Chapter 159

Tartaglia estimated that this was the result of the other party holding back.

From the very beginning, he hadn't sensed any killing intent; the opponent seemed to have just dealt with him in passing.

Was it disdain?

Tartaglia smiled bitterly in his heart and looked up at the sky.

He had been too arrogant after all.

If it weren't for the power of the Cryo Archon and his master's power this time, he would truly have lost his life.

However, the Cryo Archon and his master could only save him once.

If such a situation happened again, he would likely be gone for good.

Tartaglia was not afraid of death.

But he did not want this kind of humiliating death.

He had prepared fully, intending to have a great battle.

Yet the other party had finished him off with a wave of her hand.

If he died like this, it would be too much of a loss.

After an unknown amount of time, several Debt Collectors appeared hurriedly on the mountain peak.

Seeing Tartaglia's miserable state, they were shocked.

"Lord Tartaglia!"

If anything happened to Tartaglia in Liyue, none of them would survive.

"For now... I'm fine..."

Tartaglia responded weakly and whispered:

"Return to Liyue Harbor... remember to keep a low profile."

"Yes!"

99. Tartaglia is stunned: Is Liyue really cultivating immortals?

Miss Keqing didn't take the matter with Tartaglia to heart; even after settling the army, she returned to the Shushan Cave Heaven.

She only told Ningguang that those cultivation techniques had been delivered safely.

She didn't mention a word about Tartaglia blocking her path.

As for whether Tartaglia was already dead, Miss Keqing thought it was unlikely.

He was a Harbinger, after all, and she hadn't truly used her full strength.

Relying on the power given by the Cryo Archon to save his life, he should have been able to survive.

Miss Keqing didn't intend to kick him while he was down.

Tartaglia being alive was better for everyone.

After interacting for a while just now, Miss Keqing had already roughly deduced what kind of person Tartaglia was.

Battle-hungry and extremely confident in his own strength.

Of course, the latter point was now in doubt.

However, to put it nicely, he was a martial general; to put it another way...

A reckless man with some brains, but not many.

Such a person in Liyue was much better than a calculating Harbinger.

Moreover, an enemy in the open was always much easier to deal with than a rat in the shadows.

From this point of view, Miss Keqing still hoped Tartaglia would survive.

And Tartaglia, who had been quietly transported back to the Northland Bank by the Fatui, was still lying on the bed, half-dead.

Due to the special situation of the Northland Bank and the Fatui, and Tartaglia's sensitive identity,

the Fatui couldn't invite a doctor and could only let their internal doctors handle it simply.

For an ordinary person, such injuries would have long since been fatal.

But fortunately, Tartaglia had an extraordinary physique, and with the power of the Cryo Archon and Skirk keeping him alive,

Tartaglia was now merely in a state of severe injury, somewhat weak, and unable to move.

Lying motionless on the bed, Tartaglia quietly recalled the sword strike he had faced today.

In a trance, it seemed as if he had returned to the time when he was being taught by Skirk.

The same inability to resist, the same despair-inducing power.

But upon careful reflection, the power of that sword immortal today should not have been able to surpass Skirk's.

It was just that he didn't know who the other party was.

This made Tartaglia somewhat worried.

After an unknown amount of time, a Fatui member finally knocked on the door and walked in cautiously.

"Lord Tartaglia."

Tartaglia glanced sideways and said calmly:

"Have you investigated clearly?"

Just this simple sentence caused the wounds on Tartaglia's chest to split open again, and blood soaked through the bandages.

But to this, Tartaglia seemed accustomed, looking at the Fatui member without changing his expression.

The latter swallowed nervously.

Even among the Fatui themselves, they often privately lamented that the Harbingers were all freaks.

Not only was their power freakish, but their psychology was too.

Like Tartaglia earlier today.

When they found Tartaglia, there wasn't a single intact spot on his body.

It was as if he had been subjected to death by a thousand cuts.

Blood was splattered all over the mountain-top platform.

Even in fatal areas like his chest, abdomen, and neck, there were terrifying sword marks.

How could he still be alive with such injuries?

The Fatui couldn't understand.

Even for modified soldiers, they would have died long ago, right?

"I'm asking you, have you investigated clearly or not!"

Seeing the other party dazed, Tartaglia raised his voice with some displeasure.

This time, the blood seeped out even more frighteningly.

The Fatui member shuddered and hurriedly lowered his head, saying intermittently:

"Investigated... investigated clearly."

"Lord Tartaglia, according to Liyue folklore about their immortals, there is no purple-haired, cat-eared woman as you described."

"Liyue's immortals are mostly cranes and deer."

"At the very least, among the existing immortals, there is no mention of one whose true form is a cat."

"And... to be able to... to be able to injure you like this with one sword, ordinary immortals clearly couldn't do it."

Tartaglia frowned slightly and said in a deep voice:

"Is it possible that it's a demon god that has survived in Liyue until now?"

To be honest, Tartaglia didn't think that an immortal who was merely a demon god's attendant could so easily almost kill him.

At the very least, it had to be a demon god, right?

"That is even more impossible, Lord Tartaglia."

The Fatui member denied it flatly.

"During the Archon War, many demon gods did cooperate with the Geo Archon."

"There was a demon god with something like cat ears, the God of the Stove, Marchosius."

"But it has been confirmed that he exhausted all his power to save Liyue back then and disappeared without a trace."

"It is absolutely impossible for him to return with such power."

"As for the remaining demon gods, the God of Dust, Guizhong, has been confirmed dead, and the others are basically enemies of the Geo Archon, all suppressed and sealed."

"If it were them, the first thing they would do after coming out would be to deal with Liyue."

"Besides them, there is another existence comparable to the Geo Archon, Azhdaha, who was indeed a close friend of the Geo Archon back then."