The wind blew through the mountains, and the afternoon sunlight was serene. In the air, the leaves swayed, and the sunlight seemed to sway with them. On the riverbank in the mountains, the spear jumped out of its restraints and broke through the wind in an instant.
Fresh blood and the corpses of his friends came to meet it.
It was the other leader who was slightly closer to the woman in red. When the woman approached, his first reaction was to retreat. However, his hurried footsteps could not avoid the woman's leisurely steps. When Lin Chong thrust his spear at the first instant, the leader's hand that had pulled out the saber was also closed in by the red shadow. His entire body was thrown into the air, and then the body flew towards Lin Chong, followed by a rain of blood and minced meat.
In an instant, the saber was snatched, the person was thrown, and the single saber was thrust forward with a palm. Lin Chong had been madly sprinting over. The tip of the spear sank down, piercing the body of the leader in the air. His entire body also sank along with the momentum of the spear. After piercing through the body, he suddenly raised his spear upwards. With a ping, the two of them exchanged weapons. Lin Chong rolled on the ground and stabbed the red shadow three times. Then, he swept his spear horizontally. The body of the spear solidly swept across the woman in red, but it looked as if he had hit a rubber ball. The red shadow rolled away.
At this time, the second leader who had been sent flying was caught by Shi En and the others. The woman in red pounced towards the "Devil Incarnate" Fan Rui, who was striding over. Because Lin Chong's spear swept over, the speed was too fast, and Fan Rui had no time to dodge. He swung his long sword down towards the ground, and this strike cut through half of the bamboo hat, which sank into the soil. The figure had already rolled towards his crotch. In that instant, the steel saber that he had snatched was swung upwards, and the saber light swept over.
Passing under Fan Rui, the red shadow leapt up and charged towards another leader three meters away. Their figures intertwined, and in an instant, they exchanged moves. The leader drew his saber and swung it, but his chest was hit by a fist. The saber flew out of his hand, and was caught by the woman in red. An angry roar suddenly came from the air, and a staff fiercely chopped down. The red shadow pushed the small leader back and turned around. When Lu Zhishen swung the staff a second time, it was already aimed at the small leader's back.
Lu Zhishen abruptly retracted his attack and reached out to grab the armor on the back of the small leader. On the other side, the small leader was already brandishing his two blades.
In an instant, the leader's head, face, neck, chest, and abdomen were slashed countless times by the woman's dual blades. Lu Zhishen grabbed the armor and could only feel the man's body trembling. Lu Zhishen paused for a moment. On the other side, the dual-wielding woman took a step back because Xiang Tong's three flying knives had flown over. Lin Chong rushed over, Shi En rushed over, and Xiang Tong also rushed to the side and stood in position.
"Devil Incarnate" Fan Rui was still standing in the position of swinging his longsword down. He could no longer move, because blood was continuously flowing from between his legs. The two sides had not even stopped talking for five breaths. As the woman attacked, the chest of the first small leader was shattered, and the head of the second person was casually cut off. On the other side, the small leader that Lu Zhishen had grabbed from behind was constantly coughing up blood.
In an instant, four people had died.
Perhaps part of this was the result of an unintentional plot, but some things, from the moment the first small leader was sent flying, they were already able to know.
In Lin Chong's entire life, the only person he had ever seen who could beat someone to this state with just a single blow was Zhou Dong.
Although he did not understand how this woman had cultivated, this woman … was not a crazy woman. Previously, when she stopped the boat and asked questions, it wasn't because she wanted to be fair and reasonable, but because she wanted to give those who she felt were reasonable a way out. Grandmasters like her all had their own pride. She could reason with people, but reasoning wasn't teaching students. No matter what the reason was, when she started to make a move, everything really "didn't matter".
I gave you a path to walk. You don't have to know, and I don't need to explain to you. If you give up, I will do what I should do. This was the unspoken meaning behind all of her actions.
Lin Chong, Lu Zhishen, and the others could not have predicted that they would suddenly encounter such a person. But after this sudden attack that stunned everyone, Lu Zhishen's body began to tremble. Seeing his brother who had been struck by the dual blades finally fall, he pulled up his Buddhist staff and, with an angry roar, lunged at the woman who was walking to the side with the dual blades.
