bookrebus Chapter 373
Chapter 373
Her words were still hanging in the air when everyone saw the sky ahead suddenly darken, followed by a soul-shaking humming sound."Protect the Lord!" The two sisters, Shen Chunying and Luo Shendong, immediately stepped in front of Yue Fuguang.
The arrows from ahead did not come one by one, but swarmed out densely like locusts. Hundreds of arrows were fired at once, tearing through the wind in the forest, bringing up swirling leaves as they ruthlessly bore down on them.
Yue Fuguang acutely smelled a sudden foul stench mixed into the fresh air, thinking to herself that these rats not only liked to set up ambushes.
But they were also despicable and shameless enough to smear poison on their arrowheads. Smearing poison was one thing, but what was the meaning of using dung and corpse fluid?
Were the noble families already so poor that they couldn't even afford poison?
Looking at the dense, dark cloud of arrowheads, Yue Fuguang silently raised her hand. If she really let this strongest long-range attack method of the cold weapon era rain down on them just like that...
Even if the martial arts of the people around her were excellent, they would inevitably be scratched by the sharp arrows and stray shafts.
It all happened in a flash. Just as the rain of arrows was two or three meters away from the group, and the people at the very front had already raised their swords to block, the cold, emotionless voice of Yue Fuguang, who had been sitting calmly on her horse the entire time, rang out: "Halt!"
With her single word "Halt," the falling rain of arrows seemed to freeze in the sky. The tips of over two hundred arrows emitted a soul-shaking cold light under the sun, but unfortunately, this lethal cold light was now frozen in the air.
Seeing the scene before them, Yue Fuguang's guards were fine—after all, they had seen even more outrageous things—but the guards sent by the imperial court were visibly stunned. Their eyes were wide open, looking up at the rain of arrows in the sky, and they swallowed hard.
The hands gripping their swords loosened and tightened, tightened and loosened. The cold sweat in their palms silently burned their hearts at this moment, blazing hot.
When they looked at Yue Fuguang again, their gazes had changed. There was only one thought in their minds: the folk tales saying that the Junior Preceptor was a goddess descended to earth were actually true!
Meanwhile, the enemies watched the arrows they had shot suddenly stop in mid-air as if they had seen a ghost. They stared blankly at the suspended arrows, then at the bows in their hands, their hands trembling so much they almost dropped them.
Except for the leader and a few others, the rest couldn't help but take two steps back. Just as the leader gritted his teeth, refusing to believe in the supernatural, and prepared to launch another wave...
The word "Return!" was carried over by the wind.
As Yue Fuguang's word fell, the arrows that had been static in the air suddenly flew backwards at an even faster speed than when they came.
Then, the sounds of clashing weapons and muffled groans came one after another from behind the rocks.
It wasn't screaming, but a suppressed gasp squeezed out from between gritted teeth.
With her superior hearing, Yue Fuguang even heard the sounds of people stumbling to the ground and increasingly heavy breathing.
The black-clad leader gritted his teeth and shouted, "Kill!" He swept his bloodshot eyes over his now lifeless subordinates and led the charge out himself.
Since the sneak attack failed and the rain of arrows achieved nothing, they would fight a real battle with real swords and spears.
Even if their side had suffered some small casualties, it was still over a hundred men against eighty. The advantage was theirs!
As he rushed out from behind the rocks with over a hundred men, Yue Fuguang raised an eyebrow. The ones behind the trees and hiding underground hadn't moved an inch even now.
What great composure!
Engaging in close combat, blades met sword glints, churning up this mountain forest. Leaves rustled down like natural soil, burying the figures that fell with miserable howls one by one.
Yue Fuguang frowned. They were outnumbered. Her guards were fine, all carefully selected experts, but the guards brought by Commander Xue clearly couldn't match the enemy's reckless, life-risking fighting style.
She silently took out an energy storage bead, held it in her hand, and said, "Disarm!"
As her words fell, the swords and sabers in the enemies' hands flew out of their grasps with a whoosh in a bizarre, utterly unreasonable manner.
They flew into mid-air, forming a formation of blades and swords, turned around, and pointed at their original owners.
With just one command from Yue Fuguang, the weapons that were theirs a moment ago would ruthlessly stab them the next.
"Go." Unexpectedly, the weapons did not stab the people in the field. Instead, over thirty of them separated and flew out with a swish, plunging toward the areas behind the trees and into the ground.
Along with the occasional screams and the increasingly heavy stench of blood, He Jin and the others exchanged glances. Without needing Yue Fuguang's orders, they dashed straight toward those people.
"Take them down!" Commander Xue ordered, and he also led the charge over.
The saying that no matter how high your martial arts are, you still fear a kitchen knife was proven once again. Despite being outnumbered, relying on the swords and blades in their hands, it didn't take long for all two hundred or so enemies to be captured.
Seeing the good harvest, Yue Fuguang's group immediately turned back with their prey.
When their group appeared at the exit of the hunting ground with a long string of captives, Emperor Mingxi and the others were instantly stunned.
"Fuguang, are you hurt?" Yu Chongshan didn't even care that Emperor Mingxi was still there. The little old man rushed to the front of her horse with flying steps.
"Grandfather, I'm fine. Look, not a single scratch!" If Yue Fuguang didn't have to maintain her public image, she would have spun around beautifully for him.
"It's good that you're fine, it's good that you're fine." Yu Chongshan's suspended heart settled a bit before he continued, "Tomorrow we will just wait in the main camp. We absolutely cannot go into the woods again!"
Yue Fuguang thought about tomorrow's situation. It was indeed unsuitable for her to enter the woods again, so she readily nodded in agreement.
She wasn't afraid herself, but she was currently a hot commodity. Going out would easily implicate others. Anyway, she had seen what she wanted to see, so it was better to stay put obediently.
To be honest, even just riding a horse back and forth for over two hours had really tired her out.
After receiving the solicitous inquiries from Emperor Mingxi and his ministers, Yue Fuguang returned to her own tent to rest. The Crown Prince and the others had gone out and hadn't returned yet. She was anxious to find the system for first-hand news.
"What? Tongtong, are you saying that the diplomatic mission was also assassinated?"
These people didn't just want a life-and-death struggle; they also wanted to provoke a war between Great Yan and the surrounding countries.
If these princes and princesses were injured or died in Great Yan, even if the two countries didn't go to war, they would still demand an exorbitant price.
The first to bear the brunt would be those three high-yield superior crop seeds. They definitely wouldn't be able to keep them hidden anymore.
"There's a traitor in the ranks!"
[The host guessed correctly. The Li family of Xinzhou colluded with Nanyue. Today, they deliberately set an ambush to attack the Nanyue diplomatic mission.
Unfortunately, the Xi brothers were with Gan Tang today. Later, Bei Ye and the others, who were nearby, heard the sounds of fighting and went to rescue them. Those people left a few alive, and the rest were killed by the Nanyue people.]
"Those princes and princesses weren't injured by the assassins or hurt themselves, right?"
At this moment, Yue Fuguang was a little worried that those few wouldn't stab themselves a few times just for the sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn.
Facts proved that her worries were not unfounded. When Bei Ye came to the rescue, he took one look at the situation on the field and the weak fighting style of the Xi brothers, and knew there was something fishy going on.
He had just wanted to go easy on them, but unfortunately, his attendants were too capable. Despite being outnumbered, aside from those who were silenced by the Nanyue people when they saw things going wrong, the rest were quickly taken down.