The light of the sword is like the moon reflecting on Kyushu

When they saw the stunningly beautiful woman in black fur standing in front of the three hundred archers from the Ice Ravine, all thirty blood-braided executioners turned around to look at Yuan Zishan!

Simply because they had never seen such unparalleled beauty in their lives!
The leading monk grinned wickedly, "Isn't it a bit of a pity that such a beautiful woman died at our hands?"

A monk nearby lewdly chuckled, "Not bad!"

A monk behind them coldly said, "With a great battle imminent, you two are still thinking about such despicable things. Don't you want to die?"

The two monks in front simultaneously turned around and glared fiercely at the talkative monk!
The leading blood-braided monk coldly said, "They're just a few people from the Central Plains, what's so scary about them? What's wrong with playing around with this woman? You act like you've never done it before!"

The talkative monk said with a gloomy face, "Did the higher-ups say that these people are incredibly powerful? Just two of them wiped out three thousand cavalry and three thousand evil ghost soldiers of Jishi Army City!"

The leading monk sneered, "Hearsay! They're just scared out of their wits! Do you think I don't know? The truth about the so-called two men killing three thousand cavalrymen is that those three thousand cavalrymen were still asleep when they were secretly assassinated by two Han men!"

The monk beside him chimed in, "Exactly! It was just a sneak attack! If it were a real fight, could they possibly defeat three thousand iron cavalry? Are you kidding me?" He then turned to Yuan Zishan with a lewd grin, "Little girl, come here and let your Buddha give you a good beating!"

Yuan Zishan's gaze was fixed on the three hundred archers—the elite Tibetan archers of the Ice Ravine—and she said indifferently, "You should look behind you!" The thirty blood-braided monks were nothing to her!
The leading monk's expression changed instantly! He turned around abruptly and was shocked to find a young man in black standing beside him!

The young man's eyes were fierce and his aura imposing!
The monk sneered, "Him? Hmph! Then kill this brat first, and then enjoy this Han woman!" Suddenly, eight blood-red braids behind him coiled towards Pang Shiwu like venomous snakes!
The sky was filled with snake-like shadows, covering everything!
Pang Shiwu suddenly drew his sword!
With a flash of sword light, all eight "Reincarnation Ropes" snapped in two!

The leading monk was immediately terrified and froze on the spot!
The remaining twenty-nine blood-braided monks were also greatly shocked!
The black-clad youth's sword strike was so fast that the monks didn't even see the sword's momentum clearly, and the leader monk's eight bloody braids were already severed!
Pang Shiwu, with an arrogant expression, coldly said, "Kneel down, commit suicide, and I'll guarantee you a whole corpse!"

What? Kneeling? Suicide? To preserve the body intact?

All the monks were astonished!

The talkative monk looked solemn. "Is that sword at your waist the Blood Rain Fragrance Sword?" Pang Shiwu had just drawn the Frost Condensation Sword, but the talkative monk's gaze was now fixed on the Fragrance Sword at Pang Shiwu's waist!

Pang Shiwu was also somewhat surprised and said, "I didn't expect to find someone who recognizes the Fragrant Sword in this Tibetan territory! You must have a very rich travel experience!"

The monk said, "I had the good fortune to travel to the Central Plains in the past and heard of the sword's fearsome reputation!"

The leading monk, regaining his senses, immediately pointed at Pang Shiwu's nose and roared, "Kill him! Kill him! What are you all standing there for? Attack!"

At his roar, the monks immediately surrounded him like wild beasts!

The blood-red braids, like countless living snakes, coiled towards Pang Shiwu from all directions!
Pang Shiwu immediately held the Frost Condensation Sword upside down in front of his chest, with the tip pointing towards the ground, and began to spin around, his whole body spinning at high speed like a top!
As the Frost Condensation Sword circled in place, the interplay of light and shadow created a continuous sword shadow, encircling Pang Shiwu like an impenetrable iron barrel!

Every blood braid that attacked was cut off as soon as it got close! But due to inertia, the blood braids couldn't stop in time and continued to pounce forward. As a result, every time Pang Shiwu spun around, a section of the blood braid was cut off. In an instant, Pang Shiwu spun around more than ten times, and nearly half of the monks' blood braids were cut off!
It wasn't until nearly half of the blood braid was gone that the monks realized that the blood braid was only long enough to reach Pang Shiwu, and it no longer posed any threat! The blood braid began to hang limply like a dead snake. Because it had been cut in half, the braid began to become disheveled, and the eight "poisonous snakes" turned into thousands of "troublesome strands"!
The monks' expressions gradually became complex, showing fear, confusion, anger, and resentment.

But in the end, fear triumphed over anger!
The thirty-blood-braided monk actually started to retreat!

Pang Shiwu sneered, "Trying to run? Heh!"

