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Ysabel, Jaya, Bocah, Komeng, Anh, Lao Qianbei, you are welcome. Xu Xiong, I still think that they ‘thought' they passed the first level, but the internal cultivation was actually from Secret to Long Life. However, I realize that this is a matter of opinion. Sky, that is for me to know and for you to find out. DongBin, I am kind of surprised as well that Yang Guang died this soon. Xu Xiong, thanks for volunteering. My plan is that I will create the first post, which is the index, and then I'll have you post something for the second post (anything, just for space holder), and then the third and subsequent posts will be the chapters.

Book 6 Chapter 6 - Killing Their Way Out of Imperial City

Before Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling's feet even landed on the ground, rain of arrows already shot at them. Evidently other than the Emperor's Personal Chamber Palace, the rest of the Imperial City has noiselessly fallen under the control of Yuwen Huaji and the renegades under his command.

Apparently these hundreds of powerful arrows have been prepared as well; the arrows were hard and accurate, perhaps even Ning Daoqi himself would have to entail strenuous effort to block them.

Greatly shocked, while their bodies were still falling, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling raised their true qi with four palms faced the ground, unexpectedly before they touched the ground their bodies rose high into the air again. Not only they evaded the rain of arrows, they also managed to throw themselves into the cluster of trees in the imperial garden next to the palace hall.

With a loud shout countless renegade soldiers, wearing white band on their heads, charged out of the woods to intercept the two boys.

In an instant the two boys were falling into the enemy ranks and were separated by the crowd.

Outside the woods there were torches everywhere; the battle cry shook the heavens.

After brandishing his fists to knock out two men, Xu Ziling managed to snatch a long saber. Using the strength of his wrist, he brandished the long saber, a burst of powerful saber qi passed through the edge of his blade, three men fell face up instantly and died on the spot.

Seizing this opportunity, Xu Ziling fled up a tree. He saw everywhere outside the woods were people running and chasing and killing each other, several palace halls already caught fire, thick smoke rose up to the sky, blocking the light from the sun and the moon.

Under the light of the blaze, the Imperial City has become the killing hell.

Two martial art masters from the renegade troops pursued him up the tree, Xu Ziling executed chain-saber technique, blood splashed and the two men dropped dead to the ground.

Under the powerful sound of the arrows, Xu Ziling was unable to divert his attention to look for Kou Zhong. Soaring high to the sky, he unexpectedly broke his own record by crossing a distance of seven, eight zhang, and landed on the edge of the imperial forest.

About a dozen renegade soldiers pounced on him, fast as lightning Xu Ziling darted forward. He tried to avoid being caught in hard fighting. The long saber in his hand flickered like lightning flashes, with unbelievable speed he hacked on three sabers, immediately three more enemies fall face up, they met a violent death. Even he himself was so surprised that his hand could be that formidable.

Two spears attacked from behind, without looking back Xu Ziling swayed left and right, relying on his senses, and dodged the spear attack by a hair's breath.

And then he ducked forward and broke out of the siege.

A harsh shout coming from about thirty zhang on his left. Recognizing Kou Zhong's voice, Xu Ziling knew that Kou Zhong was in danger. His heart was shaken, he could no longer maintain the ‘clear water in the well' realm, immediately the spear of a renegade soldier, who had been hiding in the dark, was about to pierce the vital point on his flank.

The instant the tip of the spear penetrated his clothes, Xu Ziling came back to his senses; his tiger body twisted abruptly, his internal energy reacted, the fatal spear thrust slipped away, it only ripped his clothes and scratched a long cut that reached his back.

Flicking his saber, Xu Ziling hacked the renegade soldier's face. With a ferocious roar he swept past a dozen or so enemies. His toes kicked the ground, he charged toward the direction of Kou Zhong's voice.

Under the flickering blaze, a group of about thirty renegade soldiers were engaging Kou Zhong in close fight, one of them was surprisingly Yuwen Shiji. Xu Ziling noticed that for each sword attack from him, Kou Zhong had to strenuously move his spear to deal with it, giving the other soldiers the opportunity to attack.

Xu Ziling also noticed that Kou Zhong's entire body was covered with blood, and that his footwork was unsteady, so he knew that Kou Zhong would not be able to hold on much longer.

Letting out a wild roar, Xu Ziling's saber and body merged into one entity; forgetting any saber technique, he simply brandished his saber in a large saber sweep, like a furious billowing waves of the stormy sea it shot toward Yuwen Shiji.

Yuwen Shiji was just thinking that in two or three more sword moves he was going to take Kou Zhong's life, and then he would turn his attention to find Xu Ziling. Seeing Xu Ziling was coming to deliver his own life, he was delighted; leaving Kou Zhong behind, he turned around to meet Xu Ziling.

