Cai Wei’s martial arts skills were formidable, and Helan Qing was equally adept. The two fought to a stalemate until Helan Qing’s n crowded around, intending to help. However, Helan Qing stopped them: "Don’t bother with , hurry and fetch water to put out the fire!"
The fire had already reached the palace’s rooftops, beyond salvage. Knowing it was futile but unable to contradict their master’s orders, the subordinates could only agree and run off.
anwhile, Cai Wei was locked in fierce combat with Helan Qing, each move lethal.
Helan Qing’s martial arts were extrely advanced, and his swordplay was excellent. His sword, like a white snake spitting its tongue, hissed as it tore through the air, moving like a dragon weaving through space, at tis light as a swallow, springing forward with his sword, and at tis as sudden as lightning, with Luo Xue scattering down; Cai Wei was no easy adversary either. Her blade techniques, mostly taught personally by Nangong Yi, were perford so exquisitely that she weaved left and right, still as a crouching tiger, fierce as a flying dragon, slow as drifting clouds, and fast as lightning, stable yet fluid. Despite Helan Qing’s high level of martial arts, he could gain no advantage over her.
In the freezing moon and amongst the flashes of blades, Cai Wei had fought Helan Qing for over a hundred rounds without a clear outco. anwhile, the Giant Tiger had already torn the infant girl into pieces. Seeing the perilous situation on Cai Wei’s end, it instructed Chang i and Brother Ying to watch over the pile of corpses while it returned to aid Cai Wei.
The Giant Tiger, massive in stature and rapid in movent, pounced like Mount Taishan bearing down.
Upon seeing the mountainous Giant Tiger plumting down, Helan Qing swiftly dodged backward. Although he avoided the tiger’s pounce, he could not escape Cai Wei’s sword ’whooshing’ out and chopping onto his left shoulder.
"Pop—"
Helan Qing, struck by the blade, cried out in pain, staggered a step, and nearly fell.
"Giant Tiger, kill him!"
Cai Wei ordered cold-bloodedly, face devoid of rcy! Following her command, the Giant Tiger imdiately lunged at Helan Qing. Since Helan was already injured, his movents were not as nimble, and unable to dodge effectively, he was knocked down by the tiger.
The Giant Tiger opened its blood basin mouth wide and bit down towards his head. Helan Qing, frightened pale, stiffened his body, forgetting even to resist.
"Stop!"
Out of the sea of fire, Queen Jiya erged, her fierce face marked by anxious pain.
"Mu Caiwei, Empress Mu, I, Jiya, admit defeat and beg you to spare and my son. I dare not oppose you anymore!"
She knelt down, laying prostrate at Cai Wei’s feet, with a humble expression on her face.
Cai Wei’s eyes hardened as she pointed to the bodies of the torn apart male and female infants on the ground, uttered harshly: "Are your children human, and others’ children not? When you ruthlessly hard other’s children, you should have thought that one day it might co back to your own."
Having finished speaking, she turned to the Giant Tiger and commanded, "Giant Tiger, don’t listen to her nonsense, kill her son first, then kill her!"
Upon hearing this, the Giant Tiger did not hesitate to open its blood basin mouth wide, and bit down on Helan Qing’s neck.
"No—"
Jiya scread and lunged forward, but before she could throw herself on her son, her vision was suddenly obscured by a thick mist of blood.
Through the mist, she saw her once proud son, his throat bitten through, his head hanging down, connected only by a thin layer of skin to his body, his handso face stained red, but still frozen in terror.
"Ah—no—"
Jiya cried out tragically, "Mu Caiwei, I will kill you!"
But before she could act, she was pinned down by the Giant Tiger’s massive paw, and with a ’snap’, that wild-haired head was shattered into two pieces...
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