Chapter 241: The Grand Finale

  Tang An raised his hand slightly, and he rose into the air.

  They moved swiftly, and in less than a moment, the two of them had climbed up to the distant hillside and hidden themselves in the small grove on the hill. The trees in the grove were lush and dense, with thickets of thorns growing all around, making it impossible for anyone outside to detect their presence even if they looked carefully.

  The forest on this hill is the highest point within three miles around, from which you can see very far away, while those places cannot see here, making it an ideal place for observation.

  I knew it!

  In the distance, on a small road, more than ten uniformed green-robed warriors wielding long knives were surrounding and killing about ten black-clad warriors. Among these black-clad warriors, there was actually a woman, dressed in white clothes, who stood out strikingly among the group!

  The sound of swords and knives clashing echoed far away, even several miles outside. However, this was the western suburbs of Zhongzhou City, where trees grew densely and wild beasts roamed, so people usually took a detour around the forest. Over time, hardly anyone walked through the forest, and only a few hunters occasionally entered.

  "The martial arts skills of these black-clad men are quite good, no wonder they can persist for so long!"

  Tang An took a glance, these black-clad men surrounded and killed by others, their long knives gleaming with a sharp light, jumping up and down with agility like a lynx, but with great strength, each swing of their blades was powerful and forceful.

  These black-clothed men have actually all reached the Fifth Heaven of the Heavenly Man!

  But those dozen or so men in green clothes on the other side looked even more formidable!

  Although the martial arts of these black-clad men were not bad, they fought separately and scattered, unlike the green-clad men opposite them. More than a dozen people cooperated with each other, united in formation, one after another, continuously fighting their opponents. After just a few breaths, Tang An discovered that those black-clad men were at a disadvantage.

  Swish swish swish!

  Several black-clad warriors saw this and unexpectedly wanted to scatter and escape!

  But these green-clothed men would not give them the opportunity, and instantly caught up with those black-clothed warriors. In the midst of long knives chopping and killing, they were like withered trees being cut down, every knife seeing blood, and in an instant seven or eight people were killed! Only a few of the strongest black-clothed warriors remained, desperately holding on to protect the white-clothed woman in the middle.

  Xiao Xie's big eyes sparkled with interest as she watched, but suddenly she asked Tang An, "Little Tang An, why are those people wearing black clothes in broad daylight and covering their faces? They really look like bad guys. Why don't we help the people in green clothes beat them up?"

  In the arena, those black-clad men were escorting a white-robed woman while killing and escaping, but their direction was running towards Tang An! Amidst the flash of steel, Tang An's eyes suddenly locked onto the three-colored flame clouds on the sleeves of those blue-clad men!

  These three-colored fire clouds are the symbol of the "Sun Moon Star" in Yangzhou's Quan Tian Jiao, who is specifically in charge of criminal law.

  Jun Tian, is one of the legendary ancient nine heavens, and it is the central part of heaven. According to legend, the ancient Heavenly Emperor lived in Jun Tian. The sun, moon, stars, and constellations move in the sky according to certain specific rules, being most just and embodying the heart of heaven. Therefore, the law enforcement hall of the Jun Tian sect is called [Sun Moon Stars]!

  Tang An saw this and pulled Xiao Xie back, saying: "Xiao Xie, those people in green clothes are not good people either. Let's not get involved and see what they're going to do."

  Those men in green robes were chasing very tightly, and the woman seemed to have been poisoned. Although her hand movements were exquisite, her internal strength was not enough, and before long, her forehead was already covered with cold sweat, and her face turned extremely pale. It's likely that after a while, she would be caught by those men in green robes.

  At this moment, the woman couldn't resist and suddenly her shoulder was slashed open by a knife, revealing the delicate soft armor inside. On the shoulder of this soft armor, faintly visible, there was actually an eagle head pattern!

  Tang An saw this and suddenly frowned, feeling a sense of astonishment in his heart.

  "Tiě Jiàn Yīng? Is he a subordinate of Yuè Yì? These two parties are actually both disciples of the Quán Tiān Jiào! They mutually slaughter each other, it's definitely not that simple. If they hadn't found some treasure or discovered some secret about each other... I'd like to see what's really going on."

  Tang An's face had already begun to show a cold smile. But after a while, he suddenly felt that something was wrong somewhere.

  "But why have you, a disciple of Jun Tian Jiao, come to Zhong Zhou without reason or cause? And yet, you're still causing trouble and killing here? How interesting!"

  Xiao Xie looked excitedly for a while, seeing those black-clothed men fall one by one, and soon they would be completely defeated. She glanced at Tang An, then smiled hehe, and took out her own small bead from her pocket. This small bead was a spiritual instrument, absolutely priceless in this world, and something that everyone wanted to get their hands on. But at this moment, Xiao Xie was preparing to use it to play with stones.

  The fierce battle was still going on in the dense grassy path.

  Pfft!

  Suddenly, a man in green clothes swung his long knife and struck down the warrior who was blocking the white-clothed woman's path with a slash to the abdomen! The long knives used by these men in green clothes were all identical. The long knife was three fingers wide and five feet long, looking extremely narrow and slender, with a slight arc on the blade and a shallow blood groove on top. The blade shone with a light similar to ripples on water, clearly a finely crafted weapon. Even the steel knives of the Tiger and Leopard Army couldn't compare to this!