Xu Ziling had already thrown the matter of life and death to the back of his mind; his heart and mind were free from surprise and fear.

‘Dang! Dang! Dang!' the two men crossed each other in the air and exchanged three moves.

When his sword made contact with Xu Ziling's saber, Yuwen Shiji knew something was not right; he felt that the opponent's scorching hot true qi was bursting out of the saber and an instant later it attacked his meridians; his own ‘Mysterious Ice Energy' [see Book 1 Chapter 1] seemed to be subdued by the opponent's incomparably subtle innate true qi, so that he found it hard to block.

Although his power was far inferior to Yuwen Huaji's, but compared to Xu Ziling's, it was still deeper. Just by taking a mouthful of true qi, he neutralized at least half of the strength of the opponent's qi invading his body. The sword in his right hand executed an exquisite, beyond compare technique, to deflect the long saber sideways, and continued seamlessly to hack on Xu Ziling's neck; only the power was not as severe as before.

Xu Ziling stayed calm without any hint of fear, his left palm stretched out flat, with incredible precision it moved from bottom to top, without even missing a hairsbreadth it landed on the sword's blade and pushed it up.

A whiff of chilliness crept up in Yuwen Shiji's heart; now he understood why Yuwen Chengdu and Yuwen Wudi suffered defeat in these two boys' hands, and why his elder brother Yuwen Huaji repeatedly ordered him not to allow these two boys escape alive from this place.

A sudden gust of wind assaulted his back.

Since the two men exchanged moves in the air, by now Xu Ziling has landed behind him. Yuwen Shiji has never imagined that Xu Ziling's saber would be that fast; unexpectedly without the slightest delay Xu Ziling already launched a counterstrike, swiftly hacking toward his back.

Yuwen Shiji ignored the still surging qi in his body. Clenching his teeth, he swiveled around and promptly blocked Xu Ziling's saber.

‘Qiang!'

Yuwen Shiji let out a miserable groan, his mouth spurted fresh blood, as his sword, along with his body, was struck by Xu Ziling's saber that he flew backward until his back crashed against the trunk of a large tree. Injury on top of injury, he slumped down to the ground.

Xu Ziling did not get it easy either, Yuwen Shiji's reaction force jolted his body that his meridians nearly burst and his five viscera nearly ruptured; fortunately he had sustained many injuries in the past that he already knew what to do. The instant before he fell to the ground, he incited the fantastic beyond compare, which can bring people back from the dead, innate true qi from the ‘Secret to Long Life', to neutralize Yuwen Shiji's overpowering ‘Mysterious Ice Energy'.

‘Bang!'

Xu Ziling fell heavily by Kou Zhong's feet.

A hard fight where both sides went full strength like this, victory or defeat was decided very quickly.

Having experienced how formidable Yuwen Shiji was, Kou Zhong thought Xu Ziling was dead. In his fury, with a divine strength, which nobody knew where it came from, his spear thrust to the left and pierced to the right, killing the enemy that they scattered to the east and fell down to the west.

Someone wanted to attack him from behind; Kou Zhong swiftly turned around and thrust his spear. The enemy spurted blood as his body was thrown about a zhang back. The other enemies were intimidated by his power, plus Yuwen Shiji was out of commission, hence they scattered away in panic.

Kou Zhong felt the sky was spinning, the earth went around; he knew that it was because he had lost too much blood and had exerted too much strength. His condition was very close to a lantern which oil was nearly dried up. Letting out a deep sigh, he believed that the two brothers would lose their lives in this place. But suddenly Xu Ziling sprang up and shouted, "Get on my back!”

Kou Zhong was delighted, "Good kid!” he shouted. Casting off the spear, he threw himself onto Xu Ziling's back, and held on to him tightly.

Xu Ziling circulated his qi to force a mouthful of fresh blood out of his system, afterwards the pit of his stomach felt better as his qi was able to flow freely. And then he leaped diagonally up onto a tree branch protruding horizontally overhead first before borrowing the bouncing force of the branch he flew ten more zhang toward the back of the roof of a two-storied building nearby.

His movement was as fluid as moving clouds and flowing water. By the time the renegade troops wanted to pursue, he, with Kou Zhong on his back, was already at the roof ridge on the other side of the building.

There was a long laughter from afar but quickly coming near. Yuwen Huaji flew over and shouted, "Where do you think you are going?”

Hearing Yuwen Huaji's voice, Xu Ziling knew that if he caught up with them, they would not escape alive. Hastily he jumped down, and landed in the courtyard of the palace complex where the palace maids and the eunuchs slept. Without thinking he ran inside the building.

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