Therefore, Xiao Yuanshan also firmly followed his master's last wish, did his best to prevent the two countries from going to war, and planned to make the Song Dynasty his second home.
Suddenly, Xiao Yuanshan stopped the carriage, looking at the narrow road and the rows of rocks ahead, his face solemn.
"Something seems off ahead. Two people go scout ahead and be careful."
"Yes!" The two servants drew their single swords and cautiously walked forward.
Then.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Arrows flew like locusts; there was an ambush!
Chapter 428 Bloodbath
"They're here!"
"Don't move yet, they're just two scouts."
"They only have fewer than ten people in total. Do we really need an ambush? Let's go!"
"Release the arrows!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Puff puff puff...
The two scouts didn't even have time to utter a scream before they were riddled with arrows.
At the same time, a group of masked men in black rushed out, firing arrows as they ran.
Xiao Yuanshan's expression changed drastically. "Turn around! Let's go!"
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
As a hail of arrows rained down, Xiao Yuanshan did not dodge, but instead used his palms to block most of them. However, the masked men were highly skilled in martial arts and quickly closed in.
Xiao Yuanshan alone could not stop them, and the accompanying servants were quickly killed in order to protect the carriage.
However, Xiao Yuanshan also used his splitting palm technique to knock away the archers and smash the bows and crossbows into pieces. Unfortunately, these people were not ordinary people, and not a single one of them died. They were definitely not ordinary bandits!
"Who are you people!" Xiao Yuanshan shouted angrily.
No one answered. Since everyone chose to wear masks, it was impossible for them to sign up. Assassinating a high-ranking official of the Liao Kingdom was something they were afraid of, even if they weren't afraid of retaliation, they were afraid of igniting a war between the two countries.
Xuan Ci felt a chill run down his spine. If the opponent hadn't aimed at the crossbow, they probably would have lost some of their men. But in the end, the opponent only had one skilled guard and the high-ranking official in the carriage left.
At this moment, without Xuan Ci giving any orders, everyone rushed forward to try to surround Xiao Yuanshan and the carriage.
Xiao Yuanshan struck the horse's rump with a palm strike, then blocked left and right, buying the carriage time to start moving. However, the carriage was ultimately no match for the martial arts masters' lightness skills.
Fang Daxiong smashed the carriage with a stick, and the people inside fell out instantly. Daoist Heyun, with his superb lightness skill, rushed over and pierced the man's body with a single sword strike.
"Ah!" Yang Xinwan screamed, but still used her body to protect the child.
"A woman?" Xuan Ci's eyes widened, and it was a woman who didn't know martial arts!
"Be careful! Don't hurt the child!" Wang Jiantong also realized something was wrong and kicked Master Heyun away.
"Wan'er! Ah! Why!" Xiao Yuanshan rushed over without regard for his own safety, hugged his wife tightly, tears streaming down his face, and roared to the sky!
He had just been entangled by Xuan Ci and his group and had no time to rescue them, but he never expected that they would be so ruthless and cruel as to not even spare women!
The monk Zhiguang kicked away the wreckage of the carriage. There was no one else inside. In other words, the person they had gone to such lengths to assassinate was a woman holding a baby in her arms, not some high-ranking official from the Liao Kingdom!
Even if the real high-ranking official of the Liao Kingdom was this man with superb martial arts skills, would a Liao warrior bring his family members who don't know martial arts with him when he went to Shaolin Temple to steal the Seventy-Two Arts?
Most importantly, apart from this person, the others are not even third-rate martial arts masters, so how could they be the elite of the Liao Kingdom!
Everyone stopped fighting, looking at the scene before them with some bewilderment. Anyone who wasn't out of their mind knew they had killed the wrong person!
"Don't just stand there! Cut the weeds and eliminate the roots! Regardless of whether this person is a high-ranking official of Liao, he is a top expert of Liao. If we don't eliminate him today, he will surely become a great threat to our country in the future!" After saying this, Daoist Heyun thrust his sword at the baby.
Clang!
A sharp screech.
