She opened her eyes sharply and disappeared from his front swiftly, then next thing he felt is a sting on his abdomen, he lowered his gaze to look at it only to see two long cuts on his abdomen, before he could turn back again, he felt another sting on his shoulder.

Their eyes tried to follow her seeing how swiftly her attacks are, she had already given him eight cuts on his body, she gave him another four on his legs, causing his to fall to the ground then she raised her hand and spun her body around to slash his neck.

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"Stop right now!" Wei Xianlu roared, seeing that she was about to kill him, she stopped her attack and raised her gaze to look at him with an evil tilt on her lips and one of her brows raised.

"Why, didn't you say you will drag us to the governor's manor to torture us but I am not allowed to kill your bodyguard? what a joke!" she concluded and raised her hand to slash his neck but stopped at Xi Feng's call.

"That is enough!" Xi Feng ordered with his voice raised, she took in a deep breath, closing her eyes, she opened her eyes again, exhaling then she stopped and landed on the ground, she looked down on Ke Yang who was still struggling to stand up then she started walking towards Xi Feng.

But Ke Yang took the chance, he gathered his strength and stood up swiftly, dashing towards her with a small knife in his hand, he was about to slit her neck when she glanced at him from the side then she bent her body and pulled his hand over her, pulling him to the ground, she twisted his arm around, breaking his bone and dislocating his arm.

They widened their eyes at the sound of the bones cracking, anger burned through his veins, he had a murderous look in his eyes and the intention to rib her flesh apart and crush her bones, she raised her head to meet his eyes, even though he couldn't see her face, he could feel her mocking gaze directed at him.

While Ke Yang screamed in pain, she pulled his body up and punched him to the ground.

Thud!!

He spat out a mouthful of blood as his body landed on the ground, Wei Xianlu clenched his fist tighter seeing how smooth and cruel her moves her, her claws protruding out of her fist penetrated his abdomen but she cruelly pulled them out without caring about the pain he would feel.

"It is enough!" Xi Feng warned this time firmly, ignoring his warning, she raised her hands to slash his neck with her bloodied claws.

"If you end his life, master would be angry," Xi Feng warned again, making her stop, she raised her head...

"No...master would be grateful," she answered in a whisper, We Xianlu who has already had it with her arrogance pulled his sword out of its sheath and rushed towards her at a great speed but it seemed like he was too late, she swiftly brought down her claws on his neck but the next thing they saw is a figure swiftly pull her off his body and fling her away from the poor bodyguard, she quickly regained her stamina midair and dragged her foot on the ground to regain her balance with her hands spread wide until she regained her balance.

She turned around to see who it was...

"Master..." she and Xi Feng called in unison.

"Saviour!" Ruo Rufei called while Wei Xianlu who had already reached him placed his sword on his neck.

"Put down your sword right now!" Xi Feng roared and was about to make his move but the fourth prince raised his hands to stop him, then he slowly turned to face Wei Xianlu.

"Young master Wei, please put down your sword," He calmly pleaded in a rather humbly tone.

"Today, I will show you commoners what happens when you anger this young master, a mere martial artist dares to injure my bodyguard!" Wei Xianlu responded with his murderous intentions clearly shown in his voice.

"If my subordinates have offended you then I apologize on their behalf,"

"Apologize, even if you die ten thousand times, it is still not enough to atone for your sins, you have angered this young master and there is no way you will be able to keep your life after this, I have fought many martial artists and killed many people but none of their sins is as heavy as yours," he slowly withdrew his sword from his neck then he stretched it toward his chest.

"Young master Wei, please halt!"

He stopped at the sound of her voice, with his eyes still fixed on the fourth prince who could have escaped the stab but stood still knowing from his calculations that Ruo Rufei would surely stop him.

"Why did you stop me, Miss Rufei, could it be that you have an interest in this man just like they speculated?", the fourth prince smirked at his jealousy.

"Of course not, how can the daughter of the governor be interested in such a common person, but he called your name just name, I only disclosed your identity when we left the forest so how did he know who you are?" Ruo Rufei answered, she was quite offended and determined to end his subordinates if not for his sudden arrival but she didn't want him dead, at least not yet.

"That is true," he turned to the fourth prince.

"How did you know my name?"

"That is not something I can tell, I would like to take my leave now," he moved a step forward with Xiaodi and Xi Feng following behind him.

"Stop right there, remove your hat," he ordered but the fourth prince ignored him, he walked towards him and attempted to removed his hat but Xi Feng pushed his hands away, Wei Xianlu used his other hand to land a hit on his chest, pushing him back.

"Xi..." Xiaodi was about to call his name when she stopped.

"Why are you hiding your identities, do I know you?" he asked but still didn't get any reply, even Ruo Rufei was now curious to know what was going on, frustrated, he stretched his hand again to removed his hat but Xi Feng blocked him once more, Wei Xianlu pulled his hand and landed him another hit to his chest making him almost fall to the ground.

With this, the difference in their strength was shown and Ruo Rufei was once more impressed.

"Xi...." she stopped herself from spilling his name again, then she turned to the fourth prince, wondering why he wasn't having any reaction to Xi Feng being beaten, she touched his shoulder and walked to his front, his face was already as pale as a sheet of paper and his fist was tightly clenched as though he was trying to endure something.

She peeped at the hole in between his robe, her eyes widened at the sight of the blue lines already reaching his neck.

"Master!" she screamed

They were all confused as to why she screamed but the soon got their answers when he clutched his chest with his chest rising up and down, just when he couldn't hold it anymore, his body jerked forward, with a mouthful of crimson red blood spluttering over Xiaodi's face.

"Master!" Xi Feng called in horror while Xiaodi stood still with her lips slightly partitioned.

"Master..." she whispered softly but he looked at her with a lifeless look.

Ruo Rufei and Xixi widened their eyes at the sight, she stepped forward to get a close look at him.

"What is wro...."

Splat!

Splat!

Splat!

More blood splattered on her face and the ground, they were horrified at the sight of the blood on her veil, even though they couldn't see her face, the blood on the black veil on her hat dripped to the ground slowly but she didn't flinch.

"oh my gosh!" Xixi screamed in horror.

Xi Feng quickly rushed to his side, he held his arm just as he was about to slump to the ground.

"Quick, we have to leave," they held his arms and flew into the air, landing on the horse in front of the forest, they assisted him onto the horse then Xi Feng climbed onto the horse holding the reins of the horse while the horse raised his front legs.

Neigh!!!

"Meet me at the pretty lady's place," Xi Feng instructed then he rode off with the horse.

"Stop right now," Wei Xianlu roared running towards them but Xiaodi quickly hopped on to one of the other horses and rode the horse towards him as though she was going heads up with him.

Ruo Rufei was half happy that he was able to get away and half annoyed that she didn't have her way with him.

She rode at a fast speed towards Wei Xianlu but just as she was about to hit him, he pushed the horse's head back with his legs dragging on the ground but the impact caused him to move back, using that chance she hurriedly turned the horse around and rode away, knowing that she might not be a match for him.

Regaining his balance, he clenched his fist and yelled into the air in anger.

"Please calm down, young master Wei, I am sure you will be able to find him, if we use the city soldiers, there is no way we won't be able to find them, with his injured state, they won't be able to get far," Rufei said reassuringly with her hand on his shoulder, he glanced at her hands on his shoulder which seemed to calm his mind and body down.

"I understand, let's leave now," he had already forgotten his father's task since all he could think of his capturing them.