Chapter 137 The Person Behind the Scenes!
Chen Yi's statement was not unfounded.
But it was only now, with everything settled and the expected reward not arriving, that he became alert.
After waiting a while longer.
Seeing that no one had shown up, Chen Yi continued in a hoarse voice:
"I just helped you take care of that man in black. You should be grateful to me. Why don't we come out and have a chat?"
"I don't think the Xiao family would repay kindness with enmity like this, would they?"
As he spoke, he looked back and forth.
The narrow alley remained empty and deathly silent.
He could even hear his own breathing.
"Aren't you a member of the Xiao family?"
As Chen Yi thought this, his heart sank slightly.
The Liu family?
He continued tentatively, "It seems that guests have arrived from the Liu family of Shu Prefecture."
"how?"
"You don't really believe that the person who killed Liu Jing came from the Xiao family, do you?"
"Don't fall for someone's scheme to sow discord."
a long time.
Seeing that there was still no sound around him, Chen Yi couldn't help but grin.
This is the last thing he wanted to see.
—The person behind the scenes!
"You're not from the Liu family, you're not from the Xiao family, yet you're still paying so much attention to me. You're really putting me in a difficult position."
"Yes or no?"
"Hidden Guards!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Yi's true energy erupted instantly. He used the Meteor Butterfly Step with all his might, leaping onto the wall next to him and turning into a black shadow as he fled towards the prefectural government office.
Almost the instant he moved, a clear, cold voice rang in his ear:
"Who are you? How do you know that it was my hidden guards who made the move tonight?"
woman.
Chen Yi used the sound to pinpoint the location and turned his head to see two women wearing black cloaks and veils on a three-story wooden building not far away, whose figures and appearances were obscured.
"Ha, they've finally shown up."
But it's worse than not showing up at all.
Under the Qi Observation Technique, one of the two possessed a far greater aura than him, clearly indicating he was a mid-third-grade martial artist.
To be precise, it should be the sixth rank.
The other cultivator was also quite powerful, likely not far from reaching the middle third rank.
Seeing this, and having figured out their location, Chen Yi instantly changed direction and ran along the alley to the main road.
As he ran, he shouted, "Don't chase me! Otherwise, if I yell a few times, your identities and your targets will all be exposed!"
Little did he know that his words would have been better than the sixth-rank martial artist who heard them chasing after him.
"court death!"
Hearing the sound behind him, Chen Yi turned his head and glanced over:
Are you really not afraid?
"If you have the guts, then say it!"
"The Xiao family..."
Upon hearing those two words, the woman's eyes immediately changed, and she threw three darts.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
The slight explosion made Chen Yi quickly turn to avoid it, and he saw three darts on the wall beside him.
With just one glance, he recognized that the dart was the same one that had killed Sun Erhu.
"So it was you who killed them before!"
The woman didn't respond at all and threw out several more darts.
Three of them were arranged in a triangular pattern, heading straight for Chen Yi, while two others hit him in front of him.
Seeing this,
Chen Yi paused, ducked to avoid the danger, and was about to continue his escape.
But at that moment, no one knew what technique the woman used, but her speed suddenly increased threefold.
In the short time it took Chen Yi to dodge the darts, the woman appeared, drew her soft sword from her waist, and thrust it straight at him.
The sword light emitted a faint glow, which was quite dazzling.
Chen Yi glanced at it out of the corner of his eye, then switched his footwork, using the "Dragon and Phoenix Playing" movement technique to evade the sword like a ghost.
Unexpectedly, the sword suddenly bent down, its blade flashing like a snake's tongue, slicing across his waist in a strange arc.
The moment of pain.
Chen Yi's gaze turned slightly cold as he met her eyes directly.
His body tensed, and he stomped his feet so hard they shattered the bluestone slabs, advancing instead of retreating.
Then, he threw a punch.
As the true essence within the body circulates and erupts, it also draws upon the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
In an instant, the violent and domineering power of the Mountain Collapse Fist enveloped an area of one zhang in radius.
——Bengyue·earth cracking!
The woman was initially disdainful, but as soon as she raised her sword to thrust forward, she felt as if she were being crushed by an immense force, and she staggered.
"The essence of fist technique is perfected, as solid as a mountain!?"
The woman looked surprised, but she quickly unleashed her true energy and raised her hand to defend herself.
boom!
The immense force, like a mountain, slammed into the arm protected by true essence, not only sending the woman flying backward but also impacting the true essence within Chen Yi's body, instantly damaging one of his meridians.
Instead of forcibly suppressing it, Chen Yi took two steps back, dissipating the force while preventing himself from suffering secondary injuries.
"Hmm."
Chen Yi looked at the woman who had stopped leaning against the wall not far away, a trace of blood spilling from the corner of her mouth and staining the black cloth.
The woman looked on with surprise and doubt, then her eyes caught sight of her left hand swelling up at a visible speed, and she immediately felt a surge of anger.
"You're only at the lower third rank of cultivation, yet you possess the intent of a Great Perfection Fist. You must hold a high position in the Xiao family, right?"
Chen Yi calmed the chaotic true energy within his body and said in a hoarse voice:
“If I were a member of the Xiao family, you and your colleagues who were hiding in the Xiao family would have been dead long ago.”
"I'll ask you one last time, are you willing to let me leave?"
"snort!"
"impossible!"
The woman snorted coldly and leaped forward, unleashing several sword flowers at him.
Having clearly learned from her previous experience, she dared not engage Chen Yi in close combat again.
Chen Yi was aware of this as well, and while repairing his damaged meridians with his true essence, he dodged and avoided them.
At the same time, he couldn't help but sarcastically remark, "A martial arts expert of the middle third rank, yet he hasn't even mastered sword intent. He's utterly useless."
