On the lamp-lighting platform, the fifth prince, Zhu Dan, pushed aside the panicked palace servants and flew over to protect the old emperor.

Because the old emperor was going to the Lighting Platform, apart from the few dozen imperial guards led by Xiao Song, no one else was allowed to carry weapons.

Faced with the arrows flying towards them, Zhu Dan chopped them down with his bare hands, but gradually found it difficult to protect himself.

"Protect the Emperor!" Zhu Dan shouted.

Xiao Song and his imperial guards were surrounded by the crowd at the lamplighting platform and could not get over. They watched as the Fifth Prince and the old emperor were about to be burned to death on the lamplighting platform.

"Where did these archers come from?! Where did these archers come from in this place?! Are the people of Jingzhao Prefecture all good for nothing?!" the old emperor shouted, his throat dry as if it had been roasted by a raging fire.

Zhu Dan said urgently, "Father, let's retreat first!"

This is not the time to assign blame.

More than ten concubines and maids, as well as seven or eight eunuchs, died on the lamp-lighting platform.

At this moment, Qi Shaocheng led dozens of black-clad soldiers out of the crowd's encirclement, climbed onto the lamp-lighting platform, and headed against the flow of the old emperor and Zhu Dan.

He tossed the sword in his hand to Zhu Dan: "Fifth Prince, catch!"

Zhu Dan caught the sword and swiftly slashed down the arrow that was shot at him again.

Qi Shaocheng rushed over quickly, and the old emperor seemed to see a beam of light flying towards him.

Lu Xiaoyun had already rushed up to the lamp-lighting platform when Zhu Dan saw his fourth brother return.

The fourth brother's gaze was full of hidden meaning, and he trembled. The fourth brother gave him a strange feeling today.

But the situation was urgent, and he didn't have time to think about anything else.

Taking the sword handed to him by Qi Shaocheng, Lu Xiaoyun and Zhu Dan, along with the armored soldiers brought by Qi Shaocheng, formed a human wall to protect the old emperor.

The situation immediately improved, and the human wall fought and retreated, quickly running down to the foot of the Zhaiyue Tower.

Arrows rained down on them from all directions.

Clearly, the person who fired the arrows from the shadows used extremely powerful crossbow bolts, and it must have been the kind that fired several bolts at once.

Suddenly, a sharp arrow flew towards them with a whooshing sound, aimed directly at Zhu Dan's throat.

At this moment, arrows were being fired at them indiscriminately.

Lu Xiaoyun's pupils suddenly contracted!

Almost without thinking, Lu Xiaoyun pushed Zhu Dan away.

The arrow failed to pierce Zhu Dan's throat, but it pierced Lu Xiaoyun's right arm.

She was in so much pain that she broke out in a cold sweat. This arrow was different from the one that had pierced her left arm when she was shot by bandits in Xizi Forest last time.

The first arrow didn't injure her bones, but this one was different; blood gushed out violently, staining a large area of ​​her right sleeve red in moments.

"Your Highness!" Qi Shaocheng was also startled.

Lu Xiaoyun gritted her teeth, snapped the long arrow in two, leaving only a small piece in her arm, and trembled slightly from the pain: "Take Father and retreat quickly!"

Zhu Dan looked at Lu Xiaoyun with a pale face.

The strange feeling his fourth brother gave him surged back into his heart, and he suddenly felt an emptiness in his heart.

The old emperor gave "Zhu Yu" a deep look, and then quickly ran down to the foot of Zhaiyue Tower with Zhu Dan and Qi Shaocheng.

Beneath the lampstand, a dense crowd of terrified people lay trapped, unable to unleash their full power. Xiao Song and his imperial guards were pinned down.

Seeing that something terrible was about to happen, Xiao Song raised his sword high and shouted, "Charge out! Protect the emperor! Kill anyone who blocks the way!"

He brandished his sword, slicing through the crowd of people blocking his way, the splattering blood instantly clearing the minds of the throng.

The crowd automatically parted around them.

Xiao Song was finally able to lead his men to rush in the direction from which the arrows had been shot.

At this time, Zhu Heng also happened to find Xiao Song and the others, and went with them.

After firing their final volley of arrows, the twenty-odd men in black retreated in unison, threw their crossbows off the roof, quickly stripped off their black clothes, and plunged into the panicked, scattering crowd.

It turns out that these black-clad archers were all carrying crossbows capable of firing five arrows at once, which explains their immense power.

When Xiao Song arrived, he only saw a jumble of arrows and a few black pieces of clothing burned to ashes by the raging fire.

The lampstand was engulfed in flames. With a loud crash, the load-bearing beams finally gave way, and the entire lampstand crashed to the ground.

The deafening roar seemed to split the heavens and earth apart, and huge sparks exploded, falling to the ground and then flying up again, landing on the fleeing people.

Those people instantly became burning figures, screaming shrilly as they ran and darted about, causing the surrounding fire to grow even larger.

The imperial guards, including Xiao Song, who arrived at the scene, killed them one by one with a single stroke, thus preventing the fire from spreading to other areas.

The fire has already spread towards Liaohuju.

It seems the assassin has either been captured or escaped; at this point, they need to return to their residence immediately.

So Lu Yuyan and Qi Yu escorted Zhu Yu and Li Feng, who were women without martial arts skills, down from the second floor. They looked up and saw Feng Yan and the others about to go up to meet them.

Upon seeing Feng Yan and the others, Zhu Yu shouted angrily, "Why aren't you protecting the Prince!"

Feng Yan bowed to Zhu Yu: "My master ordered us to protect the princess. Princess, you're very angry. Please come back to the Prince An's residence with us immediately."

Zhu Yu was so angry that his teeth ached. What kind of time was this? Lu Xiaoyun was still only concerned about his safety and not her own.

He said, "Immediately, go protect the prince!"

“Your Highness! It’s too chaotic here. You and Mr. Lu have no martial arts skills. If anything happens, we will be guilty of a thousand deaths.”

Zhu Yu ordered: "Leave three people behind to protect me and Ayan back to the Prince's Mansion with Qi Yu. You, Xi Yi, and Wu Chuan will take the rest of the men to protect the Prince."

Feng Yan was also extremely anxious, but he could not disobey his master's orders.

"Go now!" Zhu Yu's face was ashen.

Feng Yan was startled. The princess's appearance was truly frightening, giving him the illusion of being scolded by his own master.

Qi Yu then said, "Commander Feng, listen to Miss."

Feng Yan gave Qi Yu a deep look; this girl was indeed decisive.

The villains who fired the arrows were either captured or had retreated, but since no more arrows were flying, Feng Yan knew there was no danger. He immediately left Xi Yi, Wu Chuan, and Jiang Chuan behind to escort Zhu Yu and Lu Yuyan back to the Prince An's residence.

He then led the rest of the guards towards the collapsed lampstand.

Just as he was leaving, he suddenly heard Qi Yu shout behind him, "Commander Feng, be careful."

Feng Yan rushed out without looking back.

Here, the Moon-Picking Tower was also engulfed in flames.

A huge beam was seen crashing down on Lu Xiaoyun and the others who had already run down below.

Lu Xiaoyun, with a strength she didn't know she possessed, ignored her bleeding right arm from the arrow wound and pushed Zhu Dan and the old emperor aside. The next moment, she was hit in the leg by a falling beam.

She suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood, her vision went black, and she collapsed.

"Your Highness!"

"master!"

As soon as Feng Yan and the others rushed over, they saw the beam smashing into "Prince An's" leg, causing him to bleed profusely.

Qi Shaocheng, Feng Yan, and the others turned deathly pale with fright.