Nine-layer armor-breaking

Chapter 353 Battle
"Take this."

Jiang Xian opened the medicine bottle he had been holding and said to the two of them.

"Isn't this...?" Guard Liu looked puzzled as he recalled the medicine bottle from earlier.

"No, take it."

After Jiang Xian finished speaking, Guard Li immediately picked up a pill and swallowed it. Guard Liu also took the pill and swallowed it without hesitation.

Guard Liu only wondered whether the two medicine bottles were the same, but he never doubted Jiang Xian.

"Go check if that mechanism is still working," Jiang Xian said, glancing at Guard Li.

……

All three were making arrangements and preparations. Even the core leader, who had initially been very confident, was now feeling his heart pounding.

Facing these three people alone, he had no chance of survival and no way to escape. However, if the person he was hoping for arrived, his chances of winning would be much greater.

He knew that even though the people in front of him were all high-level Heaven-rank martial artists, their stamina had been largely depleted, and they had little chance of winning against the next dozen or so people.

Moreover, Jiang Xian was a woman, which was completely different from his previous assumption. He now believed that Jiang Xian did not have the strength of a high-level Heaven Rank, or even a martial artist. This could be inferred from the various pills she carried with her.

In this way, as long as Jiang Xian is not a martial artist with high-level Heaven Rank strength, the chances of defeating these three people will be even greater.

Even if Jiang Xian had great strategic skills, he couldn't stir up any trouble in the face of absolute strength and overwhelming numbers.

He couldn't help but feel uneasy, but that was all he could tell himself.

He needed to calm himself down as soon as possible; only by pulling himself together could he win this battle.

……

Footsteps drew closer, swords flashed in the air, and after only a few whistles, one painful scream after another could be heard.

That came from the horses outside the door; there was no fear, only their final neighing.

The sound echoed in this lifeless place, evoking a strange sense of sorrow.

Sure enough, a dozen burly men carrying weapons arrived the next moment.

Knives, swords, axes... all sorts of weapons, and a burly man with a fierce expression, appeared in front of them in an instant.

Upon seeing this, the two guards frowned slightly. Although they sensed that the situation was not good, at such a critical moment, they could not afford to be distracted by wild thoughts.

So they each gripped their short knives tightly, ready to fight the dozen or so burly men in front of them.

If the leader was uneasy just now, then judging from his face alone, he must be very excited now.

He was so excited at that moment that he probably forgot most of the pain he was in.

Jiang Xian was right. The dozen or so people in front of him were indeed people he trusted. It was obvious that he had long harbored disloyalty towards his boss.

The fact that he secretly kept such a group of people was enough to reveal what he was thinking.

Although the weapons these people were carrying were of various kinds, a closer look revealed that they hadn't even prepared a single bow and arrow. This indicated that these dozen or so people had no intention of engaging in ranged combat, or rather, they were very confident and skilled at close-quarters fighting and could defeat their opponents.

Observing this situation, Jiang Xian took a step back and nocked three arrows onto the large bow he was holding.

The bow was drawn taut, the arrows released. With a "whoosh!", the three arrows, though heading in different directions, flew rapidly through the air almost simultaneously towards their targets.
They fell to the ground one after another.

Everything was so simple and ordinary, from the appearance and material of the bows and arrows to the way they were shot, and even the way they flew through the air.

However, even with such an ordinary bow and arrow, the most common and simple move can swiftly and decisively take down three people in an instant without any hesitation.

This not only caught the dozen or so burly men off guard, but also left the two people standing beside her, ready to fight, dumbfounded.

They knew Jiang Xian would surprise them time and time again, but they really didn't know that Jiang Xian's archery skills were so good.

However, Jiang Xian had also considered this point.

In public, she couldn't use any extra techniques. Right now, she could only use the simplest moves to do as much as possible to help the two guards.

She had to carefully conceal every detail about the martial artist, and simply demonstrate the maximum extent that an ordinary person could do.

Therefore, she even carefully planned the direction in which the arrows were shot.

For example, the three people who fell to the ground. Although they were all lying solidly on the ground, if you look closely, you will find that Jiang Xian's three arrows did not hit their vital organs. Moreover, the three arrows actually hit different places on the three people.

But for Jiang Xian, such a performance was enough; the rest could be left to the two guards.

Jiang Xian didn't want to make a move, but he understood that even if the opponent was only a low-level martial artist, it would not be easy for the two Jiang family guards, who had exhausted most of their strength, to completely escape from those people in a short time, and injuries were inevitable.

Not to mention that there might be Heaven-ranked martial artists among them, making it even harder to extricate oneself once entangled.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so confident in coming with such a large entourage without carrying a single bow and arrow.

Clearly, they had made thorough plans. First, they killed the horses in front of the gate to cut off Jiang Xian and his companions' escape route, preventing them from having any chance to flee.

Therefore, Jiang Xian and his two companions must eliminate the dozen or so people here; otherwise, they will have little chance of escaping.

The three of them will not run away; of course, they shouldn't be the ones who should run away.

Just as everyone was dumbfounded, the sound of something cutting through the air rang out again.

"Whoosh!"

……

Three arrows were fired simultaneously, and three more people fell to the ground.

The aim remained the same, still inaccurate, and still never hit the villain's vital points.

The force was considerable, enough to keep the group lying on the ground for a while longer.

Guard Li and Guard Liu looked at each other, but now the unease they had felt when facing the dozen or so thugs was completely gone.

Jiang Xian struck first, but the burly man opposite him was no fool either.

After being attacked twice in succession and falling to the ground, they immediately reacted and began to try to close the distance with Jiang Xian and his two companions, preventing Jiang Xian from having another chance to use his bow and arrow.

While fighting the two guards, they also wanted to eliminate Jiang Xian, this dangerous figure.

Therefore, as they continued to approach, they first engaged the two guards, then freed up men to control Jiang Xian, and looked for an opportunity to eliminate him.

(End of this chapter)