"If I were you, I wouldn't even have the face to live in this world."
"I'd rather find a block of tofu and smash my head against it."
The woman said in an icy tone, "Once I've exhausted your true energy, I'll see if you can still be so sharp-tongued!"
"Yes, why not?"
"If you, a dignified Silver Flag Officer of the Hidden Guard, have the audacity to live like this, why can't I live a life of ignominy?"
Hearing what Chen Yi said, the woman's eyes grew even colder. While unleashing dozens of sword energies, she asked:
How did you know our identities?
Chen Yi dodged the questions one by one, saying, "I not only know your identity, but I also know the important matters you were discussing with someone at Fengchun Tower yesterday."
"Xiao Dongchen, is that right?"
"As for you, your voice sounds somewhat familiar. Let me guess..."
However, before he could finish speaking, the woman was clearly enraged by his words and lunged at him again.
Not only that, she also beckoned another woman in black to come over.
"Let's attack together!"
"He knows too much; we absolutely cannot let him leave!"
Seeing this, Chen Yi was not angry but pleased. Instead of looking at the soft sword right in front of him, he stared straight at her shoulders and wrists.
Upon seeing the woman flick her wrist and unleash several sword flowers,
Chen Yi changed his footwork and used the Meteor Butterfly Step to crash into the other side.
Sizzle—
Despite having his left hand pierced by a sword beam, he flung a porcelain bottle with his right hand, which struck the soft sword.
Without waiting to see the result, Chen Yi shifted his feet and used the "Dragon and Phoenix Dance" technique to dodge the other sword beams, then suddenly fled into the distance.
"you……"
The woman was about to chase after them when she saw that her vision was filled with pink fluorescent light, and she immediately realized something was wrong.
"Huan'er..."
She only managed to utter two words before her eyelids rolled back and she collapsed to the ground.
With a clanging sound, the soft sword flew several feet away.
"Miss!"
Hearing the sound, Chen Yi stopped a short distance away, a look of realization flashing in his eyes, "So it was them!"
Cui Qingwu, the daughter of the Cui family, and her maid!
No wonder.
No wonder Xiao Dongchen was able to exchange information with others so quietly.
He and Cui Jiaben were in the same private room yesterday.
But how could Cui Qingwu, the daughter of the long-established Cui family of Qinghe, become a Silver Banner Officer of the Hidden Guard?
Before anyone could think further, another woman stood in front of Cui Qingwu, glaring at Chen Yi and angrily rebuking him:
"How dare you!"
"If anything happens to her, you and those behind you will face retribution!"
That's a lot...
Chen Yixin.
Even disregarding the power of the Hidden Guards, the Cui family of Qinghe alone was enough to turn Shu Prefecture upside down.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Yi, clutching his injured left hand and trying to calm the surging true energy within his body caused by the fight, smiled and nodded:
"Of course, of course, I wouldn't dare to provoke retaliation from any family in Qinghe."
"you……"
Before the maid named Huan'er could say anything more, Chen Yi had already turned and sped away into the distance.
"When she wakes up, remember to tell her that she owes me a life."
A hint of annoyance flashed in the maid's eyes, but she didn't dare to chase after them.
After Chen Yi had walked away unhurriedly, she finally realized what was happening and stomped her foot.
"He was seriously injured..."
"How dare you deceive me like this? It's outrageous!"
However, by this time, the person had already gone far away, and no matter how angry Huan'er was, it was to no avail.
Worried about Cui Qingwu's safety, she had no choice but to carry Cui Qingwu on her back and run away in another direction.
Not long after.
Chen Yi, clutching his bleeding left hand, quietly slipped into the Hundred Herbs Hall.
"This time it was truly dangerous."
"If Cui Qingwu's swordsmanship had been any stronger, I would have been done for."
As he pondered this, he fumbled in the dark for silver needles and various herbs on the cabinet.
After lighting the oil lamp and using the flame to disinfect the silver needles, Chen Yi inserted a needle into his left arm and waist.
At the same time, the medicine that had been found was pounded into powder, mixed, and applied to the wound.
Then I saw the wound that ran through my arm and was still bleeding. The blood had congealed, but the cut on my waist was just a superficial wound.
Chen Yi breathed a slight sigh of relief upon seeing this.
Without pausing, he took out three more silver needles and inserted them one by one around the damaged meridians.
Then, he manipulated the silver needles with extremely weak true energy.
Turn left or right to clear and unblock damaged meridians.
Just as Chen Yi was focused on healing his injuries, he heard a voice coming from not far away:
"You're quite impolite, coming in openly to get medicine and even using needles to treat your own wounds. Do you think this is your home?"
Chen Yi looked up and saw Liu Lang leaning against the entrance hall outside the accounting room, looking at him with a half-smile.
"Just borrowing it for a bit, here's the money."
"I don't think someone as dignified as 'Knife Maniac' would be so petty, would he?"
"Forehead……"
Liu Lang, who was about to speak, was taken aback by his words.
After realizing what was happening, the smile on his face slowly faded, and coupled with his disguised, aged face, his expression inevitably became somewhat serious.
"Who are you?"
"No one should know that Liu is hiding here."
Chen Yi continued healing himself while speaking in a hoarse voice and casual tone:
"Brother Liu, don't even think about fighting. Your injuries are more serious than mine."
"It's not worth making my situation worse for someone as insignificant as me."
Liu Lang was taken aback again, looked him up and down, and the seriousness on his face turned into inquiry:
"Using qi to control needles?"
"Forgive me for my ignorance, senior, but I do not know which medical master you are in the martial arts world."
(End of this chapter)
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