Chapter 196: A Hero Saves Xishi
Peng Feng raised his hand.
The bronze saber directly shattered all the ropes binding Xishi.
It has to be said, the Queen of Yue has a talent for tying ropes, she tied Xishi up quite beautifully, what a pity.
After being rescued, Xishi cupped her hands and said in a soft, delicate voice, “Thank you, hero, for saving my life. But, hero, shouldn’t you flee immediately?”
She was clearly in a hurry, but what came out was a soft Wu-Yue dialect, a tone that simply couldn’t be rushed.
On the other side.
The Queen of Yue raised her hand: “Flee? Where do you think you’re going to flee? Surround them for me.”
Instantly, the Yue soldiers under her command surrounded the area tightly.
The Queen of Yue, seeing that her soldiers had surrounded Peng Feng and Xishi, nodded in satisfaction, relieved, and looked at Peng Feng: “Who exactly are you? How dare you come here to rescue Xishi? You have a lot of nerve.”
Peng Feng smiled: “Who am I? Does it matter? I’m here for the sake of justice. Xishi was originally an ordinary village girl from Yue. For the sake of Yue, she sacrificed herself to enter the Wu Palace, serving King Fuchai of Wu, who was thirty or forty years her senior, for a full ten years.
The hardships she endured are beyond the understanding of outsiders.
If it weren’t for Xishi, I’m afraid King Fuchai of Wu wouldn’t have relaxed his vigilance so easily, and might have killed King Goujian of Yue and you, Queen of Yue, long ago.
It can be said that Xishi made great contributions to Yue’s destruction of Wu.
And yet, you actually want to drown such a meritorious subject in the river.
So, after all this, this is how Yue treats its meritorious subjects.
Tsk tsk tsk, your Yue’s way of treating meritorious subjects is truly eye-opening. I, Peng, am in awe. Well done, King Goujian of Yue.”
As soon as Peng Feng said this, the Yue soldiers couldn’t help but whisper among themselves. The Queen of Yue wanting to drown Xishi was really not convincing to the crowd.
The Queen of Yue’s face turned extremely ugly, almost livid, by Peng Feng’s words, but Peng Feng’s words were all reasonable, leaving her unable to refute. She could only bite the bullet and say, “This is an internal matter of Yue, and it doesn’t need an outsider like you to interfere.
I don’t want to complicate matters. You release Xishi now and leave immediately, and you can still leave.
The Yue that I belong to is the strongest country in the world. My husband is the number one expert on the Heavenly List.
If you continue to be stubborn, you will only die!”
In later generations, people would say how strong the Seven Warring States were.
But in the fifty years between 500 BC and 450 BC, it really wasn’t the era for those states to flex their muscles.
At first, King Fuchai of Wu was the strongest. King Fuchai of Wu was also one of the famous Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn period, the strongest of this era.
However, later, King Fuchai of Wu was defeated by King Goujian of Yue, and King Goujian of Yue became the strongest of this era.
The current Chu and Qi States? Heh, weren’t they all defeated by King Fuchai of Wu? Qi was beaten to their doorstep by Wu, and Chu had dozens of cities conquered by Wu. Even the corpse of King Ping of Chu was dug up and whipped by Wu’s general, Wu Zixu.
The faces of the great states of Qi and Chu were all lost.
The main theme of this era was the rivalry between Wu and Yue.
And the Queen of Yue, backed by the world’s strongest country, Yue, and the world’s strongest expert, King Goujian of Yue, who was number one on the Heavenly List, was full of confidence.
She had an overbearing aura of “those who obey me will live, and those who defy me will die.”
Of course, the Queen of Yue was like this because the years of “sleeping on brushwood and tasting gall” were really too bitter, and she didn’t dare to vent her anger. Now that her husband was finally the strongest in the world, she became even more arrogant.
Peng Feng first pretended to be scared: “Oh, I’m so scared, you’re using the entire Yue to scare me, using King Goujian of Yue to scare me. I’m so scared.”
Then, he sneered: “Xishi, I’m determined to save her. Isn’t it just one person against a country? It’s not like I haven’t done it before. Show me what you’ve got.”
As soon as Peng Feng said this.
Everyone present.
Whether it was the Queen of Yue.
Or the soldiers of Yue.
Or Fan Li, who had already lost his heart.
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Or Xishi, who was rescued by Peng Feng.
All felt—what a big mouth!
One person against a country.
Such a thing, how could it be easy?
Not to mention, this country was not an ordinary country.
But the world’s strongest country, Yue!!!
This was really too much bragging.
“Good.” The Queen of Yue was first stunned, then sneered: “What a big mouth, you actually dare to claim to be one person against a country. Then I will see what abilities you have to fight against our powerful Yue.”
“Gou San, Gu Si, Xian Wu, go for me. Kill him.”
Gou San was an expert from the Yue royal family, a tenth level expert in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, ranked twenty-eighth on the Earth List.
Gu Si was a super expert that the Queen of Yue’s own family had sent to her, a tenth level expert in the Celestial Phenomenon Realm, ranked seventh on the Earth List.
As for Xian Wu, he was even more terrifying. This Xian Wu was an oddity who had received a great life-saving favor from the Queen of Yue, and had been working by her side. He was ranked first on the Earth List.
In other words, in this world, only the nine people on the Heavenly List could steadily suppress Xian Wu. No one else was Xian Wu’s opponent.
Gou San, Gu Si, Xian Wu.
These three great experts were all incredibly terrifying.
The experts under the Queen of Yue were really not fewer than the experts under King Goujian of Yue. Of course, King Goujian of Yue himself was number one on the Heavenly List, the number one expert in the world, so he didn’t need so many experts.
As soon as the Queen of Yue spoke.
The three of them, Gou San, Gu Si, and Xian Wu, stood out.
Gou San, who was ranked twenty-eighth on the Earth List, was wearing a yellow robe, looking like a member of the royal family, with a hint of arrogance.
Gu Si, who was ranked seventh on the Earth List, had a scar on his face, and his aura was murderous.
As for Xian Wu, who was ranked first on the Earth List, he was an ordinary-looking person. Such a person, when placed in a crowd, no one would remember him. Even if people saw Xian Wu’s appearance this second, they would forget it the next second. Clearly, Xian Wu was even more terrifying than Gou San and Gu Si.
The Queen of Yue sneered: “You’ve dared to challenge a country alone. Then let’s see if you can survive the combined attack of Gou San, Gu Si, and Xian Wu.”
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Peng Feng alone.
Facing Gou San, Gu Si, and Xian Wu.
These three were all experts on the Earth List.
They were extraordinarily terrifying.
This was an absolutely unfair battle.
It was already too difficult for one person to face one expert on the Earth List.
And it was even more difficult to face three experts on the Earth List at the same time.
For a time, the onlookers were all whispering.
“Do you think this person who suddenly appeared can survive the combined attack of Gou San, Gu Si, and Xian Wu?” someone asked quietly.
“That’s impossible.” Someone immediately said: “Gou San is already terrifying enough, Gu Si is even more terrifying than Gou San. And Xian Wu, among the world’s experts, can be ranked tenth. If the Heavenly List doesn’t appear, no one can contend with Xian Wu.”
“This stranger is not one of the nine experts on the Heavenly List, how can he possibly contend with Xian Wu?”
“So, he’s dead for sure.”
