The Dragon's Flower Vol 6 - Vol 9 (END)

Vol 6 Chap 194 - Second Prince's Whip

XH 194 - Second Prince's whip

A group more than twenty, dressed similarly to the female assassin, suddenly surrounded Duke Heng's group, their weapons out and ready. 

Duke Heng fanned himself loftily as if he was not in a dangerous situation. He even have the mood to mock the enemies. "To command a large troop just to deal with a drugged first rank cultivator, I feel embarrassed for your owner."

The female assassin ignored him and ordered, "Get the girl! Kill those that block the way!"

The assassins darted straight to Liu Bing who was shielding Wan Ting behind him. 

"Miss Wan, stay behind me!" Liu Bing bent his knee forward, preparing to fight. Even if he was aiming to be a top scholar, his teacher never let him neglect cultivation for self-defense. 

The higher you rise, the more enemies you will meet. 

"I can fight by myself!" Wan Ting said, but she did not step out from Liu Bing's protective back. But she was prepared to fight with her still weak body, and urged her flame spirit to speed up the dissolution of the drugs in her system. 

"Bring them down," Duke Heng said coldly.

Just as his order passed, shadows from every corner darted out from their hiding space. Their nimble figures quickly darted around to kill the assassins, their movement silent yet deadly. With their large number, they only need one guard to deliver one attack to each assassin and it was enough to send them to the afterlife. 
 
The female assassin was shocked at the sudden change in events. Her pupils trembled in fear as she eyed the number of guards surrounding her target protectively. 

It was more than fifty guards!

"You are insane!" The female assassin spat out and quickly turned around to flee, but her shoulder was suddenly grabbed.

With a flexible twist of her body, she escaped from the hold and unleashed a fierce attack with her whip, immediately bringing down two of Duke Heng's guards. But no matter how strong and fast she was, she was not able to withstand fifty top-notch guards focusing all their attention on her. 

Despite one versus fifty, she was still able to severely injure almost half of Duke Heng's troop before she could no longer fight. Her display of strength had Duke Heng frown with displeasure and anxiety. Fortunately, he had brought enough guards or else she would have escaped. 

"Immobile her," Duke Heng ordered and watch without sympathy as his guard break her arms and legs, eliciting a sharp hiss from her. A normal person would have already screamed like a slaughtered pig from the pain and fainted. 

"You!" The female assassin hissed at Duke Heng like a wounded, yet unwilling dog to be permanently put down. 

She had never thought Duke Heng would be this insane! She had predicted that Duke Heng will bring his guards around, but to bring more than fifty with him, which was equal to the strength capable of eradicating a whole clan! Not only that, each of Duke Heng's guards could deal with rank two and lower cultivator! 

"Lu Bian, the whip of our great and honorable war God of Guilin Kingdom, is planning to kidnap an innocent girl? Could it be our War God is no longer our protector, but the Death God of Guilin?" Duke Heng questioned icily. 

Breathing harshly, the female assassin narrowed her eyes at him. "You know me," she said hoarsely from the effort to withstand the pain. As the Second Prince's weapon, what degree of pain she had not endured before?

No one, other than his close confidants, knew that Duke Heng was actually a coward. The older he gets, the more things he grew fearful of. For today's trip, he had brought more than enough shadow guards to avoid any dangers.