The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 54 : Chapter 54

Chapter 54: So It Was Demon Arts?

The woman in red put away the seductive charm on her face. She had originally intended to spend ten thousand taels to avoid a deadly battle, but now it was clear that was no longer possible.

At once, she turned to the black-clad n before her and said in a cold, sharp voice,

“Since this brat refuses the toast only to insist on drinking the forfeit, then leave him here forever!”

The black-clad n gave a low shout in unison. Stepping in an eerie formation, their longswords flashed with cold light as their bodies darted forward like ghosts, closing in to kill Chen Guan from all sides!

Luo Li had only just breathed a sigh of relief, and now her heart leapt into her throat once more.

Her cultivation might not be high, but her family’s learning ran deep, and her eyesight was far beyond ordinary.

At a single glance, she could tell that every one of the twenty n in black before her was at least at the Profound Passage Realm!

That kind of force was enough to stir up a bloody storm in any commandery city.

“Hiss—!”

Just as Luo Li was worrying for Chen Guan—

the Horse-Cleaving Saber in his hand moved with no flourish at all, only a simple and brutal horizontal sweep.

Where the blade passed, it carried up a spray of crimson mist.

The three black-clad n who had charged first still maintained their forward montum from the waist down, while their upper bodies toppled stiffly to the ground.

They did not even have ti to scream before they were cut in half at the waist!

“Watch the blade in his hand!”

The woman in red shrieked a warning and at once raised her guard.

Those fearless black-clad n stalled for a breath and turned their eyes toward the Horse-Cleaving Saber in Chen Guan’s hand.

In their eyes, the reason this young Escort Master was so formidable had nothing to do with his own cultivation; it was entirely because of the divine weapon in his hand, that peerless blade that could slice iron like mud and break anything in its path.

“Heh, you’re underestimating far too much.”

Chen Guan curled his lip.

Then he lifted his gaze toward the blackened forest, in the direction where the Scarlet Fla Scale Ox had fled.

“Hopefully that spineless ox hasn’t really run off. Otherwise, the few thousand li we have left will truly have to be crossed on these two legs of mine.”

Then he glanced again at the woman in red.

The reason he had not made his move earlier, and had instead wasted ti exchanging words with them, was because he wanted to gauge from their speech just how important Luo Li really was.

Now that he had what he wanted, he held back no longer.

He spun the Horse-Cleaving Saber fiercely in his hands, gripped the hilt with both hands, and assud a broad, sweeping stance.

The next instant, his figure beca a blur too fast for the naked eye to follow, like a tiger charging into a flock of sheep, cutting brutally through the crowd of black-clad n!

He chopped, hacked, slashed, and cleaved, each strike heavy enough to split mountains!

Wherever he passed, limbs flew, blood burst forth, and the scorched black earth was instantly painted with a glaring crimson!

Luo Li had never seen such a horrifyingly bloody scene in her life, and she instinctively squeezed her eyes shut.

Yet the mont she closed them, the woman in red seized her chance. With a slight movent of her fingers, a strand of hair too fine for the eye to catch shot straight toward Luo Li’s forehead.

Chen Guan’s gaze sharpened. With a sidestep, he swept the Horse-Cleaving Saber across and blocked it before Luo Li’s brow.

Clang!

That hair-thin strand, heavy as a thousand catties, erupted in a shower of sparks against the broad blade.

The very next instant, the woman herself was driven backward by an invisible force and slid several steps away.

“Purple Palace Force Manifestation!”

The woman in red steadied herself and cried out in shock.

“Well done, Su Jingyan! To think you would leave behind such a terrifying trump card at the side of a little slip of a girl like this!”

The mont she realized she was losing, she turned and transford into a streak of red light, fleeing for her life toward the depths of the blackened forest.

A Purple Palace expert was already beyond mortal ans. With a re gesture, such a person could draw on the power of heaven and earth. There was no way those still in the Profound Passage Realm could stand against that!

What was more, she could tell that this young man’s saber art was bizarre, and that the ruthlessness of his attacks was far beyond what an ordinary early-stage Purple Palace expert should possess!

