Chapter 134 Stealing Wind-Scorching Grass (Part 2)

"Who are you?!"

Yan Chuo grabbed Yun Chen and roared like a huge bell, booming against her eardrums.

Yun Chen felt as if her wrist was clamped by a pair of pliers, and Yan Chuo's blazing anger oppressed her so much that her entire back felt numb.

She pulled out the dagger from her boots as quickly as possible and stabbed it towards Yan Chuo's eyes. Sure enough, he stepped back and let go of her hand.

She tried to escape, but just after taking three steps, she was immediately blocked by eight secret guards.

Yan Chuo stared in disbelief, his expression turning from pale to red, and he said angrily:

"How dare you deceive me like this! Capture me!!"

Following Yan Chuo's order, the secret guards immediately drew their swords and rushed towards Yun Chen.

Yun Chen hurriedly used his knife to resist, but it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot, and was vulnerable.

According to one of the plans she had rehearsed in her mind, she attacked one of the secret guards with all her might, and would not retreat even if she was stabbed twice, until she snatched the secret guard's sword and got a weapon that was suitable for fighting.

She was panting as she confronted eight secret guards.

The knife wound on his back was bleeding, and it was conspicuous and clear against his white clothes.

Even though he already knew that Yun Chen was an imposter who came to steal the Wind-burning Grass, Yan Chuo still felt dazed when he saw the glaring white clothes and blood. The past came flooding back to him, and all the pain that had been suppressed in his heart for many years burst out all at once.

"Don't... don't... don't kill..." He was choking with sobs and couldn't finish his words. Suddenly, his body shook violently and he vomited a mouthful of black blood.

The two secret guards immediately rushed forward to support Yan Chuo.

The other secret guards were also surprised that they had never seen the emperor act like this, but they still obeyed the order obediently, holding the knife in their backhands and rushing towards Yun Chen with the back of the knife.

As a result, Yun Chen had no scruples at all and immediately flew up to fight, attacking without defending, using all his strength to break through.

The secret guards are all top masters, but Yun Chen is Jiang Ming's apprentice, and is the direct disciple of the former top master around the Emperor of Nan Kingdom. His martial arts skills are not inferior to those of the secret guards.

Even when fighting one against six, she could barely draw.

In addition, the opponent did not dare to kill him and only chopped him with the back of the knife. Yun Chen didn't care and attacked him fiercely.

Since she couldn't bring the sword into the palace, she was a little clumsy with the knife, but still as fierce as ever.

Yan Chuo was stunned at first as he looked at the swift and smooth moves, then he frowned and shouted:

"I see—Did Jiang Ming ask you to kill me?!"

"No, no! I'm just borrowing the Wind-Burning Grass! The kind you wouldn't return!" Yun Chen replied while fighting with his hands. At the same time, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart:

Master, Master, how many enemies do you have?

Other masters leave their disciples with martial arts secrets, but you, on the other hand, leave me with a sea of ​​blood and hatred. Wherever you go, you have enemies, and each of them is a powerful monarch.

Why don't you let grudges be passed down through your family? Can you let it end with your previous generation?

Not daring to fight, Yun Chen rushed out of the hall and ran along the planned escape route.

At this time, Yan Chuo had completely sobered up from the hallucinogenic drugs, and the palace guards also rushed over after hearing the noise in the bedroom.

Yan Chuo glanced at the empty dragon head mechanism of the Wind Burning Grass, pointing at Yun Chen's fleeing back and said angrily:

"Kill! Kill them for me! Take back the Wind-Scorching Grass!"

Following Yan Chuo's order, the palace guards immediately rushed forward, and the archers also rushed over and lined up ready to fire.

A guard whispered, his voice filled with uncontrollable excitement:

"After all these years as a guard, this is my first time encountering a masked assassin. I'm actually a little excited!"

Another guard also said happily, "Let's go and get the first kill! At the very least, we can chop off one of the assassin's arms! That would be a credit too!"

Yun Chen was completely unaware that he had become a fish on the chopping board, and he just tried his best to chop and resist.

