Chapter 366 (1/2)

Chapter 366

Chapter 366: Heavenly Wo Flowers

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Xia Qifei left the Jiangnan Restaurant and stopped outside in the streetHe looked at the people passing by in the night and couldn't resist lowering his head slightly in thought

”Boss” A dozen men came up and stood around himThey looked at him with a thread of reverence and unfamiliarity, and saluted hinan water banditsBecause of the palace treasury matter, they had entered Suzhou with Xia QifeiHowever, the city had always been well guardedSome of these water bandits were even featured on wanted posters, so usually they would not enter Suzhou

They never thought that thieves and bandits like themselves would not only be able to walk in around Suzhou in broad daylight, but that their big boss could sit at the sananThose merchants usually only knew to use silver to buy the lives of their brothers to useWhen had they ever done as they did today and treat Xia with such politeness?

Thinking of this, a sense of vanity and pride rose in those men's heartsThis world was indeed not the sa alarm, joy, and complicated emotions in his subordinates' expressions, Xia Qifei couldn't resist laughing self-deprecatingly and said, ”Brothers, you should all learn a littleThis time you've all seen those eldersWhen you have time, ask for instruction from them”

The elders he spoke of were the old officials from the Ministry of Revenue that Fan Xian had sent to help hiradually expand into trade, and Xia Qifei hoped that his trusted aides would be able to quickly grasp the tricks of doing businessAt least, they had to kno to keep accounts and such things

A the joyous atmosphere, Xia Qifei suddenly felt a chill

He raised his head and gazed outThe bright htIt was spring, and the night of a clear day was indeed still a bit colder than usualHe pulled back his gaze and saw three strange people standing across the street

The three were strange because of their sudden appearance and cold and silent gaze on the other side of the streetThey were not people passing by at night or unhappy custo they as nor a baht like this, it appeared rather special

Having spentbetween life and death since a young age, Xia Qifei did not even have the tier had a cold light shi+ne froe cryThe tips of his feet tapped three tiroundHis entire person floated back in the direction of the door to the Jiangnan Restaurant

Across the street, the man in the middle reached with his hands over his shoulder and under his hat and grabbed hold of soht suddenly scattered off a knife like a flurry of snowIt followed Xia Qifei like the body of a water bird that left no traces on the water it chopped down

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”Kill!”

When the light scattered fro on the bravery in their bones, they wanted to cohtHowever, their reactions could never coht of the baave a wild roar and pulled out the straight knife hidden in his clothes and, with strength pouring into both his arht knife in the Jiangnan water bandit's hand was snapped in two by the knife light like a tender Jiangnan lotus rootWith a crash, the man's body was split in two by the extre pieces of flesh and bloodFresh blood sprayed out, and his internal organs flowed to the ground—the pair of already separated hands were still holding the knife handle and knife tip in a powerless and tragic defense

The power of the knife did not stop as it flew through the silent air and approached the front of the Jiangnan Restaurant, where the tips of Xia Qifei's feet had just touched the ground

The knife qi was just like a straight line slicing through people and cutting through the groundWith a crash, it split open to stones in the street and revealed the fresh stone rubble within

With a boonan Restaurants and dust rose upXia Qifei gave a roarHe pressed his hands together and clashed against the forward pressing knife power

The knife light suddenly withdrew, and the dust gradually settled

The shaking had caused two spots of fresh blood to run from Xia Qifei's noseHis palms were shakily held up in defense in front of his bodyWith a face full of alarm, he looked at the man with the bamboo hat across the street

This onestreetAlong the way it had split open a eWhat kind of terrifying realm was this? He was probably already a ninth-level aceHow could Jiangnan still have such an unknown high-level ace? The knife had sliced with power and without reason through the night skyIn this moment of silence, only now did the people see clearly thatthe bamboo hat

He was tall and exuded an air of solee hite like snow, and the handle was very longIt was a long knife only seen on a theater stage or battlefieldThe knife o-and-halfHow did the other party hide it behind his body earlier?

