Vol 2 Chapter 306 (2/2)

Just like on top of the Floating Temple, the zhenqi in Fan Xian was difficult to keep suppressed and it clotted in his palm As if he desired to tear the skies apart, he raised his palm and aimed it towards the foe's face He unleashed a powerful and condensed gust of ithout batting an eyelid to the longsword that was now bearing down on hi that the swordsman's hair was blown backwards, the back of his head rese a shrubbery of thorns

Fan Xian was not as proficient in the arts of combat as his opponent, so he had to risk his life to le move He knew that the more powerful the assassin was, the prouder and protective of their life they were For this, he knew that his opponent would believe hi Fan Xian with relative ease and was not choosing to risk his life by attacking

The swordsuided his sword toward Fan Xian's hand Then, with unbelievable speed, Fan Xian withdrew his hand and his palm split into two shadohich fisted the enemy's temple The fist was quick and relatively simple, but it was insanely powerful

At thisFan Xian could never have predicted

The swordsman rescinded his artistry with the blade, and opted to discard it

The longsword disconnected fro towards Fan Xian's throat The assassin's body shrunk strangely, as he ed to evade the stream of fistwind Fan Xian had cast He then put his hand into his left shoe

He pulled out a roaned and pulled back his fist and staggered backwards He used his zhenqi to punch the soul-harvesting sword away The ancient sword flew backwards like an arrow in the opposite direction and…

Ding!

It powered right through and stuck into the back wall of the alley as straight as its initial flight

The ger fro to stab Fan Xian at the same time Fan Xian was all too familiar with this move

When the swordsht fairly with a clear moveset For all accounts and purposes, the attacks were honorable So, Fan Xian used his zhenqi to do battle with him But when the sword had left the assassin's hand, all honor was gone, and he beca a sharp dagger, and it was on its way to strike

While this situation unfolded in a mere moment, Fan Xian barely had the time or ability to react His left arm was cut

All of a sudden, the two black shadows in the alley were tangled in one another The closed-quarters coe to behold Despite the movements, there were no sounds to be heard, and it was a spooky sight It was insidious In this small area, both of their ht Their arht towards a corner and even cliainst walls in evasion of each other's strikes The sounds of punches were repeatedly heard, and it was scary

If Fan Xian hadn't been trained by Wu Zhu when he was younger, or if he didn't receive training froer his foe wielded would have left nued at a faster rate, the soul-taking dagger was still unfathomably quick, and his body had been nicked more than a few times

The opponent must have known a lot about the Overwatch Council's uniform All of his attacks were aimed at the areas which had the least protection

What shocked Fan Xian the e his next ht, he was able to deflect or evade every attack Fan Xian atteuessed and subsequently eluded Whenever he spied an opening, however, Fan Xian would follow it up with the atte of his ene of the testicles; and the use of his elbows All these shah

A great light suddenly shone froer was tied, and it reminded him of Wu Zhu's staff He recalled a feords that were once spoken to hiht, cruel and accurate”

The reason Fan Xian was re is because he remembered his own fierce skill, the ”Coffin Breaker” And in the tip of his shoes, he had a concealed blade

When Fan Xian's hand loosened, the zhenqi in his body erupted The sleeves of the Overwatch Council's uniforht hand shook violently – te zhenqi The entire scene was reminiscent of Ye Liuyun's style, thesound clapped the air

The assassin, as like a phanto his face Fan Xian's hand ide, his fingers wide apart like dead branches

The assassin felt an ache in his chest, and the force sent hi He used the tips of his feet to step on Fan Xian's shoe, which hid a blade and then jumped away

Fan Xian made a noise He held his left ar this wretched opponent, only now did he notice that he too was bleeding Seeing this, his confidence to fight him increased

But Wu Zhu had yet to arrive

The assassin raised his elbow and placed a grey dagger directly in front of Fan Xian's eye and with a weary, breaking voice said, ”I learnt thishis own energy begin to sap from his exposed wound, he coldly replied, ”You are welcoh time to recover, and it was quite apparent that his opponent

that his opponent was able to withstand his wound more than Fan Xian could Faced with this, Fan Xian did not say another word He used his fingertips to raise himself up the walls of the alley and as he climbed, he kicked down a few bricks He then propelled hi forward

