"Foolish woman, you can’t escape from the palm of our hands. Hand over the Xuan Yang Jade Pendant and the Xuan Yin Jade Pendant quickly, or this day next year will be the anniversary of your death."
Shen Qingzhi moved like lightning, darting through the bamboo forest, when a knife light swept towards her, slashing through more than a dozen bamboo stalks and aiming straight for her side.
She executed the Phantom Step with extreme speed, leaving trails of afterimages in the air, and with a beautiful twist, she evaded the attack.
However.
Another woman seemed to have anticipated her position and sprang from a different direction, killing intent bursting forth in an instant.
Luckily, Shen Qingzhi’s Divine Sense had already captured the other’s trajectory. With her prediction and her body’s high flexibility, she narrowly dodged the strike.
A light push off the bamboo with her feet, and she shot out again, making a hand sign and sending several Wind Blades slicing towards her pursuers.
Those Wind Blades were silent, yet potent.
But ultimately, limited by her own power, they were forcefully shattered by the two who were chasing her.
"Don’t let her escape this bamboo forest."
The man pursuing her from behind let out a cold hum.
"Three Blade Slash!"
He immediately unleashed three strikes, casting three blades of light to block Shen Qingzhi’s path, while the other woman exploded with speed and rapidly caught up to her, slamming a palm towards Shen Qingzhi’s back.
Shen Qingzhi knew how to dodge.
But...
Her movements were confined by the three blades of light, making it difficult to maneuver freely, which forced her to twist her body and vigorously stimulate the True Qi within her to counter the attacking woman’s palm with her own.
"Bang!"
Amidst the roar of the colliding forces, Shen Qingzhi’s complexion turned instantly pale, her lips drained of color, and she was sent flying backward.
In the blink of an eye.
The man and woman had her surrounded.
"Hand over the Xuan Yang Jade Pendant and the Xuan Yin Jade Pendant, and I’ll let you die without pain," the man spoke, his voice piercingly cold.
"Otherwise, I’ll make your life worse than death." He added, eyeing Shen Qingzhi up and down with a greedy glint in his eyes.
Leaning on a bamboo stalk for support, Shen Qingzhi stood with a pale face but showed no signs of panic. She was very aware that even if she handed over the pendants, it was unlikely that they would let her go.
She understood all too well what the greed in their eyes meant.
"I’ll give you three seconds to decide—hand them over or not?"
The man’s murderous intent burst forth as he stared at Shen Qingzhi.
If it weren’t for the fear of Shen Qingzhi destroying the pendants in a desperate attempt, he wouldn’t have wasted his breath.
With her mind racing, Shen Qingzhi sought an escape plan.
"Three."
"Two."
The man began the countdown.
But, before he could utter "one," suddenly, a figure flashed by like a streak of lightning, approaching rapidly.
"Swoosh!"
At the same time, a sword light tore through the air.
Danger.
The man and woman attacking Shen Qingzhi were both shocked.
Yet.
The woman’s reaction came a split second too slow... in truth, even if she hadn’t been slow, she couldn’t have avoided that sword light.
Because that was Su Luo’s Lifeforce Flying Sword.
The Qing Luo Sword!
"Pfft!"
The Qing Luo Sword pierced directly through the woman’s brow and then shot towards the man.
"Slash."
The man instantly raised his sword to strike, his Inner Strength erupting, his blade emitting a terrifying power. His timing was precise, and his strike, carrying the blade light, indeed clashed with the Qing Luo Sword.
But... he underestimated the Qing Luo Sword!
The Qing Luo Sword was a treasure, Su Luo’s Lifeforce Flying Sword, charged with Chaotic Power, while the knife in the man’s hand was indeed fine quality, but compared to Su Luo’s flying sword, it was like a chasm as vast as the heavens.
The Qing Luo Sword directly shattered the knife in his hand.
Chaotic Power had crushed his Inner Strength.
"Pfft!"
