After Transmigrating as a Wealthy Woman: Don’t You Dare Touch My Baby! [Quick Transmigration] - Chapter 74

Recently, a unique assassin organization has appeared in the Jianghu (the martial arts world).

Some say they only target corrupt officials in the imperial court; in just ten days, five have been assassinated, and almost no one targeted by this organization has survived.

Others say they are an “army of justice” spontaneously formed by experts among the common people, and that even a well-known young master from the Qingfeng Sect has volunteered to join them.

There are even rumors that the leader of this assassin organization is a peerless expert, and almost no one dares to come forward to challenge them.

Whether these legends are groundless or based on fact, everyone is curious; therefore, all eyes are fixed on the upcoming Martial Arts Tournament.

Hosted by the long-renowned “Thunder Fist Sect,” the event invites all major factions of the Jianghu to gather for the grand occasion. This tournament is being held on Leiming Mountain, and it will also serve as the venue to elect the new Alliance Master.

The title “Martial Arts Alliance Master” is something all in the Jianghu yearn for.

However, not everyone is capable of convincing the masses.

In any case, there are more people looking for entertainment than anything else.

There is also no lack of people using this opportunity to settle old scores.

Leiming Mountain is located north of the Yangtze River, not far from the capital. The Eldest Princess’s entourage consists of only about twenty people, all drawn from the Martial Arts Department. Each one is a top-tier expert from the imperial inner circle, even by Jianghu standards.

This is also the entire membership of their assassin organization.

Zhu Xingtong has never intended to actually unify the Jianghu.

They have only one mission: to annihilate the Dragon Shadow Pavilion and capture their leader, Jiang Qi, alive.

According to the intelligence gathered by the First Prince over the past three years, it is certain that there is someone else behind Jiang Qi. Moreover, that person is hiding behind the scenes, attempting to bring a bloodbath upon the imperial court.

Since Jiang Qi covets the position of Martial Arts Alliance Master, he will inevitably attend the tournament, so there is no fear that he will not show his face.

And the moment he appears, it will be the time for the members of the Martial Arts Department to strike!

Zhu Xingtong stifled a small yawn, her mind spinning rapidly. Suddenly, a sweet flour cake was offered to her lips.

“Are you hungry? In another ten li, we should reach the foot of Leiming Mountain.”

Zhu Xingtong opened her mouth to take a bite of the pastry and said with a smile, “Actually, I can get down and walk myself.”

She was currently riding on horseback, and if she leaned back, she would be in Zhong Ying’s embrace.

Zhong Ying has recently learned martial arts, and her physical condition has undergone a qualitative leap. A little travel like this is nothing to her. However, it was hard on Zhu Xingtong, a princess who had been pampered her whole life; suddenly trekking with these Jianghu people, it was inevitable that she would feel fatigued.

Just as the members of the Martial Arts Department were worrying about the exhaustion of the Princess and wondering what to do, the new member of the department, Ms. Zhong, volunteered.

She moved the delicate Princess onto her own horse, using herself as a human cushion.

Although her hips were a bit numb from riding, it was much better than pulling the reins and traveling herself.

The others: …Don’t know why, but watching the two young women cuddling, they suddenly felt full.

Of course, they still did not know that Zhong Ying was the woman the Eldest Princess intended to marry in a grand ceremony. They merely assumed Ms. Zhong couldn’t bear to see the Princess suffer, which is why she acted as a cushion and fed her.

The strange thing was that the Eldest Princess, a woman rumored to be so formidable, would actually coo and murmur in Ms. Zhong’s arms.

The group: Always felt that something was wrong, but they couldn’t put their finger on it. It was truly strange.

“Your Highn… Master, there is a village not far ahead. Shall we go there to rest?” a scout who had gone ahead to check the path suddenly rode back and said.

Before Zhu Xingtong could speak, Zhong Ying already said, “Go.”

More than twenty horses rushed toward the village. Horse hooves trampled the ground, and dust flew everywhere.

The village was somewhat dilapidated. At a glance, there were not many people to be seen; scattered, broken-down tile houses stood on this land.

Fortunately, it was daytime; otherwise, one might think they had entered a ghost village.

These remote mountain areas were truly too impoverished.

Zhong Ying, who had hoped to find a soft stool for Zhu Xingtong to rest on, realized the village was too dilapidated and frowned as she knocked on the wooden door of one of the houses.

Knock, knock.

After a while, someone came to answer the door, “Who is it? Coming, coming.”

The person who opened the door was an older woman, looking to be in her thirties or forties. She was dressed ordinarily with a warm smile on her face. Seeing the group of strangers, she was a bit puzzled: “You are…?”

