Chapter 718 – Ten Years of Life and Death
Amongst the falling low rank blood bat s, that person had perfectly borrowed strength from every single one of the obstructions. When this blood bat could expose himself due to the angle he was at, his body would quickly move toward another blood bat, so Xia Houdan didn’t even see this person approaching.
By the time Xia Houdan reacted, the man’s sword was already in front of his throat.
Xia Houdan was born a bitter child, he followed the army at the age of 14, he would go wherever the army went. Like a small tail, no one could shake him off. Later on, the well-meaning soldiers would give him their rations, and gradually, he would become a family member of the team.
At the age of sixteen, he was recruited by an exception, because the general in charge really liked this little guy. The general gave him the uniform of the Great Xixi Army, put the helmet on his head, and hung the saber, which symbolized the status of the Great Xi Army, by his waist.
This general is called Chen Zhongqi.
At that time, Chen Zhongqi was training in the army and no one even knew that he was the Great xi’s prince. At that time, Chen Zhongqi was young and energetic. No one would be better than Chen Zhongqi when it came to leading, training, and assaulting exercises, as well as pulling everyone out to raid the bandit camp. He had earned his respect in the army and received all the rewards he deserved. However, even his superior did not know that he was the Great Western Prince.
Da Xi’s army consisted of 1200 infantry battalions. On the other hand, the cavalry unit consisted of 600 people. When Chen Zhongqi left the First Battalion of Cavalry that he had brought along, the general above finally knew that this young man was actually Daxi Shenghuang’s son.
From then on, these six hundred man cavalry battalions were known as the Prince’s Battalion.
A few decades later, Xia Houdan had already becomhird ranked general, only second to the Temple General. All of this, was given to him by Chen Zhongqi.
When they found out that Chen Zhongqi had been relegated to being a commoner, Xia Houdan did not hesitate to return to the Prince’s Camp. This was a grave crime, but he was not afraid. The people up there obviously knew that he was leading the troops into the city. The Saint King obviously knew as well, but no one asked … These six hundred Steel Cavalry were the gifts that the Saint King had given to his son before he left.
It was just that even Chen Wunuo did not expect the people below to be so daring.
Six hundred cavalry, ten to six or seven.
As for Xia Houdan, the sword had already pierced through his skin.
However, that long sword came talt, as if it was locked in place by some unknown force. The long sword trembled uncontrollably, emitting a buzzing sound. It was obvious that the person holding the sword was resisting, and in the next second, the sword might break free from the shackles. It was at this moment that Xia Houdan saw a young man wearing a black robe, standing behind him. Because the distance was too close and because he could see too clearly, he could see that there were three blue colored star point quickly spinning in the left eye of the black-clothed young man.
An Zheng took out a dagger from the Blood Pearl Bracelet s. This dagger was something he had picked out from the items that the Ming Fa Si had left behind for auction. The name of the magical equipment at the peak of the Golden-Rank was Clear Sky Star.
Before the assassin could understand what was going on, An Zheng had already wrapped his left arm around his neck and stabbed the dagger into his lower back with his right hand.
One slash, two slashes, three slashes.
Every time the dagger stabbed into the assassin’s back, it would circle around his waist. Therefore, every time it stabbed into the assassin, it left a bloody hole on his body. In just a mere second or two, his lower back was almost sliced open by An Zheng.
An Zheng released his hand, and then he softly fell down, and when he turned back to look, his eyes had already lost focus.
“Many …” “Thank you very much.”
Xia Houdan cupped his fist and then subconsciously lifted his hand to feel the wound on his neck. That sword was only a tiny bit away from piercing through his artery. If the black-clothed young man had been slightly slower, he would have died without a doubt.
An Zheng did not say anything. He bent down and rummaged through the assassin’s body, finding some sort of magical equipment. After that, he slashed the dagger in his hand, and actually cut open the assassin’s lower abdomen. A Demonic Beast Cores with a golden glow was picked out by An Zheng and put into the Blood Pearl Bracelet. Xia Houdan was stupefied. His movements were fluid like flowing water, as if he had already seen that the assassin was nouman but a summoner.
After putting away the Demonic Beast Cores, An Zheng raised his head and looked at the low level blood bat that was circling around them in the sky: “This is their leader, I had once killed one of them.”
He smeared the sky full of stars in the pool of blood of a low level blood bat on the ground a few times, causing the sky full of stars to be covered with the assassin’s blood. All the stars in the sky suddenly exploded in midair, as if they were missiles filled with warheads. They split into countless smaller daggers, and each attack killed a low level blood bat.
This is the power of the stars in the sky … As long as they were infected by the same blood, they would immediately chase after him. The daggers slashed across the air one after another, and the blood bat s wailed as they dodged and dodged. However, no matter how fast they flew, the entire sky was chasing after them, until they were assassinated.
Three minutes later, all the power in the sky disappeared and returned back to one place, transforming into a dagger that flew back into An Zheng’s hands.
An Zheng looked behind him: “Let’s go, the ones chasing us are even more terrifying.”
