Ultimate Path to Heaven

Chapter 47 How did this woman catch up with us?

The previous battle was too fierce, and all the armored guards and their horses were covered in blood. The corpses of the martial arts practitioners were also scattered everywhere, and the entire street was filled with a rusty, bloody stench.

The carriage carrying the Eighth Prince was parked alone in the middle of the street. The nanmu wood carriage was covered with marks from swords and chisels, but the curtains were only torn open by a small tear.

Through the curtains, a blurry figure could be vaguely seen sitting inside, motionless from beginning to end, like a puppet.

The three Huo brothers exchanged glances, gripping their still-dripping weapons tightly, and slowly approached the carriage...

The three brothers came to kill the tyrannical prince. Now that all their guards were dead and their target was within reach, they hesitated and moved slowly, as if they were worried about something.

Just then, two gray figures landed silently from the eaves on either side of the roof, like ghosts.

Ninth rank?

After reviewing the numerical comparisons, the system found that while these two were not as good as Wang Suiyue and Ye Bufan, they were not much weaker.

"As expected, they had a backup plan!" Xiao Jin frowned. "But what was their intention?"

Xiao Jin thought that these two should have appeared immediately. "Could it be that they wanted to kill more righteous people in the martial world? But what about the guards..." It's like injuring a thousand enemies while losing eight hundred of your own. Xiao Jin couldn't quite understand it.

Then look at the two people who landed.

The slender ninth-rank figure on the left flicked his finger almost the instant he landed... a wisp of extremely thin silver light flashed by...

Huo's eldest brother's momentum didn't stop, but the killing intent in his eyes froze instantly, turning into endless astonishment and confusion. He then fell heavily to the ground. There were no visible injuries on his body, but his heartbeat suddenly stopped.

Before the other two Huo brothers could react, the ninth-rank cultivator on the right moved with illogical speed, covering several meters in a single step...

One of the Huo brothers reacted extremely quickly, twirling his sword to protect himself, the blade flashing like lightning. But the ninth-rank official neither dodged nor evaded, his hand piercing straight into the Huo brothers' chilling blade light as if piercing through rotten wood.

With a crisp clang, the steel longsword snapped in two, but the force of the hand remained undiminished, pressing against the chests of the Huo brothers. There was no sound of bones breaking, but their chests strangely caved in.

The last member of the Huo family, his eyes bloodshot, charged at the ninth-rank official with a near-hysterical roar, brandishing his sword, but he was struck in the chest by that palm in a single move...

Through the crack in the carriage curtain, eyes stared straight ahead, radiating a chilling menace: "Looks like there won't be any more!"

Before the three Huo brothers died, the two burly men jumped down from Zuixianlou and attacked the carriage from different directions at the same time.

Just as Jiu Pin turned around to attack the two, the curtain in Xiao Jin's vision suddenly shattered!

Amidst the flying sawdust, a figure in black, like a dragon emerging from its slumber, suddenly burst through the carriage wall...

Almost simultaneously, the burly man lunged through the air, his blade only three feet from the carriage. His eyes, which had been burning with murderous intent, suddenly froze!

The figure in black was still in mid-air when his right fist slammed out like a meteor—no fancy moves, no retreat, just the purest burst of power... Wherever the fist passed, the air seemed to explode as if it were being compressed!

boom--!

The punch, delivered after the initial strike, landed squarely on the burly man's chest, instantly shattering his ferocious expression and turning it into one of horror and pain.

The next second, the burly man's massive body, as if struck by a battering ram, was sent flying backward at an even faster speed than when he arrived, crashing through a street flagpole and finally coming to a stop only after smashing down a distant stall...

Then, the figure in black landed gracefully, slowly retracting his fist, with a faint aura of killing intent emanating from between his fingers!

At this moment, Xiao Jin suddenly stood up, his eyes fixed on the figure in black, his brows furrowed, a hint of shock in his expression...

