Chapter 691 Xuanyuan's Revenge! (Bonus Chapter)
"Ah Sheng, what were you practicing just now?"
"This is the spear technique of the Xuanyuan family, created by my father. It has seven forms. Do you want to learn it?"
"This...isn't that inappropriate? After all, it's your Xuanyuan family's spear technique. How can I, a member of the Nangong family, learn it on my own?"
"What's wrong with that? With one more highly skilled general on the battlefield, our Great Yan will have one more layer of protection."
Xuan Yuansheng had taught him this marksmanship without reservation, which he treasured. He was so excited that he couldn't sleep for days and nights. He still remembers how Xuan Yuansheng instructed him, so he would never mistake it for something else.
This girl is using the spear technique of the Xuanyuan family!
But this is too bizarre.
How could a girl from a lower country know the spear technique of the Xuanyuan family?
If it were said that Xiao Liulang was involved, he was shocked, but at least there were clues to follow, since Xiao Liulang did indeed have many connections with the Xuanyuan family.
When Xuanyuan appeared, all ghosts submitted.
This is saying that even the fierce ghosts of purgatory are afraid of the Xuanyuan family, so how can the living be their match?
Nangong Li clearly understood that this was just a greenhorn girl. So what if she used the Xuanyuan family's spear technique? She wasn't a real... not a real member of the Xuanyuan family!
However, a sense of apprehension instinctively welled up in Nangong Li's heart, and he became distracted.
In that moment of distraction, the spear pierced his right thigh!
It wasn't a real spear, so it didn't pierce him, but even so, his thigh went numb for a moment.
The boy's gaze was like a knife, his killing intent like that of a wolf.
In an instant, Nangong Li felt a familiar fighting spirit, the bloodthirstiness of the sons of the Xuanyuan family!
Nangong Li almost forgot to retaliate until he regained consciousness and felt a sharp pain in his thigh. He then used his sword to deflect Gu Jiao's "spear"!
If he still harbored a sliver of hope that the girl wasn't using the true Xuanyuan Spear Technique, he was now completely certain.
But isn't that even stranger?
The Xuanyuan family has all died out long ago. From whom did this girl learn her marksmanship?
Could it be that this girl infiltrated the Nangong residence, lurked by his side, and spied on him practicing martial arts?
No, he hasn't practiced the Xuanyuan family's spear techniques for over a decade.
It wasn't that he didn't want to practice, nor was it that the Xuanyuan family's spear technique wasn't powerful enough; it was precisely because it was so powerful that few outsiders could learn it except for members of the Xuanyuan family.
This spear technique demands extremely high speed and strength, but not much internal energy. People with strong internal energy often unconsciously use it when making moves, but the spear technique created by Xuan Yuanli requires practitioners to draw all their internal energy into their dantian.
Taking back is always harder than letting go.
If you're not careful, your dantian can be damaged.
The pain of internal energy surging into the dantian is something no normal person, except for the freaks of the Xuanyuan family, can endure.
That's why he gave up that marksmanship in the first place.
He once lamented that Xuanyuan Sheng did it on purpose, and the reason he so readily taught him marksmanship was because he couldn't learn it anyway.
But why did a little girl learn it?
Nangong Li's mind was in complete disarray. One thing after another had happened today, all of which were beyond his expectations.
"Second move!" Gu Jiao spun around, her spear like a blade, slashing fiercely towards Nangong Li with the domineering force of a vast sea and towering mountains!
If this were a real spear, Nangong Li had no doubt that he would have been cleaved in two by this girl!
"What a ruthless girl!"
Nangong Li severed Gu Jiao's "spear head" with a single sword strike!
Anyway, it's not a real red-tasseled spear. You cut off a piece, but I still have a large piece left.
Without a spearhead, every part is a spearhead.
Furthermore, Nangong Li realized he had been tricked as soon as he finished the attack.
This girl wasn't trying to kill him. She deliberately tilted the branch by an inch, so that even though he managed to trim part of it, the trimming wasn't perfectly smooth.
He shaved a spearhead out of her!
Gu Jiao looked at her "weapon" with satisfaction, a smile playing on her lips, and said, "This time it's not blunt anymore."
Nangong Li choked back a sharp retort: "You!"
Is this how you use the Xuanyuan family's spear technique?!
How come your serious marksmanship, which is supposed to be able to kill ghosts and gods, has turned into something unserious?
The footsteps grew closer.
It seems we need to end this battle as soon as possible.
The shock this girl had brought him was over; now he needed to focus all his efforts on the battle.
