inspire-indiana Chapter 41 My knife is fast, please bear with it.
Chapter 41 My knife is fast, please bear with it.
puff!
Cai He's energy burst forth.
With a popping sound.
An invisible force, like a giant hand, deftly deflected the arrow.
Followed by.
shhhhhh!
Several arrows were fired in quick succession, shooting out from the dense forest.
The dull thuds of arrows piercing flesh and screams of agony rose and fell.
The toxicity of the datura flower has taken effect.
The once fierce bandits visibly slowed down, their eyes became unfocused, and their reactions to the outside world became sluggish.
In the blink of an eye, five assailants were caught off guard.
Even a notorious bandit who had reincarnated six times was not spared and was hit squarely by an arrow.
The poison laced in the arrows then spread rapidly.
Those who were hit by arrows felt a tightness in their chests, their faces quickly turned blue and purple, and one by one they coughed up foul blood and died.
The arrows have ceased flying.
A desperate man looked up in alarm and saw three figures emerging from the depths of the dense forest.
He initially thought they were Liu's men, but upon closer inspection, he found that the three men's clothing and demeanor were completely different from the Liu family martial artists he had seen before.
The leader was a young man wearing a black robe, holding a knife in his right hand with the tip pointing diagonally at the ground; he was a stranger to the group.
"Brother Zuo, thank you for your hard work in flanking the perimeter, blocking all escape routes, and making sure not a single person is left alive."
"Brother Su, take advantage of the chaos to sneak to the back of the carriage and take that box of incense money with you."
Before taking action, Chen Ye had already given instructions to the two men. They understood immediately, nodded silently, and went their separate ways to carry out the plan.
The assailant opened his mouth to shout, but was horrified to find that his hands were trembling.
It wasn't out of fear, but from the moment I saw that young man, all my strength seemed to be sucked away.
His limbs felt weak, his internal energy was stagnant, and he couldn't even hold a knife steadily.
"What's wrong? My body... it's not obeying my commands."
He desperately tried to circulate his internal energy, but found that the energy within his body was stagnant, as if it had encountered some kind of obstacle, and he could not circulate it freely at all.
Chen Ye suddenly accelerated, his figure like an arrow, rushing straight towards him.
The assailant tried desperately to lift the knife, but it was as heavy as a thousand pounds and he couldn't lift it at all. He could only watch helplessly as a cold glint flashed toward his throat.
With a soft "pfft".
A head flew off, and blood splattered two zhang high.
Chen Ye didn't stop, heading straight for Cai He's location.
Several knife-wielding bandits tried to stop them, but the poison of the datura had already been fully activated.
As Chen Ye approached, they all felt increasingly weak, their steps faltering, and they could hardly lift their long swords.
Chen Ye swung his hand and slashed horizontally.
Where a cold glint flashes, a head will surely fall.
His movements were swift and decisive, even more so than Cai He's previous ones.
Chen Ye moved as if he were in an empty field, with no one able to stop him.
The distance from the edge of the dense forest to the carriage was only a few dozen steps, but several corpses lay on the ground, each killed with a single blow.
Beside the carriage, Yin Xiaoran knelt on one knee, looking at everything that was happening in disbelief.
He could tell that this young man was not a Dragon Elephant Martial Master, yet those bandits at the Transcendent Realm didn't even have the strength to raise their knives in front of him.
His eyesight was still sharp enough to tell that this wasn't a matter of overwhelming strength, but rather that the bandits had physical problems.
Cai Hezhan, however, had poorer eyesight. Seeing his men fall one after another beside the carriage, his face was filled with disbelief and shock.
The whole process took only a dozen or so breaths, so fast that he didn't have time to react.
"Who are you?" Cai He asked coldly, staring intently at Chen Ye.
Chen Ye did not answer, only giving him a cold look.
"Not going to talk?" Cai He retorted angrily with a laugh, "Then you don't need to talk anymore!"
He could tell that this young man wasn't actually that strong.
I am capable of handling this myself.
He channeled his inner strength, and his energy surged forth.
The poison from the Datura flower had already spread throughout his body, but under the suppression of the Dragon Elephant Realm True Qi, he still had some ability to move, though he felt somewhat weak.
He assumed it was just a side effect of the intense battles he had just fought and was completely unaware of anything unusual.
Cai He lightly touched the ground with his toes, picked up a long knife, gripped the hilt, and suddenly exerted force with his foot.
The ground cracked open, and he shot out like an arrow!
While in mid-air, the long sword was already raised high, carrying a sharp wind pressure, and aimed straight at Chen Ye's neck.
