724 Fleeing (1/2)

Nie Zeng still remembered Tie Linglong as a rude and unreasonable little girl with green eyes who had left a cut on his chest at their first meeting. Although the wound wasn't very deep, it had still taken him several months to fully recover. And when the Dragon King asked them to take Hu Shining as their Master, only she had successfully escaped in secret.

This was what had happened during the summer of two years ago. At that time, Nie Zeng had only had a fearless heart and mediocre saber techniques, but now he was Hu Shining's favorite disciple and would not be cut again so easily.

Chu Nanping was a good person, but that was all. During the days they trained together, he seldom communicated with others and insisted on using a long sword instead of a saber. Although his martial arts skills were good, he was not very popular at all.

In short, Nie Zeng didn't like these two people.

It was him who had kidnapped the captive, and he would not let those he disliked take his captive away.

A swarm of soldiers came over. Nie Zeng jumped onto the palisade and pursued the two 'robbers' with all his strength. Arrows came from behind him, but he just ran even faster instead of turning around to block them.

The two people in front of him had very good lightness skills. Chu Nanping ran very fast even with one person on his shoulder while Tie Linglong, who was more like a light colt, leaped very far every time she jumped, not worrying about the danger of landing at all.

”I'm not inferior to you two,” Nie Zeng muttered and became even more determined to prove that the ones who had started practicing martial arts earlier might not be better at kung fu than those who started later.

Tie Linglong suddenly halted and slashed out as fast as lightning.

This move was out of Nie Zeng's expectations, but instead of stopping, he leaped forward and also struck out with a blow without trying to defend at all.

Tie Linglong was taken aback. This kid had average sabersmanship but fought like a desperate gangster, which wasn't the Dragon King's style at all.

She chose to retreat. Then she pulled off the mask and coldly looked at Nie Zeng, ”Looks like you've been practicing hard these past two years.”

Nie Zeng was stupefied. This wasn't the green-eyed little girl of his memories, but instead a pretty teenage girl. The only thing that remained unchanged was her cold and arrogant expression, which was just as annoying as before. ”Give him back to me.”

Tie Linglong turned to glance at the shaman on Chu Nanping's shoulder before replying, ”We found him first. Why would we give him to you?”

Chu Nanping put down the captive and said, ”Either way, we're going to hand him over to the Dragon King, it's the same no matter who does it.”

”No, it's not!” Nie Zeng and Tie Linglong refuted at the same time. But when Tie Linglong spoke, she revealed a flaw. Nie Zeng, who was like a sensitive beast, immediately attacked without saying anything.

But the one who fell was him.

Although Tie Linglong hadn't received the full training of the Waning Moon Hall, and her saber techniques hadn't improved much, she had still mastered a lot of fighting skills which would dazzle even the fully fledged killers of Golden Roc Castle.

She poked her opponent with the Jueyin Finger Technique, which was a kung fu skill taught to her by Han Wuxian.

Tie Linglong smilingly looked at her defeated opponent and said, ”Didn't anyone teach you that the saber isn't the only thing that can kill people? How could a careless person like you be a…”

Before she could spit out the word 'killer,' Nie Zeng, who should have been unable to move, suddenly stabbed out.

Tie Linglong leaped several steps back in an instant. Her reaction was actually fast enough to dodge most of the attack, but she still received a cut on her right arm, the blood gushing out immediately.

Chu Nanping unsheathed his sword, but Nie Zeng wasn't able to jump up and fight with him. His acupoint had indeed been stricken. It was only because of the fury that he had been able to wave his arm. His internal Qi, therefore, deviated and started circulating backwards, which caused his face to flush red. But he still glared at Chu Nanping with extremely fierce eyes.

Without caring about her bloodstained sleeves, Tie Linglong walked over and said in a low voice, ”I'll kill you.”

Nie Zeng's fierce eyes turned to Tie Linglong but he didn't say a word in return.

Chu Nanping checked Tie Linglong before she did something reckless. ”He's the Dragon King's man. You can't kill him. Let me bandage your wound.”

Tie Linglong stared back at Nie Zeng viciously, her green eyes full of killing intent. She allowed Chu Nanping to bandage her arm but also did not say a word.

She didn't need to make a move again. Nie Zeng's face grew redder and redder, and he would probably die of Qi deviation soon.

”Restore his acupoint,” Chu Nanping softly persuaded.

”He asked for it.” Tie Linglong could never behave as cooly as a killer, arguing, ”I didn't intend to kill him. He himself forcibly stabbed at me and caused his internal Qi to flow backward. Do you still think that I should save him?”

”You should save him, otherwise we won't be explain his death to the Dragon King.”

Tie Linglong knew that Chu Nanping was right, but was still unwilling to do it.

At this moment, a person emerged from the grass. It seemed that he had been hiding for a long time, but none of the three teenagers had noticed him.

”I saw the three of you from a distance and it turns out that it really was you guys. Little Chu, how are you doing?” Shangguan Fei smilingly asked, not daring to greet the angry-looking Tie Linglong. They were not familiar with each other anyway. ”Ehh, isn't this Nie Zeng? Where's Hall Leader Han? Where did you leave her?”

Tie Linglong slightly frowned. ”Han Wuxian? What does he have anything to do with Han Wuxian?”

As soon as she finished her words, Han Wuxian herself arrived. Dressed in a large black robe, she glided on the grass like a bird flying through the night. After landing on the ground, she walked a few steps forward, showing no sign of a foot injury. ”So many acquaintances,” she said.

”Hall Leader Han, your 'mount' seems to be suffocating to death,” Shangguan Fei kindly reminded.

Han Wuxian didn't seem to hear it. She smilingly looked around and then deliberately rested her eyes on Chu Nanping's face for a while. Suddenly she lifted her hand out from her long sleeve and handed him a string of something. ”Hold this for me. How can your skin be so pretty?”

This was the first time Chu Nanping had ever met the Hall Leader of the Waning Moon Hall. He received the item in a daze and said, ”I don't know.”

Tie Linglong looked at the string of things in disgust and asked, ”What's this?”