HCB Chapter 264 Who exactly is teaching whom?
Chapter 264 Who exactly is teaching whom?
"Ha! I'll lose? Ha! Heh heh!"
No sooner had Li Qingqing finished speaking than Vice Envoy Yao, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world, stared at Li Qingqing with icy eyes, and sneered repeatedly.
"Stand back! I, the deputy envoy, will teach you a lesson today, you arrogant brat! Come here and prepare to die!"
He clenched his teeth, and every word seemed to spring from an ice cellar.
Upon receiving the order, the Xuanjia soldiers immediately sheathed their swords and retreated swiftly.
Li Feng suddenly grabbed Li Qingqing's arm and whispered urgently,
"Don't be impulsive! Your status as the city lord is already a foregone conclusion. Even if he is an imperial envoy, we can still use the pretext of protecting the territory and ensuring the safety of the people to drive him out of the city!"
"Don't worry, he can't beat me," Li Qingqing reassured her softly.
"Given Vice Envoy Yao's temperament, he will surely issue a death order, commanding the Xuanjia soldiers to fight us to the death. We are poorly equipped, and if we engage in a head-on conflict, we will suffer heavy losses as well as we will lose eight hundred of our own troops. It would be better for me to fight him one-on-one, which would minimize our losses."
Li Feng glanced at the Xuanjia soldiers opposite him and remained silent for a moment.
The Tianwu Camp is directly under the emperor and is top-notch from head to toe. In contrast, the city's garrison soldiers are only well-equipped so far.
It was only after the iron mine owned by Liu that the equipment was gradually completed.
Thinking of this, Li Feng involuntarily released Li Qingqing's arm. "Alright, in that case, be careful! I'll cover for you!"
Li Feng made a gesture to the city guards.
The defending soldiers quickly put away their weapons and retreated in unison, but their formation remained unchanged, ready to strike first should the situation change.
The area that was just crowded suddenly cleared out a large space as the soldiers from both sides retreated.
Vice Envoy Yao stood at one side of the field, holding his long sword, and shouted sternly.
"Li Qing, I've long heard that you're skilled with a spear. Go and fetch your spear immediately, and I, your deputy envoy, will give you a proper lesson!"
Li Feng glanced coldly at Vice Envoy Yao and handed the spear in his hand to Li Qingqing, "You didn't bring a weapon, use mine."
"No need."
Li Qingqing's lips curled slightly as she turned her head to look at Vice General Chi, who stood silently to the side, staring intently at her.
"Hey, Brother Chi, don't just stand there, lend me your longsword."
When Lieutenant General Chi was suddenly called upon, he instinctively flinched at his sword-wielding right hand, but quickly handed it over, letting out a loud shout.
"Li Qing, here, take this sword! Use it as you like! You must win! Just... just please don't use my sword to stab wood again!"
There was a wooden flagpole not far away; let's just hope that the two of them don't end up fighting over there.
Deputy General Chi was inwardly miserable, but outwardly he put on a show of magnanimity.
Li Qingqing grinned at him, took the longsword offered to her, and walked towards Vice Envoy Yao.
"This sword will do the trick on you! Remember, don't try to cheat if you lose!"
"Enough with the nonsense! Swords have no eyes, don't blame me if you die!" Vice Envoy Yao glared at him and raised his long sword.
He leaped into the air, his entire body springing up, and thrust his sword straight at Li Qingqing.
Vice Envoy Yao's first move was a deadly strike.
The sword flashed like a silver rainbow, and in the blink of an eye, it arrived directly in front of Li Qingqing's throat.
"Watch out!" Lieutenant General Chi shouted in alarm.
Li Feng reacted quickly, covering his mouth and scolding, "Shut up! Don't startle me and distract Li Qing!"
Vice General Chi covered his eyes and quickly blinked to indicate that he understood.
Li Feng glared at him, let go of his hand, ignored Vice General Chi, and turned to stare intently at the long sword.
Li Qingqing slightly turned her body, and easily dodged the sword tip that was thrusting towards her.
"Lord Yao, your temper is too fiery. This move is not bad, but the sword style is a bit too old!"
