The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 60 : Chapter 60

Chapter 60: In the Netherworld... They Can Add One More Na for You!

At that mont, Chen Guan suddenly stood up on the ox’s back.

“Ah? Master, aren’t you going to let escort you out of the Luofeng Mountains?”

The Scarlet Fla Scale Ox turned its head politely and asked.

“Hiss...” Chen Guan stroked his chin and drew out the sound. “Since you’re being so polite, then perhaps...”

“Hahaha! Um, Master, I was joking!”

The Scarlet Fla Scale Ox shuddered violently and hurriedly changed its tune. “We demons can’t casually step outside the Ten Directions Marsh. That would break the rules!”

“Spineless creature.”

Chen Guan shot it a glare.

A mont later, the Scarlet Fla Scale Ox obediently ca to a halt.

Chen Guan and Luo Li lightly leaped down from its back.

“All right, go on back. Thanks for your help along the way.”

“As I should! As I should!”

The Scarlet Fla Scale Ox felt as though it had been granted a pardon. Slowly, it turned around.

It first ran a short distance away with great care, then could not help glancing back. When it saw that Chen Guan had no intention of turning it into a wine snack after all, it sped up a little.

After running a fair distance, it cast another glance back.

Seeing that Chen Guan already had his back turned and was walking with Luo Li one before the other into the mountain range,

the ox finally set its heart at ease completely. It instantly spread its four hooves.

WHOOSH—

It vanished in a cloud of dust, disappearing ten tis faster than it had ever run before.

Watching its cowardly figure flee, Chen Guan could not help twitching at the corners of his mouth.

He had long since known that this brute had been holding back half its strength all along, keeping it in reserve to flee from him if needed.

No matter what else one said, the Scarlet Fla Scale Ox was still a rather formidable Demon King.

Within the Ten Directions Marsh, the title of “Demon King” was not granted by strength alone, but by possessing one’s own territory and a band of followers.

A Demon King who could raise one arm and summon a crowd of responders was far more dangerous than those lone wild demons that wandered on their own.

Yet when Chen Guan had first encountered this creature, it had been nothing but a bare commander with no troops.

At first, he had thought that it was simply too strong to be bothered recruiting subordinates.

But later he discovered that it was just too afraid of death. By remaining a one-beast army, with a full belly and no family to worry about, it was far easier for it to flee and hide when trouble ca.

If it had ever truly been able to raise its head and rally followers, it would never have dropped flat in three seconds.

Bang!

Luo Li, who had been looking around this way and that while following behind, suddenly ran into what felt like a wall of flesh and was bounced backward.

Covering her throbbing forehead, she looked up and discovered that Chen Guan, who had been walking in front, had suddenly stopped without her noticing.

“What are you doing?”

Luo Li covered the swelling bump on her forehead and looked thoroughly aggrieved.

“There’s demon qi.”

Chen Guan’s face, which had only eased a little these past few days, turned serious again at once.

His eyes fixed on the silent woods ahead as the heavy Horse-Cleaving Saber slowly slid from his shoulder.

Luo Li instantly realized sothing was wrong. She hurriedly shut her mouth and obediently hid behind Chen Guan.

Rustle, rustle, rustle!

From the silent woods ahead ca the sound of dry branches and dead leaves being crushed beneath footsteps.

Squinting his eyes, Chen Guan looked toward the source of the sound.

From behind the towering ancient trees in the distance, shadowy figures gradually erged one after another.

They ca in all shapes and sizes—tall, short, fat, thin—and their clothing was equally varied. There were n and won among them alike.

The n were all broad and burly, while the won were mostly slender and graceful.

This was... a group of spirits?

Chen Guan’s brows drew together slightly.

“A good dog doesn’t block the road. Why are you standing in the way?”

“You!”

The woman in front, her face veiled with a light gauze, furrowed her brows imdiately at Chen Guan’s rude words.

Yet when her eyes fell upon Luo Li behind him, she forcibly suppressed the anger that had risen in her chest.

“Escort Master Chen, our target is not you. Please step aside.”

“Hm?”

Chen Guan paused.

All along the road, everyone had recognized this troubleso girl.

So why had an entire bunch suddenly appeared who recognized him instead—spirits?

His gaze sharpened as it swept over the nine figures before him.

Without exception, every one of them had been transford from spirits.

The woman leading them was a bird spirit, though one could not tell what kind of bird she had once been.

Behind her stood a broad, imposing man who was a dog spirit.

