20: Shangguan Feiyan, Princess Danfeng! Death is never different!

The small building of the Green Robe Tower, and its master, Huo Xiu, were their most important targets.

A sudden change occurred!

"Careful!" Hua Manlou's warning sounded almost simultaneously with the whoosh of something tearing through the air!

A cold glint, as fine as an ox's hair and almost completely transparent in the twilight glow, shot out without warning from the shadow of a low thicket beside the official road!

Its target was the back of Lu Xiaofeng, who was mediating between the two, with his back to that direction.

Flying Swallow Needle!

The needle was tipped with a deadly poison that sealed the throat upon contact, moving so fast it left only a barely perceptible streak of light—vicious, insidious, and precise!

It was Shangguan Feiyan's ultimate hidden technique!

She had been lurking nearby, waiting for this fatal moment!

The moment the flying needle shot out, Lu Xiaofeng's hair stood on end!

In the nick of time! He didn't even have a chance to turn around!

Instinct, honed over years on the brink of life and death, overrode everything!

He suddenly twisted his waist at an incredible angle, his body swaying like a willow in the wind, forcibly contorting half a foot to the side!

"Clink!"

A very faint, yet incredibly clear, crisp sound!

That Flying Swallow Needle, just a hair's breadth from Lu Xiaofeng's ribs and clothing, was clamped firmly between his two fingers!

The needle's tail still trembled violently between his fingers, emitting a faint hum!

"Without the Phoenix's twin flying wings, the mind has a spiritual connection, a single point of understanding. What excellent Lightness Skill, what a superb Spiritual Finger!"

A delicate cry, filled with deep astonishment, rang out from behind the thicket.

A graceful purple figure tumbled out—it was Shangguan Feiyan!

Her Face no longer held any trace of its former charm; there were two clear palm prints on her Face.

Her entire Face looked quite swollen.

Judging by the size of the finger marks, it must have been a man who slapped her.

"Princess Danfeng?"

"It's Shangguan Feiyan!" Lu Jiuyuan said in a cold tone.

"Why did you shoot me?" Lu Xiaofeng was utterly surprised. It was Lu Jiuyuan who killed the people around you, Ximen Chuixue who killed Xiao Qiuyu, and Lu Jiuyuan again who killed your lapdog Huo Tianqing?

What does that have to do with me, Lu Xiaofeng? I can understand why you wouldn't shoot Hua Manlou, after all, Hua Manlou likes you.

Why? Why did your Flying Swallow Needle shoot towards me?

"Because those two are killers. If this flying needle had shot towards either of them, I would be dead by now," Shangguan Feiyan said as a matter of course.

"As for why it's you, what good would it do to kill Hua Manlou? I hate all three of you."

"Miss Feiyan," Hua Manlou opened his mouth, unsure what to say. For the first time in his life, he had felt his heart stir, only to have his feelings deceived.

This left him with an unspeakable bitterness in his heart. He opened his mouth but didn't know what to say.

"Why do you hate me? I, Lu Xiaofeng, was peacefully drinking in the brothel. You were the ones who sought me out to ask for help, you were the ones who wanted to use me, and you were the ones who disturbed my peace," Lu Xiaofeng tossed the flying needle away, his smile somewhat cold.

"Now it's my fault?"

"Lu Jiuyuan, I underestimated you." Shangguan Feiyan ignored Lu Xiaofeng and looked at Lu Jiuyuan:

"Mr. Lu, you killed my guard and left without a word. Aren't you going to give me an explanation?"

"What explanation? Shangguan Xueer was the one who paid. I didn't receive a single copper coin from you. Instead, you sent Liu Yuhang and Dugu Fang to kill me.

Not killing you then was already out of consideration for Xue'er's Face. Otherwise, do you think you would have lived until now?"

Lu Jiuyuan looked at Shangguan Feiyan, truly a beautiful woman, but unfortunately, she had the nature of a viper.

"Mr. Lu is right. Can I hire you to kill someone for me now?" Shangguan Feiyan smiled charmingly.

"No!"

Shangguan Feiyan tugged at her waist, and her belt immediately came undone, her clothes slipping directly off.

Revealing her exquisite, jade-white body.

"Not even if I offer my body as payment?"

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The moment her clothes fell, three even faster, more cunning Flying Swallow Needles shot out in a triangular formation, aiming directly for Lu Jiuyuan's Face, throat, and heart—three vital points!

She hated! Hated Lu Jiuyuan for ruining her plans! Hated Lu Jiuyuan for killing her helpers! Hated these men for pushing her to such a state!

At this moment, she only wanted to drag Lu Jiuyuan down with her. This opportunity to strike at this very instant was also meticulously planned by her.

She firmly believed that no man in the world could ignore her charm, ignore her body.

And at such a short distance, a momentary dazed was already enough to decide life and death.

Triple speed!

Extreme speed erupted once more!

Lu Jiuyuan's figure stretched into a blurry afterimage in everyone's vision, moving so fast that even the air shrieked as it was torn apart!

The Guhong Sword thrust out!

There was no dazzling sword light, no intimidating Aura, only a cold glint so fast it surpassed thought, so pure it was solely for taking life!

The sword's tip pointed directly at Shangguan Feiyan's snow-white, slender neck, slightly raised as she exerted all her strength to launch her hidden weapons!

Shangguan Feiyan felt an instant chill, as if from the nine levels of Hell, enveloping her!

She didn't even have time to make any evasive move; she only saw a green blur flash past, and then a coolness at her throat!

Fast! Too fast!

"Ugh..."

All her venom, all her madness, all her calculations, came to an abrupt halt with this short, almost inaudible grunt.

She stared wide-eyed in disbelief, her once captivating eyes trying to look down to see what had happened to her neck.

However, her vision rapidly blurred and dispersed uncontrollably.

A spot of crimson, like a cinnabar mole, quietly bloomed in the center of her fair throat, then quickly spread into a dazzling scarlet stain.

"You... are truly... not a man..."

"What a noisy bug. It's only quiet when it's dead."

His voice was flat, as if he hadn't just killed a peerlessly beautiful woman, but truly just a buzzing fly.

"Women only slow down our sword-drawing speed. To be completely unmoved by feminine charm, Lu Jiuyuan, in this regard, I admit you are like a Swordsman," Ximen Chuixue said with a nod.

Lu Jiuyuan simply rolled his eyes at him, snorted coldly, completely ignoring his words, and walked forward.

Hua Manlou sighed softly. He could clearly "hear" the complete dissipation of Shangguan Feiyan's life Qi, and he could also "smell" the fresh, sweet scent of newly spilled blood.

He walked over, knelt down, and gently covered her with her clothes.

Though this woman deserved to die, she was, after all, his first love, the first woman who had stirred his heart.

Although he had been terribly deceived, once a person dies, all debts are cleared, and the past is simply the past.