Chapter 108: Su Jingzhi’s Wife
The crowd suddenly erupted into chaos.
Hearing Wei Wanlan’s voice and realizing the “He Xiangu” disguise had been blown early, the Turk’s hand holding the fire starter trembled. He blew on the ember at the tip of the fire starter, creating a flame, and leaned down to light the fuse on the carriage.
He was going to set it on fire.
Su Jingzhi suddenly leaped onto the float.
His movements were so fast that no one could clearly see how he scaled the side of the carriage. He was already standing on the roof. Unarmed, he snatched the sword from “Lu Dongbin’s” hand. That “Lu Dongbin” clearly didn’t know how to use a sword and was momentarily stunned when his weapon was taken.
Su Jingzhi swung the sword and severed the fuse!
The fuse, sparking with embers, was flicked off the carriage.
The cotton thread still carried sparks.
With this move, his face was illuminated by the brilliant lights of the float. The eight remnants of the Turkic forces burst into a chatter of their language, shock appearing on their faces. Finally, they drew curved sabers from hidden compartments in the carriage!
They stiffly spat out in the official language of Great Wei:
“Regent King.”
“Su Jingzhi!”
They recognized him and knew his formidable reputation. The Turks’ faces showed indescribable fear, but they gritted their teeth:
“Split up and light the fires!”
The people surrounding the float were also shocked. So that young man who climbed the carriage was the Regent King himself? The Regent King was touring the Grand Pu and had just been standing beside them?
“There’s gunpowder in the float! It’s going to explode…” Someone shouted. The people panicked even more, and the entire street erupted into chaos, like boiling water poured into hot oil.
Wei Wanlan’s heart was in his throat.
Seeing “Lan Caihe” pierce a hole in the float with a bamboo flute, he grabbed a colored lantern from the roof of the float. There was fire inside!
Su Jingzhi threw the precious sword.
The Regent King had once thrown a knife to slay a fierce beast, and this was similar. The sword flew like a streak of light. “Lan Caihe” was caught off guard and stabbed, spraying a mouthful of blood, droplets dripping down. The lantern rolled off.
The lantern rolled along the carriage body and fell to the ground.
Wei Wanlan went over and kicked it far away. Looking up, he saw the Regent King had already pulled the sword from “Lan Caihe’s” body. With a flick of his wrist, he shook off the blood droplets. The flash of red light made Wei Wanlan’s heart skip a beat. He suddenly realized, the Big Bad Guy knows how to use a sword too?
โThe Big Bad Guy knows more than just how to use a sword.
His swordsmanship was simply extraordinary. Keeping his back close to the carriage to prevent sneak attacks, he moved along the narrow walkway on the side, engaging the Turks. Holding the long sword, he fought “Lu Dongbin,” who had switched to a curved saber after losing his weapon.
The sword glinted dazzlingly, the silver light stinging the eyes. Wei Wanlan was dazzled. He felt that the Regent King’s demeanor with a sword was different from when he wielded a saber. The sword is the gentleman of weapons, and he wielded it with a graceful, gentlemanly air.
But that was purely because Wei Wanlan didn’t understand.
If he could understand, he would know that the so-called gentlemanly air was just an illusion created by Su Jingzhi’s upright posture. In reality, under every calm and composed move of the Regent King’s swordsmanship, there lay a deadly intent aimed at the enemy’s vital points:
โSwallow Skimming the Water, Blue Dragon Brushing the Sleeve. Two moves deflected the defensive stance of the curved saber, followed by a slash across the throat like crossing a river!
Blood sprayed.
Su Jingzhi didn’t even blink as “Lu Dongbin” fell off the float, his limbs still twitching on the ground.
Before dying, “Lu Dongbin” grabbed Wei Wanlan’s ankle tightly. Wei Wanlan jumped back in alarm, trembling with physiological discomfort. Even though the Regent King fought beautifully, he hated such bloody scenes the most. He was going to have nightmares.
Suddenly, one of the Turks shouted: “Yiyi!”
“Yiyi” means wife in Turkic.
Su Jingzhi’s sword movement paused.
The Turks continued shouting: “That’s Su Jingzhi’s woman! Capture her as a hostage! Take her to the Royal Court!”
Wei Wanlan: “?????”
Even dressed as a young matron, I’m getting captured?!
Not knowing where to start complaining, a curved saber slashed towards him. These Turks believed that capturing the Regent King’s wife would surely distract Su Jingzhi.