Subsequently, the Qing Luo Sword pierced straight through his chest, entering from the front and exiting the back, tracing an arc in the air. A flash of green light streaked by at an extremely fast speed across the limbs of the man, and only then did it fly back to Su Luo’s side.
The man was horrified beyond belief.
Clutching his chest, he tried to muster his Inner Strength, aiming to burst forth with the fastest speed to escape from this place.
However.
As his Inner Strength erupted, his hands and feet suddenly spurted blood, and he, too, stumbled, falling to the ground face-first like a dog eating shit.
Only then did he realize that all his tendons in his hands and feet had been severed.
"Ahhh!!!!"
The intense pain made the man let out a miserable scream, and the injury in his chest caused his blood to drain away fast, bringing him excruciating agony.
"You... who are you?!"
The man curled up on the ground, looking towards Su Luo in terror.
"Me?
"I am Su Luo!
"Her man!"
Su Luo’s eyes were filled with a killing intent as he said coldly.
At this moment.
Shen Qingzhi was shielded by Su Luo behind him, and upon hearing this sentence, her lips couldn’t help but curve into a smile. She looked at the silhouette of Su Luo, her beautiful eyes blinking slightly, feeling an unprecedented sense of security.
"He is my man."
Then, Shen Qingzhi also stepped to the side, advanced one step, and stood side by side with Su Luo, looking at the man curled up on the ground, she said.
Upon hearing this sentence.
Su Luo reacted as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
On the other hand, the man’s face was filled with despair.
Su Luo was Shen Qingzhi’s man... and that meant there was absolutely no reason for him to let the man go.
"Who are you?
"Why are you trying to kill her?"
Su Luo suppressed the excitement in his heart and asked coldly instead.
"Long live the Martial God!"
The man, in his despair, only managed to roar out once before he drew a dagger from his waist, plunged it into his belly without a moment’s hesitation. In just two or three seconds, he foamed at the mouth and died a violent death.
Clearly, the dagger was poisoned!
"Seppuku?"
Su Luo furrowed his brow.
"They are Dongying People. On the surface, they’re supposed to be from Bai Hua Corporation but they worship the Martial God of Dongying. They came to Kun City this time for the Xuan Yang Jade Pendant, the Xuan Yin Jade Pendant, and the Spirit Storage Map." Shen Qingzhi promptly pulled out two jade pendants from her pocket.
One Yin and one Yang, when put together, they astonishingly presented the pattern of Tai Chi.
Seeing those two jade pendants.
Su Luo was immediately startled.
The Yang energy and Yin energy contained within these two jade pendants were actually about to surpass the total of the Yin Stones and Yang Stones he had obtained before.
"Where did these Xuan Yang Jade Pendant and Xuan Yin Jade Pendant come from?" Su Luo immediately asked.
"They were exchanged from a Hidden Sect at an exchange meeting. After that, we encountered an ambush by strong Dongying warriors. The Dongying People were led by a Great Grandmaster, and Fan Lichun secretly gave me these two jade pendants, telling me to leave. I just didn’t expect that we would be caught up by these two Grandmasters, but fortunately, you arrived in time," Shen Qingzhi said with a smile on her lips.
She had indeed thought before if Su Luo might suddenly appear to play the hero saving the beauty... but that thought was fleeting. She knew that was not possible, Su Luo simply had no reason to appear in this place out of the blue.
But as a result...
Su Luo really did show up!
He saved her from the crisis.
"Luckily, the strength of these two men was only that of Second or Third-Grade Grandmasters." Su Luo breathed a sigh of relief. If these two had been of a higher realm, he didn’t dare to imagine, perhaps Aunt Shen wouldn’t have been able to make it here at all.
This made Su Luo also feel fortunate that He Wei and He Qinglian had intended to trap him; otherwise, he would not have come here, and today... he might not have been able to save Aunt Shen in time.
Of course.
Besides saving Aunt Shen, there were also the Xuan Yang Jade Pendant and the Xuan Yin Jade Pendant...
Su Luo’s gaze turned towards the two jade pendants.