"kill!"
The lead assassin grinned maliciously and gave the final order. He had no patience left to watch his prey's death throes.
Dozens of assassins in black, like a swarm of sharks attracted by the smell of blood, pounced on the lone figure in the center of the field from all directions, their killing intent deadly!
The clash of swords and the flash of blades instantly wove a deadly net, aiming to shred the emperor and the woman he protected into pieces!
However, they were not facing a sickly emperor whose internal organs were damaged.
Instead, it was a... a true dragon, utterly enraged and freed from all its shackles!
"court death!"
Xiao Che squeezed out two extremely cold words.
He moved.
His figure transformed into a black lightning bolt the instant the assassins surrounded him! Fast! Faster than the limits of human vision!
"Pfft!"
Blood splattered.
The two assassins at the forefront didn't even have time to react before a chilling sword light slashed their throats! Their sinister smiles froze, their bodies fell limply, and their eyes were filled with disbelief.
The battle erupted in an instant, in the bloodiest and most brutal way!
Entering a berserk state, Xiao Che's combat power soared to a terrifying level! He was no longer the monarch who needed to feign weakness; he unleashed the ruthlessness and brutality of an emperor that he had suppressed for many years!
His swordsmanship was devoid of any frills; every move, every stance, was the purest form of technique, designed solely for slaughter! Ruthless, precise, and deadly!
He completely abandoned defense and adopted a crazy playing style that risked injury to save his life!
An assassin's longsword slashed a deep, bone-revealing wound across his shoulder, while at the same moment, without hesitation, the longsword in his hand pierced the assassin's heart!
He let the blood soak his dragon robe, let the wounds on his body continue to increase. In his eyes, there was no pain, no fear, only that huge blood-red eye burning with the fire of revenge, and the woman in his arms who was being consumed by death!
He's going to kill them all!
He wanted to make everyone who dared to hurt her pay the heaviest price!
This frenzied slaughter did not last long. Just as Xiao Che had sustained several more wounds, and more than a dozen assassin corpses lay on the ground, the sound of rapid hoofbeats and the anxious roar of the Imperial Guard commander finally came from afar!
"Protect the Emperor! Protect the Emperor!"
The reinforcements have finally arrived!
The remaining assassins, sensing the danger, exchanged glances and prepared to retreat without hesitation. But Xiao Che, already bloodthirsty, would not allow them to do so.
Finally, the battle subsided under the encirclement of the Imperial Guards. Most of the assassins were killed on the spot, and a few, seeing no way to escape, did not hesitate to bite into the poison sacs between their teeth and commit suicide!
Not a single one survived!
The commander of the Imperial Guards was terrified when he saw the emperor, who was covered in blood and looked like a demon who had walked out of hell, and the empress lying on the ground, her life hanging in the balance. He immediately knelt down and said, "This humble general has arrived too late to save His Majesty and deserves to die!"
Xiao Che ignored him.
The moment the battle ended, the overwhelming killing intent emanating from him receded like a receding tide. He staggered, dropped the still-dripping longsword in his hand, rushed back to Lin Wanwan's side, and carefully pulled her back into his arms.
"Imperial Physician!" He roared hoarsely at the imperial physicians who rushed to the scene, holding the increasingly cold body in his arms. "Save her! Bring her back to life!"
...
The atmosphere was extremely tense on the way back to camp.
Despite his numerous wounds, Xiao Che personally carried the unconscious Lin Wanwan and rode his fastest horse all the way back to the camp.
Inside the makeshift imperial tent, which was already surrounded by layers of imperial guards, several accompanying imperial physicians sat around a soft couch, each with an extremely grim expression.
After carefully examining Lin Wanwan's wounds and testing for poison with silver needles, the head physician's face turned deathly pale. Trembling, he knelt before the blood-soaked Xiao Che, his voice filled with a desperate sob:
"Your Majesty... Her Majesty the Empress... she has been poisoned with the deadly poison 'instant death'!"
"What?!" Xiao Che's heart sank.
"This poison is extremely potent. The arrow must be removed immediately to draw blood, otherwise... otherwise the poison will attack her heart, and even a god couldn't save her!" The old imperial physician kowtowed and continued, "But... but the process of removing the arrow is extremely dangerous. If the poisoned blood flows too slowly, Her Majesty will surely die! But if it flows too quickly, Her Majesty... she might also die from excessive blood loss..."
"And what?!" Xiao Che grabbed his collar, his eyes bloodshot.
"Nine out of ten chances of survival!" the old physician cried out in a sorrowful voice, his eyes closed.
Xiao Che's body suddenly swayed.
He looked at the woman on the soft couch, her breath faint and her lips beginning to turn purple, and a sense of powerlessness even stronger than when he faced dozens of assassins completely overwhelmed him.
"Prepare to pull out the arrow!" He took a deep breath and used all his strength to keep his voice from trembling.
The imperial physicians immediately began preparations: knives, strong liquor, hemostatic powder...
Just as a royal physician was about to cut open the skin around Lin Wanwan's wound with a sharp knife to remove the arrow, Xiao Che suddenly spoke up and stopped him.
"etc."
Amidst the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Xiao Che, without hesitation, reached out his blood-stained hands and grasped the black dragon robe he wore, a symbol of supreme power, which was already soaked in blood.
"Your Majesty, you..."
"Rip—!"
A crisp sound of tearing cloth echoed through the silent camp!
Everyone was stunned by what they saw!
Their emperor actually tore off his most precious and supreme dragon robe with his own hands!
He tore off a large piece of the softest and cleanest brocade from the inside of his dragon robe, and ignoring the imperial physician's advice, he personally went to the bedside and pressed that soft brocade tightly, tightly, around Lin Wanwan's wound.
He was trying to alleviate even the slightest bit of her impending pain of having her flesh cut out and blood drained in this way.
His movements were clumsy yet filled with heartbreaking sincerity.
"Wanwan..."
The intense pain briefly brought Lin Wanwan back to consciousness from her deep coma. She slowly opened her heavy eyelids, and through her blurred vision, she could only see Xiao Che's face, so close to hers, filled with pain and anxiety.
She heard him whisper in her ear, in a hoarse voice heavy with the scent of blood, making a domineering and bloody vow:
"Wanwan, hang in there!"
"I swear, from this day forward, if anyone dares to lay a finger on you, I will... exterminate their entire family!"
That vow, like the hottest brand, was deeply etched into her fading consciousness.
Immediately afterwards, the excruciating pain of having the arrow pulled out, like the cruelest torture, swept over her entire body!
"ah!"
She let out a painful groan, and her consciousness faded into darkness once more.
In the last second before she completely lost consciousness, the last thing she saw was Xiao Che holding her hand tightly, his handsome face, which had never shown any vulnerability in front of outsiders, was now covered in tears.
Above his head, in that familiar area, there was now only a tiny, utterly humble figure kneeling on the ground, praying incessantly.
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This was the first time she had seen this high and mighty emperor so vulnerable.
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