Xiang Tong shot out a throwing knife. Lin Chong and Shi En surrounded her, and the remaining small leader also pulled out a knife and charged. This time, they no longer underestimated the enemy. In the blink of an eye, it became a true five against one situation.
Among these people, Lin Chong's martial cultivation was the highest, and Lu Zhishen's Disorder Splitting Wind Staff was the fiercest and most domineering. Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong's cooperation was also the best. Although the other three people's martial skills were slightly lower, Xiang Tong's throwing knives provided support and harassment. Shi En and the other leader had also experienced many battles. Even if their support was not great, they were not mediocre among ordinary soldiers. Yet, facing the power of no one charging at her, the red-clothed woman with the blood-stained blades in her hands, her gaze cold, suddenly chose a method that no one could have predicted.
Facing Lu Zhishen, who was charging at her with Lin Chong at his side, the woman's blades paused and then she leapt directly at Lu Zhishen.
At this moment, Lu Zhishen roared and attacked. His aura had reached its peak. In his eyes, a knife light flashed. In that instant, she had found an opening and slashed at his neck. To the side, Lin Chong's spear suddenly stabbed forward, but it was blocked by the woman's single blade.
On the riverbank, in the blink of an eye, several people began to fight. However, when it was one against five, when the woman rushed to the strongest point of the five and met them with her two sabers, the sound that rang out was not that of a storm of weapons clashing. It sounded like the sound of iron being forged, full of a strange rhythm. She used a single saber to defend against Lin Chong's attack. Outside the forest, she used a steel saber to smash away hidden weapons. Every time she swung her saber, it was to attack the enemy's vital point. When Lu Zhishen rushed over in a crazed manner, every time she swung her saber, she actually took a step forward. After exchanging a few blows, Lu Zhishen retreated three steps and broke out in a cold sweat.
Then, it was Lin Chong who forced her back a step. Lu Zhishen roared and shoveled forward. The woman in front of him lowered her body and slashed at the four people's legs with her blade. Everyone retreated slightly. On the other side, Xiang Chong continued to throw his flying knives. At the same time, something flew out from the red dress, brushing past the flying knives in the air and flying toward them.
Xiang Chong leapt to the side, dodging a flying steel knife. Before he could land, another spinning steel knife spun around his chest and abdomen. That steel knife flew into the forest behind him. Xiang Chong's body spun twice in the air and fell to the ground. At the same time, the Golden-eyed Tiger brandished his steel whip and took a step forward. He wanted to hit the woman rolling on the ground. A sharp light followed the steel whip and his arm, coiling around the side of his neck.
With this strike, the woman leapt forward and changed positions with the four people. Lu Zhishen swept his staff horizontally. The three people chased after him. The woman in red retreated and once again swung her sword, aiming at Lin Chong's spear and Lu Zhishen's hand that was holding the Buddhist staff. In the blink of an eye, crackling sounds resounded. Lu Zhishen was also decisive. "Ah!" He suddenly threw the Buddhist staff toward the woman. The woman turned around and rolled. Lin Chong followed. Lu Zhishen also rushed forward. With one step, his monk robe fluttered in the wind: "Eat my fist!" This fist flew toward the red cloud. At the same time, the woman behind the red dress switched her ancient sword to her left hand and used it to block Lin Chong's spear. Her right hand punched out, breaking the wind.
With two bangs, the woman flew seven to eight meters away and stood up. She took a deep breath and then exhaled, looking over. Lu Zhishen's body paused. He picked up the Buddhist staff and propped it on the ground. Then, he spat out a mouthful of blood. In those two punches, Lu Zhishen had hit the woman's shoulder, and the woman's punch had hit about the same place. However, the woman in red had used the momentum to deflect the force and was only thrown seven to eight meters away. Lu Zhishen, under the momentum, could not retreat. He had taken the full force of this blow. Not to mention the internal injuries, his bones were injured, and he was spitting blood. The strength of his hand was not as strong as before.