Two Turkic warriors, “Royal Uncle Cao” and “Elder Zhang Guo,” jumped off the float.
Two large hands suddenly reached for Wei Wanlan. His mind went blank with fear. He retreated a few steps. Then he saw half a red blade protruding from “Elder Zhang Guo’s” chest. Su Jingzhi had thrown his sword again, piercing “Elder Zhang Guo.” He fell obliquely to the ground.
But “Royal Uncle Cao’s” hand was almost in front of his face…
Another curved saber slashed across “Royal Uncle Cao’s” back, cutting his clothes. “Royal Uncle Cao” looked back in horror to find that the Regent King had snatched an opponent’s weapon to rescue Wei Wanlan again.
Wei Wanlan hurriedly dodged, muttering “Regent King, Big Bad Guy” a few steps away.
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“Royal Uncle Cao” attacked Wei Wanlan again!
This time from afar to near. The Regent King used his sword to pick up several lanterns, interfering with “Royal Uncle Cao’s” attempt to grab Wei Wanlan, knocking them away like balls.
“Royal Uncle Cao” screamed in anger but had to distract himself to deal with the interference from the float.
Wei Wanlan seized this opportunity to drag an icon for use.
Then “Royal Uncle Cao,” flying into a rage out of humiliation, raised his saber to slash directly. But as he approached Wei Wanlan, Wei Wanlan didn’t dodge, and the blade strangely deviated in an arc, missing him.
“Royal Uncle Cao” held his saber in horror: “What’s going on…”
Wei Wanlan was secretly delighted. This was a prop from the Wise Ruler Development System taking effect: scientific name “Protective Golden Bell Jar.” Truly useful.
“Royal Uncle Cao” roared again, while laughter from the Turks came from the huge float: “The Regent King has been hit!”
Wei Wanlan: “!!!”
What happened?
Did the Regent King get distracted paying attention to the fight below the carriage to protect me?
The Turks continued to deliberately tell him in Great Wei official Mandarin: “Send people to kill his woman, he’s looking under the carriage!”
Wei Wanlan’s heart pounded heavily. Seeing the Regent King indeed turning his head slightly to look at him, he felt a surge of bitterness but advanced instead of retreating. With a flash of wit, he hurriedly climbed onto the float.
โHe couldn’t let the Regent King fight on two fronts anymore…
Wei Wanlan dared to approach the battle circle, and several more blades attacked!
“Han Xiangzi” and “Iron-Crutch Li” joined the fray, with “Royal Uncle Cao” relentless behind. Three people attacked Wei Wanlan simultaneously.
How could Su Jingzhi allow that?
So even though “Han Zhongli” and “He Xiangu” were still fighting him, he blocked them with a horizontal sword parry and turned back to intercept the blades attacking Little Wan.
He didn’t know the blades would curve around Wei Wanlan, and Wei Wanlan had no time to hint. He could only throw himself forward and hug the Regent King tightly.
The three blades strangely missed Wei Wanlan again…
But the Regent King didn’t know. He pressed his lips tight, grabbed Wei Wanlan, and threw him behind him:
“Stand still and don’t cause trouble!”
Wei Wanlan’s eyes turned red. Being pulled behind the Regent King, his back hit the float railing. He wanted to say he came up to help, but having always been timid and never done such a thing, it didn’t fit his persona, so he couldn’t make it obvious.
He could only strategically whimper: “I came to find you. It’s scary down there.”
Then he planned to wait for an opportunity to lend Su Jingzhi a hand.
He saw the Big Bad Guy’s wound. The Big Bad Guy was injured on his left arm, still bleeding. He couldn’t help wanting to be his shield right now.
But the Big Bad Guy thought he was going to get up and said with his back to Wei Wanlan: “Don’t move a muscle!!!”
Wei Wanlan’s doe eyes instantly reddened.
The Big Bad Guy was domineering and always unreasonable, but when he scolded him today, Wei Wanlan didn’t feel wronged but gazed at the figure of the Regent King using the sword.
Su Jingzhi gradually overlapped with someone in his heart, someone from his past, a certain memory… Wei Wanlan’s vision blurred.
Those Turks intensified their efforts: “Yiyi! Yiyi!”
The Turkic warriors pretended to attack Wei Wanlan, but were actually aiming for the Regent King. They seemed to know that only this would distract him. And Su Jingzhi, regardless of whether the attacks were real or fake, actually guarded against every single one with care.
Bang!
A spray of blood flew from the Regent King’s left shoulder, slashed by a curved saber.
