Chapter 17 Rescuing the Beauty

　　Fei Xinlan held back her tears as she looked at Xu Jingming. Although she was very emotionally stirred at the moment, she also understood that they were now in the most critical moment, with a large number of Prince Qi's experts surrounding them outside.

　　"I can't break through with you!" Xu Jingming said. "You stay in this room first. I'll go and meet up with my Shimen experts. Once we defeat the Prince's guards, I'll come back and pick you up."

　　"Shimen experts?" Fei Xinlan was surprised.

　　"Otherwise, how can we deal with hundreds of experts? I'll go out first." Xu Jingming put on the bronze mask.

　　"Brother Jing, I'll wait for you here," Fei Xinlan said.

　　Xu Jingming nodded, immediately walked out of the room, and closed the door behind him.

　　Fei Xinlan walked to the window, looking out through the gap. Many places in Prince Qi's residence were now lit with torches, illuminating everywhere, and there was noise everywhere! A large number of guards were gathering towards here.

　　"So many people," Fei Xinlan murmured. "Brother Jing is risking his life to save me."

　　Fei Xinlan was truly moved. After all, after her brother died, she no longer had much value! Xu Jingming was still willing to take such a great risk to save her. In her opinion, this was for the sake of loyalty!

　　The snowflakes fell heavier and heavier in the dark night.

　　Under heavy protection, Prince Qi was furious, his eyes red: "An assassin dared to kill his way into my Prince's residence?

　　And killed Mister Yu and Teacher Liu?" The Prince's residence was originally the place he was most at ease with. After all, it was guarded by groups of guards, and there were also traps and mechanisms. Even if the enemy launched a large-scale attack with many experts, it would be difficult to take down the Prince's residence.

　　But this time, Xu Jingming, alone, relied on his mind power to avoid the traps and mechanisms and killed his way to him. This made Prince Qi taste the crisis of death once again.

　　"No matter how powerful one person is, let's see how you face my hundreds of guards!" Prince Qi looked at the distance.

　　"Go." "Go."

　　A large number of guards and experts surrounded and killed Xu Jingming.

　　Xu Jingming was currently hiding in the darkness, covering a hundred meters with his mind power: "I took the Ice Flower Spirit Liquid and cultivated the *Light Ray*, but the spear technique ultimately needs to be tempered in killing."

　　"Kill him!"

　　When the guards saw Xu Jingming, they immediately released arrows "whoosh whoosh whoosh." The arrows tore through the air and shot over. Relying on his perception, Xu Jingming could lock onto the arrows a hundred meters in advance, and he dodged them with a step.

　　Bang bang bang!!!

　　Some arrows pierced into the walls, causing the walls to explode into pits. Some shot into the wooden boards, causing the wooden boards to shatter. Some flew past Xu Jingming's face and into the house.

　　These guards couldn't care less about damaging the Prince's residence. They used all their means, because this assassin was too terrifying.

　　"Senior Liu died in his hands. This assassin is too strong. Even if a dozen of us rushed up, we would be sending ourselves to death. We must cooperate well." These guards were also very sure of this and cooperated cautiously.

　　Xu Jingming's figure was like a ghost, and the guards were also extremely fast!

　　Everyone had cellular control. Even though Xu Jingming cultivated the strongest inheritance of the universe human race, and even though *Light Ray* had an advantage in speed, Xu Jingming's speed was only slightly faster than these guards due to his physical fitness.

　　The blurry figures of the guards and Xu Jingming's figure intertwined!

　　Hidden weapons were shot out! Poison was sprinkled!

　　Powerful crossbows were also shot out again and again! The guards used all means to deal with Xu Jingming.

　　However, Xu Jingming regarded this as a rare training opportunity. The encirclement and suppression by many guards did make him feel danger, but in the bloody battle, he also better understood the various mysteries recorded in *Light Ray*.

　　One guard after another fell, all turning into corpses.

　　Some had blood holes in their eyebrows, some had their throats pierced, some had their bodies cut by the spear blade.

　　With Xu Jingming's level of spearmanship, as long as the spear brushed against the enemy's body, the terrifying force contained within would penetrate their body and kill them.

　　"Kill, kill him for me!" Under the heavy protection of many guards, Prince Qi looked at Xu Jingming's direction in the distance. Although he couldn't see clearly, he ordered the surviving subordinates to continue rushing over!

　　An one-eyed old man beside Prince Qi looked at the distance, his face changing slightly: "Your Highness, that assassin's strength is beyond imagination. The guards can't take him down even with cooperation."

　　Prince Qi's face was ugly.

　　He also discovered that a large number of guards rushed into the darkness in the distance, and the sound of fighting continued, indicating that the battle had not stopped.

