Upon reaching a spacious area, Liang Yinghao stopped, and he and Huo Shengnan helped Hu Xiaotian sit on an earthen platform. Huo Shengnan carefully examined the arrow wound in Hu Xiaotian's right arm. Although the arrow had penetrated quite deeply, fortunately it had not damaged his tendons or bones.
Hu Xiaotian gritted his teeth. "Damn it! Until I hack that bastard apart, I'm not letting this go!" When it came to close combat, Hu Xiaotian now had something of a master's bearing, but against an opponent skilled at attacking from a distance, he still had few answers. Unless he mastered External Sword Qi to the point where he could unleash and withdraw it at will, he could only take a beating.
"Don't get worked up," Huo Shengnan said. "Let's get the arrow out first!"
"Don't just yank it out," Hu Xiaotian said. "You'll tear out a chunk of flesh with it."
Huo Shengnan couldn't help laughing. She raised the Willow-Leaf Knife she had just found. "You're always operating on other people. At last, it's your own turn."
Hu Xiaotian sighed, looking as though he were marching bravely to his death. He closed his eyes. "Go on! Make it quick. I'm scared of pain!"
Huo Shengnan had quite a talent for using a scalpel. Her incision was clean and neat, and it did not take her long to remove the arrowhead from Hu Xiaotian's right arm. She applied Golden Wound-Healing Medicine to the wound, then sealed it with Black Jade Flesh-Regenerating Paste.
By then, the bandits who had taken part in the operation were returning one after another. This time, they had captured seventeen of Tang Jingyu's female disciples-a bumper harvest in every sense. All the women were pretty, and the bandits of the Turbid Water Gang were hardly decent men