Transmigration: I, the Dragon Overlord, start by protecting my beautiful bride!

Jiang Beichuan nodded, then immediately turned and headed towards Huayi Mansion.

Long Aotian watched the sunset over the street, a vague sense of unease creeping into his heart.

Zi Yu looked at him and asked, "My lord, what should we do now? Should we continue searching?"

Long Aotian shook his head and replied, "If she doesn't want us to find her, we won't find her even if we turn the entire city of Jing upside down."

"That……"

"Just wait."

As Long Aotian said this, he turned around and led them back to the inn.

Inside the royal city, Yu Longjing easily killed two lone guards. The fully armed imperial guards were like lambs in front of him, powerless to fight back.

After changing into their clothes, Yu Longjing, accompanied by Leng Yuhuan, went to the city gate, injured several guards, and then hurriedly fled the city.

Leng Yuhuan took a mouthful of hot soup from a crudely made porcelain bowl, then slammed it to the ground and cursed, "They deserve to die! I have never been treated like this before! I will kill them!"

They were in an ordinary family home in Jingcheng. The three members of the family had all had their necks snapped by Yu Longjing. He was dragging their corpses to the woodshed and handing the male head of the household's clothes to Leng Yuhuan.

"What are you doing?" Leng Yuhuan glanced at the tattered, poor-looking clothes that Yu Longjing had handed her and said disdainfully, "You want me to wear these lowly people's clothes?"

"Your Majesty, the most important thing right now is to escape from here. If we can't even save our own lives, how can we take revenge?" Yu Longjing knelt on one knee, still expressionless.

Although Leng Yuhuan was disgusted, the imperial guards' armor on them was too conspicuous. If they went out in the street wearing it, they would probably be arrested and taken back in less than two hours. So in the end, he changed into these clothes.

Knowing that the checks at the city gates would become very strict, Yu Longjing did not act rashly. Instead, he left Leng Yuhuan at home while he personally contacted the spies remaining in Jingcheng.

Although with Zhao Zhaoyi's help, the spy network in Jingcheng has been almost completely wiped out, there are still top-level "Beast Mark" spies who have not been captured.

As the king of the Shang Dynasty, Leng Yuhuan was naturally able to mobilize the "Beast Seal" spies.

Tamaki Kyo secretly went to a liquor store and, under the guise of buying liquor, showed off his token.

The wine shop owner's expression changed immediately upon seeing his token; he was quite surprised.

"Please wait a moment, sir, the wine will be here shortly."

"Ah."

Tamaki Kyo nodded, put away the token, and, led by the waiter, went up to a private room on the second floor.

After waiting for about half an hour, a figure wearing a cloak hurried over.

"Your subject, the head of the spy network, Tu Hunfan, pays respects to the head of the Yu family." The man knelt on one knee, clasped his hands in a fist salute, and answered very respectfully.

"Arrange a carriage for us that can leave the city," Yu Longjing said directly, without wasting any more words.

"No problem, I'll take care of it." Tu Hunfan nodded and said, "But I'd like to ask Lord Yu, is His Majesty the one who came to the Celestial Empire as a peace negotiation delegation this time?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Longjing frowned and said, "This is not something you should be asking. Understand your own identity."

Tu Hunfan suddenly laughed and said, "I've always been very clear about my identity!" As he spoke, he suddenly looked up and launched an attack!

A sharp blade flew out from under the cloak, heading straight for Tamaki Kyo's throat!

Yu Longjing reacted extremely quickly, using his toes to hook the tabletop and spill all the wine and meat in front of him. Unexpectedly, his opponent was no ordinary person either, and directly unleashed a sword aura, cleaving the mahogany square table and the valuable wine pot in two!

Seeing this, Tamaki Kyō picked up the chair he was sitting on with one hand and threw it at the other person. The chair was so fast that the other person didn't have time to react and was knocked over by the heavy weight of the chair.

Since the other party had already made the first move, he didn't want to ask for a reason anymore. He treated him as an enemy and drew his long sword to kill him!

"Truly a genius that the Yu family sees only once in a century. It's a pity. If you had died back then, there wouldn't be such obstacles now..."

The other person lay on the ground, looking at Tamaki Kyo, and suddenly said these words.

Yu Longjing was taken aback at first, and the knife in his hand slowed down. He was about to ask him how he knew about this when, in an instant, countless arrows shot out from outside the room!

Arrows came from all directions, leaving no blind spots in the entire room. He had no choice but to forcefully activate his inner strength and stomp out with a powerful kick. The force of his inner strength shook the entire tavern, and the arrows were knocked down.

In that instant of vulnerability, the slain Tu Hunban, who had just been lying on the ground, stood up and plunged his sword into Tamaki Kyo's chest!