She had miscalculated!

This information absolutely had to be brought back to Senluo Hall!

“You think you can leave?”

Chen Guan’s body flashed, and he gave chase at once.

Though the woman in red was fleeing, her divine sense remained locked on Chen Guan behind her the entire ti.

The mont she sensed that deathly aura closing from behind, she did not dare hesitate even in the slightest. Her fingers flicked to her hair once more.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Her black, glossy hair suddenly grew wildly, turning into countless steel needles that blanketed the sky as they shot toward Chen Guan behind her!

“So it was demon arts?”

“A flicker of surprise passed through Chen Guan’s eyes. He had assud she had hidden concealed weapons in her hair, but he had never expected the hair itself to be the weapon.”

“How interesting. A human cultivating demon arts?”

Humans could not manipulate their hair like this. Only demonic power could alter the state of any part of the body in such a way.

His step halted. The Horse-Cleaving Saber in his hand spun violently, and a burst of purple light erupted from the blade, causing the mass of hair to stop short in midair as though it had slamd into an invisible wall.

With another turn of the saber, all of the streaming hair wound itself around the blade.

Then Chen Guan jerked his wrist sharply backward.

The woman in red, who was fleeing with all her might, suddenly felt her scalp tighten, and her body was yanked backward by a trendous force!

Of course, for soone to beco a Protector of Senluo Hall, she could not possibly be so diocrity.

Just as she was about to be dragged before Chen Guan, she acted decisively. With a sweep of her sleeve, a sharp gust flashed out and severed her own long hair cleanly away!

Imdiately afterward, her body spun in place.

Buzz!

Her entire figure suddenly dissolved into a cloud of red mist, which rose and then shot into the blackened forest at a speed the eye could scarcely follow.

In an instant, she vanished without a trace.

“A Concealnt Art?”

Chen Guan frowned.

In simple terms, a Concealnt Art was a secret technique used to hide one’s body.

But what this woman had used was not any ordinary Concealnt Art he had ever seen. A normal concealnt technique did not turn the body into mist.

If she could do that, then there was only one explanation: she had not rely learned demon arts—her very person was slowly turning into a demon.

“No wonder she plucked Little Flower and absorbed that pure demonic qi from its body.”

Chen Guan instantly arrived at the answer in his heart. Then he glanced at the pale-faced Luo Li not far behind him.

He gave up any thought of chasing further.

This was one of the rules by which he always acted:

No matter what happened, he absolutely could not leave the escort target by more than one hundred ters.

That did not an he intended to spare that woman.

Once his true strength had been exposed, these people had to die. That too was one of his rules.

Chen Guan hurled the Horse-Cleaving Saber into the air!

The saber spun once overhead and then hung there, suspended in midair, the blade trembling with a low hum.

Chen Guan looked up toward the blackened forest and gave a low shout.

“Heaven-Seeking Art!”

“The instant those words fell, he struck the hilt of the saber hanging in midair with a savage palm strike!”

Whoosh—!

The two-ter-long Horse-Cleaving Saber seed to co alive. Wrapped in a blinding violet radiance, it tore through the air and shot straight into the blackened forest.

The mont it entered the forest, the saber altered its path and began weaving in a series of sharp turns through the stands of pitch-black ancient trees.

It was like a guided missile, tracking and hunting for sothing.

Then suddenly—Bang!

The Horse-Cleaving Saber slamd into a black ancient tree so thick that three n could barely encircle it with their arms.

“Ahhh!”

A shrill scream, hardly human in sound, rang out from the trunk of that tree.

Then a burst of red mist exploded from it, and within that mist the figure of the woman in red slowly erged. The Horse-Cleaving Saber had nailed her through the chest, and blood was dripping down the blade in a steady stream.

“Brat... you will definitely... regret the choice you made today...”

“The woman in red spoke in a voice dripping with venom. Her peach-blossom eyes, once capable of stealing any man’s soul, now brimd with boundless hatred.”

The mont those words ended, her head lolled to one side, and life left her body.

And then, an even stranger scene unfolded.