The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 66 : Chapter 66

Chapter 66: A Million-Strong Army?!

“I see now!” Chen Guan suddenly bared his teeth in a grin. “That dead old man really did have so skill. He actually understood ?”

Then he looked at Luo Li.

“Fine! You people want to rebel, do you? Then I’ll escort you straight into rebellion!”

Luo Li watched him sit there talking to himself while staring at her. After a mont of silence, she still stepped over with asured grace.

“Brother Chen, I know what concerns you.”

As she spoke, she took out a money pouch from her bundle and offered it to him with both hands.

“You’ve already brought this far. I’m grateful beyond words and have no way to repay you. Why don’t... why don’t we part ways here?”

“Part ways?”

Chen Guan abruptly turned his head. His eyes locked onto her as though he wanted to devour her whole!

She had lured him all the way into this cesspit, and now that he was here, she wanted him to leave just because she said so?

How could anything be that cheap?

He sprang up from the boulder and roared, “I’m an Escort Master! An Escort Master’s job is to deliver the goods and collect the money! Everything else has nothing to do with !”

“Co on. We’re going to Great Zhou. I’ll escort you into rebellion!”

“However...” Chen Guan looked at Luo Li and said in a deep voice, “Pay more!”

Luo Li froze for a mont. Then her eyes reddened, though it was impossible to tell whether from gratitude or emotion.

She hurriedly hid that flicker of feeling and imdiately took out a silver ingot from her pouch. “Brother Chen, once we enter Great Zhou, I’ll give you even more.”

Only now did she truly understand the aning behind her grandfather’s words: if you et a man greedy for wealth, that man will never betray you.

Sure enough, as long as the money was enough, he would even dare charge into a dragon’s pool or a tiger’s den with her.

And yet, when she looked at Chen Guan closely, what she saw in his eyes was not greed, but sothing she could only describe as resolve.

“Oh? Twenty taels?” Chen Guan glanced at the silver ingot in her hand, then accepted it without the slightest hesitation. “Generous!”

【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 320】

Once the system prompt sounded, Chen Guan tucked away the silver ingot, swung the Horse-Cleaving Saber back onto his shoulder, and under the cold light of the setting sun strode straight into the forest ahead without once looking back.

He suddenly discovered that, so long as he stopped thinking about righteousness and stopped thinking about the suffering of the world, and simply treated himself as nothing more than an Escort Master, then he felt utterly unburdened.

That was right.

Right now, he was only a small-ti Escort Master. What did the ruin of the age and the suffering of the world have to do with him?

He was not the father of that old emperor of Great Zhou.

He was no sage, so why should he think about so much?

Power, wealth, imperial thrones—none of it had anything to do with him. Let them fight their own wars. He would mind his own escort. As long as nobody provoked him, that was enough!!!

Luo Li was montarily stunned by this abrupt change in him.

Then the icy, world-scornful aura on her face vanished at once, replaced by joy that ca straight from the heart.

Gathering up the hem of her skirt, she quickly chased after him.

“Stay farther away from !”

Chen Guan suddenly turned back and shot Luo Li a savage glare.

He had discovered that as soon as this troubleso girl drew too close to him, his conscience started to ache again.

Luo Li acted as though she had heard nothing at all. Lips pursed, she simply followed stubbornly behind him.

Chen Guan said nothing more. He rely carried the Horse-Cleaving Saber in silence and walked through the ancient, shaded forest where not a sound could be heard.

The two of them continued one behind the other like that. Even after night had fully fallen, they did not stop.

Along the way, any lurking fiends, foul spirits, or petty demons that dared leap out to block their path exploded into clouds of blood beneath his heavy Horse-Cleaving Saber, leaving not even a whole corpse behind.

Luo Li realized that he had changed.

He had beco even more violent than before. He spoke not a word, and every strike he made was a killing blow.

Yet he also seed... purer than before, more rigidly faithful to what he called the rules of an Escort Master.

She could not tell whether that was good or bad.

But she did know that, although this man appeared cold and rciless on the surface, there had always been room in his heart for what he called the code of the jianghu and the bonds between n and won.

That, too, proved what her grandfather had once said: only one who was cold and without sentint could escort her into Great Zhou.

But she also knew that the coldness her grandfather had spoken of was not the sort she had first imagined.

It ant steadfastness in one’s rules, refusing to be shaken by the tide of the age, setting all emotion aside, and carrying out one’s principles with single-minded devotion.

She also understood that, from this point onward, for Chen Guan this was no longer rely an escort mission. It had beco a matter of his jianghu code.

“Brother Chen... I only hope you won’t try to stop ,” Luo Li murmured inwardly.

She was the last drop of blood left in the Violet Firmant Imperial Clan.

Even if her heart held a thousand unwillingnesses and ten thousand helpless grievances, this burden as heavy as a mountain could only be borne by her alone.

They walked on like that until dawn, crossing two hundred li of mountain roads in one night.

Only when the horizon finally began to pale could they see the sparse outlines of distant towns.

Chen Guan glanced back and saw that the troubleso girl had already grown deathly pale from exhaustion, with not a trace of blood left in her lips.

His brows knit together. In the end, he stopped, turned, and stepped into a patch of brush not far away.

A short while later, he erged carrying a plump wild rabbit weighing more than ten jin.

Soon, the enticing sll of roasted at drifted through the forest.

He tore off a rabbit leg roasted to a golden crispness, still dripping with fat, walked over to Luo Li, handed it to her, and coldly uttered four words.

“Two taels of silver.”

Luo Li shot him an annoyed glare, but still obediently took out two taels of loose silver and slapped them into his palm before taking the rabbit leg and devouring it in huge bites without a care for her image.

Only after seeing that gleaming silver in his hand did Chen Guan’s expression improve slightly.

“This escort may not sound very glorious, but the money certainly won’t be little.”

“If things go well, I might even charge straight into the Heavenly Human Realm and sweep across the whole world!”

Hiss!

The more Chen Guan thought about it, the more he realized this was not a loss at all.

Luo Li noticed the flicker of pleasure that passed across his face and found herself even more unable to understand him.

She had originally assud that, after coming to terms with everything, he would surely try to persuade her earnestly to abandon the dream of restoring the dynasty.

Yet an entire night had passed, and aside from slaughtering demons, he had not said a single word about it.

In the end, she could not help asking, “Brother Chen, I’m going to Great Zhou to wage war. Aren’t you afraid?”

While tearing off another strip of rabbit at, Chen Guan shot her a glance and answered with a question of his own.

“If a little girl like you isn’t afraid, then what does a grown man like have to be afraid of?”

“That’s different!”

Luo Li lifted her fair neck proudly.

“On my uncle’s side, a million soldiers and dozens of organizations and allied factions have already assembled. The mont I arrive in Shangjing City of Great Zhou, we can raise the standard of rebellion at once!”

“?!!”

Chen Guan’s chewing froze on the spot, and in his heart he let loose an unrestrained curse.

Damn it, a million soldiers?!