"I said don't hurt the child, didn't you hear me?" Wang Jiantong said coldly, pointing his sword at Daoist Heyun.
"You!" Master Heyun cursed inwardly, but knowing he was no match for Wang Jiantong, he could only sheathe his sword and say angrily, "If this person uses a child as a shield, wouldn't that allow him to escape?"
"Hahaha... If I wanted to leave, would I need to use a child as a shield?" Xiao Yuanshan gently placed the child in his wife's arms, then suddenly lunged at Daoist Heyun, "You killed Wan'er, I'll take your life!"
Daoist Heyun was greatly alarmed, "Are you all going to stand by and watch me die? Elder brother!"
Xuan Ci's face twitched violently. "Go!"
"Khitan dog, take this!" Fang Daxiong said, swinging his iron cudgel at Xiao Yuanshan.
At the same time, Xuanci and the others rushed over as well, because everyone knew that although they had killed the wrong person, Daoist Heyun was right. This person was a true master of the Liao Kingdom. Letting him go back to the Liao Kingdom would not only give them one more master when attacking the Song Dynasty, but this person could train thousands upon thousands of elite Liao soldiers!
"You are all murderers, die!" Xiao Yuanshan grabbed the iron rod and pulled it into his arms.
Fang Daxiong thought the other party wanted to compete with him in strength, so he immediately pulled the big stick back, but the next moment Xiao Yuanshan's iron palm slammed into his chest.
puff!
Fang Daxiong spat out a mouthful of blood, his sternum was broken in several places and caved in, and he was instantly dead.
However, Xiao Yuanshan did not stop his killing spree. He turned around and slapped away Wan Sheng Dao Wang Weiyi's weapon with a palm strike. Then, with a move called Black Tiger Heart-Piercing, he opened a large hole in the opponent's heart.
Whoosh!
Tan Xiaojuan realized her sword strike had missed its mark and tried to dodge, but it was too late. With no way to avoid it, she had no choice but to fight back with her palm.
"Xiao Juan!" Tan Dajie and Tan Erjie were shocked and rushed to her rescue. The three heroes of Chongxiao Cave combined their strength and used all their power to withstand Xiao Yuanshan's palm strike.
At this moment, the flying claws of the three Du brothers struck Xiao Yuanshan on the back. If one were not careful, being hit by such a weapon would result in a large chunk of flesh being torn off.
At the same time, Xuan Ci also flew over and struck with a palm. If Xiao Yuanshan was determined to kill the three heroes of the Tan family, he would not be able to escape this palm.
Boom! Boom!
Puff puff puff...
After exchanging blows with the Three Heroes of Chongxiao, Xiao Yuanshan hurriedly exchanged blows with Xuan Ci, and even without using his full strength, he still managed to send Xuan Ci flying!
The three Tan brothers were sent flying backwards, spitting out blood. Tan Erjie and Tan Xiaojuan fell to the ground and fainted on the spot. Tan Dajie used his bone-shrinking technique to greatly increase his defense, but he still fell and saw stars.
However, Xiao Yuanshan also paid the price for this. Three wounds on his back were mangled by the iron claws. Although they were not fatal, they were still quite serious.
However, Xiao Yuanshan's ferocity was completely unleashed, and he turned around and killed the three Du brothers.
Upon seeing this, Daoist Heyun turned and ran, because he knew that he had killed the other party's beloved wife with a sword and wanted to kill his children. The other party would never let him go. Moreover, even Xuan Ci had been defeated. Who could protect him?
Wang Jiantong of the Beggar Clan? Maybe he could do it if he learned the Twenty-Eight Subduing Dragon Palms or the Dog-Beating Staff Technique, but how strong can a Beggar Clan member who only uses a sword be?
Sure enough, Wang Jiantong was quickly struck in an acupoint by Xiao Yuanshan's toe, causing his internal energy to stagnate and temporarily rendering him unable to fight.
The remaining fake monk didn't participate in the battle at all; instead, he stayed beside the female corpse, staring expressionlessly at Daoist Heyun.
