After more than an hour, the Four Women were all growing anxious. Although they had completely suppressed Lei Teng and Yu Yizhong, especially Yu Yizhong, who already bore several saber wounds, they still could not defeat the two men right away.
Ran Chou and Min Yijiang were seriously injured over on the other side. Guo Jiao and Gong Xi were wounded as well, but their injuries were clearly somewhat lighter than Ran Chou and Min Yijiang's.
To finish off their opponents as quickly as possible, Guo Jiao and Gong Xi had even been willing to trade wound for wound, which the Four Women had not quite expected.
The Four Women could not trade wound for wound as Guo Jiao and Gong Xi did. They relied on coordination and the combined power of their saber and sword arts. Given time, they could wear these two men down to death, but time clearly did not permit it now.
What should we do? You Lian'er was deeply frustrated.
"Lian'er, don't get distracted. Just do your best. Those two seniors won't be defeated so easily either," Xiao Yan said through voice transmission.
You Lian'er nodded slightly, the killing intent in her eyes growing stronger.
The killing intent from earlier had vanished from Yu Yizhong's face. The two women had almost crushed his earlier fighting spirit, and now he could only defend desperately.
"This is bad!"
As they fought desperately, the shouting nearby startled the Four Women, for their own forces were retreating steadily, having already fallen back rapidly from the gates of the Imperial Palace to the front of its Main Hall.
"Your Majesty, it's dangerous here. Please move somewhere else!" Zhao Yuankan stood before the Imperial Palace's Main Hall, and a minister beside him spoke urgently as he watched the situation not far