RWNEFE -Chapter 256 With the Companion Star Blade in Hand—None Can Draw Near! Her Fame Resounds Across the Northwest!

Abu Khan wore a smug smile. “If you people of Great Zhou want to quell this war, it’s not impossible. Our three tribes not only want the two cities back, but you must also cede six more cities to us.”

And then—Abu Khan’s gaze swept darkly over Shen Lanxi as he sneered. “We also want you Great Zhou to sever this woman’s arms and legs and give her to our three tribes as a slave!”

The lewd laughter of the three tribes merged into one. Shen Lanxi’s side could no longer hold back.

“General, let me go kill him!”

“I’ll go—I’ll cut off his head and hang it on the city wall!”

“Abu Khan, your grandpa is coming for you right now!”

Shen Lanxi raised her hand. The people around her immediately fell silent.

“Abu Khan, if you take your own life before me, I’ll spare the lives of your wife, children, and clan.”

Abu Khan’s face darkened. He snorted coldly. “So you won’t cry until you see the coffin. Once Great Zhou goes to war with the three tribes, countless civilians will die. When that happens, you will be the sinner of Great Zhou!”

Shen Lanxi shouted, “Bring me my great blade!”

“Yes!”

Four strong men heaved the Companion Star Blade to Shen Lanxi’s side.

“If you want to fight, then fight. Who’s first? Come—I’ll cut him down beneath my horse!”

Her cold gaze shot toward Abu Khan. His heart jolted, his eyes flickered, and he immediately spoke to the two men beside him.

“She’s bluffing—she doesn’t take our three tribes’ warriors seriously at all!”

The Tatar and Persian generals both let out scornful snorts.

“A mere woman—she doesn’t know the immensity of heaven and earth!”

“Let one of my Tatar warriors go and teach this arrogant woman a lesson. I hope her mouth is as tough as the weapon beside her!”

Abu Khan warned, “Don’t underestimate her. This woman has some real skill.”

The Tatar general sneered dismissively. “My warriors can each fight a hundred men. She’s just a woman—fit only to serve in a tent. And she dares to challenge a group of men like us? Today I’ll show her what a man is, and what a woman is. The battlefield is no place for a woman’s little red tent.”

“The battlefield belongs to men. Women are only fit to wash our feet and tend cattle and sheep in the pens!”

Shen Lanxi sneered coldly. “So much nonsense—are you afraid to die?”

The Tatar general’s face darkened. He immediately ordered a warrior behind him forward.

“A-Lang! Teach her a hard lesson. Let her see the valor of our Tatar men!”

“Yes!”

Shen Lanxi spurred her horse forward into the fray. The Tatar warrior named A-Lang laughed contemptuously and spewed filthy insults.

“I’ve never had a woman like you before. Once I take you down, I’ll ask the general to give you to me as a reward.”

“Just wonder whether a woman who mingles among men like this has already become rotten goods…”

Shen Lanxi raised her hand, drew the long blade she carried at her side, and slashed downward.

A-Lang kept laughing, not taking her seriously in the slightest.

“Why aren’t you using that big blade? Too heavy to lift?”

“So that blade is just for show—to scare people?”

As the two horses crossed paths, Shen Lanxi’s blade flashed.

In the next moment, she turned her horse and rode back beneath the walls of Yanyang City.

“To kill you, I don’t even need the Companion Star Blade!”

All anyone saw was Shen Lanxi swing her blade once at A-Lang. The movement was so fast they couldn’t even see it clearly—she was already back beneath the city wall.

“Hahaha! I thought she was something special—look, she ran away in panic!”

“A woman is a woman. When she can’t fight, she dives into a man’s arms. Hurry over here, little beauty—this general’s shoulders are broader than those of you Great Zhou men!”

“A-Lang, you scared her off—why haven’t you come back yet?”

Before the words had even finished falling—

A-Lang split cleanly in two and fell from his horse!

That single strike had cleaved A-Lang straight down the middle!

For a moment, time itself seemed to freeze. Outside the city walls, there was only the howl of the northwest wind, the snorting of warhorses, and the sound of hooves shifting.

“Excellent! The general is mighty!”

“Let those who look down on women and on our general see who’s truly strongest!”

“So much for a ‘warrior’—he couldn’t even withstand one strike from our general!”

“Tatar warriors? Nothing special!”

The Tatar general flew into a rage from humiliation. Forgetting everything he had discussed with Abu Khan, he roared, “Attack the city! They people of Great Zhou slaughtered our brave warrior—make these cattle and sheep pay in blood!”

Abu Khan tried to stop him, but it was already too late. The Tatar soldiers had charged.

Both armies surged forward. There was no room left for retreat.

“All Turkic warriors—kill!” Abu Khan shouted.

Shen Lanxi leapt from her horse, took the Companion Star Blade from the strong men’s hands, and shot into the enemy ranks like a falling star.

Since being recovered, the Companion Star Blade had never tasted blood.

Today, she would let it drink its fill.

“Kill!”

With a single swing of her blade, more than a dozen lives fell. With a backhand slash, another dozen were taken. The great blade whirled in a full arc—any Tatar soldier who came near her was slain without exception.

Before long, corpses lay piled high on both sides of her, and beneath her feet blood flowed like a river.

In no time at all, the soldiers of the three tribes were struck with terror—no one dared to charge forward again.

Shen Lanxi was like a war god incarnate, plunging into the masses and slaughtering without restraint. Wherever she passed, the ground behind her was carpeted with the corpses of the three tribes’ soldiers.

In the blink of an eye, Shen Lanxi had become the nightmare of a lifetime for the three tribes’ troops.

The Tatar general’s face was black with fury as he cursed Abu Khan. “Didn’t you say this Great Zhou woman was weak and easy to bully, with no strategy at all? What is this?!”

The Persian general’s face was just as dark—because Shen Lanxi was slaughtering their Persian soldiers.

“Abu Khan, if you don’t give us a reasonable explanation, don’t blame us Persians for switching sides!”

The Tatar general shouted as well, “Didn’t you say Great Zhou was riddled with internal chaos, that these troops couldn’t possibly compare to the old Wei Army? Then what is this?”

Why were they all so ferocious?

Abu Khan was furious too, but he dared not challenge his allies. He could only vent his anger toward Shen Lanxi.

“She’s just a woman—how strong could she really be?”

“She may fight well alone, but that’s just brute courage. Wear her down—exhaust her to death!”

“Don’t boost the enemy’s morale and crush our own. Our three armies total four hundred thousand troops—strong soldiers, powerful horses. Set trip-ropes, iron caltrops, and war chariots. I refuse to believe we can’t kill her!”

The Tatar and Persian generals had already gone red-eyed watching Shen Lanxi slaughter their men. Hearing this, they were shaken.

No matter how strong a woman was—how strong could she be?
Even if she were a man, she couldn’t withstand sheer numbers forever.

Strength would eventually run out.

And they had weapons. Even if they smashed her one strike at a time, they could still kill that woman.

“Bring up the war chariots! Drag over the iron caltrops—kill her first!” Abu Khan shouted.

Wherever Shen Lanxi went, it was as if she had entered an empty land. The bodies of foreign soldiers slain by her could pile as high as city walls.

She herself looked as though she had been pulled straight from a sea of blood.

With the Companion Star Blade in her hand, no one could come near her!