Chapter 24 Rescuing Fei Xinlan

Fei Xinlan held back her tears as she looked at Xu Jingming. Although she was extremely emotional at this moment, she also understood that they were in the most critical moment. A large number of Prince Qi's experts were still gathering outside.

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

"Fellow disciples?" Fei Xinlan was surprised.

"How else would I deal with hundreds of experts? I'll go out first." Xu Jingming put on his bronze mask.

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

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

Fei Xinlan went to the window and looked outside through the gap. Many places in Prince Qi's mansion were lit up with torches, illuminating everywhere, and there was noise everywhere! A large number of guards were gathering here.

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

Fei Xinlan was really touched. After all, she didn't have much value after her elder brother's death! Xu Jingming was still willing to take such a great risk to save her. In her opinion, this was for the sake of righteousness!

The snow under the dark night was falling heavier and heavier.

Under heavy protection, Prince Qi was furious, his eyes red. "An assassin dares to kill his way into my mansion?"

"And killed Mr. Yu and Teacher Liu?" The Prince's mansion was originally the place he was most at ease with. After all, there were many guards and traps. Even if a large number of enemy experts attacked, it would be difficult to take down the Prince's mansion.

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

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

"Charge!" "Charge!"

A large number of guards and experts charged towards Xu Jingming's location.

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 Beam* chapter, but my spearmanship still needs to be honed in killing."

"Kill him!"

Some guards saw Xu Jingming and immediately released arrows, which tore through the air and shot over. Xu Jingming was able to lock onto the arrows a hundred meters away with his senses, and he dodged them with a step.

* * *

Some arrows pierced into the walls, causing them to explode with 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 mansion, using every means at their disposal. This assassin was too terrifying.

"Senior Liu died in his hands. This assassin is too strong. It would be suicide for a dozen of us to charge up. We must cooperate well." These guards were also certain of this and cooperated cautiously.

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

Everyone was at the cellular level of control. Even though Xu Jingming cultivated the strongest inheritance of the Cosmic Human race, even though the *Light Beam* chapter had an advantage in speed, Xu Jingming's speed was only slightly faster than these guards due to his physical fitness.

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

Hidden weapons were fired! Poison was sprinkled!

Powerful crossbows were fired again and again! The guards used every means to deal with Xu Jingming.

Xu Jingming used this as a rare opportunity to train. The siege of the many guards did make him feel dangerous, but in the bloody battle, he also gained a deeper understanding of the mysteries recorded in the *Light Beam* chapter.

One by one, guards fell, all becoming corpses.

Some had bloody holes in their foreheads, some had their throats pierced, some had their bodies slashed by the spear blade, some were...

But at Xu Jingming's level of spearmanship, as long as the spear grazed 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 into the distance in Xu Jingming's direction. Although he couldn't see clearly, he ordered a large number of his subordinates to rush over!

An old man with one eye next to Prince Qi looked into the distance, his expression changing slightly. "Your Highness, that assassin's strength is beyond imagination. The guards can't take him down even with their cooperation."

Prince Qi's face was ugly.

He also noticed that a large number of guards rushed into the darkness in the distance, and the sounds of fighting continued, obviously the battle had not stopped.

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

"Yes."

The one-eyed old man immediately shouted, "The Prince's First Guard, form the Heavenly Net Formation! The Second Guard, use the Mountain of Knives and Sea of Fire Formation! Cooperate together to besiege that assassin! Everyone else, protect His Highness in case there are other assassins!"

"Yes!" The guards moved 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 spearmanship is not high enough." Xu Jingming immediately disassembled the spear, tied it to his back, and picked up two shields from the ground. These were shields left behind by the Prince Qi's guards who had died before.

Taking advantage of the time the enemy was taking to organize the military formation, Xu Jingming quickly left and soon arrived at the back garden of Prince Qi's mansion.

The back garden was very spacious and had lakes, which had a certain impact on military formations.

"Don't let him escape."

A large number of Prince Qi's guards arrived. As experts, they were extremely fast. They were worried that the assassin would take advantage of the time it took to "organize the military formation" to escape from Prince Qi's mansion, 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 as a large number of guards surrounded 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 grew hotter. "I want to see how strong a military formation formed by hundreds of experts really is!"

