Chapter 18 (1/2)

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The arrivals rushed up before them in a wink Fu Shen and the rest successively held their breaths, secretly appreciating their luck at the saone off elsewhere prior, otherwise the two sides would have just run into each other, and then they'd definitely have nowhere to run

The on Guard to a halt Fu Shen had set hisaround here?” soed fro his head courteously “The Flying Dragon Guard is under imperial order to arrest a criminal of the Court May I ask you all whether you've every seen any suspicious persons while you've been on this mountain?”

Each of the rich kids' eyes rolled to the top of their heads and looked at them down their noses “Yo, what a scene this is,” one of theitive is actually et hiry, a firmness within his soft reply “Your praise is in error and I dare not accept, Young Master This lowly official isman choked, an unpleasant look on his face Fu Shen feared the two sides would get into it, and he thereupon interjected toourselves here up until now, and we've never seen any crilanced at hiinally cold and indifferent tilt of his features actually raising into so Master Fu It's been a while,” he said cheerfully

As soon he said that… the guy does look familiar! Fu Shen stared at him intensely until he finally remembered – wasn't he that Imperial Guard that threw the twin-lotus flower at hi He actually was a Flying Dragon Guard

“Sir… Yan” Fu Shen's ain”

The group of coxcombs stared at the two, none of them able to make heads or tails of this, as they didn't know if Fu Shen had ever crossed paths with the Flying Dragon Guard

Yan Xiaohan sloept his eyes over the bunch, a substance within his fleeting gaze pressing down upon the guilty Young Masters and having their backs break out in cold sweats Then he suddenly smiled “The escapee is involved in a uard checkpoints on every road inside and outside the capital and bounties offered for her arrest Those who dare to shelter and cover for the cri Dragon Guard pursued her all the way to Huanren County, but she yet escaped This place isfor someone inconvenient Provided that you all can lend your hands to help apprehend this major felon, when this one named Yan makes his report to the Court, I will request for merits in your na like harbor a cri the sense that there were malicious implications to Yan Xiaohan's words He can't help but turn it over in his ?

Yan Xiaohan finished speaking, and then their surroundings were silent No one replied After a short while, an unknown person chuckled coldly, his next words not lacking in ridicule “You really think you're somebody, eunuch's whelp”

It wasn't loud, but due to the peculiar quiet right now, everyone could hear it

Yan Xiaohan's expression quickly stormed over, and he unconsciously pressed upwards on the handle of the sabre at his side He's a very odd person, as the er, the softer he would speak, as if he were cautious about frightening so Master Xie Its been a while”

The one called upon was the second son of the Count of Qing Yi, Xie Qianfan He snorted and swiveled his neck around, not looking at him

“Now that this one na Master, you are indeed a young, talented newborn calf that's learned no fear of tigers, and are really not much like your older brother at all”

Blue veins popped out of Xie Qianfan's forehead

“I heard that he had been transferred to the Imperial City the year before to be a Colonel within the Departuidly, “and his future prospects know no bounds For a distinguishedson carrying on his legacy rets”

Xie Qianfan's coreen, as if he'd just been struck upside the head

The Count of Qing Yi's eldest son, Xie Bailou, wasn't born of his first wife, but he was considerably hard-working while the proper first wife-born second son, Xie Qianfan, was an idiot wastrel Not only that, but the Count also highly unfavored the Second Xie's birthbiased towards his eldest son and repeatedly putting word out that he wanted to pass on his noble title to hi down from all directions on Xie Qianfan's head, and the Second Xie had nearly made him his archnemesis, as his friends and family didn't dare to mention the former's na this in front of everyone, it's just about equal to a huge slap in the face, ruthlessly poking at the scar he was least willing to speak of

The Second Xie's eyes turned red on the spot Under the influence of anger and frustration, he went to take up his hunting boithout a single wordan arrow at Yan Xiaohan!

Yan Xiaohan been on guard against hishis sword quick as a flash and effortlessly sweeping the arroay He vaulted through the air before Xie Qianfan, the light of his blade shi+ning like a flowing river of silver as it hacked straight down

“Xie Qianfan!”