“Big sister, we are travelers; we’ve come to ask for a drink of water.” A subordinate from the Martial Arts Department immediately stepped forward, shielding Zhong Ying and Zhu Xingtong behind him.

The woman was a bit startled by him stepping forward, but she nodded and said, “Th-then come in. We don’t have any tea in the house, but we do have water to quench your thirst.”

She opened the door to let them in and then hurried into the house to fetch a few stools. Seeing that there were so many people, she looked a bit flustered: “I… there are no more stools in the house. I’ll go borrow some; my husband is right next door, I’ll go call him back.”

With quick steps, the woman left the house.

“This place is truly ragged; is this even a place for people to live?” a young boy from the Martial Arts Department looked around, feeling something was amiss.

“There is quite a lot of dust on these stools, too. Something isn’t right.”

“Shh” another expert suddenly made a silencing gesture. After listening carefully with his ears pricked, he heard the sound of dense, rapid footsteps coming from outside.

Immediately, he was on high alert: “Your Highness, there is an enemy attack!”

Zhu Xingtong composed herself, “How many?”

“About forty.”

Zhu Xingtong: “Meet them head-on.”

“Yes!”

This village was very suspicious.

The dilapidation was the first point; the second was the dust.

Generally, if a house is inhabited, there would definitely be traces of cleaning on the windowsills and floor.

The woman appeared to be an ordinary person, yet she showed no fear upon seeing them.

Ask yourself, if more than twenty tall and powerful men suddenly came to your house, would you be afraid? Especially since everyone was carrying swords and blades—one look and you could tell they were not ordinary travelers looking for a place to rest.

As the footsteps drew closer, Zhu Xingtong already had some thoughts in her mind.

“The people coming are from the Dragon Shadow Pavilion. Leave the leader’s head, and kill the rest without mercy!”

The men from the Martial Arts Department had already drawn their swords and were waiting. Hearing this, one of them asked without thinking: “Your Highness, is this wave of attackers from the Dragon Shadow Pavilion?”

Zhu Xingtong answered him: “I don’t know, we’ll see when they arrive.”

The Pavilion Master of the Dragon Shadow Pavilion, Jiang Qi, was indeed a remnant of the previous dynasty, but the original book also stated that someone was helping him behind the scenes presumably helping him unify the Jianghu.

Although Jiang Qi was eventually killed by Zhong Ying, all the fantasies of the Dragon Shadow Pavilion vanished into thin air. The opponent used Jiang Qi’s hand to unify the Jianghu, and in the end, Jiang Qi died, but the Jianghu was not thrown into chaos.

Even after Jing Yi ascended the throne, the general situation of the Jianghu remained stable.

This was very suspicious.

A guess emerged in her heart. If Zhu Xingtong’s intuition was correct, then the people arriving outside the door were definitely experts from the Dragon Shadow Pavilion who had received secret orders from the “person behind the scenes” to intercept and kill them!

“Prepare for battle with all your strength; protect the Princess.” Zhong Ying did not rush to the front; she quietly retreated behind Zhu Xingtong.

Do not think she was inactive.

Once anyone tried to make a move against Zhu Xingtong, she could instantly crush that person’s throat!

Soon, someone kicked the dilapidated wooden door open—

A group of masked men swarmed in, “Attack! Kill them all! Seize their weapons and silver!”

It was like bandits raiding a village. The shouting was deafening.

But in reality, everyone realized that while these people were shouting about robbing silver like bandits, once they entered, they all headed straight for their target—the Eldest Princess, Jing Xia!

The experts of the Martial Arts Department sneered, surrounding the Eldest Princess.

Come on!

Kill one if one comes! Kill two if a pair comes!

Long swords drank blood; curved blades snatched souls.

Blood splattered everywhere, and the clashing sounds of cold weapons were incessant. There was none of the elegant, gentle beauty that Zhong Ying usually displayed when wielding her sword for her; there was only death with every blow, raw and absolute.

Zhu Xingtong was sighing internally when, suddenly, Zhong Ying’s hand covered her eyes, and she was plunged into a comforting darkness.

She smiled.

She thought to herself that she was actually not that fragile.

She had been through several worlds already; the struggles in the interstellar era were several times more cruel than this, were they not?

But she couldn’t bear to say it out loud.

After all, hmph… she also treasured the thought of her “cub” wanting to protect her.

The screams in her ears gradually faded.

When Zhu Xingtong’s vision cleared, the bodies had all been moved out by the members of the Martial Arts Department. Aside from the bloody drag marks on the ground in the dilapidated courtyard, one could hardly tell that a group of people had just been killed.

Surprisingly, the enemies were completely wiped out, while the people from the Martial Arts Department only suffered minor injuries.

