Su Muqing simply raised her hand and erected a wall of wind blades. It took only a moment for her to set it up, and the Qing King's guards, who had been shouting incessantly just moments ago, were now falling off their horses one after another. They lay on the ground howling, their bodies covered in bloody gashes.
Ke Buming had initially watched with amusement. However, after Ke Biqing was instantly killed and Su Muqing had single-handedly incapacitated hundreds of people, he felt his worldview had been shattered.
Now, as he looked at the young girl standing before him, her white robes fluttering in the wind, her three thousand black tresses dancing wildly, her face of unparalleled beauty juxtaposed with eyes like torches staring intently at the moaning soldiers.
Ke Buming noticed the mark at the corner of her eyes, which seemed to flash with a cold blue light in the darkness. Though her face was expressionless, the sharp intensity emanating from her gaze was enough to inspire awe and trepidation.
He realized that such a bewitching appearance, as if from the heavens or a fairy realm, and astonishing martial skills that defied the supernatural, truly existed in the world. He stared at the woman before him, lost in thought, his eyes filled with adoration.
Ke Biqing, seeing that his guards were almost "completely annihilated," felt a surge of anger. However, it was mixed with a newfound respect for Su Muqing's abilities.
To achieve such mastery at such a young age, she must have endured immense hardship behind the scenes. It was truly not easy for a young woman to reach such a level.
Just as Ke Biqing took a few steps forward, preparing to call a halt to his guards, suddenly! He felt a sharp pain in his chest. His heart began to constrict, and his lips trembled. He opened his mouth, but no sound could escape his throat.
Ke Biqing clutched his chest with one hand, pointed at Su Muqing with the other, and staggered forward a couple of steps. When he stopped, his head tilted slightly, as if trying to look back. His face was filled with surprise and disbelief. Then, with wide-open eyes, he fell heavily to the ground.
The Qing King's personal guards were also injured. Seeing their king suddenly collapse, they struggled to get up and scrambled to his side. He carefully turned the king over, and upon seeing his face, he was instantly terrified.
Ke Biqing's eyes were wide open, and crimson blood flowed from his mouth, nostrils, eyes, and ears. His appearance, bleeding from all seven orifices, was horrifying!
The guard, terrified, turned Ke Biqing back over and shouted in alarm to the others. "Your Highness! Someone, quickly go fetch an imperial physician! His Highness is in trouble, he, he..."
Seeing the Qing King fall to the ground, Ke Biping also rushed over from behind, his face etched with anxiety. "What happened to my elder brother? Elder Brother!"
Upon witnessing Ke Biqing's tragic state, bleeding from all seven orifices with his eyes wide open, Ke Biping's face turned ashen. He quickly closed his eyes before trembling and placing his hand near his nose to check for breath. "He's stopped breathing... he's dead..."
Hearing the commotion, Su Muqing frowned. Ke Biqing was dead? How was that possible? Although she had used some internal energy, most of it had been directed at the blades, and it shouldn't have been enough to kill someone outright.
There was definitely something suspicious about this!
With that thought, Su Muqing leaped into the air and arrived beside Ke Biqing. Seeing his wide-open eyes and blood flowing from all seven orifices, she deduced that it was either poisoning or a shattered heart meridian.
However, Ke Biqing's complexion had not changed significantly. She scanned him quickly and found no trace of poison, essentially ruling out poisoning.
This meant that his condition was due to a shattered heart meridian? This indeed was suspicious. The force she had used earlier was far from enough to shatter Ke Biqing's heart meridian.
Discovering the discrepancy, Su Muqing reached out to check Ke Biqing's pulse, to see if there was any hope of saving him. But as soon as her hand extended, a sharp sword lunged directly at her face.
At the critical moment, Su Muqing tilted her head slightly to the side, retracted her hand, and with two fingers pressed together, quickly flicked away the thin blade near her face. With her other hand, she gently tapped the ground, and her entire body shot back several meters.
Su Muqing stood up and stared intently at Ke Biping, who had attacked her. "What does Your Highness mean by this? Why are you stopping me?"
Ke Biping also stood up, raising his sword and pointing it at Su Muqing. "You vixen, you killed my elder brother! And now you want to do something to his corpse?"
Su Muqing was indignant that he blamed her for Ke Biqing's death. "I killed him? I kindly wanted to see if he could be saved, and now you're saying I killed him? Do you think you can just speak nonsense and slander me because you're a prince?"