Fu Shen and Yi Si to stop Xie Qianfan and one throwing themselves forward to block Yan Xiaohan Fu Shen didn't have an inch of steel on him, and in a moment of panic, he took the recurve bow off of his back, swiftly using it to hold back Yan Xiaohan's extraordinarily heavy strike

“Hold it!”

There was a sharp pain in Fu Shen's wrist as he was continuously shaken by that ith “Are you crazy?” he snarled “If he's said so, then he should just adize to you – there's no need to resort to murder!”

Yan Xiaohan's murderousness didn't decline at all He huffed coldly “He shoots his mouth off with reckless abandon If you provoke someone who shouldn't be provoked, you can't think your death unjustified!”

Fu Shen endeavored to grapple with Yan Xiaohan, pressng against the full strength of his blows Though his recurve boas sturdy, it couldn't coon Guard carried, and a short moment later, all that could be heard was the quiet sound of a crack as the longboas unable to withstand the pressure and dramatically snapped into two pieces

A wisp of sorrow flitted through his eyes That boas a birthday gift fro that it'd be broken by Yan Xiaohan's hand today He's unable to care too ht noever, and snatched the bowstring with both hands, twisting it and around and pulling on Yan Xiaohan's sabre to forcibly change its tip's direction

The Flying Dragon Guard eyed the to subdue Xie Qianfan with a roar back when Yan Xiaohan hadare also not to be trifled with, as all of the into a battle royale right before the eyes, a few people co away Fu Shen was forced between a rock and a hard place due to Yan Xiaohan's bundled-up blade, giving a frenzied bark of “sword”!

Yi Si promptly threw out the sword he carried at his waist Fu Shen nimbly sped a few steps away, twisted around, and kicked hard off of a tree, leaping through the air with the litheness of a s as he reached out and snatched the handle of the sword, striking out in front of hie around in a flash, his sword a tempestuous flurry as he attacked Yan Xiaohan!

Yan Xiaohan was forced to retreat a few steps fro class of swords his praises “You're worthy of being the descendant of a faeneral How beautiful”

In that e of his blade, Yan Xiaohan had put away the conte's adopted son and stand in his current position, he not only had to rely on his sood amount of effort to keep the Imperial Guards of the Northern Office under his control

Were it that ht have not even had to get close before striking him dead, but Fu Shen could take n of wavering For soe, that's very hard to come by

Fu Shen was also inwardly apprehensive at this time, as he had felt that Yan Xiaohan hadn't held back on his first hit at all – he had every intention to kill the Count of Qing Yi's son The Flying Dragon Guard was a gang of arrogant despots that ran amok in both the Court and the citizenry, and he just knew that the words spoken today weren't to be taken lightly

If he hadn't won the advantage with a surprise counterattack, Xie Qianfan likely wouldn't be here right now

Fu Shen'saround so quickly and vividly as it was in this critical moment An idea flashed into his head like a spark, and he hurriedly snatched it, cos of the two blades colliding were as rapid as a hurricane and noisy as a dense rain, the light casting off of theth were not enough, and he gradually ca their weapons towards each other once ht out of the other's hand, and the leftoverin on Fu Shen's throat, a second away froh it

Yet it did not

Yan Xiaohan could put Xie Qianfan to death without the slightest hint of hesitation, but to do the same to Fu Shen is an option he'd have to reconsider

The edge zinged, its route forcibly changed mid-air

The wielder's control over this tool of death had reached its pinnacle, as with a twist of his wrist, the sabre deviated a hairsbreadth away froly close to his maid artery

At that saed!

This was thefor He was certain that Yan Xiaohan wouldn't land a killing blow on hi off, Fu Shen nearly choked himself on the blunt side of the blade as he closed the distance between therab hi knife up against Yan Xiaohan's Ada as sparks fro in on a cornered hare – in the blink of an eye, the situation had been reversed

“Sorry, Sir Yan,” Fu Shen panted roughly into his ear as he threatened, “I didn't want to s difficult for you Tell your people to release Xie Qianfen, step back, get on their horses, and off the th he exerted froht ah to coht him this set of skills Yan Xiaohan is a virtuoso that can adapt to his circumstances, and under the other's control, he proesture to indicate to his subordinates to set their weapons down

“Throw out your own sabre, too”

Yan Xiaohan released it, and Fu Shen sent it flying aith a kick