Chapter 116 Don’t Talk Big

Li Maozhen played for keeps. He used his full strength in this move. With the cultivation of Level 7 in Qi-refining, he was good at moving fast. In a split second, Li Maozhen came to the front of Li Ye.

At this moment, Li Ye held the falling Luke Sword and turned his head to glance at Li Maozhen with weird eyes.

Li Maozhen tingled with an ominous sensation as soon as he felt Li Ye’s eyes. He understood those eyes, in where there was no fear but a hint of a pleasant surprise.

Did he feel pleasantly surprised?

It was like a cook seeing a fat duck jumping into his pot of boiling water.

What was going on?

Li Maozhen felt a shock in his heart and almost threw himself into confusion.

However, he immediately got the conclusion that Li Ye was bluffing.

Yes. That was for sure!

Li Maozhen had seen Li Ye’s ability to control in a fight. This was a guy of careful thoughts who should not be despised. Li Maozhen was sure that Li Ye found no way to hide from his attack thus could only pretend to be confident so to scare him.

“Damn! How dare you use such devilish tricks! I’ll never fall for them!” Li Maozhen gnashed his teeth in hatred. He felt that his intelligence was insulted.

But his face suddenly turned pale.

The flying cutters almost got Li Ye’s back and made several holes in him, when a jade medallion appeared without warning and perfectly blocked those flying cutters.

With a clash and a blink of blue light, the flying cutters were bounced back!

It was a life-saving magic tool!

He had a life-saving magic tool!

He never used it!

Li Maozhen was shocked!

On second thoughts, Li Maozhen felt helpless. Li Ye shouldn’t be blamed for hiding. Although Wang Jian and Li Maozhen seemed to take the advantage by assassinating Li Ye tonight, they had not really threatened Li Ye’s life with the fight going on for quite a while.

Why would Li Ye use the life-saving magic tool, since there were no actual threats?

Li Mozhen felt unable to express his depression, like a dumb person tasting bitter herbs. It was too awful.

Ever since he joined the Regal Guards and caught Liu Xingshen’s fancy, Li Maozhen had performed many tasks and never came across such circumstance. The assassination target was handling the situation with skill and ease. While the two assassins got chained and oppressed in most part of the fight.

How could it be?

Aren’t we Qi-refining cultivators of Level 7?

Aren’t we skilled?

Li Maozhen threw doubt upon his own ability for the first time in his life.

However, he got not much time confronting Li Ye, who quirked up the corners of his mouth with complacent and rushed over holding the Luke Sword.

“You wanted me to go to hell?” Li Ye shook his head and glanced Li Maozhen with a sneering look, “Just as I said, you really like talking big!”

Li Maozhen blushed and gnashed his teeth in hatred. But he could not talk back because Li Ye was telling the truth. Since the fight began, he thought Li Ye were to die for sure for several times which turned out to be otherwise. Indeed, Li Ye got the right to sneer at him.

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However, it was not Li Maozhen’s fault. Generally, the counterpart would be dead for countless times. No one could imagine that Li Ye got such a super strength.

Seeing Li Ye’s sarcastic face, Li Maozhen was filled with anger. With the cultivation of Level 5 in Qi-refining, Li Ye could perform marvelous fighting skills and powerful Sword Method. Li Maozhen was suppressed by Li Ye during the whole fight, with no hope for reversing the situation, which drew him crazy. He would kill Li Ye thousands of times if his eyes had the ability to kill.

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When Wu You reached Prince An’s Manor, she saw Liu Zhiyan was handed into the gate. The guards of the Manor knew Wu You was here for Li Ye and told her where he was. Without hesitation, Wu You decided to look for Li Ye around Yipin Lou, since it was appropriate for men and women to meet in a romantic circumstance.

As soon as she got near Yipin Lou, Wu You heard the sound of fierce fighting. Her eyes were changed at once with a bad feeling. She took off from the ground immediately onto the roof and rushed to the place of the fight.

“Li Maozhen could not hold out!”

“Where is Wang Jian? Why is he still in the river? Has he been killed by that guy?”

There were 2 mysterious men talking in lowered voice under the shadow of the roof.

“He should be moribund if not dead. The ‘Green Lotus Mountain’ of Prince An was so powerful,” the man on the left said honestly.

“What should we do? Prince An can get rid of them by himself. The master hand behind him has no reason to show himself!” the man on the right worried, “Shall we do it?”

“Lieutenant sent us here to deal with the master hand behind Prince An. It’s not our task to kill Prince An. How can we do it?” the man on the left shook his head.

“There’s no master hand at all!” the man on the right got anxious, “Li Maozhen and Wang Jian were only the bait. We are here to deal with the master hand behind Prince An so to cover their pullout... But now they screwed it. If there were a master hand, we should get him out, otherwise, we will fail our mission!”

The man on the left muttered to himself for a while. He then nodded his head and said, “Ok, let’s do it!”

“Hang on! We’ve got company!”

“Men from Chang’an Office? They shouldn’t be so quick. If they were not from Chang’an Office, we could just kill them. No one’s bothering our mission!”

“It’s the Duchess of Li!”

“Duchess of Li? We can’t kill her...”

When Wu You observed that there was someone ahead, she saw 2 black shadows rushed out towards the river.

“Who’s there?” Wu You shouted and chased them. Suddenly her vision opened up, where Li Ye got in, beating up Li Maozhen. Wu You got stunned, “Elder Brother Ye?”

