Chapter 366

Zheng Qi let go of her long sword, her hands intertwined with protective true energy, and grabbed toward Li Miao's arm.

Although the movement looked intimate, Li Miao's fingers were truly, like sharp knives, submerged into her flesh, gripping her ribs; another inch forward and it would be her heart!

True energy gathers in the dantian, Qi and blood originate from the heart meridian, spirit is hidden in the heavenly spirit—yes, the heart is not just an organ, it is also the source of Qi, blood, and strength.

No matter how brilliant the healing technique cultivated, the head, heart, and dantian are truly vital points; no matter how brilliant the healing technique cultivated, they cannot be easily restored!

Even with Li Miao's crazy fighting style, he wouldn't easily expose these three to an opponent, let alone Zheng Qi, who had already been drilled into her flesh; as long as Li Miao reached inside, he could touch her heart!

Zheng Anqi wouldn't save her; she could only save herself!

Li Miao had no "seed" in his body, nor had he cultivated Xuanlan; he should be unable to break free from protective true energy. As long as she grabbed Li Miao's palm, she could turn defeat into victory!

At the same time, Zheng Anqi, who was being used as a cushion behind her, also noticed this, and his protective true energy, far more vigorous than hers, rolled toward Li Miao's arm together!

And Li Miao's smile was ferocious, yet he seemed not to notice at all, letting the two strands of protective true energy roll toward his arm, violently pushing the two of them toward a civilian house!

Boom!

The wall collapsed with a roar, and the figures of the three disappeared into the dust.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

On the empty Tianjie, only a series of muffled sounds came continuously, shaking the gold and silver on the ground, emitting crisp sounds, and sending ripples through the pool of blood.

Only hearing a loud boom, the wall exploded, and Li Miao pushed the two of them back onto Tianjie!

His fingers had already drilled another half-inch into Zheng Qi's body, and the escaping true energy and strength had already affected Zheng Qi's heart, causing blood to seep from her mouth and nose.

Zheng Qi gritted her teeth.

Her protective true energy had already rolled onto Li Miao's arm! Along with Zheng Anqi's protective true energy, it had also arrived!

Li Miao hadn't cultivated Xuanlan; once wrapped by protective true energy, he would be unable to break free or move, and the outcome was about to be reversed!

In this very instant, however, the hearts of the two of them lifted in unison.

A familiar vibration conducted from Li Miao's arm into the two's protective true energy, and the confinement suddenly loosened.

"How can this be! How can you!"

Zheng Qi opened her mouth in astonishment.

"What, you didn't know?"

Li Miao smiled as he looked into her eyes.

"With your nature of not recognizing your own kin, killing fellow disciples and even your own children, who would dare to open their hearts to you? That partner of yours sent little Gao to my side, which was meant to be a two-sided bet from the start."

"This martial art that you created, specifically to break protective true energy—she had already confessed everything when her arm was torn off by me."

"It's just that I don't accept the surrender of rotten people."

The vibration shook away the true energy wrapping Li Miao's arm, opening up a space—Li Miao's arm lunged forward.

Crack.

A sharp pain in Zheng Qi's chest; her sternum was pressed and broken. She had no leisure to care about the pain, desperately grabbing toward Li Miao's arm, attempting to stop him.

But the next instant, she stopped her movements.

Ever since cultivating to the Heaven-Man Realm, the Qi and blood that had been surging in her body like lead and mercury were gripped at the source by a hand, and thus suddenly stalled, and her vision went black.

Li Miao's palm probed into her body and gripped her heart.

In a trance, she heard Li Miao asking.

"Last night, it was you who forced Xiao Yizi to kill Xiao Cao, right?"

"He had a chest injury and a damaged heart meridian; if not for Xiao Yizi risking being discovered by you to hold back, if not for me leaving behind means, if not for Xiao Gao happening to be there, he would have died."

Zheng Qi's face suddenly turned pale, her mouth opened wide, and she let out a low groan.

"Hee-er! —"

Li Miao's fingers slowly tightened.

"I have always been one to repay a drop of kindness with a fountain—you let my subordinate shed a drop of blood, and I will open a blood fountain on your body."

"Go well, I won't see you off."

Pfft.

A sticky, wet, cold sound exploded in Zheng Qi's chest cavity, splashing onto her own ribs and sliding down through the gaps between her organs.

Zheng Qi's arms hung down, and there was no more sound.

Li Miao threw Zheng Qi to the ground and punched out, overlapping with Zheng Anqi's arm.

"Only you are left."

Li Miao smiled.

"If you have any last words, you had best say them now. If you want to destroy Yingzhou, tell me the foundation of Yingzhou now—after I kill you in a moment, I'll have to go investigate it myself, which is very troublesome."

Zheng Anqi's eye twitched.

"Do you take me for this Penglai rebel... The martial arts created by the two remnants after the Penglai extinction—now that I already know the ins and outs, do you still think they can have any effect?"

"Do you think Xuanlan is only for protection... Do you think I got this name for nothing!"

A series of angry shouts, one louder than the next.

Following his angry shout, the arm that had originally been slowly pressing toward him actually pressed back toward Li Miao.

Just a moment ago, when fighting Li Miao, his strength clearly could not be mentioned in the same breath as Li Miao's, but now it was Li Miao who had fallen into a disadvantage!

Li Miao raised an eyebrow and lifted his leg in a front kick!

Boom!

The two figures suddenly separated.

Li Miao stood where he was, Zheng Anqi stopped his retreat, stood straight, and looked back, their gazes meeting.

After a long while, Zheng Anqi said in a deep voice.

"You might win."

Li Miao sneered.

"Less farting."

Zheng Anqi, however, was not offended in the slightest.

At the very beginning, he hadn't put Li Miao in his eyes, only feeling that this was a reckless man who knew nothing, acting wantonly in the Central Plains with the peerless bone structure of the Yingzhou heritage, and simply could not be mentioned in the same breath as him.

But after a bout of fighting with Li Miao, he had to admit—if Li Miao hadn't been taken to the Central Plains during the Yingzhou civil strife back then, the person who inherited the name "Zheng Anqi" would absolutely not have been him.

Without the Heaven-Man heritage, without "Xuanlan," without a master's sect, Li Miao still had the possibility of surpassing him.

Zheng Anqi opened his mouth and said.

"If I am the one who dies today, inside the palace city, in the Huagai Hall, I have left something behind; remember to go and take it."

Li Miao raised an eyebrow.

"A trap? A mechanism? Poison?"

Zheng Anqi said expressionlessly.

"It is the heritage of 'Xuanlan'."

"You are the only Zheng family member who can cultivate this martial art; if I die, you are the only person who might destroy Yingzhou."

Li Miao smiled.

"Sounds like you also have a grudge against Yingzhou."

Zheng Anqi actually nodded.

"Yes."

Li Miao narrowed his eyes.

"Interesting... You aren't lying; it seems you aren't the head of Yingzhou."

"Just now you said 'name,' so your name isn't innate, but passed down; you aren't that Zheng Anqi Sheng from a thousand years ago, but a descendant who inherited his name."

"You want to destroy Yingzhou, yet you have to run to the Central Plains yourself, using human lives to perfect your realm, and I don't see you bringing any subordinates... In Yingzhou, there is an opponent you cannot deal with."

"What, that Zheng Anqi Sheng, is he really still alive?"

Zheng Anqi did not answer, true energy surging around his body.

Li Miao smiled.

"Very well, after I beat you to death, I'll go catch someone and ask."

He lifted his hand in a beckoning gesture.

"Come!"

(End of chapter)