"Thud!"
The sound of fist hitting flesh echoed right beside her ears.
Nan Chaoyu suddenly turned around and saw the person who had been happily waiting to greet her just now lying on the ground.
"Ye Yun!"
Seeing the first attack miss, the attacker, taking advantage of Nan Chaoyu's attention being on the person on the ground, didn't leave. Instead, he launched another attack at Nan Chaoyu.
Feng Ji and Feng Xiao quickly stepped in front of Nan Chaoyu. However, the attacker's movement technique was extremely strange. He slipped through the gap between the two of them and aimed straight at Nan Chaoyu's chest.
But just as the palm was about to land on Nan Chaoyu, it was blocked.
The Death Soul Bone Fan was placed on the attacker's wrist. Mu Qihan's cool voice sounded, "Sir, you have good skills, but you're not very honorable."
Compared to a group of more than a dozen people surrounding two people, Mu Qihan despised those who resorted to sneak attacks from behind and aimed to kill even more.
Seeing there was no chance, the attacker didn't entangle with Mu Qihan. He twisted his body and immediately tried to retreat.
By now, Nan Chaoyu had also regained her senses. Looking at the retreating back, her face was filled with indescribable coldness.
She slapped the Mysterious Ice Sword beside her with one hand, infusing her internal energy into the sword. Without unsheathing the sword, it shot out at an extremely fast speed, leaving a blurred after - image, and hit the back of the attacker.
"Ugh!"
After a muffled groan, the attacker fell into the Xie family's group and was quickly surrounded by them.
Nan Chaoyu helped Ye Yun up and handed him to Feng Ji and Feng Xiao, instructing, "You two take him down."
The attacker's palm was fast and sudden but lacked some strength. Ye Yun's internal injury was not fatal, but it couldn't be delayed.
Feng Ji and Feng Xiao obeyed absolutely. They answered yes and escorted Ye Yun towards the edge.
Nan Chaoyu's attack just now had intimidated everyone. Everyone knew she was a tough nut to crack, so no one was foolish enough to provoke her.
Even the Xie family had to avoid her for the time being. But unexpectedly, a sudden change occurred, and people's minds became active again.
However, before these thoughts could fully surface, the extremely fast sword made everyone give up their thoughts. A large empty space suddenly appeared around them.
Nan Chaoyu didn't mind and put away the Mysterious Ice Sword.
She turned to look at Mu Qihan, "Young Master Mu, cover me. I owe you one." Without waiting for his answer, she immediately assumed a charging stance.
Mu Qihan wasn't offended by the certainty in her words. Instead, he asked in surprise, "You trust me?" She had just experienced a sneak attack, yet she actually trusted him, an outsider. Even though he had saved her, how did she know he wasn't in cahoots with that attacker?
Nan Chaoyu moved her wrists. Hearing this, she looked back at Mu Qihan, "Stop talking nonsense. I'm going!"
Seeing her charge out, Mu Qihan shook his head, opened his bone fan, and followed.
Only then did he wonder why he was helping her. How was she so sure he would follow?
Since Nan Chaoyu had disrupted the pirate den, she had been wanted by the pirate leader for a while and was still at the top of the wanted list in the Soul - Eating Sea.
After that incident, she understood the importance of hiding her strength. Even when facing the encirclement of dozens of people just now, she held the Mysterious Ice Sword and still held back a third of her strength, diverting everyone's attention to the sword.
But now, the Xie family had attacked her companion, and she suddenly didn't want to endure anymore.
In the high - platform martial arts competition, it was only supposed to be a demonstration, and killing was not allowed, right!
Then she would show the Xie family what it meant to be worse than dead and what it was like to watch helplessly.
If Nan Chaoyu with the Mysterious Ice Sword in hand was sharp and invincible, then Nan Chaoyu without the sword was like a wild beast charging into the Xie family's group.
Before the enemy could react, her fists landed on them. Each punch avoided the vital parts, not killing them but at least crippling them.
There was also Mu Qihan behind her. One charged forward, and the other provided cover. In just a short while, only a few people were left around Xie Zhenkai from the Xie family's group of more than a dozen people.
Nan Chaoyu scanned the area but didn't find the person who had just launched the sneak attack. Her eyes turned cold as she looked at Xie Zhenkai, "Who was the person who just attacked me?"
Xie Zhenkai hid behind others. His eyes looking at Nan Chaoyu were like looking at a ghost. A sense of fear welled up in his heart, but he still forced himself to say, "There's no one you're looking for here!"
"No one!" Nan Chaoyu moved her wrists and didn't give him a second chance to speak. She charged straight at him.
At this moment, because of Nan Chaoyu's fierce attack just now, there were only fifty people left on the martial arts platform.
At this time, a gong would sound, indicating the end of the competition.
On the high platform, ever since Nan Chaoyu charged into the Xie family's group, the old master of the Xie family had looked unhappy. Now, seeing Nan Chaoyu charging at Xie Zhenkai again,
He suddenly stood up and shouted at Li Yuejin, "Lord Li, the number of participants has been selected. Why don't you sound the gong!"
Li Yuejin reacted half a beat late. He answered "oh", looked at the number of people on the platform, and pretended to check.
By the time Nan Chaoyu had knocked down all the Xie family's people, he suddenly said, "It's still the old master of the Xie family who has sharp eyes. I'll sound the gong now."
He slowly picked up the hammer on one side and "banged" it on the gong.
At this moment, Nan Chaoyu's fist was just in front of Xie Zhenkai's nose.
Hearing the sound, she retracted her hand and said with some regret, "Lord Xie is quite lucky. We'll meet in the secret realm then."
Xie Zhenkai felt like he had survived a disaster. Hearing what Nan Chaoyu said, he secretly swore in his heart.
In the future, he would definitely not provoke this evil star again.
After the selection was over, people from the city lord's mansion quickly came out to distribute tokens to the people on the high platform. This was the key to enter the secret realm of the Soul - Eating Sea.
The secret realm of the Soul - Eating Sea would open on schedule the day after tomorrow. It only recognized the key, not the person.
You could change the person holding it or even sell it.
Thanks to Nan Chaoyu, there were only forty people left on the second martial arts platform.
She took the token and jumped off the platform. Anyway, the rest of the things had nothing to do with her.
Seeing her leave, Mu Qihan thought for a while and followed.
Feng Ji, Feng Xiao, and Xiaotian also got their tokens. Just now, after they had handed Ye Yun to Ting Lan who had rushed over, they saw Xiaotian left alone.
So they protected Xiaotian and stayed until the end.
"Young Master Mu, why are you following me?"
After walking a few steps, Nan Chaoyu noticed that Mu Qihan had been following her.
She was in a hurry to see Ye Yun and had no time to joke with him at the moment.
Mu Qihan was stunned by this question. He suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable in his heart.
Just now, she had pestered him to join forces. Amidst the encirclement of the crowd, she even had the time to flirt with him. How could she just run away after flirting?
It was quite like someone who didn't recognize others after getting what they wanted.
This thought made Mu Qihan feel a bit embarrassed!
Nan Chaoyu watched this person with a rich expression but not saying a word. She became a bit impatient, "What on earth do you want?"
Mu Qihan straightened his expression and resumed his aloof and cold young master image. He calmly said, "I have something to ask you!"