If this strike lands, the body will be severed from its head.
The knife falls.
"Die!"
clang!
A standard-issue longsword extended from the side and steadily blocked his blade.
The numbness from the tiger's mouth caused Cai He's sword strike to falter.
Cai He's expression froze. He had used seventy percent of his strength in that strike, yet it had been blocked so easily.
What happened?
Could it be that I... have been drained to this state by alcohol and women?
Is your physical strength declining so drastically?
Cai He fell into deep self-doubt.
Even more frightening, he found that his body became weaker and weaker as he got closer to this person.
Cai He mustered all his strength, intending to strike again, but his knees suddenly buckled, and he collapsed to his knees on the spot.
He looked down at his hands; the base of his thumb was numb, and his fingers were trembling slightly.
wrong!
This isn't exhaustion, it's poisoning!
He finally realized he had been infected.
But it was too late.
Chen Ye chuckled: "Why must you perform such a grand ceremony?"
"Don't worry, my knife is very sharp, just bear with it."
Cai He raised his head, his eyes filled with indescribable fear.
He wanted to say something harsh, but found that he was losing the strength to speak. His jaw was trembling uncontrollably, and his whole body was starting to go numb.
Chen Ye no longer gave him another chance.
He raised the blade, concentrated all his inner strength in one place, and then delivered a horizontal slash.
Cai He's head flew off, a jet of blood gushing from his neck, tracing an arc in the sunlight before crashing to the ground.
The Dragon Elephant Realm martial artist is dead!
The two remaining fugitives on the mountain path were terrified and ran down the mountain in a panic.
However, Zuo Dongxi, who had been waiting there, blocked their way and killed them all.
Yin Xiaoran, who was kneeling outside the carriage, witnessed all of this. His heart was filled with shock, but he also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Finally...we're saved."
The young man, carrying a knife, began to walk towards him step by step.
Yin Xiaoran stood up with difficulty, already preparing some words of gratitude in his heart.
However, the churning blood in his throat prevented him from uttering a single word.
He wanted to raise his hand in greeting.
But then the young man stopped in front of him with his knife, and to his astonishment, plunged the knife into his chest without hesitation!
Yin Xiaoran's eyes widened.
He then realized that the young man in front of him had not come to save them at all.
"Hehehe..."
Yin Xiaoran opened his mouth, only uttering a series of bubbly sounds, and a dry hoarse sound came from his throat.
He stared intently at Chen Ye's face, the gratitude in his eyes not yet dissipated, but replaced by astonishment and despair.
Chen Ye drew his long sword and flicked off the blood that stained it.
Next, he wanted to take away the incense money from the Cui family.
The fact that the guard was still alive prevented them from acting freely, making him somewhat of a hindrance.
Furthermore, many details cannot withstand scrutiny, and once the news gets back to the Cui family, he may go from being a "lifesaver" to a "suspicious person".
He can't let that happen.
Therefore, the only option is to strike first and finish him off.
Only the dead are truly safe.
He happened to be a guard, and a guard's duty is to protect his master.
His master almost died because of his incompetence, and he should have paid for it with his life.
I simply helped him complete this responsibility ahead of schedule.
He's injured like this; living would only bring him suffering. Giving him a quick death would actually be for his own good.
He observed the situation before taking action.
The Cui family's young lady's carriage was facing forward, so she couldn't see anything in this direction. The front door was also secretly locked, so it wouldn't affect the plans behind.
It would be unwise not to kill him.
Chen Ye looked around; everything had settled down.
After making so many preparations, the whole process went so smoothly it was almost unbelievable.
The huge weight in his heart finally lifted halfway, and he gestured to Zuo Dongxi and Su Guang behind him.
The two understood each other and walked up to Chen Ye.
They glanced at the corpses lying scattered on the ground, then at the blood still dripping from Chen Ye's knife, without saying a word.
Zuo Dongxi tucked his thick-backed machete into his waistband, bent down, and began cleaning up the battlefield. Su Guang walked to the carriage and started moving the chests containing incense money and jewelry.
The two moved swiftly and decisively.
Chen Ye joined the two, quickly looting the body and cleaning up the traces, gathering the valuables together.
After the battlefield was completely cleaned up, at Chen Ye's instruction, Zuo Dongxi and Su Guang quickly fled away with the looted money.
Seeing that the two had completely left, Chen Ye took out the black worm powder hanging on his body and used his internal energy to make it completely dissipate in the wind.
After doing all this, Chen Ye sheathed his long sword and walked to the carriage.
He looked around for a few moments, found the mechanism outside the carriage, and pressed it without hesitation.