The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 85 : Chapter 85

Chapter 85: Great Yun’s Escort Master, Chen Guan!

Zhang Wen did not dare delay in the slightest.

This Elder Ci had been successfully lodged into Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat only after Tai’an Pavilion had spent thirty years and consud countless heavenly treasures and earthly marvels.

His strength alone could stand against a thousand armies and ten thousand soldiers. He was one of the absolute trump cards in their hands, sothing never ant to be used lightly.

If he were to fall here, then for Tai’an Pavilion, it would not rely be a blow to the foundations—it would at the very least tear muscle from bone.

Zhang Wen imdiately sank his qi to his dantian and circulated his Vast Righteous Qi, gathering it all into the folding fan in his hand, then raised it and aid at the Tianqu Acupoint atop Elder Ci’s head, intending to help him suppress the rules.

But before that folding fan, infused with all of his power, could descend, Elder Ci’s murky eyes suddenly bulged wide, and his body stiffened.

Then the panic vanished. His breathing stopped. His body went still.

“Elder Ci!” Zhang Wen cried out in alarm.

He quickly reached out to test the old man’s breathing, only to find that his vitality had already vanished, his soul utterly destroyed!

“How... how is this possible?!”

Zhang Wen’s expression darkened abruptly.

No matter how he thought about it, he simply could not believe that the strange-tale rules which Tai’an Pavilion had painstakingly managed for over a hundred years had been forcibly dismantled from the inside the mont the ga had only just begun!

This was not sothing an ordinary person could do.

To break the rules, one first had to fully understand every last detail of them. And to understand a complex rule that had been nourished by incense offerings for a hundred years was not sothing that could be accomplished in a day or two.

Yet Luo Li had done it in barely the span of a single shichen. Not only had she grasped the rules, she had even... torn out their very foundation!

Zhang Wen imdiately rejected that thought.

He knew Su Jingyan’s capabilities well. There was no way Su Jingyan could have given her such heaven-defying ability.

That left only one possibility—the man who had entered Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat alongside her!

“How outrageous!”

Killing intent burst fiercely through Zhang Wen’s eyes.

But at that mont, the burly man he had previously sent out to gather information strode rapidly into the room.

When he saw Elder Ci on the floor, eyes wide open in death, he first froze, then hurriedly dropped to one knee.

“Reporting to Pavilion Master! The ten Dark Wolf Guards that Shadow Hall arranged to receive Her Highness—all of them were beheaded thirty li outside Zhenbei Pass!”

“What?!” Zhang Wen was startled all over again.

Every single one of the Dark Wolf Guards that Shadow Hall had prepared for Luo Li was an expert above the Profound Passage Realm, and all of them were adept in coordinated assassination techniques.

That man... exactly how strong was he?!

…

At that mont, inside the uncanny domain of Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat, Chen Guan and Luo Li stood outside the granaries, watching the raging fire blazing within while the furious shouts of the granary official rang in their ears.

“You... what are you doing?! Didn’t I tell you to air out the grain? Why is there a fire?!”

Carrying the Horse-Cleaving Saber over his shoulder, Chen Guan turned around leisurely and smiled.

“Officer, didn’t you say that as long as the moisture was removed, any thod would do?”

“My thod guarantees that it’ll all be dried in one go, without leaving a single trace of moisture behind.”

Luo Li shot him a glance and muttered inwardly that this man truly was good at exploiting loopholes in the rules.

“Y-you... you...” The granary official pointed at the fire, his face as white as paper. “It’s over. All over... The magistrate won’t spare this ti...”

“Without grain, none of us can survive!”

Watching this person—soone clearly ford from the rules—behave with such lifelike realism, even Chen Guan could not help but admire the terror of Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat.

“All right. It’s ti for you to rest in peace as well.”

Muttering that, Chen Guan lifted the Horse-Cleaving Saber on his shoulder and lightly tapped the granary official’s brow with its tip.

Bzzz—!

The entirety of Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat, taking this granary official as its center, shattered like a pane of glass struck by a heavy blow, exploding apart and turning into drifting ash that vanished into nothingness.

