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Chapter 554

"Help! Help! I'm about to fall!..."

The Anlin Grand Canal was created by digging a section of the original Qishui River. It is wide and deep. If someone falls into the canal without being a very strong swimmer, even if there are other boats nearby, they may not be able to rescue them in time.

At this most chaotic moment, one of the imperial guards protecting Huo Tingsheng suddenly turned around and thrust his sword at Huo Tingsheng!

The other imperial guards were more or less distracted by their surroundings, either trying to figure out how to get Huo Tingsheng off the imperial ship or trying to prevent him from being accidentally injured in the chaos. None of them expected that their comrade would so suddenly turn on Huo Tingsheng and try to kill him!

The imperial guards turned around to save the emperor, but they were caught off guard. The tip of the sword was already right in front of Huo Tingsheng's face!

In that instant, a figure suddenly pounced and tackled Huo Tingsheng to the side!

Huo Tingsheng crashed heavily onto the deck, taking a considerable fall, but he escaped being stabbed through.

He turned his head and saw that the person who had saved him was none other than "Huo Jinghuai".

The sword tip slashed diagonally across Huo Jinghuai's shoulder and neck, creating a gash from which blood gushed. A little deeper and his throat would have been slit.

The other guards immediately surrounded the imperial guard who had attempted the assassination. The latter, having missed his first attack, did not linger and quickly dodged several men, leaping backward and landing lightly at the top of the mast.

"The Talisman Master's Feast!"

A master of the imperial guards recognized the movement technique and instinctively shouted it out.

Everyone was taken aback.

"How come he actually accepted the mission to assassinate the emperor?"

Huo Tingsheng gritted his teeth and roared, "Fu Shiyan! Have you gone mad? You dare to take on any mission? Who hired you? I'll give you ten times the reward, and you'd better cancel this mission immediately!"

He had dealt with Naihe and Fu Shiyan quite a bit, and knew that if Fu Shiyan really wanted to assassinate him, he was fully capable of doing so. Even as the emperor, he had no desire to be on Naihe's mission list.

Fu Shiyan did not answer, but simply fell from the mast and disappeared into the river, so lightly that it did not stir up a single ripple.

By this time, more than half of the imperial ship had sunk into the river. The air and water were pressing against each other, making a chilling creaking sound. The river water rushed in quickly, filling the space inside the ship and creating a huge whirlpool on the surface. It pulled the entire ship down at an even faster speed, and it looked like it was about to sink completely.

"Protect the emperor! Protect the emperor!"

The guards and the imperial guards on the ship searched the surrounding area for planks and pillars to help them float on the water.

With the small boat gone, they couldn't take Huo Tingsheng away from the imperial ship immediately. They could only try their best to ensure that Huo Tingsheng wouldn't be swept to the bottom of the water when the ship sank, and that other ships could still rescue them.

Having already saved the emperor, Mo Zhonggui no longer cared about Huo Tingsheng and turned to rush towards Shen Lingjun.

Shen Lingjun was gripping the railing at one end of the deck tightly, trying to keep herself from falling.

She can swim, and she's a very good swimmer, so dealing with this kind of shipwreck shouldn't be a problem. But "Cheng Wu" can't swim at all, so she has to pretend to be very scared to avoid being seen through.

Mo Zhonggui lunged at her, reaching out to grab her: "Grab me!"

Shen Lingjun also reached out her hand to him, but in that instant, the railing she was holding suddenly broke!

Mo Chonggui pulled at nothing, and Shen Lingjun fell from the bow of the boat into the swirling river below!