Feng Jin turned around quickly, exchanged a glance with the man behind her, and leaped into the air without hesitation, disappearing into the forest in a few bounds.

Mu Beichen followed closely behind, and in the blink of an eye, he saw that Feng Jin was already several hundred meters away from him. As a beam of light flashed in his eyes, a dense forest completely covered the small, thin figure.

His heart tightened, and he suddenly had a bad feeling. He quickly quickened his pace and continued to chase after them.

"Stop right there!" Feng Jin ran swiftly through the forest, her snow-white robes fluttering in the breeze, making her appear as ethereal as a banished immortal. Her gaze was fixed on the man in black, and in an instant, she seized the perfect moment, suddenly slipping through a gap in the branches, her target now within reach.

The dense forest before them, shrouded in endless darkness, provided the man in black with an opportunity to escape. Just as Feng Jin was chasing after him, he struck out with his palm, and countless hidden weapons flew out from his palm and pierced into the man's body!

"..."

Feng Jin felt a sharp pain in her chest and collapsed to the ground. She felt as if something was rushing out of her body at an alarming rate. Gradually, her vision blurred, and she seemed to hear Mu Beichen calling her name. She felt her consciousness fading away...

With her last ounce of strength, she managed to say haltingly, "Don't worry about me... hurry... hurry and chase after them..."

After a slight pause, Mu Beichen immediately changed his mind and darted away, chasing after the man in black with lightning speed. He knew this was a rare opportunity, and if he let this little thief escape, Feng Jin might very well lose her life.

The sky changed quickly; in the blink of an eye, the rosy clouds had turned the riverbank in the forest a fiery red. Mu Beichen kept flicking his sleeves, spinning rapidly in the air, creating a dazzling screen of light. He then swung his sword horizontally, and a blinding blade struck the black-clad man's calf!

Mu Beichen stood upright beside the man in black. For a moment, he truly seemed like a dragon emperor descending to earth, incomparably noble. His voice was neither loud nor soft, yet it was chillingly cold.

"Give me the antidote!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in black suddenly made a "pfft" sound and spat out a mouthful of blood, which instantly splattered all over him!

Damn it, he actually bit his tongue and committed suicide! Mu Beichen felt a surge of annoyance. He angrily searched the man in black, but in the end, he only found a jade pendant with a lotus pattern.

When he carried Feng Jin back to the Jing Prince's Mansion, it was almost midnight. Everyone in the mansion, from servants to imperial physicians, was busy going in and out of Feiyu Courtyard.

Even now, Feng Jin remained motionless on the bed, her face pale and lifeless, looking as if she had died.

Mu Beichen stayed by the bedside, desperately holding her hand to his lips, afraid that she would abandon him if he wasn't careful. Heaven knows how scared he was at that moment.

Ever since this girl, like an elf, entered his life without warning when he was ten years old, he knew that she was the one who would accompany him through countless lifetimes.

I still remember that day when he was falsely accused of theft by Mu Qiye's mother, and then ordered his men to chase him all the way to the wilderness. Just when his life was hanging by a thread, a little girl riding a fast horse and holding a bow and arrow happened to pass by. Perhaps it was because she was just a child that others were careless.

She fired several arrows in succession, hitting each of the assassins directly, which gave him a chance to survive. It was at that time that he arrived in the North City and went to the General's Mansion with Yu Qianqian.

She named him Chu Mingxi. The two spent every day together. Later, he left, and he was gone for seven years. He almost lost half his life in a foreign land before she returned. Now he finally managed to marry her. If she died... what would he do?

"Your Highness...Young Master Cheng has arrived!"

Just as he was thinking this, a voice outside interrupted all his thoughts. When he looked up, he saw Hua Mancheng rushing in.

"Ah Chen, I heard..." Hua Mancheng saw Feng Jin on the bed and immediately covered his mouth to shut up.

"She was followed at the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion and later hit by an assassin's hidden weapon." Mu Beichen lowered his head, his expression unusually dejected, and his voice was so low that it was almost impossible to hear him clearly without putting your ear close to his.

Hua Mancheng then exclaimed in surprise, "Who has the audacity to spy on the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion?"

After she finished speaking, both of them fell silent, each lost in their own thoughts.

After a while, Mu Beichen suddenly came to his senses and quickly took out the jade pendant from the thief's body.

“Look, this was found on the assassin. I always felt it was unusual.”

“This jade pendant…” Hua Mancheng stared at the jade pendant in Mu Beichen’s palm, then hesitated to speak.

He thought of the Qianyuan Palace token that Feng Jin had described that day, and it seemed to be this same thing. His intuition told him that he could no longer keep it from Mu Beichen, otherwise, no one could solve this problem.

“Ah Chen…” Hua Mancheng composed himself, snatched the jade pendant, and said righteously, “To tell you the truth, the Princess Consort actually saw this thing in the Imperial Clan Court when she was a lady-in-waiting in the palace. This jade pendant comes from a secret and mysterious sect in the martial arts world called Qian Yuan Palace. I am currently investigating this matter on the Princess Consort’s orders.”

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