Take Care

Just as Chu Qing was observing, the tall woman had already swung the short woman out.

There was no avoiding this move for Chu Fan; he could only take it head-on.

The veins on his hands bulged. Without a second thought, he unleashed the Grand Easy Divine Palm.

A loud bang rang out.

The tall woman holding the short woman trembled slightly.

Chu Fan, however, staggered back three or five steps, his face turning iron-blue.

The tall woman burst into laughter.

"Do you admit defeat?"

Chu Fan's face darkened, and he could not help gritting his teeth.

"Again!!"

"Good!"

Upon hearing Chu Fan's words, the tall woman immediately beamed with excitement.

"If you can't beat us, then kowtow and acknowledge us as your big brothers!"

Chu Fan's expression grew even uglier, but he did not answer.

Clearly, he was not completely confident that he could win.

Chu Qing clicked his tongue in wonder.

Chu Fan went without saying—he had been born with divine strength, and his sect was no simple matter either.

The founder of this sect had been a legendary eccentric of the martial world, the Grand Easy Patriarch.

Because his talent had been peerless, able to learn any martial art at a glance, master it upon mastering it, and draw inferences from one instance to a hundred others, he had believed that all martial arts under heaven were nothing much, all too easy.

That was how he had come to call himself "Grand Easy."

Bearing the title Grand Easy Recluse, he had roamed the martial world for half his life. Not only had no one beaten him to death, he had even founded the Great Easy Sect. This showed just how extraordinary his martial arts had been.

During the Grand Easy Patriarch's leadership, the Great Easy Sect had stood at the summit of the martial world.

After the Grand Easy Patriarch passed away, the Great Easy Sect no longer enjoyed its former splendor. Yet after three hundred years of wind and rain, it still stood firm.

This was chiefly thanks to the three scrolls of the Book of the Immutable Heavens created by the Great Easy Ancestor.

It was said that they were world-shaking supreme arts.

The Grand Easy Divine Palm and Grand Easy Divine Fist used by Chu Fan both came from the Human Character Scroll of the Book of the Immutable Heavens.

In fact, no one had seen the martial arts recorded in the Earth Character Scroll for nearly a hundred years.

Yet the martial arts in the Human Character Scroll alone were enough to make countless martial experts dare not act recklessly before the Great Easy Sect.

Though the sect now kept to one corner and was far from its former glory, no one was willing to provoke it.

With Chu Fan's talent and supreme arts in hand, he had nevertheless fallen into the disadvantage against the joint assault of these two women.

Was that not downright bizarre?

"So there really was always a mountain beyond the mountain?"

Chu Qing looked around.

"Where did Chu Fan's junior sister run off to?"

Remembering how that woman had silently appeared beside him in the tea stall earlier, Chu Qing did not dare underestimate her. If she were here, his bargain-bin second brother would not be getting bullied by two women, would he?

And in this situation, if he struck without warning, could he successfully assassinate the remaining two Seven Iron Horse Thieves?

After watching for only a moment, Chu Qing slowly shook his head.

"They're too vigilant. I need an opportunity. Otherwise, even if I kill one, trying to kill the other will still be fraught with uncertainties.

"And judging by their posture, why does it seem as though they're ready to run at any moment?"

These two members of the Seven Iron Horse Thieves were not the main force in this battle. They merely circled around the edges, exchanging glances from time to time, ready to retreat at the slightest sign of trouble.

They looked entirely prepared to flee at any moment.

Chu Qing pondered inwardly. Opportunities were not actually hard to find.

As he saw it, there were currently two opportunities.

One was the head of that Seven Iron Horse Thief he had just killed. If the horse brought it back, it would certainly disrupt the situation.

The second was that junior sister, whose whereabouts were unknown.

If she appeared and joined forces with Chu Fan against the two women, keeping them too occupied to worry about anything else, then his assassination strike should succeed.

By now, that horse should have returned...

Sure enough, not long after, just as Chu Fan had exchanged two or three moves with the two women, the sound of hoofbeats came from afar.