A little farther back was an honest-looking man who was a horse spirit.

And at the very rear was an old man with a goat beard, who turned out to be a goat spirit...

“Well then. They’ve managed to gather up the entire livestock population of one village.”

“That’s not right... I don’t have any spirit friends, and I’ve never taken any escort jobs for spirits either. So where exactly did these people hear my na from?”

Chen Guan genuinely could not understand how this group of spirits, who had sprung out of nowhere, knew of him.

Normally, any spirits with a grudge against him would already have grass three feet high growing on their graves by this season.

Luo Li, looking at the group before them, also wore a tense expression. Yet unlike before, there was no longer that sa simple panic in her face.

Instead, she rely looked solemn, her gaze fixed warily on the line of figures ahead as though she were trying to piece sothing together.

“You needn’t bother guessing.”

The veiled woman at the front spoke again, her voice carrying a chill.

“Chen Guan, the number one Escort Master of Sanhe Town, a man who has not failed once in ten years, who even dares to take life-threatening work like escorting a Yin Wraith.”

“We know your skill, and we know your background. If you do not wish for the villagers of Xiaohe Village to vanish from this world, then step aside.”

Chen Guan’s face darkened abruptly, and the air around them seed to freeze.

Even Luo Li, standing beside him, could not help shivering.

Chen Guan drove the pointed tip of the Horse-Cleaving Saber straight into the ground.

When this body of his had been only one year old, his parents had died beneath the jaws of demons and monsters. The aunties of Xiaohe Village had cut down the milk ant for their own children to feed him, and that was how he had lived through those years.

Ten years ago, it was the uncles of the village who had paid with three lives to capture a demon spirit and let his heavily wounded, dying self survive.

In both his lives, he owed nothing to anyone—except for the uncles, aunts, grandfathers, and grandmothers of that village.

Burdened by karma, the reason he had left Sanhe Village in the first place had been to repay that debt of gratitude.

And now these creatures dared to threaten him with that.

“The nerve of you.”

A cold smile appeared on Chen Guan’s face.

“Since you went to the trouble of investigating my background, why didn’t you also look into my temper?”

“Your temper?” The veiled woman gave a light laugh, her tone full of disdain.

“You’re nothing more than a money-grubbing desperado.”

“There are ten thousand taels of silver here. As long as you step aside now, you’ll never need to live as a desperado again.”

“No, no, no.”

Chen Guan slowly shook his head, his smile growing colder and colder.

“Being greedy for money—that’s just my hobby. It doesn’t count as my temper.”

The mont those words fell, a bone-piercing killing intent surged from his body and instantly engulfed the nine spirits in front of him.

“Rember this well. The greatest temper I, Chen Guan, have in this life is this—”

He enunciated every word, each one steeped in the sharpest killing intent.

“Anyone who dares threaten will pay the most agonizing price of their life for that decision!”

“And that decision will also be the very last mistake they ever make!”

The instant those words fell—Zheng—!

The heavy Horse-Cleaving Saber planted in the ground flew from its sheath, its tallic hum ringing through the forest!

At that mont, he suddenly rembered that he seed to have forgotten sothing.

He snapped his head toward Luo Li.

Luo Li’s heart tightened, and she imdiately cried out, “I-I... I’ll pay more!”

【Ding! On-the-Spot Price Hike Successful】

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

【Current Mission Reward: Escort Points 291】

The veiled woman’s brows knit the mont she heard “pay more,” and she imdiately said, “Escort Master Chen, if you step aside, I can pay more too!”

“You... can add sothing, all right—your na to the rolls of the Netherworld!”

Chen Guan spat out the sentence.

Then his body moved!

Seeing this, the bull spirit behind the woman imdiately stepped forward, clasped both hands before his chest, and let out a deep roar.

“Mountain-Shaking Gore!”

Veins bulged across his forehead as a giant phantom bull’s head, solid as if real, suddenly appeared out of thin air.

That phantom head, crowned with a pair of horn tips gleaming with ghostly light, charged directly toward Chen Guan!

Boom—!

A slash of saber-light ca down head-on!

The phantom bull’s head had only flown out about a zhang when it exploded on the spot, turning into countless motes of light. A violent shockwave erupted outward in every direction.

In the blink of an eye, every flower, grass, and tree within ten ters was ground into powder!

Chen Guan narrowed his eyes.

“These spirits really are different from those demons that do nothing but act on instinct.”