Looking around, the guy who was the first to make lewd remarks was already lying on the ground. Emily Carter hated his filthy words and had decided from the start to kill him first, so he was the earliest to fall. Probably only that unlucky fourth guy went down before him; the others didn’t die as early as he did.

At that moment, Emily Carter slashed off the fingers of the man opposite her with one stroke, making him drop his weapon, then quickly caught up and stabbed him to death with another thrust.

She hadn’t expected that this would suddenly trigger the man’s ferocity. He actually grabbed Emily Carter’s longsword with his bare hands and shouted, “Big brother! Avenge us!” He had already seen the situation around him and knew all his brothers were dead, so he could only hope that his big brother, the best fighter among them, would avenge them all.

He even used his own body to trap the opponent’s weapon, making it easier for his big brother to kill this fierce woman first, and then deal with that young man alone. To prevent her from abandoning her sword and escaping, he also grabbed her arm.

Seeing this, the last big man roared, raised his fists, and smashed them toward Emily Carter’s head. Just from the momentum of those fists, if they landed, Emily Carter’s head would probably fare no better than a watermelon. At this moment, with her arm being held, Emily Carter could only watch helplessly as the fists came crashing down.

Just then, a loud shout came from the side: “Watch the sword!”

Then a flash of sword light swept toward the big man’s head. Although the sword was fast, the man dodged it with a sidestep. Even so, he was forced to stop his attack, giving Emily Carter a chance to escape danger.

Emily Carter finally breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to pull out her sword to help her senior brother—she didn’t think William Clark could defeat that man; being able to buy her a moment to escape was already the best he could do—but unexpectedly, William Clark’s sword light suddenly changed, slashing twice more in quick succession. Then, with the man’s back to William Clark, the tip of a sword suddenly protruded from his chest.

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Chapter 6: Bounty

“The Deadly Linked Three Immortals Sword! Its reputation is well deserved!” Pulling the longsword from the man’s chest, he muttered to himself, “So Jin Dada wasn’t lying!”

Then, showing off a bit, he spun the sword in his right hand and struck a pose, thinking to himself, “This time, that stingy junior sister should at least see me in a new light, right?”

Sneaking a glance, he didn’t expect that Emily Carter was currently using a rag she’d found somewhere to wipe her own longsword—her sword had also killed quite a few people just now and was already stained with blood.

In fact, William Clark’s sword was in much the same state. Since neither of them used any legendary weapons with magical blood-repelling properties, they had to take good care of their swords after each use, or else they’d be ruined after just a few fights.

So, at this moment, Emily Carter’s first thought was to maintain her own sword. As for why her senior brother’s swordsmanship had suddenly become so formidable, that was only a secondary concern.

Still, she was secretly amazed, not understanding what sword technique her senior brother had just used, or how it could be so fierce: “It looked somewhat similar to some of our moves, but it definitely wasn’t the same! Besides, although the Shushan sword style is simple and fast, it’s never been this aggressive!”

Puzzled, Emily Carter put away her sword and began searching the bodies of the bandits, her mind constantly turning over her senior brother’s strange changes in recent days.

“He didn’t use this move during the sparring match the other day. Could it be that he didn’t know it then? But these past few days he’s been with me the whole time, and I’ve never seen him practice any new martial arts… How odd!”

William Clark had no idea that using the Three Immortals Sword had made Emily Carter suspicious of him. He was doing the same as Emily Carter, searching the bodies of the men for anything valuable.

At first, he didn’t understand what Emily Carter was doing, but when he saw his stingy junior sister pull a few pieces of silver from one of the men, he immediately understood.

“Robbing the robbers, huh…”