Time Travel: I'm a Flower Thief

On the cliffs of the East China Sea, at the foot of Mount Fuyu.

Qin Huaiyu's palm strike was fierce, and he had pushed the Heavenly Gang Child Skill to its limit. The palm print brought with it a strong wind and smashed towards Xie Lingyun, causing ripples to spread through the surrounding air.

"Xie Lingyun! You're protecting this treacherous dragon who brings disaster to the country. Aren't you afraid of endangering the lives of countless people?"

Xie Lingyun spun around, sword in hand, the blade imbued with the force of the East Sea tide, the shockwave causing his robes to flutter wildly.

"Eunuch Qin, the Imperial Observatory mobilized such a massive army over a single prophecy. This overreaction shows the true strength of the imperial court!"

boom--

The two clashed their swords, causing the ground to crack.

Qin Huaiyu's eyes darkened, and his palm strike tightened: "Stubborn fool! Today I will rid His Majesty of this threat!"

Xie Lingyun's sword intent surged through the air, showing no sign of weakness: "With me here, no one can touch Xie Xiaoyi!"

This side—

Xie Xiaoyi defeated more than a hundred armored soldiers. He looked up and saw the raging waves of the East China Sea crashing against the cliffs, with white waves carrying the salty wind onto the beach.

The sight filled him with immense joy, and he held the Guanchaohai sword horizontally with his hand, pointing it directly at the thousand-plus armored soldiers.

"The tide rises from the East Sea, its sword aura chilling; a single blade sweeps across the sky, floating like a jade mountain. I brandish my sword and roar to the heavens, daring to reduce armored warriors to dust!"

Dare to reduce ironclad armor to dust?

What an arrogant brat!

Wang Yu's hands, which were hanging on his knees, suddenly tightened, and a sinister glint flashed in his eyes:

"My father entrusted this matter to me, and I must not mess it up. It's just that Xie Lingyun is so protective of him!"

If we capture this brat today, we'll definitely use him to blackmail Xie Lingyun and force him to submit.

I want to taste what it's like to have the most beautiful woman in the world in bed!

Then, presenting this boy to the Emperor would be an even greater achievement. Wouldn't that be perfect?

Thinking of this, Wang Yu snorted coldly: "Set up the formation and take it down."

Upon hearing this, the armored soldier commander immediately roared, "Form ranks! Trap him!"

The people received the order.

Another hundred or so armored soldiers charged forward, spears and shields raised, closing in.

Xie Xiaoyi knew the answer.

With his current cultivation level, defeating the newly arrived hundred armored soldiers would not be difficult, but Guan Canghai would consume a trace of true energy for every piece of armor he cleaved through.

If this fight continues, the more people we kill, the more our inner energy will be depleted, and sooner or later we will suffer a loss.

His thoughts shifted, and he suddenly remembered the novel "The Deer and the Cauldron" that he had read before he transmigrated.

There was a master named Feng Xifan there, nicknamed "One Sword Without Blood".

His greatest skill is to condense sword energy at the tip of his sword and use it to strike the opponent's pressure points, defeating them in one blow without needing to slash wildly.

That's it!

Xie Xiaoyi said one thing but meant another, feigning composure, and pointed at the armored soldiers rushing towards him with a light sigh:

"You people are all born of fathers and mothers. If I were to go on a killing spree, how many parents would weep for their lost children, and how many wives would be left to live alone?"

"Fine! I'll soften my heart this time."

With a single word!

He sheathed his fierce sword stance, secretly channeling his power into his palm. With the enhancement of his Profound Realm cultivation, a wisp of sword energy, as thin as a silver thread, condensed at the tip of his sword.

With each stroke of his longsword, whether pointing or flicking, the armored soldiers were pierced through their armor and their vital points sealed, falling to the ground and unable to rise. The hundred-man army collapsed in the blink of an eye!

The four guards were shocked, their expressions changing drastically, even more so than when they saw him break through a hundred armors without taking a breath!