The assassin took a step back and then leaped, trying to deliver the dagger into Fan Xian's teish, and his power turned frorees to bypass the dagger that was heading towards hiers shone, and they sneakily extended past his neck In thata poisonous needle inside the opponent's hand holding onto the dagger

What he did not expect, was for the dagger being wielded by the assassin to be an illusion When the poisonous needle reached its destination, the hand had already been pulled back three inches When the poisonous needle poked the dagger, the needle was too short and weak to do

Then, the assassin used his knee to kick Fan Xian's back This pain e of the poisonous dagger bearing doards his chest

Seeing this dagger, he lost all hope He did not think his opponent could be so well-prepared He even expected Fan Xian to prepare three poisonous needles for his final attack

And Wu Zhu was still gone

Then, his waist felt heavy His sigh turned to a scream

”Aaaaaaaah!”

Between this life-or-death th in his body into the snowy mountain that was his back He channelled his zhenqi into his arer

When the dagger scraped against his palms, a horrible squeaky sound pierced the air It was like burning steel roughly carving someone's foot

The distance between them was so close, so much so that he could see the pleased smile hidden in the eyes of his opponent

There is this thing called ”misfortune,” and it happened instantaneously Fan Xian had reached the est hidden sickness in his body was now unleashed That is why he released his death scream

The wild zhenqi was like uncontrollable children, or ferocious and untameable beasts For what seemed like no reason, it leapt about his veins without stability The zhenqi gathered up his snowy ht, and it now reached the top

It exploded

In this short period of ti pain like he had never experienced before Every nerve in his body was set-off like an alar torn apart, and Fan Xian was overwhel pain The zhenqi inside his body burst out of the veins they ought to have coursed through, and then it was gone Its presence could no longer be felt

The zhenqi had disappeared and his palm was now depleted of its power Out of the silence, a quiet sound was heard The dagger that was once unable to strike Fan Xian now did; it simply, and perhaps even ridiculously, pierced into his chest

Fan Xian dropped his arms and as if he could not believe it, watched in bewilderer eh, all he could now see was a handle

Even the elite assassin see out of Fan Xian's chest and didn't do anything else

A while later, the pain reached Fan Xian's brain And now he realised it was a truly deep strike He was afraid that his life was to be lost, in the blink of an eye, in a shade-wrapped alley of this other world

It wasn't fair There were still s he had yet to do He had not conceived a child; Dream of the Red Chamber had not received its 78th chapter; he still hadn't been to the palace treasury to look at Ye Qingmei's work; he still hadn't taken a peep at the Holy Temple; and he still hadn't stood in the palace to inforht on his uy not arrived yet?

”That was unexpected”

Surprisingly, the person who said this, aside fro in his past life before his death, was the assassin in front of him, the difference was; Fan Xian said it because it was unfair, and the assassin said it because he did not o of his hand which clutched the dagger Fan Xian's legs went lier Guards of the Emperor finally arrived in the alley They could not arrive in tiht They saw a person who looked like an ordinary civilian let go of a dagger which was inside Fan Xian, then turn into a black shadow and disappear behind the back wall of the alley

And Fan Xian, who had been described as really powerful by the Tiger Guards, was like a man who had become inebriated and had then passed out on the floor of the alley

”Go after hiroups and save the wounded first!”

The leader of the Tiger Guard, Gao Da, possessed a murderous look that was drowned in depression He kneeled near Fan Xian, and seeing this young officer who had brought hi when he was an ambassador for the north, his heart was overtaken by nerves and worry

A while later, a voice sounded in the alley

”I won't die” Fan Xian lay gasping in Gao Da's ar his chest drenched in red, he said, ”He did not strike deep enough But quickly, I io to theFei Jie back to the palace My life is important”

After he said this, Fan Xian's eyes closed and he fell unconscious Before he fainted, though, he caught sight of a blurry light He saw the wall the assassin hadhis injury, uess the true identity of the assassin But it was just too coh for him to remain unconscious than think about