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Under the attack of Li Ye, which was like a violent storm, Li Maozhen was losing the ground. The Sword Qi was all around him and got him nearly killed from time to time. In a short while, Li Maozhen had got 3 wounds, all of which were deep enough to expose the bones. His clothes were dyed with blood.

Li Maozhen had forgotten to hate or talk back even Li Ye had sneered at him from time to time, since he had to deal with Li Ye’s Sword Method with full attention. He was already walking on eggs but still got hurt by the Sword Qi. How could he spare any of his strength to feel angry when he was hanging on desperately?

Being a Qi-refining cultivator of Level 7, and one of the limited number of master hands in the Regal Guards, Li Maozhen, who is expecting the Foundation-building Stage, got well flattered wherever he went. Although he was a man of low birth, he became special out of numerous ordinaries. However, he got beaten up by Li Ye, who was only a Level 5. Li Maozhen felt huge grievance, which turned into a sense of powerless and oppression, making him almost cried.

“Tell it. Who are you? Why do you want to kill me?” Li Ye asked in a light tone.

Li Maozhen had to yield gritting his teeth, “It’s a misunderstanding! We got the wrong guy! Stop it!”

Li Ye laughed in his heart but did not speak out. He just pushed harder on the Sword Method. Li Maozhen got another wound.

Li Maozhen was terrified and pulled back quickly. But he could not get rid of Li Ye’s following. He almost crushed his teeth in hatred. Li Ye was not only powerful but also treacherous. He often distracted Li Maozhen by talking to him. Li Maozhen had to answer Li Ye since he was longing for stopping the fight, which exposed and hurt him more.

“You are despicable and shameless!” Li Maozhen was burning in anger.

“Puff!” another spring of blood came out of Li Maozhen. He shut his mouth right away.

“Childe Song, leave at once!”

Suddenly, a shadow rushed down from a roof nearby. A Knife Qi as long as 3 meters covered Li Ye from the knife of the shadow. At the same time, Wang Jian, who just got out of the river and was breathing like a dying fish, was carried away by a man in black.

Li Maozhen got stupefied. The aid was out of his expectation. He recognized the counterparty with only one glance. They were from the Regal Guards indeed. Li Maozhen jumped out and leave right away with great joy, before which, he dropped a sentence, “What can you do with me? Remember, I will kill you someday!”

Li Ye smirked and rushed forward. Last time in Huangli County, he let Li Keyong run away. He would not let Li Maozhen run away this time. He just could not bear it even if Li Maozhen was not an ordinary guy but one enjoyed the luck of becoming a feudal prince.

The Knife Qi covering him was too powerful to describe in words. It was beyond the ability of a Qi-refining cultivator of Level 7. However, Li Ye just ignored it without any attempt of blocking and ran to Li Maozhen.

Before the Knife Qi reached the head, the jade medallion flew out to the top of Li Ye’s head shining strong blue light and blocked the attack.

In the air wave from the blocking, the jade medallion flew back to Li Ye’s waist. Li Ye had noticed that the density of the jade medallion’s Spiritual Qi had dropped a lot, leaving only half of what it had in its full strength. He had used the jade medallion for many times. With blocking more and more high-level Qi-refining attacks, it made sense that the density dropped.

Actually, most of the life-saving magic tools are once-and-for-all consumables. The ones that could be used for many times like this jade medallion are rare. This fact also proofed that Li Xian’s ability and understanding of cultivation were extraordinary.

Li Maozhen thought that he could escape and got his nerves stabilized. The joy of surviving almost made him cry. He did not think Li Ye could get him. After all, his rescuer had the cultivation of Level 8 in Qi-refining, which made the top master hand beside the left and right Lieutenants in the Regal Guards. In Li Maozhen’s mind, it was quite easy for his rescuer to tie down Li Ye.

Therefore, Li Maozhen talked big again.

“Talking big is a bad habit. You should get rid of it.”

When hearing the words, Li Maozhen was terror-stricken. As he turned around his head in shock, he saw a big fist getting increasingly larger in his vision. The fist smashed his chin, leaving him no time for avoiding.

“It’s impossible!”

Seriously injured Li Maozhen got “suddenly attacked” by Li Ye under the circumstance where he thought was definitely safe. Since he got no time to react and it was the chin that got smashed, Li Maozhen immediately passed out with his eyes dulled. The last sentence in his sober mind was the one above.

Li Ye was wearing the Cloud-walking Boots. He enjoyed the best ability to escape and chase at the same time. Li Maozhen had just ran away from him. As long as he ignored the Knife Qi above him, it wouldn’t be difficult to get Li Maozhen.

The master hand from the Regal Guards who wanted to rescue Li Maozhen also got stunned. It was beyond his expectation that Li Ye’s life-saving magic tool could be used in such a way. What was more, he could never imagine that Li Ye’s speed was so fast. It was faster than any attack-and-pullout, completely beyond his recognition of a Qi-refining cultivator of Level 5.

As a result, he had no time for a second rescue for Li Maozhen.

And he also lost the third one.

Because Wu You had intervened.

Wu You had an outstanding ability among the young members of the Imperial Clan. However, her ability was nothing in front of a Qi-refining cultivator of Level 8. Still, since she was the Duchess, she was always surrounded by a group of master hands!

Besides... the fight between Li Ye and Li Maozhen and Wang Jian had made quite a noise. Even the cultivators from Chang’an Office had come to the site.

Most importantly, when the master hand from the Regal Guards analyzed the situation, where Li Ye pulled back like the wind with Li Maozhen under his arm, he found out with desperation that he could not catch up with Li Ye.