"this......"

The figure in black was none other than the Eighth Prince, and he bore a striking resemblance to Chu Xiong from his previous life. Apart from his pale complexion, which seemed to be covered by a layer of frost, his facial features were almost identical...

That punch that sent a ninth-rank cultivator flying was terrifying beyond anything the system could detect... and even Xiao Jin himself admitted he was inferior to it...

With this information, Xiao Jin immediately confirmed that this eighth prince was indeed "Chu Xiong," and that he, like himself, possessed system enhancements, and seemed to be stronger than him...

Almost at the same time that Xiao Jin got up, the woman sitting at the next table got up and seemed even more excited than Xiao Jin, as if she wanted to jump out of the window.

This woman appeared to be around the same age as Xiao Jin, with a more robust figure in stark contrast to Lin Miao, but she possessed a delicate face, oval-shaped and radiant like the moon. Her eyebrows were like distant mountains shrouded in mist, and her eyes were like autumn waters rippling across the surface.

"Young Master, you must not act rashly!" Ye Bufan said urgently the moment Xiao Jin stood up. After receiving a nod of response from Xiao Jin, he quickly moved to the next table, causing Xiao Jin to instinctively look over.

"Wait, young lady!" "Princess, no!"

As Ye Bufan spoke up to stop her, the female attendants also cried out in unison.

The woman was indeed silenced, but her eyes remained fixed on the ground below. Tears welled in her eyes as she bit her lower lip, her fists clenched so tightly her body trembled… she was forcefully controlling her emotions, which were on the verge of spiraling out of control…

"Although we do not know what Princess Bei Mu's purpose is in coming to Huizhou, we must not act rashly now!" Ye Bufan advised again as he approached.

Princess Bei Mu?

Xiao Jin had thought that Ye Bufan knew this woman, but he never expected that she was a princess. However, he had no recollection of the name Bei Mu.

Princess Bei Mu didn't look at Ye Bufan approaching; instead, she gazed out the window, her excitement growing... Another ninth-rank burly man was also injured, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, both of them would likely meet their demise...

"It's my fault...it's my fault that you all got hurt..."

As she muttered to herself, Princess Bei Mu clenched her fists even tighter, about to jump again... Ye Bufan and her two female attendants tried to dissuade her once more, but it was Xiao Jin's voice that came through.

"Let her go, maybe a tragic death will allow her to be reborn into a better family!" Xiao Jin mocked as he walked to the next table.

Upon hearing this, Princess Bei Mu unconsciously looked towards Xiao Jin...

"What are you looking at! I didn't mean to persuade you. If you don't go now, you won't be able to have a tragic ending after those two die!" Although Xiao Jin didn't know why Ye Bufan wanted to stop this Princess Bei Mu, he knew that Ye Bufan must have a reason for doing so.

"You..." Princess Bei Mu glared at Xiao Jin, her expression hard to describe.

"What do you mean, 'you'?! If you're not out of your mind, get out of here right now!" Without looking at Princess Bei Mu anymore, Xiao Jin gestured for Ye Bufan to leave immediately.

Right now, on the third floor, long ago when the two ninth-rank officials jumped down from the window, only Xiao Jin and Princess Bei Mu's table remained.

If it weren't for these two ninth-rank officials jumping out of the window, it wouldn't have been a problem to stand aside and watch the excitement. But things were completely different after they jumped.

"The situation is hopeless. I hope Princess Bei Mu will act with caution!" After bowing to Princess Bei Mu, Ye Bufan gestured for Xiao Jin and the others to leave through the window.

At this moment, the two ninth-rank officials were already dead. Princess Bei Mu was overwhelmed with grief. After a moment's hesitation, she finally chased after Xiao Jin and his group through the window where they had left.

"Um? 』

Following Ye Bufan along the rooftop, Xiao Jin sensed someone chasing him and couldn't help but turn around to look. "How did this woman catch up?"