Zhong Ying distributed the medicinal treatment to everyone one by one.

Zhu Xingtong noticed that this medicine was not from the batch they had brought with them this time.

“Cub… this medicine…”

“Bought from the system. It’s not expensive, but it works very well. They still have to protect you on this trip; they can’t afford to have their combat effectiveness diminished.”

Upon hearing this, Zhu Xingtong’s cheeks turned slightly red: “Why do you only do things for me…”

Seeing her look like a young girl in love, Zhong Ying chuckled: “If I don’t do it for you, should I do it for others?”

Zhu Xingtong suddenly looked up, “Huh? What did you say?”

Zhong Ying tousled her hair, her eyes as gentle as water.

Zhu Xingtong: …Hmph.

“Master, we kept one alive, this guy here! He should be the leader of this group of assassins.” A middle-aged man from the Martial Arts Department dragged over a black-masked man who was missing an arm.

“They have tokens on them. Just as you predicted, Master, it is the Dragon Shadow Pavilion!” Several others went to search the bodies and sure enough, found tokens on them.

“As disciples of the Dragon Shadow Pavilion, why did you assassinate my master?” the middle-aged man questioned sternly, ripping off the man’s mask.

The man’s face was unremarkable.

Even after his mask was torn off, one could only see his expression of resignation to fate: “Do what you want with me. Don’t think my Dragon Shadow Pavilion doesn’t know that you are not some assassin organization at all, but a pack of conscienceless court hounds!”

“Sooner or later, the Master of my Dragon Shadow will rule the world and wipe out this Great Rong dynasty!” he gnashed his teeth, spouting wild rhetoric.

The middle-aged man gave him a kick.

He directly shattered the masked man’s leg bone, causing him to scream loudly in pain.

The upper echelons of the Dragon Shadow Pavilion all had some ties to anti-court factions related to the previous dynasty. Their purpose in creating the Dragon Shadow Pavilion was to overthrow the Great Rong.

The First Prince had been investigating the Dragon Shadow Pavilion for so long that the members of the Martial Arts Department were more or less aware of this.

But what they didn’t know was that the Great Rong had been prosperous for three generations, and the common people had long forgotten the previous dynasty. The road was long and difficult, and all operations were arduous. Just at this time, Pavilion Master Jiang Qi was approached by someone; the “person behind the scenes” provided him with help, and in return, he needed to help this person unify the Jianghu.

Jiang Qi naturally had his suspicions; he only thought it was some court hound who wanted the power of the Jianghu. What he did not know was that this “person behind the scenes” was none other than the Second Prince, Jing Yi, who was in such dire need of power that he dared to swallow up even the remnants of the previous dynasty.

Zhu Xingtong lowered her eyes, “The Great Rong will not allow the likes of you to tarnish it even a bit. Drag him out and execute him.”

She was so decisive that everyone was stunned.

“Master, shall we not torture him a bit more? To see who the Pavilion Master of the Dragon Shadow is, or who else is behind this…”

“Bah! Torture me all you want. Even if you slice me into a thousand pieces, I will absolutely not say a word!” the prisoner from the Dragon Shadow Pavilion said with great integrity.

“Shut up!” The middle-aged man unexpectedly gave him another kick.

The prisoner: …

Zhu Xingtong touched her wife’s small hand and said: “I am not concerned with who the Pavilion Master of the Dragon Shadow is. Since we have come this time, we will naturally take his head. As for who is behind this…” As she spoke, Zhu Xingtong began to laugh: “…Joining forces with remnants of the previous dynasty, what can this mysterious person gain? I have thought about it, and it must be that he is waiting for your Dragon Shadow Pavilion to get back on its feet, unify the Jianghu, and pull the Emperor of Great Rong off his horse so that he can ascend to the throne.”

The Martial Arts Department members: !!

Zhu Xingtong sighed, “My younger brother is truly impatient. This Princess only showed a bit of favoritism for the first time, making him unhappy for just a moment, and he already cannot wait to kill me.”

The Martial Arts Department members: !!!

Oh no, they have heard too many secrets.

But… does this sentence from the Princess mean that she is planning to side with the First Prince?

Yay!

They thought that what they had just heard was shocking enough.

As a result, Ms. Zhong, the “new member of the Martial Arts Department” by the Princess’s side, spoke even more recklessly: “We’ll kill him when we get back.”

The Martial Arts Department members: ???

Ms. Zhong, tell us directly, what exactly is your background!

The “he” you are talking about is the Second Prince! The Second Prince, for goodness’ sake!!

Are you just going to kill him like that!

Banxia Novels, lots of happiness.