Xia Houdan acknowledged, and looked around, only to realize that his mount had also been killed by the low levelled blood bat. Although his demon beasts were of high rank, he still died from being besieged by so many low rank blood bat s. The two of them walked with large strides, chasing in the direction that Chen Zhongqi had escaped in.
“Brother, thank you for saving my life. But why did you save me?”
Xia Houdan asked with some vigilance.
“A cultivator should die for all of them, but they shouldn’t have been killed by those monsters.”
An Zheng looked at Xia Houdan: “If you were to be killed by them, it would bumiliation to the Da Xi cultivators.”
Xia Houdan felt his heart heat up: “You know who I am, and where we’re going?”
An Zheng nodded: “Understood.”
Xia Houdan was stunned for a moment, “You... Who exactly is it? ”
An Zheng said: “After catching up to Chen Zhongqi, he will tell you who I am.”
The two of them sped up. Xia Houdan was also a Higher Completion Stage cultivator, and with Chen Zhongqi’s training these past few years, he obtained the best cultivation technique for the best medicines. In a few decades, he had already become one of the people standing at the top of the mountain. However, Xia Houdan had a secret that he had never mentioned before … In this world, the person who had the most impact on him was obviously Chen Zhongqi. However, the person who had helped him the most in cultivation was the former Great Western Ming Fa Si’s first seat, Fang Zheng.
That year, he was ordered to lead troops and assist the Ming Fa Si in capturing a great bandit. Only, he did not expect that the great bandit had already recruited ovehousand subordinates and built an extremely sturdy fortress in the years that he had been hiding. He had originally thought that it would be a fierce battle, but on that day, he witnessed Fang Zheng’s Heavenly Thunder of Nine Suns.
His strongest attack, the Ten Thousand Edge Array, was because he had gained insights from Fang Zheng’s Heavenly Thunder of Nine Suns. However, his talent and Cultivation Power was not enough to make his Myriad Edge Array a forbidden technique. Even so, it was already extremely terrifying.
Xia Houdan did not know An Zheng’s identity, but since An Zheng said that he knew the Prince, could he be an expert like Su Mengmu, who was secretly protecting the Prince? When he thought about how Su Mengmu had not followed him up to this point, Xia Houdan became a little worried.
The two of them were extremely fast, and managed to catch up to Chen Zhongqi less than fifty kilometers in front of them.
When Chen Zhongqi saw An Zheng, he was stunned for a moment. Although An Zheng did not appear as his real face this time, he still sensed something. After all, before leaving the capital, An Zheng had gone to the Duke Palaces. Liar, the easiest thing to lie about is the look in your eyes.
A team of more than two hundred people walked forward, and overnight, they travelled another seven hundred miles of road. They were truly tired, and after Xia Houdan asked around, the group rested in a small mountain village. The villagers of this small mountain village were all simple and honest. Seeing how the soldiers of the Da Xi Empire were all dressed in rags, they even brought over food and clothes.
Xia Houdan arranged the defenses as fast as he could and then returned to Chen Zhongqi’s side. He was really worried about An Zheng, because he felt that the young man’s eyes were too cold.
“Xiahou, you leave first. I have something to talk to him about.”
Chen Zhongqi glanced at Xia Houdan, then laughed: “Don’t worry, I’m an old friend of his.”
Xia Houdan grunted in relief before finally letting out a sigh of relief. He randomly picked a place in the distance to lie down and closed his eyes to rest. However, his long lance was still in his hands. Even when he was resting, he could still kill people.
“Leader?”
Chen Zhongqi asked tentatively.
An Zheng nodded.
“Why did Taoist help me?”
“Because I wanted to kill you.”
“Huh?”
Chen Zhongqi obviously did not expect such an answer. He could vaguely guess An Zheng’s identity from the look in his eyes, and he was precisely that Hollow Jade Temple’s Daoist Chen Liuxi that he invited into his residence not long ago in the Jinling. After hearing An Zheng’s words, he carefully thought about where he had offended Hollow Jade Temple. However, he could not find an answer. The first time he came into contact with a member of the Hollow Jade Temple was only that.
Why did this person want to kill him? And why was he so straightforward?
“You … We used to know each other? ”
Chen Zhongqi probed. Even though An Zheng said that she wanted to kill him, he could tell that An Zheng did not have any intention of making a move. He knows that all these years, he has had many enemies, but to be able to say the words “I want to kill you” in front of him so blatantly like An Zheng, he was probably the only one.
“I do.”
An Zheng nodded and replied.
Chen Zhongqi subconsciously thought, who exactly was this person?
This was the first time that the Hollow Jade Temple had appeared in the martial arts world. It was impossible for him to have come into contact with it before.
“Because I have too many enemies, I can’t be sure which one?”
An Zheng asked.
Chen Zhongqi nodded his head: “Yes, there are indeed too many people who want to kill me.”
He looked at An Zheng and asked seriously, “Dao leader, just who are you?”
An Zheng stood in front of Chen Zhongqi and still said those words in the end, “Ten years of life and death, Mount Cang Man will be buried here.”
Chen Zhongqi trembled violently, his face was pale white.
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