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

Chapter 2108 Prepare the car, let's retreat!

The centurion, however, was not so hesitant and roared, "Prepare the bone-feathered arrows!"

Upon hearing the command, the archers instinctively drew their life-saving talisman—bone-finger feathered arrows!
Three fingers form a feather, containing a universe within!
The arrowhead contains a deadly poison, its shaft is engraved with incantations, and its fletching is made from three finger bones of the archer, imbued with his life's destiny. This arrow can pierce through seven armored soldiers!

Nearly a hundred archers placed their hopes for survival on this arrow!
Once this arrow is shot, they can only leave their fate to chance!

If the stunningly beautiful woman is shot, they can live!

Otherwise, they will die!

"Release!" the centurion shouted, turning and running away!

Whether or not the arrows kill the demoness is not important; what matters is whether these nearly one hundred ice arrows can slow her down! Every moment counts!
A barrage of arrows rained down from both in front and behind, accompanied by a ghostly wail. It was eerie and unsettling, and one could clearly sense that this time, the arrows were different! The killing intent was stronger, and the danger was greater!
Yuan Zishan naturally wouldn't risk taking the hit head-on. With a graceful turn, she glided to the side of the street like flowing water. Arrows rained down from both sides, and some of the ice arrows even hit her own men. Although not many, they still affected more than thirty people! Screams suddenly rang out, causing everyone to sigh in dismay!

Chili looked at him with sympathy and sighed, "It's really pathetic. They're shooting at each other! Don't they use their brains? If the people on both sides are shooting at each other, what if the person in the middle suddenly disappears? Wouldn't all the arrows end up hitting their own people?"

Venerable White Lotus said, "They are in a life-or-death situation, and their minds are under great tension. How can they have time to think about anything else? Shooting and running away is their only thought at this moment!" Before he finished speaking, the archers indeed began to run away!
Chili realized what was happening too: "They've fired their last arrow; we have no choice but to run!"

With a wave of her sleeve, Yuan Zishan caused the ice arrows on the ground to swirl and spin around her. She then used both hands to spin simultaneously, flicking her jade fingers to send the ice arrows flying past her flying out one after another, faster than arrows shot from a powerful bow!
puff!
puff!
puff!
At the same time, the archers who fled to the east and west ends of the street fell one after another, struck by arrows!
The rain of arrows continued unabated, growing ever stronger, and within moments all the fleeing archers fell to the ground, unable to rise again!

The centurion took advantage of the chaos to fall to the ground and feign death! He timed his fall perfectly, just as someone next to him was struck by an arrow and fell. In that instant, he fell beneath the archer!

He will "come back to life" once these Han Chinese leave!
Feng Jiuxiao slowly walked towards Yuan Zishan. The distance between them shrank from fifty feet to forty feet, and then to thirty feet. At this moment, Yuan Zishan also walked back to greet him!
The two met soon after.

Chili frowned and said, "They're showing off their love again!"

Yuan Zishan looked a little embarrassed. "Why did you come here?" Why didn't you just walk back? Why did you have to come and greet me in front of so many people? Isn't that too ostentatious?
But then Feng Jiuxiao laughed and said, "What do you think I came here for?"

Yuan Zishan noticed out of the corner of her eye that Chili, Chang Zijin, Xiong Mengyan, and others were all watching her, and she immediately felt both embarrassed and anxious: "Go back!"

Feng Jiuxiao laughed and said, "Don't be in a hurry, turn around and look at that person!" He pointed behind Yuan Zishan!
Yuan Zishan was half-believing and half-doubting. She slowly turned around and saw a pile of archer corpses lying haphazardly in front of her, with nothing unusual about them.

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Feel it carefully."

Yuan Zishan frowned and said, "You mean someone inside faked their death?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "That's right!"

