Sword Among Us

Rumble! Rumble…

The Embroidered Uniform Guards suddenly split to the sides, and they were like two roaring yellow dragons. With actions causing deafening roars, they swiftly moved past Cao Huaian and the others so that they could surround them.

When they heard the sudden horn and the change from the Embroidered Uniform Guards, Cao Huaian and the others found themselves at a loss. They noticed that the Embroidered Uniform Guards did not attack them even after they had them surrounded, and they held their breaths while they focused. They formed formations and were wary.

The armored horses moved among each other, and sand danced madly in the air.

For a period of time, the group was surrounded tightly by the Embroidered Uniform Army.

Silver Wolf and his party were already prepared to fight to the death, but when they saw this, they could not help but have hope rise in their hearts.

“Everyone, don’t move. The leader of the Embroidered Uniform Guards should come over to talk to us later.

“Look for a chance to capture the Embroidered Uniform Guards’ leader, and we might have a chance to turn the tides.”

Phantasmal Shadow, Silver Wolf, and Niu Dali were all people whose minds worked fast. The group lowered their voices and started passing the message.

The players showed amazing teamwork by choosing to remain silent. They formed a circular formation while surrounded by the Embroidered Uniform Guards.

As time passed, the Embroidered Uniform Guards stopped moving.

The skilled Embroidered Uniform Guards all had great equipment. They stared at the people at the center with their weapons drawn, but they did not choose to attack. Instead, they seemed to be waiting for something.

“Cao Huaian.”

Just when the group became impatient, a group of martial artists in white brocade robes and extraordinary presences came flying toward them leisurely.

Cao Huaian, Mo Yan, and the others had their pupils shrink.

Wherever this group of people went, the Embroidered Uniform Guards would move to the sides. They formed groups in a pious and solemn manner. They even lowered their heads and did not dare look at the people who came over.

The leader among this group of Embroidered Uniform Guards was exceptionally young. His prideful eyes carried a hint of sinister coldness and the awe-inspiring look of a person who stood supreme to others. He was so arrogant that it caused others to shudder in his presence.

He was Tsao Siuyan, the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guards!

“It’s that eunuch.”

Cao Huaian and his group were the first to recognize the group who entered the empty space with their horses. Their gazes changed from being solemn to wary.

“This is bad. Behind Tsao Siuyan are the eighteen hidden guards of the Embroidered Uniform Guards. All of them leave behind dead bodies everywhere in their wake. I didn’t expect that this man would come here personally.”

Mo Yan and the other martial artists behind him had their expressions change. Clearly, they noticed that they had entered an even more dangerous situation. In fact, their deaths were almost certain.

“This time, we don’t even have the chance to run now.” Wu Kuo cast a glance at Tsao Suiyan. His posture was one of arrogance, and he had an extraordinary presence about him. Wu Kuo cast another look at the Myth Realm martial artists behind Tsao Suiyan, and he could not help but laugh wanly.

Eighteen Myth Realm martial artists were already really difficult to deal with. Besides, Tsao Suiyan’s strength was unfathomable as well. He was even stronger than Cao Huaian and Mo Yan, and he might very well be in the dao of heaven. No matter how he looked at it, it was a certain death situation.

“Don’t be hasty…”

No matter what, Phantasmal Shadow was once the leader of the strongest sect in the Chinese plains. She had faced far too many hardships, and she had even managed to survive through Wild Wolves’ invasion into the Chinese plains. She could already remain calm in the face of any danger. Hence, even if she faced Tsao Suiyan, she still remained calm. She coolly comforted her tower members.

“Let’s see what he says.

At the same time…

Silver Wolf secretly sent a sign to Knife, Bar, and Thunder, telling them to wait. Four pairs of eyes were trained on Tsao Suiyan as he made his horse stop moving.

Tsao Suiyan was the strongest commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guards. He had a lot of authority, and this was very prevalent with the way he managed to make the Embroidered Uniform Guards march forward like an army and easily have them leave the borders into the desert. It was clear that Tsao Suiyan had a very special position in court.

