Pimple-faced Man never expected that this weak-looking woman, whom he hadn't taken seriously at all, would dare to attack him.
Furthermore, her attitude was arrogant; she completely ignored his words and simply made her move, charging forward fiercely.
Pimple-faced Man's eyes flashed with anger and disdain as he raised his blade to block her.
Clang.
His blade was chopped into two!
Pimple-faced Man was terrified and retreated rapidly. But it was too late; Jiang Jin's second strike had already arrived.
Squelch!
Pimple-faced Man was sliced wide open from his left shoulder down to his lower abdomen. Blood and intestines spilled all over the ground.
A horrified, bloodcurdling scream pierced the heavens.
Aside from Jiang Jin and her two companions, everyone else on the scene was frozen in place, utterly dumbfounded.
It was simply too fast!
And this blade... what kind of blade was it? Why was it so unbelievably sharp?
The tall woman also stopped struggling. Her eyes widened, and she murmured, "So powerful!"
"Ah, I'll kill you!" A Quzhao man finally reacted, flying into a rage and charging toward Jiang Jin.
Yun Chengxuan took a large stride forward and swung his blade down. "You dare attack my aunt? Watch me chop the shit out of you!"
Whether the shit was actually chopped out remained unknown, but the man was cleanly cleaved in half at the waist, his top and bottom neatly separated.
Zhou Sui didn't waste any words either. He swung the long blade in his hand, and a head flew into the air.
The remaining Quzhao men finally snapped to their senses and rushed toward Jiang Jin's trio.
Jiang Jin sidestepped to dodge a Quzhao man's blade, gripped her sword with both hands, and delivered a horizontal slash. With a squelch, blood sprayed out like mist...
Hearing the wind rustle behind her, Jiang Jin drew her Tang sword and thrust backward.
The man was just about to strike Jiang Jin, the triumphant smile on his face not yet fading, when a silver light flashed before his eyes, followed by a cold sensation in his chest.
Jiang Jin delivered a swift kick, and the corpse crashed heavily to the ground...
Yun Chengxuan was even more ferocious, sending severed limbs flying in all directions...
In just a dozen breaths of time, the only enemies left were the three Quzhao men holding the two women hostage.
The three were terrified; the scene was far too brutal and bloody.
One of them pressed his blade against the slender woman's neck and threatened, "You... don't come any closer, or I'll kill her! She's a Han just like you!"
Jiang Jin raised her eyes to look at him and threw her Tang sword. "So noisy!"
The Tang sword whistled through the air, streaking toward the Quzhao man's neck like an arrow released from a bowstring.
The slender woman held hostage in front of him suddenly widened her eyes, watching the blade fly toward her like lightning, skimming past her face and lifting a wisp of her loose hair.
Pfft. A stream of warm, foul-smelling liquid sprayed onto her face.
Her gaze turned vacant, a chill ran through her entire body, and her mind went blank for a moment.
The blade pressed against her neck clattered to the ground, accompanied by the heavy thud of the corpse falling, startling everyone awake.
The remaining two Quzhao men were trembling with fear and shivering uncontrollably. Since when had the Han people become so terrifyingly powerful?!
Before they could figure it out, Yun Chengxuan and Zhou Sui had already charged at them.
Jiang Jin quickly called out, "Keep them alive!"
Squelch. Yun Chengxuan had already chopped off a Quzhao man's head. He looked at the head rolling on the ground and the twitching body.
He scratched his head, feeling a bit guilty. "It's still moving. He should still be alive, right?"
Jiang Jin: "..." Flawless logic.
Fortunately, Zhou Sui had more restraint and only severed the other Quzhao man's legs. However, judging by the spurting blood, the man probably wouldn't live much longer either.
The slender woman stepped back twice in fright. The tall woman quickly supported her, looking at the three beast-like people before them with a face full of astonishment and reverence.
It wasn't that they looked like beasts, but rather the aura they gave off. They were simply too strong!
The Quzhao men who were impossible for her to match were slaughtered by them as easily as chopping melons and slicing vegetables.