All this happened in a flashOnly after Xia Qifei had fought for his life to block the strike of the knife did he blinkIn one blink he found the situation was still scaryThe two people beside the man with the bamboo hat had disappeared without a traceHe had no idea where they went

Since the opposition was here to kill him, the other tere sure to strike

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As theknife from behind his body and sliced down tyrannically across the street, the two other aces beside hinan water bandits in the center of the streetTheir figures were like ss as they dreo beautiful arcs through the airLike two dark arrowheads, they pierced toward Xia Qifei

With the long sword splitting open the way like lightning and the ts flying in secretly and striking together, if nothing went awry the shocked and unsteady Xia Qifei should have died alreadyBut he didn't dieAs Xia Qifei barely blocked the knife, there were new changes happening on the long street

As the Jiangnan water bandits moved toward Xia Qifei to protect hiely moved to the sideWhen the t-like aces wanted to flash through the sides at high speed, these four people flipped up their pal sleeves and sent the over

It was a clean, simple strike, and it happened to land below the chests and abdoe

These four were naturally the Sixth Bureau assassins that Fan Xian had hurriedly sent over

Perhaps the Sixth Bureau assassins' skills were not as high as those of the three aces who had co the situation and possible routes the opposition would take to strikeThus, they blocked the ts that had atte…countless crisp sounds began to ring out on the street in front of the restaurantIt rang densely as if it would never endIt was as if it had suddenly begun to hail in this picturesque spring scene

The t like aces held two short swords in their handsThe poison slow in the dark

The four assassins of the Sixth Bureau held metal rods in their handsThere were also poison spread on theht

Aout simultaneously

The two aces who had approached to kill Xia Qifei returned with disappointment to the other side of the streetThe clothes on their bodies had been sliced through a dozen times by the metal rodSome of the deep places seemed to have scratched the skin

On the side of the Sixth Bureau, they had also paid a hefty priceOne person's left hand had been co the bone insideSomeone's shoulder had been pierced by a knife, and the fresh blood flowing froe colorAnother perhaps had already fallen into a puddle of blood

The two sides faced each otherEach had suffered irreparable lossesThe ringing sound had never known this kind of danger

Even though they had sustained such heavy wounds, the assassins of the Sixth Bureau only gave a few runtsThey were resolute and persistent, indeed not cohuThe three people who could still move, as they ate the anti-poison pills the Third Bureau created, planned to pull back and reduce the area to be defendedThey had to protect Xia Qifei's life

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The ts who had retreated to the other side of the street seemed to not have expected the existence of such professional assassins around Xia QifeiThey had also suffered soazes and knew that the opponents must be from the Overwatch CouncilFor the poison of the Overwatch Council, everyone knew their terrifying power regardless of their factionThe poisons made by Sir Fei Jie personally couldn't be stopped by just anyone

Thus, they cleanly and efficiently turned their bodies and roseTapping the tips of their feet against the wall, they headed into the night sky before disappearing from viewThey were the true nanToday, they had been entrusted with killing Xia Qifei, but they had no wish to throw in their own precious lives

A gentle noise came from far away in a small alley

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Of three aces across the street, two of them had left, however, Xia Qifei did not feel that his situation had taken any turn for the betterThe pressure he felt had actually increased because that knife, that long knife that could only been seen on theater stages, had struck forward again as the battle raged fiercely beside him

No complete enemy stood before the knife, and no soul of a complete body lay under the knife

Like scattered snow, the knife light sliced through those courageous and venerable water bandits' li a bloody pathThrough the dis in the air, it came closer and closer to Xia Qifei

He saw his brothers dyingsound of the knife and tragic cries, and smelled the thick stench of the iron in the bloodXia Qifei watched the h the bloodThe man walked with such determination and dedication; it was like he was a derew cold, but his blood boiledHis eyes felt like they were going to split his socketsHe desired to rush forward to step in front of his brothers' bodies and orous battleEven if he died beneath the blade, what of it? But, he couldn't moveHe instead retreatedHe sorrowfully but determinedly escaped toward the restaurant

He knew that the purpose of the other party was to kill him, but his nae…if he wanted his opponents to find it difficult to eat and sleep, he had to surviveEven if it was in such a hu way, he had to survive

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