the night before

How quickly can a month pass?

During this time, Jiang Yingyue and the others rushed to Hangzhou without stopping. Along the way, they did nothing but sleep and fetch water. Even when she was finally about to fall asleep, she was thinking about how to deal with those troublesome ambassadors.

Meanwhile, Bai Yu thought about the arrangements almost every day. Whenever he had free time, he would spend the whole day in the main hall with Ye Xiuzhu. Bai Yu was determined to capture all three of them in one fell swoop, and Jiuxiao would also be his.

Both sides are poised for action, waiting to return to Hangzhou for a real battle.

The day before Jiang Yingyue and her group arrived in Hangzhou, their camp was surrounded by a strange bell sound. Ye Qingzhu was the first to become alert because she had seen the girl with the bell before. Could it be that Bai Yu was already planning to start a war before they even returned to Hangzhou?

All three women gripped their weapons tightly without getting up, waiting for the man to take another step closer so they could subdue him.

A moment later, a short figure appeared between the three. In the bright night sky, it was impossible to see who it was. She was still shaking a bell in her hand: "Don't be so nervous. You can try to see if you can still move now."

Ye Qingzhu immediately wanted to launch an attack, but it was as if she was bound by something and her body could not move at all. Jiang Yingyue and Ji Yinglei were the same. It seemed that the bell was the culprit, which was comparable to Fang Lingfeng's evil magic.

"Who are you? What do you want?" Jiang Yingyue's voice came from the other side, indicating that she still retained the ability to speak with the three of them.

“I am Bell Envoy, one of the Five Protectors of the Heavenly Dao Alliance. As for the second question…” The bell in her hand paused for a moment, “If I had come here to kill you, no one would be able to speak now.”

This statement seemed to indicate that he meant no harm, but Ji Yinglei quickly replied, "If you're not after our lives, then you must be after something else."

The bell envoy chuckled lightly: "Miss Ji is indeed exceptionally intelligent. I want you to win."

"You're going to betray Bai Yu?!" Ye Qingzhu said incredulously. "No way! You've all benefited a lot from following him. Don't tell me you suddenly had a change of heart."

“Of course I didn’t have a change of heart.” The Bell Envoy raised his head and looked at the night sky. “The Heavenly Alliance has five protectors: Shield, Healer, Bell, Qin, and Edge; Bai Yu is so suspicious that even his five protectors restrain each other.”

"Restraint?" Jiang Yingyue immediately perked up her ears.

The Bell Bearer spoke slowly and deliberately: "In your opinion, who among us is the strongest? I guess you would choose the Shield Bearer, but although his black iron shield is impervious to blades and spears, my bell can easily defeat him; if you think I am the strongest... one of the Music Bearers is born deaf, so my bell is useless against him; as for the Music Bearers, the weapons of the two brothers are easy to expose their positions, while the Edge Bearer relies on his ears; as for the Edge Bearer, no matter how exquisite his swordsmanship is, he cannot harm a hair on the Shield Bearer's head."

Everyone listened attentively to the Bell Envoy's words, and Jiang Yingyue silently memorized all the envoys' weaknesses. "What about the healer?" Ji Yinglei suddenly asked, and this question was exactly what the Bell Envoy wanted to know.

"The physician knows many unorthodox medical techniques. To put it simply, even if you cut off your own arm right now, he could put it back on for you. However... his martial arts skills are practically nonexistent." At this point, the Bell Envoy couldn't help but chuckle. "So any one of us could kill him."

"You took the opportunity just now to tell us all our weaknesses. Do you really want us to win?" Jiang Yingyue roughly understood what she wanted to do. "If we really kill Bai Yu, who will sit in his position? You?"

The bell envoy laughed even more boldly: "If he can do it, why can't I?"

Ji Yinglei hated the tone of the bell envoy. Her current actions were exactly the same as when she found Bai Yu and conspired with him to massacre the clan. However, there was one thing she was right about: since Bai Yu was going to die anyway, why not bring the Heavenly Dao Alliance under her control as well?