Nangong Li coldly snorted: "The last time I fought with all my might was when I was fighting against Xuanyuan Sheng, little girl..."
Gu Jiao interrupted him: "You're talking nonsense. When Chang Jing was chasing you around, when did you not use your full strength? If you didn't use your full strength, how could you have escaped?"
Nangong Li stumbled and almost fell!
Girl!
A scholar can be killed but not humiliated!
Don't I have any pride?!
No, running away with all your might and killing with all your might are two different things. Chang Jing broke his arm because he was careless and underestimated his opponent. When they were really on the stage, he would not lose to Chang Jing!
After he was injured, he was even less able to confront Chang Jing directly.
"Prepare to die, girl! I don't care who you are or how you obtained this spear technique, today you will die by my sword!"
A terrifying killing intent erupted from Nangong Li's body. It wasn't just this girl who knew the Xuanyuan family's martial arts; he knew them too!
He learned the internal energy and swordsmanship of the Xuanyuan family. Now, he'll show this girl what true power is!
Nangong Li's internal energy was like an invisible, enormous vortex, sweeping up all the dust and fallen leaves on the ground. He channeled his internal energy into his left hand, pointed his sword at the sky, and unleashed a rainbow of sword energy as he slashed down at Gu Jiao from mid-air.
*Pfft*
It was the sound of a sharp blade entering a body.
Nangong Li's lips curled up in a smug smile.
But his smile froze halfway through.
His sword did indeed pierce Gu Jiao, but only through her clothes. The sound just now was from her "spear" piercing his body!
Nangong Li stared wide-eyed in disbelief.
What just happened? How did that girl manage to do that?
Gu Jiao kicked him in the chest, pulling his body off the "spear" and sending him flying.
Gu Jiao rubbed her wrist and said with some dissatisfaction, "This is the first time I've used this marksmanship to kill someone. I'm not very skilled at it. It took so many thrusts to finally hit you."
Nangong Li collapsed to the ground and suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.
It wasn't from injury, it was from anger.
Three moves... He could only last three moves against this girl's marksmanship.
And this girl was still not satisfied!
Blood was flowing out rapidly, leaving a pool of blood beneath him. For some reason, the scene looked somewhat familiar to Gu Jiao.
It was as if someone had fallen in a pool of blood in some dream.
Gu Jiao tilted her head strangely, trying to find a fleeting sense of familiarity in her mind.
She walked step by step toward Nangong Li.
Nangong Li's life was rapidly slipping away, and his consciousness began to blur. In his dazed state, he seemed to see Xuanyuan Sheng walking towards him with a cold expression, holding a red-tasseled spear.
"Nangong Li, I trusted you so much, yet you stabbed me in the back. You've finally met your match?"
"Sigh, Nangong Li, I don't like Prince Jing and don't want him to be my brother-in-law. Why don't you marry my sister instead?"
"Hey, how did you lose again? You're a grown man, and you can't even beat my sister!"
"Nangong Li, hold on! We'll be at the clinic soon! Who told you to pounce on me like that! I can dodge it myself!"
"Hao'er, come here. From now on, he will be your playmate. His name is Nangong Li."
"Can he take a beating? If he can't, I don't want him."
Nangong Li slowly closed his bloodshot eyes.
It is said that before a person dies, they will see the person they cared about most in life and remember the things they cared about most.
He met Xuan Yuansheng when he was three years old, and even at the end, he couldn't get rid of him.
Xuanyuan Sheng...you truly are a thorn in my side!
Gu Jiao squatted down, looking at Nangong Li talking to himself with a blank expression.
Nangong Li stared palely at the blurry figure before him. The figure gradually overlapped with the image in his mind, eventually forming the image of the young Xuanyuan Sheng.
He coughed up blood while laughing, his whole body trembling: "Xuanyuan Hao."
He used Xuanyuan Sheng's childhood name, perhaps because childhood was the purest and most genuine time.
"I do deserve to die. I betrayed you, I betrayed the Xuanyuan family. I deserve to die... You came to seek revenge... I'm not surprised... I have nothing to feel aggrieved about... But you... really think that all those things back then were done by the Nangong family? You're wrong... Hahaha... You're so wrong... The Nangong family... weren't even accomplices! They were just a hunting dog that wanted to take a bite out of the fat meat..."
With his last ounce of strength, he bent over, his bloodied hands gripping Gu Jiao's collar tightly: "The one who truly harmed your Xuanyuan family... is... is..."
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(End of this chapter)
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