Li Qingqing casually uttered a sentence, instantly igniting Vice Envoy Yao's anger.
"you wanna die!"
Seeing that Li Qingqing had dodged the sword, Vice Envoy Yao took advantage of the momentum and twisted his wrist to change the thrust into a sweep.
The sword blade slashed straight towards Li Qingqing's waist.
Li Qingqing remained calm and quickly took a few steps back, still offering her comments with a smile.
"His ability to adapt to changing circumstances is acceptable, but unfortunately he is impatient and overexerts himself, resulting in a weak lower body."
"I, the deputy envoy, will kill you!" Deputy Envoy Yao's pupils constricted, filled with shame and rage!
He kept moving his feet and changed his sword moves, determined to stab the person who was commenting on him with seventeen or eighteen bloody holes!
But the other party always managed to dodge by the slightest margin, and not only that, they also uttered arrogant words.
"Tsk tsk, Lord Yao, are you getting angry because you couldn't kill me?"
"Your sword strike was indeed fast, but unfortunately it was scattered and not cohesive, a major flaw in swordsmanship!"
"Oh dear, Lord Yao, if you had just taken just half a step more to the left, you could have stabbed me! What a pity, what a pity!"
Deputy Envoy Yao was so angry that her face turned ashen. As she continued to speak in a series of sentences, she gradually lost her composure, and the long sword in her hand became erratic.
His killing intent surged to the heavens; he wished he could chop the person who had mocked him into pieces!
The Xuanjia soldiers were dumbfounded. For the first time, Lord Yao, who was usually cold and ruthless, was being made a fool of like a monkey.
The Xuanjia soldiers looked at each other in bewilderment, then secretly rejoiced!
Fortunately, their master and Li Qing decided the outcome through a one-on-one duel; otherwise, if they had been fighting against the enemy's army, they would have all perished here.
Li Feng gripped the spear tightly in his hand, his eyes fixed on the two people competing in the open space.
Lieutenant General Chi's eyes widened in surprise, and he murmured to himself in astonishment.
"I never expected Li Qing to have such a mischievous personality! Just now, Vice Envoy Yao kept saying he would teach Li Qing, but in the end, Li Qing taught him instead!"
In the distance, a man rushed over, shouting as he ran, "Stop!"
He ran breathlessly, but he rushed towards the open space as if his life depended on it.
No one noticed him; they were all staring at Li Qingqing and Vice Envoy Yao.
Just as Vice Envoy Yao was about to thrust his sword at Li Qingqing again with great momentum...
Li Qingqing finally made her move.
Instead of retreating, she met Vice Envoy Yao's thrusting sword head-on, raised her longsword, and struck at Vice Envoy Yao's right wrist.
Then, with a flick of the sword tip, he knocked the longsword out of Vice Envoy Yao's hand.
"Clang!" All the crowd saw was Vice Envoy Yao's longsword fly away in a flash.
It drew a beautiful arc in mid-air and cut diagonally in front of someone who had suddenly barged into the competition area.
The man was so startled that he fell to the ground.
The soldiers gasped in shock.
Lieutenant General Chi blurted out, "Which blind fool didn't know there was a martial arts competition on this field? He deserved to be killed!"
As Deputy General Chi spoke, he took a closer look and immediately froze, "Lord Zhang!?"
Lord Zhang, dressed in ordinary clothes, looked haggard and was still in shock as he stared at the long sword that had fallen from the sky and was stuck in the ground.
The longsword was still trembling slightly.
That was close! If he had scored a few more points faster, this unexpected disaster would have struck him!
Fortunately, he doesn't exercise much and isn't fast, which saved his life!
Just as Zhang Haoyi was secretly rejoicing, he suddenly heard a cold voice from ahead, "You lost!"
Zhang Haoyi looked in the direction of the sound and saw Li Qing holding a long sword, pressed against Vice Envoy Yao's throat.
Vice Envoy Yao's face was deathly pale. He remained silent, but stared intently at Li Qing with his cold eyes.
Zhang Haoyi: !!!
Zhang Haoyi remembered the mission he had come for, and he scrambled to his feet.
"Stop! Stop now! Let's talk this out!"