The blush on Yuan Zishan's face instantly faded, and she immediately took several steps back!
She calmed herself and carefully sensed the pile of corpses ten feet away!
She couldn't hear anything! If someone feigned death, sensing their heartbeat from ten feet away was extremely difficult! Even with three times the power of a Glazed Warrior, Yuan Zishan couldn't detect it! She was somewhat displeased, "You seemed to be able to hear the heartbeat of someone within ten feet when you were at the peak of the Ninth Realm, right?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "It's not ten zhang, it's five zhang!" Within five zhang, snakes and ants can move freely, all under his control!
Yuan Zishan frowned and said, "I am now at the triple Glazed Realm, so why can't I hear a heartbeat within ten feet?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "You can't calm your mind! Your mind is always on the chili peppers!"

Yuan Zishan glared at Feng Jiuxiao and said, "If you don't come over, how can I concentrate?"

Feng Jiuxiao laughed and said, "It's all my fault! Do you want to know which one faked their death?"

Yuan Zishan said irritably, "Lead the way!"

The centurion was praying in his heart!

He hoped the Han people would leave as soon as possible. But he heard no sound and dared not move.

Suddenly, someone spoke from above, "Here." The voice appeared without warning, startling him so much he almost jumped up! Luckily, he was on top of his companion's corpse, otherwise his slight trembling would have been noticed!

Who on earth is this person? They walk without making a sound!
A woman's voice rang out, "You mean him?" The voice was very young, and the centurion immediately knew that the speaker was the girl who killed people like mowing grass!
The young man's voice rang out again: "That's right! He wasn't injured at all. He even deliberately lay under his companion so you wouldn't find out."

The centurion grew increasingly panicked as he listened!

Could this be referring to myself?
Yuan Zishan said, "I can hear his breathing and heartbeat now!"

The centurion thought to himself: I've been holding my breath, but there's no sound of breathing at all. It seems she's not talking about me!
Feng Jiuxiao said, "He's holding his breath, he's not breathing."

Yuan Zishan said, "It wasn't him? But the breathing sound was coming from him!"

The centurion's heart skipped a beat. Something was wrong; why couldn't he hear any breathing? Suddenly, he felt the corpse on top of him move slightly! Yes, it wasn't a hallucination; the thing on top of him had indeed moved! It was just a very slight movement, absolutely imperceptible unless the two were in close contact!
Could it be... that the thing on my body is also faking death? Damn! This kid is even more cunning than me!
Feng Jiuxiao said, "Their heads are close together, so it's normal that you misheard."

Yuan Zishan frowned and said, "Are they both pretending to be dead?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "That's right!"

Yuan Zishan carefully examined the "corpse" on the centurion's body. There was a round hole about the thickness of a finger in his chest, which was naturally made by her Illusionary Yin Finger. But strangely, there was no bloodstain!
With a flick of her right palm, a surge of energy ripped through the "corpse's" light armor into countless fragments, revealing its chest. The chest muscles were large, yet there were no wounds!
Yuan Zishan said, "So he was just faking death!" Her gaze swept over the shattered light armor scattered on the ground for a few moments before settling on a bronze mirror. It was a breastplate, with a deep hole dented in its surface. The bronze mirror was very flexible; it hadn't been pierced!
That's it!

Yuan Zishan picked up the bronze mirror, and with a gentle tear, it broke into two pieces. "The bronze mirror isn't very sturdy. It seems he was too far away from me at the time, and his finger strength wasn't enough!"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "That's right! If it were within three zhang, you would have already shattered this bronze mirror! So, how much did that battle benefit you?"

Yuan Zishan said, "Those ice arrows really stimulated a lot of my potential. If I'm not careful, they might break through the glass shield. I feel that it won't be long before I break through the four-fold glass barrier!"

"That's good! Will you handle these two, or shall I?"

"I'll do it! We've killed all two hundred and ninety-eight already, two more won't make a difference!"

The archer on the centurion's back suddenly turned and knelt on the ground, kowtowing frantically and pleading in broken Chinese, "Spare me! Spare me!"