Countless black guards surrounded her like a tide, which was completely different from the number of patrols she had seen when she entered the palace before.

There are suddenly more than three times as many guards tonight as usual.

She couldn't see the way forward at all. She felt that the world was full of cold blades and her eyes were filled with bloody murderous intent.

She was like a tiny mayfly trapped in the boundless ocean, unable to escape no matter how hard she struggled.

Like a bird in a cage, a beast in a trap, she panicked and had no idea where to go, unable to find her planned escape route.

She didn't know how many times she was stabbed, but she didn't feel any pain at all.

After finally finding a gap in the encirclement, she narrowly avoided a knife attack, rolled on the ground, nimbly slipped out from under several guards, climbed up the nearest palace wall, and jumped onto the roof of the palace.

Several bloody footprints were left on the palace wall. She was dressed in white and flew and jumped between the numerous palace roofs, which made her very conspicuous in the dark night.

The archers hardly needed to aim too much, they could just raise their hands and shoot an arrow.

An arrow pierced Yun Chen's shoulder, and she staggered and fell to the roof of the hall, but immediately turned over and got up and continued to flee.

Then the back, side waist, thighs...

Sharp arrows whizzed into her flesh, causing her to fall again and again.

She covered her chest with the thin half of the wind-burned grass and silently repeated his name over and over in her heart.

"A-Nian...A-Nian..."

I've never been so scared.

But thinking of those handsome and gentle phoenix eyes, she felt more determined than ever.

Suddenly, an arrow accurately shot at her calf, causing her to fall to her knees and about to fall off the roof of the hall.

Immediately afterwards, three more arrows flew towards her, one aimed at her abdomen, one at her chest, and another at her face scarf.

In a panic, she only had time to swing her sword to block two of the attacks, and an arrow hit her chest, causing her to fall off the roof of the hall.

When the guards arrived, there was no one on the ground, only a large pool of blood.

Yun Chen hurriedly hid in a dark, unlit side hall, hid in a corner, and suppressed his heavy breathing.

There were too many wounds on her body, and she had no time to cover any of them. Seeing blood flowing down her arms in a line, she could only panic and use her hands to catch it.

When she heard the guards outside starting to search the hall one by one, she knew she could no longer stay in this side hall.

She carefully stretched out two blood-stained fingers and lifted the collar of her shirt.

Seeing that the arrow shot at her chest did not hit the Fengshao Grass and damage the grass, she felt much more at ease. She gently wrapped it up with a piece of letter paper, which contained the prescription written by Yanlang in advance.

Then she gritted her teeth and pulled out several arrows from her body.

But she couldn't pull the arrow out of her chest, as if the arrowhead was stuck in her sternum. She tried several times, but in the end she could only bear the pain and break the arrow.

After doing all this, she leaned against the pillar in exhaustion, waves of cold sweat and dizziness washed over her, making her eyelids so heavy that she couldn't open them...

Just take a break... Just a moment...

Blood quickly gathered into a pool under her body. Her face was pale, her eyes were closed, and she was in a semi-comatose state.

The sounds of the guards searching outside the palace were getting closer and closer. She began to feel anxious to escape, but she couldn't move her limbs.

She forced herself to open her eyes with the last bit of willpower, and met a pair of tender and gentle phoenix eyes.

"A Nian..."

She saw Huo Gannian blinking, smiling gently, and said to her:

"Since leaving Yancheng, I have been secretly protecting you all the way to the outside of Guangyulanzhou. Tonight, this palace is too difficult to enter."

Hearing him say this, she felt extremely aggrieved. She wanted to speak, but no sound came out.

"Eat this and you'll be able to hold on for a while longer. I'll distract the guards, you run away."

A familiar smell of green tangerine melted on her tongue. It was the Huo Gang's secret medicine for saving lives and healing injuries, a taste she had tasted countless times.

Soon, she felt more conscious and her vision gradually became clearer.

The face of "Huo Gannian" slowly disappeared, and a strange face replaced it and appeared before his eyes.

The stranger in the night uniform of the Dark Guard said:

"It's been almost a year, Brother Yun. I can't enter Guangyulanzhou, and it took me a lot of effort to get into this palace. I can't protect you from now on."

