parentshiftbook Chapter 67 Good deeds incident
Chapter 67 Good deeds incident
Hu Dingtian was incredulous; his face turned deathly pale, and he collapsed to the ground.
Zhao An's strike was successful because it was unexpected, but even more so because it combined the Moon Clan's techniques with martial arts!
While it may not be unprecedented, it certainly exceeded the comprehension of the young master of the Hu family before him.
He couldn't understand how Zhao An's strike suddenly possessed such power, so overwhelming and unstoppable!
Hu Dingtian's crushing defeat was so sudden that even the martial arts masters who were supporting him were dumbfounded.
When they realized what was happening, they felt as if they had been doused with a bucket of cold water, and they shivered from the cold.
"Save the young master!"
They shouted these words, but none of them dared to approach Zhao An again.
Hu Dingtian tried to get up, but Zhao An pulled out a heavy knife and stomped on his chest.
"Don't, don't kill me..." Hu Dingtian's pleas for mercy were drowned out by the gushing blood, and he breathed his last.
"Run!" The remaining Hu family martial arts masters shuddered when they saw Zhao An's swift and decisive killing, and when his gaze swept over them, all they could think about was escaping.
Unfortunately, without horses, no one can escape.
Zhao An caught up and didn't let any of them escape, whether they were red-named or gray-named.
Hu Dingtian's soul flew out from the corpse, along with the souls of the other five red-named Hu family martial artists, and landed in Zhao An's palm.
"The generals of the prefectural city are nothing special..."
Zhao An casually tossed these souls into the soul pool.
Li Gou'er and his companion, who were avoiding the battle at a distance, went forward to loot the corpse.
However, these Hu family martial artists were all traveling light, carrying nothing but some healing powder.
"Brother, this is all we have." Li Gou'er took the blue jade tablet he had taken from Hu Dingtian's corpse and handed it to Zhao An.
Previously, when Hu Dingtian showed this jade token, the caravan manager immediately changed his attitude and addressed the other party as "Marshal".
Undoubtedly, this jade pendant is a symbol of military status.
One side of the jade plaque was engraved with a ferocious and domineering tiger head, while the other side bore the four characters "Qinghu Prefecture Army," confirming Zhao An's suspicions.
I had no use for this jade pendant and was about to throw it away, but then I thought that if necessary in the future, I might be able to use it to impersonate someone else.
With this in mind, Zhao An put the jade pendant into his pocket and had Li Gou'er and the other man burn the corpses.
After destroying the evidence in this desolate wilderness, even if the Hu family wanted to cause him trouble, they wouldn't be able to produce any evidence.
It wasn't that he was afraid of the Hu family.
However, Hu Dingtian was, after all, a military officer from the prefectural city, and he did not want to involve the grudges here in the prefectural city, which would only cause trouble and unnecessary hidden dangers.
After lingering for a while, Zhao An suddenly heard the faint sound of horses' hooves coming from afar, causing the ground to tremble slightly.
Li Gou'er and his companion were guarding the pile of cremated corpses, seemingly unaware of the subtle noises coming from afar, but Zhao An heard them more and more clearly.
They immediately climbed to a high slope to look out into the distance.
In the distance, a group of people were seen riding horses at high speed across the wilderness, but their direction was not that of Zhao An.
However, Zhao An did not relax his vigilance. His eyesight was excellent, and he could see clearly that the rider on the galloping horse was not a member of the dynasty, but a Yue person!
It looked like an army of the Moon Clan, seemingly chasing after something.
Zhao An subconsciously thought that this Moon Clan team might have just set their sights on the caravan that had left not long ago, intending to plunder it.
After thinking about it, Zhao An decided to go and see.
For no other reason than that there are quite a few red-named players in the Moon Clan team.
It would be a shame to let it go without even taking a few clicks.
He didn't mind taking advantage of the Moon Clan's freeloading in the wild.
If Li Tianhuai is lucky, he can save him again.
He told Li Gou'er and the other man to return to the city first. He was confident that he could escape if things went wrong, but it was hard to say if he took Li Gou'er and the other man with him.
He mounted his horse and chased after the group of Moon people.
Before long, he discovered that there seemed to be something fishy about the matter.
The group of Moon people did not head towards the main road to rob the caravan; instead, they took a side road and chased them into a dense forest.
The lush foliage of the forest blocked out the scorching sun, and monkeys leaped and bounded about, baring their teeth as they sized up the group of intruders.
Some flocks of birds were startled and flew away in all directions.
Zhao An rode alone, keeping a distance, through the woods.
"Hmm?" After following for a while, Zhao An stopped.
Some of the Moon People were lying or sitting under the trees in the woods, all looking listless, with purple lips, and some were even foaming at the mouth and convulsing on the ground.
The horses beside them also collapsed to the ground, their bellies heaving rapidly.
Xuanji Sacrificial Wine Master, Xuanji Eastern Heaven, Xuanji...
Looking at the names appearing above these people's heads, Zhao An was unsurprisingly aware that most of them were red names.
Furthermore, based on the connection in their names, it is not difficult to determine that these Moon People are the same as the Moon Clan army that attacked the city, belonging to the same Moon Clan bloodline.
"This is poisoning..." Zhao An had previously learned a lot about medicine from the Meng sisters, and had even used his soul slave to study many medical books.
Therefore, he could tell at a glance that these Moon People were poisoned, and with a deadly poison at that!
Although they won't die immediately, if it goes on for too long, the toxins will penetrate deep into their bone marrow, making it difficult to survive.
Na Yue Ren's eyelids drooped as she watched Zhao An approach, but she didn't even have the strength to raise her hand.
"This method of using poison looks so familiar..." Zhao An muttered to himself, and casually killed the men with a few slashes.
After collecting the soul, they continued forward.
Along the way, he encountered several groups of poisoned Lunarians, whom he then finished off one by one.
A stream in the woods blocked their way.
Seeing faint purple smoke swirling across the stream and flocks of birds taking flight, the group of Moon People immediately rode their horses across the stream and continued towards the forest ahead.
Two heads peeked out from under several large rocks covered with fallen leaves.
"Sister, those Moon People have gone far away."
"Walk!"
Two figures emerged from under the large rock; they were Meng Wanyi and her sister, who had been missing for some time.
"Miss Meng, what kind of performance is this?"
Suddenly a voice came from above, startling the two of them.
After recovering, I realized that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.
Looking up, they saw a burly figure standing on a large rock overhead, blocking the sunlight and leaving only a shadow over the two of them.
Meng Wanyi suddenly opened her eyes wide.
"Zhao An!"
"What are you doing here?!"
"I was just passing by when I happened to see that group of Moon People, so I followed them." Zhao An didn't say anything else.
"You should leave quickly. Those Moon People kill without blinking an eye. If they return and see you, they will not let you go either." Meng Wanyi urged Zhao An to leave as soon as possible.
"Were those moon people chasing you?" Zhao An also saw their predicament, and without waiting for Meng Wanyi to say more, he simply said, "Stop talking nonsense and follow me."
Putting aside his relationship with the two female doctors, just the fact that the three-foot-long halo above Meng Wanyi's head flickered made him realize that this was the final trigger for a good deed.
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