The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 103 : Chapter 103

Chapter 103: Could This Girl Really Destroy Great Zhou by Her Own Strength?

Hearing those words, Luo Li’s delicate body suddenly trembled, and the hand clutching the reins unconsciously tightened.

It was over.

Her identity had already been discovered by that dog emperor of Great Zhou.

Chen Guan lifted a hand and lightly patted the back of Luo Li’s hand where it gripped the reins, signaling that she did not need to be nervous.

Then he raised his eyes toward the man in embroidered robes and said impatiently, “Stop dithering. If you have sothing to say, say it. I’m in a hurry.”

“You!”

The two gray-robed elders behind the embroidered-robed man, who had stood there like shadows, flew into a rage at once.

The terrifying pressure of their Purple Palace Realm cultivation suddenly burst forth, making the surrounding air seem to stiffen and sending ripples through the grass and trees lining both sides of the official road.

“Silence!”

The embroidered-robed man did not even turn his head. He rely shot them a single glare, and the two gray-robed elders imdiately stiffened, then reined in their aura completely and obediently fell quiet.

Only then did the embroidered-robed man turn toward Chen Guan and clasp his fists.

“This Escort Master, I am Liu Jingzong, Deputy Master of the Imperial Clan Pavilion. I have co on His Majesty’s orders to receive Princess Luo Li and escort her into the capital.”

Chen Guan did not answer. He rely turned his gaze toward Luo Li beside him. “They’re here to take you. What do you say?”

Luo Li was instantly stumped by that question. If she went with them, would that not be the sa as delivering herself straight into the net?

Her small hand tightened around the reins, and she hurriedly shook her head.

Chen Guan withdrew his gaze, swept a glance over the people before them, then looked back at Luo Li and knitted his brows. “There are quite a lot of them. This calls for extra pay.”

Luo Li suddenly turned her head to stare at Chen Guan, her heart giving a violent jolt.

Did that an that so long as the price was high enough, he would even stand against the entirety of Great Zhou?

She had assud that when faced with the majesty of Great Zhou’s emperor, Chen Guan would at least consider abandoning her. At best, perhaps he might help her stall them for a while out of a bit of goodwill.

After all, this was an imperial dynasty!

Yet no matter how she had imagined it, she had never expected his only question to be about adding money.

She had thought that after traveling with him all this way, she already understood Chen Guan fairly well.

But only now did she realize in horror that what she understood of him did not even amount to the tip of the iceberg.

She understood even less how one person could uphold the “rules” he kept to with such inhuman coldness, such utter madness.

“All right! I’ll add one hundred thousand taels!”

As the saying went, once you were covered in lice, you no longer feared the itch. She was already buried in debt anyway, so she simply threw out a number without the slightest hesitation.

When she nad those hundred thousand taels, it did not pain her in the least.

【Ding! Host’s On-the-Spot Price Hike Successful!】

【Escort mission reward increased: 10%!】

【Escort Mission: Escort Luo Li to the Grand Preceptor’s Manor in Shangjing City of Great Zhou.】

【Current mission reward: Escort Points 517】

The mont Chen Guan heard that the Escort Points total had broken past his own ntal threshold, the corners of his mouth split almost to the back of his head.

anwhile, Liu Jingzong ahead was completely thrown off by Chen Guan’s grin and Luo Li’s shout of one hundred thousand taels.

Could it be that for an extra one hundred thousand taels, this Escort Master truly dared make an enemy of Great Zhou itself?

Liu Jingzong looked at Luo Li, then at Chen Guan, and clasped his fists again. “This Escort Master—”

“Scram!”

Chen Guan flung that single word straight into his face.

Liu Jingzong’s expression darkened. He clearly had not expected the man to truly dare oppose them for the sake of money.

Yet he did not lose his temper. Instead, he carefully looked Chen Guan up and down once more.

“No wonder he even killed those remnants of the forr dynasty. This man’s temperant truly is more overbearing than ordinary people can comprehend.”

Chen Guan, however, had no interest in wasting even a single extra word on him. He simply said, “When I, Chen Guan, escort sothing, even gods and ghosts must keep their distance!”

“I’ll give you three breaths to retreat ten zhang and clear the road. Otherwise, I’ll treat you as people trying to hijack my escort.”

Huh???

The mont those words ca out, everyone was stunned.

Whether it was the two gray-robed elders behind Liu Jingzong or the golden-armored general, they all stared wide-eyed at Chen Guan, their faces full of disbelief.

Where exactly had this Escort Master crawled out from?

Even gods and ghosts must keep their distance?!

Did he not see that this was the Profound Dragon Army, the elite of Great Zhou itself?

Did he think they were joking around with him, like common highway robbers trying to hijack an escort?

