The peddler’s eyes flashed with an intense killing intent.
He soared through the air, stretching out his demonic claws and twisting them mercilessly toward Little Jingkong’s neck!
The force of this move was not something a five-year-old child could dodge.
His demonic claw clamped onto Little Jingkong’s throat.
And just at that moment, something unexpected happened.
A sharp eagle’s cry suddenly rang out from the sky above, followed by the sound of something slicing through the air, masked by the eagle cry!
A silver, glittering Red-Tasseled Spear shot towards him with the speed of lightning and the force of splitting bamboo!
What a fast weapon!
He hurriedly dodged!
Unfortunately, it was too late. He was sent flying by the tremendous force, his entire arm severed by the Red-Tasseled Spear!
He crashed to the ground near the man in black, blood splattering everywhere!
After severing his arm, the Red-Tasseled Spear, undiminished in momentum, buried itself deeply in the trunk of a large tree behind them.
Cold sweat broke out all over the man in black.
He looked incredulously toward the other side of the woods, only to see a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy charging over on horseback.
The boy looked slim and his gaze was piercing, not as if he had walked out of the depths of the woods, but as if he had come from Purgatory to take revenge.
He was a god of death, and also an Asura!
The horse the boy was riding was not any exceptional steed, but as if sensing the boy’s fighting spirit, it became incredibly valiant, moving agile and sure-footed through the complex jungle.
As the horse galloped past the two little ones, Gu Jiao flicked her whip and scooped them up.
"Close your eyes,"
she said.
The two little ones raised their little hands and obediently covered their eyes.
Gu Jiao clenched her legs around the horse’s belly, hugging the two children with one arm and controlling the horse with the other as she leaped over the head of the man in black.
In the instant the horse hooves touched down, she coldly pulled out the Red-Tasseled Spear from the tree.
The Red-Tasseled Spear, which had almost penetrated the tree, was effortlessly pulled out by her.
She gripped the Red-Tasseled Spear tightly, swung it over her head, and flung it backward without looking.
The man in black and the peddler, who had just stood up attempting to sneak attack her, both fell to the ground.
...Their heads rolled away with a clatter.
...
Five guards, following the slightest of clues, arrived at the scene, all stunned by the bloody and brutal sight before them.
"What, what happened here? Who did this?"
They were all veterans of countless battles, but such grisly sights were still rare for them.
If this were on the Battlefield, it wouldn’t be too strange.
But this was just a patch of Shengdu’s woods!
A guard from the Dong Family recognized one of the men: "The man dressed as a peddler is a master recruited from the underground Martial Arts Arena by the Mu Family."
Everyone was even more astonished.
A guard from the Chen Family inspected the surroundings, his attention to detail was so sharp that he was the first to find the Little Princess.
He felt the hole in the tree and said, "The assailant used a long spear, and there are a child’s footprints on the ground. The Little Princess has been taken away."
A guard from the Yang Family asked, "Who exactly did this?"
A guard from the Dong Family replied, "It definitely wasn’t any of our five families. Although each of our families sent more than just us, none of us use a spear. We can all agree on that, right?"
The other four nodded.
Apart from their Dong, Yang, Chen, Geng, and Du families, that left the Wang, Han, Mu, Su, Geng families, as well as the National Master Hall and the Nangong Family.
The Nangong Family had just lost Nangong Li and were too busy with their own troubles to seriously join the search and rescue effort.
Since the incident involved the Mu Family, the Wang and Su families, who were aligned with the Mu Family, could also be ruled out.
That left the Han Family, Geng Family, and National Master Hall.
The Han Family did have practitioners of Spear Technique. frёewebnoѵel.ƈo๓
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