Chapter 252

Nan Xun wanted to take the tea and drink it immediately, but in the end she just respectfully curtsied. She politely turned down State Teacher’s good intention and firmly said, “Thanking Lord, but senior brothers and imperial guards here never had water before. Although this disciple is a woman, but this disciple still refuses to be treated specially.”

The hand that was holding a cup of tea paused before retracting back in.

The man inside the palanquin lightly said, “Gong Da, tell them to hurry it up a bit.”

Gong Da twisted his eyebrows but still nodded, “Yes.”

The previous parades always took half a day, but because of that one sentence from State Teacher today, the speed became quicker one-fold.

Everybody thought in their hearts: Lord State Teacher indeed dotes on this new disciple ah.

The procession quickly arrived at an alley.

Common people from both sides of the street was still a lot, inns and teahouses were also crowded to a bursting point with people and the other several alleys looked like there’s no difference with this one.

However, at this time, Gong Moran who was inside the palanquin suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze turned into incomparable cold orbs.

“Gong Da.” Gong Moran called out, his thin lips opened slightly, giving out two indifferent words, “On guard.”

Gong Da’s expression fiercely changed, he immediately understood his meaning and shouted loudly to everyone, “Be careful, there’s an ambush!”

In the twinkling of an eye, just as Gong Da’s voice fell, countless arrows shot out from above two magnificent buildings on both sides.

Imperial Guards all uniformly pulled out the swords at their waist, warding off arrows while quickly gathering themselves to the middle, surrounding Lord State Teacher’s palanquin along with his disciples.

Even in this way, the dense rain of arrows still managed to slip inside the palanquin.

“My Lord!” Nan Xun saw with her own eyes how an arrow flitted past her cheek and entered the palanquin, she shouted out of shock.

Gong Moran’s normal voice came out from inside the palanquin, “This Lord has no trouble.” He paused, and then turned his head to a side, “Gong Da, protect Duoduo.”

Nan Xun, who had experienced quite a lot of worlds firmly believed that she can deflect these arrows, moreover, Imperial Guards was protecting them from the outside perimeter, but this ‘Li Yunduo’ can’t ah, she can’t even do any flowery fist and fancy footwork. [T/N: showy but not practical martial arts]

So, Nan Xun acted like a total good-for-nothing and hid herself behind Gong Da.

Gong Da looked at her with cold-shoulder as he integrated himself into the protection ring.

Disciples from Moran Hall stretched out their hands into the sky as they made extremely complicated signs.

After that, a strange thing happened.

Before long, those arrows that were about to pierce people fell down to the ground, as if there was an invisible wall that blocked their trajectory!

The common people on both sides of the road had long ago fled and was nowhere to be seen, but those that was too late to run away and hid themselves under any table or shelf, their hearts trembled after they witnessed everything.

Immortals ah, true immortals ah! That barrage of arrows was unable to hurt even a fraction of them!

Once the arrows stopped, a hundred of sword-wielding black-clothed people suddenly came down from both of those magnificent buildings, they were obviously well-trained assassins, all came with death order.

One part of Imperial Guards safely guarded the palanquin while the other part attacked, dashing to a fierce fight.

“Imperial Guard’s chief, arrest some alive.” The man from inside the palanquin lightly said.

“Yes! Lord.”

Although there were a hundred assassins, but there were 200 Imperial Guards, each one of them was of no ordinary talent, the assassins’ situation was hopeless.

When Imperial Guards captured the assassins, they broke their lower jaw to prevent them from swallowing poison. It’s just that these assassin’s reaction was astonishingly fast, realizing the other party’s intention, they bit into the poison inside the crack of their teeth at once that the Imperial Guards can only detained nine living ones.

The Imperial Guard’s chief counted their bodies, when he was about to report, he didn’t expect to see two hidden weapons shooting out towards the palanquin.

“Lord, be care-“

The intense sound of close fighting and blood-curdling screams just now didn’t have any effect on that man inside the palanquin even for a bit, however, at this time, they saw that white palanquin was destroyed by a palm from the person inside, and the man in white actually flew out.

Gong Moran picked up Nan Xun’s waist with his left hand and waved his right hand to the air lightly.

After a standstill, two poisoned darts were pinched between those slender fingers.

His gaze abruptly became coated with thick ice as his fingers flicked lightly and those two darts were returned the same way it went from, piercing the chest of an Imperial Guard.

That man fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth and died on the spot.

The other Imperial Guards were shocked.

Gong Moran only gave a faint sentence, “This person is a traitor, he almost hurt this Lord’s disciple just now.”

It was naturally not Nan Xun that the traitor wanted to hurt, Gong Moran was beside Nan Xun, but it’s just that Nan Xun was always wandering around the palanquin, making that mole not know where to start so he just threw two darts, one for Nan Xun, and one for Gong Moran.

The Imperial Guard’s chief was at a great shock, he knelt on the ground with a thump as he said, “This matter happened because of this minister’s ineffective supervision, eventually letting a mole entered in the rank, asking State Teacher to give punishment!”

Gong Moran said expressionlessly, “You truthfully report this matter to the emperor, let the emperor decides how to deal with it.”

As soon as the head guard heard this, his legs immediately softened, realizing that he was finished this time because State Teacher wouldn’t plead for him, when the time comes, a dismissal would be considered light. It looked like Lord State Teacher was really angry this time.”

Nan Xun’s waist was held by Gong Moran, she stretched out a finger and poked his arm with a lingering fear on her face, “My Lord, I’m okay.”

Hearing it, Gong Moran then loosened her waist, reaching out and rubbed her head, “There’s this Lord here, don’t be afraid.”

Nan Xun looked at him with admiration in her eyes, the corners of her mouth were slightly curled up, “I know, there’s my Lord here, this disciple wouldn’t be afraid of anything.”

When Gong Da saw this scene, his eyes flickered slightly. At this moment, Gong Moran gave him a cold gaze, giving him a burst of chill inside his heart.

Lord, he… already knew.

When the hidden weapons were shot out, Gong Da could actually stop it in time, but he hesitated.

At that moment, he thought that this woman might as well die just like this.

The incident where State Master was attacked by assassins soon spread to the monarch and the three envoys’ ears.

At that time, the envoy of Donglin Kingdom, Qi Hengqing, was playing chess against himself in the palace. When he heard this news, he couldn’t help but laugh, disrupting the chess play on the table, “It seems that Nanyun Kingdom isn’t as united as we can see from the outside, we haven’t done any big moves but they have started fighting first.”

The confidant next to him asked in a low voice, “Master, now that there’s this incident, what should the next move be?”

Qi Hengqing sneered, “We heard that the most favored prince of Nanyun is the second prince, but the most talented one is actually the fifth prince, however, because his birthmother was a humble maidservant, so he isn’t liked that much. We always like talented people, we don’t mind giving this fifth prince a hand.”

…

After the false alarm, when Nan Xun arrived back at Moran Hall, she immediately poured herself a pot of tea.

She thought that she could bear it by gulping down her own saliva and come back earlier, but she didn’t expect that there would be so many assassins along the way.

Gong Moran was at the side looking at her drinking too quickly, he shook his head slightly, “Drink slowly, this Lord has more here.”

With that, he pushed another pot of tea in front of the little girl.

“Thank you, Lord!” Nan Xun unceremoniously picked up another pot of tea and poured it out, gulping it down her throat with fervor, “Lord, this pot of tea is really delicious ah.”

Little Eight ‘aiya’ and said, “Why don’t you say that big boss’ breath is also fragrant?”

Nan Xun: …