Chapter 233

Qin Qin Wuyang threw the box containing Fan Fan Yuqi's head to the ground at will. He leaped out like an ape, his eyes wide open, clenching his fists, and rushed toward Ying Zheng to kill him. A fierce murderous aura was released from his body.

"Qin Wuyang..."

Jing Ke exclaimed, intending to dissuade Qin Qin Wuyang. He had never expected Qin Qin Wuyang to suddenly launch an attack.

Qin Qin Wuyang ignored Jing Ke's dissuasion, and an angry voice came from his mouth: "You want to take the state of my Yan State, today I will take the life of you tyrant first!"

There was a reason for Qin Qin Wuyang's anger.

He had received great grace from Yan Dan. Long before this mission to the Qin State, he had already made up his mind to sacrifice his life to kill the King of Qin, Ying Zheng. As a result, he had not expected that the Six-Fingered Black Knight would return from the dead and stop them from assassinating Ying Zheng in the capacity of the Mohist Master.

Qin Qin Wuyang followed Jing Ke and agreed to this on the surface.

But in his heart, he had his own plans: even without Jing Ke's help, he would definitely complete the assassination.

The Six-Fingered Black Knight was the Mohist Master, and as a Mohist leader, he should indeed listen to the Six-Fingered Black Knight.

But it sounded as if Yan Dan was not the Mohist Master? And besides being a Mohist leader, he was also a person of the Yan State. Yan Dan had the grace of saving his life, and he vowed to repay Yan Dan's kindness with his life.

A scholar dies for one who knows him!

Qin Qin Wuyang had also heard the story of Yu Rang.

Today, he intended to imitate the assassin Yu Rang.

Upon hearing Jing Ke offer the state of the Yan State to Ying Zheng, and Ying Zheng happily accepting it, the anger in Qin Qin Wuyang's heart was finally ignited.

He had killed someone at the age of thirteen and was exceptionally brave. In original history, it was because he had not seen a big scene that he felt fear, but now, the fear in his heart had long been covered by anger.

His formidable strength was also fully unleashed.

In a short moment, he crossed a not-so-short distance, arrived in front of Ying Zheng, waved his fist, and smashed it toward Ying Zheng.

Ying Zheng felt the fist wind hitting his face, and his pupils contracted slightly.

But he was still not nervous, because Gai Nie had drawn his sword!

As the chief sword instructor of the palace and Ying Zheng's personal guard, although Ying Zheng trusted him, even he was not qualified to wear a sword to court. But as it happened, he just happened to have a sword in his hand at this moment.

It was the Remnant Rainbow Sword that Jing Ke had presented to Ying Zheng earlier.

The long sword was swung, and a scorching sword aura swept out. Even though it was the first time he had used this sword, Gai Nie was able to use it like an arm, operating it as he wished. Feeling the sword aura permeating the air, Jing Ke felt a sigh in his heart.

Then he saw Qin Qin Wuyang's arm cut off by the sharp Remnant Rainbow Sword.

Jing Ke was the strongest among the Mohist leaders. Even he admitted that he had no chance of winning against Gai Nie. Although Qin Qin Wuyang was strong, he was still far behind Jing Ke.

Even though he had unleashed his full strength in his anger at this moment, facing a top swordsman like Gai Nie, he was still cut off his arm without any surprise.

The arm flew off, and blood splashed.

Jing Ke closed his eyes in pain. He had never expected Qin Qin Wuyang to make such an unwise choice, but in the end, he did not stop Qin Qin Wuyang. Just as Qin Qin Wuyang had made his choice, Jing Ke had also made his choice long ago.

With one arm cut off, Qin Qin Wuyang suffered great pain.

But at this moment, with the anger in his heart and thinking of the things Yan Dan had entrusted to him, Qin Qin Wuyang actually forcibly endured this intense pain, and his remaining arm smashed out again.

Gai Nie held the Remnant Rainbow Sword horizontally to block the fist Qin Qin Wuyang swung.

"Open for me!!"

Qin Qin Wuyang gave a sharp shout. All his strength was concentrated in this punch, and even Gai Nie's hand holding the sword could not help but tremble. Immediately afterward, a crisp sound entered his ears.

On the blade of the Remnant Rainbow Sword, cracks actually appeared.

This sword was actually so fragile, so... unable to withstand a single blow!

However, this was not strange. After all, when Yan Dan, as the client, made the request to the sword-forging master Xu Xu Fuzi, who was the contractor, it was to forge a sharp weapon capable of a fatal blow, so Xu Xu Fuzi chose to use meteorite iron from beyond the heavens to forge the sword.

As a result, this sword was sharp, but not all meteorite iron from beyond the heavens was suitable for forging swords.

