The man didn't reply. After releasing his pressure, he revealed a pair of iron fists under his black robe and charged straight at Mu Qingcheng.

Mu Qingcheng felt the air around her being compressed, and she was unable to move her body. She could only watch helplessly as the fist was about to land on her.

Fortunately, Xie Wei's men arrived in time and blocked the punch for Mu Qingcheng.

“Miss Mu, please leave quickly, leave this to us,” said the person who made the move.

Mu Qingcheng, still recovering from the punch, took a deep breath and decisively said, "Okay, I'll leave things here to you."

Mu Qingcheng wasn't stupid. With her strength, staying here would only make things worse. It was better to escape as soon as possible and find someone to help her. Luckily, she was wearing flat shoes today. She turned around and used her spiritual power to leave in the opposite direction.

A man in black robes wanted to give chase, but four more people came down from the sky. They nodded to the person who had just blocked the attack for Mu Qingcheng. All five were assassins sent by Xie Wei, and each of them was at the mid-stage of the Innate Realm.

The man in black robes, seeing so many people, said impatiently in English, "Four more innate little insects have arrived. This is truly unpleasant."

Immediately, the four men in black robes unleashed their auras, and three of them had already reached the late stage of the Innate Realm, while the one standing at the very back had reached the peak of the Innate Realm.

Even so, the five members of the Xie family did not back down and launched an attack on the four men in black robes. Their mission was to ensure Mu Qingcheng's safety, even if it meant sacrificing their own lives.

"Charge!" The five men spread out and took up positions in different directions, swords in hand, and began to attack the four men in the middle one by one.

“These insects are really interesting,” said the person next to the black-robed man at the peak of the Innate Realm in English.

The man revealed steel claws that could extend and retract freely under his skin, hidden beneath his black robe, and charged forward.

The other person watched the battle unfold with little interest.

The fight lasted less than half an incense stick's time. The five members of the Xie family barely gained the upper hand. Just as two of them seized the opportunity to slash at the man with the iron fist, they were pierced through twice by a mechanical scorpion tail.

The one who retracted the scorpion's tail was the one with the peak of the Innate Realm, who said impatiently, "Stop playing around, the prey is going to get away."

No sooner had he finished speaking than the steel claw pierced the body of one of the Xie family members. The one who had lost interest then launched an attack, swiftly taking the lives of the remaining two.

The two eventually saw the image showing a pair of steel blades stuck in each other's calves and then collapsed to the ground.

(Struggle inevitably involves death; this is necessary for the plot and a normal phenomenon. The issue of the fight scenes being poorly written is another matter; the author did their best.)