　　"Commander Gui, you mobilize the guards," Prince Qi ordered. "I only have one request: kill that assassin."

　　"Yes."

　　The one-eyed old man immediately shouted, "The first team of the Prince's residence will set up the Heavenly Net Formation, and the second team will use the Mountain of Knives and Sea of Fire Formation to cooperate and encircle and kill that assassin! Everyone else, protect His Highness to prevent other assassins!"

　　"Yes!" The figures of the guards moved, each as fast as a ghost, quickly forming formations.

　　Xu Jingming also noticed the problem, "They're using military formations to besiege me?"

　　Military formations can maximize the advantage of having more people.

　　"Facing the entire military formation alone, a spear is not suitable, at least my spear technique realm is not enough." Xu Jingming immediately disassembled the spear, tied it to his back, and picked up two shields from the ground. These were the shields left behind by the Prince's guards who had died before.

　　Taking advantage of the time the enemy was organizing the military formation, Xu Jingming quickly left and soon arrived at the backyard of Prince Qi's residence.

　　The backyard was very spacious and had a lake, which had a certain impact on the military formation.

　　"Don't let him escape."

　　A large number of guards from the Prince's residence arrived. As first-rate experts, their speed was extremely fast. They were also worried that the assassin would take the opportunity to escape from the Prince's residence while they were organizing the military formation, but in fact, Xu Jingming did not escape.

　　He stood with his back to the lake, holding a shield in each hand.

　　He calmly watched the large number of guards surrounding him.

　　The Heavenly Net Formation and the Mountain of Knives and Sea of Fire Formation had already been formed.

　　"Come on," Xu Jingming's eyes became hotter and hotter. "I want to see how strong a military formation composed of hundreds of first-rate experts is!"

　　"Attack!"

　　Commander Gui was also in the distance, waving his hand to give the order.

　　At this moment, the many guards of the Prince's residence were also full of confidence. About three hundred guards were scattered around, carrying weapons, shields, nets, chains, and other objects. Another three hundred guards formed a tight military formation and directly crushed Xu Jingming.

　　The power of about three hundred first-rate experts crushing over at the same time made Xu Jingming feel a little suffocated.

　　Suddenly—

　　"Puff puff puff!!!" Many guards held sprayers, and at this moment, many sprayers sprayed, and a large amount of black liquid splashed, enveloping Xu Jingming.

　　"It's oil." Xu Jingming held the double shields, not daring to let his body be沾上 (zhan shang - touched by) the oil.

　　Using his mind power to sense the area covered by the oil, he used his footwork to find the weak spots. The small amount of black oil that was difficult to avoid was blocked by the double shields. While Xu Jingming was blocking with the double shields, he slightly vibrated them, causing all the oil to be shaken away.

　　Bang!

　　Holding the double shields, Xu Jingming had already bravely charged into the military formation. He had to enter the military formation to make the enemy tie their hands and feet.

　　"Kill." The guards of the Prince's residence were full of confidence. Even if the assassin was strong, they did not believe that he could withstand their team's Mountain of Knives and Sea of Fire Formation.

　　Xu Jingming found that the surrounding blade lights were dense. There were long sabers, short knives, scimitars. All kinds of blade lights in the military formation were crazily attacking from various angles. He had to block a large number of blade lights every moment. Moreover, the guards of the Heavenly Net Formation were surrounding him, ready to strike at any time.

　　Fortunately, he was using double shields. If he faced such an environment with a spear, Xu Jingming asked himself that he would not be able to withstand it for ten seconds.

　　"Boom!"

　　Xu Jingming's double shields were as fast as lightning. The edges of the double shields were like blades. Although they were not sharpened, they would injure if they brushed against someone, and they would kill if they hit someone.

　　Under the heavy protection of the remaining five hundred guards, Prince Qi finally arrived at the backyard.

　　He remotely watched the scene of his two major teams besieging Xu Jingming. Xu Jingming was still charging and killing in the military formation, like a raging monster. Prince Qi's face changed: "Commander Gui, this assassin was not carrying shields before."

　　"Your Highness, these shields are equipped in our Prince's residence," the one-eyed old man Commander Gui said. "I didn't expect this assassin to be so good at shield techniques."

　　"How long will it take to kill him?" Prince Qi asked, his killing intent unable to be suppressed.

　　"Your Highness, rest assured, it won't take long."

　　Commander Gui said, "Shields are more conducive to protecting oneself than spears, but the effect of killing enemies is much worse. He has been charging around in the military formation, but he has only killed less than twenty people so far. It is not easy for him to resist the siege of the military formation. As long as he makes one mistake, it will be over."

　　"Yes." Prince Qi nodded. He could also see that this assassin was like a trapped beast, struggling to support himself in the face of the military formation's strangulation.

