The fully armed heavy infantry had looked fierce and invincible one moment, only to collapse miserably across the ground the next, clearly with no strength left to fight.
Heavy infantry equipped like this had originally been the perfect weapon against martial arts experts. Ordinary experts surrounded by a shield formation would ultimately be stabbed into a honeycomb. Unfortunately, this time they were facing no ordinary martial arts expert, but one of the greatest swordsmen under heaven. Moreover, he had come from the military himself and was intimately familiar with such military formations, which was why they had been defeated so quickly.
Most of the main force of soldiers standing before Yelü Yixin and Zhang Xiaojie had already fallen. Only a handful of personal guards remained, trembling as they shielded the two men. They had ended up in this predicament because they had come to Yili Bi Yuan to handle a case, and security had naturally been entrusted to Yili Bi Yuan. Thus, they had not brought many of their own guards. Otherwise, although Prince Wei's Manor did not keep as many top experts as Prince Ruyang's Mansion, it could still be called a place teeming with experts.
Although Xue Yiren had become somewhat obsessed with swordsmanship, he was not a fool. On the surface, he had charged head-on into the Heavenly Prison of Yili Bi Yuan, but he had actually investigated beforehand and knew that this was when Yelü Yixin's defenses were at their weakest.
Watching him approach step by step, Zhang Xiaojie's legs began to tremble. In particular, when he saw droplets of blood sliding down from the sword one by one, he nearly fainted.
Xue Yiren sneered and thrust his sword at Yelü Yixin. He knew this was, after all, Khitan territory and not a place for a