Chapter 83: Entrustment in a Time of Crisis
"Master Dong!"

Cao Qin recognized from afar that the middle-aged man leading the group of Yulong Palace disciples was the head of the Yulong Hall, Dong Yuan.

Among the twelve branches of the Jade Dragon Palace, the Jade Dragon and Jade Tiger branches are the most powerful. There are two cities in the north and south of Tianshan Mountain. Cao Qin's Jade Tiger Branch governs Huodu in the north of the mountain, while Dong Yuan's Jade Dragon Branch governs Licheng in the south of the mountain. Cao Qin and Dong Yuan are very similar in status and power, so Cao and Dong have a close personal relationship.

Different from Cao Qin's vicious face, Dong Yuan had a dignified appearance, regular features, and a domineering aura between his brows. With his unusually burly stature, from a distance he looked like a general commanding an army.

However, Dong Yuan's appearance and character are very different. Although he has a good appearance and a righteous face, he is actually an insidious villain. He is flattering to his superiors and cruel to his subordinates. His treachery and cruelty are even worse than Cao Qin.

Dong Yuan frowned as if he heard Cao Qin's call, so he called out, "Master Cao, did the rain of arrows just now hurt you? I heard the sound of fighting from afar and thought it was bandits, so I didn't have time to worry too much. If I knew Master Cao was here, I would definitely not order the arrows to be shot."

"Master Dong, you are too polite!" Cao Qin was extremely disgusted with Dong Yuan's evasion, but on the surface he still pretended to be righteous and said, "Except for Cao, everyone here is an enemy of my Yulong Palace. Master Dong's arrows are very well shot!"

Listening to the intimate conversation between Cao Qin and Dong Yuan, Liu Xunyi's heart sank to the bottom of the valley. But when he turned around and looked at Bai Shuang who was trembling with fear, his mind could not help but recall the pitiful appearance of Liu Xunyu crying and calling for brother in the past, and thought to himself: "When Yu'er was kidnapped, she must have been so scared, right?"

When he thought of his sister, Liu Xunyi couldn't help feeling a pain in his heart. When he looked at Bai Shuang again, who was quite similar to Liu Xunyu in his memory, he suddenly made up his mind that no matter whether Bai Shuang was Liu Xunyu or not, he must rescue her from danger today.

"Mr. Liu...you...your injury..." Bai Shuang's delicate hands, suspended in mid-air, kept shaking. She didn't dare touch Liu Xunyi's wound, but she watched the blood flowing out along the arrow, and she couldn't hide her worry and fear in her heart. Bai Shuang's concern for Liu Xunyi's injury at this moment was at least half out of her own safety, but at least half out of genuine gratitude to Liu Xunyi for saving her life.

"Tang... Tang Afu!" Liu Xunyi looked at Tang Afu not far away, and slowly spoke while enduring the severe pain, "The strong reinforcements from Yulong Palace have arrived, can you... take her away?" As he spoke, Liu Xunyi stretched out his hand to push the anxious Bai Shuang, and said, "If we continue to stay here, we will all die..."

"Why should I ask her?" Tang Afu replied coldly, "If I want to leave, no one can stop me."

"You underestimated the strength of the Jade Dragon Palace." Liu Xunyi said anxiously, "Just now, you almost died under the sword of Su He alone. Could it be that... the masters sent by the Jade Dragon Palace are not as good as Su He alone? After all, this is the territory of the Jade Dragon Palace... There are many masters, and they can come to help in a short time... She is just a woman. If she falls into the hands of the Jade Dragon Palace, I don't know how much torture she will suffer... I beg you to take her away, I will stop them for you..."

Tang Afu was stunned, staring at Liu Xunyi with deep eyes, and asked: "You beg me?"

"Yes..." Liu Xunyi nodded heavily, "I beg you to take her away." After that, Liu Xunyi quickly took off the black bamboo tube behind him and handed it to Bai Shuang. Then he pushed Bai Shuang towards Tang Afu and said loudly, "I will give you the Wind and Rain Painting, I only ask you to take her away quickly..."

"Zhoya!"

Under the big tree opposite, Bater's screams suddenly resounded in the forest.

