Chapter 382

Last night, Li Miao's life-betting explosion at Wang Gongchang seemed to have really forced An Qisheng into a desperate situation.

The perfect state of the four paths in one was no longer there, the Yingzhou Heaven-Men took the opportunity to rebel, Ji Tianrui disappeared after a backstab, the civil official group cooperating with him was being uprooted by Tang Lanzhou, and even the last collaborator, the Eastern Depot, was nowhere to be seen.

And on Li Miao's side, at least there was the Emperor as a trump card of four paths in one; even if he traded with Ji Tianrui, there were still nearly ten Heaven-Men such as the Xiaolingwei and the surrendered retainers who could be used.

An Qisheng should have fled.

Hide first, kill the Yingzhou Heaven-Men to recover his state, and then trade with the Emperor before Li Miao wakes up, and then find Li Miao to fight to the death—he should have thought this way.

But he didn't.

Zhu Shoujing didn't know the information Li Miao obtained in the mental image, so his judgment of An Qisheng was biased.

Although he was the Master of Yingzhou, he was not a Taoist priest with wide robes and sleeves and a fairy-like appearance.

He was an assassin.

An assassin who had assassinated the First Emperor several times, almost changed the course of history several times, and left his figure in the history books.

Bolangsha warrior, An Qisheng.

Before he went overseas and founded Yingzhou, he was the strongest assassin in the world, mentioned in the same breath as Jing Ke and Gao Jianli. The experiences of winning big with small, being in a desperate situation, and trading life for life occupied almost all his memories before going to sea.

He would not flee.

Even now, what An Qisheng was thinking was, kill!

He deliberately led the Yingzhou Heaven-Men to appear in front of Tang Lanzhou, deliberately showed that he couldn't take Zhu Shoujing's thrown blade, and also deliberately revealed the flaw of his left foot, just to let Zhu Shoujing bring people to stay!

He wanted to wipe out all the Heaven-Men around Li Miao together!

At this moment, Zhu Shoujing's hair stood on end.

"This is bad!"

The black blade suddenly withdrew and crossed with the white blade to block the top of his head.

The next instant, an irresistible, majestic force smashed down! The double blades that Zhu Shoujing supported with all his strength were almost instantly pressed down, smashing onto his back!

Pfft—

Zhu Shoujing spat out blood, and the roof under his feet collapsed.

He fell into the ruins.

At the same time, Ruan Mei suddenly pulled the Emei piercer that was stabbing toward An Qisheng's ear hole, but pulled out a dense spark and a sharp, piercing ringing sound.

The Emei piercer was stuck.

Stuck by the invisible protective true Qi on the side of An Qisheng's face.

An Qisheng's cold gaze turned.

His protective true Qi had indeed become weaker.

But it was not something that Heaven-Men of two paths could shake.

At this moment, countless dense blood flowers suddenly exploded on the bodies of all the retainers who rushed around An Qisheng.

Black Extreme Pagoda!

Using protective true Qi to extend and replace sword Qi, although the power was not as good as Li Miao's Black Extreme Pagoda, it had the characteristic of being able to retract and release freely. Two retainers who had not practiced Diamond were hooked back in front of An Qisheng by the true Qi blades, while the others were thrown away by the true Qi blades!

Boom, boom!

An Qisheng's palms slapped on the faces of the two hooked-back retainers.

Clatter—

Red and white matter splashed out.

The headless corpses fell to the ground.

Zhu Shoujing rushed out of the ruins, too late to wipe the blood overflowing from his mouth, and raised his double blades to slash at the back of An Qisheng's head, shouting violently at the same time!

"His Majesty is about to arrive, drag him!"

"Kill!!!"

The white blade slashed straight at his face, but suddenly unloaded its strength and shaved toward An Qisheng's eyes; the black blade drilled under his ribs, but suddenly became fierce and unparalleled, sweeping toward An Qisheng's crotch.

"The Rooster Crows and the World is White, Heaven and Earth are dark and the wind and rain are black", this was originally a blade technique! Black and white as one, the white blade can slash out the black blade, and the black blade can also slash out the white blade! This was the handed-down unique skill passed to the Xiaolingwei Commander after the Taizu of the Great Ming set the world, the martial art he selected for his tomb guardian, how could it be simple!

An Qisheng also didn't expect this weird change of moves.

He withdrew rapidly!

Zhu Shoujing advanced and followed, double blades handing over forward!

An Qisheng retreated again!

The double blades grazed An Qisheng's chest, their strength exhausted, and fell into empty space.

It seemed that Zhu Shoujing's sneak attack had failed.

With An Qisheng's almost crushing performance against the retainers before, Zhu Shoujing was afraid he wouldn't last ten moves in a head-on duel. Several retainers who followed him already had thoughts of retreating; they had surrendered to the Embroidered Uniform Guard after the Imperial Mausoleum affair, so there was no talk of loyalty at all.

Zhu Shoujing, however, did not show any disappointment.

He widened his eyes and looked at the white blade in his hand.

On the blade edge, a trace of blood that could not be seen was stained on it.

Looking at An Qisheng's chest again, an extremely fine crack appeared on his clothes.

Zhu Shoujing suddenly realized and shouted loudly.

"He is bluffing!"

"The injuries Li Miao left on him are far from recovered, his profound observation is also indeed damaged, he is not as strong as before at all—he is just able to control the flow of protective true Qi at any time!"

"He just wants to scare you away, and then kill you one by one, because he can't react when dealing with multiple enemies at the same time! You running away is the only way to die!"

"I will take the lead, you just make moves as you please, attack every corner of his body! He cannot take care of both offense and defense, the outcome is not yet known!"

While speaking, Zhu Shoujing instantly splashed countless blade lights, colliding with the protective true Qi to create sparks.

The retainers behind who had thoughts of retreating also reacted.

"What do you say!"

"Fight it, An Qisheng is indeed injured, Lord Zhu's words make sense... As long as it's not a certain-death situation, it's far more worthwhile than facing Li Miao's pursuit after running away!"

"Good!"

All were Heaven-Men, all were figures who had reached the peak in Wu Lin.

Whether they were from the evil path or the righteous path, they would not lack the courage to make decisions.

"Old thief die!"

"Die!"

"For Lord Li—take this blade from me!"

Countless attacks drowned An Qisheng.

Just as several people were besieging An Qisheng, a weird tune suddenly came from behind—the sound of a flute.

It was the Yingzhou Heaven-Man who had just been saved by Zhu Shoujing, returning, holding a long flute and playing incessantly.

Several people still had some defensive hearts, but they saw that as the flute sound was conducted to the center of the battle circle, transparent ripples suddenly swayed in the air.

An Qisheng's protective true Qi!

The Yingzhou Heaven-Man gritted his teeth and shouted angrily.

"I can make this old thief's protective true Qi visible!"

"Join forces!"

"I only ask that after Yingzhou is destroyed, you spare my life!"

Zhu Shoujing felt happy in his heart.

Sure enough, the contradiction between An Qisheng and the Yingzhou Heaven-Men had long been accumulated.

An Qisheng left a backhand on them, ready to harvest at any time; but the Yingzhou Heaven-Men also prepared means to deal with him, caught off guard by An Qisheng before, but now they used it while An Qisheng was entangled!

An Qisheng's protective true Qi was not enough to take care of both offense and defense, and now, they could clearly see where the protective true Qi was thinner!

Although still not An Qisheng's match, dragging him was no longer an extravagant hope!