The scene before the two of them changed in an instant.

Luo Li instinctively looked all around.

She discovered that she was standing beneath a peach tree beside the little lotus pond in Wanci Town. Passersby nearby were casting curious glances at the two of them.

“What are those two standing there for? They’ve been there forever.”

“This!” Luo Li’s heart jumped. She hurriedly checked her own body, only to find that she still slled like soone who had spent days climbing mountains and crossing rivers.

“Brother... Brother Chen, if we hadn’t gotten out in ti, would we really have... starved to death in there?”

She asked with lingering fear.

“We would.” Chen Guan nodded.

To put it simply, these rules were equivalent to a massive illusion.

From beginning to end, the two of them had rely been sitting beneath this tree, dreaming one long and vivid dream.

Of course, there were also strange tales that dragged in the physical body along with the soul, but those were difficult to encounter. Such uncanny beings were all vicious monsters, and they generally did not appear in small places like this.

【Uncanny Fiend Compendium】: Collecting...

【Na of the Uncanny Fiend】: Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat

【Reward】(Rule): One’s Word Is Bond

【Effect】: While within strange-tale rules, the “rule-entity” inside the rules can be forced to carry out one command or answer one true question.

“Damn!”

“I’ve made a fortune!”

Chen Guan was overjoyed. With this rule-based ability in hand, dealing with Uncanny Fiends in the future would beco far easier!

That ant that as long as he was within strange-tale rules, he could forcibly make the “rule-entity” inside perform one task for him or reveal a piece of crucial information.

This was a true trump card ant specifically to counter Uncanny Fiends!

But Luo Li’s face instantly turned cold.

She realized that without Chen Guan, she probably really would have been trapped alive in that place until she starved to death!

Suddenly, Luo Li noticed that sothing was wrong.

The town entrance, which had been fairly lively only a mont ago, had sohow beco utterly empty. All those passersby who had been pointing and whispering about them had disappeared.

Imdiately afterward, a scholar with a folding fan walked slowly out from the depths of the town, followed by a man and a woman. The eyes of all three of them fixed squarely upon her.

Luo Li’s heart tightened, and she instinctively shifted a little closer to Chen Guan.

At that sa mont, Chen Guan’s gaze had also fallen upon the scholar leading the trio.

“Oh? A Confucian cultivator?”

Confucian cultivators were rare in this day and age.

This was another cultivation system entirely, separate from martial cultivation. Though the Confucian Dao was extrely difficult to enter, once soone truly achieved sothing in it, they beca highly sought after.

As the saying went, a thug was not frightening; a literate thug was.

Especially to princes and great nobles—when they were searching for a strategist, they were never stingy.

“The Right Protector of Tai’an Pavilion, Zhang Wen, greets Young Mistress!”

The scholarly man stepped forward and bowed deeply toward Luo Li, his posture extrely humble.

The man and woman behind him also imdiately dropped to one knee, their expressions full of respect.

Luo Li swept her eyes over the three of them, then glanced at Chen Guan beside her.

Seeing that he was rely watching the trio with interest and showed no intention of interfering, she raised a hand slightly and said in an even voice, “You may rise.”

The three stood up, and their eyes fell on Chen Guan in unison, their gazes full of scrutiny and anger.

But none of them made a move imdiately, because not one of them could see through Chen Guan’s true strength.

Yet anyone capable of so casually dismantling an uncanny domain on the level of Ten Thousand Deaths, No Retreat was unquestionably no ordinary person.

Zhang Wen turned his eyes to Luo Li and asked, “May I ask who this is?”

Luo Li answered, “This is Chen Guan, an Escort Master of the Great Yun Imperial Dynasty.”

“A pleasure, a pleasure.”

Zhang Wen imdiately cupped his fists toward Chen Guan, forcing a smile onto his face.

“Escort Master Chen, you have had a hard journey.”

“The three of us have been ordered to co receive Young Mistress and escort her ho. The rest of the road can be left to us.”