Bater and Chagan were seen supporting Zhuoya, who was leaning against the tree, on the left and right. Su He stood by with a complicated expression, deep eyes and silence. At this moment, Zhuoya was covered in blood and motionless. There were several arrows soaked in blood on her chest, lower abdomen and thighs. With such serious injuries, she seemed to be dead. Bater's scream just now was enough to confirm her bad luck.

"Master Dong, we are targeting that kid. Don't let any of these people go. Kill them without mercy." Cao Qin looked like a villain who had gained power and was hateful. He pointed at Liu Xunyi and the others and directed it to Dong Yuan.

Dong Yuan just nodded slightly, then glanced at Liu Xunyi coldly, waved his hand, and ordered: "Kill them and bring the map back!"

"I'll stop them, and you take Bai Shuang away!"

Liu Xunyi's eyes turned fierce, and he didn't care about Tang Afu's reaction. He suddenly dragged the hesitant Bai Shuang in front of Tang Afu, then covered the wound on his lower abdomen with his left hand, raised the sword in his right hand, and killed several Yulong Palace disciples who were rushing towards him.

"I want you to pay with blood!"

Bater, who was shot in the thigh, stared with tearful eyes, completely ignoring Su He's dissuasion, waving his scimitar and rushing into a group of Yulong Palace disciples, fighting with them like crazy.

Chagan was shot in the abdomen and back and had no strength to fight anymore. He could only lie beside Zhuoma's body, staring at the battle with angry eyes.

As for Su He, he pulled out the two arrows from his body with his bare hands. Even though the severe pain was rising and falling all over his body, Su He never made a sound from beginning to end. He even didn't frown when he pulled out the arrows.

Su He casually threw away two arrows stained with his own blood, which directly pierced the necks of two Yulong Palace disciples who were rushing towards him, killing them on the spot.

"The Shocking Wind and Rain Map is with that woman, bring it back to me!" Cao Qin shouted, and then led a dozen disciples to rush towards Bai Shuang and Tang Afu. But before they could get close, Liu Xunyi, who was covered in blood and looked like an evil ghost, suddenly appeared on the way. With a flash of sword, seven or eight disciples of Yulong Palace fell to the ground, and then fought with Cao Qin.

"Tang Afu, why don't you take her away!" Liu Xunyi, who was in the middle of the battle, urged Tang Afu, "Don't you dislike owing others? I will exchange the picture for her life now, and we will not owe each other anything."

Looking at Liu Xunyi who was fighting hard with Cao Qin and others, Tang Afu looked around the battle situation again, and saw more and more Yulong Palace disciples coming from afar. He made up his mind immediately and snatched the black bamboo tube from Baishuang's hand. Then, under Baishuang's terrified and worried gaze, Tang Afu hesitated for a moment, then quickly grabbed Baishuang's waist, swung his sword to kill two Yulong Palace disciples who wanted to attack from behind, and flew up, flipping and tapping between the trees a few times, and in the blink of an eye, the figures of the two disappeared at the end of the dense forest.

Seeing this, Cao Qin and Dong Yuan couldn't help but show anxiety, but one of them was entangled by Liu Xunyi, and the other was overwhelmed by Su He's attack. They were in a panic and couldn't get away to chase and kill Tang Afu and Bai Shuang.

"Brother Su, be careful!"

Liu Xunyi flew to Su He's side and stabbed a Yulong Palace disciple who was about to launch a sneak attack. Su He swept his sword and forced Cao Qin, who was chasing Liu Xunyi, to retreat. The two who were just rivals now shared hardships and shared the same hatred for the enemy, which was really a bit ridiculous.

"Brother Liu!" Su He saw that Liu Xunyi was seriously injured, his eyes suddenly changed, and he shouted suddenly. Before Liu Xunyi could respond, the Blood Shadow Knife flashed a cold light and chopped down from behind Liu Xunyi. With a light "click" sound, the tail of the arrow was cut off.

Su He then came to Liu Xunyi, holding the blood-stained arrow in one hand and pressing the other hand against Liu Xunyi's lower abdomen, and said sternly: "Brother Liu, bear with it!"

