In a duel between masters, the pressure of qi sometimes comes before the unsheathed swords. If one party hesitates or is timid before making a move, then half the battle is lost.
Xiao Nanhui had already lost the initiative at this moment.
It's not her fault, she couldn't beat him anyway.
"I didn't expect that Tiancheng would leave someone like you to accompany him in the end."
There wasn't much sarcasm in Yan Zi's tone, just genuine confusion, as if she couldn't figure out the answer to a question.
"I never thought that the Bai family would give the stolen sword to their subordinates as weapons."
The emperor's tone was as calm as the stagnant air around him, and he only calmly narrated the facts.
But the swordsman's face gradually became filled with unconcealable anger.
The thing he could not tolerate most in his life was someone making false statements and making comments about his sword.
"You're talking nonsense. I got this sword myself..."
"The sword of the moving Yao is said to be one whose edge moves and the situation of the universe changes instantly. It is made of red gold, with a blade three feet and an inch long and a blade three and a half inches wide. It is made of one piece and has no patterns or inscriptions, except for a dot of red on the jaw. Is that true or not?"
There was a flash of surprise on Yan Zi's face, and then he quickly returned to his arrogant look.
"So what? Even if you know this sword, don't try to deceive me. The master has ordered me to kill you. You can resist, but I will never fail."
Xiao Nanhui, who heard the conversation between the two, gradually calmed down because of this sentence.
She was not representing any grandmaster sect in the competition today. Honor, dignity, winning or losing were not important to her. The most important thing was life and death.
Now, going forward means death, and retreating means death.
Then, choose a quicker way to die?
Or maybe...
Her gaze fell on a bottomless abyss shrouded in mist.
The advantage of not being able to see what's below is that sometimes you'll have the illusion that it's not that high up.
She slightly turned sideways, getting closer to Su Wei behind her.
"Your Majesty, can you trust me?"
Her voice was very low, and it seemed that if she spoke any louder, the emotions contained in these few words would be revealed.
After a while, Su Wei did not respond.
Yan Zi's playful voice was tinged with laughter: "Not only cowardly, but also stupid."
Xiao Nanhui did not respond, as if she did not care at all about the contempt in the other party's words.
The next second, she felt someone gently holding her slightly trembling hand.
The hand was still a little cold, but at this moment it could soothe her anxiety and ignite her fighting spirit better than any sonorous words or boiling blood.
She had promised to take him away from here alive, and she couldn't go back on her word.
The thin line around the waist trembled slightly, which was caused by the wind in the valley blowing the shuttle chain.
The wind is about to blow, and this endless fog in the sky should disperse.
She grinned at the swordsman with his sword and superb martial arts skills.
This time, she smiled with particular comfort.
"There will be many things Mr. Yan can't imagine."
After she finished speaking, she put her arm around the waist of the person next to her, turned around resolutely and jumped off the cliff.
She knew how fast the man's sword was, so she couldn't hesitate.
But even so, she still heard the sound of wind breaking through the air.
She used her flat string to block the sword, but the sword energy split into two. One hit the tip of the spear, causing her palm to go numb. And the other...
There was only a "pop" sound.
The shuttle chain on Su Wei's waist broke with a sound.
The taut metal and stone rope bounced upwards, leaving a bloody mark on her cheek, and then lost its strength, falling lightly into the abyss like a soft hair.
In an instant, the weight of both men fell on the last chain around Xiao Nanhui's waist. The thin wire that could break metal and stone made a terrible "crackling" sound, like the sound of someone gritting their teeth and bones rubbing against each other.
The sword energy attacked from behind again. This time she had no time to dodge and fight back. She could only protect the man in front of her and took the blow relying on the light armor on her body.
Just hold on a little longer, just a little longer.
Xiao Nanhui muttered to himself.
Five, four, three...
In just seven short periods of time, she felt as if half a lifetime had passed.
Finally, she saw the rough rock wall on the other side.
However, the moment before reaching the other side, she felt the huge pulling force on her waist suddenly lighten.
Well, she knew this would happen.
Can't you let her fly a little longer?! Just a little while.
The body, having lost its traction, began to fall in mid-air. Xiao Nanhui used the last bit of force brought by the shuttle chain to thrust the flat string in his hand with all his might.
She had used this trick before at the suspension bridge when she left Huozhou.
But that time, there was only her weight, and the texture of the rock wall in the north was denser, unlike the loose sandstone in the Suyan area.
However, she had no time to weigh the possible consequences of all these changes, and she didn't even have the chance to explain to the man beside her: this time, the chances of both of them surviving were perhaps only 30%.
That's it.
All hopes of life are pinned on this one strike.
The moment she jumped up, she heard the man's low and firm voice in her ear.
"I trust you."
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