Tearing the Prince's Clothes after Withdrawing Marriage
Chapter 223: Forever, Shelter from the Wind and Rain

Chapter 223: Chapter 223: Forever, Shelter from the Wind and Rain

"I can still hold them off a bit longer!" Although they were fleeing together, Fu Long always slowed down his pace, placing himself behind Chu Qianli.

"Fighting is a man’s job! You go back!" he urged urgently.

But Chu Qianli just laughed, "You’re wrong. In my era, protecting the homeland was the responsibility of both men and women together."

"Your era?" Fu Long hesitated internally.

But he had no chance to question her further, because the Medicine Men had caught up.

Grasping his long sword, Fu Long tried to throw Chu Qianli behind.

Unexpectedly, at the moment he threw her, the stubborn girl turned around.

The force of the throw, which she firmly grasped, became a counterforce.

With this force, Chu Qianli fiercely lunged towards the Medicine Men coming head-on.

Against these Medicine Men who felt no pain, silver needles were useless.

In her hand was a short knife which she swung towards the neck of a Medicine Man with a whoosh.

Only a fatal move could bring them down.

Punches and kicks were not very effective against them.

They did not feel pain!

"You!" This reckless girl... she really had a death wish!

At this point, Fu Long stopped hesitating and swung his sword towards the neck of a Medicine Man.

If she refused to leave, then they would fight side by side!

Fu Long had never fought alongside a girl before. This feeling was both novel and unsettling.

His greatest fear was her getting hurt.

"Don’t worry about me!" Chu Qianli quickly noticed that he was constantly guarding her.

Continuing like this, he was certain to get hurt.

"They have deadly poison on them, try not to touch their blood!" she warned.

Chu Qianli too would attack with her knife and then immediately retreat. If she touched their blood, she would be poisoned!

Fortunately, she had already taken an antidote because she had been poisoned before.

Although the antidote didn’t completely block the toxins, at least the poisoning wouldn’t be too severe.

"Fu Long, catch!" she called out.

She raised her hand and tossed a bottle his way.

"Take another pill, try to stay alive!" she shouted.

Fu Long didn’t doubt her intentions and caught the bottle. He managed to throw a Medicine Pill into his mouth while retreating.

As for the bottle, he had no chance to return it to Chu Qianli but kept it safe with himself.

"Retreat!" Fu Long bellowed, sweeping his sword across.

The two began to fight in unison, each time striking together and then retreating at the same time.

However, they soon realized that their room to retreat was getting smaller and smaller.

The Medicine Men seemed to be increasing in number.

Fu Long’s Sword Qi, as a result of the prolonged battle, gradually weakened.

Suddenly, with a hiss, Chu Qianli’s hand was carelessly scratched.

Fu Long’s eyes turned bloodshot with urgency, "How is it?"

"No... problem, I’ve... taken an antidote earlier," she replied.

But even with the antidote, the poison was incredibly potent.

While it wasn’t immediately lethal, she felt her hand starting to go numb.

Indeed, when she lifted her hand, the knife was snatched away by a Medicine Man.

She couldn’t even hold onto her knife anymore.

As the Medicine Men were about to pounce on her, Chu Qianli’s limbs tingled numbly, her movements becoming extremely sluggish.

She couldn’t dodge in time!

In her mind, a scene flashed by: a Medicine Man biting into a comrade’s neck, skin and flesh being horrifically torn off, blood vessels shredded...

Instinctively, she reached for her own neck to cover it.

The breath of death arrived in an instant.

"Watch out!" Fu Long swung his sword, and the last of his Sword Qi could only force the Medicine Men back but couldn’t harm them.

More and more Medicine Men appeared.

In her line of sight, a Medicine Man was about to pounce on Chu Qianli.

Fu Long had no better method left.

If he did, he would certainly not give up the chance to stay alive.

But, there really were none left...

As Chu Qianli fell into despair, she suddenly felt her body sink.

She instinctively tried to swing her fist, but her fingers were numb and completely unable to lift.

This aura, it wasn’t from a Medicine Man!

Opening her eyes, she unexpectedly saw that it was Fu Long protecting her with his own body.

And the Medicine Man, right behind him, bared its sinister teeth, biting down on his neck.

"No..."

But she was powerless to stop it.

There was no need to save her, but truthfully, they both had no chance of survival anyway.

So the legends of Heifeng Ridge were true, those who came here inquiring about Heifeng Cliff, not one could leave alive.

They, too, could not possibly be the exception.

She just never imagined that a person she’d known for just a few days could protect her with his body in a moment of danger.

Why?

They weren’t even friends, to begin with.

Fu Long’s hand fell before her eyes, blocking her view, not wanting her to witness him being bitten to death.

There was no reason.

He didn’t know why either.

Perhaps it was because, as she said, having eaten hotpot and drunk cola together, they were now brothers, comrades-in-arms.

Brothers are meant to live and die together, to protect each other with their lives.

In the next life, they would still dine and drink together.

If there... was a next life.

Fu Long closed his eyes, waiting for death to come.

But contrary to expectation, the agonizing pain didn’t come, and instead, the pressure on his back suddenly vanished.

It seemed like someone had pulled the Medicine Man from behind him and thrown it away.

Fu Long violently opened his eyes and looked back, immediately his eyes filled with a touch of reverence.

Standing before them was the man, tall and upright, a towering presence!

He clenched his fingers and, with just the air, grabbed the long sword Fu Long had earlier dropped to the ground.

With a wave of the sword, a powerful and terrifying Sword Qi shot forth.

With several ’pu pu pu’ sounds, the dozens of surrounding Medicine Men were almost simultaneously cleaved in half by the Sword Qi and fell to the ground motionless!

Fu Long hesitated only for a moment before leaping up from Chu Qianli’s body.

Picking up the short knife Chu Qianli had dropped on the ground, he swung it towards the closest Medicine Man.

Chu Qianli slowly opened her eyes.

She truly didn’t have any strength left now, and everything within her sight was starting to blur because of the poison.

Through a hazy fog, she couldn’t make out the person’s face, only the cool yet strangely comforting silhouette under the moonlight.

She doubted her own eyes, for he couldn’t possibly appear in this place.

But there he was, very much real.

Very much real, standing in front of her, using his unmatched Sword Qi to slay wave after wave of the oncoming Medicine Men.

His proud figure standing there was like a towering tree, able to shelter anyone from wind and rain.

Her eyelids grew heavier, her body ever more rigid.

Just like when she was poisoned before, even if she took the antidote, she’d probably still need to pass out for a while.

She was really about to faint...

In her fading vision, that figure remained cool and noble.

The long sword in his hand moved like a roaming dragon, its power astonishing.

What a man he would’ve been to have as a comrade.

It’s a pity, he was destined to be an enemy...