However, things always exceeded everyone's expectations. At the beginning of this strange and torrential attack, a hand, a soft and fair hand, stretched out from the grass!
Like the hand of a cute little girl catching fireflies, the index finger and thumb gently came together, and the poisonous needle that Fan Xian had shot out closed between his fingers.
Then, the figure flew out from the underbrush, as if somewhat afraid of Fan Xian's unstoppable stab. She floated backwards, but with ease. Like a gust of wind, she avoided the tearing air that came from the sharp point of the black dagger.
Seven long knives arrived, like a whirlwind of snow, everywhere they went. The silhouette flew up gracefully and danced among the seven long sabers that were like snowflakes. Finally, the tip of his foot stepped on the saber with the greatest momentum, and his figure suddenly retreated forty feet, quietly standing on the grassland.
Gao Da grunted and pulled back his knife. Along with the other six Tiger Guards, he stood in front of Fan Xian and Xiao En, afraid that the ace would suddenly attack.
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It was a woman, a woman with a floral scarf on her head, and a basket in her elbow. In the basket, there were some fresh mushrooms.
To be more accurate, she was a village girl.
However, everyone knew that to be able to break through Fan Xian's poison needles, avoid the stab he had gathered all the power in his body, and to be able to float away while surrounded by seven snow-like long knives, she was definitely not as simple as a village girl.
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Out of the corner of his eye, Fan Xian noticed that the eyes of the northern spy leader, Xiao En, who did not even blink in the face of death, actually trembled when he saw the village girl. Fan Xian was slightly startled. Who was this female ace hiding in the underbrush?
He walked forward, and the seven Tiger Guards opened up a space in the middle. Gao Da lowered his head and retreated, both hands tightly gripping the long knife. He stood guard behind Xiao En, ready at any time to launch a thunderous strike and cut off Xiao En's head.
"Miss, you are?" Fan Xian looked at the woman and asked gently. His face glowed with a feeling like a spring breeze.
The woman raised her head. Her appearance was not very special, and she could not be considered a beauty. However, her eyes were unusually bright, as though they reflected the colors of the meadow and the blue sky in her eyes. They were clear and bright, and incomparably fair.
Fan Xian was a little absent-minded. He cupped his hands in salute. "I am an official of the Overwatch Council of the Kingdom of Qing. I am here to escort criminals to the Kingdom of Qi. I do not know why you are here. Please do not be angry if I have offended you earlier."
This village girl, this unfathomable village girl, was more powerful than Fan Xian. Fan Xian was a man who looked gentle on the outside but was shameless and gloomy on the inside. That was why he had a smile on his face and said things that even he did not believe. He knew what the other party was here for, and the other party also knew that he was aware of this fact, but he had to say it in a dignified and incomparably pure manner.
The village girl smiled faintly. Her cheeks, which were originally not as beautiful as He Yanli's, seemed incomparably lively because of this smile. The seemingly tacky floral scarf on her head began to emit a sense of familiarity. She lowered her head to look at the thin needle between her fingers. After a moment, she said, "This is the first time I have learned that Master Fan's weapon is actually a thin needle."
Since she had already called him by his surname, Fan Xian could not bear to continue acting pretentiously. He could only rub his nose and smile bitterly. "Am I that easy to recognize? Or is my fame so great that even the northern kingdoms know of me? "
"Naturally, the immortal poet of a generation has been heard of all under heaven. This immortal poet has suddenly become the commissioner of the Overwatch Council of the Kingdom of Qing. Such an absurd yet world-shaking event, naturally no one would not know of it."
The village girl raised the thin needle in her hand and looked at it carefully. Her eyes narrowed into crescent moons. She looked at the thin needle against the dark blue sky. It looked very much like the flying swords that the fairies of legend stood on.
"Ah, so it is an ordinary sewing needle." The village girl seemed to be very surprised by this discovery. There was an eye hole behind the poisonous needle.
Fan Xian smiled bitterly. This was something his sister had prepared for him. Of course it was a sewing needle. He suddenly asked with concern, "Lady, are we going to keep chatting like this? Mr. Xiao has lost a lot of blood. I am afraid he does not want to hear it. "
Xiao En smiled.
The village girl smiled. "Didn't you set up a trap to kill him?"
Fan Xian smiled warmly. "Wrong. It was the rebel army of Northern Qi who wanted to break the peace treaty between the two countries. During the campaign, Mr. Xiao En was unfortunately killed by a stray arrow."
The village girl giggled. She put her hands on her hips and pointed at Fan Xian's nose. She looked very much like the peasant women in the fields. "Master Fan, not only are you good at poetry, but you can also lie without batting an eyelid. No wonder you are the legendary Tianmai."
"How could I dare? How could I dare?" Fan Xian's expression did not change. He continued to look at the village girl's face gently. "Lady, you are the legendary Tianmai. I am just a very diligent and lucky person."
