The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 58 : Chapter 58

Chapter 58: Is This Peach Blossom Immortal Cursing ?

Chen Guan looked at Luo Li’s bewildered expression and knew perfectly well that the girl did not know the mysterious woman before them at all.

“Damn it...” He could not help cursing inwardly again.

The situation within Great Zhou’s imperial house was probably even more complicated than he had imagined. To think that even the mistress of a forbidden land deep within the Ten Directions Marsh was entangled in it.

This escort mission was going to bleed him dry.

He could not be bothered to rack his brains over it any longer. He simply turned around and barked furiously at Luo Li behind him,

“You should hurry up and go with her!”

“No!”

Luo Li refused without the slightest hesitation.

The Peach Blossom Immortal did not grow angry. Instead, she asked calmly once more, “Luo Li, have you truly made up your mind to go to Great Zhou?”

Luo Li’s expression tightened faintly. Clearly, that question had struck directly at a sensitive part of her.

She fell silent for a few seconds. Then a trace of determination flashed through her clear eyes.

That lofty aura, the one she always tried so hard to conceal, surfaced once again.

“Senior.”

Her voice was light, yet carried a conviction that admitted no challenge.

“Going to Shangjing is my long-cherished wish, and also the mission I must fulfill in this lifeti. No matter how many hardships and dangers lie ahead, I will never turn back.”

What long-cherished wish? What mission?

Chen Guan was listening from the side with complete confusion.

Wasn’t she just returning to fight for succession?

For princes and princesses alike, that was simply one of life’s unavoidable stages. Why was she treating it as so sacred mission?

The Peach Blossom Immortal smiled faintly and lightly turned the oil-paper umbrella in her hand as she spoke once more.

“I owe your grandfather, Su Jingyan, a favor. So I agreed to wait for you here today and repay that debt... a debt left unpaid for fifty years.”

Her gaze rested on Luo Li, her voice as gentle as before.

“Are you certain you wish to cast aside this favor your grandfather obtained for you?”

“Hm?! Su Jingyan?” Chen Guan froze.

Was the person this woman spoke of really that damned old man who had tricked him into taking on this catastrophically unprofitable escort mission?

Hiss—

He could not help sucking in a breath.

Did that old man really have that kind of ability?

Could he truly have made a terrifying existence like this—one who could turn even Demon Kings into flower fertilizer—owe him a favor?

No, no!

Let straighten this out.

Chen Guan raised a hand and rubbed at his swelling forehead, beginning to think it through carefully.

Back in Sanhe Town, he had heard before of an old man surnad Su in town who was extrely wealthy and counted as a local tyrant.

He had originally thought that Luo Li had been sent to Sanhe Town after her birth in order to avoid the vicious infighting of the deep palace; or else that her mother had been hard by so other imperial consort and she had thus drifted into the common world, where that old man had taken her in and brought her to this remote border town in Great Yun...

But looking at it now, things seed far more complicated than that.

And most importantly, that day he had examined Su Jingyan carefully and found not the slightest sign of a cultivator’s aura on him.

He had been nothing but an ordinary sickly old man who could die at any mont.

So what right did he have to beco entangled with a mysterious woman from the Ten Directions Marsh like this?

“Senior!”

Luo Li spoke again, every word firm as iron. “I have already made up my mind!”

The Peach Blossom Immortal let out a long, faint sigh. Then she turned her eyes to Chen Guan.

“Sir, if you go to Great Zhou, you will surely fall into a place of utter doom beyond redemption.”

“Have you thought it through?”

“Hm? Utter doom beyond redemption?”

Chen Guan had already been busy puzzling over how that troubleso girl’s grandfather had gotten involved with demon spirits when this line suddenly struck his ears, and he imdiately took offense.

The concern in this woman’s tone sounded as if she were looking down on him.

No—it sounded more like she was cursing him!

At once Chen Guan lifted a brow and replied, “The person who could cast , Chen Guan, into doom beyond redemption probably hasn’t been born yet.”

The Peach Blossom Immortal curved her lips in a faint smile. It was hard to tell whether she had been amused by his words or was rely smiling at his ignorance.

Then she spoke again, her voice carrying that sa distant, airy resonance.

“In truth, I originally intended to keep you here by force, so as to prevent Luo Li from entering Great Zhou. That too would have counted as repaying my debt to Su Jingyan. However...”

She paused, her eyes drifting over the two little tree spirits behind Chen Guan. “Now, it would seem that I was perhaps too pessimistic.”

“That you were able to bring these two little tree spirits here may be the turning point Su Jingyan spoke of.”

Chen Guan was listening in utter bafflent.

Was this old woman simply too ancient, so ancient her mind had stopped working properly?

Why was every sentence out of her mouth incomprehensible?

Su Jingyan was this troubleso girl’s grandfather. Before he died, he had personally co to Chen Guan and entrusted the girl to him, asking him to escort her to Great Zhou.

And yet now it seed that he had also planted a nail here in advance, trying by every possible ans to stop her from going to Great Zhou?

Hiss!

Was Su Jingyan fighting against himself, or was the woman before him the one with muddled thoughts?

“Brother Chen, let’s go.”

Luo Li’s eyes darted slightly, as though she did not want to linger on this issue any longer.

“Wait!”

Chen Guan directly raised a hand to stop her, then looked back toward the Peach Blossom Immortal, irritation already creeping into his voice.

“Look... could you please speak more clearly? Why did Su Jingyan want to stop Luo Li from going to Great Zhou?”

The Peach Blossom Immortal only smiled faintly again. Then, with a light wave of her hand,

a peach branch glowing with a soft green radiance and a green-glimring seed appeared out of thin air before her and slowly floated toward Luo Li.

“Luo Li, take this. Heavenly Fragrance Cardamom can dispel the grudge-mark on your body.”

Luo Li subconsciously reached out and accepted them.

Imdiately afterward, the Peach Blossom Immortal waved her hand once more. The bodies of the two little tree spirits were drawn uncontrollably toward her and landed steadily beside her.

“If, sowhere along the road, you co to understand, then crush that peach branch.”

“At that ti, I will co and take you into Peach Blossom Hollow myself.”

After saying that, she spoke no further. Holding the oil-paper umbrella, she led Xiao Lü and Xiao Cong step by step into the rolling mist, leaving behind only one final line that drifted through the Mist-Shrouded Forest again and again.

“To gaze at one another from afar is not so good as to remain by each other’s side.”

Chen Guan curled his lip as he looked toward the direction in which she had disappeared, and could not help scratching at his head again.

“Damn it! That woman even recites poetry!”

Why did all these old monsters insist on speaking in such backward, roundabout ways?

He truly wanted to rush after her, drag her back, and make her explain everything clearly!

Yet when he expanded his divine sense outward, he discovered in horror that the woman’s aura had already vanished from within ten li of them.

He snapped his head around and glared at Luo Li, who was standing beside him blankly staring at the peach branch and the little green seed in her hands.

“What exactly did that woman’s words just now an?”

“I...” Luo Li shook her head, her face full of confusion. “I don’t understand either.”

“Hm??”

Chen Guan froze.

He might not understand that old woman who had lived several hundred or several thousand years.

But did he really still not understand this troubleso girl?

Her eyes just now had been full of complexity, doubt, and confusion. Anyone who was not blind could see that sothing was wrong.

“You really are a princess? You’re sure you weren’t lying to ?”