It's still a dozen or so steps away.
What are you looking at?
A question asked out of the blue.
"Huh?" Zheng Quchi looked up and blurted out, "Why are you standing so far away?"
Gan Xin was taken aback.
He thought to himself, "Is she trying to get me closer?"
This little girl is really brave. He was hunting in the mountains and inevitably got covered in blood. Ordinary people would avoid him like the plague, but she wanted to get close to him.
Gan Xin was over thirty-three years old. He had no relatives, no wife, no children, and spent the first half of his life obsessed with studying woodworking. Even when he learned knife skills, it was so that he could become more skilled in carving.
Unexpectedly, he had some talent for swordsmanship, but his craftsmanship was completely lacking, and no matter how much he learned, he was only a mediocre person.
But he's a stubborn person; the more he can't learn something, the more he wants to learn it, and he even wants to find the most skilled masters to learn from!
"I have blood on me, aren't you afraid?"
“Don’t worry, we country folk often slaughter pigs or chickens during festivals.” Zheng Quchi added, “You’re standing too far away, it’s a bit difficult to talk to you like this.”
Gan Xin, unsuspecting, walked towards her, one step, two steps, three steps...
Zheng Quchi swallowed hard, feeling a surge of nervousness.
Just one more step...
But he suddenly stopped, leaving Zheng Quchi hanging there, neither up nor down.
He asked, "What's the little girl's name?"
"My name is Xiao Zheng." She's been using this as her pseudonym lately.
"Little Zheng? Which Zheng?"
“Guan, Er, Zheng”.
"Xiao Zheng, you should stay away."
Gan Xin said this out of the blue, and Zheng Quchi suddenly looked into his eyes.
But he didn't look at her. Instead, his gaze was like lightning, and a bloodthirsty glint was faintly revealed in his sharp eyes.
He found out?!
Just as she was filled with doubt and uncertainty, she saw him stride forward without hesitation, his steps firm and steady.
With a soft "click," a faint mechanical clicking sound rang out, and the tall Gan Xin immediately lost his bearings and fell into the darkness below.
Zheng Quchi was a little stunned. Although she should have been pleasantly surprised that he had fallen into the trap as expected, she still felt uneasy.
At this moment, the Xuanjia soldiers who were lying in ambush all around rushed up. They sealed the entrance of the cave with a thick iron cover, preventing the enemy from climbing up. They also threw a kind of smoke downwards, the purpose of which was to make the enemy unable to breathe in the narrow space, dizzy and unable to resist.
This series of coordinated movements would make it difficult for even the most skilled fighters to escape capture.
Everything went very smoothly, and every step was done perfectly. Just when everyone thought that Mad Saber Gan Xin was powerless to resist, they underestimated a top master whose martial arts were on par with Yuwen Sheng's.
Thud—
The heavy iron shield above was cleaved into seven or eight pieces by the whistling blade energy. The fragments exploded like explosives, carrying violent air currents that sent nearby Xuanjia soldiers flying. A black figure rushed up like a whirlwind.
Everything happened so fast and so unexpectedly that no one had time to react.
He swept his sword horizontally, and although it did not directly strike anyone, it created a shrill shockwave that sent everyone surrounding him flying, coughing up blood and collapsing to the ground.
Zheng Quchi was also affected. She felt her blood rushing to her head, and just when she felt like she was about to vomit blood, Gan Xin on the other side stopped.
"Xiao Zheng, come here!"
His roar was like rolling thunder, and Zheng Quchi's scalp tightened.
"Me...I'll go over there?"
Was he telling her to go over there and beg for death?
Gan Xin said, "With me here, they can't threaten you, and they certainly won't dare to do anything to you!"
Hearing him say that, Zheng Quchi was truly stunned.
Could it be that he thinks she betrayed him because she was threatened by these people? Does she really not look like a bad person?
"You must be Yuwen Sheng's Xuanjia Army. I'll have to face you sooner or later anyway. Now that you've delivered yourselves to my doorstep, it's a good opportunity to feed my Mad Blade some blood."
The wind blew Gan Xin's unruly, messy hair. He was unkempt, wearing a heavy black cloak and a pair of old tiger-skin boots. With his broad back and thick waist, he exuded a wild and domineering aura of life and death when he put on a show, which made people shudder.
It was only then that Zheng Quchi truly saw what kind of person Gan Xin, the Mad Saber who was talked about with fear, really was.
Zheng Quchi recalled a phrase used to describe the madman Gan Xin: "One slash can level mountains and rivers and five continents."
She knew she had made a mistake.
He truly didn't need to scheme or plot against anyone, because he could carve a bloody path through the enemy lines with just himself and his sword.
There's a saying that goes, "In the face of absolute power, any conspiracy is futile."
No wonder the Mohists sent him. Now that Yuwen Sheng is no longer in charge of Fuxian and Changxunpo, who can stop him?
"Madam, we must leave quickly! They can't hold Gan Xin off for much longer!"
Wu Liang, Lan Yue, and Sixi appeared, intending to cover the lady's retreat.
Not to mention Zheng Quchi, even Wu Liang and Lan Yue realized that they had underestimated the destructive power of Kuang Dao.
"No, we can't just leave like this."
What will happen to these Xuanjia soldiers if she leaves?
She was the one in charge; how could she run away alone and leave her soldiers to bear the consequences of her failed plan?
She thought that even the most capable person would have weaknesses, and Gan Xin's weakness was something Qiu had told her about... his extreme obsession with woodworking.
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