The two Seven Iron Horse Thieves immediately perked up.

"Old Five is here!!"

The two of them instantly turned toward the hoofbeats. Even Chu Fan could not help being drawn by the sound.

The tall woman laughed.

"More people are coming? How interesting!"

Then the short woman said.

"Stop fooling around."

"Got it."

Their brief exchange left Chu Qing stunned.

After all this, they did not even know the details of the Seven Iron Horse Thieves?

Then why were they fighting Chu Fan?

Chu Qing had assumed that these two women were an ambush arranged here by the Seven Iron Horse Thieves.

But now it seemed... could it have merely been a coincidence? Was Chu Fan simply unlucky enough to run into lunatics?

No wonder these two Seven Iron Horse Thieves had seemed eager to flee. They did not know each other at all.

Under everyone's expectant gazes, a horse indeed came trotting swiftly up.

There was someone on its back... a woman.

She was not very old, dressed much like Chu Fan, expressionless as if everyone under heaven owed her money.

"Junior Sister Wen, help me!!"

The moment Chu Fan saw her, he was overjoyed.

Without even caring why Junior Sister Wen was riding the horse of a Seven Iron Horse Thief, he called out to her.

Upon hearing him, Junior Sister Wen did not hesitate at all. With a tap of her foot, she shot into the air, but first flung something toward the Seven Iron Horse Thieves.

She was too fast. The remaining two Seven Iron Horse Thieves did not dare receive it with their bare hands.

The leading bandit swung the broad axe in his hand and chopped down abruptly.

With a ripping sound, the object split in two, scattering red and white matter everywhere.

For a moment, everyone present was a little dumbfounded, and their movements inevitably paused.

Chu Fan asked subconsciously.

"Junior Sister Wen, what was that?"

"A head."

Junior Sister Wen answered in that same voice devoid of emotional fluctuations.

"Where did it come from?"

"Picked it up."

Brief and to the point, without a single word of nonsense.

Just as she finished speaking, the tall woman picked up a strip of cloth and read aloud.

"Seven Iron Horse Thieves, slaughtering people until corpses carpet the wilderness, their crimes deserve execution—Night Emperor. Who's the Night Emperor?"

She asked bluntly, yet no one could answer her.

The short woman spoke coldly.

"Seven Iron Horse Thieves, their crimes deserve execution?"

The instant those words fell, the leader of the Seven Iron Horse Thieves, who had been too shocked to speak, suddenly pointed at Chu Fan and Junior Sister Wen and shouted angrily.

"That's right, they're the Seven Iron Horse Thieves!"

Chu Fan flew into a rage.

"What nonsense are you spouting? Who are the Seven Iron Horse Thieves!"

"Of course it's you!"

The leader of the Seven Iron Horse Thieves said as though it were only natural.

"Look at the divine steed beneath your junior sister. If you aren't the Seven Iron Horse Thieves, then who is? Two heroines, we brothers have been pursued by these Seven Iron Horse Thieves until there is no road to heaven and no gate into the earth. We beg the two of you to uphold justice and save us."

"Good, good, good! I love fighting most—oh, no, I love saving people most.

"Seven Iron Horse Thieves, take this!!"

The tall woman immediately cheered and charged at Chu Fan.

Chu Fan had ten thousand things he wanted to say, but this woman did not listen to reason. He could only hurriedly take her attack.

Junior Sister Wen could have explained, but her temperament was strange. Seeing this, she unexpectedly said nothing at all. She simply joined Chu Fan, and the two fought the two women together.

The remaining two Seven Iron Horse Thieves exchanged a glance, then leaped up at the same time and landed directly on that horse. The leading bandit let out a whistle, and two fast horses immediately galloped over, following behind them as they raced away.

Nor did he forget to say.

"We brothers are weak in martial arts and cannot help you two heroines. We'll take our leave first. Heroines, take care!"

By this point, even an idiot could tell that something was wrong.

Yet not only did the tall woman fail to notice in the slightest, she even waved at them.

"Take care!"