After deceiving the villain, I was forced to love him.

A disdainful sneer rang out, "Your Majesty is truly composed in the face of danger."

"..." Lu Jian raised his hand to stop Lin Yuchuan from saying anything, and listened carefully to the sounds coming from the surroundings.

Aside from the earlier mockery, all that remained was the sound of everyone breathing.

Quiet, too quiet.

It was so quiet it was eerily quiet.

But Lu Jian had a feeling that it was safer to stay where he was.

But looking at the "corpse" on the ground...

Lu Jian nodded to Baili Ming, but still resolutely led the Imperial Guards toward the altar!

"The rest of you, follow me!" Understanding Lu Jian's intention, Baili Ming immediately retreated towards the exit.

As the sounds of clashing armor and footsteps dissipated in two different directions, a series of rustling sounds echoed from every corner of the Fengdu Garden...

Moments later, crackling sounds and screams echoed throughout and around Fengdu Garden.

However, among the "corpses" that no one noticed on the ground, several of them got up.

This includes the Lin family head, who just mentioned that all other exits were blocked, and the Tang family head, who is quick to curse at the slightest provocation.

"Is everyone okay?"

"fine"

"fine"

"Alright, let's proceed according to plan now."

"I'll go over there."

"Then I'll go this way."

......

"Whoosh!" A huge morning vine instantly rose from the ground, blocking Lu Jian's path.

"What the hell is this?!" Two of the Imperial Guards, who had never seen anything like it before, were immediately paralyzed with fear.

As a result, one of the brothers next to him went over and slapped him several times, saying, "Even His Majesty isn't afraid! What are you afraid of!"

"..." Who said he wasn't afraid!

But now is not the time to worry about this.

Especially when faced with such unknown terror, Lu Jian had no choice but to take the lead, displaying unparalleled bravery, wildly slashing with his sword, "Swish swish swish..."

The soldiers behind him were instantly roused by him, shouting, "Charge! Protect His Majesty!"

"Come on!"

"kill!"

"Kill these monsters!"

After a flurry of chopping, the crisscrossing "dense net" was scattered all over the ground in no time.

Some of them looked like earthworms chopped in two, writhing and twitching incessantly, covered in mud...

"quick!"

"Follow up quickly!"

Ignoring the goosebumps rising all over his body, Lu Jian quickly led the Imperial Guards towards the exit behind the altar, taking a shortcut to intercept and kill Wang Qingyan's steward...

Bai Liming also encountered a large number of morning-blooming vines.

The difference was that hers consisted mainly of long, sharp vines, and they moved extremely fast, dragging away more than a dozen people in no time.

"These vines are alive!"

"Young Miss! What do we do?!"

"Don't panic, keep the formation intact!"

"what!"

"help me!"

"Aaaaaah...it...they're eating people!"

"Monsters! They're all monsters!"

"..."

In an instant, panic surged through the ranks.

The guards, who weren't originally this impulsive, seemed to be bewitched, and no matter how Baili Ming tried to dissuade them, they still hurriedly broke away from the group...

"puff!"

"Bah!"

Soon, two more people were killed, and Baili Ming's team became increasingly scattered.

"Whoosh!" The person to her left was dragged away.

Baili Ming instinctively tried to chase after it, but was stopped by vines that suddenly sprang out from the ground and slapped against his arm.

After she sliced ​​away the thorny vines surrounding her with a few sword strikes, "whoosh!" the people behind her were also hit.

"..." She stopped and suddenly realized that there was no one else around her.

The next instant, an overwhelming killing intent surged forth!

Baili Ming reacted extremely quickly, swinging his sword to block, "Clang!"

After the sparks flashed—

Wang Qingyan landed ten feet away with his sword, surrounded by restless, nascent vines that seemed to stretch out their tentacles.

"..." Baili Ming nearly stumbled back several steps, barely managing to regain his balance before pushing off the ground and thrusting forward.

"Buzz..." Wang Qingyan used the blade of his sword to block the incoming sword.

He let the sword bend to its limit, then poured all his strength into one point and flung it out with a thud!

Baili Ming was immediately thrown away by the recoil, crashing into a tree with a thud before falling to the ground.

The latter seized the opportunity to leap forward and slashed in mid-air, "Crack!"

Baili Ming drew his sword to meet the attack!

He dissipated most of the impact force onto the ground, instinctively sliding backward and forward to create distance, then flipped over and stood up.

"..." Wang Qingyan shifted his gaze slightly and saw that her right knee was already covered in blood.

"Bang!" With the intention of splitting Baili Ming in two, the sword unleashed a third strike without any mercy!

"..." Unexpectedly, the sudden pulling force caused his speed to suddenly stop!

Wang Qingyan turned around and chopped, causing the morning-blooming vines to fall in droves.

Before he could even figure out what was going on, the overwhelming nascent vines seemed to turn against him and attacked him relentlessly.

Tie your hands!

Pull on the leg!

Waistband!

Then, like vicious dogs fighting for food, they pull and struggle in different directions.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Wang Qingyan, whose understanding had been overturned, didn't care about anything else. He swung his sword like a dragon and a snake, each move as fast as a streak of light.

In the blink of an eye, several thick layers of morning primrose vines fell with a crackling sound.

No matter how high his martial arts skills were, he couldn't easily escape from the countless, unruly, and unyielding attacks.

However, Baili Ming did not take advantage of this gap to escape.

He simply wrapped his knees slowly and wiped the sword clean on his sleeve.