Three hundred archers from the distant Ice Ravine had already raised their bows and were ready to shoot, but the archer centurion was surprised to find that the battle over there seemed to have ended!
Ice Ravine Archer Centurion frowned and said, "These monks are usually so arrogant, claiming to be unparalleled in combat, but I didn't expect them to show their true colors at the crucial moment! They really are useless!" He was speaking in Tibetan, and although Yuan Zishan couldn't understand what he was saying, she could guess most of it from his eyes and tone!
An archer behind asked, "Shall we fire again?"

"Of course we fired! Can't you see they're already at a disadvantage? Didn't the High Wizard instruct us to cover them?"

"But they are standing too close to those Han people; if we shoot arrows rashly, we might easily injure them!"

"who are they?"

"One of our own!"

"Our own people? Who are our own people?" The archer centurion's face was sinister!
Seeing the centurion's strange expression, the young archer knew he was displeased and could only bite the bullet and say, "Of course it's those thirty blood-braided executioners!"

A murderous glint flashed in the archer leader's eyes. "You mean the Blood-Braided Slayer Monk is one of us? Then how did Dorje die?"

The young archer was immediately taken aback!
He immediately fell into deep thought!
Dorje was his good brother who had fought alongside him and risked his life together!
Dorjee once saved his life! He was his savior!

Dorje fought bravely, but unfortunately he did not die on the battlefield. Instead, he died under the whip of the "so-called one of his own," the Blood-Braided Punisher Monk!

He was strangled in two by those monks!

That horrific scene remains vivid in my mind to this day, and I can never forget it!

The reason the other party attacked them was simply because Dorje glanced at them unintentionally! Dorje believed it was unintentional, but the other party insisted that Dorje deliberately looked at them sideways and was provoking them!

So one of the blood-braided monks started making a scene, insisting that Dorje had not only insulted the blood-braided monks, but also the great shaman and the king!

They tried to pin as many accusations as they could on Dorje, determined to kill him! Dorje naturally refused to accept this, and a fight broke out, ending in Dorje's tragic death!
When this news reached the military camp, it caused an uproar!
The entire camp immediately went into full armed service, determined to kill these arrogant monks who were relying on their master's power! These monks were even more rampant than the people from the Great Monastery!
If the Zanpu hadn't suppressed the matter, the two sides would have already fought a bloody battle!

The archer centurion said coldly, "They've never treated us like human beings! And you actually treat them like your own people! Damn it! Are you out of your mind?"

The archer immediately said awkwardly, "I'm sorry, I was wrong!" He suddenly changed the subject and said, "Then... shall we fire our arrows immediately to provide cover?"

The archers immediately responded, "Shoot! Shoot now!" Now was the perfect time! Once the blood-braided monk and the Han people were separated, the arrows would only be able to hit the Han people! There were too many people here, and who knew who was on whose side? The centurion dared not bear the crime of deliberately killing his own men!
At this time, the blood-braided monk was entangled with the Han people, so there was factual basis for the accidental injury!
The centurion immediately raised his right hand: "Ready!" All the archers immediately drew their bows, nocked their arrows, and aimed in Pang Shiwu's direction!

Yuan Zishan watched quietly. She knew that the moment the centurion lowered his hand would be the moment the archers of the Ice Ravine unleashed a rain of arrows!
She said calmly, "Indiscriminate attack? Fifteen has become the scapegoat again!"

The archer centurion dared not look directly at Yuan Zishan, his gaze fixed on the ground as he said, "Little girl! Although you have some beauty, don't even think about attracting my attention! You'd better give up your illusions! I will not spare your life!" Although the beauty before him was breathtakingly beautiful, and he wanted to possess her, the great wizard stood behind him! If he failed the mission, he himself might not even be able to save his own life!
Only a fool or a lecher would choose beauty over life!

Yuan Zishan said without any change in expression, "Since you have chosen the path of becoming soldiers, it means you are prepared to die! So I will not show any mercy! I will take all your lives!"

The three hundred archers from the Ice Ravine looked at each other in bewilderment, and then suddenly burst into laughter!
They seemed to have heard a really funny joke!

The girl in front of me was stunningly beautiful, but her tone seemed even more astonishingly arrogant!

She actually took the lives of three hundred people! Did she think she was some kind of peerless master who could "defeat a million soldiers with a single sword"? To fight three hundred people alone?
What's even more infuriating is that she said it so casually and calmly, as if... as naturally as she would tell a vendor at the market that she wanted to buy a few pounds of barley flour!
"Do you know who we are?" one of the archers finally couldn't take it anymore!

Yuan Zishan said calmly, "Do I need to know?"

Her eyes were deep, her voice ethereal, like a fairy untouched by worldly concerns, high above all. Before her, everyone suddenly felt as insignificant as ants, lacking even the courage to look up at her!
The archer who had just questioned Yuan Zishan only saw her profile. Now that he suddenly saw her face, he involuntarily lowered his head, feeling ashamed of himself!
He was filled with unease!
"How could there be such a cold and incomparably beautiful woman in this world?"