"Hahahaha, Lord Yu, what a pity! You shouldn't have chosen to oppose the Imperial Advisor!" The other party laughed loudly, "And you even risked it by following that fool deep into the Celestial Empire!"

Tamaki Kyo frowned, grabbed the man's wrist with one hand, and with such force, he managed to pull the knife, which had already penetrated three inches into his chest, out little by little.

At the same time, he raised his other hand, his eyes turning fierce.

"Don't worry about me, keep firing!"

Tu Hunfan sensed something was wrong, so he quickly shouted towards the assassin outside the room.

The next moment, his head flew into the air, and his gaze fell in a 360-degree spin.

Just as his head was about to fall, a dense rain of arrows struck again.

Tamaki Kyo was incredibly fast; he leaped out of the window to escape, but even with his immediate reaction, the arrows still pierced his shoulder and thigh.

However, the reason these methods could harm him was entirely due to the poison used by Shi Yiguang by Long Aotian. This poison could seal the meridians of martial arts practitioners, and it was more effective for those with stronger internal energy.

Otherwise, with just a dozen or so people, killing them would be as easy as stomping his foot...

"Quick, don't let him get away!"

"Seize him! He's a spy for the Shang Dynasty!"

In order to capture Yulongjing, this group of Shang Dynasty spies did not hesitate to use a method equivalent to self-destruction.

The people on the street heard and saw this. Many of them had witnessed Xia Dong's death, so they were already very hostile to the Shang Dynasty. Upon hearing this, they all grabbed their weapons and chased after Yu Longjing!

Yu Longjing never imagined that he, the dignified head of the Yu family and the number one person in the Yu family for a hundred years, would one day be chased and beaten by these ordinary people...

Fortunately, although his internal energy was sealed, he still maintained the level of a fifth-grade martial artist, making it easy for him to shake off the pursuers of a few civilians.

After escaping to a street corner, Tamaki Kyō leaned against the cold corner of the wall and slowly moved closer.

He pulled out the arrow from his body and used his internal energy to stop the bleeding.

In a daze, his thoughts quickly returned to an autumn more than ten years ago.

At that time, he was not yet the head of the Yu family, and he never thought that he would become the head of the Yu family one day, simply because he was born out of wedlock.

He was the child of his father and a female slave from the Celestial Empire. His status was lowly and contemptible. After their affair was exposed, his mother was tied to a horse and dragged to death in the street by the Yu family to prove their loyalty...

If he hadn't quickly revealed his martial arts talent, he probably would never have had a chance to rise to prominence in his life...

That autumn, he entered the Yu family because of his martial arts talent, and tried to use the power of the jade stardust to reach the peak of martial arts that the Yu family had not been able to reach in the past hundred years.

On that very day, an assassin sneaked into his courtyard.

Yu Longjing knew who he was because he had killed two people in succession within the Shang Dynasty, causing the Shang Dynasty's ministers to live in constant fear and anxiety under the shadow of death.

He didn't know how the assassin did it, because the Yu family's defenses were practically impenetrable; even a stray dog ​​or cat trying to break into the Yu family would be killed instantly.

But he succeeded, and pressed a sharp dagger against his throat...

But he wasn't scared. The guy was puzzled, saying he'd seen many people who claimed they weren't afraid of death, but once a knife was at their throats, they'd show their true colors.

But Yu Longjing didn't. He just looked at the guy, who asked him why he wasn't afraid. Yu Longjing replied that he wanted to know if he could really see his mother in the underworld after he died.

He's willing to give it a try if he can.

The strange guy didn't kill him in the end, for some unknown reason. In the end, the two of them unexpectedly became like friends, sitting by the lake and chatting for an entire afternoon until night fell...

Yu Longjing was very happy because, as an illegitimate child, almost no one in the mansion respected him. But that guy was different; he not only treated him as a friend but also told him many interesting stories…

Later, when he left, he brought Yu Longjing a string of candied hawthorns that he had wanted to eat for a long time. Yu Longjing asked him if they would meet again, and he said, "The world is vast, we will meet again if fate allows."

The bleak autumn wind blew again, and Yu Longjing had fallen asleep against the corner of the wall at some point. When he woke up again, there was a figure standing in front of him.

"woke up?"

"who are you?"

"Who I am is not important, what's important is that you have to lead me to your master."

Her injuries had been bandaged, and Yu Longjing looked at the lone woman in white before her with some confusion.

"I don't understand what you're saying." He tried to get up and leave, but the woman in white stopped him. "You don't know me, but I know you. I've been watching you ever since the wine shop. Now, take me to him, and you'll have a chance to live."

"if not?"

Tamaki Kyō took a step forward. He sensed that the woman in front of him had no internal energy, so he was not afraid.

Shi Yiguang took a step back, clenched her fists, slightly bent her arm, and threatened, "If you still want to try the poison powder I concocted, then you're welcome to give it a shot!"