It wasn't that she didn't want to walk, but both her legs were injured and she couldn't walk.

Simply——

Watching him go from being at ease to struggling, then to feeling pain, frowning, and finally losing all his elegance and composure...

It wasn't until Wang Qingyan forcefully pulled out several sharp thorns embedded in his arm, and the blood that came out made the morning-blooming vines recognize him as their master that they stopped attacking.

"How did you do that?!" This part was completely unexpected for him.

It almost drove Wang Qingyan to the brink of collapse, causing him to lose control of the surging primordial energy within his body.

"Go ask in the underworld."

"..." Baili Ming, who was in front, obviously did not speak.

Wang Qingyan glanced around and saw that Lu Jian had returned, his face covered in blood and carrying a sword.

Zhang Shan and the remaining Imperial Guards arrived one after another.

"Clang!" Swords clashed, and a cold light flashed everywhere.

In the life-or-death struggle, in no time at all, Wang Qingyan was covered in so much blood that it was impossible to tell what color his clothes were.

But he still didn't fall, and the defeat he had suffered from the frenzied attack by the morning-blooming vines had completely vanished...

Seeing Zhang Shan, who dared to kill even imperial relatives, also showing fear, Lu Jian couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine.

Why is it so hard to kill?!

The remaining Imperial Guards understood this even more deeply; once the fighting reached this point, no one would back down!

"Pop-bang!" Suddenly, a firework signal exploded in the southeast sky above Fengdu Garden.

That's the direction leading to the imperial city.

Lu Jian initially ignored it, deflecting Wang Qingyan's sword aimed straight at his face with one stroke, and then kicked out!

The latter raised his hand to block, nearly falling to the ground, but then spun around and used the force to grab an injured soldier to shield himself from the sword.

Zhang Shan paused mid-attack, giving Wang Qingyan the opportunity to throw someone over to block his view.

"Bang bang bang..."

In that brief moment of delay, dozens of fireworks signals exploded almost simultaneously, forcing Lu Jian to halt his offensive.

The red one is located in the southeast of Fengdu Garden, indicating a distress signal.

The green sky above the northwest of Fengdu Garden indicates that enemy reinforcements are approaching.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Wang Qingyan tore a hole in the encirclement, left with an extremely sinister look, and then disappeared into the forest.

"Your Majesty?" Zhang Shan and several imperial guards chased after him for a few steps, then stopped and looked at Lu Jian with a dilemma.

Despite his reluctance, Lu Jian immediately made a decision: "Leave twenty men to escort Patriarch Baili, the rest of you come with me to the rescue!"

......

"drive!"

"drive!"

"Snapped!"

"quick!"

"Faster!"

Southeast of the Fengdu Garden, the palace servants who had been screaming and running around in terror from the altar explosion were now driving chariots all the way to the imperial city.

The people on the bus were the doctors who had secretly poisoned the trees around the Tondo Garden before the festival even started, and then quickly evacuated during the chaos.

Closely following behind were the archers, led by Jiu Er.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!" Amidst the arrows that hit their mark every time, the rearguard and the guards died one after another.

"quick!"

"Faster!"

"Uh... Giddy up!" The driver fell, struck by an arrow, and another person immediately took his place!

"Bang!" But seeing that there were fewer and fewer people, Li Tong, who was in charge of escorting them, had no choice but to jump off the chariot to cover the rear.

"Commander Li!"

"You go first!"

"drive!"

"drive!!"

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" As several more guards jumped off the chariot, it sped away, kicking up dust.

"Clang clang clang!! Thud... Thud..." Then came the continuous sounds of metal clanging and arrows being hit.

"Clang! Sizzle!" He swung his sword, slicing off the incoming arrows. He then stabbed backward with his sword, deflecting the arrows with a single stroke, instantly killing two people.

"Whoosh!" But they couldn't defend against the hidden arrow that shot from another direction—

"Clang!" The arrow that was originally going to hit Li Tong's vitals precisely was deflected by the resistance of the third arrow and only hit his shoulder.

No! It's not the third one!

But...

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." The arrows, though less accurate and powerful than those of the Arrow Guards, rained down on Jiu Er and his Arrow Guards in ten times the number.

"Kill!" Feng Lan, leading archers trained specifically for the Wang Clan's archery guards, turned the tide of the battle once again upon their arrival.

In just three rounds, the Arrow Guards' offensive was completely suppressed.

"Retreat!" Seeing that he could no longer catch up with the doctors, Jiu Er quickly started running.

Unexpectedly, dust filled the air behind them, and Lu Jian had already led his troops to attack!

With no way out in either direction, Jiu Er immediately ordered his archers to surround him.

Focus on defending the front, then use the right flank as a breakthrough point to carve out a bloody path...

The only guard to be killed was the archer, and unsurprisingly, there was no corpse of Jiu Er.

Seeing that Li Tong was injured and had few men left, Lu Jian quickly stepped forward to ask, "How badly are you injured?"

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty. I am fine. Fortunately, you and Fenglan arrived in time. Otherwise, I am afraid I would not have been able to save those doctors on my own."

Lu Jian then looked at Feng Lan, feeling somewhat puzzled, "You also came after seeing the distress signal?"

Feng Lan clasped her hands in a fist and bowed, "Yes."

Li Tong, standing to the side, was filled with surprise. "Wasn't it someone Your Majesty arranged to send out the distress signal?"

Lu Jian: ?!

Feng Lan's face turned deathly pale!

Upon seeing this, Li Tong quickly shouted, "Who sent out the distress signal?!"