Chapter 280
280, Barehanded (22nd Update)
Xie Zhinuan pursed her lips as she looked towards Li Hengyi.
Li Hengyi stepped forward and felt along the wall for quite a while before saying, “Yuanbao, take Zhinuan and the grey wolf out!”
“Yes!”
Xie Zhinuan knew Li Hengyi intended to break through the mechanism and hurriedly said, “Li Hengyi, be careful!”
Li Hengyi smiled.
He was inwardly pleased.
Perhaps she hadn’t realized that when she was concerned about him, she would call out his name directly.
If she wanted to tease him with pride, she’d call him cousin or Your Highness; if she didn’t want to deal with him, it would be Young Master Li.
“Alright!”
He responded.
Only after Xie Zhinuan had left did he leap onto a broken wall, raise his hand to gather energy and then, with a loud shout, strike the wall with his palm, but there was no movement.
“…”
Li Hengyi was surprised.
He had found the weakest point here and had thought that his palm strike would shake the stone door open.
Li Hengyi, refusing to believe in the impossible, struck again with another palm.
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Lian Huai glanced at the mute servant and said, “Mute, you try!”The mute nodded.
He channeled his energy into the spot where Li Hengyi had struck.
After several attempts, the stone door still did not shatter.
“…”
Xie Zhinuan watched, biting her lip before stepping forward and saying, “Why don’t I give it a try?”
“…”
“…”
Everyone looked at Xie Zhinuan in astonishment.
She was going to try?
Xie Zhinuan added, “I feel like I have some Inner Strength; let me try!”
These past few days, she felt her Inner Strength had grown, but she also wanted to test its extent.
“Hmm!” Li Hengyi was the first to agree.
He went to Xie Zhinuan, teaching her how to channel her energy and where to land her palm strike.
Then he stood by her side to protect her, ready to pull her away if any hidden weapons were triggered from inside.
“Hmm!”
Xie Zhinuan nodded.
She channeled her energy.
Li Hengyi watched with surprise and awe as Xie Zhinuan summoned a powerful aura around herself.
He knew that Xie Zhinuan had no Martial Arts before and was shocked that in just a few days, she had cultivated to this level.
With one palm strike from Zhinuan, there was a cracking sound, and the surroundings shook slightly.
“…”
Xie Zhinuan withdrew her hand.
She didn’t know what would have happened inside if she had struck with her palm, but she knew she had used all her strength.
“We’ve done it!” Li Hengyi said softly.
With another crack, the stone door shattered, leaving rubble all over the floor.
He quickly pulled Xie Zhinuan out of the way as countless poisoned arrows shot out from the inside.
Xie Zhinuan felt a lingering fear.
Li Hengyi remained calm; he waited for the poison arrows to finish before hurrying in. Instead, he picked up a stone and threw it inside, followed by several more cracking sounds as if something was being crushed.
Then all fell silent.
“Can we go in now?” Xie Zhinuan asked.
Lian Huai also looked at Li Hengyi.
Li Hengyi, however, said, “Wait a bit longer!”
Picking up another stone, he threw it inside, again hearing the sound of something being crushed.
“…”
Xie Zhinuan was stunned.
Li Hengyi spoke softly, “This kind of mechanism is called Triple-layered Mountain, consisting of three traps, each capable of taking a life!”
Such was also proof that the wine inside remained untouched.
Just as Li Hengyi was about to lead Xie Zhinuan inside, an arrow flew towards them.
Li Hengyi pulled Xie Zhinuan to dodge, but she reached out and caught the arrow effortlessly.
“…”
“…”
Li Hengyi was stunned.
Yuanbao called out in shock.
With that speed and strength, Li Hengyi could only dodge, but Xie Zhinuan had caught it with ease, without any discomfort or injury.
How could this not be surprising?
Even the archer was frozen in shock.
The bow in his hand weighed three hundred jin (approximately 400 pounds), and the power behind the arrows was also immense; yet the woman had caught it.
“…”
Xie Zhinuan herself was petrified.
“I, I just caught it instinctively!”
She had truly acted on instinct, not expecting to actually succeed.
Chapter 281