Thud thud thud thud…

Ever since Tsao Suiyan appeared with a group of Myth Realm elites, Cao Huaian and the others did not even dare breathe loudly. They drew closer to each other while remaining in formation. Then, while they focused their attention on Tsao Suiyan. The high official whose influence stretched to the whole of the imperial court raised his head, and his expression was cold and indifferent.

Once Tsao Suiyan entered the stage, the Embroidered Uniform Guard 1000-Embroidered Uniform Guard commanders slowly rode forth.

“Sir!”

“…”

Tsao Suiyan did not even look at them. He just looked at the wanted criminals in the middle of the crowd.

“Is Cao Huaian here?”

Cao Huaian frowned in the crowd. But he still smiled and took two steps forward.

“I am Cao Huaian.”

Tsao Suiyan sat on his steed with an arrogant expression. He looked at Cao Huaian askance. “You’re the one who interfered with the Embroidered Uniform Guards’ affairs multiple times, and also the one who stole the descendants of the criminal Yu Qian from us.”

“Criminal?”

Cao Huaian laughed loudly. “Yu Qian served the country and the people. He is loyal. What crime did he commit?”

“He interfered with the affairs of the imperial court and prevented the Embroidered Uniform Guards from enforcing the law. That is his crime.”

“Commander Tsao, when you say someone has committed a crime, then they will have committed a crime, right?” Even when he faced Tsao Suiyan, Cao Huaian continued to maintain his bold demeanor. His words were mocking.

“How preposterous!”

No emotion could be detected on Tsao Suiyan’s face, but the 1000-Embroidered Uniform Guard commanders beside him glared at Cao Huaian, and he cracked his whip against him.

The 1000-Embroidered Uniform Guard commanders were at Myth Realm. When that Embroidered Uniform Guard cracked his whip, he moved as quickly as lightning. The whip instantly appeared in front of Cao Huaian.

Clang!

Someone drew his sword, and a cold glare shone.

Mo Yan was the one who drew his sword, and he positioned his sword horizontally to block the attack for Cao Huaian. Cao Huaian did not even blink. He just stared at Tsao Suiyan with a calm smile.

“I am just a commoner. I just don’t want to see all the good officials being killed by evil people. I am really ill at ease that I wasn’t able to save Yu Qian, so the only thing I can do is to save the good official’s descendants from the claws and jaws of monsters.”

His words finally caused Tsao Suiyan’s ever indifferent expression to change slightly. His gaze froze a little.

“So, his son and daughter are both in your hands right now?” Finally, he got to the point.

“You are… right,” Cao Huaian spoke with a drawl, and there was a faint smile on his face.

Cao Huaian believed that after he dragged this out for so long, his friends on the other side should have already brought Yu Qian’s son and daughter three miles away.

What they needed to do was to buy even more time, because the more time they bought, the higher the chances of Yu Qian’s son and daughter surviving would be.

However, Tsao Suiyan only swept his gaze coolly in the crowd, but he did not say another sentence. He just said to the person beside him, “They’re stalling for time. Alright, then, send a mid-sized group over and search through every nook and cranny. Find those people and bring them to me whether dead or alive.”

His final sentence was spoken coldly and firmly, and it completely shattered the last hope in Cao Huaian and his group’s hearts.

“Kill them!”

“Damn it, we’re going to die either way, so why are we still wasting time talking to them?!”

Before Cao Huaian took action, someone in the group was unable to hold himself back, and he was the first to charge forward.

“Kill them! Everyone, attack together!”

The person who spoke was clearly someone from Niu Dali’s sect. With one shout, around eight people took action. The sand under their feet sank down, and like arrows fired from bows, they charged in all directions.

“Hmph!”

Almost at the same time, a cold snort that sounded as mighty as thunder entered the people’s ears.

The eight people who charged into multiple directions froze in the air.

Clang!

Tsao Suiyan reached out to an Embroidered Uniform Guard by his side and drew the saber on his waist with a reverse grip. With his other hand, he clamped down on the saber with two fingers, and the Refined Hundredfold Saber that was created based on the standards of the imperial court was shattered to pieces.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

He flung his arm, and dozens of shards from that Refined Hundredfold Saber charged forward like fatal hidden weapons. With piercing sounds, they shot in every direction.