This meteorite iron used for forging the sword, although it contained a scorching aura and was fierce, its texture was actually a bit brittle.

If they had given Xu Xu Fuzi and Elder Madam Xu more time, perhaps they could have improved the hardness of this sword by adding some other metals, but because Yan Dan urged them tightly, they did not have this time. Even Elder Madam Xu died to forge this sword, and Xu Xu Fuzi had even less heart to do such superfluous things.

Qin Qin Wuyang exerted force again, and vigorous internal energy poured into his fist. The crisp sound became even louder.

Bang!!

Finally, the Remnant Rainbow Sword could not bear the burden and broke directly into two pieces. Seeing the Remnant Rainbow Sword break, Gai Nie's gaze could not help but freeze.

Qin Qin Wuyang ignored it. After using his remaining fist to break the Remnant Rainbow Sword, his fist did not stop and continued toward Ying Zheng.

Just at this moment.

The broken half of the sword tip, under the manipulation of an invisible force, brought out a crimson light, instantly piercing Qin Qin Wuyang's heart and annihilating all his vitality.

The half of the sword tip with blood fell to the ground. Qin Qin Wuyang's body stiffened, and then he slowly fell to the ground. Blood stained the imperial steps.

Without Ying Zheng speaking, the many guards who had temporarily withdrawn due to Ying Zheng's order stepped forward one after another, surrounding Qin Qin Wuyang's corpse and guarding Ying Zheng's safety.

In the dark of the court, the Six-Fingered Black Knight watched Qin Qin Wuyang suddenly launch an attack and watched Su Xuan beside him manipulate the short sword to easily take Qin Qin Wuyang's life. He also closed his eyes in pain and sighed.

Although he knew that Qin Qin Wuyang's death was self-inflicted, watching a Mohist leader die in front of him with his own eyes still left a bad taste in his heart.

A farce of assassination came to an end with Qin Qin Wuyang's death.

Because Qin Qin Wuyang suddenly launched an attack and attempted to assassinate, Jing Ke, as the main envoy of the Yan State, was also taken into custody by many guards.

At the same time, this matter of the Yan State ceding land and offering the head of Fan Fan Yuqi to seek peace also came to an end.

Jing Ke was escorted to the prison and locked up. Not long after, he was released due to Ying Zheng's edict.

But this did not mean that this matter was over just like that.

First of all, Qin Qin Wuyang was already dead, so it could be left unpursued.

But Jing Ke being able to bring the sword into the main hall of the Xianyang Palace itself explained some problems. This matter had to be thoroughly investigated.

The worst-case scenario that Lord Lord Changping had envisioned finally happened.

After the court meeting ended, he immediately arranged for people to deal with the aftermath, preferably killing those few eunuchs who inspected Jing Ke and Qin Qin Wuyang in advance. Although their deaths would also make Ying Zheng suspicious, at least Ying Zheng would not know that it was done by him.

As a result, it exceeded his expectations.

Before his people went to carry out this matter, those few eunuchs had already mysteriously disappeared.

Lord Lord Changping spent quite a lot of effort to find some clues. After those few eunuchs inspected Jing Ke and Qin Qin Wuyang, they had already been taken away by someone and secretly detained.

Lord Lord Changping did not know where they were detained.

But he developed some guesses.

That was, Ying Zheng might have known long ago that people from the Yan State would assassinate him, and he had long been prepared.

This speculation actually made no sense.

After all, only a few people knew about the assassination from the beginning. Lord Lord Changping believed that he had not leaked any news.

But that day in the hall, Ying Zheng's expression was truly too calm.

It was as if everything was under his control!

Also, the broken sword that flew through the air at the end and took Qin Qin Wuyang's life made Lord Lord Changping think of a person.

That Yin-Yang School leader, Su Xuan!

Su Xuan did not make many moves, but through known intelligence, Lord Lord Changping concluded that it was he who made a move in the dark and killed Qin Qin Wuyang.

This meant that he had been hiding in the dark that day.

This person had always been mysterious. Since he appeared by Ying Zheng's side, he did not know how many things he had helped Ying Zheng accomplish.

Lord Lord Changping could not help but speculate: did the failure of this assassination and the reversal of the situation have anything to do with Su Xuan?

Because through his investigation of Su Xuan, he discovered an extremely important clue.

That was, not long ago, after the Qin State wiped out the Zhao State, Su Xuan followed Ying Zheng to Handan in the Zhao State, and then did not return to Xianyang, but secretly went to... the Yan State.

That period of time was exactly when Yan Dan made a move on the Six-Fingered Black Knight to seize the power of the Mohist school.

What exactly did Su Xuan discover?