"Attack!"

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

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

The power of about three hundred experts pressing forward together made Xu Jingming feel a little suffocated.

Suddenly—

"Puff, puff, puff!!!" Many of the guards were holding spray tubes, and at this moment, a large amount of black liquid splattered from the spray tubes, covering Xu Jingming.

"It's oil." Xu Jingming held up his shields, he didn't dare to let the oil touch his body.

Sensing the many areas covered by oil with his mind power, he used his footwork to find the weak points. As for the small amount of black oil that was difficult to avoid, it was blocked by the shields. While blocking with his shields, Xu Jingming shook them slightly, causing all the oil to fly away.

Bang!

Xu Jingming held his shields and bravely charged into the military formation. He had to enter the military formation to restrain the enemy.

"Kill." The Prince Qi's guards were full of confidence. Even if the assassin was strong, they didn't believe that he could withstand the Mountain of Knives and Sea of Fire Formation of one of their guard teams.

Xu Jingming found that the surrounding area was full of dense blades. There were long sabers, short knives, curved blades, and various blades that came from all angles. Every moment, he had to block a large number of blades. Moreover, the guards of the Heavenly Net Formation surrounded him, ready to attack at any time.

Fortunately, he was using dual shields. If he faced this environment with a spear, Xu Jingming asked himself if he could withstand it for ten seconds.

"Boom!"

Xu Jingming's shields were as fast as lightning, and the edges of the shields were like blades. Although they were not sharp, they could injure if they grazed and kill if they hit.

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

He looked at the scene of his two major guard teams besieging Xu Jingming from afar. Xu Jingming was still charging in the military formation, like a rampaging 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 mansion," the one-eyed old man, Commander Gui, said. "I didn't expect this assassin to be so skilled with shields."

"How long will it take to kill him?" Prince Qi asked, his killing intent was already unbearable.

"Your Highness, don't worry, it won't take long."

Commander Gui said, "Shields are more beneficial for protecting the body 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. It's not easy for him to withstand the siege of the military formation. One mistake, and it's 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. "Anyone who dares to assassinate me, no matter who it is, must die today!"

Xu Jingming's shields were forced to focus on defense under the strangulation of the military formation, and his efficiency in killing enemies was much lower than with a spear.

"Bang."

Xu Jingming was besieged and rolled awkwardly to dissipate the force, then used his shields to support himself and kill again. The outer layers of the shields were full of pits and depressions, narrating the tragic battle.

"Military formations are indeed terrifying." Xu Jingming had long anticipated the threat of military formations and had picked up the two shields in advance.

He had also chosen the environment by the lake in the back garden, but he still couldn't withstand it.

About six hundred experts, even if they besieged him without any formation, would be enough to make the top experts of the Blood Rain World fearful.

Once a military formation was formed, it was even more difficult to resist with individual strength.

In the entire Blood Rain World, there was only one way to ignore numbers: to sweep the enemy's military formation with incredibly terrifying mind power! Making it difficult for the military formation to resist. That required mind power at roughly the ninth-order Origin Lifeform level.

Dean Ming was at that level.

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

"Puff." A blade of light slashed across Xu Jingming's back, creating a wound. He quickly contracted his muscles to control the blood.

Snowflakes fell, landing on Xu Jingming's face, and melted instantly.

Xu Jingming's eyes also turned colder. "My strength is still a little weak."

"I can only use forbidden techniques." Xu Jingming's blood flowed at an ultra-high speed, his skin flushed, and the heat rising from the surface of his body was like white mist! The scene of Xu Jingming's body rising with white mist surprised the guards and Prince Qi and Commander Gui, who were watching from afar.

Forbidden techniques were for mobilizing the body's strength at a deeper level.

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

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

Although supreme inheritances were precious, the Cosmic Human civilization had dozens of them! They were all left behind by supreme realm experts in history!

The secrecy requirements for the 'planetary lifeform' cultivation part of these supreme inheritances were relatively low.

Within the universe, some top families, cosmic high civilizations, and so on, had some descendants who cultivated the basic parts of supreme inheritances from a young age.

Tiano was one of them!

