Jiang Bai pulled the twelve black-clad guards aside and arranged them in a circle. They seemed to have resigned themselves to their fate and did not struggle at all.
Of course, struggling was useless; his hands, feet, and jaw were all dislocated, so he couldn't struggle at all.
Jiang Bai, who cannot kill, is exceptionally skilled at dislocating joints.
After completing these actions, she looked at Mingyu.
Ming Yu, who was sitting cross-legged to heal his injuries, slowly opened his eyes. He recalled Jiang Bai's words that exposed his identity and weighed how to escape.
But when his gaze swept over the captured guards in black robes beside him, he hesitated again.
Having finally encountered the Black-Clad Guards, are we just going to give up like this?
"Hey, you still haven't explained why they can't take off their masks."
Jiang Bai interrupted his thoughts by speaking up, curiously tugging at the mask on the face of one of the black-clad guards, but not removing it.
“The Mangshan Mountains are filled with miasma. The masks on their faces have the effect of protecting them from the poison. If they take off their masks, they will surely lose their lives.”
The guards in black nodded vigorously, "Yes, that's exactly it."
Jiang Bai looked somewhat speechless, and tightened his grip on the mask.
"Do I look like an idiot to you?" Can't you even tell that's blatant nonsense?
Mingyu's face stiffened for a moment, realizing he couldn't fool her.
But who knows if you don't try?
He remained silent for a while before cupping his hands and asking, "May I ask your name, young lady?"
Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow, thinking that Ji Yanwen must have told the person in front of her about her identity. A wicked thought suddenly rose in her mind, and she said, "My name is Jiang Bai."
"So it was Jiang... Jiang Bai?"
Ming Yu's voice rose slightly at the end, and he suddenly lowered his raised hand, looking at Jiang Bai with surprise and uncertainty.
"That's right, it's me. It seems that Your Highness has heard of my name."
Jiang Bai smiled as she looked at him, her gaze lingering on his pale face.
He silently wondered how much longer he could hold on.
Ming Yu swayed precariously, looking at Jiang Bai before him, and forced a smile: "Miss Jiang is joking. There is no Third Prince here."
With the Black-Clad Guards right in front of him, Ming Yu naturally wouldn't admit it.
But since the woman in front of him was Jiang Bai, it was not appropriate to talk about the Black-Clad Guards.
After all, she was a descendant of the Yu family, and the Black-Clad Guards had that kind of relationship with the Yu family.
His mind raced as he tried to figure out how to smooth things over.
"If you don't tell me, I might just pick it!"
Jiang Bai grabbed the mask of a certain black-clad guard with such force that it seemed he could tear it to shreds in the next second. The guard's eyes followed the mask, and cold sweat seeped out beneath it.
The other guards in black robes watched this scene nervously, unsure whether to hope the man would reveal the reason or not.
Seeing that she wasn't joking, and that even a small crack had started to appear on her mask, Mingyu felt a tightness in his chest and his head spin.
The internal injury flared up.
They put up a stubborn resistance.
Jiang Bai narrowed his eyes slightly.
Sizzle...
"no."
Mingyu exclaimed in surprise.
Compared to the lives of the Black-Clad Guards, if we can't have them, so be it!
“They are the Black-Clad Guards. Only their master can see their faces. Anyone whose face is seen by anyone other than their master must commit suicide immediately.”
Jiang Bai's hand suddenly stopped, and he turned to look at the mask.
Good, it's only broken a little bit, you can only see a little bit of fair skin, it won't die for now.
Releasing the black-clad guard whose body was already somewhat weak, Jiang Bai leaned closer to Ming Yu.
Let's discuss this in detail.
Ming Yu took a deep breath and, seeing that she had no intention of removing the black-clad guards' masks, began to speak.
"The Xuan Yi Guards were originally Princess Xuyang's personal guards. A full-strength Xuan Yi Guard consists of three thousand men, but each one is a carefully selected expert. In addition, each one possesses a skill that can make them successful in the world, such as medicine, poisons, mechanisms, or hidden weapons..."
"In short, each of them is an invaluable talent."
"But this group has an unwritten rule: if anyone other than the owner sees their face, they must commit suicide."
Jiang Bai's eyes lit up, then dimmed again.
"What kind of ridiculous rule is this? Are they ashamed to show their faces?"
Mingyu shook his head.
"That's what I saw in the records, but I don't know the specifics."
"In short, we must never remove their masks."
This team is full of talented people, and he guessed that the purpose of doing so was for the safety of the Xuanyi Guards, so that they could hide their identities.
Apart from their master, no one knows their true identities. In other words, even teammates on the same team are unaware of each other's true identities.
"The Princess Xuyang you mentioned..."
She had never heard of it.
"She was the elder sister of the founding emperor of the Ji family."
Jiang Bai raised an eyebrow.
That's it?
Mingyu remained silent.
Jiang Bai felt that there was something crucial he hadn't said. Suddenly remembering something, he walked up to the group of black-clad guards and picked up the swords beside them.
Turning the sword to the top of the hilt, sure enough, there was a tiny character '虞' engraved on it.
What is the relationship between the Black-Clad Guards and the Yu family?
When Jiang Bai went to look at the weapons, Ming Yu knew something was wrong. Sure enough, she still asked about the Yu family.
With her, a true descendant of the Yu family, present, it will be difficult for him to obtain the Black-Clad Guards.
I just don't know if she'd be willing to help him?
With his thoughts racing, he explained, "The eldest princess's husband's family is surnamed Yu."
I understand.
These black-clad guards might actually be part of the dowry of some princess.
But there are still some inexplicable reasons. Why are the characters "Yu" branded on these weapons, and not "Ji" or "Xuyang"?
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