For a mont, none of them could make sense of him. They truly did not know whether this man was blind, insane, or simply both.

“Master Liu, this... this man is so arrogant that we absolutely cannot allow him to trample upon His Majesty’s dragon majesty!” One of the gray-robed elders’ faces was ashen, and killing intent blazed in his eyes.

The two of them were Imperial Clan Court elders, and their cultivation had long since reached the late Purple Palace Realm.

It could be said that they were the true anchors of Great Zhou’s imperial house, specialists brought out only for troubleso matters that required absolute force. Never in their lives had they suffered such humiliation.

Chen Guan’s actions were a complete trampling of their dignity and an outright disregard for Great Zhou’s imperial prestige!

“Three.”

Chen Guan did not care in the slightest what storm of thoughts was surging through their hearts. So long as the money was in place, he could begin counting imdiately.

“Hmph! What sort of thing are you, to dare act wildly before Great Zhou’s Imperial Clan Court!”

The other elder roared in fury and stepped forward. The pressure of his Purple Palace Realm cultivation descended like a mountain upon Chen Guan!

“Two.”

Chen Guan kept counting, as though that overwhelming pressure did not exist at all.

“Chen...” Luo Li had just opened her mouth, wanting to say that perhaps they should forget it—

“Boy, I’m afraid you truly don’t understand the power of Great Zhou’s Imperial Clan Court—”

The elder was still in the middle of his threat when an incomparably swift blade light suddenly shot out from Chen Guan’s scabbard!

Pfft!

Blood flashed into the air!

The elder who had been speaking stopped mid-sentence. His fine head had already flown high into the sky.

“You!”

The instant Liu Jingzong saw this, he was stunned on the spot.

Th-this madman had actually dared to strike?

“Outrageous!” The remaining elder saw his companion die, his eyes nearly splitting with rage, and he roared, “Kill him at o—”

Liu Jingzong had just started to raise a hand to stop him, but suddenly seed to think of sothing and lowered it again.

The golden-armored general received the order from that elder and did not hesitate in the slightest. He instantly lifted his hand and shouted,

“Form ranks!”

In an instant, the surrounding Profound Dragon Army all bellowed together and the encirclent tightened at once. Spears, sabers, swords, and halberds all pointed coldly toward the two figures in the center of the road.

Chen Guan’s gaze remained icy, without the slightest ripple. Faced with the Profound Dragon Army surging toward him like a tide, his body moved, and the Horse-Cleaving Saber left its sheath once more!

【Blood Massacre in All Directions】 (Activated): Unleashes indiscriminate area blade qi. Once the blade qi is stained with blood, it can draw in the baleful blood aura and feed it back into the blade art, stacking attack power without limit!

Slash—A circular blood-red wave of blade qi suddenly spread out from Chen Guan at the center, instantly dragging up a dazzling ring of blood!

The first ring of Profound Dragon Army soldiers rushing toward him did not even have ti to let out a scream before their bodies were severed at the waist by the sharp blade qi!

Blood, broken limbs, and severed torsos flew everywhere, and the thick sll of gore filled the air in an instant.

The Profound Dragon Army charging behind them all halted for the briefest mont upon seeing such a terrifying sight.

But only for the briefest mont.

In the next instant, they bellowed once more and stepped over the corpses of their comrades, charging forward again without fear of death!

The composure on Liu Jingzong’s face vanished utterly, replaced by a darkness so heavy it seed impossible to dissolve.

What in the world was this man thinking?!

How dared he?!

How dared he truly slaughter Great Zhou’s Profound Dragon Army like this?!

Pfft! Pfft! Pfft!

Every sweep of Chen Guan’s Horse-Cleaving Saber was like the sickle of death itself, effortlessly harvesting one life after another.

Wherever the blade light passed, flesh and blood flew apart, and screams rose without end. In the span of only a few blinks, more than a hundred Profound Dragon Army elites had died beneath his blade.

The slaughter still continued. The scarlet blade qi, wrapped in ever-thickening blood baleful force, turned this stretch of official road into a living hell of Asura.

Luo Li remained seated steadily on horseback throughout it all, without leaving her spot by even half a step.

“Enough!”

At last, Liu Jingzong could bear it no longer. He suddenly let out a furious roar!

The aura of a Purple Palace Realm expert burst forth in full, forcibly halting the madly charging Profound Dragon Army and making them all turn their eyes toward him.

“All of you, withdraw!”

“Master Liu!” The surviving gray-robed elder looked at the severed limbs littering the ground, his eyes red with fury as he shouted unwillingly.

Liu Jingzong shot him a fierce glare, his voice filled with authority that admitted no argunt. “That is an order!”

Only after hearing the word “order” did the elder finally clench his fists hard and forcibly suppress the towering rage in his heart, though his eyes remained fixed on Chen Guan with poisonous hatred.

