The Invincible Bodyguard Starting by Escorting the Doomsday Imperial Princess Chapter 97 : Chapter 97

Chapter 97: Where in the World Did This Escort Master Co From?

Liu Kui himself was also a renowned Purple Palace Realm expert of many years’ standing, yet in that instant just now, he had failed to catch even the faintest trace of the other party’s movent!

The three Purple Palace Realm Hall Masters behind him, blood still spilling from the corners of their mouths, were equally terrified out of their wits.

Where in the world had such a terrifying expert co from?

And how had soone like that ended up becoming an Escort Master?

A Purple Palace Realm expert of this level would be a founding patriarch in any force. Even an imperial dynasty would spend mountains of gold to invite such a man as an honored guest and make him one of its pillars.

Yet this fellow had beco an Escort Master instead. How much money could one escort possibly earn him?

Chen Guan shook the droplets of blood from his blade, slowly lifted the Horse-Cleaving Saber onto his shoulder, and looked indifferently at the only four n remaining.

【Abyss-Inch Advance】 had an effect nearly identical to teleportation. It paid no heed to the concepts of ti or space, so how could it possibly be caught by ordinary sight?

“No, that’s not right!”

At that mont, the leading middle-aged man suddenly seed to understand sothing and let out a shocked cry.

“He must have mastered an assassination movent art from the ancient ages!”

Yet upon arriving at that conclusion, they did not beco more afraid. Instead, a greedy light burst from their eyes.

In this chaotic age overrun by demons and fiends, the human race was weak, and its inheritances had been broken several tis over.

Any technique that had managed to survive from the ancient ages until now, even the most ordinary Yellow Rank thod, would still be a priceless treasure!

If they could present this absolute movent art—one so ghostlike that it was almost equivalent to teleportation—to the Alliance Leader, it would be a contribution without equal.

“Form up! Activate Protective Astral Qi and guard against his assassination!”

The middle-aged man made his decision instantly and barked out an order. The four of them imdiately began circulating the true qi within their bodies like mad.

The essence of assassination arts lay in speed. So long as they could block that single killing blow, then no matter how fierce he was, he would no longer be able to stir up any real trouble.

Bzzzz—Four boundless, surging auras erupted from their bodies and transford into visible astral qi barriers.

A violent wave of force swept outward, sending ripples through the surrounding flowers, grasses, and trees as though they had been struck by a storm.

“Damn you!”

A fierce light flashed in Chen Guan’s eyes.

Originally, he had already secured the extra paynt. Putting in more effort beyond that would not earn him any added benefit.

If they had been willing to retreat, he would have let them go. He could have counted it as an investnt in the next opportunity to demand more money!

But so people, once greed got the better of them, insisted on seeking death.

In that case, he could only spend exactly as much effort as the money justified.

The four n moved in unison, swords in hand, crossing paths as they advanced. In the next instant, they had completely surrounded Chen Guan and Luo Li from four directions.

From beginning to end, Luo Li did not say a single word. She rely swept her cold gaze over the faces of those four n one by one.

The greed in their eyes was perfectly caught by her.

At that mont, she finally understood what people ant by “the dangers of jianghu.”

“So it really was just as Brother Chen had said—there were no eternal friends, only eternal interests.”

The words she had originally intended to use to stop him died on her lips, and she simply stared coldly ahead.

【Decapitating Slash】 (Activated): Every strike carries true intent. There is a 10% chance of triggering an instant-kill effect, forcibly taking the enemy’s head regardless of realm.

Chen Guan suddenly leveled the Horse-Cleaving Saber across his body and spun.

A matchlessly fierce crescent-shaped blade qi shot explosively outward from the blade in all directions.

The instant those four n rushed close, they felt that utterly irresistible blade qi pressing against their faces.

Slash! Slash!

They had thought Protective Astral Qi would block his fast blade, but they had never imagined that this blade qi would directly ignore their Protective Astral Qi.

It swept across their necks, and four fine heads suddenly flew into the air.

“Oh?” Chen Guan looked at the four headless corpses that collapsed stiffly to the ground and let out a surprised exclamation.

“Looks like you hit the jackpot, friends. A ten-percent chance, and you people managed to run right into it!”

“Now you’ve got wondering whether I should call you unlucky or lucky!”

Chen Guan flicked the blood from the Horse-Cleaving Saber in his hand, then returned it to its sheath with a clang. He looked over the ground strewn with headless corpses.

There was not the slightest trace of pity in his eyes, only the cold indifference by which he lived in this chaotic age.

Withdrawing his gaze, Chen Guan stroked his chin and glanced at the Horse-Cleaving Saber in his hand.

“This 【Blood Massacre in All Directions】 really is a bit unreasonable.”

The reason these people had all struck the mark at once was most likely because 【Blood Massacre in All Directions】 had stacked together with tenfold blade qi.

