Chapter Twenty: Unexpected Injury

  From the time Chen Yunfeng came out to the destruction of No. 6, it was only an instant, and the black-clothed crowd understood that this was the aid from Sima Village, but those three women also felt surprised, at this time all the people in Sima Village were resisting the enemy, and within a hundred miles around them, they had no reinforcements to seek.

  Both sides were shocked by Chen Yunfeng's sudden appearance, but at this time everyone was fighting hard and had no leisure to calm down. The black-clothed man who spoke earlier waved his hand, and three black-clothed men turned around and surrounded Chen Yunfeng.

  Chen Yunfeng lowered his heavy sword, took a deep breath, and the three true energies in his meridians quickly circulated. These three men in black should have received some special training, each holding a single knife that was much longer and narrower than a normal goose feather knife.

  Three people surrounded him, their movements uniform and synchronized as they stabbed at Chen Yunfeng with their single blades. The angles of their attacks were all aimed at the vital points on Chen Yunfeng's body. With a glance, Chen Yunfeng saw that these three black-clad men were only third-rate martial artists. Although their joint attack was much stronger than the previous one by Number Six, it was still no match for the extraordinary strength of Number Six.

  His eyes narrowed, the heavy sword suddenly lifted and swept out in a horizontal motion. In his dazed gaze, he recalled the scene of cutting down a pile of giant rocks that had fallen from the waterfall with one sword, advancing without hesitation, not considering how heavy those rocks were or whether they could be split open.

  "Kill." Chen Yunfeng let out a loud roar, his body swiftly moving with the heavy sword as it flashed past three long knives. His arm burst forth with power, the speed of the heavy sword instantly increasing twofold as it swept across with a cold glow. All that could be heard were three low thuds, and the heads of the three black-clad men wearing masks flew into the air before falling to the ground.

  Just as Chen Yunfeng succeeded, the three women who were previously surrounded also took advantage of the departure of No. 6 and the three masked men. Suddenly, the leader of the masked men let out a whistle, and a similar whistling sound came from inside the villa. Chen Yunfeng originally thought that the masked man would summon an expert to block himself, but unexpectedly, the group of masked men jumped out, raised their hands, and shot a thin, cow-hair-like flying needle at Chen Yunfeng.

  Chen Yunfeng's heel slipped to the side, his body as agile as a ghost. As he was about to give chase, the remaining seven masked men simultaneously raised their arms, and a burst of mechanical sounds echoed through the air. Dozens of short crossbow arrows completely blocked Chen Yunfeng's retreat routes. The masked men didn't even look back at the result, turning around to rush towards the surrounding wall, leaping over it in one bound before disappearing from sight.

  A heavy sword swiftly and fiercely thrust, directly against Chen Yunfeng's crossbow arrows one by one were opened, but the crossbow arrows were launched by a mechanical device, with an extremely swift speed, and without any defense, Chen Yunfeng constantly dodging was unable to completely avoid it, a full steel-made crossbow arrow shot onto his shoulder.

  Chen Yunfeng let out a cold hum as he endured the pain, grasping the crossbow bolt and pulling it out from his shoulder to throw it on the ground. Looking at the arrowhead quickly turning black and the foul-smelling blood continuously flowing out from his shoulder, his facial expression changed slightly as he swiftly sealed off the Jianzhongshu point and the Jianzhong'er point around the wound.

  The three women who were just surrounded looked at Chen Yunfeng and saw that he was injured by a hidden projectile. One of the women, likely in her forties, stepped forward and handed out a small porcelain bottle, saying:

  "This young hero, there is poison on the arrow, hurry up and take an antidote."

  Chen Yunfeng shook his head and sat down cross-legged. As for taking medicine, he didn't like it at all. This was because even the best medicine had a three-part poison, and the antidote itself had toxicity. Even with thousand-year-old snow lotus or ten-thousand-year-old ginseng, these powerful medicines still had latent toxins present.

  He practiced Hunyuan Xiantian Yin Yang Gong, which allowed his body to expel toxins on its own. Although he didn't fully understand this point earlier, as his skills deepened during meditation, he was able to observe himself in a semi-awakened state and discovered that after swallowing the gallbladder of the Curupiti snake, he would expel the toxins inside.

  Now he is about to operate his inner strength to expel the poison, and he can't afford to care about the people around him, because none of them are familiar to him. The toxin on the crossbow arrow is very potent, even if he seals off the acupoints, it is still slowly numbing the surrounding meridians.

  "Li Shuo, let's go take a look at how the Zhuang master is doing. You stay here and guard this young hero." A slightly younger woman holding a sword said to the middle-aged woman.

  "It's all right, I'm fine." A burly man carrying a huge machete walked out from inside and said.

  "We've seen the master." The three women hurriedly bowed and called out.

  "Who is this young hero? Did those men in black leave because of his arrival? If those guys continued to attack, perhaps my Sima Wei and Sima Zhuang would have been destroyed by them." The burly man said in a low voice, slamming his giant knife into the ground.

  Three women shook their heads when the landlord asked, Chen Yunfeng appeared suddenly, no one would know who it was. The middle-aged woman called Li Shuo should not be in a low position in the village, she put the long sword back into the scabbard and smiled:

  "We're not sure who this young hero is, but if he hadn't taken out the four black-robed masked men and caused the others to lose their advantage and retreat, the three of us might have been surrounded and killed by those guys."

  However, Master Zhuang, look at this young hero's powerful internal strength and arm strength. That familiar copper rod was actually turned into a hemp rope by him with one sword. And look at the arrow wounds on his body, such strong poison he can also rely on his internal strength to drive out the toxins."

  Simawei took a closer look and was also surprised for a moment. The familiar copper rod was at least as thick as an arm, and to shape it like that, there was no way without more than 2,000 kilograms of strength.

  The Chen Yunfeng in front of him, although his face was covered, still had the aura of a young man between his eyebrows. His build was tall and large, but not as rough as a giant. To use a sword to draw out such a familiar copper rod required incredibly strong power and internal energy.

  Simawei looked at the sword being held in Chen Yunfeng's arms, the all-black long sword was only about three feet long, and the two sides of the blade didn't even have a bevel, the rounded tip made him wonder if using sword techniques would have any effect.

  He glanced at the four black-clad men killed by Chen Yunfeng, three of whom still had their heads rolling on the ground, with the wounds on their necks still looking as if they had been severed by a sharp blade. Sima Wei understood that this was because Chen Yunfeng's sword speed was too fast, and he had directly used his blunt-edged long sword to sever them. The black-clad man whose forehead was deeply sunken had his skull completely shattered.

  "A rare talent among youngsters, it's hard to come by in the Jianghu world. I wonder who taught him such skills. The future of Jianghu will likely be his for the taking." Sima Wei said thoughtfully as he looked at Chen Yunfeng, who was still circulating his Qi to expel the poison.

  Chen Yunfeng was detoxifying, but his mind was still paying attention to the situation around him. The toxin was too strong and he temporarily didn't have the ability to speak. He could hear clearly what Sima Wei and others were saying, and he could even extract the energy to analyze what their conversation meant.