Brocade Robe Unparalleled

Chapter 46 My lord, are you a woman?
Just as the bandits were about to take action after the leader spoke, a figure stepped out from the crowd.

The man was lean and wiry. He sized up Lin Xuan a few times, a sinister smile spreading across his face. He turned to 'Scorpion' Zhou Biao and said, "Boss, let me meet him first. I want to see just how capable this flag officer of the Jingbian Division really is..."

Zhou Biao nodded slightly and said calmly, "Be careful. Although he is not as strong as you, his cultivation method is not simple."

Huang Yue has already said that Lin Xuan has only been an eighth-rank official for a month, and the second-in-command is already at the mid-stage of the eighth rank. Defeating him should not be difficult.

The man smiled and said, "Don't worry!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he stomped his foot and sprang out like a venomous snake. A flash of cold light appeared in his hand, and he slashed his long sword down fiercely at Lin Xuan.

Faced with this fierce strike, Lin Xuan did not dodge. He lowered his body slightly, assumed a rocky stance, and slammed his right fist upwards with the force of a mountain-shattering blow.

boom!
The fist and the knife clashed, producing a loud sound like metal striking metal.

The sneer on the lean man's face froze instantly, then turned into horror.

He felt as if his knife was not cutting into flesh and blood, but rather striking a hard rock.

A powerful force rebounded from the blade, knocking the knife from his hand. His fist, still moving with momentum, collided with his own.

Click!

A crisp sound of bone cracking suddenly rang out.

"what!"

The lean man let out a shrill scream. His wrist, which was gripping the knife, twisted into a bizarre angle, revealing the white bone fragments. The long knife flew out of his hand and fell to the ground with a clatter.

Large beads of sweat rolled down his forehead as he stared in shock at the person before him.

Is this guy just entering the eighth rank?
This must be the peak of the eighth rank!
That damned Huang Yue! The information he gave them was false!

With just one move, the second-in-command, a mid-stage eighth-rank official, had one of his arms crippled.

This sudden turn of events froze the bandits who were eager to pounce, none of them daring to be the first to charge forward...

That punch could cripple the second-in-command's arm; if they were hit by it, wouldn't they die on the spot?
Even Zhou Biao, the Poison Scorpion, who was standing aside watching, couldn't help but change his expression. Huang Yue said that this person's strength was only at the eighth rank, but judging from the power of that punch just now, this flag officer's strength was no less than his own.

"Come together and kill him!"

He did not take action himself, but instead issued another order.

When the leader gave the order, the bandits had no choice but to obey and charged forward, brandishing their weapons.

Lin Xuan picked up the knife from the ground and bravely went to meet the enemy.

For a moment, the cave was filled with the sounds of metal clashing.

Some of the clashes were between weapons, while others were between blades striking Lin Xuan.

The Black Wind Cave's strength far surpasses what the Jingbian Division's intelligence indicates. Even though Lin Xuan has secretly dealt with many of them, the remaining individuals still pose a significant threat to him.

Two fists can't fight four hands. Facing an attack from more than twenty people, he couldn't defend himself in front, behind, left, or right.

The punch that crippled that eighth-rank martial artist seemed effortless, but it actually consumed a lot of his strength.

Fortunately, among these twenty-odd people, fewer than ten were truly accomplished martial artists.

Their weapons, when they landed on Lin Xuan, caused him some pain.

As for those low-ranking bandits, when he was channeling his inner energy, even if they stood still and let him swing his sword with all his might, it would only tickle him.

However, despite his strong physique, he wore coarse linen clothes.

Soon, there wasn't a single piece of intact cloth left on Lin Xuan's body.

His outer garment, along with his inner garment, was chopped into flakes.

Faced with a life-threatening situation, Lin Xuan was now in a bloodthirsty frenzy, almost covered in blood, although most of it came from his enemies.

But at this moment, he had very little strength left in his body.

Those ninth-rank martial artists had already left him with many wounds.

However, Lin Xuan remained calm.

One thing he was absolutely certain of was that the man in black robes would never watch him get killed.

Outside the crowd, Zhou Biao saw that the flag officer was already at his last gasp and should not pose any threat to him, so he slowly walked towards him.

But soon, he stopped.

A figure wearing a demon mask and shrouded in a black robe appeared eerily before him.

Zhou Biao's expression changed, and he asked sharply, "What are you...?"

He couldn't finish his sentence before he could say anything more.

A hand wearing a black silk glove gripped his neck.

Click!