The centurion cursed inwardly: Damn it! You begged for mercy and exposed me!
Feng Jiuxiao said, "Judging from your clothes, you should be one of their leaders. Stop pretending to be dead!"

The centurion had no choice but to rise. He didn't kneel, wanting to maintain his last shred of dignity! He had a strong premonition that his opponent would never spare his life! Since death was inevitable anyway, why bother to compromise?

The archer kneeling on the ground continued to beg for mercy.

The centurion yelled, "Stand up! Coward!"

The archer was taken aback, remained silent for a long while, and then slowly stood up!

The heavy and oppressive atmosphere made him feel that his chances of surviving today were slim.

Yuan Zishan said, "I've said what I needed to say, and I've given you all the chances I needed to give. There's no way I'll let you two live. However, I still respect your choice of how to die!"

The centurion thought for a moment, gritted his teeth, picked up an ice arrow from the ground, and plunged it into his throat. Thud—the arrowhead emerged from the back of his neck, streaked with blood. He croaked, "Om, Mani, Padme, Hum, Kacha, Jialuo, Sibare!" and then died.
Feng Jiuxiao asked the last surviving archer, "What incantation did he just chant?"

The archer initially wanted to refuse to answer, but then noticed a strange light flash in the white-clad youth's eyes. He was then immersed in a strange, dark world, and suddenly the person he admired and respected most appeared before him. Without thinking, he knelt on the ground, and the person asked a question, "What spell did he just chant?" The archer respectfully replied, "The War Death Spell."

Under the cover of night, in the boundless wilderness, the man asked, "What do you mean?"

The archer said, "Om Mani Padme Hum is the six-syllable mantra of Avalokiteshvara, mainly used to make the enemy relax; Kacha means 'teeth devouring flesh,' and Jialuo alludes to 'the enemy's heart.' When reciting it, bite off the root of your tongue and spit out blood, which can be condensed into a blood-curdling arrow that can pierce the enemy's heart!"

"Then why didn't he spray blood curse arrows just now?"

"He's probably already dead and too weak to fire an arrow!"

What does "Sparge" mean?

"Spar is summoning the God of War, 'Sparben'! He's using his soul as collateral to exchange for the curse of three lifetimes, to entangle and kill the enemy's bloodline!"

"What? Using your soul as collateral? In exchange for a curse spanning three lifetimes? Does that mean you've handed over your soul to Spaben, the God of War, in exchange for his help to specifically target your descendants for three generations?"

"That's understandable!"

"Damn it, I never thought this guy was so cunning! Even in death, he's still up to no good, trying to cast spells to harm us. Leaving him with a whole corpse would be an insult to heaven, earth, and my dearest wife!"

Yuan Zishan frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "He's in my isolated little world, so he can't hear our conversation."

Yuan Zishan blushed and scolded, "Shut up!"

Feng Jiuxiao never expected that the aloof Yuan Zishan would show such a girlish side, and he was stunned for a moment!
Yuan Zishan immediately reverted to her icy goddess demeanor, pierced the archer's brow with a single finger, and turned to leave!
Feng Jiuxiao immediately said, "Wait for me."

Yuan Zishan didn't turn her head. She took small steps, but like a fairy walking on water, she was already several feet away in an instant.

Feng Jiuxiao was taken aback. "Wow, your lightness skill has improved too!"

Yuan Zishan walked ahead without turning her head, only saying, "That's right!"

Chili, seeing the young lady return in triumph, immediately went to greet her, "Miss, you were amazing!"

Yuan Zishan smiled and said, "Oh, don't flatter me!"

Pang Shiwu returned at this moment and leaned close to Feng Jiuxiao, "Brother, I feel that if Zhao Guangyi were to attack now, the Tubo would have no soldiers left to use, and wouldn't the Song army be invincible?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Once we arrived in Tibet, many communication channels were cut off. We don't know how the battle for Jinyang City is going, or whether the destruction of Zhou was a victory or a defeat."

