Chapter 200: Delivering a Head

Seeing this, a look of shock flashed in Hu Rui's eyes; he clearly had not expected Cheng Zhong's sudden burst of cold light to be so formidable.

Just as Hu Rui was attacked by Cheng Zhong, Wu Shang on the other side also struck almost simultaneously, a sword-light thunderbolt thrusting straight for Shen Anran's throat.

Shen Anran's martial arts cultivation was inferior to Wu Shang's, and she was attacked without any defense; however, the Deer-Slaying Blade Art she cultivated was a top-tier blade technique in the Jianghu, and with Li Musheng's guidance beforehand, her progress in the Dao of the Blade had been considerable.

Thus, she managed a perilously narrow, hurried slash, and this strike actually caused the opponent's sword to deviate slightly, while she herself dodged with extreme speed, barely avoiding this fatal blow.

However, although Shen Anran dodged the sword assassination, she was still swept by the oscillating sword qi, and her entire body was blasted flying and rolled to the side.

Just as Shen Anran was about to crash onto the ground, a palm fell onto her back and firmly caught her.

Shen Anran turned her head to look at Li Musheng standing behind her:

"Your Highness..."

However, before she could finish speaking, her palms suddenly and violently thrust outward.

In an instant, a terrifying true qi like mountains collapsing and seas overturning erupted abruptly, directly and without obstruction slamming into Li Musheng's chest.

A booming sound like deep thunder suddenly rang out in the courtyard, and the terrifying afterwaves of the true qi shook the green bricks on the ground into dust.

Hu Rui and the others reacted, immediately turning their heads to look at the sudden anomaly occurring in the arena.

At this moment, the corners of Shen Anran's mouth curled up slightly; looking at Li Musheng, a very eerie smile appeared on her face.

Only in her gaze floated complex emotions such as shock, confusion, worry, and disbelief.

Li Musheng raised his eyebrows slightly, looked at Shen Anran whose pale white palms were pressing on his chest, and suddenly revealed an expression of realization, saying:

"I was wondering who it was? Turns out you are here to deliver a cultivation technique to me."

Upon hearing this, the smile on Shen Anran's face instantly froze; the next moment, she intended to attack again.

However, at this time, Li Musheng simply raised his hand and grasped at the half-air.

At the same time, a certain servant originally staying in the Mei Manor courtyard suddenly raised his head.

Then, he saw in shock a palm condensed from the true qi of heaven and earth suddenly appearing above his head, immediately reaching down to grab him directly.

Instinctively, the vast martial true qi within the servant's body erupted abruptly, and he hurriedly prepared to retreat.

However, he discovered in horror that the space around him was imprisoned by a terrifying aura, and his entire body was as if trapped in a quagmire, utterly unable to move even an inch.

"How... is this possible?"

The servant's expression was terrified, and the next moment, that true qi palm grabbed him, then flew straight up into the sky, and in the blink of an eye fell into the courtyard where Hu Rui and the others were.

Subsequently, the true qi palm directly slammed the servant into the ground, crushing him with a boom into the dust made from the green bricks on the ground.

At this time, Shen Anran was already able to move; she suddenly turned her head to look at the strange servant descending from the sky behind her, and immediately cried out in alarm:

"What is going on..."

"I couldn't control myself just now, and moreover... I actually attacked Your Highness?"

Hearing this, Wu Shang and Cheng Zhong also reacted, looking down at their own palms, both with faces full of horror.

"I didn't intend to attack either; just now I was completely involuntary, as if someone was controlling me."

"What happened just now wasn't my strength; I couldn't possibly have injured my lord Hu."

Wu Shang and Cheng Zhong spoke in turn; Cao Gaoshan, who had not moved a hand from start to finish, was now full of doubt and alarm, clearly the scene just now had left him bewildered.

Hu Rui frowned, looking at the servant in the courtyard, as if he had realized something.

At this time, Li Musheng narrowed his eyes slightly; he did not look at the servant on the ground, but rather looked at Shen Anran in front of him, saying:

"Miss Shen, since you can move freely now, shouldn't you also put down your hand?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Anran turned her head, her water-like eyes glancing around, but the corners of her lips curled up imperceptibly.

She pretended to be confused as she withdrew the slender jade hand pressing on Li Musheng's chest, lightly saying "Oh."

Then, she calmly reached out to smooth her raven-black long hair cascading like a waterfall, and her entire person showed not the slightest sign of embarrassment.

Li Musheng's eyelids twitched; if he had even half the thick skin of the young lady before him in his past life, he wouldn't have only dated seven girlfriends.

"You... who exactly are you?"

At this time, Wu Xiang Lao Ren on the ground struggled to raise his head, revealing an extremely ordinary, aged face.

His entire body trembled, and he could only speak very weakly; Li Musheng's palm grab just now had instantly shattered the dantian and meridians within his body, and even the puppet threads he used to control Shen Anran and others were all severed.

And he had absolutely no power to resist; even though his martial arts cultivation was extremely high, the Wu Xiang Divine Art had reached the pinnacle, and the martial true qi within his body was vast and mighty.

But under the opponent's attack, all his methods and strength were completely unusable, and in the end, he could only be captured and at his mercy.

Li Musheng withdrew his gaze from Shen Anran, glanced at Wu Xiang Lao Ren, then walked to stand in front of him, saying:

"I guess you must have come for your disciple; this Mutual Puppet Technique instantly reminded me that you master and disciple seem to still owe me a chapter of cultivation technique."

Speaking thus, Li Musheng raised his hand and flicked a Life-and-Death Token into the opponent's body.

Previously, when Wu Xiang Lao Ren was controlling Cheng Zhong to attack, Li Musheng had already discovered the opponent.

It was just that he hadn't immediately recalled Wu Xiang Lao Ren's identity; until Shen Anran attacked him, he barely remembered the scholar who had previously disguised himself as an Imperial Prince, and that the opponent's junior sister seemed to have sent out a signal before her death.

Li Musheng had actually forgotten about this matter, and truly didn't expect that the opponent's master would actually come knocking.

Regarding this, what more could he say?

One could only say it was a cultivation technique delivered from a thousand miles away; the gift is light, but the sentiment is heavy.

Next, Wu Xiang Lao Ren experienced the pain of the Life-and-Death Token, which was worse than death.

Originally, after learning from the Han Manor that there was a master among Li Musheng's group, and that he had even killed the head of the Bai Li family with a single finger,

Wu Xiang Lao Ren had already been extremely cautious, never revealing himself from start to finish, and chose to act only when Li Musheng and the others were most relaxed.

Furthermore, to avoid detection by that master, he initially used the tactic of making a feint to the east while attacking to the west; he did not attack Li Musheng directly at first, but deliberately confused the situation, only revealing his true intent through Shen Anran's hand at the very end.

He thought this was already flawless, but he misjudged the most important thing; he never expected that the master who killed Bai Li Changfeng was actually Li Musheng himself!

Even now, Wu Xiang Lao Ren still couldn't figure it out: this eighth Imperial Prince of Great Li was clearly under twenty years of age, yet possessed such terrifying martial arts strength; all of this was simply too incredible!

(End of Chapter)