Chương 17: Chapter 17: Escape, Injury and Lies
"If that sword just now had been a little more skewed and had hit me, let alone the cold iron lock chain, I'm afraid my whole body would have neatly been cut in half."
Thinking this, Xiao Zhao couldn't help but feel a lingering fear.
Then she saw the thin-clothed young man slowly put away his sword and look at her with a smile that was not quite a smile. Xiao Zhao couldn't help but awkwardly smile back.
Then she turned her eyes and turned to run, the lock chain on her body ringing as it swung.
But before she had run a few steps, she felt a gust of wind pass by her, and a person appeared in front of her.
It seems like she can't escape, and Xiao Zhao's eyebrows couldn't help but wrinkle as she looked serious. She then put up a stance with her hands.
Li Xiu saw this stance and asked, "What are you doing, do you want to fight?"
"I don't want to fight, why are you blocking me?"
Xiao Zhao was also confused by the actions of the young man in front of her.
"You can leave if you want, but I want you to come with me."
Li Xiu pointed at her with his sword and then pointed at himself.
"I see you really want to use this sword to cut the lock chain on your wrist."
"So what if I do..."
Xiao Zhao saw that she was still alive and that the person in front of her had a higher martial arts skill than her, so she immediately toned down her tone.
"I have use for you, I have a big matter that requires your help. If it is done, I won't kill you and can even help you cut the cold iron lock chain on your wrist."
"I can easily cut the lock chain on your hand, but the one on your wrist..."
"You should know that the sword qi of the Yitian Sword is extremely sharp and powerful. If I use too little force, I won't be able to cut the lock chain on your wrist at all. But if I use too much force, I'm afraid your snow-white wrist won't be able to withstand it."
Li Xiu said this and Xiao Zhao couldn't help but touch her slender wrist.
"This exquisite control over the power, I can clearly tell you that there are only two people in the world who can do it, one is me..."
Xiao Zhao couldn't help but ask hurriedly, it was clear that she didn't want to be coerced.
"Who is the other person?"
"It is Zhang Sanfeng."
After Li Xiu said this plainly, Xiao Zhao's spirit deflated, and she looked like a frostbitten eggplant in the winter.
She was now standing in the True Martial Great Hall of Wudang, and not far away from her was the critically injured Wudang sect leader, Song Qingshu, and Wudang VIP, Emei Zhou Zhiruo.
Even if she didn't move her hands, how could she explain it clearly? Moreover, she was also a member of the Ming Cult, how could Zhang Sanfeng be so magnanimous and naive?
"Tie up the lock chain on your hand with a cloth and follow me."
After saying this, Li Xiu picked up his sword and turned to leave. He didn't do anything to restrict Xiao Zhao, and Xiao Zhao obediently followed him.
But as soon as they left the hall, Li Xiu didn't look back and Xiao Zhao, as if resigned to her fate, followed him quietly.
But as soon as she left the hall, Xiao Zhao thought that as long as she escaped a certain distance and hid, no matter how high Li Xiu's martial arts skills were, he wouldn't be able to find her.
But she didn't get very far before Xiao Zhao felt that her left leg had been hit by a big stick.
"Ahhhhh!"
She screamed and fell to the ground, holding her leg as waves of severe pain came, causing tears to fall. She clearly felt that her leg had been broken!
She looked up and saw that the hard stone slab under Li Xiu's feet had been crushed by him, and the piece of broken stone that had broken her leg was in front of her.
Even if Xiao Zhao was straightforward and unbridled, she couldn't help but shout loudly at this moment.
"You are too cruel! Do you know what it means to show mercy to a beautiful woman?"
Li Xiu walked slowly towards her with his sword, as if he knew what Xiao Zhao had been thinking before.
"If you were thinking of hiding after escaping in the night, I indeed don't know any magical methods for finding people or objects, but you are a bit weak if you think you can escape with your martial arts skills around me."
"I can be heartless, but it's because you provoked me. If you had behaved, we wouldn't be in this situation."
"You're making it sound like everything is my fault!"
Xiao Zhao felt that the person in front of her was completely unreasonable and glared at Li Xiu while angrily speaking.
"As for being kind and gentle... take a look at your enraged, beast-like appearance and see if it has anything to do with those words."
"You!"
Being referred to in such a way, it was only natural for Xiao Zhao to reflexively try to elbow Li Xiu in the ribs.
But before she could finish the gesture, Li Xiu quietly spoke up.
"I advise you to think about what happened to the last person who did that."
Xiao Zhao had no choice but to drop her hand, grinding her teeth together as if she were biting into Li Xiu's bones and continuing to attack him with her gaze.
Li Xiu ignored her and slowly helped her walk out of Wudang.
During this, some of the Wudang disciples tried to step forward and capture the two of them, but Li Xiu casually drew the Yitian sword and swung it a few times without stopping as he slouched his body.
The deep red sword qi roared out, and after adding a bit of a bloody smell, the noise and commotion ceased.
Xiao Zhao also seemed to have been stimulated by the bloody and cruel scene and finally saw clearly who was supporting her. Not only did the grinding sound of her teeth disappear, but her gaze also became much more restrained.
Halfway down the mountain, Xiao Zhao gave a cry of surprise as if she had understood something.
"You did it on purpose! You let me escape so you could attack me later!"
In that kind of situation, it wasn't uncommon for someone to try to escape after being warned, and leaving the palace was a good opportunity to do so.
Seeing that Xiao Zhao had caught on, Li Xiu neither denied nor confirmed it.
This made Xiao Zhao truly angry and she reached out to slap him without regard for anything else.
But Li Xiu struck her neck with a palm first, trying to knock her unconscious to save some trouble.
It seemed he didn't use enough force, so he quickly raised his eyebrows and followed up with another palm in a lightning-fast motion, finally knocking her unconscious.
He then picked her up and continued down the mountain at a faster pace.
Previously in the palace, Li Xiu had thought that, based on Xiao Zhao's personality, she would definitely try to escape, and constantly being on guard would be very annoying. And he really disliked being annoyed.
So he had taken the initiative to create an opportunity for her to escape and gave her a heavy hand to help her remember not to have any thoughts of escaping again in the future. A one-step solution!
However... Li Xiu had originally thought of using a heavier hand to make her legs so painful that she couldn't stand up, rather than breaking them directly.
It wasn't because he was kind and gentle, or because of those two words. If he had broken her legs, it would have been somewhat inconvenient to deal with the situation.
But Li Xiu didn't handle the force well. After all, although his internal energy was at his fingertips, he didn't know how to use a subtle force to make her legs painful without breaking them.
So...
Li Xiu's claim that there were two people in the world who could use the Yitian sword to precisely cut through the cold iron chains without hurting their wrists was just to deceive Xiao Zhao.
In reality, there was probably only Zhang Sanfeng, and he was probably not as good as Xiao Zhao herself when it came to using subtle force.
Li Xiu could easily crush someone's throat bones into fragments, but if he had to kill someone without damaging any bones, he couldn't do it.
In reality, there was probably only Zhang Sanfeng, and he was probably not as good as Xiao Zhao herself when it came to using subtle force.
Li Xiu could easily crush someone's throat bones into fragments, but if he had to kill someone without damaging any bones, he couldn't do it.
And that's why none of the dozens of Wudang disciple corpses on the mountain were intact.
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