  This knife is used to kill people, behead and disembowel, it's incredibly ruthless! At this moment, the knife chopped into the black-clothed man's body, just like chopping into a pile of rotten wood. The black-clothed man was instantly split in two, with blood splattering everywhere!

  "Seven Killings Blade Technique! Sun Moon Star River, White Paper Fan! Good! Good! Good! I, Mù Huá, have remembered!"

  The woman bit her teeth tightly, with two black-clad warriors supporting her on either side, desperately running up the mountain road. Listening to the intermittent cries of the warriors behind her, her heart felt like it was being cut by a knife. Those were all her most elite warriors, each one carefully cultivated with countless efforts.

  "Pffft!"

  The last warrior was beheaded by a single sword. The headless corpse lay on the ground, its legs still twitching. The head fell to one side, eyes bulging, staring fixedly at the men in green clothes. His two hands, even in death, grasped tightly onto the leg of a green-clad warrior, hoping to let that woman escape!

  "Hum! Dead, why still use so much force with your hands!"

  "Whoosh!" The man in green robes swung his long knife and cut off both of the man's hands, then shook his leg and sent the severed arms flying three zhang away!

  "Xuanmu Hua, you can't escape, stop right there and hand over Qingmugou. Come with us to see Lord Baitang, maybe he'll spare your life!"

  Thirteen men in green clothes suddenly surrounded the white-clothed woman named Xuanmu Hua. They surrounded Xuanmu Hua in the middle, and there were also two black-clothed men beside her, whose wounds were not minor, and they were bleeding profusely at this moment, it seemed that they could not hold on for much longer.

  "The sun, moon and stars, the Seven Killings Blade, the thirteen Green Robed Guards... they're nothing but this. If Miss hadn't been ambushed by you people today, just relying on these few useless things, humph!"

  Cheng Wang defeated the bandits, yesterday she sent someone to snatch the Qingmu lotus seeds from their hands, but unexpectedly today she was careless and fell into their trap, her internal energy was depleted by about 80%, with only a thin layer left, which has now also been exhausted.

  The leader raised an eyebrow, but burst out laughing: "Xuanmu Hua, today's events are all your own doing! We were originally fellow disciples of the sect and shouldn't be killing each other. All of this is your fault! Even if we report this to the Left Envoy, it will still be Iron Eagle Hall's mistake! This Qingmu Lianzi was something we obtained first, you came to steal it, that's your wrongdoing!"

  Xuanmu Hua let out a cold hum, but didn't say another word. Apparently, she had already resigned herself to her bad luck.

  Xuanmu Hua remained silent for half a day before the leader spoke up again, "Xuanmu Hua, I don't understand, what do you want to do with this Qingmu Lianzi? White Dangzhu is cultivating the Qing Emperor's Yimu Divine Technique and has gone mad from the fire entering his body. His true energy is reversing and if we can't bring back this Qingmu Lianzi within three days, he will die with all his meridians severed. You know about this matter. Why then do you still want to take action and seize the Qingmu Lianzi? Is it that Le Yi has ordered you to do so? Hmph! I had already seen through it, Le Yi is not on good terms with White Dangzhu! But he actually wants to do such a thing because of his personal grudge? White Dangzhu has always been loyal and has never done anything detrimental to the Divine Sect. Tell me, why does Le Yi want to do this?"

  Xuanmu Hua heard this and coldly laughed, turning her head with a mocking expression: "You really want to know?"

  The leader's expression tightened, and he nodded: "Le Yi is the confidant of the Left Envoy, isn't it... is the Left Envoy?"

  Xuanmu Hua burst out laughing and said, "You're not stupid!" The man in green was taken aback, his forehead beading with cold sweat. "Really, Left Envoy? But why..." He didn't finish speaking before Xuanmu Hua added another sentence: "Unfortunately, you're still a bit foolish!" After that, she laughed even more wildly.

  The man in blue suddenly turned pale, he already knew that he was absolutely being fooled!

  Xiao Yan looked at the woman with a curious expression and said, "She's about to die, why is she still smiling so happily? When you're dead, doesn't that mean there's nothing to eat, and then you can sleep for the rest of your life, sleeping forever without waking up? Although sleeping is very comfortable, if there's nothing to eat, dying must be very painful, right?"

  Tang An didn't speak, his eyes still fixed on the scene, she always felt that the woman must have known something, and that Qingmu Lotus was absolutely not used to cure walking fire into madness. There must be another hidden truth!

  The man in green clothes leading the way turned pale and didn't want to ask anything more. He swung his knife and said, "Kill!"

  Just as the knife was about to rise, a green light suddenly flew over from the horizon, swift as a spring swallow swooping down, and in an instant, it pierced through the brain of the man in green who was holding the knife!

  A person's hard skull is as fragile as tofu in front of this green light! The moment the green sword light passes through, there isn't even a bit of resistance!

  "It's Jianyuan! Everyone be careful!"

