darknovel Chapter 1369 Though living in the martial world, my mother dislikes fighting and killing.
Chapter 1369 Though living in the martial world, my mother dislikes fighting and killing.
Then, the carriage sped away into the distance.
Xu Shan breathed a slight sigh of relief when he saw that those people didn't seem to be giving chase.
His coachman is also a top-notch martial artist; taking the three of them away shouldn't be a problem.
These people's main goal is the Heavenly Blade; as long as the blade is in their possession, that's enough.
Besides, even if they were to perish here today, they would still want to uncover the secrets of the Heavenly Blade, so they wouldn't want to exterminate the entire Xu family. This is why he felt comfortable letting his wife, daughters, and disciples leave first.
The battle was about to break out. Xu Shan could have delivered a fatal blow many times, but he held back because he remembered his wife's instructions, which made him seem somewhat hesitant.
Ultimately, due to a moment of carelessness, he fell victim to the other party's trap.
Sensing the loss of his internal energy, Xu Shan knew he was in trouble. These people were not virtuous gentlemen to begin with, so why would they fight him normally? But it was too late to regret it at this point.
"Xu Shan, you really are..." The masked leader couldn't help but shake his head when he saw Xu Shan's appearance, and finally said, "You married a kind wife."
Hearing these mocking words, Xu Shan was so angry that his face turned red, but he didn't know what to say in rebuttal.
He closed his eyes: "I admit defeat today. Do as you please."
The masked leader didn't delay any longer and picked up a knife to stab Xu Shan.
At the critical moment, a figure rushed from afar and plunged a knife into the masked leader's back. This person was Azhen. She held a familiar knife in her hand. Instead of pulling it out, she twisted the hilt of the knife until the masked leader breathed his last, and only then did she pull out the knife.
"The head has been killed by this damned girl! Kill her!" The people around them came to their senses and immediately rushed towards Azhen.
Azhen stopped demonstrating her swordsmanship at this point. With a flick of her wrist, countless particles of powder were scattered towards the surrounding crowd. Those people never imagined that a seven-year-old girl possessed such a skill, especially since she was Xu Shan's daughter—how could she know such a vicious method? Caught off guard, everyone was struck and fell to the ground.
Xu Shan finally realized something was wrong. He opened his eyes and saw Azhen standing in front of him holding a blood-stained knife. He was stunned.
"Zhen'er, why are you back? What's going on...?"
"Why did I come back? If I hadn't come back, I wouldn't have a father anymore. Of course I had to come back, and I had no choice but to expose my little secret. People in the martial arts world will probably laugh at Master Xu for living such an upright life, yet having a daughter who uses poison. Father, will you feel ashamed?" Azhen asked.
Xu Shan hadn't thought about any of that. At first, he was just worried, but when he saw that all the people chasing him had been taken down by Azhen, he was shocked and happy at the same time.
His daughter is so capable, he's overjoyed, how could he feel ashamed?
"No, how could that be? Father is just worried about your safety." Xu Shan remembered, but felt weak all over; the medicine was really quite potent.
Azhen said, "You should worry about your own safety. If I hadn't come back to check on you, I'm afraid you really would have lost your father."
Azhen searched the masked leader's arms and found a bottle. She opened it, sniffed it, and confirmed it was the antidote. She then handed it to Xu Shan, saying, "This is the antidote."
Xu Shan took the antidote and soon felt his internal energy recover, which made him feel much more at ease.
Looking at his seven-year-old daughter, he wanted to ask her many questions, but now was clearly not the right time.
"Why did you come back? Where are your mother and your senior brother?" Xu Shan asked.
“They couldn’t help either, so I jumped off the carriage and let them go first,” Azhen said.
Although there was no problem with this, Xu Shan still felt a little strange. Her daughter was only seven years old.
A-Lan, still holding the knife, turned her gaze to the masked men chasing them: "What should we do with these people?" As soon as she finished speaking, A-Lan saw the struggle on Xu Shan's face: "Your mother doesn't like me killing people."
"Then she would rather see you in danger. If Father hadn't listened to Mother today, with your martial arts skills, even if you weren't unharmed, you wouldn't be in such a sorry state."
"Fine, I'll do it." Azhen raised the knife in her hand, not giving Xu Shan a chance to speak again, and walked over to kill the masked men one by one. In the end, only one was left alive. No matter what, he still needed to be interrogated.
As a member of the martial arts world, Xu Shan naturally didn't find killing to be bloody.
Seeing his daughter's decisiveness, he felt conflicted, but of course, he didn't say anything to stop her.
He wanted to kill these people too; if his daughter hadn't arrived quickly, he would have died here. But he didn't want to break his promise to his wife, and he was torn.
Azhen was too lazy to care about Xu Shan's feelings. He was stubborn and it was difficult to correct him in a short time. Only time and events could change him.
Today's events will surely leave some mark on his heart.
The fact that Xu Shan didn't stop her from killing these masked men proves that he wasn't the kind of person who was a saint; he was simply listening to his stepmother.
Azhen ripped off the mask from the last surviving masked man and held a knife to his neck: "Who's behind this?"
She knew that this person would never tell.
The people who can do this job are not simply those who obey their master's orders; they must obey, or they will lose their lives.
Sure enough, as soon as she finished speaking, the masked man bit into the poison hidden in his mouth and died instantly.
A-Zhuang wasn't disappointed at all, since she had expected it.
What's the point of solving the puzzle now?
Xu Shan's life is saved for now, so we can take it slow. She wants to see how things will develop from here and how different they will be from what they originally were.
“They are all being controlled, and it’s difficult to get the truth out of them.” Xu Shan got up and went to Azhen’s side.
Looking at the knife in her hand, he said, "You little brat, how did you know you were holding this knife?"
"Don't you recognize your own sword?" Azhen said. "If Father had brought the Heaven-Asking Sword with him, perhaps things wouldn't have been so dangerous."
Yes, Xu Shan had brought a fake Heaven-Asking Blade before; the real Heaven-Asking Blade was hidden in the carriage.
Azhen knows this only because she has the memories of the client. After all, the journey here has been so exciting that there's no time to explore for treasure.
“The Heaven-Asking Blade is more suitable for Zhen’er now,” Xu Shan suddenly exclaimed.
Azhen shoved the Heaven-Asking Blade into Xu Shan's hand: "Father, I'm only seven years old. I don't want to inherit the Heaven-Asking Blade yet. Besides, everyone's scrambling for it. Won't I have no free time later?"
Xu Shan laughed. He randomly picked a horse and took Azhen to chase after the carriage.
"How come you have so many secrets, Zhen'er? Even your father didn't know you could use poison." Xu Shan asked.
Azhen started making things up: "You're always clinging to your mother, so of course you don't know that I secretly took a mysterious person as my master."
Xu Shan believed it; there were far too many mysterious and powerful masters in the martial arts world. (End of Chapter)