Chapter 69

"Su Xuan, and also, Brother!!"

Seeing the few people who had arrived, Princess Honglian was startled at first, then immediately overjoyed.

She had not expected that, right after Bai Bai Yifei mentioned Su Xuan, she would see him; and besides Su Xuan, she also saw her ninth brother, Han Fei.

Immediately, Princess Honglian suddenly questioned Su Xuan: "Su Xuan, the Blood-Clad Marquis says you colluded with Master Tian Ze to murder my father the King. Is this true?"

"Of course not!"

Su Xuan answered without the slightest bit of dishonesty.

Because this matter was not his doing to begin with.

"Really?"

"Really!"

"Good, then I will believe you this once!"

Princess Honglian’s reply was incredibly decisive, surprising not only the Blood-Clad Marquis Bai Bai Yifei beside her, but even Han Fei, who stood behind Su Xuan.

Although he had asked his younger sister Princess Honglian that day if she knew Su Xuan, and had guessed from her expression that the two might have had contact, he truly had not expected their relationship to have reached this point.

It had reached the point where Su Xuan only had to say two words, and Princess Honglian believed him outright.

Han Fei wanted to reprimand Princess Honglian, telling her not to easily believe the words of others.

Whether or not Su Xuan murdered their father, he would naturally find out the truth himself.

Just then, Bai Bai Yifei’s voice rang out, causing the words on the tip of his tongue to stop.

"This should be our first meeting!"

Bai Bai Yifei’s gaze landed on Su Xuan, examining with great interest the man whom Ji Ji Wuye regarded as a thorn in his side.

"It is indeed our first meeting!"

Su Xuan nodded, "However, although it is our first meeting, you are no stranger to me; that cousin of yours has mentioned you to me quite a few times!"

"Oh?"

Bai Bai Yifei’s tone was gentle, "Then I wonder if you are willing to hand over the antidote for the poison in her body?"

Su Xuan was also taken aback, "You really do care about her; your first reaction upon seeing me is actually to demand the antidote."

"However, this does let me know one thing."

"What thing?" Bai Bai Yifei asked.

"That is, you are a piece of trash!" Su Xuan’s words were like blades, extremely sharp, "After she was poisoned by me, she always believed you could cure her, but the fact is, you cannot cure it, therefore, you are trash!"

Because if one cannot cure the poison, one is trash.

The logic of this statement was clearly flawed, appearing somewhat sophistical.

But it truly struck at the pain deep within Bai Bai Yifei’s heart.

He prided himself on being omnipotent, prided himself on controlling everything, yet in the end, he could not cure the poison; this feeling of distress was something he had never spoken of in front of anyone.

One must know that gu and poison were things he himself was extremely skilled at.

Standing behind Bai Bai Yifei, Princess Honglian clearly felt a chilling coldness released from Bai Bai Yifei’s body, which made her unable to stop herself from shivering several times.

Master Tian Ze, lying on the ground in humiliation, also curled his lips into a strange smile.

Although he did not know why Bai Bai Yifei took such mockery to heart, Su Xuan’s words had indeed made Bai Bai Yifei angry.

Regarding the battle between Bai Bai Yifei and Su Xuan, Master Tian Ze could not help but feel some anticipation.

Although Bai Bai Yifei was strong, Su Xuan’s strength was, to Master Tian Ze, far superior to Bai Bai Yifei’s.

Having two enemies he did not particularly like run into each other was something he could only wish for.

"Ninth Young Master, although I do not know why you would stand with this monster who murdered the King, I am still willing to give you a chance. If you choose to leave now, I can choose not to pursue this matter; otherwise, even with your status as a Young Master, you will not escape the charge of conspiring with a monster!"

Han Fei’s expression changed slightly; although Bai Bai Yifei had given him a way out, he still did not leave immediately. He looked at Bai Bai Yifei and said: "I came here to rescue Princess Honglian!"

"As for the matter of my father, there is no need to trouble the Blood-Clad Marquis to worry about the truth; I will find it out myself!"

"Is that so!"

Bai Bai Yifei sighed and did not say anything more.

Previously, he had drawn one sword to break open the gate of the prison holding Princess Honglian; now, the other sword was also drawn by him.

His figure flickered, and amidst the permeating cold, two swords—one red and one white—had already slashed through the air toward Su Xuan.

Zinu and Yan Yan Lingji retreated simultaneously, and Wei Zhuang also pulled Han Fei aside to take cover.

This corridor was only so large.

If they continued to stay by Su Xuan’s side, no one could say for sure if they would be caught in the crossfire of the battle between Su Xuan and the Blood-Clad Marquis.

As for whether Su Xuan could handle the Blood-Clad Marquis’s attack?

Having witnessed with their own eyes Su Xuan wielding flying swords to slaughter the Baijia Army, Wei Zhuang, Zinu, Han Fei, and the others did not doubt this in the slightest.

"Can I interpret the Blood-Clad Marquis’s such impatient attack as being angry from embarrassment?"

Su Xuan raised the Shark Tooth in his hand, blocking the Blood-Clad Marquis’s twin swords just right.

Bai Bai Yifei’s voice rang out, "You colluded with Master Tian Ze to murder the King; when you were in the Wang Gong, in front of the General, you fled with the Regarding Baiyue monster woman. Now that I have run into you, I obviously cannot let you escape again!"

"So that’s how it is!"

Su Xuan nodded perfunctorily, his mouth suddenly opening, and a ball of flame was instantly released.

As the flame appeared, a terrifying high temperature instantly filled the corridor, dispelling the coldness within it, and at the same time, dissolving the frost that permeated around Bai Bai Yifei.

It turned out that after his twin swords were blocked by Su Xuan’s Shark Tooth, Bai Bai Yifei had secretly channeled his internal energy to unleash his unique "Cold Art."

Bai Bai Yifei pulled back, avoiding the direct onslaught of the flame, and an expression of surprise inevitably appeared on his face.

Although it was his first meeting with Su Xuan.

He was definitely no stranger to Su Xuan; it could be said that he knew all the methods Su Xuan had displayed since he appeared in the Han state.

Summoning wind and rain, refining elixirs and making medicine, calling gods and summoning ghosts, and in his battle with Yan Yan Lingji, he had shown the ability to swallow flames and not fear them... but being able to not fear flames did not mean one could wield them.

"You really do... surprise me!"

Bai Bai Yifei’s low voice rang out.

"If you like being surprised so much, then I advise you to get enough of it all at once, because you won’t have the chance to be surprised anymore."

Su Xuan’s voice rang out, and he spat out another burst of flame.

The Flame-Spitting Technique could not only swallow flames but also spit them out; this was a fire-wielding technique. Even though Su Xuan’s technique was only barely at the minor success stage, the flames he spat out were not comparable to ordinary fire.

How does one see the difference between it and ordinary fire?

The biggest difference is that its temperature is much higher.

As the only fire-based spell controller on the scene, Yan Yan Lingji noticed this immediately.

If Su Xuan had mastered such a fire-wielding technique, it was no wonder he could easily defeat her that day.

After a burst of flame was spat out by Su Xuan, a gale arose, fueling the fire’s momentum. A sword flew from Su Xuan’s hand, the sword light following the gale and rolling the flames, instantly heading toward Bai Bai Yifei at the other end of the corridor.