Chu Zhiyuan had already returned the broken blade to its sheath, his expression still somewhat unpleasant.
Zou Fang softly said, "Your Highness..."
"It's nothing," Chu Zhiyuan shook his head.
He went to the window, looking at the exit of the restaurant below, watching Li Hongzhao in her red dress, surrounded by people, merge into the bustling crowd.
Li Hongzhao suddenly stopped, as if sensing something, and turned her head.
Her gaze met Chu Zhiyuan's.
She curled her red lips, glared at him, turned around, and continued walking forward, quickly disappearing from Chu Zhiyuan's sight.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled.
No matter how many losses she suffered, she would never give in, always wanting to win back the next round.
She was becoming more courageous with each setback.
This was a bit troublesome.
Chu Zhiyuan touched his chin, pondering what trick to use to directly defeat her.
Should he dismantle the Linglong Bookstore?
She was already alert and might not be fatally wounded. Should he defeat her one more time?
That might not work either, as she had already accepted failure.
Repeatedly striking her through realms had made her accustomed to it.
He was still pondering when there was a muffled "bang."
Chu Zhiyuan focused his gaze.
A group of people were screaming as if some monster had run out and was wreaking havoc on the crowd.
Chu Zhiyuan frowned, releasing his extrasensory perception, covering a radius of one thousand meters.
One thousand meters.
With the advancement of the Glazed Blade Sutra, the range of his extrasensory perception was also expanding, unknowingly reaching...
He saw Li Hongzhao wielding her sword, her bodyguards surrounding and attacking two people.
Li Hongzhao was fiercely fighting an old man, while Su Qiuyan and a middle-aged man were slowly exchanging moves.
Above the middle-aged man's head was a giant toad, looking up at the sky, seemingly swallowing moonlight.
Su Qiuyan was fighting him to a standstill.
Li Hongzhao's long sword was blazing with purple flames, her power operating to the extreme, and a fire phoenix vaguely appeared in the sword shadows, a phoenix in flight.
Her opponent, the old man, had a small snake above his head, a golden snake. Chu Zhiyuan was thoughtful.
Li Hongzhao's cultivation was inferior to the old man's, but she could still fight him evenly because the Phoenix Swordplay was powerful.
Her mastery of the Phoenix Swordplay was indeed extremely deep, and its power was tyrannical.
But over time, it would ultimately fail, as her Phoenix Swordplay was not enough to make up for the gap in cultivation.
This was the fundamental difference between her and himself.
He had reached a point where his skill approached the Dao, and his martial arts could make up for the gap in cultivation, but she could not.
No matter how deep her mastery of the Phoenix Swordplay was, she had not been able to push it forward, beyond the scope of the Phoenix Swordplay itself.
In the end, she was only limited to the Phoenix Swordplay itself, and its power was not enough to cross the realm gap.
Not far away, the experts from the Town Guard Office had already pounced over, and after a few breaths, four grandmasters would rush to her, rescuing her.
Assassinating Li Hongzhao on the street was truly a genius idea. He really didn't know what to say.
If their cultivation was strong enough, that would be fine, no matter how crude the method, success was all that mattered.
But their cultivation was not strong enough, unable to form a crushing advantage.
If their cultivation could not crush their opponent, and they did not choose an ideal location, assassinating her hastily, their success depended entirely on luck.
He really didn't know what they were thinking.
Chu Zhiyuan shook his head repeatedly, while two phantoms flew out from his sleeves. The two phantoms instantly crossed hundreds of meters, ignoring the old man's sword light, and instantly pierced through his shoulders.
They stopped above the old man's head, two flying knives suspended in the air, overlooking the old man.
Li Hongzhao seized the opportunity to unleash her killing move.
The old man clutched his chest, his eyes wide with disbelief, staring fixedly at Li Hongzhao, then lowered his head to look at his chest.
Li Hongzhao's beautiful face was covered with a layer of frost, and she glared at him coldly.
She raised her head and glanced at the two flying knives suspended in mid-air, then looked at Su Qiuyan and the other guards.
Two of the Trampling Cloud Iron Cavalry had already fallen, and the remaining twelve were besieging the two middle-aged men.
Chu Zhiyuan's voice came from afar: "Need any help?"