Clang!

The Horse-Cleaving Saber returned to its sheath.

Chen Guan’s expression remained as calm as ever, as though the hundred-plus elite Profound Dragon Army soldiers he had just killed were nothing more than a swath of autumn wheat cut down in passing.

At this point, in his eyes, there was not a single good thing in all of Great Zhou.

Whoever dared stand in the way of his five hundred Escort Points deserved to die.

He cast Liu Jingzong a sidelong glance and said blandly, “Whether you want to welco a guest or seize a rebel, wait for us inside Shangjing City.”

“Once I deliver the escort, complete the transfer to the employer, and receive my paynt, then do whatever you want. It won’t concern .”

Liu Jingzong’s eyes remained locked on Chen Guan.

He stared for several breaths before suddenly understanding.

Chen Guan was carrying out that ancient standard rule:

So long as the escort remains, the Escort Master remains. If the escort is lost, the Escort Master dies. On the road of escort, even gods and ghosts must keep their distance!

Looking into Chen Guan’s indifferent eyes, Liu Jingzong had a sudden intuition that forget even them—even if Emperor Zhou Tianyuan himself were standing here, this young madman would very likely kill him all the sa!

Before coming here, Liu Jingzong had learned from His Majesty that this Chen Guan was likely the only “variable” in the ga Su Jingyan had laid for them.

But now it seed...

What variable?

This fellow was plainly just a lunatic with nothing in his head except rules and money!

This matter had already far exceeded his expectations, and even those of the emperor.

The only thing he could do now was report everything that had happened here in full and let His Majesty decide anew.

“Make way!”

Liu Jingzong raised a hand and gave the order in a heavy voice.

“Master Liu...!” The gray-robed elder still could not accept it.

Today, their Imperial Clan Pavilion had directly lost one Purple Palace Realm elder!

Such a loss could not be called anything less than disastrous.

To raise a Purple Palace Realm expert required not only a mountain of heavenly treasures and earthly marvels, but also a certain degree of innate talent.

Soone with the aptitude to reach Purple Palace Realm was one in ten thousand throughout all of Great Zhou.

And what was even more stifling was this—the first Purple Palace Realm elder Great Zhou had lost in a hundred years

had been cut down by so Escort Master who had erged from nowhere, after being treated as though he were no more than a robber trying to hijack an escort!

If word of this got out, how was their Imperial Clan Pavilion supposed to show its face again?

Yet when he t Chen Guan’s utterly emotionless, ice-cold gaze, the words at the tip of his tongue were still forcibly swallowed back down.

Chen Guan pressed his legs to the horse’s flanks and, with Luo Li wearing a complicated expression, circled around the severed limbs covering the ground and once more sped toward the end of the official road, as though nothing at all had happened.

Liu Jingzong remained where he stood, watching their retreating backs for a full Half a Ke without moving.

Then he raised a hand and said to the golden-armored general, “Clean up the battlefield. After that, follow them from afar.”

“Yes!” The general clasped his fists and imdiately began making arrangents.

...

At the end of the official road, the morning sun burned like fire, dyeing the horizon a brilliant scarlet.

The morning breeze carried the fresh fragrance of the fields.

Only after they had traveled several li and completely left that blood-soaked place behind did the world around them return to peace.

Luo Li, whose expression had remained complicated the whole ti, finally could not help asking, “Brother Chen, after what you’ve just done... by the ti we reach Shangjing City, that dog emperor will very likely already have laid an inescapable net...”

Before she had even finished speaking, Chen Guan suddenly cast her a sidelong glance. That gaze was perfectly calm, yet it still made her heart tremble, and she instinctively shut her mouth.

Chen Guan simply looked at her like that for a full three seconds. The delight of having profited greatly slowly faded from his face, and then he said blandly, “Tell . Once we reach Shangjing City, how exactly do you intend to restore the dynasty?”

The mont she heard that question, Luo Li’s pupils suddenly contracted, and the little hand clutching the reins instantly tightened until her knuckles turned white.

This question was one she had deliberately been avoiding throughout the entire journey.

It was also the greatest secret in her heart.

Yet she had not expected Chen Guan to see through it all the sa.

In truth, Chen Guan had long since noticed.

Ever since they had co out of that strange tale of Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat, this girl had already clearly realized that her uncle’s purpose was anything but simple.

She had even already lost most of her hopes of sitting upon that supre throne.

Because she understood very well that with her own ability, she simply could not keep that position stable. Even if she managed to sit on that throne, those people would never truly obey her.

At best, she would only beco a puppet emperor.

And yet, despite that, she still insisted so firmly on going to Shangjing City.

That could only an one thing—without relying on her uncle, she still had another way to deal with Great Zhou’s current emperor, Zhou Tianyuan.