As the four strongest experts under Wang Yu's command, how could they not know the power of "instant kill without bloodshed"?

In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred elite armored soldiers collapsed to the ground, without even letting out a scream!

This technique of condensing qi to strike acupoints and sealing meridians through armor is precise, ruthless, and yet effortless. Is he really just a womanizer?

At this moment, Xie Xiaoyi, who was infuriatingly arrogant, stood with his sword sheathed, the tip of which pointed diagonally at Wang Yu's carriage, and snorted in a roguish tone:

"Surrender! You are surrounded!"

That's fucking arrogant!

Even with his calm demeanor, Wang Yu was now so enraged that his face turned black, and he growled in a low voice, suppressing his anger:

"Keep going! One hundred isn't enough, send another hundred! We'll work him to death!"

The armored commander dared not hesitate, immediately mustering another hundred or so men, who charged forward again with spears and shields in hand...

Xie Xiaoyi raised a slight smirk, advancing instead of retreating.

Before the hundred armored soldiers could even fully break out of their formation, the others had already moved.

His movements were as swift as the wind and as fast as lightning, giving his opponent no chance to react.

In a flash, his figure moved so fast that he became just a blur, transforming into an invisible barrier in front of the hundreds of armored soldiers.

One enemy rushed out and he knocked them down; two rushed out and he took down both.

What was clearly a group of hundreds surrounding and attacking him has now been transformed into—

He alone surrounded the entire army!

In an instant, the armored soldiers who had been knocked down had formed a human wall lying haphazardly in front of the formation.

Xie Xiaoyi had nowhere to stand, and with each step he took, he landed on the shoulders, arms, and heads of those people, still moving as fast as lightning.

In the end, only two hundred armored soldiers remained by Wang Yu's side, protecting the carriage. They all looked terrified, and no one dared to step forward rashly.

The four guards bowed urgently and cried out, "Your Highness! If we go any further, there will be no one to protect you!"

Wang Yu's face was ashen, his knuckles turning white as he gripped the carriage curtain, but he gritted his teeth and refrained from giving any further orders.

The two hundred men around him were his last line of defense; no matter how angry he was now, he dared not gamble with his own life.

"Useless! All of them are useless! Eight hundred elite armored soldiers couldn't even take down Xie Xiaoyi?"

Sweat beaded on Zhang San's forehead as he leaned close to the carriage curtain and whispered, "Your Highness! I'm afraid the intelligence from Lingxiao Palace is wrong."

"Then Xie Xiaoyi must be more than just a ninth-grade cultivator; judging from the situation, he should have entered the upper five realms."

"The Upper Five Realms?"

"Indeed, those at the upper five realms are far superior to martial artists below the ninth rank. Let alone ordinary armored soldiers, even if Zhao Liu and the other three attacked together, we'd be easy prey!"

Wang Yu suppressed his anger and thought to himself:

"Qin Huaiyu once said that some people spend their entire lives stuck at the fifth rank of cultivation, and those who can reach the ninth rank are considered top experts."

As for the Upper Five Realms, they are simply not a threshold that ordinary people can even touch. How could Xie Xiaoyi, at such a young age, already be in the Upper Five Realms?

He looked unwilling!

He had long remembered Xie Lingyun's appearance, and had even planned out how to treat her after he had her.

When I first saw her exchanging glances with that flower thief, I knew their relationship was anything but ordinary.

He had the whole plan: capture Xie Xiaoyi, blackmail Xie Lingyun, then have Eunuch Qin cripple her martial arts, and then he could do whatever he wanted...

But that's not the case at all now!

With only two hundred men left to protect him, if they charged any further, they might not only fail to capture Xie Xiaoyi, but they themselves might also perish.

Great!

I should have brought three or four thousand armored soldiers!

Now it seems the only hope is that Qin Huaiyu defeats Xie Lingyun and then captures Xie Xiaoyi...