Rivers-and-Mountains Thrust (A special update for the Alliance Leader Laoyan Fenfei Ma!)

Jiang Wang's sword stroke missed, and he instantly turned his blade and fled.

This was an exceptionally agonizing battle. Every choice he made in combat seemed to have been countered in advance.

He had reason to suspect that intelligence concerning him had already been compiled by certain people and presented before the ruler and ministers of Zhuang Kingdom.

And a venomous snake like Lin Zhengren—so patient, so cautious—could use that to bare his fangs...

If that were all, it would have been fine.

If not for the threat of Du Ruhui appearing at any moment—or rather, if he did not need to show wariness toward the Zhuang Kingdom State Chancellor possibly appearing at any moment—

What difficulty would there be in digging thirty feet, even three hundred feet, into the earth today?

No matter how deeply or how well Lin Zhengren hid, he still had to have somewhere to hide. Search the heights of heaven and scour the depths of Yellow Springs—where else could he hide?

In theory, so long as Lin Zhengren dared to strike at him today, death was the only possible outcome.

But Du Yehu...

Jiang Wang raised a hand to his chest, his expression unchanged as he reset his broken bones.

He had truly allowed himself to be wounded, and he had truly left Du Yehu with injuries grave enough to kill him.

The rest could only be left to fate.

That was the choice.

As Jiang Wang flew swiftly onward, he chewed over that indescribable feeling.

But at a certain moment, before the blazing light around him had faded, he suddenly turned back!

There, between heaven and earth, a cone spear of earthen yellow emerged from nothingness, crashing into his field of vision at a terrifying speed.

It did not fly in a straight line,