I was reborn after cheating on the aloof and powerful man.

Chapter 122 Silent Snowfall

Under overwhelming firepower, no matter how many bandits there are, it's all in vain.

When the dust settled, Fei Xi saw that only a pile of corpses remained outside the wide-open mountain gate.

The remaining bandits had already vanished without a trace after realizing the situation was dire.

The soldier leader approached Lady Hua Lian and asked whether to continue pursuing the remaining bandits.

A resounding voice coldly uttered, "Don't pursue a desperate enemy."

After Lady Hua Lian finished speaking, she turned around and looked at Fei Xi and her group. Lanterns were lit under the eaves, and Fei Xi was able to see the person's appearance clearly.

Beneath his deep, exotic eyes, his nose was high and sharp, as if carved by a knife. When he met Fei Xi's gaze, the other's resolute lips curved into a mocking smile.

A bad feeling suddenly arose in Fei Xi's heart, before she could figure it out.

The other party raised their right hand and pointed at them. The next second, countless black gun barrels were pointed at Fei Xi and her group.

No! It wasn't aimed at her, it was at the old man in black in front of her!

"The Deadly Old Man? His Majesty has decreed that the Deadly Old Man's crimes are unforgivable. Anyone who sees this person may arrest him and bring him to justice, regardless of whether he lives or dies."

As Lady Hua Lian finished speaking, countless bullets instantly rained down on Fei Xi and her group.

"You think you're worthy of taking my life, you mere slave!"

The barrage of bullets arrived in an instant. The old man's palms flew, his palm energy whistling. His wide sleeves, swirling with his powerful internal energy, resembled the flapping wings of a raptor, directly drawing all the dense bullets aimed at him into his sleeves.

With sleeves clasped together, all things return to one, and countless sparks are controlled by internal energy within the palms, like boiling water about to explode.

The old man, now facing certain death, raised his inner energy again, let out a loud roar that shook the heavens and earth!

Returning to the origin and merging into one, they immediately separate; one breath transforms into three thousand, its power raging like a wildfire, like a falling star or a stray rock, shooting back towards the soldier holding the musket.

From the moment the bullet left the barrel to the moment the dying old man retaliated, it was only a snap of the fingers.

Despite the opponent's terrifying strength, Lady Hua Lian showed no fear or anger on her face; instead, she maintained a composed demeanor, as if she were certain of victory.

Upon seeing the old man gather his ammunition, Lady Hua Lian immediately slipped behind the soldiers and issued orders again.

The soldier holding the musket quickly put it away and took out a shield half a meter high from behind him.

In an instant, a protective wall made of shields shielded Lady Hua Lian and her party.

It was unclear what material the shield was made of, but the powerful palm energy, carrying the force of bullets and fire, was reflected onto the shield, only moving Lady Hua Lian and her group about half a foot away, without causing any harm to the people behind the shield.

When the hail of bullets came, they not only rushed towards the old man who was about to die, but also Fei Xi and his group were within the range of the bullets.

The bullets arrived in an instant, and no matter how skilled the others were in their lightness skills, they couldn't reach Fei Xi's side in time to block the bullets for her.

At the critical moment, a burst of cheerful laughter from a child was heard, and Fei Xi emerged unharmed from the hail of bullets.

It turned out that Senior Mu Yin had simply thrown the little flower in front of her.

The puppet Xiao Hua danced around the field, leaving afterimages, and with a cheerful "la la la" sound, he blocked all the projectiles flying towards Fei Xi and her group with his body.

"Sister, sister, isn't Xiaohua amazing~~~" Once the crisis was over, the little puppet held its head and walked excitedly to Fei Xi, asking for praise.

"Amazing! Fantastic!"

"Oh, not again?"

Fei Xi bent down to pat Xiao Hua's head, but when she heard Xiao Hua's cry, she looked up.

Behind the shields, a row of muskets were aimed at their group.

Human strength has its limits. When the musket fired at the dying old man for the fourth time, the old man did not want to wait until he was exhausted and had to wait for death.

He blocked the barrage of bullets, dodged behind him, struck out with his palm to repel Mu Yin and Ji Zhongxuan, and grabbed Fei Xi by the neck, dragging her in front of him.

"Stop! You barbarian! This is Princess Shouguang! Are you going to kill her too?!"

From behind the shield came a dismissive "heh."

"Today, in order to capture you, the old man who is about to die, Princess Shouguang unfortunately sacrificed her life for the country. My husband will petition His Majesty to grant her a posthumous title and give her a grand funeral. There is no need for you to trouble yourself."

The muskets were repositioned, and Lady Hua Lian's cold, stern face reappeared before Fei Xi and her group as the shield descended.

"Old man, may you rest in peace on your journey to the underworld! Fire!"

Forced to "sacrifice himself for the country," Fei Xi felt like a banana and a guava were rolling back and forth in her heart.

If a tough nut to crack is one of our own, it's fine, but when it appears on the enemy's side, it's an absolute scourge.

Unless you can suppress such a person with absolute force, most schemes and psychological tactics will not work. And the Lady Hua Lian in front of me is clearly a tough nut to crack.

She could understand that the other party wanted to kill the old man, but whether the attack on their group was incidental or had another reason, now was not a good time to question them.

Fire is merciless, and those present were her closest relatives and friends from her sect. She couldn't gamble with the consequences of even the slightest mistake!

