Terai Chika had not been asleep, and startled by the laughter, she rushed out to see what was happening.
In the courtyard, Dantai Yuchen stood surrounded by more than twenty experts who were mocking her. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, and with a crisp "clash," her long sword, Qiushui, was unsheathed. The cold, piercing light of the blade flashed through the moonlight, and the laughter of the man who had been mocking her died instantly.
A thin stream of blood erupted from his neck, and with a dull thud, his tall frame collapsed into a pool of blood, his life extinguished.
Chapter 557