After a crisp sound, the head of this peak eighth-rank martial artist tilted to one side, and his body crashed heavily to the ground.

The wiry man with the missing arm forgot the pain in his arm when he saw the gang leader die, and stared in horror as the gang leader's body fell to the ground.

The leader, a peak eighth-rank expert, was powerless to fight back. This mysterious man in black robes must be a master of the sixth rank or above!
He didn't care about anything else and fled towards the cave entrance as fast as he could. But as he ran, he felt a sudden dizziness, and it seemed that he was getting further and further away from the cave entrance.

The wiry man's head flew off, and his headless body fell in front of the cave entrance.

at the same time.

Lin Xuan cut down the last standing bandit, then felt dizzy and collapsed weakly to the ground.

The man in black robes slowly walked to his side, looked down at him, and said indifferently, "Barely passable. If it weren't for me tonight, you would already be dead."

Lin Xuan closed his eyes and gasped for breath.

If it weren't for him tonight, I probably would have already died here.

However, he wouldn't have come here without the black-robed man protecting him.

At this moment, his mind was in complete chaos.

In one night, dozens of lives ended at his hands.

From initial fear and discomfort, he gradually became numb.

Especially when facing an attack by more than twenty people, he couldn't think about anything else. Even though the long sword in his hand was already dulled, he still swung it instinctively.

The cave was filled with a strong stench of blood.

Lin Xuan couldn't stay here for even a quarter of an hour. With every breath, he felt an urge to vomit.

Lin Xuan struggled to his feet and staggered towards the cave entrance.

As we emerged from the cave, the first rays of light appeared on the distant horizon.

It's almost dawn.

The man in black robes carried two severed heads and followed behind Lin Xuan.

Lin Xuan glanced back and saw that the leaders of Black Wind Cave were now just two heads, staring blankly at him with unseeing eyes.

The man in black robes handed over two severed heads and said, "Take these two heads back."

"vomit!"

Lin Xuan didn't go to answer it. His stomach was churning unbearably, and he leaned against a tree at the cave entrance, vomiting violently until he even vomited bile, and he still couldn't stop dry heaving.

The man in black robes glanced at him disdainfully and said indifferently, "Pathetic. This little scene has scared you like this?"

Lin Xuan did not respond, nor could she respond.

Once he had recovered, he stood up straight, stripped the clothes off another sentry at the cave entrance, and took off his own tattered clothes.

The man in black robes was caught off guard by this scene. He turned around abruptly and said in a deep voice, "What are you doing!"

Lin Xuan said weakly, "I can't just go back like this, can I?"

We're all men, and he's seen his own body before, so why is he reacting so strongly?
Or did he feel ashamed of his own young body?

On the side of the cave entrance, there was a shallow pool of water. Lin Xuan walked over naked and began to wipe the blood off his body.

His body was covered with countless wounds, some of which were still oozing blood.

Although the body cultivated through the Zhenyue Gong is exceptionally strong, it is not immune to injury.

However, these wounds, though they look horrific, are just superficial injuries and not very serious.

Lin Xuan turned around, looked at the man in black robes, and asked, "Sir, do you have any healing pills?"

The man in black robes, with his back to him, said calmly, "I didn't bring it."

Lin Xuan originally intended to put on the clothes he had temporarily borrowed and ask Wu Baihu if he had any healing pills when he returned to Jingbian Division, but suddenly realized something, turned around sharply, and stared at the man in black robes with an extremely shocked expression.

The black-robed man's voice was always hoarse and rough, giving the impression of sandpaper rubbing against rubble.

But the voice that said "I didn't bring it" clearly belonged to a young woman.

The image of the woman in black in Lin Xuan's mind had been completely overturned. He found it hard to accept and asked in shock, "M-Sir, you are a woman?"

The man in black touched his throat and fell into a long silence.

She had spent too much time with him tonight, and the effects of the Illusionary Sound Pill had worn off; she forgot to take it again.

After another moment of silence, she spoke again, her voice clear and melodious: "When did I ever say I was a man? A top-level spy shouldn't have their age and identity easily revealed. Didn't I teach you that?"

Lin Xuan was speechless for a moment.

He had indeed taught him, but perhaps due to his own limited perspective, he never connected the dots with the man in black robes.

In his subconscious, the man in black robes should be a decrepit old man in his sixties, with a sinister face full of wrinkles...

Could it be that the one who has been threatening and intimidating him all along is actually a young woman?

After regaining her senses, Lin Xuan slowly lowered her head and silently covered her philtrum...

(End of this chapter)