Behind them, Golden-eyed Tiger Shien stood there with his hand covering his neck. Blood kept flowing out from between his fingers. His throat had been pierced by a sword. This was the last moment of his life.
In a short amount of time, six out of nine had passed. Lin Chong and the others didn't even have time to feel shocked. They were also first-rate martial art experts in the Lulin, but this woman was not injured by Lu Zhishen's fist, her martial art skill had reached perfection. In just a short exchange of blows, her style was really too different from the other martial art experts in the Lulin.
"Iron Arm" Zhou Dong was the number one in the world for a very long time. When he was teaching at the Imperial Boxing Dojo, although he had taught all kinds of Earth Saber Techniques, as well as all kinds of defensive and life-threatening techniques, he was actually quite restrained in his attacks. The Wu dynasty was used to paying attention to the style of scholars. Once someone had a bit of status, they would pay attention to their bearing, and the people of the Greenwood Forest were the same. For this woman to have such overwhelming strength and still roll on the ground, even going so far as to drill through someone's crotch and slash with her saber, was actually very rare.
They did not understand that the woman in front of them had experienced starvation since childhood and had killed her way out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. She learned martial arts so that she and the people around her could have enough to eat. She did not seek the "meaning" of killing and beating people just because she learned martial arts.
At this time, the tall woman in the red dress once again switched the ancient sword to her right hand. Her eyes darkened as she walked toward them again. Lin Chong took a deep breath and shouted as he charged forward, followed by Lu Zhishen. This time, the sword in the woman's hand became steady and simple. After a few strikes, the sharp edge of the sword left a bloody cut on his face.
Lu Zhishen, on the other hand, seemed to be more courageous after his injury. He waved his staff like a crazy demon, shoveling grass and stones everywhere. However, the gap between their martial arts realms was no longer something that could be made up with brute force. In comparison, Chen Fan, who was a disciple of Fang Qifo, could use his brute force to his advantage in front of her with a single punch. On the other hand, even if Lu Zhishen had the strength to uproot a weeping willow, his opponent only needed to find an opening to force him to retreat. If not for Lin Chong's help, no matter how valiant he was, he would not have been able to hold on for long.
This time, after a few moves, the leader next to him had his throat slit and fell. Then, Lu Zhishen's hand and shoulder were hit one after another. The woman's swordsmanship was aimed at killing. It was also because Lin Chong was doing his best to save him and Lu Zhishen was ready to die together with his opponent that the two strikes didn't hit his vitals.
After their defeat on Liangshan, they had thought that there were still many things they could do and that they still had some time to live. Unexpectedly, they encountered such an incident. As the feeling of despair grew more and more intense, a group of people came out of the woods on the other side of the road. One of them saw the fighting and the corpses and suddenly rushed over. "Who dares to hurt my brother!"
The young man was tall and carried an iron staff. He came to help from the side. The woman frowned. After exchanging a few blows, she suddenly flew back onto the bamboo raft. The man who had just arrived was highly skilled in martial arts. Behind her, there were more than twenty people. She didn't want to continue fighting and pushed the bamboo raft away from the shore. The young man with the iron staff and the others had already caught up to the bamboo raft. "You want to run?!" The bamboo pole was already thrusting towards them. After a few exchanges, the bamboo pole exploded with a bang. More than ten bamboo sticks swept across and several people fell to the ground. One of them had his throat slit just like that.
The sun was shining brightly. The bamboo raft swayed towards the shore. Some people threw rocks at it, but they couldn't hit the other party. When Lin Chong shouted, "Stop chasing!", two people who were good at swimming had already entered the water. Seeing that the bamboo raft had drifted to the middle of the river, one of them suddenly stabbed the bottom of the bamboo raft with a knife. The woman leaped into the air. She held her sword in one hand and stabbed the bamboo raft in the air. In the eyes of the onlookers, she looked like a graceful water bird that had spotted a fish, stabbed its long beak into the water, and then flew away. After this stab, the woman fell back into the water. Red blood gradually flowed from the bottom of the river.
