The shout by the guards took Lin Xuan Qi out of his thoughts.

"Stay close to me." He said to the servant girls and Liu Shi Shi.

Liu Shi Shi stood up and drew out her belt sword while the other servant girls got to his side.

"Brother Lin, quick, come into the tent." Sima Long, who was inside the tent, waved at him.

Liu Shao, as a cultivator, got out of the tent and drew out his sword.

"What's happening?" Lin Xuan Qi asked when he and the servant girls got into the tent.

Sima Long shook his head and said, "I'm not too sure myself."

He held onto Zhang Jie's hand firmly, trying to console her.

Meanwhile, some of his guards had come and stood outside the tent in case of any danger.

"Sima Family?" Zhao Jia Rui wiped the blood off the side of her lips when she saw the guards approaching her had the Sima Family emblem on their uniforms.

They had their swords pointed at her while they approached slowly.

She took out a wooden plaque from her cloth and said, "I'm Zhao Jia Rui from the Qing Feng Sect.

"Someone is after me, help me get rid of him and my senior martial brother, Sima Ye would return the favor."

The guards looked at each other for a moment.

She knew that there was no time left, and she tried to get to the tent, where she knew the person who had authority was.

"Get out of my way."

She swiped her sword around, knocking the swords of the guards out of their hands.

Zhao Jia Rui wanted to take a step, but that familiar high-pitched voice boomed in the air again.

"Hehehe. I see that you've got helpers."

Finally, the owner of the voice emerged from the woods behind her.

He was dressed in a ragged and soiled red eunuch uniform.

His face was thin and pale, like a dead man's.

In stark contrast, the lips were bright red, making it look eerie with the pale white face.

The eunuch licked his lips and glanced at the guards.

"Who are you? Both of you better get out of here before facing the wrath of the Sima Family." The guards shouted.

"Sima Family, Qing Feng Sect..." The eunuch shook his head and gave a smirk at the guards.

"You people brandish these names as if they mean something to me.

"It's always how someone should cower in fear with these names, clans, or sects.

"However, I'm sorry to say that I served for the biggest name of them all."

The eunuch glanced in a particular direction, cupped his hands and bowed.

"Unless the Sima Family is more powerful than his majesty, if not, I'm sorry to tell you that, it's just a name to me." He said with a smirk and narrowed his eyes.

Meanwhile, Zhao Jia Rui took the opportunity to direct her last remaining Spirit Qi into her bracelet.

It started to give out a green glow again.

Whoosh!

The eunuch's body disappeared in an instant, turning into a shimmer of afterimages towards Zhao Jia Rui.

All the guards felt a gust of wind brush past them, and they knew that they had to do something fast.

They turned around and tried to get to the tent where Sima Long was.

But they were a moment too slow, Zhao Jia Rui had grabbed onto one of them and threw the guard at the eunuch who was right behind her.

Splatter.

Blood rained down onto the ground.

Even though the guard was a cultivator at Qi Concentration Level, he was sliced into halves by the eunuch's long and thin fingers in an instant.

It was, however, enough for Zhao Jia Rui's figure to disappear and head for the tent.

The eunuch shook his head and leaped towards the tent after her, leaving the other guards standing where they were.

After the guards realized what had happened, they quickly ran towards the tent shouting, "Master Sima Long, they are heading for the tent."

Zhang Jie's hand held tighter onto Sima Long's when she heard the guards.

Sima Long tried to console her by sitting down beside her.

"Master Sima Ye will arrive soon." The leader of the guards turned around and said.

He had used the voice-transmitting pendant to inform Sima Ye what had happened.

"Sima Long! Help me." Zhao Jia Rui recognized him, and she shouted at him after she appeared in front of the tent.

It was dire for her as she didn't have any Spirit Qi left to direct to the bracelet.

Lin Xuan Qi also recognized her, and he knew that bad things happen whenever she appears.

He quickly pulled Xue Cong and the others behind him.

At least he was practicing the Daoist Five-Element Cultivation Techniques and was stronger than they were.

"Hehehe." The eunuch's voice could be heard when he stopped and appeared behind Zhao Jia Rui.

He glanced into the tent and saw Sima Long, Lin Xuan Qi, and the others.

"I'm so sorry to intrude but..." The eunuch held up his hand and hovered over Zhao Jia Rui's back, "...give me a moment before I deal with the rest of you."

His long and thin fingers began to give out a red glow.

Slash.

Glare from a sword's blade shined onto the eunuch's eyes when it came down at the eunuch's arm.

The eunuch swung his arm at the blade instead and parried it away.

Impact from his strike turned the sword of Liu Shao sideways and he had to stop in his path.

Thud.

The eunuch gave him a frontal kick and it hit Liu Shao on his chest.

It hurled Liu Shao into the air, and he smashed into the tent.

"Liu Shao!" Sima Long shouted.

Lin Xuan Qi quickly went over and checked Liu Shao's condition.

Thankfully, Liu Shao was still alive.

But he was wounded with fractured ribs from the eunuch's blow.

Liu Shao grimaced with pain and took out a pill bottle.

Seeing how Liu Shao was struggling in pain, Lin Xuan Qi quickly helped open it and poured out a pill from it.

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