The entire process of him drawing the saber, crushing it, and flinging them forward was done in one breath. The entire process was completed so fast that they could not react to it on time.

Silver Wolf, Phantasmal Shadow, and the others found their visions blur. Dozens of cold, snow-white glares accurately pierced into the eight Stained Shirt Sect members’ bodies.

Thud! Thud!

The eight Stained Shirt Sect members froze up in the air because of Tsao Suiyan’s voice. Then, they had their bodies pierced through by multiple shards.

Thud thud…

These eight people crashed back into the crowd, and pools of blood flowed out under them. At the moment they crashed on the ground, they had already been reduced into eight lifeless corpses.

At the moment he attacked, he ended eight people’s lives, and this act alone intimidated the entire crowd.

The people who were originally restless instantly stopped moving.

That included Phantasmal Shadow and her group. Their pupils shrank, and after they sent a signal, they stopped their urge to break out of the encirclement together. At the same time, the group moved their attention to Cao Huaian. Over here, only Cao Huaian and Mo Yan, who were at the peak of Myth Realm, could stand a slight chance against Tsao Suiyan, who was in the dao of heaven.

Niu Dali’s face turned livid with rage.

He lost eight of his people in one go, and he only had two ineffective fighters left. He had already completely lost the right and chance to compete against the orders. Even his chances of surviving and breaking out was slim to none.

As for Tsao Suiyan, he was in the dao of heaven, and he had the power to kill countless people in the world in his hands. With just a raise of his hand, he killed eight people, and he looked as if he had just done something incredibly insignificant.

He cast an indifferent glance at Cao Huaian and the remaining people. He tossed away the saber hilt in his hands, and he quirked his grayish white eyebrows.

“Yu Qian’s son and daughter will not be able to escape from my guards. Once the two children’s corpses come to me, I will behead them right in front of you and bring them back to the capital. I will place them next to Yu Qian’s head.”

When he heard this, Cao Huaian and Mo Yan had their expressions change.

Silver Wolf had been paying attention to the changes in these two people’s expressions since the beginning. When he noticed the anger in their eyes, he knew that they were about to not be able to hold their anger in.

They were going to attack.

Silver Wolf discreetly sent a signal to Knife, Bar, and Thunder. Their expressions became solemn, and they nodded at each other. They knew that once swords were drawn, they would have to fight for their lives.

People in the dao of heaven were very sensitive to qi activity.

The subtle changes in the group instantly caught Tsao Suiyan’s attention. He moved his hand slightly, and the Embroidered Uniform Guards around him leisurely lifted the crossbows in their hands.

About one thousand crossbow bolts were instantly locked on Cao Huaian and his group.

At the same time, the eighteen Myth Realm guards circulated their qi. They looked down on Cao Huaian and his group, and they were murderous.

A 1000-Embroidered Uniform Guard commander strode to Tsao Suiyan’s side, and he lifted an incredibly long black sword high in the air.

Clang!

A long whine rose, and the sword was unsheathed.

Since they were in a hot desert, at the moment the sword was unsheathed, Cao Huaian and his group sensed a chill charging at them from Tsao Suiyan, along with an unparalleled might.

The aggressive power from a martial artist in the dao of heaven instantly crushed the fighting spirit and courage that had just risen from the players.

Their breathing froze.

Cao Huaian and his group might not have moved, but as the commander of the Embroidered Uniform Guards took action, the hostility in the air became even stronger, and it was so tense that it seemed like a fight was about to break out at any moment.

A bead of cold sweat rolled down Cao Huaian’s forehead.

Drip!

Sweat fell on the yellow sand.

Then, as if some sort of strange domino effect was triggered, the sand started sinking. Soon, multiple layers of sand sank. Almost immediately afterward, it was as if the entire desert had started shaking at this moment.

Even Tsao Suiyan felt the desert under his feet swiftly falling. His steed sank down.

“Neigh!”

The originally stern situation instantly became chaotic. Thousands of horses neighed, and quite a number of horses sank into the flowing sand. The entire scene looked incredibly bizarre.