As soon as she finished speaking, a sharp arrow shot towards Su Yan from the endless night.
Su Yan couldn't dodge in time, and before she could react, it was about to shoot towards her heart.
Suddenly, a tall figure blocked her way. Shen Yao decisively raised her hand and swung her sword to cut the flying arrow in half, then warily stared at the pitch-black area ahead.
"Who are you? State your name! All you do is sneak around and launch sneak attacks. What kind of person are you..." Shen Yao shouted sternly.
As soon as the words were spoken, a tall figure slowly walked into the three people's line of sight.
The three were startled when they saw Yu Liuli appear before them.
No wonder we couldn't find Yu Liuli anywhere in Chang'an; he was hiding in the Ghost Market.
“So it was you…” Su Yan said fiercely.
His eyes were fixed on Yu Liuli, filled with anger and hatred, like a flood that had burst its banks and was unstoppable.
Yu Liuli naturally harbored undisguised hatred towards them; if it weren't for Su Yan and Xie Yu, he wouldn't have fallen to this state.
"Huanyun, it's been a long time since I've seen Yuhuan. No, I should call her Dean Xie, Su Yan..." Yu Liuli said through gritted teeth, her eyes revealing an undisguised desire to kill.
Yu Liuli never expected to see Su Yan and Xie Yu again. It was truly a case of heaven rewarding those who persevere, and his days of barely surviving were not in vain.
Seeing that her revenge was about to be fulfilled, Yu Liuli's lips curled into a sinister smile. "Heaven has eyes, allowing you to fall into my hands. If you kneel before me now and beg for mercy, I, Yu Liuli, will show you great mercy and surely leave you with a whole corpse."
At this moment, Yu Liuli, dressed in black, stood in front of her, while behind him stood a group of assassins wearing ghost masks.
Even if she were reduced to ashes, Su Yan could still recognize the ghost mask worn by the assassin behind Yu Liuli, and that it belonged to the same group that killed more than twenty people in her Su family four years ago.
With her enemy right in front of her, Su Yan's pent-up anger reached a breaking point. She didn't know where the courage came from, but she picked up the soft sword hidden in her clothes and stabbed at Yu Liuli.
"I will kill you all... to avenge my Su family."
After saying that, Su Yan rushed over like a madwoman.
Su Yan rarely showed off her martial arts skills in front of outsiders, but now she was only focused on revenge and couldn't care about anything else.
Soon, she and Yu Liuli were wrestling.
Su Yan unleashed a series of deadly moves, and the two were evenly matched for the time being.
In order to protect Su Yan, Shen Yao also joined the melee.
The assassins brought by Yu Liuli were all highly skilled in martial arts, and due to their superior numbers, Su Yan and her group quickly found themselves at a disadvantage.
Su Yan was also injured in the arm during the sneak attack by the two assassins.
Just as the assassin was about to take advantage of Su Yan's injury and raise his sword to stab her heart, Shen Yao arrived in time, knocked the sword out of the assassin's hand, and then stabbed the assassin in the waist and abdomen. The assassin then fell to the ground with a thud.
Shen Yao realized that if they continued fighting, neither of them would escape safely, so he pulled Su Yan and fled in another direction.
Before leaving, he didn't forget to remind Xie Yu, who was struggling with the assassin, "Xie Yu, don't linger in the fight, split up and run away."
After saying that, Shen Yao and Su Yan disappeared into the winding street corner.
When he saw that Shen Yao had long since disappeared, he couldn't help but curse, "Damn Shen Yao, wait for me!"
Xie Yu pulled out a smoke grenade from somewhere and threw it towards the assassin. The moment the smoke grenade hit the ground, a cloud of white smoke suddenly shot out. The smoke contained something unknown, and a pungent, acrid smell hit the eyes.
This immediately captivated the assassin's attention, allowing Xie Yu to escape successfully.
"Cough cough cough..."
Yu Liuli coughed from the smoke, and soon the assassins gathered around him, seemingly worried about his condition.
After coughing for a while, Yu Liuli finally recovered from the cough, but Su Yan, Shen Yao, and Xie Yu were no longer in front of her.
Enraged, Yu Liuli kicked the assassin beside her several times and cursed, "What are you looking at me for? Hurry up and chase after them! If you let them get away, I'd like to see how you explain this to the Vice Pavilion Master."
"Yes..." the three assassins said in unison, their voices cold.
Soon, the assassins each chased after the three people who had left.
Unfamiliar with the terrain, Shen Yao led Su Yan through the ghost market, running out of the densely populated areas and heading into the depths of the dense forest.
Originally, Shen Yao was pulling Su Yan along as they ran, but he felt a heavy weight behind him and he could barely pull her anymore.
When I looked back, I saw Su Yan collapsed to the ground, exhausted.
Shen Yao quickly turned around, wanting to help Su Yan up from the ground. But when he did, he found that Su Yan was covered in cold sweat, her whole body was soaked with sweat, and she looked like she was about to collapse.
By the bright moonlight, Shen Yao noticed that Su Yan's lips were stained with blood, and the blood was blackish in color.
Shen Yao quickly realized something was wrong. Su Yan's symptoms were clearly signs of poisoning. He tore open her sleeve and saw that the assassin had coated the sword with poison.
Judging from the speed at which the poison takes effect, it must be a highly toxic substance.
At this moment, even Shen Yao, who had been fighting on the battlefield since childhood, panicked. He quickly pressed the acupoints on Su Yan's heart meridian and tore a piece of cloth from his clothes to wrap his injured arm to prevent the poison from spreading throughout his body.
After doing all this, Shen Yao patted Su Yan's face to see if she was awake. "Su Yan, don't sleep. You have to hold on."
Su Yan felt as if her body didn't belong to her, unable to feel even the most basic pain. She felt lightheaded, and the scene before her eyes became increasingly blurry.
"Lord Shen, hurry, don't worry about me... they're catching up." Su Yan gasped for breath, as if speaking had exhausted most of her strength.
Shen Yao took out the medicine pouch that Su Yan was wearing, seemingly trying to find an antidote. His hand holding the pouch trembled with worry for Su Yan's injuries, and his heart was in turmoil.
He had never been so afraid...
Shen Yao couldn't recognize that the one that had fallen out of the medicine pouch was the antidote, and pressed the increasingly weak Su Yan, "Which one is the antidote?"
“Bai…Bai…” Su Yan replied weakly.
Shen Yao immediately pulled out a white pill and stuffed it into Su Yan's mouth. "Su Yan, you must live well for me. I won't allow you to die..."
Soon, Shen Yao heard faint noises behind him; the assassins must have caught up.
Even if Su Yan takes the antidote, she can't immediately regain her strength and continue escaping. If they don't escape, both of them will die...
Shen Chenyao made a decisive choice, carrying the dazed Su Yan to the tree pit and covering her with fallen leaves from the ground, while he turned and lured the pursuers away in another direction.
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