  The leader let out a scream, his right hand drew a knife, the knife moved in an arc, and fiercely chopped out, attempting to block the momentum of this sword light!

  Unfortunately, it's too late!

  "Pffft!"

  Only a few sounds of cracking skulls were heard, and more than ten men in green clothes slowly fell to the ground, their eyes filled with unbelievable stares at this sword light that flashed like lightning.

  Tang An drew his sword and activated the spiritual device, the short sword flew like a rainbow, rising and falling in an instant. In just a moment, those men in green clothes were lying on the ground.

  Among them, there is no one who can unite!

  The gap between Tianjing and ordinary masters is really too big!

  The sword hovered in mid-air, and a blue light illuminated Xuanmu Hua's somewhat pale face.

  She raised her head, staring at the sword with a strange gaze. "This sword can actually fly in the air by itself! Just now, I thought it was just sword energy, but unexpectedly, it's really a sword!"

  A sword that can fly alone in the sky, before this, Xuanmu Hua had never even heard of it, let alone seen it!

  Spiritual equipment is extremely rare in this world, and even Tianjing strongmen may not have it. Only great Tianjing-level strongmen who find enough top-grade materials can try to refine it themselves! But the success rate is also extremely low!

  At this moment, a sword light flashed, and suddenly flew towards the distance.

  Xuanmu Hua's eyes narrowed, and he clearly saw the person who had come, but it was just a sixteen or seventeen year old young man.

  His hand was still holding a little girl who was jumping and skipping, their faces were all smiling, looking like they had come to the forest to escape the summer heat.

  Ke Xuanmu Hua clearly saw that sword light arrive in front of that young man, and with just one turn, it disappeared without a trace.

  "Is that young man the master of this sword?" Akagi Hana thought to herself, her expression slightly changing. Someone who can wield a sword like that is definitely not someone I can take on!

  Tang An had already appeared in front of her, he looked at her, and a faint smile had already appeared on the corner of his mouth.

  Xuanmu Hua looked at Tang An's smile, and for some reason, she felt even more tense. Death was terrifying to everyone. She didn't want to die! She had barely mustered up the courage to accept her fate, only to find out she didn't have to die after all. Of course, she wasn't willing to give up this hard-won life.

  She looked at Tang An's smile and glanced suspiciously at the little evil spirit beside her, who was looking at her with a curious expression. She suddenly asked softly: "Was it you, young master, who saved me?"

  Tang An nodded, but his eyes shifted to the two black-clad men beside her who were still alive but on the verge of death. The blood on their bodies had already flowed all over the ground, and when they saw Xuanmu Hua being rescued, they finally let out a sigh of relief. But at this moment, they suddenly felt dizzy and fell to the ground!

  Xuan Mu Hua saw this and became anxious, directly kneeling in front of Tang An and pleading: "Young Master, can you please show mercy and save them just once?"

  Xuanmu Hua looked at Tang An with a hopeful face, but saw Tang An slowly shaking his head.

  She stared at Tang An in disbelief: "You saved me, why can't you save them? Do you want money? I have a lot of money, all yours if you want it. Do you want to be an official? Come with me to Yangzhou and I'll make sure you become a high-ranking one! I'm very beautiful, men love me, if you can save them, I'll give myself to you! Just please, save them!" By the time Xuan Mu Hua finished speaking, her face had turned deathly pale, devoid of any vitality, even her kowtowing motion had stopped.

  Because Tang An has already turned around and left!

  Xiao Xie raised his head and looked at Tang An with a face full of question marks, saying: "Little Tang An, they are about to die, aren't we really going to save them? Master said that doing good deeds is a good thing."

  Tang An, however, was patient with the little evil path: "What your master said is right. But there are some people who aren't good to begin with. If I save them, even more people will be in trouble. Tell me, should we still save them?"

  Xiao Xie thought for a moment, then asked, "Will they bring you trouble? In that case, we'd better not save them." Xiao Mu said, you're someone who doesn't like trouble, so let me not bother you. Xiao Xie said this, but suddenly pouted and pulled Tang An's hand, asking timidly: "Little Tang An, what if one day I also bring trouble, will you ignore me too?"

  Tang An listened and smiled slightly, affectionately rubbing Xiao Xie's head: "Even if you poke a hole in the sky, I'll help you patch it up!"

  Xiao Xie heard this and suddenly felt very happy in her heart. Her heart was filled with joy, so she didn't care about the people who were going to die behind her. To Xiao Xie and Tang An, those people were just a group of passersby. The life and death of passersby are usually none of one's own business. Moreover, they were people who deserved to die!

  Tang An turned his head, looking at Xuan Mu Hua, and said in a cold voice: "The Jun Tian Sect has an irreconcilable feud with me! Save them? Ridiculous! Even you, if I didn't want to know more about the Jun Tian Sect's affairs, I wouldn't bother with your life or death!"

  "By the way, let me tell you, Le Yi, he is my uncle!"

  Xuanmu Hua heard this and suddenly shuddered violently all over her body.

  She stared at Tang An, her face pale, her hands trembling as she said: "You... you are... Heavenly Sword Tang An!"

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