was more powerful, he would not be able to ignore the combined blows of the four of them.

Yes, Fan Xian was not a great master, but he was the second fastest person in the entire world, back then in the meadow, the tip of Haitang’s sword couldn’t hit his tumbling body, not to mention that nowadays he had a change of heart, and had gradually fused the two types of true qi together.

There was only one Five Bamboo in this world.

Fan Xian’s body suddenly shrunk in the air, his left knee lifted, his right shoulder twisted, his body trembled, and in the mid-air, with no place to use his strength, he deflected his body in an exceptionally marvelous way.

It was a moment of trembling, and a little bit of deflection.

The first withered hand grabbed Fan Xian’s right shoulder, but it was as if it had grabbed a cloud and was not able to make any headway.

The second withered hand grabbed Fan Xian’s left arm, but it grabbed the blade of the sword that he had insidiously hidden in his sleeve, and the blade cracked the sleeve and came out, cutting a long slit in the palm of the hand that contained pure true qi, revealing the white bones inside, and blood was spewed out by the true qi, drenching half of Fan Xian’s body with the color of blood.

The third withered hand grabbed Fan Xian’s right knee and tore off a piece of his shirt.

The fourth withered hand, however, …… fell short, only grabbing one of Fan Xian s shoes!

Watching this scene, the Empress Dowager’s pupils flashed with a hint of coldness, and before the coldness receded, a flash of cold light had flared out!

Like a gust of wind, the sword in Fan Xian’s left hand had rested on the Empress Dowager’s neck.

Blood dripped down from Fan Xian’s torn sleeve, dripping onto the empress dowager’s clothes, dripping onto the empress dowager’s face.

Fan Xian’s face was pale, a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his lips, and half of his body’s black clothes were drenched in blood, ultimately wounded by those four eunuchs, but his eyes were still incomparably resolute, cooling the hearts of everyone in the Hall of Containing Light with his icy sword blade.