"Who are you?" Yun Chen asked puzzledly.

The strange secret guard smiled:

"Brother Yun, you don't know me, but I am familiar with you. Of all the guards in the Huo Gang, I admire your ability the most. You are even more powerful than the first place in the Feixian Mansion Exam."

Then, the strange secret guard looked stern, revealing determination and perseverance, and flew out of the side hall.

Yun Chen immediately heard the guards shouting "The assassin is here", followed by a large group of footsteps walking away.

Silence returned outside the side hall.

Yun Chen felt that her limbs had regained some strength. She used her knife to support herself on the ground and slowly got up again.

She didn't have time to think about who this strange secret guard was and why he appeared here.

She only knew that she had to escape now.

Following the previously planned route, she ran to the most remote and deserted corner of the palace.

Almost all the guards went to catch the assassin, and only a few guards were on duty and patrolling in various places.

She covered her chest, staggered and hid all the way, and finally stopped in front of the palace wall not far from the corner gate.

All the palace gates were guarded by guards, so she could only climb over the wall to leave the palace.

But the walls of the imperial palace were so high that they reached into the night clouds, and even birds would trip over them when passing by, let alone Yun Chen.

She picked up the guard's knife and scraped a few shallow holes on the palace wall for her to step on.

But the palace wall was too high. She could only climb to one-third of the wall at best by stepping on a few shallow pits that were half the size of a palm.

She took off her shoes and socks, tore off a few strips of blood-stained cloth from her body, and wrapped them around her feet, muttering to herself:

"Fortunately, I originally planned to soak the cloth strips with urine, but now I don't have to pee everywhere..."

Looking at the towering palace walls, she estimated the route to climb using light skills, and began to feel a sharp pain in her calf, which was pierced by the arrow.

If she were unharmed today, she would still have the confidence to scale the palace wall with her lightness skills.

But at this time...

She took a deep breath, but halfway through, she felt unbearable pain in her chest.

She stepped back and leaned forward, ready to sprint.

At this time, several patrolling guards discovered her and immediately shouted, "There is an assassin here too!" and rushed towards her quickly.

Only this one chance! One time!

She rushed out suddenly, jumped onto the palace wall with all her might, stepped on a few shallow pits and climbed up like a swallow. Then she kicked the wall with her feet, and used the friction between the wet cloth and the wall to barely get up.

Yun Chen was overjoyed when she climbed to the top of the palace wall. However, before she could stand firmly, she felt a black shadow flash before her eyes and a heaviness in her abdomen. She was kicked down hard by a foot that stretched out from the darkness.

She never expected that when she was about to escape, someone would hide here and attack her.

She looked at the dark guard in black clothes and black face in astonishment, and saw only a pair of tangled and complicated eyes.

She fell straight down the palace wall, rolling seven or eight times before stopping, and the knife fell far away.

Two guards rushed up and grabbed her, and more guards were running towards them.

She was so dizzy from the fall that she saw stars and felt despair in her heart, but she still secretly took out the small dagger that she had brought into the palace from her sleeve.

Holding the dagger that was smaller than her palm, she bit the arm of a guard, and while the guard was screaming in pain, she quickly swung the dagger and killed the neck of another guard.

She broke free from the two men's grip, hurriedly covered her face with the handkerchief that was about to fall, and ran away again.

Without time to prepare herself, she rushed towards the palace wall again, using all her lightness skills to climb up the wall!

Before my eyes was the cold vermilion palace wall.

Yu Guangzhong was surrounded by the countless hats of the guards.

She was covered in blood and used all her strength to climb and jump up.

But I didn't have enough strength and my injuries were too severe.

When she was only one step away from the top of the palace wall, her breath loosened and she was about to fall.

At the critical moment, she stabbed the dagger into the palace wall.

Although the palace wall was extremely hard and solid, and the dagger only penetrated the tip of the blade, it was enough for her to regulate her breathing, concentrate her mind, and leap with all her strength.

In the blink of an eye, it passed over the top of the palace wall and disappeared without a trace.