"Is that all the strength you have?" When Bai Su's next sword came slashing down, he did something she never expected—he raised a hand and firmly caught the razor-sharp blade. At some point, a finely crafted scaled gauntlet had appeared over each of his hands.
Bai Su had no time to pull back her sword. She decisively let go and tried to retreat.
But in the blink of an eye, the Martial Gall Warrior before her had enough time to launch a killing blow from such close range.
Bai Su reacted quickly, too.
She prepared to take a grievous wound to avoid a fatal one.
But—
The expected pain never came, and neither did the wound that would have cleaved through half her face and half her body. The enemy general's killing blow had been blocked entirely by a barrier of literary aura! The barrier appeared in haste, and its defense was clearly inferior to the previous one. It held for only an instant before being torn apart. Even so, that was enough for Bai Su to escape unscathed. Right after, the [Five Virtues of the General] cloaked her in five rays of light!
Bai Su: "!!!"
The enemy general's gaze also fell on the figure behind her.
"Those who are arrogant will surely perish by their own conceit."
A cool female voice sounded from behind her.
Bai Su knew that voice all too well.
Ning Yan. Ning Tu Nan.
The Martial Gall Warriors under Shen Tang were indeed a weak link, but she had never lacked Literary Scholars capable of controlling the whole situation. Though every Literary Scholar had their own ways of sabotaging their lord, not one of them ever dropped the ball when it mattered—and Ning Tu Nan was one of the rare ones who was both