The Prime Minister’s Darling

Li Jiangping is the elder of the Dark Night Island and was shot away by an arrow. What kind of terrifying power is this?

The swordsman frowned and said to his four subordinates: "Attack!"

The four drew their long swords and used their lightness skills to rush toward Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao fired three arrows simultaneously, so fast it was unbelievable, accompanied by the sound of cracking air, striking straight into the hearts of three swordsmen.

They didn't even have time to fight back before they screamed miserably and fell.

The last swordsman saw his three companions fall at the same time and hesitated involuntarily.

During this moment of hesitation, the Hei Fengqi already reached beneath him, and Gu Jiao, with a flick of her wrist, pulled out the Red-Tasseled Spear from her back, nailing him to a nearby tree!

Blood trickled from the corner of his mouth, his head tilted, and he lost his breath.

The swordsman's brow twitched severely, unable to believe this was reality.

In a flash of lightning, the image in his mind appeared: "I know who you are! You are the adopted daughter of the Duke of An! The commander of Hei Fengqi! Should I call you Xiao Liulang, or address you as Young Madam?"

Honestly, when he heard that the Hei Fengqi commander who killed Gongsun Yu was a woman, he was more shocked than seeing a ghost!

Other than the master of the Shadow Division back then, he never expected there would be a second woman so formidable!

Indeed, the first master of the Shadow Division was a woman, and this secret might not even be known by the members of the Shadow Division, but their Sword Lodge master had dealings with her.

The Hei Fengqi stopped ten paces away from him; if the Duke of An was not on the carriage, it would have already crashed into him.

Gu Jiao held the reins in one hand and pointed the Red-Tasseled Spear coldly at him with the other: "Release my foster father, and I'll let you have a whole corpse."

The swordsman laughed mockingly: "What good is a whole corpse if released? Ha! Girl! What arrogance you have!"

Gu Jiao sat atop the horse, looking down at him: "Seems you won't choose, fine."

The swordsman sneered: "You can't seriously think you can kill me, can you? Although I admit your martial arts are stronger than expected, you're still no match for me!"

"Noisy," Gu Jiao said word by word, then leaped from the horse, her long spear shining like a rainbow, fiercely stabbing toward the swordsman.

The swordsman drew his sword to block, but he underestimated Gu Jiao's strength and the sharpness of the Red-Tasseled Spear.

His sword was cut in half, and his arm went numb.

He stepped back in disbelief, looking at Gu Jiao.

Honestly, Gu Jiao was quite surprised too. Ever since the last battle, she hadn't dueled properly against anyone, and the swordsman was the first opponent she genuinely encountered, though... his skills were somewhat lacking.

The swordsman threw the long sword and pulled out another from under the carriage, but unsurprisingly, it was cut in half by Gu Jiao again!

He finally realized he had kicked a solid wall and planned to retreat, but Gu Jiao didn't give him the chance, slicing off his head with one stroke.

He watched helplessly as his body grew farther away, the world spinning, dust entering his nose and mouth.

And then, nothing more.

"Foster father!"

Gu Jiao quickly lifted the carriage curtain.

But she discovered it was empty, not a single figure inside!

She looked closely and realized that during her duel with the swordsman, another expert had taken advantage of the situation and taken the Duke of An out through the carriage rear.

She looked to the sky: "Xiaojiu!"

Xiaojiu flapped and chased after.

Gu Jiao also mounted the horse, following Xiaojiu's eagle cries, racing into the night.

...

There's no faster horse in the world than the Hei Fengqi. When Xiao Hen and Shangguan Qing arrived at the dock, there was no sign of Gu Jiao or the Duke of An, just some corpses lying on the ground, including a headless one.

Shangguan Qing frowned: "After chasing for so long, did we still lose them?"

Xiao Hen glanced around sharply and said: "There's someone in the water!"

The accompanying shadow guards entered the water and fished out the arrow-struck Li Jiangping.

Li Jiangping still had a breath left.

"Who is this guy?" Shangguan Qing asked, he had missed Li Jiangping when he came to the mansion because he was out with Jingkong.

Xiao Hen replied: "Li Jiangping."

"So he's the traitor from the Dark Night Gate?" Shangguan Qing crouched down, inspecting the arrow in his chest, "It's Jiaojiao's arrow."

Xiao Hen stepped forward, looked coldly at the dying Li Jiangping: "Where did Jiaojiao and the Duke of An go?"

Li Jiangping initially refused to speak, Xiao Hen directly ordered someone to cut off his fingers.

Shangguan Qing clicked his tongue, couldn't believe it, his bad tempered brother was this ruthless?