　　Prince Qi looked coldly at Xu Jingming, who was struggling in the military formation: "Dare to assassinate me, no matter who it is, he must die today!"

　　Xu Jingming's double shields were forced to focus on defense under the military formation's strangulation, and the efficiency of killing enemies was much lower than that of spears.

　　"Bang."

　　Xu Jingming was besieged, and he rolled awkwardly to unload his strength, then supported himself again with the shield and killed his way out. The outer layers of the double shields were full of pits and bumps, narrating the tragicness of the battle.

　　"Military formations are indeed terrible." Xu Jingming had long anticipated the threat of military formations, so he picked up the two shields in advance,

　　and chose the environment next to the backyard lake, but he still couldn't hold on.

　　About six hundred first-rate experts, even if they besieged him without any formation, would be enough to make the top experts in the Blood Rain World fear.

　　And once a military formation was formed, it was even more difficult for individual strength to resist.

　　In the entire Blood Rain World, there was only one way to ignore the number of people: to sweep the enemy's military formation with incomparably terrifying mind power! To make the military formation unable to resist. That required mind power at the level of about a ninth-order source life.

　　Dean Ming was at that level.

　　But now Dean Ming was dead! In Prince Qi's view, no one in the capital could deal with the entire military formation.

　　"Puff." A blade light划过 (hua guo - brushed past) Xu Jingming's back, making a wound, which he quickly closed to control the blood.

　　Snowflakes fell and landed on Xu Jingming's face, instantly melting.

　　Xu Jingming's eyes also became colder. "My strength is still a bit weak."

　　"I can only use forbidden techniques." Xu Jingming's whole body's blood and Qi circulated at ultra-high speed, his skin turning red, and the heat rising from the surface of his body was like white mist! Xu Jingming's whole body surface rose with white mist, a scene that surprised and puzzled the guards and Prince Qi and Commander Gui, who were watching from a distance.

　　Forbidden techniques were to mobilize the body's strength at a deeper level.

　　As Xu Jingming's mind power became stronger, he could more perfectly control his body, slowly improving all aspects such as strength, speed, and agility.

　　But "forbidden techniques" could tap potential to a greater extent. Back then, when Tiano and Xu Jingming had their final battle in the Blue Star virtual world, they had used forbidden techniques.

　　Although supreme-grade inheritances were precious, the entire universe human civilization also had dozens of them! They were all left behind by supreme realm experts in history!

　　The secrecy requirements for the "planetary life" cultivation part of these supreme-grade inheritances were relatively low.

　　Within the universe, some top families, universe advanced civilizations, etc., had some children who cultivated the basic parts of supreme-grade inheritances from a young age.

　　Tiano was one of them!

　　"Supreme realm existences are amazing. Some of the forbidden techniques they left behind can tap stronger potential from the bodies of planetary lives." Xu Jingming thought. His mind consciousness was much stronger than Tiano's now, so he was even more skilled at controlling this fragile body when using forbidden techniques.

　　Therefore, he did not have a ferocious face and twisted veins like Tiano. He could still maintain a relatively normal face, but his blood and Qi were still boiling, and heat waves were rolling.

　　"I must stop using the forbidden technique within eight minutes, otherwise this body will completely collapse. If I want to enter the Blood Rain World at that time, I will have to create a new account." Xu Jingming, holding the double shields, had already killed his way out.

　　If it was said that before, Xu Jingming's double shields were mainly defensive, occasionally counterattacking and showing his fangs,

　　then now he was almost completely attacking. Bang bang bang!!!

　　One guard after another flew backward, vomiting blood.

　　"Impossible." The surrounding guards only felt that since this assassin erupted with Qi waves from his whole body, those two shields had become too terrifying. They would die if they brushed against him, and they would perish if they touched him! Their tight Mountain of Knives and Sea of Fire Formation could not threaten Xu Jingming at all.

　　Xu Jingming only felt that the military formation that had originally brought him suffocation had suddenly lessened the pressure too much. These guards were as weak as chickens.

　　"Before, my actual combat bonus was about 50 times."

　　"After using the forbidden technique in the *Yuanchu Star Conjecture Light Ray*, my strength, speed, and agility have all been greatly improved, and my strength has at least doubled! The actual combat bonus is estimated to be about a hundred times." Xu Jingming thought.

　　"Of course, this is just a planetary life's forbidden technique! The flesh bodies of eighth-order star sky lives have already been energyized, so this kind of forbidden technique is of no use at all."

　　"But in the Blood Rain World, forbidden techniques are very useful," Xu Jingming thought to himself.