"Vixen, stop quibbling! When have I slandered you? So many of us, so many pairs of eyes, all saw you kill the Qing King with your own eyes. The facts are clear and undeniable!" As soon as Ke Biping finished speaking, he charged forward with his sword.
"It was you who assassinated the King! I will kill you, vixen, to avenge the King!"
On the battlefield, apart from Ke Buming's side, who were looking around without intervening, the Qing King's guards and the other factions saw Ke Biping charge forward. They all raised their weapons and rushed towards Su Muqing.
"Muqing, be careful..." Seeing the people swarming towards Su Muqing from all directions, Wan Yan'er quickly whipped out her long whip and engaged with them.
"This woman is with the vixen! Let's kill her first!" Seeing Wan Yan'er make a move, some of the people further back immediately split off to attack her.
Seeing more people rushing towards her, Su Muqing raised her hands and unleashed two gusts of powerful wind, sending two groups of people staggering. She then seized the opportunity to soar into the air, stepping over their heads and heading towards the outer edge of the encirclement.
Midway, Ke Biping leaped out from the side. The soldiers also raised their sabers, spears, and halberds above their heads. Su Muqing's path was blocked, forcing her to retreat higher.
Wan Yan'er, who was still entangled with the guards on the periphery, was kicked hard from behind. Losing her balance, she stumbled forward a couple of steps. Holding her long whip with both hands, she shifted her body slightly, ensnaring the weapon thrusting towards her. Despite her timely reaction, several gashes appeared on her face.
In fact, Wan Yan'er's martial arts were quite good. However, when facing a large crowd or in close quarters, her long whip showed its limitations, making it easy for her to be restrained.
After a fierce battle, she had sustained numerous wounds and footprints, her face and body were splattered with blood, and her hair was disheveled and flying everywhere.
Su Muqing, suspended in mid-air, saw someone shoot a cold arrow towards Wan Yan'er. She quickly waved her hands, sending out two walls of wind blades, separating the soldiers in front of and behind Wan Yan'er. The wind blade walls also successfully blocked the arrows from both directions.
Just as she had helped Wan Yan'er escape and was preparing to fly over, Ke Biping leaped up again and fiercely thrust his sword at her.
Sensing the approaching danger, Su Muqing retracted her hands to avoid being severed. As she twisted to dodge, she was a step too slow. Ke Biping's sword pierced her completely through!
The sword entered from her shoulder blade on her back and exited below her collarbone.
A piercing, bone-chilling pain struck her. Su Muqing's clothes were instantly soaked in blood. The intense pain overwhelmed her consciousness for a moment, slowing her reactions. Her feet kicked feebly a couple of times, and she began to fall slowly.
Ke Biping, seeing her finally injured, displayed a sinister, triumphant, and excited smile in his eyes, making him appear somewhat distorted.
He quickly pulled out his sword and then slashed Su Muqing's arm as he went, narrowly missing her neck.
Seeing Su Muqing falling, he followed suit, descending along with her. At such a height, if she didn't die from the fall, he would deliver another blow. Today, no matter what, he would see her slaughtered outside the palace gates.
The crowd gathered below saw the two falling and quickly scattered to avoid them.
Su Muqing understood Ke Biping's intentions. Just as she was about to hit the ground, she endured the excruciating pain and somersaulted violently. Before her back could make contact with the ground, she retrieved a raft from her spatial storage, placed it beneath her, and then hurled a wind blade forcefully at the person above her...
"Pfft... Hiss..." Amidst a splashing sound, Su Muqing bounced on the raft.
Ke Biping's smile had not yet faded. His eyes widened as he stared at the orange object that suddenly appeared beneath Su Muqing. Before he could even utter the word "vixen," he felt a chilling sensation, and his smile froze on his face forever.
"Boom... Boom..."
With two resounding thuds, Su Muqing raised her arms high above her head and kicked away the headless corpse that was about to fall on her. The sword, as if guided, plunged into the raft beside her, precisely at the level of her heart!
"Hiss... hiss..." The raft was cut, and it began to leak air rapidly. Soon, all the air was gone.
"Clang... clang..." The weapons in the soldiers' hands fell to the ground. Only at the periphery were there still sounds of fighting. After a short while, the sound of hooves echoed from behind. However, the people in front were no longer in the mood to pay attention to that.