Fei Xi, who had been thrown back into Ji Zhongxuan's arms by the old man of death, could no longer hide anything. She pulled out a jade pendant tied with a red string from under her neck and shouted at the other side.

"General, please wait! Prince Rui's decree is here!"

"The Prince Rui's decree?"

Upon hearing this, everyone reacted with varying expressions. Ji Zhongxuan's surprise was followed by a fleeting, helpless smile.

Upon hearing Fei Xi's words, Lady Hua Lian dropped her composed expression and raised her hand to signal the soldiers to cease their attack.

"Throw it over."

With a hint of doubt on her cold face, she carefully examined Fei Xi and her group again. When her gaze fell on Mu Qingfeng's face, Lady Hua Lian seemed to realize something and looked at her a few more times.

Without hesitation, Fei Xi walked to the middle of the standoff between the two sides and took off the jade pendant, throwing it directly at Lady Hua Lian.

Lady Hua Lian didn't move. The soldier leader beside her jumped up, took the jade token, checked it to make sure there was no problem, and then knelt down to hand it to her.

Just then, another unexpected event occurred!

A flash of cold light, sword energy like frost, Lady Hua Lian's dangerous intuition honed on the battlefield made her turn around and meet the attacker's sharp sword with her spear.

Swords and spears clashed, sparks flew everywhere!

In the dim light, everyone could see that a man in black had ambushed Lady Hua Lian from behind with a sword.

The sneak attack failed, and the attacker showed no interest in fighting. His swordsmanship was superb, and he took the lives of seven or eight soldiers in just a few moves.

Disrupting Lady Hua Lian's formation, the newcomer flashed to the old man's side.

"go!"

As he spoke, the man reached out and grabbed Fei Xi, who was standing in front of the old man, then turned and quickly jumped over the wall and fled towards the mountain gate.

The old man struck Lady Hua Lian with his palm, then flew away from Chongyang Temple after the newcomer. Before leaving, he glanced at Consort De, who lay on the ground, her life hanging in the balance.

……

Ji Zhongxuan kept chasing the figure ahead, from the moon hidden under the branches to the moon high in the sky.

The man in black ahead was highly skilled in martial arts; even while carrying a person, he could still move swiftly through the forest.

The companions who were originally chasing alongside Ji Zhongxuan were gradually left behind and drifted further and further away from them.

But Ji Zhongxuan knew that the people in front of him were also running out of energy.

He could sense that the other person's pace had begun to slow down.

Sure enough, the other party stopped.

A sword aura, unexpected yet perfectly logical, attacked him.

Ji Zhongxuan dodged the sword energy and countered with a palm strike.

The old man beside that man, who was on his deathbed, also struck out with his palm.

But the palm strike wasn't aimed at him; instead, it was aimed at the other person.

"Don't lay a hand on him!"

The man gave a harsh "humph" without arguing, then turned and continued to flee in another direction.

Undeterred by his failed attempt to stop the man, Ji Zhongxuan continued his pursuit.

After chasing for an unknown amount of time, dark clouds obscured the moon, plunging the world into darkness.

The dark clouds moved with the wind, and before long the wind stopped, the shy crescent moon reappeared.

Ji Zhongxuan realized that the figure he was chasing had disappeared.

Only a steep mountain wall blocked his way in the distance.

Touching the smooth, steep, and inaccessible mountain wall, Ji Zhongxuan suddenly remembered the "disappeared flower thief" that his second senior brother in Tongcheng had mentioned.

……

Lady Hua Lian sat cross-legged on a stool in the main hall, watching the military doctor examine the corpse in front of her.

Not far from the main hall, Mu Qingfeng glared angrily at Madam Hua Lian while looking after the two patients in front of her.

Consort De was still unconscious, while Junior Brother Liu sat on the ground, his face deathly pale, seemingly lost in thought.

Whether it was fighting off the bandits with her today, or later dragging my exhausted body to chase after my senior sister who had been kidnapped by villains.

Junior Brother Liu never let anyone down, nor did he ever complain.

Although Mu Qingfeng still couldn't bring herself to like this junior brother, she had begun to accept him as one of her own.

After heating up the dry rations, Mu Qingfeng stuffed the hot water and the rations into Liu Shidi's hands.

"Princess Shouguang has been kidnapped by villains. This general will not stand idly by. Don't worry, little girl, this general will definitely rescue your senior sister." Noticing the unfriendly gaze, Lady Hua Lian turned her face, and a smile appeared on her usually cold face, becoming unusually gentle.

"Don't pretend, you clearly intended to kill us before!"

“Ha. Hahahahaha!”

Mu Qingfeng was somewhat confused. She had just brought her junior brother Liu back. When Madam Hua Lian returned her senior sister's jade pendant, saying that it was being returned to its rightful owner, she gave her a strange smile.

After she finished scolding him, the female general in front of her not only wasn't angry, but seemed to be in a better mood.

So sick!

The medic stood up and covered the corpses with white sheets.

"Madam, these people all suffocated to death after their throats were pierced by the Tianshan martial art 'Silent Falling Snow'."

what? !

Upon hearing the army doctor's reply, Mu Qingfeng rushed over and unveiled the white sheet.

The corpses in front of me were quiet, as if they were asleep, each with a wound on its throat but no blood.

She had heard her senior brothers mention such wounds before. In Sanhe Town, those annoying scholars, Xuehai Wuyai, had suffered such injuries!

It is the leaked secret technique of Tianshan Mountain – "Falling Snow Without a Trace".