Chapter 70 The Couple on the Battlefield
"Xunyang! Viper!" Lou Jin shouted in a low voice.
Ye Xunyang had just parried an enemy's slash with his spear shaft when he heard this. Without hesitation, and without even turning around to confirm, he spun his spear around, forcing the enemy in front of him back a step.
The unspoken understanding between the two was beyond words; before Lou Jin had even finished speaking, Ye Xunyang already understood the direction and goal.
"Cover me!" The spear instantly transformed into a silver dragon, charging forward and tearing a path through the air. He rushed towards the viper at top speed, clearing the way for Lou Jin's advance.
Lou Jin followed closely behind, his sword no longer aiming to kill the enemy in one strike, but rather to ensure that Ye Xunyang's momentum was not hindered.
Viper clearly sensed the rapidly approaching killing intent behind him. He whirled around, his eyes flashing coldly beneath the bronze mask.
He did not confront Ye Xunyang head-on, but instead flicked his sleeve, sending several points of dark light towards Ye Xunyang's face—hidden weapons coated with potent poison.
"Watch out!" Lou Jin shouted a warning, his longsword drawing several arcs and making a few crisp clanging sounds as he accurately deflected several poisoned darts aimed at Ye Xunyang's vitals.
"Stop him!" Lou Jin's voice was icy. They absolutely could not let Viper get close to Ye Xunjin. Whether it was an assassination attempt or interference, it could cause devastating damage to the main battlefield.
Ye Xunyang understood immediately. He took a deep breath, handed the spear to one hand, and with the other hand, he suddenly pulled out several iron caltrops from the leather pouch at his waist and threw them in front of and to the left and right of the viper!
At the same time, Lou Jin suddenly tapped the ground with his toes, passing Ye Xunyang, and thrust his longsword straight at the viper's back.
Sensing the deadly threat approaching from behind, the viper had no choice but to abandon its attempt to close in on Ye Xunjin.
He avoided the vital organs, but Lou Jin's sword still slashed a deep, bone-revealing gash on his left arm.
Viper suddenly turned around, his eyes, hidden behind a mask, fixed intently on Lou Jin.
He stopped trying to advance and pulled two short blades with a bluish gleam from his sleeve, clearly intending to deal with the two troublesome opponents behind him first.
Ye Xunyang had also arrived at this time. He held his spear horizontally and stood side by side with Lou Jin, blocking the path of the viper towards Ye Xunjin.
The three men formed a brief stalemate beneath the wall amidst the chaos of battle.
"You've ruined my plans... You're asking for it!"
Before he finished speaking, his figure blurred, splitting into two like a ghost. Two green shadows attacked Lou Jin and Ye Xunyang respectively, their poisoned short blades drawing strange arcs, aiming straight for vital points.
Just as the poisoned dagger was about to touch Lou Jin's chest, at the critical moment, there was no panic in Lou Jin's eyes.
This is the moment he's been waiting for.
With a seemingly powerless flick of his left hand, an inconspicuous iron ball rolled silently to the ground from his sleeve.
Seeing that he was powerless, the viper rushed forward to attack.
However, just as his short blade was about to pierce Lou Jin's heart...
With a soft pop, the iron pellet exploded violently, not with gunpowder, but with a large cloud of thick, pungent white powder that instantly covered the viper's head and face.
"Lime?" The viper was shocked and furious. He instinctively closed his eyes and waved his sleeve to block, causing his attack to falter.
Now!
Lou Jin stabbed the viper in the chest and abdomen with perfect precision.
At the same time, Ye Xunyang, who had finally broken free from the entanglement, also poured all his strength into his spear and thrust it straight at the viper's back from the side and rear!
The viper was curled up on the ground, emitting painful gasps from beneath its mask.
Just then, a deafening cheer suddenly erupted on the main battlefield!
"The Rong tribe has retreated! The Rong tribe has retreated!"
As the lunar eclipse receded, a sliver of light began to illuminate the earth once more, as if foreshadowing the imminent end of darkness.
Lou Jin suppressed the surging blood in his chest, pointed the tip of his sword at the viper on the ground, and spoke in a voice as cold as iron.
"Take off his mask!"
Wushan immediately stepped forward and, ignoring the viper's weak struggles, ripped off the hideous bronze snake head mask.
Beneath the mask was a pale, wrinkled face contorted with pain. Most strikingly, on his left cheek, was indeed a lifelike, dark blue-green snake tattoo!
It was that eunuch Feng who should have been dead.
Although they had suspected it beforehand, seeing it with their own eyes still made Lou Jin and Ye Xunyang's eyes narrow.
He looked at Lou Jin, grinned, revealing bloodstained teeth, and let out a hoarse laugh: "King Jin...impressive methods...but unfortunately...cough cough...you...couldn't stop it..."
Lou Jin crouched down, his gaze sweeping across Lou Yi's face like a blade: "Can't you stop anything? Lou Yi's ambition? Or your conspiracy to wreak havoc on the world?"
Feng Bao's eyes flashed with madness: "How could you possibly fathom the great undertaking of our master? Ha... you... you've neglected one thing for another."
Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly clenched his teeth.
"He's going to take poison!" Ye Xunyang said urgently.
Lou Jin moved with lightning speed, instantly grabbing Feng Bao's jaw and preventing him from biting into the poison sac.
"Search him! Find evidence of his dealings with Lou Yi!" Lou Jin ordered in a deep voice, while quickly sealing several acupoints near Feng Bao's heart meridian, keeping him alive until he was no longer breathing.
This witness must not die easily.
The lunar eclipse had completely ended, and the cool moonlight once again bathed the ravaged battlefield.
Wushan and his guards carefully searched Viper's body and finally found a secret letter and a bronze snake-shaped token hidden in the lining of his underwear. The token had a complex Southern Frontier rune engraved on the back.
"Master, we've found it." Wushan presented the secret letter and token.
Lou Jin took it and, by the light of the fire, slightly heated it, and a few lines of text gradually appeared on the secret letter.
"If the Northwest affair is untenable, then abandon it. Focus all your efforts on assisting the priest in completing the Holy Advent. A catastrophe is imminent in the capital; return immediately to take charge. Yi."
The priest mentioned in the letter clearly refers to the high priest of the Rong tribe. Although the exact meaning of "Saint's Arrival" is unclear, it must be of great importance. The words "upheaval in the capital" caused Lou Jin's pupils to shrink slightly.
Lou Yi is about to stir up an even bigger storm in the capital!
"He really did have a backup plan..." Ye Xunyang frowned as he read the contents of the letter. "What exactly do 'the Holy Arrival' and 'the Shocking Change' refer to?"
Lou Jin carefully put away the secret letter, then picked up the bronze snake-shaped token. It was cold to the touch. He didn't recognize the Southern Frontier runes on it, but his intuition told him that this token might be related to the Shadow Serpent's core stronghold in the southwest, or even the so-called Holy Descent.
“Viper must live; he knows far more than this,” Lou Jin instructed Wushan.
"Keep him under close guard and have the military medical officers do their best to treat him and keep him alive. At the same time, send the rubbings of this secret letter and the token to the capital and the southwest as quickly as possible, so that they can investigate further based on these clues."
"Yes!" Wushan accepted the order and immediately arranged for people to carry it out.
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