Three times the power, no different from enormous stress, especially when Nangong Yu was making his own move.
Su Rong was naturally unwilling to die in this ambush, even if the power disparity was vast.
Therefore, she was throwing the golden needles with poison powder while retreating in one direction. Fu Zhou and the guards had a certain understanding with her. Seeing her fight and retreat in one direction, they also followed suit.
Nangong Yu, together with the assassins he brought, had resolved to take Su Rong’s life at this place today. Thus, using their numerical advantage, they kept pressing on relentlessly until Su Rong’s golden needles and poison were all depleted, Nangong Yu knew, the opportunity had come.
His moves suddenly became fierce, no longer purposely keeping a distance from Su Rong. Instead, he pressured her by advancing, wounds soon appeared on Su Rong’s body. Her arm was injured by a sword, she had a sword wound on her back, Fu Zhou, who was trying to protect her, was also hurt by several swords.
Su Rong bit her teeth, drew the hairpin from her head and, acting as a hidden weapon, flew it towards Nangong Yu from an incredible angle. Nangong Yu’s sword pierced Su Rong’s shoulder, and in pulling his hand back, he could not dodge the flying hairpin. He could only haphazardly withdraw, but the hairpin still pierced his left chest.
It was an inch off the heart.
Su Rong cursed inwardly for the misplacement. The deadly strike failed to kill him, she had no more chances.
Taking advantage of Nangong Yu’s injury, Su Rong grabbed Fu Zhou and the two plunged into the nearby forest.
"Chase!" Nangong Yu gritted his teeth while clutching his left chest, leading his men into the forest too.
In this season, the forest was filled with snow. Su Rong and Fu Zhou were both injured. Their heavy footprints were left in the snow.
Fu Zhou was seriously injured. He pushed Su Rong forward, "My Lady, you go on your own."
Su Rong was pushed three steps away. She looked back at Fu Zhou, who turned his back to her to confront the pursuing assassins with the bodyguards protecting her. She gritted her teeth and ran deeper into the forest.
Nangong Yu quickly overtook Fu Zhou and the bodyguards and chased Su Rong into the forest following her footprints.
The forest was large, but it was not a good hiding place for anyone because of the thick snow and the lack of dense green shade due to the season.
Su Rong ran across a mountain, but she could not shake off the footsteps from behind. She could only grit her teeth and run forward. If her memory served her right, upon reaching the top of the mountain in front of her, she would come to a cliff.
She planned to use the cliff to her advantage.
She felt the dagger on her waist and the climbing rope. Even though the golden needles and the hidden weapons were all used up, she hadn’t thrown this dagger to kill anyone. It was the last trick she kept for herself.
She could not die here.
Two pots of tea later, she reached the top of the mountain and, as expected, it was a cliff. The cliff was high, several thousand feet. She didn’t ignore it. She swung out the climbing rope towards the rock wall at the side of the cliff and jumped down.
Nangong Yu, who was a few steps behind, witnessed this scene. He frowned, came forward, and saw a dizzying thousands-foot cliff. At the bottom, there was a faint sound of friction against the cliff. He did not believe Su Rong planned to commit suicide by being forced to jump off a cliff. This woman, Su Rong, was highly skilled in martial arts, she had capabilities.
He turned around and asked the men behind him, "Who can go down?"
The men behind him took a look below and all showed some trepidation.
"Useless! Figure out how to go down. Bring her back alive, or bring back the dead body." Nangong Yu ordered sternly.
The men all agreed in unison.
Su Rong was injured and barely supporting herself using the dagger and climbing rope. She sat down on the ground after descending the cliff and was completely exhausted.
Honestly, she had no strength to move.
But she knew that Nangong Yu wouldn’t let her go. She needed to move, she had to. Otherwise, Nangong Yu’s men would quickly find their way to the bottom of the cliff.
She took a small porcelain bottle out of her bosom, took out two pills and put them in her mouth, struggled to stand up from the ground, and then walked out along the withered leaves and wild grass at the bottom of the cliff.
After she got out of the foot of the cliff, she gritted her teeth, followed the desolate mountain, and went south.
After walking for an hour, her vision was blurry. She was about to find a hidden place to catch her breath, but before she found one, she heard the footsteps of pursuers coming from behind.
Su Rong felt infuriated but helpless and had to hide again in the forest.
The forest was not large, and there was no hiding place with the snow. There was no more cliff for Su Rong to use to escape. She felt hopeless.
Nangong Yu’s voice had already come from behind her, it was like he was thoroughly enjoying a cat-and-mouse game, "Princess has got great skills, but it’s a pity, no matter how impressive your skills, you can only die by my hand."
Su Rong knew she probably couldn’t escape today. She picked up a branch from the ground, broke it into numerous short pieces, and hidden them in her sleeve. She thought to herself, even if she were to die today, she would make sure Nangong Yu died as well.
Unfortunately, life was good, but since she stepped out of Jiangning County till today, including her time in the Capital City, everything she had done had gone too smoothly, to the point where she became careless. She forgot that any slight mistake or neglect meant a fatal danger to her.
She closed her eyes, planning to rush out of the forest and, while Nangong Yu was still in the forest, she would turn around and fight him.
At the critical moment, these branches could also serve as hidden weapons. As long as her aim was accurate enough, she could take someone’s life.
She quietly gathered her last bit of energy, took her breath, and when she stepped out of the forest with one foot and was about to turn around to strike, her gaze violently fell on someone.
She saw Zhou Gu.
He was leading a group of bodyguards, coming from not far away.
Su Rong saw him, and he saw Su Rong. His eyes popped out revealing surprise, but when he saw Su Rong, who was almost covered with blood, his eyes contracted sharply, and his handsome face quickly turned cold.
Then in an instant, he appeared in front of Su Rong, pulled her into his arms, shielded her at his side, and then sneered at Nangong Yu, who was vaguely showing himself from behind Su Rong in the forest, "I didn’t know she would die by your hands today, what a joke."
Zhou Gu emanated a chill. His clothes and hair were slightly disheveled. The hand holding Su Rong was somewhat tight. Su Rong could feel his hurried heartbeat and hands trembling slightly. It was panic hidden beneath calmness.
Her heart seemed to have landed somewhere secure.
Ziye led a group of bodyguards and came forth.
Zhou Gu hugged Su Rong tightly, then yelled "Ziye."
Ziye had already pulled out his knife and sword, answered, "Young Master?"
Zhou Gu let go of his hand, pushed Su Rong to Ziye, "You take care of her."
Today, he was going to kill Nangong Yu with his own hands.
Ziye hurriedly caught Su Rong and held her. He was about to speak when he saw Zhou Gu no longer wasting his words and aggressively striking with his sword towards Nangong Yu.
"Protect Young Master Yu." Someone shouted a command, and Nangong Yu’s bodyguards quickly gathered around him.
Nangong Yu didn’t expect that he was about to kill Su Rong when Zhou Gu appeared unexpectedly from the front and rescued Su Rong. Not only that, Zhou Gu also brought a large group of bodyguards with him. He was clearly holding the winning ticket, but instead, he fell into a passive position.
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