Liu Xunyi quickly bit the sword in his mouth and nodded heavily at Su He.

"Pfft!"

"Humph!"

Su He acted extremely quickly. When he pulled the half arrow out of Liu Xunyi's lower abdomen, Liu Xunyi felt a piercing pain that instantly hit him. The pain made his eyes go dark and he almost fainted. He couldn't help but let out a muffled groan.

"Brother Su, be careful!"

Liu Xunyi had just woken up from the severe pain when he saw Dong Yuan coming at Su He from behind with a sword in hand. He shouted loudly, grabbed Su He's arm with both hands, turned his waist and kicked out in an instant, hitting Dong Yuan hard in the chest. The unprepared Dong Yuan was kicked several meters away. Finally, he managed to stabilize his body with the help of Cao Qin.

"After resisting stubbornly, we finally ran into two tough nuts to crack." Dong Yuan rubbed his chest with his hands, stared at Liu Xunyi and Su He with vicious eyes, and shouted without restraint, "Cao Qin, where did you get these two stones from? They are so stinky and hard!"

Cao Qin smiled upon hearing this and said jokingly, "Did the Palace Master only send you to pick me up? If it were just the two of us today, I'm afraid we really wouldn't be their match."

"Of course not." Dong Yuan snorted coldly.

"Who else?"

"besides……"

"And I!"

Before Dong Yuan could answer, he heard a vague and hoarse laugh suddenly coming from the woods, followed by a black shadow rushing into the battle as fast as lightning, knocking Bater to the ground in the melee in a flash.

The man stepped on Bater's head with his right foot, turned around and said to Liu Xunyi and Su He with a smile: "If you don't want him to die, don't move. As long as you are willing to obey, I will ensure your safety today."

Seeing this man's face, Liu Xunyi was stunned, and a look of disbelief and surprise instantly appeared on his face. He stared at this sudden master like a wooden chicken, so that the surrounding Yulong Palace disciples quickly rushed forward and put their swords on his neck, but Liu Xunyi still did not react at all.

"It's you? Ding San?"

The person who defeated Bater with lightning speed was Ding San, the street rogue who had been drinking and chatting with Liu Xunyi in Long'an Inn.

"Did you call Ding San?" Dong Yuan shouted angrily, "Do you know who he is?"

Liu Xunyi looked at Dong Yuan in surprise, then turned to look at Ding San. His mind was in a mess and he couldn't figure out what was going on.

"Little brother, we meet again. Hehe..." Ding San still looked cynical and said jokingly, "But looking at the current situation, it seems that your business is not going well. It seems that my one thousand taels of gold will probably go down the drain."

"you……"

"What do you mean by you?" Cao Qin said coldly, "This is Ding Ao, the leader of the Golden Scales Banner of the Jade Dragon Palace of Tianshan. You are blind and don't recognize the Third Master."

Ding Ao is Ding San's real name. Since he is the third child in the family, people who are familiar with him call him "Ding San" or "Master Ding San".

"Master of the Golden Lin Banner?" Liu Xunyi had heard for a long time that the Tianshan Jade Dragon Palace had three banners and twelve halls, and the Golden Lin was one of the three banners. In other words, this ugly, hateful, sloppy old man was actually one of the three people with the highest status in the Tianshan Jade Dragon Palace besides the Palace Master.

Ding Ao looked at the corpses scattered all over the ground, nodded to Su He and smiled, "As expected of a famous figure in Mobei, seriously injured, under such adverse circumstances, he was able to kill my Yulong Palace disciples without any chance of fighting back. I admire you."

"Master Ding San, why don't you kill them?" Cao Qin suggested viciously. He now hoped that Ding San would kill them to silence them. After all, he had a deal with Su He. If the Lord of Yulong Palace knew about this, Cao Qin would have a hard time explaining himself.

"That's not necessary. Today is the Palace Master's birthday, so it's not appropriate to use knives or guns." Ding Ao waved his hand and said with a smile, "Several friends from Chifeng Ridge have come from afar, and the Palace Master invites you to the mountain to have a chat. As for Brother Liu... please come with me, there is an old friend on the mountain who wants to see you. Hehe..."

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(End of this chapter)