　　With all-round suppression in strength, speed, and agility, coupled with the overwhelming advantage in actual combat skills, Xu Jingming was sweeping even with dozens of people around him!

　　If they saw hope, the guards would definitely fight desperately.

　　But what if it was completely sending themselves to death? The guards were naturally afraid and desperate! They were also human, and they also had their own emotions. "This is a great demon."

　　"We can't stop him."

　　"His shield technique is too terrifying!"

　　Many guards had already lost their courage and did not dare to block him at all, because those who dared to rush up had died.

　　Prince Qi was stunned.

　　Originally, he was watching the assassin's trapped beast fight under the protection of the crowd of guards, wearing a warm cloak. He confidently believed that this assassin was dead. But this assassin suddenly erupted, and his strength reached an inconceivable level.

　　"Even the city lord of Nine Seal Ancient City, even that old guy from the Shen Gong family, wouldn't be so strong," Prince Qi couldn't believe it. "Dean Ming is dead, and there is still someone who can fight hundreds of first-rate experts alone?"

　　"Your Highness, run, escape!!!" Commander Gui's voice awakened Prince Qi from his shock.

　　"Yes, escape, I should escape for my life!" Prince Qi was shocked.

　　"Protect me!" Prince Qi quickly fled for his life.

　　Many guards immediately released arrows, and some threw hidden weapons, and even threw short spears, using various methods to try to stop that terrifying assassin! But Xu Jingming, holding double shields, was obviously much faster in the state of using forbidden techniques.

　　Boom!

　　Wherever he passed, figures were thrown! All those who dared to block Xu Jingming, all those who rushed towards Xu Jingming, were either dead or injured!

　　Xu Jingming was not willing to waste time on them at all, and chased after Prince Qi at the fastest speed.

　　"What?" Prince Qi looked back and found that many guards could not stop the assassin's footsteps. The assassin was approaching him.

　　"Stop him, stop him." Prince Qi shouted anxiously while running.

　　Bang bang bang!!!

　　After continuously blasting away three waves of guards who tried to stop him, killing a place full of corpses, the other guards dared not take any chances anymore.

　　"This assassin is invincible." "We can't stop him at all."

　　The guards just watched Xu Jingming kill him, without anyone helping Prince Qi anymore.

　　"Save me!"

　　Prince Qi looked behind him. The guards scattered in fear, and the assassin wearing a bronze mask and holding double shields was approaching with a blurry afterimage.

　　"Who asked you to come? I am willing to pay double the price! Ten times the price!" Prince Qi released in horror, "How much do you want? I will give you the price!"

　　Whoosh.

　　With a gust of bloody wind, Xu Jingming had already rushed to Prince Qi, and the terrifying shield smashed down on his head.

　　"No--" Prince Qi's eyes widened. In front of the terrifying shield containing mind will, he could not even pull out his sword.

　　Pa ji! (sound of something being smashed)

　　Xu Jingming stood in place, retracted his double shields. The outer layer of the pitted and bumpy shield was dyed with a layer of dark red. He looked at Prince Qi, who had become a broken corpse: "How much do you want, give me how much? It's a pity that the Blood Rain World won't give it to me."

　　Whoosh, Xu Jingming had already disappeared.

　　The heavy snow was still falling, landing on Prince Qi's body. Some guards approached, looking at the corpse. "The prince is dead."

　　"What do we do?"

　　"Let's run away quickly! A prince was killed, and the Emperor might vent his anger on us guards." The Prince's guards muttered. The prince was dead, and according to the laws of the Empire, they guards would definitely have to take responsibility.

　　Fei Xinlan had been waiting anxiously, but when she heard the sounds of fighting outside, she became even more uneasy.

　　Finally, the sounds of fighting stopped.

　　"Brother Jing, is he alright?"

　　"Or did Brother Jing" Fei Xinlan had all kinds of thoughts, uneasy and flustered.

　　Suddenly--whoosh.

　　The door was pushed open, and Xu Jingming walked in with a package on his back and a spear in his hand.

　　"Brother Jing." Fei Xinlan was overjoyed.

　　"Follow me quickly." Xu Jingming's voice was slightly hoarse. After stopping the forbidden technique, he already had injuries on his body. Fortunately, the duration was not long. If the time was too long, his whole body would collapse.

　　"Are you injured?" Fei Xinlan asked.

　　"It's okay." Xu Jingming grabbed Fei Xinlan, left the house, and walked outside.

　　The snow outside the house was getting heavier and heavier, and the Prince's residence in the darkness was in chaos. Fires had broken out in many places, and many guards were looting gold and silver before fleeing.

　　Xu Jingming led Fei Xinlan, using his mind power to sense and scout, and soon walked along a secluded path to the courtyard wall. With a jump, he left the Prince's residence.