The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 78 : Chapter 78

Chapter 78: This Town Is Divided into Yin and Yang!

At once, she looked at Chen Guan with open admiration.

He was far too clever!

He had rely taken one turn through the town, yet he had already uncovered the core rule of the Uncanny Fiend!

And that rule was precisely Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat—die ten thousand tis, but never refuse.

Even if it ant dying ten thousand tis, one still had to do it!

Having understood the hidden logic within it, Luo Li no longer hesitated. She imdiately ordered the two little brats before her,

“You two, hurry up and bring Granny Wang’s grandson here!”

The two children rolled their big eyes, exchanged a glance and a grin, and imdiately nodded.

“All right, big sister! Wait here for a mont. We’ll go check the places where he usually plays!”

In no ti at all, the two children ca running back, dragging along another little brat with a face full of snot and a dull, vacant stare.

The mont that child saw Luo Li, he blankly stretched out a hand, trying to tug at her sleeve, and mumbled indistinctly,

“Big sister, can you—”

The instant she saw that, Luo Li rembered Chen Guan’s earlier warning and decisively cut him off before he could finish.

“Hurry ho! Your granny is worried sick!”

“Oh...”

The child had been about to say sothing more, but the mont her command fell, the rest of his words jamd in his throat. He could only nod blankly.

Chen Guan inwardly approved.

Once this troubleso girl truly put her mind to sothing, the flexibility of her thinking was indeed far beyond ordinary people.

Fortunately, she had stopped that little brat before he could continue speaking.

After that, the two of them turned and led the child back toward the town’s main street.

However, Chen Guan deliberately slowed his pace the entire way, and his eyes never once dared to look directly at the blood sun in the sky.

Luo Li noticed that detail too, but wisely refrained from asking any questions.

She knew that Chen Guan had to be searching for the true thod of breaking this strange-tale rule.

Very soon, they reached the street corner and saw Granny Wang again, still sitting all alone on the stone block, leaning on her cane.

Luo Li imdiately stepped forward and handed the little child over to her.

“You truly have... such a kind heart, little miss!”

An eerie smile spread across Granny Wang’s withered face.

“Ai, this old woman has lived in this Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat Town for decades, and I’ve never once seen a young girl as kind-hearted as you. You really are—”

“Granny,”

Luo Li interrupted before she could finish.

“It is getting late. You should take him ho and rest early.”

“...Very well.”

The old woman forcibly swallowed the rest of her words. Then, still smiling, she took her grandson by the hand and disappeared into the pitch-black alley beside her.

Chen Guan nodded in satisfaction, then imdiately pulled Luo Li along and hurried back toward the edge of town.

When they returned beneath the gate tower carved with the words Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat, Luo Li finally let out a long sigh of relief.

She instantly grabbed Chen Guan and asked impatiently, “Brother Chen, just now... did I avoid a lethal rule?”

“You did.” Chen Guan nodded.

“Then can we use this rule to escape this strange tale?” Luo Li asked excitedly, her eyes shining.

Chen Guan rely cast her a cool glance. “You are thinking far too simply.”

“Ah?” Luo Li froze. “Isn’t that how it works?”

“You are not wrong. To break this strange-tale rule, you first have to make use of its rule.”

Chen Guan turned around and faced the setting sun hanging at the edge of the sky.

“But have you ever thought about why this Uncanny Fiend suddenly appeared here?”

“This...”

Luo Li began thinking rapidly.

Very quickly, it seed as though she had thought of sothing.

Originally, there had still been one trusted subordinate from her uncle’s side who was supposed to receive her. Yet that person had not shown up.

Her brows knit together, and her face gradually turned colder and colder.

“How outrageous!”

Chen Guan was montarily taken aback by the sudden aura of a queen that burst from her.

Then Luo Li let out a cold snort.

“I risked my life to co all this way, and they still thought to test ?!”

She really was not a fool, Chen Guan silently praised.

This uncanny rule had most likely been laid down by the group that was supposed to receive Luo Li.

Its primary purpose was clearly to test her.

After all, those forr-dynasty remnants had prepared for this for a hundred years, and had paid for it with a century of blood and tears.

How could they possibly hand over everything they had built up over that ti to a completely inexperienced young girl, one who could almost be described as naive and foolish?

There was no truly stupid person in this world.

The longer people lived hidden in the gutter, the more cautious they beca in all things.

Clearly, Luo Li first had to pass this test before she could win even their most basic acknowledgnt.

Put simply... those people did not trust this so-called princess of the forr dynasty at all.

Luo Li’s face grew colder and colder.

It was obvious that she had understood the sa thing.

She had realized that those people did not trust her. Rather, she had to prove that she possessed a certain degree of ability before they would feel safe handing over the hundred-year foundation they had built to her.

Chen Guan did not continue that topic.

He knew that this girl’s way of thinking was still built entirely upon the so-called arts of rulership.

Every problem she looked at, she viewed through the lens of power and balance. She still did not yet deeply understand what human nature really ant, much less what true jianghu actually was.

“All right. This was simply the task those people arranged for you.”

“Tell —what is your line of thought for breaking this strange-tale rule?”

“Brother Chen...” Luo Li looked at him again and asked tentatively, “The key to breaking it... is it hidden in those four words, Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat?”

Chen Guan nodded, thus acknowledging her guess, then added, “I will give you two more crucial pieces of information. First, this town is divided into Yin and Yang.”

“Ah?”

Luo Li froze.

She knew only that in this place one could not refuse, that one had to embody Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat. But what did Yin and Yang have to do with it?

Chen Guan turned and gestured with his chin toward the little lotus pond they had passed at the town entrance earlier.

“Take a good look at that lotus pond.”

“All right.”

Luo Li obediently looked over.

The surface of the little pond shimred, reflecting the dying sunlight in ripples. It also clearly reflected the shadow of the gate tower behind them. At a glance, the scene was actually quite beautiful.

But she knew that Chen Guan was certainly not asking her to admire the scenery.

She stared for a long while, yet still saw nothing strange. In the end, she could not help turning her head and looking at Chen Guan in confusion.

“Rember what you are seeing right now,” Chen Guan said calmly. “Wait half a ke.”

And so he had Luo Li stare fixedly at the lotus pond for a full half a ke.

Only then did Chen Guan remind her again, “Now take another careful look.”

Luo Li looked at the pond once more.

In the very next instant, her face turned pale, and even her lips began to tremble.

“Th-the little lotus pond... there is no reflection of the blood sun in it anymore!”

Chen Guan nodded and explained with a grave expression, “Exactly.”

“Listen carefully. When the reflection of the blood sun appears, that is Yin, also known as a water mirror reflecting baleful force.”

“And when there is no reflection of the dying sun, that is the true world we need. The heavens then are Yang.”

“When it is Yang, we may enter and leave the town as we please, and we may ask the townspeople to do anything. They cannot refuse, nor will they refuse.”

“But once it turns to Yin, the mont we step into the town, the roles reverse. Then they are the ones who make us do things, and every single thing we do becos a test of life and death.”

“If we fail to complete it, or if we refuse any request, then the rule will erase us directly and turn us into part of the rule itself!”