Chapter 698: One Man Holds the Pass
Gegou Fei’s eyes were gouged out, and he went completely mad, his orders becoming wild and erratic: “Why are you still guarding those women and children? Quick, quickly come here and kill this bastard! All of you, come!”
The last dozen fierce bandits, who had been watching over the women and children, glanced at their leader, still writhing on the ground, then quickly drew their blades and charged at Li Daoxuan.
In an instant, Li Daoxuan found himself intercepted from the front and pursued from the back, leaping and dodging as blades flashed at him from every direction.
Dual threads!
It was time for dual-thread operation.
Li Daoxuan took a blade strike with a muffled grunt, thrusting his sword back in retaliation. At the same time, he switched to the Puppet Heavenly Lord, telling the women and children: “Quickly, move...”
His consciousness snapped back. Thwack! He took another blow, a chunk of silicone skin sliced off. He retaliated with a sword slash, then switched threads again: “Hide in the house...”
Switching back, he took a massive stride forward, leaping over a dry well.
He switched threads again: “The stone house.”
The village chief was the wealthiest person in Houjia Village. He lived in a house built of stone, the most solid structure in the entire village.
The sturdiest woman shot to her feet, dashing toward the house. The other women scrambled up too, grabbing their children and racing after her.
The fierce bandit who had been guarding them suddenly spun around: “Huh? The women are running? Weren’t their feet bound?”
One bandit turned to pursue the women.
But then, Li Daoxuan, in the midst of the attackers, suddenly let out a shout of “Hey!” and charged head-down toward the entrance of the stone house.
A bandit who had just turned to go after them took Li Daoxuan’s full impact to his vital back. He spurted a mouthful of blood with a sickening thud and tumbled far away.
The women and children had just scrambled into the stone house when Li Daoxuan arrived right behind them. He stood at the entrance of the stone house, arms spread wide, no longer running.
As he made this move, the bandits finally understood!
He had been running and darting all over the place, leading the bandits in circles, only to draw away the rogues guarding the women and children, buying the women and children time to get inside the house.
And now, he stood alone at the doorway, a solitary figure, truly embodying the spirit of "one man holding the pass against ten thousand."
“Damn it, isn’t he just too arrogant?”
“What kind of idiotic tactic is this?”
“Does he really think one man can hold off all of us?”
“Kill him!”
This time, the bandits abandoned their blades. Since their enemy wasn't running, they could use spears.
They picked up the long spears they had thrown to the ground earlier.
A large group of them, armed with spears, encircled him. They first formed a semicircle around Li Daoxuan. Then, with a collective shout of “Hey!”, dozens of men, dozens of spears, simultaneously thrust at Li Daoxuan.
Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!
In an instant, Li Daoxuan couldn't count how many spears pierced him.
But he neither dodged nor retreated. He didn't even use his longsword to block. Spears embedded themselves in his body, his main frame riddled with countless holes.
Yet, he seized the opportunity to swing his sword, and Crack! Crack!, snapped several spear shafts in succession.
The rogues: “!!!”
“What the hell is this?”
“I definitely stabbed flesh, I felt the spearhead sink into him.”
“I think I even hit bone.”
“His bones are so hard.”
Li Daoxuan smiled, but said nothing. He pulled the broken spear shafts from his body and tossed them casually into the house.
Several women picked up the half-spears, clutching them. Their faces were a mix of fear and excitement as they gazed at the “magnificent” figure in the doorway.
They had seen Li Daoxuan struck many times, yet he still stood proudly at the entrance, without a trace of wavering. Handsome, so damn handsome.
Suspension bridge effect activated!
In that instant, several young women in the village felt that Li Daoxuan was the greatest man in the world.
“Kill him!”
“Cut him down!”
“Why? Why can’t we cut this guy down?”
“Clang!”
Someone’s blade struck Li Daoxuan’s arm. The blow shifted, dragging diagonally, slicing off a large chunk of flesh from his arm, exposing the skeletal structure beneath.
“Why does it look like metal?”
“Ah, this guy’s bones are iron.”
The bandits stared in horror at Li Daoxuan’s arm. The fleshless arm, with a metallic bone exposed within, looked utterly terrifying.
This was truly a shock among shocks.
Li Daoxuan chuckled, “Oh dear. When I was younger, wandering the Jianghu, I accidentally lost a hand. So I had a prosthetic arm made and attached. Are you afraid of that?”
The bandits: “!!!”
“Charge!”
“Hack him to death!”
The group continued to surge forward.
“The window! A few of you, attack the window!”
“Yes, yes, yes! Go through the window and kill all the women!”
However, the women weren't foolish. After fleeing into the house, they had already piled all the furniture in the room against the windows, firmly barricading them.
The bandits hacked away at the wooden window grates with their knives, only to find wooden cabinets and tables crammed behind them. Even a stone millstone had been rolled over to block it. They wouldn't be able to clear it out anytime soon—
Meanwhile, Zijing Liang, in the woods outside the village, suddenly received a report from a subordinate: “Boss, Zhang Fengyi has moved! She’s leading her army and charging toward the village at top speed.”
Zijing Liang’s spirits lifted: “Haha, excellent! Zhang Fengyi has arrived? Order the entire army: prepare to close the net. First, let her enter the village. Once Gegou Fei’s men engage her, we can encircle them. Gegou Fei has hostages, so she won’t be able to achieve a quick victory or escape. Our men will then trap her completely.”
The bandit army began to move!
At this moment, Zhang Fengyi was charging at full speed.
Her thousand White Pole Soldiers pushed their pace to the absolute limit, sprinting wildly.
It was only about two li. Once the White Pole Soldiers started running, it would only take them a mere ten minutes or so. If they weren't armored, carrying equipment, and didn't need to conserve energy, they could have been even faster.
But armored and carrying their white pole spears, they still had to fight after running. They had to conserve some strength, so covering the distance in just over ten minutes was already incredibly strenuous.
“We’re here! That’s Houjia Village ahead.”
Zhang Fengyi urged, “Quickly, quickly, quickly! Li Daoxuan has been holding out for so long, I’m afraid...”
Her phoenix eyes were filled with tears. Deep down, she felt Li Daoxuan was almost certainly destined for a heroic sacrifice.
However, the moment she led her army charging into Houjia Village, she discovered that Li Daoxuan was not dead. He was still guarding the entrance of the stone house.
Moreover, the scene of battle had taken on a rather bizarre appearance.
Large sections of his silicone outer layer had been sliced away, revealing metallic bones everywhere. A section of iron arm bone on the left, an iron leg bone on the right, and even an iron plate exposed on his chest...
The sight of a half-mechanical, half-human figure would send shivers down any normal person’s spine.
The bandits surrounding him were actually utterly terrified, all feeling as if they were fighting a monster. But they were on the tiger's back, unable to dismount, and had no choice but to continue the fight.
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