The village girl's expression changed slightly. She looked at Fan Xian with even more interest. The scene fell into silence.
Suddenly, an early bird chirped as it flew to the nearby meadow. It seemed to have smelled danger and the scent of blood, and immediately flew away. She smiled self-mockingly. "My name is Duoduo."
"Begonia Duoduo?"
"Yes."
Begonia was the most outstanding figure of the younger generation of Northern Qi. She was the disciple of the grandmaster Ku He, and was rumored to be the most likely Tianmai. In the Overwatch Council, Yan Ruohai had once warned Fan Xian. At the time, Fan Xian had been full of hope that she would not be a woman. He had not expected... that she was, indeed, still a woman.
Fan Xian's expression was calm, and he seemed to have no reaction. He continued to speak warmly. "Lady Begonia, are you here to take Mr. Xiao back home?" He knew who the other party was, but he concealed the shock in his heart very well. He smiled and looked back at Sean, who was still staring at the battlefield below the meadow. He said softly, "I didn't expect to meet you so soon."
This woman named Begonia was clearly one of the most powerful figures in the world, but she had dressed herself like a village girl. She smiled. "Call me Duoduo. It sounds better."
At that moment, Xiao En suddenly hissed. "Neither of you is a Tianmai. You are just two brats who like to bicker."
Fan Xian felt ashamed. He knew that although this old man was no longer as valiant as he had been in the past, he still had a good eye for people. Him and this "village girl" were putting on a show here, and it was unnecessary.
At that moment, Begonia bowed slightly to Xiao En, who was sitting dejectedly on the meadow. "On the orders of my teacher, I have come to escort Master Xiao back to the capital," she said respectfully.
Fan Xian frowned, and his hands fell naturally to his sides. "We have not yet left the border, Begonia... Lady Duoduo, it is too early to worry."
He shook his head and waved his hand. The six Tiger Guards behind him immediately changed their formation, forming a charging stance. With themselves as the arrowhead, they aimed at Begonia. Behind them, Gao Da had already gathered strength in his arms, preparing to use a lightning-fast strike to behead the dying Xiao En.
A strange smile flashed through Begonia's eyes. Her fingers loosened, and the poisonous needle fell noiselessly into the grass. The coarse cloth she wore trembled slightly in the morning wind. "Master Fan, are you prepared to kill someone in front of me?" she said quietly.
Fan Xian smiled. Who knew how many thoughts had spun through his mind? Looking into her eyes, he knew that she was not here to stop him from killing someone... she was probably here to watch him kill someone. He didn't know what kind of secret Xiao En had, to be able to make Imperial Advisor Ku He change his principle of not meddling in worldly affairs for many years, and send this woman, who clearly had the strength of a superior ninth-level martial artist, as an assassin.
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In this world, there are times when you need to make a very difficult decision in a very short period of time. Fan Xian had spent a lot of effort to lure Xiao En into a dead end, creating this perfect opportunity to kill him. But in this instant, he not only had to abandon his original plan, he had to do the exact opposite!
Without question, this was a very preposterous and nonsensical choice. So most people would find it difficult to overcome this obstacle in their hearts.
But Fan Xian was a person who was willing to give up. Since he had not succeeded in trapping Yan Xiaoyi in this plan, then killing Xiao En was no longer a very important matter. Furthermore, he was very interested in the secret in Xiao En's heart. So he smiled strangely, already pouncing towards Begonia, who wore a flowery headscarf on her head and carried a basket between her elbows. At the same time, he gave the order for the seven Tiger Guards to cover Xiao En's retreat to the Black Knights.
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Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh... a total of seven wind-breaking sounds rang out in a very orderly manner. Right above the meadow, even the light morning breeze seemed to have been cut into countless pieces by the slender black poisoned dagger. The pieces of zhenqi were like countless broken blades, flying around the Begonia headscarf.
Fan Xian was very satisfied with his seven consecutive strikes. Although he had chased her through the night, his body was already somewhat tired. But when faced with the most outstanding figure of the younger generation in the world, especially the character he had naturally disliked in the novels he had read in his previous life, Fan Xian finally stimulated all the potential in his body and struck out with a dazzling number of strikes.
Like seven black lotuses, they bloomed one by one at the side of this woman called Hai Tang's hair. Then, they powerlessly and faintly faded away.
Begonia's face was full of smiles. She held a simple dagger in her hand. There were still bits of grass by the side of the dagger, and the juicy bits of grass formed a few miraculous dots on the surface of the dagger.
In that moment, each of Fan Xian's extremely sinister and extremely fast stabs had been softly countered by the dagger in the woman's hand. The tip of the dagger trembled slightly, appearing particularly weak and powerless in the wind. But it was like countless gusts of cool wind, binding Fan Xian's slender dagger. In the end, the Tyrannical zhenqi that Fan Xian had imbued into the dagger became as light as a cloud in the wind.
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