The moment the corpse floated to the surface, the rope that was used to tie the bamboo to the end of the raft suddenly exploded. It was another Liangshan soldier who had attacked. The woman sheathed her sword and bent down to grab one of the bamboo sticks. She held it horizontally in the air. After a breath's time, she stabbed it into the bottom of the river with a bang. The figure in the water struggled incessantly. Then, more blood gushed out. The woman in red supported the bamboo stick and reached the other side of the river before the bamboo raft completely fell apart. He only turned his head to take a look, then walked into the forest and disappeared.
At this point, the onlookers finally recovered from their shock. The young man with the iron stick looked back and asked, "Brother Lin, Brother Lu, what … happened? That woman … is alone?"
Lin Chong nodded. He turned to look at Shi En, Fan Rui, Xiang Tong, and the others' corpses. His eyes were filled with tears. "Brother Shi, thank goodness you came in time …"
The one who had come was the 'Nine-Patterned Dragon' Shi Jin. Although they had only exchanged a few blows, he was already shocked. If it was really that woman who attacked alone, didn't it mean that she had almost killed nine Liangshan soldiers all by herself? For a moment, he asked, "Who is she?"
Lin Chong told him everything that had happened, including the woman's question. "It seems like she knows that Bloody-Handed Butcher. She might have asked us that question because she wanted to let us go … This woman's martial arts skill is terrifying. I've seen it with my own eyes. Only my teacher, Zhou Dong, is comparable to her … Brother Shi, didn't you go with Brother Zhu and Chief Song?"
This time, Zhu Wu and Wu Yong were in charge of the Liangshan incident. Military Advisor Shen Ji Wu had the best relationship with Shi Jin. Lin Chong didn't understand why Shi Jin would appear here. Shi Jin also shook his head, "Brother Zhu told me before that it's best to stay out of this matter. Besides, I don't like the way they pick people, so I protected some of our brothers and sent them down the mountain. Later, I heard that Brother Lin and Brother Lu were here, so I wanted to look for you. Fortunately, I arrived in time. "
Speaking of this, he suddenly remembered something. He turned to look at the other side of the forest. "Right, will that woman … come again?"
Lin Chong said, "I'm afraid that we have to leave as soon as possible after helping our brothers settle down. This woman was decisive and didn't hesitate when she left. I'm afraid that she won't give up easily …"
When she said that, everyone felt their scalps go numb. Normally, when a person wanted to leave or retreat, they would most likely leave behind a few words. However, that woman was very straightforward and did not say a single word. At this moment, it was impossible for anyone to find her. With this woman's ability to defeat nine opponents by herself, if she were to come after them, their group of more than twenty people might not be able to hold on. Thinking of this, they quickly dug a hole on the river bank and prepared to leave as soon as possible.
On the other side of the forest, Lu Hongti didn't go far. She walked out of the forest and wiped her face with a wet towel by a small stream. She looked at the sky and turned back again. Sitting under a big tree, she took out a simple map and looked at it. Then, she quietly rested and meditated with her legs crossed. At dusk, she returned to the small river. She took out half a hard cake and ate it while checking the graves by the river and the footprints left around them.
Lu Liangshan was not peaceful. In order not to be killed, he had to hide from others. When there was nothing to eat, he had to be a hunter. When the Liao people were hunting, they had to wander all over the mountains and plains when they were hunted. Along the way, she heard about the tragedy of the Su family and was a little sad. When she heard about what he did in Shandong, she was a little happy for him. But in fact, when he thought about it, there was not much that he could do for him if he came here. Now that he had met them, he should just get rid of them. Whether they were from Liangshan or heroes, there were only more than twenty people. It should not be difficult to kill them all.
Under the setting sun, the woman in the red dress held the hard cake in her hand and followed the traces under her feet into the forest. Her mood was like chasing a few wild boars in the mountains in winter.
At the same time, by the small river dozens of miles away, Ning Yi was eating fish and meat without a care in the world. He was studying the situation of Song Jiang's escape with some people around him …
Soon, the two might meet by chance …
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