1162 The Fish Is on the Hook (2/2)
She instantly bolted towards Ozawa Manzo and knelt on the floor. Holding Ozawa's dead body with shivering hands, two lines of tears ran down her face.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Three shadows flickered from a distance and quickly landed around her. All three of them were males in their 40s. Two of whom suppressed their shock upon seeing Huoji, cupped their fists and respectfully greeted. ”Subordinate pays respect to Huoji.”
The other one was stunned and immediately followed the salute.
Flames of fury filling her eyes, Huoji's vision fell on the three men and shouted, ”Who killed them?”
The three men shook their heads.
”Investigate it thoroughly!” Huoji fiercely shouted, ”I don't care even if you must turn Kyoto upside down, but you must find the murderer! Those who provoke the Joyous Palace must die.”
”Understood!”
The three men hurriedly complied and took out their phones and began dialing some cell numbers. A few minutes after, they disappeared from the courtyard.
On the roof of a building in a distance, Tang Xiu slowly stroked his chin and thoughtfully said, ”Yuji described some of the Mistresses in Joyous Palace, and this woman should be one of them with the Huoji title. Well, the other three just left, so it's time to conclude this fishing session.”
”Let me deal with her, Grand Master,” said Tang An.
Tang Xiu squinted and nodded as he slowly said, ”Your cultivation may be under that woman, but you should be able to easily kill her in a life-and-death battle. Go, then. I'll help you so she can't run away.”
Tang An nodded respectfully in response and then quickly disappeared and lurked towards Huoji.
Tang Xiu closely followed her and soon appeared on the outskirts of the Inada Society building. The moment he and Tang An entered the building, he began drawing an array pattern and set it up outside the Inada Society.
Puff…
An immortal sword suddenly appeared out of the blue and the sudden assassination strike directly stabbed Huoji's left shoulder. Blood instantly spurted out and Tang An's figure appeared.
”Who are you?”
Huoji's expression enormously changed. Her heart palpitated upon finding the enemy suddenly appearing like that. She didn't even notice anything when she appeared, which proved the enemy's terrifyingness.
”Something's wrong!”
Huoji suddenly noticed in surprise that the flow of energy in the surroundings had changed.
Tang An didn't respond to Huoji's remarks. She shot thousands of sword beams from her immortal sword and directly sealed off Houji's every escape route.
”Mokugyo artifact!”
A wooden fish suddenly appeared in Huoji's hand. As a hammer landed on the Mokugyo, a dazzling golden light suddenly burst from above. The golden light instantly spread in all directions and encased the sword beams within.
Cling, cling, cling…
Hundreds of golden fishes then appeared in the midst of golden light out of thin air and constantly clashed with the sword beams. The destructive sword beams which were originally full of momentum were dissolved in less than two breaths, then golden fishes stormed over towards Tang An.
If Yuji were to be here at this time, she would have been very shocked since this Mokugyou was the favorite artifact of Miyaji and was rumored to have enormous might.
”Ancestral Reverse of Myriad Swords!”
The routed sword beams appeared again and this time the number was several times more than before. Overlapping layers of sword images formed dense sword beams and covered the sky. Even the sword beams now encased several hundreds of meters radius, shrouding the golden fishes and destroying the golden fishes with its sword beams.
”Time-flow Reverse!”
Huoji beat the Mokugyo faster, but a bad feeling suddenly struck her heart. She felt like she was hallucinating that the time was flowing much slower and all the scenery around her turned blurry.
Puff…
The moment after, tens of sword beams pierced her chest and crushed her heart.
”How is this possible?”
Huoji was scared to death and hastily performed a secret art. The Buddhist Sarira in her body suddenly broke out and attempted to escape.
BOOM…
A transparent energy shield blocked her Buddhist Sarira's path and it bounced back to her original position.
”Destroy…”
Tang An manipulated her immortal sword and accurately and unmistakably pierced the Golden Sarira. However, when a shrill scream came out of the Golden Sarira, Tang Xiu's figure suddenly appeared and directly grabbed it.
”Why you didn't let me destroy it, Grand Master?” asked Tang An with hesitation.