"Fake monk, save me! Use that child as a hostage! Throw the child over here!" Master Heyun knew that his only way out was that child, his talisman.
"Amitabha, this humble monk does not kill." Monk Zhiguang put his hands together and closed his eyes.
"Pah!" Master Heyun was speechless. Zhiguang had taken at least eighty or a hundred lives on his hands, and now he was suddenly not killing anyone? Who would believe that?
Monk Zhiguang had killed many people, but they were all evil people who deserved to die. This baby had just lost its mother, who was already pitiful enough. How could he bear to give it to Daoist Heyun as well?
Besides, if we were to actually do that, wouldn't that be courting death?
"Where do you think you're going!" Xiao Yuanshan unleashed unparalleled speed, instantly closing in on the fleeing Daoist Heyun.
Master Heyun is very skilled in lightness skills, but now he is being caught up. Monk Zhiguang is watching him die without offering any help. The others are either dead or injured. Huh?
"Sister Tan! Come quick, save us..."
Tan Dajie suddenly fainted, his head hitting a rock. It hurt terribly, but he endured it!
Whoosh!
Xiao Yuanshan kicked a rock, which flew straight towards Daoist Heyun and hit him squarely in the lower back.
"Ah!" Master Heyun felt as if his waist had broken, and he collapsed to the ground with a thud, his precious sword nowhere to be found.
Xiao Yuanshan rushed to Daoist Heyun in three strides, grabbed his ankles with both hands, lifted them up, and then separated them to the left and right...
"die!"
"Agh!" Daoist Heyun let out a shrill scream as he was torn in two by Xiao Yuanshan!
Chapter 429 New Life
Master Heyun died a terrible death...
Hao Jiu grinned, a thought flashing through his mind: the inspiration for tearing apart Japanese soldiers with bare hands might have come from Xiao Yuanshan.
The real difficulty of this move is not strength, but that the person being torn must have an extremely resilient body; otherwise, their legs will break first.
Blood and intestines flowed all over the ground. Daoist Heyun never dreamed that he would die so tragically, but his death marked the end of this great battle.
After avenging his wife, Xiao Yuanshan went to the cliff face, picked up a knife, and carved his family's misfortune onto it. No one attacked him during the process.
Xuanci and twenty-one others came to ambush outside Yanmen Pass. Now only three people are still standing: Xuanci, Wang Jiantong, and the monk Zhiguang. Most of the rest are motionless like dead dogs.
Perhaps there were still survivors among them, but the three of them didn't bother to rescue them, as none of them could guarantee their own survival.
Monk Zhiguang walked over, looked at the writing on the rock wall, and sighed deeply, "We were truly terribly wrong..."
"On Feng'er's first birthday, my wife and I went to my maternal grandmother's house for a banquet. On the way, we were suddenly attacked by bandits from the Southern Dynasty. Due to the suddenness of the event, my wife and child were killed by the bandits, and I no longer wished to live. My mentor was a Han Chinese from the Southern Dynasty. I had sworn before him not to kill Han Chinese, but today I killed more than ten. I am filled with shame and pain, and I have no face to meet my mentor after death. Xiao Yuanshan's last words."
Although Hao Jiu was very familiar with this passage, only after experiencing it firsthand could he truly feel the sorrow and pain.
In this world, Xiao Yuanshan's mentor, Mu Yi, is actually Yang Gui, also known as Yang Silang, one of the famous generals of the Yang family.
Yang Xinwan was a descendant of the Yang family. Several years ago, she followed her father and brothers to the Liao Kingdom to visit her great-grandfather Yang Yanhui. It was there that she met his closed-door disciple Xiao Yuanshan. The two fell in love at first sight, got married quickly, and had Xiao Feng.
A hundred years ago, the Yang family generals were truly formidable, and the female generals of the Yang family were all outstanding heroines. However, in this era, the Yang family has declined, and Yang Xinwan doesn't even know martial arts.
The reason for this is that too many members of the Yang family died in battle, and their martial arts skills became weaker with each passing generation. Only Yang Silang lived a long life, but he lived in the Liao Kingdom for a long time.