The warm afternoon sun shines on the path through the woods, the sunlight filtering through the dense foliage and finding patches of light on the ground.
By the side of the path, there is a group of people resting. Looking at the thick dust on the axles of the carriage at one side, it was clear that they had travelled a lot.
“Master.” A lady dressed in green and plain clothes came to the door, and although her clothes were simple, the noble aura she exuded was a sign that this lady was extraordinary.
Or rather, had been extraordinary.
The middle-aged man whom the noble lady called Master saw her coming, but he buried his head and sighed, as if he had no face to see her.
The noble lady, knowing her husband’s current state of mind, sat silently by his side, keeping him company.
After a long time, the middle-aged man stifled his voice, “In a moment, you and Zhou’er and Yongsi will go first, I will arrive later.”
“It’s all right, Master,” said the noble lady, pressing her husband’s hand, “It’s all right, we’ve come all this way safely, there’s no need for that.”
The words were said, but the trembling in her hand revealed the fear in your ladyship’s heart. The middle-aged man pressed the lady’s hand, giving her a sense of security, and sighed long and hard, “I’m afraid that someone won’t let me go, Xie Lang!”
The middle-aged man was Xie Lang, the Governor of the East China Sea Navy who had let a large number of easterners into the Central Plains a few months ago. Now he is no longer the Navy Governor, he was removed from his post after the incident, and if not for Zhao Zhonglin’s death, I am afraid Xie Long would have been in the Heavenly Prison, just waiting for his execution after the autumn.
“I thought it was just a small matter, but I never thought it would be a big crime that would result in the death of my family.
Xie Lang was over forty years old, in his prime and at the peak of his life. He was at the peak of his life, and if there was no accident, the peak period of a God Yuan realm expert would last for decades, with a bright future ahead of him.
Unfortunately, everything is now dust, and his future is lost. And next, he will lose even more.
A fresh breeze blew across Xie Lang’s face, bringing a slight chill.
“Killing Qi.” Xie Lang steeply got up and shouted, “Be careful.”
Although the murderous Qi in the dark was hidden, it could not be concealed from Xie Lang’s perception as a Divine Origin Realm martial artist. In fact, if he hadn’t been in a state of depression, he would have detected it long ago.
Noticing it now was already an indication that the time had come for the shadowy a*sa*sin to make his move.
“Boom…”
“Boom…
“Shoo-”
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The sound of moving strings was incessant, and with it, the sound of crossbow arrows piercing the air.
Dense arrows from the crossbows flew from the woods on both sides of the path.
Xie Lang raised his large sleeves, his true qi filling up as he swept from side to side, sweeping away the flying crossbow arrows and protecting his wife.
“Boom…”
Surprisingly, these crossbow arrows exploded instantly after being swept away by Xie Lang’s sleeves, and the fire of countless crossbow arrows exploding covered Xie Lang and his wife.
These arrows were not ordinary crossbows, the crossbows were “divine fire crossbows” and the arrows were “blazing sun arrows”, both were firearms that Qing Yu had obtained from Ning Bukong’s memory, the arrows were filled with gunpowder and exploded when the arrow tips were touched with great force.
The smoke filled the air and was blown away by the strong winds raised by the true qi inside.
However, Xie Long was a Divine Origin realm expert, but the others were not. Apparently Xie Long had also thought of this and his face changed greatly.
“Ah…” A miserable scream came from the smoke that filled the air not far away.
“Zhou’er!” Xie Long could recognise that it was his son’s miserable scream.
This time, apart from Xie Long and his wife, there was also their son, Xie Zhou, and their distant nephew, Geng Yongshi, who had lived in the Xie family since childhood and was as close to them as a family.
Geng Yongsi had followed Xie Long into the army and was a tough general in the army, so he was not worried about being hurt by a crossbow. But Xie Long’s son, Xie Zhou, is a genuine official’s son, and Xie Long has been too busy with his military duties to look after him.
Concerned about his son’s injuries, Xie Long picked up his wife and swept up his true qi to protect himself and the two of them, then swept away the arrows along the road with his sleeves and rushed towards where Geng Yongshi and Xie Zhou were.
The distance was not far, but it was short. Xie Long swept away the smoke from the explosion with a strong breeze, but what he saw made Xie Long’s eyes tear up.
He saw that Xie Zhou’s right arm had been completely blown off by the firearm from below the arm, and the wound was scorched black and bleeding. It must have been detonated by the “blazing sun arrow” below the arm, and the right arm was directly blown off from the body.
“What a bully.” When Xie Long witnessed his son suffering such a tragic death, he was enraged and his true qi could not help but break his hair crown.
However, even if he was extremely angry, Geng Yongsi could barely protect Xie Zhou, and could not possibly help Xie Lang without helping his wife and son, allowing him to escape to deal with the a*sa*sins in the forest.
With the two burdens weighing him down, even though Xie Long had the ability to rush into the forest and kill all the a*sa*sins, he had to stay put and protect the lives of his family.
“Boom…”
There was a violent boom, a far more powerful explosion than the “blazing sun arrow”. As Xie Lang swept away another barrage of crossbow arrows, he failed to notice the Fire Dragon Seed hidden in the rain of arrows and was detonated by it at close range.
The power of the Fire Dragon Seed is not comparable to that of the Fiery Sun Arrow. However, his wife was affected by the after-effects of the close blast and was left bleeding from seven orifices, dying.
“Madam!!!” Xie Lang howled like a lone wolf, his heart aching. After his son was seriously injured, even his wife was on the verge of death, which made Xie Lang, who had been tormented by remorse for days, go completely mad.
“Yongsi, protect your aunt and brother.”
Xie Long finally realized that if he delayed any longer, his wife and son would die sooner or later, so he might as well take a chance now and see if the killer would break through Geng Yongsi’s protection, or if Xie Long would kill them to within acceptable range first, or, kill them all.
The murderous figure swept into the forest. A mad God Yuan realm expert is terrifying, all the Pixie Sword Guards he saw were killed by him in an instant, leaving no one alive.
“The four blood-coloured figures came from the surrounding trees at a low altitude.
The winged ribbons that spread out behind their backs allowed the four to change their shapes in the air, preying on their prey like predatory blood-sucking bats with their bizarre stance.
However, a Divine Origin realm expert is not a prey to be preyed upon, he is more like a tiger waiting for his prey to come to him.
He raised his hand, flipped his palm and struck. Like fetching something from a bag, Xie Lang took the life of a Blood Bat Guard with a flip of his palm.
“Use forbidden techniques.” Bloodbat Six shouted.
The remaining three Blood Bat Guards used “Blood Sacrifice to the Heavens” in unison, burning their essence blood as their true qi continued to rise.
The Blood Bat Guards were all practitioners of the ‘Bat Blood Art’, using blood to nourish blood, and had more essence blood to burn compared to ordinary martial arts practitioners. This forbidden technique is naturally more effective.