Yuan Zishan's beauty is noble yet aloof, imposing and aggressive! Few dare to meet her gaze directly! Women can't, and men even less so!
Especially now that she has three times the combat power of the Glazed Realm, her aloof temperament is becoming more and more obvious!
She is like a snow lotus on the cliff of Tianshan Mountain, beautiful, majestic, and aloof, someone you can only look up to, someone you can never reach!

Yuan Zishan said calmly, "My fiancé always says that Heaven cherishes life and advises us not to kill indiscriminately. So, I'm giving you a chance now! I'll count to three, and within three breaths, run as far as you can! After three breaths, I'm going to start a massacre!"

Killing these archers would not only deplete some of the Song Dynasty's military strength for attacking the Song, but also give the Tibetan people, who had been suffering from oppression, a chance to vent their anger!
She had heard from Venerable White Lotus that the reason why the Tibetan king was able to sit firmly on the throne of Zanpu was largely due to the contributions of his three great henchmen!

This Ice Ravine Archer is one of them!

The other two bloody weapons used to suppress the people are, of course, the blood-braided executioners and the evil ghost soldiers!

Bai Lian once said that the elusive nature of the Ice Ravine Archers lies in their "art of achieving oneness with the arrow"!
The whole process consists of roughly four steps.

The first step was to select suitable recruits; it is said that most archers were sons of serfs!
The next step is gouging out the right eye and implanting a hawk eye! Gouging out the archer's right eye and implanting a hawk eye, supposedly with a focus of three thousand feet! But looking at the right eyes of these archers, they all seem normal, not like they've had hawk eyes implanted!
Secondly, there's the story of cutting off fingers and poisoning them! But their fingers don't seem to be cut off. Could it be that the rumor of cutting off the middle three fingers of the right hand to make arrow fletching and balance the trajectory of the arrow is false?
It is said that the arrowhead was hollow and filled with "Laughing Frost Powder," a highly poisonous substance made from snow lotus and corpse poison.

Is there an antidote for this?

no respond!

Since that's the case, "Three!"

Yuan Zishan always keeps her word!
The archer leader frowned and roared, "Brothers! The high priest said that if we kill these Han Chinese, the emperor will give each of us ten yaks!" Strike first!

The archers, who had been listless just moments before, suddenly perked up!
Ten yaks! What does that even mean? Some families couldn't earn that much even after a lifetime of hard work!
Fight!

Even if I die, I can leave my family ten cows, that's worth it!

Their fighting spirit was instantly ignited!

Suddenly, all three hundred archers simultaneously readjusted their bows and crossbows, locking onto their target!
In an instant, Yuan Zishan noticed that some archers' right hands were indeed different from normal people's! Their right hands were indeed missing fingers! Just now, when they clenched their fists, it seemed as if all ten fingers were intact, so she hadn't noticed!
A severed finger becomes a feather! A ghostly wail and a divine scream!
It is said that their ice arrows can break through internal martial arts techniques!
According to Bai Lian, ice arrows are three times faster than ordinary arrows, and under the same conditions, their penetrating power is twice that of iron arrows. With these two advantages, their penetrating power is at least six times that of ordinary arrows!
It is also said that the arrowhead was etched with the "Cold Prison Curse", which further increased its power to break through the protective energy!
The Western Xia and the Tibetan Empire once fought a major battle. The Tibetan Empire was in dire straits, but the Ice Ravine Archers arrived just in time to save the day.

However, the Western Xia suffered heavy casualties in that battle and naturally sent reinforcements continuously. Later, some of them accidentally discovered that the crossbow bolts of the Tibetan archers in the icy streams could be attracted by magnets, which meant that the crossbow bolts contained iron. Therefore, the Western Xia army adopted the "magnetic tortoise trap" tactic to meet the enemy!
The specific operation involves casting an iron tortoise, embedding a magnet, and placing it on the battlefield. Once the opponent fires an ice arrow, it will inevitably be disturbed by the magnetic field, causing it to deviate from its trajectory!
To others, the Ice Stream Arrow etched with the "Cold Prison Curse" is incredibly cold and penetrating, but to Yuan Zishan, it is precisely her best whetstone!
Only a faster arrow speed can stimulate her to increase her speed as well!

Only with even more astonishing penetrating power can her defensive potential be further enhanced!
"two!"

Not a single archer fled!

Yuan Zishan said, "By the time I finish reading 'one,' you won't have a chance to run away!"

The archer leader didn't believe Yuan Zishan's words at all! If she were truly a top-tier expert, invincible and unstoppable, then everyone would just run away! Could a beautiful young woman really be split into three hundred people chasing after everyone at the same time? Absolutely impossible!
"One!" Yuan Zishan raised her right hand slightly, pointed in the air, and with a whoosh, a wisp of wind shot out!

*Thud!* Suddenly, a bloody hole exploded in the forehead of an archer! But instead of blood, countless blood-red beads burst out! The archer next to him turned pale upon seeing this!
The moment the dead archer pointed an arrow through the air between his brows, his entire body was frozen solid! Therefore, the bead of blood that burst from his brow was actually blood that had already solidified into ice. (End of Chapter)