Chapter 61 (1/2)
In the blink of an eye, in the air around the carriage in the rain at Chao Mansion’s main gate, there were fourteen feathered arrows like lightning. These feathered arrows flew past Chao XiaoShu’s side, piercing through the densely packed raindrops, and strangely avoiding the tall and st.u.r.dy coachman’s interception at the coachman’s seat. Then the fourteen arrows whistled shooting through the carriage’s curtain into the hollow compartment.
Inside of the carriage, Xiao KuYu frowned, his already extremely distressed ancient appearance now seemed even more haggard. Staring at the empty s.p.a.ce in front of him, the seemingly boundlessly endless Enchanter power in his body filled the carriage, unexpectedly making the inside of the compartment fill with a light scent of orchids; in the bit of air like orchids was a very strange scene.
The lightning-like arrows outside of the carriage, once they came forward to this old and powerful body, it was as though they entered a relatively still s.p.a.ce, instantly losing all of their speed and becoming like a still, dead object!
Fourteen feathered arrows were unexpectedly strangely still, floating in the air – not one was able to touch the plain clothing on his body. One of the feathered arrows floating in the air inside of the carriage was less than three inches away from Xiao KuYu’s brow – two arrows were immobile in front of him, and even more feathered arrows were suspended motionless in front of his hands!
The still arrows fell to the ground as light as feathers, just like the rainwater outside of the carriage, and even more like tender, soft leaves struck down by rainwater. If they were even sharper arrows, once the speed bestowed by the yellow hardwood poplar bow and the wound tendon bowstring was lost, they then lost all of their lethality, and like trash, they fell down at Xiao KuYu’s feet.
But because of responding to the fourteen lightning-like arrows, even Xiao KuYu who was powerful within the military, had his psyche unavoidably affected a bit. The Enchanting power controlling the energies of heaven and earth all around showed a slight gap.
To a person like Chao XiaoShu, any gap of the enemy was his chance. He felt the layers of binding on his heart loosen some, the tens of thousands of p.r.i.c.kling pains on his Sea of Qi weakened a bit. Only visible was him clearly yelling; his blue robe flapped the rain, and his rolled sleeve flew – his whole body becoming like a fallen leaf, floating towards the carriage!
That tall and st.u.r.dy driver on the coachmen seat hollered, and that whip made of some unknown material suddenly lashed out. Within the rough clothing, was an extremely dark-earthly yellow light that was at first hidden – very clearly he was a warrior.
At the side of an old and ailing Great Enchanter in a frightening realm, inevitably he would have a powerful, fierce bodyguard. Even Ning Que was able to think of this, Chao XiaoShu naturally wouldn’t miscalculate.
One whip strike lashed out, and wind and rain parted. The completely wet robe on Chao XiaoShu was blasted by a strong wind making whoos.h.i.+ng sounds, but now his body had already become like a fallen leaf, and extremely softly and easily he evaded. His right hand’s index and middle finger directed the sword in the air, the sword stabbing towards the close-quarters guarding coachman. With his fingertips forward, within the chaotically blown raindrops appeared a single white line.
The coachman again yelled, and the returning whip drew a circle in the air that smashed it to bits, waiting to again brandish the whip for when Chao XiaoShu came, but he was interrupted by violent pain in his belly.
His widened eyes looked downwards, only seeing an ordinary plain blade, deeply imbedded into his stomach!
In the rain, Ning Que who had the whole while been madly rus.h.i.+ng, clearly knew that the Great Enchanter inside of the carriage and the coachman atop the driving seat were both pract.i.tioners, but his steps didn’t have the slightest hesitation; just that he was just a little later than Chao XiaoShu in getting to the carriage. Then in the very first turn, he made his way under the two steeds, avoiding that close-quarters guard’s gaze, discarding the arrows and drawing the blade.
When he was underneath the horses’ bellies, his right hand tightly held onto the blade, but it was from the rear of the horses’ hips, from the carriage’s shaft slantingly piercing upwards that this sinister blade’s strike precisely avoided the enemy’s possible soft armor, deeply stabbing into the other’s belly!
The blade entering the belly wasn’t a fatal wound. Ning Que with his face expressionless flipped his wrist, the blade twist and turned, and instantly the innards of the carriage driver’s belly into a mess of paste.
The driver seeing those non-stop twisting motions of the blade in his belly, his face had an expression of appalled despair, his throat making gurgling sounds. The metallic blade rinsed by rainwater many times was an ice-cold piece, but he felt it was incomparably burning.
Ning Que at the moment wasn’t in the mood to enjoy the dying expression of his opponent. With his palm resting on the cart shaft, he agilely flipped up, charging from the close-quarters bodyguard’s side over with Chao XiaoShu’s figure closely following charging to kill into that mysterious carriage.
The carriage’s curtain rose, and the cold and bitter spring rain went inside.
Chao XiaoShu’s face was pale, his eyes bright. One wave of his hand parried Xiao KuYu’s direct attack with a cane.
Xiao KuYu’s expression suddenly changed, gathering all of his Enchanting power, he wanted to directly shoot this troublesome JiangHu person to death.
Ning Que went through in between Chao XiaoShu’s knees. With a m.u.f.fled groan he suddenly knelt down, and the sharp blade in his hand firmly pierced through the bottom of Xiao KuYu’s foot.
Xiao KuYu howled painfully like an old animal about to die. Because of the ma.s.sive pain in the bottom of his feet, his meditation was again interrupted, but his two old palms like dried up twigs already fanned open, about to strike!
Without any expression, Chao XiaoShu ruthlessly crashed into the old man’s chest. The one crash, scattered all of the opponents condensed enchanting power – turning his hand over he pulled out a dagger from his own boot, and ruthlessly stabbed it into his opponent’s neck!
Pu!
One stab.
Two stabs.
Three stabs.
Fourteen stabs.