His traits did not distinguish between realms. Cutting down a Xiantian Realm cultivator or a Purple Palace Realm cultivator produced the sa effect, and when multiple traits stacked, they often yielded unexpected gains.

Luo Li’s gaze fell to the ground.

Those n who had been alive and swaggering about just monts ago had now all been severed from head to body.

Chen Guan turned his head and found that the girl was still standing there in a daze.

“Well? Was it impressive?” He bared his teeth in a grin. “That extra money of yours was well spent, wasn’t it?”

As he spoke, he directly pulled out a set of paper and brush from his robe and shoved it in front of Luo Li.

“Co on, co on, stop standing there. Hurry up and make up this IOU for .”

Luo Li had originally been feeling rather complicated emotions, but upon hearing that, she ground her silver teeth together and shot him a savage glare.

Still, she knew Chen Guan had always recognized money, not people.

So that she could smoothly et her uncle, Luo Li still took the paper and brush, lowered her head, and seriously wrote out a debt note for ninety taels, signing her na at the bottom.

Chen Guan took the note, read through it carefully from beginning to end, and once he had confird there was no mistake, his grin stretched nearly to the back of his head.

He had made a fortune!

Not only had he earned an extra ninety taels, he had also secured another chance to demand more money!

Beautiful!

Luo Li rolled her eyes at him irritably and had no mood left to bicker. She simply mounted her horse again.

Only this ti, her whole aura had settled down. There was less innocence in her eyes and more determination and coldness than should ever belong to soone of her age.

“Not bad. She’s finally gotten used to this sort of scene. Once we get into Great Zhou properly, things should go much more smoothly.”

Chen Guan muttered that to himself.

Then he hoisted the Horse-Cleaving Saber onto his shoulder and mounted with practiced ease.

And just like that, the two of them acted as though what they had just experienced had been no more than a trivial interruption. They tugged the reins and continued galloping toward Shangjing City.

...

Less than Half a Ke after Chen Guan and Luo Li left, the sll of blood on the official road drew the attention of a passing traveler.

The mont that man saw the scene, like sothing straight out of Asura’s hell, he was so frightened that his soul nearly fled his body. Stumbling and crawling, he ran at once in the direction of Qingan Commandery.

Very soon, a troop of soldiers in standard black armor arrived on horseback.

The leader was none other than the sa Commander who had earlier sent n to escort Chen Guan and Luo Li to Qingan Commandery.

The mont he saw the ground strewn with headless corpses, and felt the still-unfaded violent battle aura lingering in the area, it was as though lightning had struck him. His whole body and mind shook violently.

“This... this is... Purple Palace Realm?!”

And not just one, but four of them!

He sucked in a cold breath, his expression instantly turning incomparably grave, and barked out an order at once.

“Quick! Seal off the scene! Report this to the Prefect at once and submit it to the court at the highest level!”

In only two days, a Painted Skin Fiend had first run rampant, and now four Purple Palace Realm experts had died all at once!

The sky over Qingan Commandery was truly about to turn upside down.

...

A thousand li away, in Shangjing City, within the Grand Preceptor’s Manor.

Inside the study, Su Wenyuan stood with his hands behind his back before the window. The composed calm that had always rested on his face had already vanished, and his brows were tightly knotted together.

He too had received the news of the complete annihilation of the top experts sent out by Duanyue Hall at the very first mont.

The loss could not be called anything but disastrous!

But even more critical was the fact that those idiots from Duanyue Hall had failed to leave any fallback asure behind. They had not sent anyone to clean up the scene at once, and as a result, the corpses of those n had fallen intact into the hands of the court!

Since the founding of Great Zhou, every officially registered Purple Palace Realm expert had had a detailed file kept in the Imperial Clan Court.

The identities of those few people simply could not withstand scrutiny.

And once their identities were discovered, it would directly shake the very foundations of his Heaven-Defying Alliance!

“Hmph!”

Su Wenyuan suddenly turned around, his sharp gaze sweeping across the seven figures standing silently in the study, all of them bearing deep and formidable auras. He shouted angrily, “How did this Alliance Leader instruct you back then?! Why did you not send people to keep watch?!”

The seven were visibly startled by that furious roar, and their expressions all tightened.

After a brief silence, one among them—a middle-aged man in purple robes over a green inner garnt—stepped forward and bowed.

“Alliance Leader, calm your anger. None of us anticipated this outco either.”

“Four Purple Palace Realm experts, plus nine peak Profound Passage Realm masters. That level of force would have been more than enough even to slaughter an entire city. Who could have imagined... that they would all fall at the hands of a naless Escort Master?”

“Ye Feng!” Su Wenyuan took one step forward and stared at him, his voice utterly stripped of warmth.

“This Alliance Leader has always trusted you the most! I entrusted Young Mistress’s ‘road of kingship’ to your Tai’an Pavilion, and this is how you serve this Alliance Leader?!”