The soldiers who had witnessed the recent carnage stared blankly at the headless corpse on one side and then at Ke Biping's head on the other, his eyes wide open and a smile still fixed on his lips!
They could hardly believe their eyes. In less than fifteen minutes, Su Muqing had first killed the Qing King with a single palm strike! And then, in plain sight of everyone, she had decapitated the Ping King...
Su Muqing quickly took two pills to replenish her blood and energy and drank some spiritual spring water. Then, under the astonished gazes of the crowd, she struggled to her feet, her body covered in blood.
Ke Buming was deeply shocked by the scene. Looking at the woman before him, whose body was still dripping blood, he felt that at this moment, she was like a鬼王 (Gui Wang - Ghost King) who had crawled out of hell.
Su Muqing's light yellow dress was now stained red with blood. In the moment of stunned silence from the others, she gritted her teeth and leaped, soaring to Wan Yan'er, who was also heavily injured, and helped her retreat.
Lu Yuzhi descended from the sky at this moment. From the back of an eagle, he saw Su Muqing, dressed in red, supporting Wan Yan'er and moving with difficulty. Before the eagle could even land steadily, he jumped off its back.
At this time, the Regent King also emerged from the imperial palace with a squadron of cavalry and the two individuals Leng Ren and Leng Feng. The eagle had returned to pick up Su Muqing and the others, but since they had returned on motorcycles, they had missed each other.
When the eagle returned again, it saw Su Muqing and the other woman trapped outside the Imperial City. Coincidentally, Lu Yuzhi blew his whistle, and it flew back into the Imperial City.
Lu Yuzhi leaped a few steps forward to reach the two, only to find them battered and in disarray. "Muqing... you, you're injured!"
He quickly moved to stand behind Su Muqing, his arm embracing her waist. Feeling an odd sensation on his hand and the overwhelming smell of blood, Lu Yuzhi released one hand and spread it open, revealing his palm completely covered in bloodstains.
It was then that he remembered that Su Muqing had been wearing a pale yellow dress in the afternoon, so her clothes weren't red but had been stained with blood.
Lu Yuzhi had Su Muqing lean against his chest, carefully embracing her while avoiding her major wounds.
Looking at the scars on her front, Lu Yuzhi's eyes gradually welled up, and the self-reproach and heartache within him felt like a raging fire, threatening to consume him into ashes.
"Brother Lu! I'm alright. My parents... the Emperor and Empress, how are they? And the little bun, are they alright? Oh, right! And Ke Binah, how is he? Has he been brought back under duress?" Su Muqing felt the person behind her trembling slightly and quickly spoke out to reassure him, while also asking about the matters she was most concerned about at this moment.
Lu Yuzhi blinked, forcing back the moisture in his eyes, and gently kissed the top of Su Muqing's head. "Yes! Ke Binah has indeed been brought back to the Imperial City. Don't worry, the Emperor sustained a minor injury. I have already applied spiritual spring water and given him blood-replenishing pills. His condition has stabilized and he is out of danger. Fei La and Tai Shan have protected their younger brother and everyone else very well."
"That's good... that's good..." Upon hearing that everyone was alright, Su Muqing felt a wave of relief wash over her. Wan Yan'er also felt a bit more at ease upon hearing from Lu Yuzhi that Ke Binah was also fine.
Su Muqing pointed towards where the Qing King lay and said weakly, "Brother Lu, let's go over there..."
Lu Yuzhi looked at the wounds on her body that were still bleeding and felt immense heartache. "Your injuries are very serious. Let me take you back to get them treated first!"
"It's fine, I've already taken medicine. Oh, right... Yan'er, you're also injured. Quickly take your medicine and go rest over there!" After Su Muqing finished speaking, Lu Yuzhi took out a small porcelain bottle and handed her two pills, one red and one yellow.
Wan Yan'er took the medicine from Lu Yuzhi and put it into her mouth, then nodded wearily and slowly walked to the side, leaning against a stone stool to rest.
After confirming Wan Yan'er had settled down, Ke Biter, leading his men, had already surrounded the guards and private soldiers. Only then did Lu Yuzhi help Su Muqing walk towards Ke Biqing.
Although the battle had been fierce, in reality, only about ten minutes had passed since it began. However, for Ke Biqing, it might have been possible to attempt resuscitation by Su Muqing just ten minutes ago, but by now, his body had already started to cool.