The death of the envoy of the royal family in the territory of the Vassal Prince was both a conspiracy and an overt one.
The three eunuchs of the Directorate of Credentials were well aware of this. However, the decisiveness of the assassin was beyond their imagination. The final location of the assassination was Bei 'an Town, which was very close to Liangzhou City. This choice was too rash. However, it was precisely this almost unreasonable stupidity that brought the assassin a glimmer of hope.
As Commander Qian of the Palace Guards expected, the assassin who attacked first was the man and woman at the table opposite the Head Eunuch Liu.
Twenty steps, two screens.
When a figure used a sharp weapon to break the first screen in an instant, Commander Qian, who had been prepared, had already stood up and pulled out the golden knife that symbolized his identity from his waist. When the assassin cut the second screen in a straight line, Commander Qian did not blindly retreat and take a passive defensive position. Instead, he did not advance and instead retreated, quickly chopping at the assassin with his knife.
His moves were simple, but his momentum was majestic. When he swung his knife, he was worthy of the nickname of "Zhanmadao" in the capital.
Commander Qian's knife technique abandoned all forms and was not sloppy at all. It did not rely on the finesse of his moves. It already contained a sense of returning to simplicity. The world's knives and swords were similar, but there was also a competition of techniques. For example, Li Chungang, who was known to be on par with Ancestor Lu in swordsmanship, and Đồng Thái, who was at the peak of killing. Another example was Yu Groom and Lou Huang, who were also disciples of Wang Xianzhi in Wu Wu City. They respectively pointed out two paths to the peak of swordsmanship. As for the masters of the knife technique, there was Mao Shulang, who was known to know all the knife techniques in the world, and Gu Jiantang, who surpassed him with only two moves. Commander Qian, who was far away from the battlefields of Jianghu and had lived in the forbidden palace for a long time, was obviously chasing after Gu Jiantang's shadow on the path of the knife technique. He pursued to use the fastest knife to kill in the shortest distance.
This kind of suspicion of shallow martial virtue was the most common in the battlefields, but it was extremely rare in Jianghu where people understood each other well. Today, the "Spear Saint of Snow Hut", Li Houzhao, who was one of the Four Sages of Liyang Lake, was famous for "not conceding in martial arts competition, not showing mercy when using his spear, and not letting people live after gaining the upper hand". Under the famous spear "Great Snow Awl", few people survived. Therefore, he was also called the "Three Uns". Although his combat power was at the top of the Four Sages, his ranking in Jianghu was at the bottom, which caused the entire Snow Hut to not even be considered as a quasi-first-class sect. The Music Saint of Black Drum Platform even said that "Li Houzhao's martial arts were too great, but his martial virtue was too little". Although they were both Four Sages, they were ashamed to be in the same group.
Sure enough, Commander Qian killed the enemy with a single strike. If the previous assassin was said to have split the screen in half with a single strike, then Commander Qian was said to have split the assassin and his weapon in half with a single strike.
Commander Qian was completely indifferent to the horrifying knife wound on his shoulder. He quickly exhaled and replaced it with fresh air. Normally, if Commander Qian wanted to fight to the death with this powerful assassin, even if he was destined to have the upper hand, he would not have succeeded in killing him with one strike. However, Commander Qian did not leave any leeway. He did not hesitate to be injured in exchange for a life, which was a stark contrast to the assassin who had deliberately stored up his strength for a last resort. This created a great situation where Commander Qian was only lightly injured and did not have any combat power. In a battle between Jianghu masters, there was a world of difference between fighting for victory and fighting for life and death. It seemed that Commander Qian, who was no stranger to the battlefields of Jianghu, understood this principle, but the assassin who had never fought on the battlefield did not.
Behind Commander Qian, the Head Eunuch Liu did not move and continued to raise his cup and drink.
The Head Eunuch Song pressed his hands on the edge of the chair. The white fat on his cheeks trembled and his lips were blue, as if he was mumbling something.
Eunuch Ma, who was as tall and sturdy as a man outside the Great Pass, had already put down his chopsticks and stood when Commander Qian attacked. He walked steadily to Eunuch Liu's side.
This hidden Eunuch Qian did not show any joy when he saw Commander Qian cut the body in half. On the contrary, he quickly warned, "Be careful!"
After noticing the abnormality on the third floor of the restaurant, Commander Qian, who was always walking on thin ice, naturally would not lower his guard. In reality, he was waiting for the assassin's true move. Even that seemingly hurried breath was a feint to lure the snake out of its hole. So when the gloomy woman who had left a deep impression on him arrived at almost the same time the man's body was cut in half, she could be said to have come straight from the two halves of the body. This scene was indescribably strange and bloody.
Commander Qian "opened the door to welcome the guest" at least seventy to eighty percent faster than she had imagined. It was still a heavy chop that could cut through a mountain. The woman did not use her sword to block the momentum of the chop at all. The tip of her sword still went straight for Commander Qian's heart.
Her eyes were cold, and the slender arm that held the three-foot-long sword did not tremble in the slightest.
She was so calm when she killed, and she was so even when she was killed.
This was probably a true top assassin.
Even if Commander Qian had tilted his body slightly at the last moment and avoided the fatal blow, the green tip of the sword still cut a bloody groove in his chest.
As for the vicious and merciless female assassin, she had already died under Commander Qian's second strike. Although the force of the blade didn't chop her body into pieces like before, it still knocked her body flying out, causing the table to collapse and explode into pieces, causing the ground to be in a mess.
Her body fell into a pool of blood, and a shocking scarlet line of blood slowly appeared from between her eyebrows to her abdomen.
Near her head, it happened to be where a wine jar had fallen. The wine slowly spread on the ground in silence.
There was wine in death.
From beginning to end, from life to death, she and her companions had not said a word.
This kind of silence was far more intimidating than the murderous fighting.
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