Even as he fired a sleeve arrow at Ding Songyan, Xie Zi'an turned without so much as looking at him, seized the square dining table in the main room, and hurled it at Zheng Zhuxi, who stood guarding the doorway.
In this veteran escort's eyes, Zheng Zhuxi posed far more of a threat than Ding Songyan.
The lad had just called Zheng Zhuxi "Senior Sister." Clearly, he had only recently taken a master and was most likely still at Aperture Refinement!
Besides, Zheng Zhuxi was blocking the doorway to prevent his escape. Whatever way he looked at it, he had to focus his assault in that direction to have any chance of escaping with his life.
Although another Xiaoming Sect disciple stood outside the courtyard, Xie Zi'an felt that once he was out of this cramped house, the Seven Mysteries of Xun and Li would surely let him escape even if he could not win.
He needed to rush out of the lane before the Watchtower could react, leap beneath Fengshui Bridge, and escape through the water to a house in the north of the city that he had purchased under someone else's name. There, he would hide in the cellar, wait for the storm to pass, and then find a way to slip out of the city.
Xie Zi'an had never considered escaping straight from the canal into the river. Every water gate and outlet in Great Zhao was fitted with mechanisms assembled from sharp blades. Driven by the current, they spun rapidly, shredding every large piece of floating debris to keep the waterways from clogging. They also deterred anyone hoping to escape that way, unless they practiced a technique like Indestructible Diamond.
The dining table had barely left Xie Zi'an's hands when it suddenly cracked apart into dozens