The person who threw the hidden weapon was named Shi Yanran, the wife of Gongsun Qian, the well-known Wanxia Lou (Ten Thousand Clouds Pavilion) Master in the martial world. And the man she had just killed was both her lover and a disciple of Wanxia Lou.

Shi Yanran was already famous in the martial world at the age of twenty for her unique skill with the biao ding (dart nails). At twenty-three, she met and married the Wanxia Lou Master, who was already over fifty.

Ten years passed in a flash. What changes occurred during those ten years... let's not go into too much detail; suffice it to summarize with the saying, "A pear blossom weighs down a crabapple."

The deceased Qingyi (Blue-Robed) scholar was named Wang Ao, and he was twenty-four years old this year. Three years ago, he joined Wanxia Lou. Because he was handsome and refined, he was "taken a fancy to" by the Shimu (Master's Wife) at first sight and taken in as a "closed-door disciple." The two of them began an improper relationship from then on.

However, this Wang Ao was by no means just a gigolo; he also had his own ambitions. He entered Wanxia Lou in the first place to get his hands on Wanxia Lou's ultimate technique—the Wanxia Shen Gong (Ten Thousand Clouds Divine Skill). And with that layer of relationship with the Shimu, he had even more confidence.

About a year later, Wang Ao felt that the time was ripe, so he began to probe, trying to get Shi Yanran to steal or copy the Wanxia Shen Gong manual for him.

Shi Yanran was not stupid. Although Gongsun Qian was completely unaware of her affair, he was not so muddled that he wouldn't notice if the sect's secret manual had been touched, so she absolutely did not dare to do such a thing. On the other hand, Wang Ao repeatedly mentioned this matter, and finally, it turned into a threatening attitude.

Therefore, Shi Yanran became murderous…

This time, the two great swordsmen were engaging in a sword duel at Cangling, and Wanxia Lou, as one of the most powerful sects in the martial world, would naturally not be absent from this good show. As the Master's wife and the closed-door disciple, this pair of lovers naturally followed the Master into town.

Therefore, there was the scene from earlier.

As Feng Bujue said, nowadays in this town, killing a person or two at night is something that Heaven doesn't care about, Earth doesn't care about, and people care about even less. As long as you dispose of the body after the murder and prevent anyone from seeing who the murderer is from the wounds, then all is well.

Shi Yanran had originally planned to do just that. She pretended to ask Wang Ao out for a late-night tryst, but in reality, she intended to kill him. But little did she know that Wang Ao, that cunning fellow, had long sensed something was amiss and had taken precautions. Just as she was about to strike, the other party immediately ran away.

But Shi Yanran's martial arts were, after all, more than a notch above Wang Ao's. The latter ultimately failed to escape. It was just that before he died, he happened to appear in front of Feng Bujue and the others.

When Feng Bujue went forward to look at the corpse just now, Shi Yanran inwardly exclaimed that things were going badly. There were quite a few people in the martial world who recognized her dart nail technique. Now there were eyewitnesses, a murder weapon, and a corpse... the murder would definitely be exposed, and once this matter was exposed, the adultery could not be concealed.

At that moment, what Shi Yanran thought was... might as well go all the way! Anyway, these few people looked like they had no martial arts skills, so it would be better to kill them all. Just consider yourselves unlucky.

Buzz, buzz, buzz... several rather strange sounds rang out around Feng Bujue.

A hail of dart nails that suddenly attacked from mid-air was blocked by an invisible barrier just as they were about to hit Feng Bujue's body. If you looked closely, you could see that the surface of Feng Bujue's body was stirred up by the hidden weapons, creating bursts of transparent ripples.

This was clearly the "buffer" attribute of the [Echo Armor] at work once again. As mentioned earlier, the sound barrier has a very significant defensive effect against high-speed, multi-point strikes. The hidden weapon attack at this moment met both of these conditions. As for the power... even K3-Chitie's close-range punching flurry had been defended by the sound barrier, so this long-range scattering attack was naturally not a problem.

Shi Yanran had not expected such a thing at all, and she completely did not understand how Feng Bujue had defended against the dart nails she had thrown.

Feng Bujue, on the other hand, was greatly relieved. If the other party had used close combat to attack directly, his Survival Value would likely have suffered heavy losses. Fortunately, the other party had chosen to attack with hidden weapons, which instead left him completely unharmed.

Between this attack and defense, the situation had already changed.

Shi Yanran originally thought that Feng Bujue, who had no inner power at all, would surely die if he was shot by the dart nails. She was eager to kill and silence them, so while throwing the nails, she rushed out of the alley, preparing to deal with the other four people in the distance. Who would have thought that this kid would stand there completely unharmed after being attacked by her dart nails, and that he would conjure up a unique weapon that she had never seen before (it was actually just a pipe wrench), which made her have to be on guard.

And Feng Bujue, on the other hand, just instinctively took out his weapon and looked up. What came into his eyes was a woman in white, wearing tight-fitting clothes, with a light gray sable fur short coat draped over her shoulders and a silver ribbon around her waist. Although this woman could not be called a peerless beauty, her delicate face and figure could be considered top-notch. Her age of thirty-odd years added a bit of graceful charm to her.

"This female Xia (knight-errant), let's talk things over..." Feng Bujue basically understood the reason for the other party's attack in these few seconds. He said cleverly, "I don't know you..." He also pointed to the corpse on the ground, "I don't know him either." He cautiously kept a certain distance from Shi Yanran, "What happened just now has nothing to do with me." Seeing that the other party's movements had stopped, as if she did not dare to rashly come forward, he felt a little relieved in his heart, "My friends and I... can pretend we didn't see anything and leave quietly, you can do whatever you want with this corpse."

Shi Yanran had already become murderous, so how could she be swayed by these few words? She snorted coldly, "Hmph... don't you think it's too late to say this now? You've already seen my face." Her gaze moved to Wang Ao's corpse, "You've also seen his face, that's enough." Her thinking was correct, she had no reason to believe that these few strangers would keep what happened just now a secret. If they really kept the secret, it would basically mean... that this secret would evolve into a bargaining chip of threat.

"Then there's no other way..." When Feng Bujue said these words, he turned his face slightly and raised his voice slightly, which was obviously to greet his teammates, preparing to attack.

But a flash of crimson light suddenly appeared, and a strong surge of energy burst out from Feng Bujue's body in an instant. He was quite wary of the combat power of the NPCs in this script and did not dare to be careless in the slightest, so he activated the [Ling Shi Ju Shen Shu (Spirit Consciousness Gathering Art)] at the beginning of the battle.

On Shi Yanran's side, she was even more nervous than Feng Bujue. At first glance, the other party had no inner power at all, but the invisible power that had just vibrated away the dart nails from a distance was something that only a master with extremely deep internal strength could use. And this crimson, tangible Qi was an unprecedented method of cultivation that she had never seen before.

Now that things had come to this, Shi Yanran had no time to think more. She wanted to kill the other party, and since this kid did have some tricks, she would use her full power to see if he would die or not!

She secretly circulated her true Qi, bent her knees slightly, and struck out with her wrist. This time, only one dart nail flew towards Feng Bujue, but its momentum was fierce and unmatched, and the sound of breaking through the air was like a sharp whistle, the attack aimed directly at Feng Bujue's throat.