Jiang Jin stepped forward, looking at the legless Quzhao man who was screaming miserably, and consoled him, "Stop screaming, don't get agitated, or you'll die even faster."
The man howled in terror with a trembling voice, "Ah, ahhh! You... kill me! If you have the guts, just kill me!"
Jiang Jin continued to soothe him, "I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush. I have a few questions for you. You can die after I'm done asking."
Putting on a brave front despite his inner panic, the man roared, "Don't waste your effort! I... I won't say anything! You... Ahhhh!"
His four fingers were sliced off cleanly. Zhou Sui flicked the blood droplets from his blade. "When our young lady asks a question, you answer it. Don't spout nonsense."
The man roared frantically in his heart: Who's spouting nonsense? I was expressing my true feelings! I just want to die right now!
However, the pain was so agonizing that he couldn't speak at all.
Yun Chengxuan picked up Jiang Jin's Tang sword and handed it to her with a fawning expression. "Aunt, your sword."
Jiang Jin took the sword and looked at Zhou Sui. "Go check on that person over there."
She pointed at the middle-aged man.
"You... are you the Great General?" the tall woman suddenly exclaimed.
Zhou Sui glanced at her without saying a word and took large strides toward the middle-aged man.
The woman quickly followed. Seeing her father covered in blood, her eyes turned red. "Please, Great General, save my father."
Zhou Sui examined the middle-aged man's wounds, took out some hemostatic powder from his robes, and the two worked together to apply the medicine and stop the bleeding.
Seeing that there was nothing left for him to do, Yun Chengxuan simply went to the pond to catch fish.
Suddenly, a feeling of being watched crept into his heart. He couldn't help but frown and look around, but he found nothing.
However, he trusted his intuition deeply and headed up the mountain on his own.
Soon, he found a clue. There were traces of something being concealed on the slope near the pond.
Back over there, Jiang Jin glanced in a certain direction, frowned slightly, and lowered her head to continue poking holes in the Quzhao man's body, one after another.
The Quzhao man was stubborn and refused to submit. Just as Jiang Jin lost her patience and was about to gouge out his eyes, the man's defenses finally crumbled. Begging for a quick death, he answered every question Jiang Jin asked.
After the interrogation, Jiang Jin discovered a coincidence: this group's next target was also Liuxiang County.
It turned out that the news of Jiao Liang being killed in Liangcheng had already spread. The commoners were all saying it was divine punishment.
The rulers naturally didn't believe in divine punishment, but such unpredictable, ghost-like methods made them extremely wary.
No one knew who the killer was. They only knew it might be related to Yao Ji's trio, but both Yao Ji's group and the killer remained unaccounted for.
This caused panic across all factions, as they feared such a figure would arrive in their territory and assassinate them using the same bizarre methods.
Upon receiving the news, the Quzhao Chanyu also became vigilant. He immediately dispatched this small squad of soldiers to inform the various counties under Quzhao jurisdiction,
and to distribute the arrest warrants for Yao Ji's trio to all regions.
An arrest warrant contained the criminal's name, age, origin, and other information, along with their portrait.
Sure enough, Jiang Jin found the warrants in a sheepskin bag on one of the horses. She took them out and saw that they not only included Yao Ji's trio but also Luo Qingci and Chen Zi.
There were even warrants for her and Zhou Sui, though the registered details were rather absurd.
Especially hers: gender unknown, age unknown, origin unknown, exceptionally ugly, and of short stature.
Jiang Jin's face was full of question marks. Fine, say her gender is unknown and she's exceptionally ugly, but what the hell is short stature? Couldn't they just say petite?
She thought to herself that it was a good thing she hadn't gone to Shu County back then. Based on the timeline, this group was ahead of her and had likely already visited Shu County.
Although it would be difficult to identify her using this bizarre travel pass, the security was bound to be much tighter than usual.
Barely clinging to life, the man from Quzhao gasped out, "Can... can you... let me die?"