The Turkic soldiers were overjoyed, shouting “Yiyi” “Yiyi” again.
The Turkic soldier “He Xiangu” got off the float, went around the back, climbed onto the carriage board, and reached out to grab Wei Wanlan’s foot.
Su Jingzhi spun around, withdrawing his sword and slashing down. The blade cut off that hand. “He Xiangu” screamed and fell off the float. The horses pulling the carriage spun in place, frightened, kicking their hooves as if to overturn the float. Wei Wanlan hurriedly hugged the railing tight.
Su Jingzhi looked back.
Then he was slashed on the arm by a curved saber again. The metal bracer sparked against the arm, the blade piercing downwards into his thigh.
Wei Wanlan was stunned:
Big Bad Guy QAQ!!!
His wrist trembled. Su Jingzhi ignored the deformed bracer. He frowned tightly, but felt the sparks from the arm friction scatter light spots before his eyes, forming halos. His vision became turbid.
The poison flared up…
It was a strong dizziness; he couldn’t see clearly!
Su Jingzhi’s thoughts sank. He suddenly turned the sword hilt and stabbed rapidly again. He intended to end the battle quickly. Despite being injured, he fought even better, becoming braver after seeing blood. The remaining four fake Eight Immortals were scared to advance.
The Turks looked at each other and immediately split up.
So “Han Xiangzi” and “Iron-Crutch Li” faced Su Jingzhi’s sword head-on, while “Royal Uncle Cao” and “Han Zhongli” climbed onto the roof of the float, intending to bypass Su Jingzhi and go straight for Wei Wanlan.
Wei Wanlan saw sword glints all around. Before him was the Regent King’s back. He saw the Regent King’s toes; the float floor was covered in his blood, droplets pooling together!
Wei Wanlan didn’t want to be a burden. He stood up again and hugged the Regent King tightly from behind.
That look could be interpreted as fear, but in fact, he only wanted to take the two slashes from the Turks behind so he could protect the Regent King’s back, allowing Su Jingzhi to deal with the ones in front.
However, what he didn’t expect was…
The Regent King spun him around, giving him no chance to block the blades, pressing him back into the carriage wall. Wei Wanlan felt like a pancake smashed into the carriage body. He hated this inability to speak and was furious that the Regent King shielded him completely.
His doe eyes closed tight. But Wei Wanlan heard the sound of flesh tearing again.
…The Regent King was injured.
Wrong!
It shouldn’t be!!!
That attack could have been completely avoided. A frontal stab at the Regent King, with Su Jingzhi’s martial arts skills, was nothing to worry about.
The Big Bad Guy’s figure trembled slightly. During the fight, a pouch fell. The Turkic curved saber’s edge just happened to cut the ribbon tying it. A small porcelain bottle fell off the float, and two silver needles rolled away.
What is this…
What is he carrying?
While Wei Wanlan was full of confusion, Su Jingzhi was hit by several more slashes. He could see from behind that Su Jingzhi was bleeding more and more. So he could no longer care about hiding his identity as a transmigrator, drilling out from behind the Regent King to block two attacks for him.
The Great Wei citizens under the carriage were stunned:
People couldn’t see the twists and turns here clearly, let alone know about any Golden Bell Jar prop.
The citizens only saw the woman accompanying the Regent King, seemingly frail, not only wasn’t scared pale but even dared to face the battle circle head-on.
The Great Wei citizens were roused:
“Damn it! What are we afraid of!!”
“Even a woman can do this, we should too…”
“A few Turkic remnants, drag them off the float!”
Luoyang citizens tried to jump onto the float one after another.
The Regent King’s gaze swept over, and the citizens temporarily stepped back. The float, pulled by frightened horses, was spinning in place. Provoked by this fierce battle, the float lost its way and finally ran in the opposite direction.
Su Jingzhi closed his eyes, blocking a blade from the left by feel, and asked Wei Wanlan: “Is the carriage leaving the city?”
Wei Wanlan was stunned. A storm rose in his heart.
So… he can’t see!
He can’t see!!!
Isn’t he suffering from headaches? Why did he suddenly go blind? Wasn’t that person the one who went blind?
Four Turks were still on the carriage.
The float ran along the long street towards the Luoyang city gate. The guarding soldiers immediately came down from the tower with spears. Two soldiers wanted to close the city gate. But such a dangerous float, carrying Turkic warriors, absolutely couldn’t be kept in the city.
The Regent King said: “Open the gate!”
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