"No need!"
Li Hongzhao gritted her teeth, ignoring the old man who was slowly falling to the ground, and charged into the Trampling Cloud Iron Cavalry, attacking the two middle-aged men.
At this time, the experts from the Town Guard Office had already arrived.
"Go!" The middle-aged man who was entangled with Su Qiuyan shouted, his figure flashed, and he pulled the two middle-aged men, shooting towards the distance.
"Pfft!"
A flying knife suddenly appeared in front of his brow.
He tilted his head to avoid it, but unexpectedly, the flying knife turned, made a turn, and suddenly accelerated, shooting into his brow.
"Ding..." His finger blocked his brow, and a ring on his finger sparked.
Chu Zhiyuan raised an eyebrow.
The grandmaster flashed again, and with the two middle-aged men, had already disappeared into the crowd. Although Chu Zhiyuan's flying knife was fast, it was already too late to chase. He shook his head regretfully.
Li Hongzhao stomped her feet, both anxious and angry. Su Qiuyan's expression changed slightly.
If this grandmaster didn't have a ring on his finger, if the ring wasn't so hard, he would have been hit by the knife.
This move would have shot into his brow, and even if it couldn't kill him, it would have been enough to injure him, thus giving himself a chance to attack.
Chu Zhiyuan's flying knives were already outrageous in legends, but reality was even more outrageous than the legends. Could he avoid this flying knife?
Very difficult!
It was fast enough, and it could also turn, making it impossible to defend against. More importantly, Chu Zhiyuan was not affected by the grandmaster's spiritual energy and could accurately hit the grandmaster.
This was the most terrifying thing.
The grandmaster's most core advantage, the fundamental power that crushed other realms, was ineffective against him.
With the arrival of the Town Guard Office experts, this abrupt assassination ended anticlimactically.
The two fallen Trampling Cloud Iron Cavalry, under Li Hongzhao's elixir, saved their lives. They were naturally grateful to Li Hongzhao, and their loyalty was even higher.
After Li Hongzhao settled them down, she turned and came to the Bright Moon Restaurant, but found that Chu Zhiyuan was no longer in the Bright Moon Restaurant.
So she came to Chu Zhiyuan's new residence next to the Bright Moon Restaurant. She knocked on the door, and Zou Fang stepped forward to open the door, respectfully inviting her in.
Li Hongzhao entered the courtyard, and under Zou Fang's guidance, came to the second courtyard. Chu Zhiyuan was lying in a recliner, leisurely basking in the sun.
Seeing her appear, Chu Zhiyuan pointed to a recliner next to him.
Li Hongzhao snorted, lay down in the chair, her graceful body undulating with curves. She immediately felt at peace. The previously boiling emotions suddenly sank to the bottom of her feet, no longer impetuous.
Chu Zhiyuan said, "Who are these assassins?"
"The Swallowing Heaven Sect!" Li Hongzhao said hatefully: "I didn't expect them to actually follow us here."
Chu Zhiyuan pondered: "The Swallowing Heaven Sect..."
He was thinking about the information about the Swallowing Heaven Sect in his mind, which he had seen in both the Surveillance Division and the Tongtian Pavilion.
After a moment, he suddenly nodded: "It should have originated from the same source as the Jade Cauldron Sect."
The Jade Cauldron Sect devoured essence and blood to improve their cultivation, and this Swallowing Heaven Sect was similar.
They were both lawless, especially fond of devouring the essence and blood of royal disciples.
The Jade Cauldron Sect was like this, and the Swallowing Heaven Sect was the same.
If such sects were not so powerful, they would have been wiped out by the imperial court long ago.
The fact that they have survived until now shows how strong the power behind them is, even the Son of Heaven's sword cannot do anything about it.
"Why assassinate now, not earlier or later? What's the reason?"
"They probably just arrived."
"Did these people from the Swallowing Heaven Sect know that Mr. Su wasn't here and took advantage of the opportunity?"
"Hehe..." Chu Zhiyuan smiled.
Li Hongzhao glared at him.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled and said: "The number one spy in Da Meng was also defeated by spies. Don't you think it's interesting?"
"Maybe it was a coincidence," Li Hongzhao said.
Chu Zhiyuan smiled again.