Pang Shiwu asked, "If Liu fails to defeat Zhou, will he flee?"

Feng Jiuxiao said, "Yes! He will conserve his strength and seize the opportunity to kill Zhao Guangyi! If he wins, Zhao Guangyi will die; if he loses, Zhao Guangyi will also die! He and Zhao Guangyi are sworn enemies!"

Pang Shiwu's face showed worry. "Is there really no way to turn this around?"

Feng Jiuxiao was also somewhat helpless, "It's too late to help now!" Some things, once they happen, there's no going back!
Looking at the corpses scattered on the ground, Pang Shiwu suddenly had an idea, "Brother, how about we storm into the royal city and kill the Zanpu?"

Feng Jiuxiao shook his head, "This is bad!"

"Why? Isn't he the biggest menace?"

"He is indeed the greatest menace, but precisely because he is the greatest, the other menaces have restrained themselves and are relatively well-behaved in their respective territories. If we kill the Zanpu, we must wipe out all the serf lords, nobles, and warriors in one fell swoop! Otherwise, the embers will rise again!"

"Kill all the lords and nobles at the same time? We don't have the energy for that!"

"Therefore, we cannot rush to change the status quo of Tibet. If we kill the Zanpu, the nobles in various regions will become restless, and just like in the Central Plains, there will be turmoil similar to the War of the Eight Princes, and it will be the common people who suffer!"

"Then spare his life for now!"

"In the long run, keeping them alive is better than killing them!"

"Damn it, seeing the suffering these people are enduring makes me want to kill those parasites who just eat and do no work!"

“I told you, someone will do this. This person will appear, and he will become the great savior of the Tibetan people!”

Who could this person be?

"I don't know! But I believe that this person will definitely appear! He must have extraordinary talent! At that time, Liaodong, the Central Plains, and Lingnan will be unified, and Tibet, Dali, and Western Xia will all be incorporated into the Chinese territory!"

Why do you believe that?

"Because the ancients had done it before, or at least came very close to succeeding! Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, laying the foundation for the unification of China, and emperors of all dynasties took this as their lifelong goal! Why did Li Shimin call himself the Heavenly Khan? Because the entire Western Regions were bowing down to the Central Plains! If the ruler of Tibet had submitted to the Tang emperor back then, Princess Wencheng wouldn't have needed to go to marry him!"

Pang Shiwu cursed, "Damn it, what kind of marriage alliance is this? It's pure robbery! Do you think they'll behave if we don't marry them our princess?" They won't give anything, they'll just steal! That's how shameless they are! A so-called marriage alliance involves giving away a princess and many other things! So the real purpose of Tibet's marriage alliance wasn't because Tibet lacked beautiful women!
For the Central Plains dynasties, marriage alliances were nothing short of a slap in the face!
When a dynasty's military power is at its peak, there is no such thing as a marriage alliance.
"Brother, will they send more people?"

“Normally, yes. The people in the royal city won’t be able to sleep if they don’t kill us. But if they find out that the two elite teams they sent have been wiped out, they might change their minds.”

"Change their minds? What do they want now?"

"What else can we do but run away!"

The royal city was indeed in complete chaos.

A scout just reported that the Blood-Braided Monk and the Ice Ravine Archers have been completely wiped out!

After listening, the king remained silent, then turned and ordered his guards, "Prepare the carriages, let's retreat!"

The great wizard remained unmoved upon hearing this.

The Zanpu can leave, but he cannot!
He also had to cover the rear!
The king glanced at him before leaving, but said nothing. The unspoken understanding between them remained; some things didn't need to be said.

The great wizard suddenly felt a sense of desolation.

He stepped out of the golden tent, looked up at the sky, and saw several vultures circling, seemingly searching for a dead body!
What a bad luck!
Am I going to become their food?

(Attached photo: Yuan Zishan. Relatively close to the image in my mind.)