"Supreme realm existences are amazing. The forbidden techniques they left behind can tap into the stronger potential of planetary lifeforms." Xu Jingming thought, his mind consciousness was much stronger than Tiano's now, and he had even more control over his fragile body when using forbidden techniques.

So unlike Tiano, whose face was hideous and veins were twisted, he could maintain a relatively normal face, but was still boiling with blood and rolling with heat.

"I must stop using the forbidden technique within eight minutes, otherwise this body will completely collapse, and I will have to create a new account to enter the Blood Rain World." Xu Jingming held his shields and killed his way out.

If Xu Jingming's dual shields were mainly for defense before, occasionally counterattacking and showing his fangs.

Then now he was almost completely on the attack. Bang, bang, bang!!!

One by one, the guards flew backwards and vomited blood.

"Impossible." The surrounding guards only felt that since this assassin's body had erupted with energy, the two shields had become too terrifying. They meant injury if grazed, and death if hit! 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 brought him suffocation had suddenly become much less pressure, and these guards were as weak as chickens.

"Before, my combat power was about 50 times stronger."

"After using the forbidden technique in the *Light Beam* chapter of the *Primordial Star Conjecture*, my strength, speed, and agility have all improved by a large margin, and my strength has at least doubled! I estimate that my combat power is about a hundred times stronger," Xu Jingming thought.

"Of course, this is just a forbidden technique for planetary lifeforms! The physical bodies of eighth-order Star Lifeforms have already been energyized, so this kind of forbidden technique is useless."

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

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

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

But if it was completely suicidal? The guards would naturally be afraid and despair! They were also human, and they also had their own emotions. "This is a 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 all 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 warm cloak and the guards. He confidently believed that this assassin was doomed. But this assassin suddenly erupted, and his strength reached an incredible level.

"Even the City Lord of Nine Seals 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 against hundreds of experts alone?"

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

"Yes, run, I should run for my life!" Prince Qi shuddered.

"Protect me!" Prince Qi fled quickly.

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

Boom!

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

Xu Jingming didn't want to waste time on them at all, and chased after Prince Qi as quickly as possible.

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

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

* * *

Three waves of guards who tried to stop him were blasted away in succession, killing a ground of corpses, and many other guards no longer dared to have any illusions.

"This assassin is invincible." "There's no way to stop him."

The guards just watched Xu Jingming kill them, no one helped Prince Qi anymore.

"Save me!"

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

"Whoever hired you, I am willing to pay double the price! Ten times the price!" Prince Qi said in horror, "How much do you want, I will give it all!"

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 opened his eyes wide, and he couldn't even draw his sword in the face of the terrifying shield containing the power of the mind.

*Thwack!*

Xu Jingming stood in place, retracted his dual shields, and the outer layer of the shields, which was full of pits and depressions, was stained with a layer of dark red. He looked at the broken corpse of Prince Qi and said, "How much do you want, give me how much? It's a pity the Blood Rain World doesn't give it to me."

Whoosh, Xu Jingming had disappeared.

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

"What do we do?"

"Let's run away! A prince has been killed, and the Emperor may be angry with us guards." The Prince's guards whispered to each other. 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 she became more and more uneasy as she heard the sounds of fighting outside.

Finally, the fighting stopped.

"Big Brother Jing, is he okay?"

"Or is Big Brother Jing…" Fei Xinlan had all kinds of thoughts and was anxious 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.

"Big Brother Jing." Fei Xinlan was overjoyed.

"Hurry up and come with me." Xu Jingming's voice was slightly hoarse. After stopping the forbidden technique, he was already injured. Fortunately, it didn't last long. If it lasted too long, his whole body would collapse.

"Are you injured?" Fei Xinlan asked.

"I'm fine." Xu Jingming grabbed Fei Xinlan, left the room and walked outside.

The snow outside the room was falling heavier and heavier, and Prince Qi's mansion was in chaos in the darkness. Fires had broken out in many places, and many guards were looting gold and silver and fleeing.

Xu Jingming took Fei Xinlan, and with the perception of his mind power, they quickly walked along a quiet path to the courtyard wall, and with a leap, they left Prince Qi's mansion.