"But..." she was cut off when the carriage suddenly flipped up again and then landed on the ground with a high impact, causing them to slam their head on the board of the carriage. Feng Shui tried his very best to steady the horse but it seemed like they were using some kind of instrument to lift the carriage and stop it from moving.

He could only turn his head back to check what it is, they had chained the carriage with hooks holding it very firmly, he now understood why he couldn't steady the horse no matter how hard he tries, he was still thinking when the carriage got flipped, causing it to break loose from the horse, he hurriedly backflipped from the horse and landed on top of the toppled carriage.

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The assassins ran towards him so he could only fend them off alone, they had just started fighting but they had already given him numerous cuts on his body, although they were not fatal, they are still enough to weaken him.

"Who are you people? your style of fighting and formation does not like that of ordinary assassins?" he questioned, with his sword on the carriage and one of his knees on the carriage.

"If you want to know we will surely tell you, after all, you are already a dead man, we are the prime minister's private soldiers and our only task is to kill the young mistress of the flame sect," one of the assassins answered, the fact that he disclosed that much information surprised Feng Shui but he had no reason to not believe him.

"The prime minister...."

"Enough nonsense!" they pulled out the chains from the carriage and lunged it towards him but he quickly dodged the hooked ends of the chains as fast as he could, they lunged all ten chains towards him at once, he bent his back, making all the chains go over his face, he spun his body around and sprung into the air while the chains followed him.

He somersaulted to land on the ground but four chains hit him from the sides, causing to drop to the carriage with a loud slam.

"Are we really going to die?" Huo Lan questioned again in fear that she might not be able to see her family before she dies, she almost started crying but Su Ci held her hand and hugged her tightly.

"Huo Lan, you are the only one who can protect us now, that disciple will soon die and we don't have good martial art so we can't do anything right now,"

"What are you saying, I don't..."

"We have to use our flame power, only mine is not powerful to take them out, my cultivation is not good enough but even though you have poor cultivation, you can still do it," she explained, but Huo Lan immediately removed her hand from hers and nodded her head frantically.

"No, no, I can't, I can't," she refused with fear clearly written on her face, Su Ci held her hand again.

"Huo Lan! if you don't, we will both die," she placed her hands on her shoulder and looked at her with desperation in her eyes but Huo Lan pushed her hands away aggressively with tears building up in her eyes.

"I would rather die than use my power,". The determination mixed with brokenness assured Su Ci that she will definitely not use her power, she decided to do what she can to prolong time and protect Huo Lan.

Feng Shui who was still being attacked despite the several injuries on his body, rolled on the ground to escape the hooks of the chains that were being lunged towards him but three of the chains pierced through his chest, causing him to spit out blood.

Su Ci who had already sneaked out of the carriage and was hiding beside the carriage covered her mouth in fear, she has never seen someone attacked in such a cruel way but she decided to muster her courage.

They pulled the chains, pulling him towards them, they were about to stab their swords into his stomach when they were attacked by Su Ci who had conjured her flames and directed it towards them, they quickly backed off but she lunged into the air and waved her hands in the air then she rolled them over each other and directed her flames at them.

Since she was in the air, they only had to use the chain to pull her to the ground and they succeeded since the chains moved very fast, she fell to the ground with a loud thud.

Huo Lan cooped up herself in the carriage and covered her ear, she was being tempted to use her flame power but remembering how she almost killed her sister, the stories of how she killed those who were supposed to take her to the wind sect and many other stories terrified her.

They came closer to her while she tried to stand up but to no avail, one of them pulled her up and started strangling her, her legs wobbled in the air as she tried to free herself from his grip but they only mocked her.

Just when she was almost gone, a slim sword pierced through his chest, they turned around to see Meng Hui whose cloth was covered in blood running towards them, she pulled her sword from the dead assassin and used it to cut the throat of another then she pulled up Su Ci and pushed her away.

She was fleeing away from the assassins who had already killed the other disciples and were now focusing on her but she ended up at the cliff where they were fighting purposefully.

She threw her sword into the air and raised her index and middle finger to the air then she brought down her fingers, causing the sword to fall, she infused blue aura into the sword, the blue aura enveloped the sword then she waved her hands, the sword dashed towards them at fast speed and slit all their throats, their bodies dropped to the ground in an instant.

That was exactly her plan, to kill them all at once.

"Mere assassins," she scoffed and turned back.

"Impressive," a male voice remarked, she immediately turned back, clutching her sword tightly, her eyes widened seeing their black and red uniform with the red moon sign on their glabella.

"Blood moon sect...how can it be?" she exclaimed, while Feng Shui gathered his strength and got up on his feet.

"It seems like we aren't forgotten yet," he moved closer with the disciples behind him following him.

"You see...my master desires the young mistress of the flame sect, give her to me and I will let you die a peaceful death but if you refuse...then, I can only leave your death to my master," at the end of his sentence, he narrowed his eyes.

They were all wearing a black and red mask on their nose which also covered their mouth.

"Hmmph! it is really surprising that the blood moon sect which was rumoured to have disappeared overnight actually appeared because of this witch, it is such a pity that I cannot hand her over to you, I can this can only end with one of us dying," she positioned her sword by her side and ran towards him.

"Foolish," he remarked then he pulled out two moon-shaped chakrams from his sides, he waited for her to attack him first.

She attacked him fiercely with her sword but he blocked every move, just standing on one point, they hadn't exchanged up to ten moves before he turned the unsharp edge of the charm and used both ends to hit her chest with little force, she immediately flew back and dropped to the ground.

She immediately spat out thick coagulated blood, she held her chest and glared at him, his attack wasn't that fierce but he managed to injure her badly.

"Bring her here," he commanded two of his men who marched forward to bring Huo Lan out of the carriage but as soon as they neared the carriage, Su Ci grabbed their hands and conjured her flames, burning their hands immediately then she spun her hands around and landed them a fierce hit to the chest with her flames, causing them to die instantly since they weren't expecting the attack.

"Over my dead body will I let you take her," she declared, coming out from behind the carriage.

"You, you, you, get her," he ordered three other disciples, who went forward without hesitation.

Meng Hui and Feng Shui took actions this time but they were both injured badly so they couldn't do much, the men got to Su Ci, one of them was about to kill her.

"Don't you dare!" a bold female voice thundered, they turned back to see Huo Ying and Huo Mei descending their horses.

"ooh...," he remarked as both ladies walked over to the victim's side.

"You are...." Si Feng questioned (the only disciple of the blood moon sect leader).

"I am Huo Ying, the young mistress of the flame sect, how dare you try to take my sister," she thundered angrily.