At the same time, siege arrows were coming from all directions.
Yu Nanqing frowned, a cold light flashing in his hand. In a flash, he dodged the arrows and arrived in front of a black-clad assassin. There was a "thud" as the sword pierced flesh.
The longsword in his hand had already pierced through the assassin's neck.
Blood stained his sleeves, but Yu Nanqing seemed to feel nothing at all. With each swift stroke of his blade, the assassins who came close were either decapitated or cleaved in two.
And piercing their necks was the most dignified way for them to die.
The eldest princess watched this scene from the bushes, feeling both resentful and afraid.
She stared in fear, afraid to look away, lest Yu Nanqing appear before her in the blink of an eye.
Using the torch held by the man in black, she stared intently at Yu Nanqing's legs.
Even after seeing it with her own eyes, she still couldn't believe it.
Impossible, this is impossible!
Does Your Majesty know that his leg has recovered?
Where is my royal brother?
Could it be...?
In this way, there would be a perfectly legitimate reason to kill him!
To murder the monarch and usurp the throne, even if Yu Nanqing were to die a hundred times over!
She clenched her fist in her sleeve. He must die!
He must die!
But... seeing the black-clad assassins fall one by one while Yu Nanqing remained unharmed, the princess couldn't help but feel terrified. That ghostly figure lingered in her mind for a long time.
A bunch of useless trash!
She can't even kill a mere Yu Nanqing, so what's the point of keeping these people around!
"Bang—"
In the midst of the fierce battle, a loud noise suddenly came from afar.
Yu Nanqing felt a slight tightness in her chest. She used her longsword to slash the assassin in front of her, and couldn't help but look up and frown.
The sound came from Lin Ya's direction.
Wanyan...
In that brief pause, siege arrows were already piercing the air again.
Yu Nanqing calmly dodged the attack with a composed expression.
To deal with him, siege crossbows have already been transported over, and assassins are being sent in droves...
Yu Nanqing spoke in a deep voice: "Someone come here."
The guards, who were fighting the assassins, quickly stepped forward and asked, "Your Highness?"
"Move forward the plan and burn this place down."
The guard was taken aback: "But if that's the case..."
In that case, we won't be able to deliver a fatal blow to Emperor Yuanhe!
The original plan was to engage these assassins until Emperor Yuanhe's army arrived, and they brought enough to blast the entire army into chaos!
“It’s alright.” Yu Nanqing suddenly looked at the bushes, a twisted smile in his eyes: “I have another way.”
The princess, who was hiding in the grass, shuddered and fell to the ground with a thud.
Just now... was Yu Nanqing... looking at her?
"Yes!" the guard immediately accepted the order.
He then leaped up and, while moving, slashed open the sack on his back.
Suddenly, a cloud of red powder drifted in the wind.
Upon seeing this, the guards of the Prince's mansion immediately stopped fighting and used their lightness skills to cut open the sacks on their backs as they moved.
The dust scattered from these burlap sacks ranged from gray to white to yellow, but in the blink of an eye, it seemed as if the entire forest was being enveloped in dust.
The assassin in black had absolutely no idea what they were up to.
"What's this?"
"Be careful, it's poisonous!" Some people had already covered their mouths and noses.
The black-clad assassin, frowning, tried to pick up the dust floating in the air with his bare hands. He caught a whiff of something—this was… dye?
And... sawdust?
Just as I identified those two smells, a sulfurous smell mixed with rust followed.
As more and more sacks were cut open, and the guards of Prince Gong's Mansion kept moving and manipulating the area, the dust accumulated in the forest and lingered for a long time. As the dust became thicker and thicker, until you could barely see your hand in front of your face, a sense of unease rose in the heart of the leading assassin.
He couldn't help but order, "Withdraw..."
"Bang—"
A loud bang.
Centered on an assassin's torch, dust exploded directly in the forest!
Then came a fierce explosion. With screams of agony, none of the assassins who had gathered here to fight Yu Nanqing survived. Some were blown away, some were burned, and they were caught off guard!
"Ah—" Among those who were not spared was the eldest princess, Yu Tingyi, who was hiding in the bushes.
The powerful heat wave blasted her away, and the flames, carrying extremely high temperatures, enveloped her. Yet, seemingly because of the blast, she landed without a single spark.
However, even though it was just a light lick from the flames, the princess's face and hands swelled up instantly, clearly indicating that she had been burned.
A gentle breeze swept by, and the fire quickly spread through the forest.
Beneath the sea of fire, a figure glowing red darted about, screaming in agony.
Even though she was thrown back, the princess did not faint. She struggled to lift her head and stared at the scene in disbelief.
what happened?
This inexplicable explosion reminded her of the time she assassinated Yu Nanqing in the capital, which also involved a similarly loud bang.
The musician who came to report said that he didn't know how the explosion happened.
She clenched her fists despite the excruciating pain; it was Yu Nanqing who had done this!
"My elder sister seems rather unconvinced." Suddenly, a chilling laugh came from above.
The princess felt a sharp tremor in her heart.
Trembling, he looked up and saw Yu Nanqing standing before him, his face like that of a demon, yet beneath which lay a wildly arrogant killing intent.
At this moment, the princess's hair was singed and her face was burned. She lay on the ground, her clothes disheveled, and she was no longer the noble woman she once was.
"Yu... Yu Nanqing!" As if knowing she was doomed, the princess's eyes suddenly flashed with boundless hatred: "You've ruined me like this! Even as a ghost, I won't let you go! Even in the underworld, I will haunt you every day! I will curse you to a terrible death, to be torn apart from your wife and children! I will make you tormented by vengeful spirits every day! Just you wait, Yu Nanqing! This is your retribution for killing me!"
Yu Nanqing's lips, which had been smiling, suddenly darkened.
With a clang, the longsword in her hand pierced her wrist without warning.
"Aaaaah—" The excruciating pain caused the princess to let out a shrill wail: "Yu Nanqing! You will die a horrible death! You will die a horrible death!"
She tried to alleviate her pain by screaming!
Yu Nanqing ignored her, pulled out his longsword, and a spurt of blood gushed out as he mercilessly pierced her other wrist, as if to nail her hand to the ground.
"Ahhh—" The princess trembled all over in pain. This time, she no longer had the strength to curse Yu Nanqing.
In fact, no matter how much the eldest princess cursed Yu Nanqing, Yu Nanqing didn't care.
only……
He was concerned about the words "wife and children separated".
He and Su Wanyan are now husband and wife, and he doesn't like to hear about these things.
Yu Nanqing slowly squatted down, his expression cold and indifferent: "Wanyan said that you killed a nanny in front of her."
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