Ultimate Path to Heaven

Chapter 46 Is there retribution for cause and effect?

"Huh?" Upon hearing the sudden shout, Xiao Jin was startled at first, then secretly pleased, and once again looked out the window.

About fifty meters northwest of Zuixianlou on the main street, where the Eighth Prince's convoy was located, several figures suddenly appeared out of nowhere... The original silence was torn apart in an instant!

With a loud shout, more than ten martial arts practitioners pounced down from the restaurants on both sides like eagles swooping down on rabbits.

Their clothes were tattered, but their eyes burned with a resolute fire. Swords flashed and clashed in the air, forming a net that aimed directly at the magnificent carriage.

"Protect the Emperor!"

The commander of the armored guards reacted with lightning speed, drawing his sword with a clang. The cavalry instantly tightened their formation, protecting the carriage in the center... and a chaotic battle ensued!

The burly man with the thick beard wielded his broadsword with tremendous force, forcing the armored guard and his horse back several steps with a single horizontal strike. Sparks flew from the armor where the blade passed, and the warhorse reared up in alarm.

The woman wielding twin swords behind Han moved swiftly, seizing the opportunity to strike the armored guard closest to the carriage with agile swordplay...

Suddenly, a whoosh of arrow whistled through the air!

puff!

Just as the carriage approached, this arrow, seemingly from the sky, struck the woman squarely in the back of the heart, protruding an inch from her chest.

"Second Sister!~——"

Upon witnessing this scene, the burly man, overcome with grief, turned and embraced the fallen woman... Meanwhile, the battle continued fiercely elsewhere!

The woman managed a weak smile in Han's arms. Her blood-stained lips gradually lifted, and her clear eyes showed no reluctance, as if signaling to the man... to breathe his last!

Watching the woman leave, the burly man, understanding her meaning, let out a long howl to the sky: "Father! Mother! Your son will take my sister to find you..."

Everything happened in the blink of an eye. The moment the big man put the girl down on the ground, he stood up and an arrow shot into his chest, but fortunately it did not hit his heart.

He snapped the arrow shaft in his chest, letting the blood soak through his clothes. The burly man with the bushy beard fixed his gaze on the carriage, let out a low growl like a wild beast, and took a step forward as if he were walking on fire!

He dodged two arrows with a swift movement, but was pierced in the waist by a spear. However, the burly man used the momentum to his advantage, disregarding life and death, and suddenly stomped the ground, launching himself and his blade into one, directly attacking the still-hanging bright yellow crepe...

『......』

Xiao Jin could overlook everything from the window without getting up, taking in the woman and the burly man with the bushy beard. He was moved and his blood boiled instantly, but reason kept him clear-headed and he finally controlled his emotions.

At the highest point of the roof opposite the window, there were at least a dozen archers in tight-fitting clothes, and there must have been similar archers on the roof on the side where Xiao Jin was.

With this flute in hand, it seems that Xiao Jin had made prior preparations?

Subconsciously glancing at Ye Bufan, and receiving a warning not to act rashly, Xiao Jin had no choice but to suppress his emotions and look down again...

Whoosh!

The burly man's sword whistled, causing the carriage curtain to flutter slightly. One could vaguely see the person inside still sitting upright, as if the man's sword strike was nothing to him and the fighting outside had nothing to do with him.

Pfft! Pfft! — Pfft! ~~

Two arrows pierced the burly man's back, and a spear pierced his abdomen from the side, while the man's sword merely touched the carriage curtain...

"This..." Xiao Jin had a "system review" - this big man was at least a seventh-rank official, yet he couldn't even lift the carriage curtain. Only his blood, after his death, splattered unwillingly onto the carriage.

They went elsewhere.

As the cavalrymen thrust forward in formation with their lances, a small, thin figure slid into the lance ranks like a ghost, her chain spear coiling like a venomous snake around the cavalryman's neck—her eyes were bloodshot, her move a desperate gamble!

As the slender figure dragged the cavalryman off his horse, creating chaos, two long spears pierced through him.

The three men following closely behind seized this opportunity to leap into the chaotic cavalry formation, creating a gap in the enemy lines in a split second, disregarding their own lives...

Even so, there were only about a dozen of these martial arts practitioners, and some of them were running out of manpower.

Damn it!

Just as Xiao Jin was lamenting, figures flew out from the shops on both sides!

"Tian Qi from Jinzhou has come to meet his death!"

"Li Huang of Changzhou has come to face his death!"

"..."

"..."

"The three Huo brothers have come to their deaths!"

Although there were no civilians left watching in the street, the tragic sound seemed to resound throughout the entire city and deeply resonated in the hearts of many... as if that day had been dimmed!

The three brothers of the Huo family?

Xiao Jin remembered that Ye Bufan had mentioned it in the small town. He never expected that these so-called three heroes who seemed to be robbing the rich to help the poor would appear here.

"Could it be for the massacre of the village...? Is there karma to be reaped?"

For some inexplicable reason, Xiao Jin had this thought, and he couldn't quite describe the feeling in his heart...

At this moment, the two men at the next table stood up. Ye Bufan seemed to want to stop them, but before he could act, the two men jumped down from the window!

Lin Miao, who had gotten up and come to the window at some point, kept stamping her feet along with the mournful sound and kept glancing at Xiao Jin...

Qin Hao stood beside Lin Miao, putting his arm around her shoulder and patting her gently to comfort her. His eyes seemed to already know what had happened, and he was much calmer than others.

Li Mian, who possessed a certain sense of justice, had heard the tragic sound, but he never looked out the window. His mouth, which was chewing meat, gradually hardened, and his wine glass remained suspended in his hand, tears welling up in his eyes as his hand trembled.

It wasn't that he didn't want to, but rather that he dared not look... Given his personality, he would probably veer away before the two men even glanced at him...

Regardless of others' feelings, after the two men jumped down from the window, Ye Bufan kept staring at the woman at the next table, fearing that she might also jump down from the window.

Looking back at the battlefield...

With the arrival of righteous warriors who were willing to die one after another, the entire battle situation was instantly reversed, and in a short time, more than ten armored guards fell in pools of blood.

Something's not right...

Looking at the battle situation that those righteous heroes of the martial world had turned around with their deaths, Xiao Jin felt inexplicably that something was not quite right.

The carriage where the Eighth Prince was located remained completely still from beginning to end, as if no matter how many righteous heroes there were, no matter how much they were willing to die... I, the Eighth Prince, am right here in this carriage, waiting for you to come and kill me!

"Could it be that the person inside this carriage isn't the Eighth Prince at all?" As Xiao Jin pondered this, the battle situation evolved once again.

The entire guard team had less than ten people left. Although these people were all around the seventh rank, the righteous heroes of the Jianghu were by no means weak, especially the three brothers of the Huo family, who were all at the eighth rank.

The long street had become a battlefield, with blood trickling down the cracks in the bluestone slabs and the wind carrying a chilling, deathly aura.

In the blink of an eye, only six armored guards remained, and the archers had also been dealt with. On the side of the righteous warriors, besides the three Huo family heroes, there were also the two burly men at the next table. If no reinforcements arrived, it seemed the Eighth Prince would not escape death today!

Xiao Jin frowned as he observed the battle, finally turning to Ye Bufan and asking, "Is the Eighth Prince truly inside that carriage?"

After withdrawing his gaze from the woman, Ye Bufan shook his head at Xiao Jin: "Regardless of whether the Eighth Prince is inside that carriage, none of these people will escape unscathed."

"As expected!" Xiao Jin had already felt that something was not quite right, and now that Ye Bufan said this, he was even more certain of his guess.