Ye Jingxian was somewhat surprised: "Why did you kill him?"

Instead of answering, Lin Xiuyan asked, "Do you know why he wants to marry me?"

Without waiting for Ye Jingxian's reply, she said directly, "That's because he knows I have a great talent for making weapons."

"His marriage to me was just a pretense; his real purpose was to have me make powerful weapons for him."

"He threatened my parents' lives to force me to marry him, and I had no choice but to marry him."

She laughed as she said this: "I originally thought I would be held hostage by him for the rest of my life, always looking for an opportunity to kill him."

"I didn't expect this day to come so soon. He was seriously injured and fell into my hands. Naturally, I will take advantage of his weakness and kill him!"

Her statement is, to some extent, plausible.

Ye Jingxian said with a hint of doubt, "You say you killed him? I'm afraid the guards around him wouldn't let you do it."

Lin Xiuyan said dismissively, "That's easy, I'll just kill them all."

Ye Jingxian asked, "Ye Junfei's guards are all highly skilled in martial arts. Can you kill them?"

Lin Xiuyan raised her hand, and one of Ye Jingxian's guards screamed and fell to the ground again.

Ye Jingxian's expression changed slightly, but Lin Xiuyan smiled and said, "Second Young Master, don't be nervous. I'm just proving that I'm telling the truth."

"In terms of martial arts, I am certainly not as good as Ye Junfei's guards, but I am striking by surprise, so killing them will be much easier."

After she finished speaking, she reached out and smoothed the hair that had been ruffled by the wind behind her ear. The guards beside Ye Jingxian protected him and took several steps back.

Lin Xiuyan smiled, pursing her lips: "You guys are too nervous."

Everyone: "..."

Can you blame them for being nervous? She killed two of her brothers with a single gesture; who knows who she'll kill next?

Ye Jingxian looked at her with deep, unfathomable eyes, his ambition almost overflowing.

He Tongyin said coldly from the side, "Judging from the traces of the trees being felled today, it couldn't have been done by you alone. You're lying."

Lin Xiuyan smiled faintly and said, "I didn't cut down the trees by myself; I ordered the guards to do it."

"After all, you want to kill me, so I have to find a way to protect myself."

“Once they’ve finished their work and are no longer of any use, they don’t deserve to live anymore.”

She was smiling, yet it sent chills down everyone's spine.

Because when they were surrounding and killing her, they didn't see anyone else alive besides her.

He Tongyin recalled something else and asked, "So, all of our people were killed by you alone?"

Lin Xiuyan nodded: "Yes."

As soon as she finished speaking, the people surrounding her took three steps back, and some even drew their knives.

Lin Xiuyan smiled slightly and said, "You really don't need to be so nervous. I'm not some kind of serial killer. I just want to survive."

"If you don't surround and kill me, I won't kill you either."

Ye Jingxian looked at Lin Xiuyan with a more scrutinizing gaze: "Since you hate Ye Junfei so much, why did you come to save Ye Qingwan?"

Lin Xiuyan replied, "Because she once saved me, and the Second Young Master knows about this. The one who wanted to kill me back then was you."

Ye Jingxian suddenly recalled the scene when he first met Lin Xiuyan.

He felt a lingering fear. If Ye Qingwan hadn't stood up for Lin Xiuyan back then, would Lin Xiuyan have killed him?

At this moment, Lin Xiuyan was nothing short of a murderous maniac in his eyes.

He Tong said in a cold voice, "No, if there are no living people in the cave, why didn't you let my men go up?"

Lin Xiuyan chuckled lightly: "Given the situation at the time, if you had rushed up and found no one alive inside, you would definitely have turned your arrows on me and shot me dead."

“I made you suspect that Ye Junfei is still alive. After I come out, you can use me to threaten him.”

He Tongyin asked, "Then why are you no longer hiding it?"

Lin Xiuyan raised an eyebrow: "That's because I've already demonstrated my strength in front of the Second Young Master."

He Tongyin turned to Ye Jingxian and said, "Second Young Master, Lin Xiuyan's words cannot be trusted."

"Unless she lets us see Ye Junfei's corpse!"

Ye Jingxian looked at Lin Xiuyan and said, "I think General He's words make a lot of sense."

Lin Xiuyan said calmly, "Ye Junfei's body is in that cave. You can go in and look for it anytime."

He Tong said in a cold voice, "But you've set up traps all over that cave, so it's impossible to get in."

Lin Xiuyan glanced at him sideways: "If you can't get in, that's because you're incompetent."

He Tongyin: "..."

This is the first time he's ever been humiliated by a woman like this!

He couldn't even refute it!

Because Lin Xiuyan killed so many of his subordinates single-handedly, this is an undeniable fact.

His bodyguards behind him drew their swords in a flash, their eyes fixed on Lin Xiuyan with predatory intent.

After looking Lin Xiuyan up and down, Ye Jingxian said, "Isn't it a bit insincere of you to come to me empty-handed like this?"

Lin Xiuyan smiled and said, "Since I dared to come, I naturally came with sincerity."

"Does anyone have a bow? I can borrow it for a moment."

Everyone stared at her, and no one was willing to lend her the bow.

Ye Jingxian then had a guard bring her a large bow, but did not give her any arrows.

Lin Xiuyan didn't need arrows. She reached up and pulled a hairpin from her hair, and everyone drew their bows and aimed them at her.

She smiled and said, "You're all too nervous."

Ignoring the crowd, she reached out and used her hairpin to poke at the bow in her hand, twisting it on the left and right, and then adjusted the bowstring.

After she finished doing these things, she threw the bow back to the guard next to Ye Jingxian: "Shoot an arrow again with your usual strength."

The guard glanced at Ye Jingxian, who nodded slightly. Ye Jingxian then nocked an arrow and shot it toward the open space to the side.

When the arrow landed, everyone's faces were filled with astonishment.

Because the normal range of a bow and arrow is about fifty paces, and a better one can reach sixty or seventy years old.

This bow, which was originally only able to shoot fifty paces, was now shooting over a hundred paces away.

He Tongyin finally understood why his men couldn't hurt Lin Xiuyan: because she knew how to adjust the bowstring!

Even the best craftsmen in the army couldn't do this!

Ye Jingxian's eyes burned with desire as he looked at Lin Xiuyan. If his army possessed bows and arrows with this range, they would gain the upper hand in battle.

If you can seize the initiative during wartime, you've already won most of the battle.

He was determined to win this bow!

He looked at Lin Xiuyan and asked, "What else can you do?"

Lin Xiuyan raised her chin slightly: "I know a lot of things!"

"Adjusting the bowstring to increase the range is just the most basic technique I know."

"I can also create all sorts of powerful weapons, and your men have already experienced some of that today."