Chapter 83

"Attendant Wu, the personnel have been assembled and are ready to head to Fufeng City at any time," Saibei reported respectfully. "However, according to information from our informant, Shangguan Tong's daughter has been frequently seen at the Fufeng City branch. If we act too conspicuously, won't we alert her?"

"There's no time for that." Attendant Wu Qi frowned. "That noble has already entered the mountains. If we can't take Fufeng City before he returns, we won't be able to bear the blame from above."

"What about Miss Shangguan?"

"Capture her, but don't harm her life. After all, we are a guild, not a cultivation sect. There's no need to drive Shangguan Tong to a desperate end." Wu Qi pondered for a moment and continued, "As for a remote city like Fufeng, we don't need to be restrained. Even if we massacre the entire city, no one will dare to do anything to us."

Massacre the entire city? Why don't you try it?

Saibei was inwardly disdainful of his boastful talk but showed agreement on his face: "Attendant Wu is right. I doubt anyone in that small Fufeng City would be a match for you."

Wu Qi was flattered and a look of pride appeared on his face.

There weren't many Third-Ring Attendants in the entire Silver Ring Guild. To wear this golden robe, one's cultivation must reach the Heavenly Wheel Realm. At his level, unless under special circumstances, he would never appear in a remote and desolate place like Fufeng City, so he naturally didn't take the local forces seriously.

"Let's go. It's time to settle accounts with Shengyu Trading Company and the Golden Saber Sect." Attendant Wu straightened his chest, hands behind his back, and his golden robe shimmered in the light.

"Yes." Saibei bowed, but for some reason, he had a vague sense of foreboding.

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"May I ask your name, miss?" Zhong Wen asked with a smile.

"A person about to die doesn't need to know too much." The woman in green spoke coldly, but her voice had a hint of gentleness, giving it a unique charm.

"You want to kill me?" Zhong Wen was surprised. He didn't think he had offended this woman.

"Why else would I capture you?" A powerful Heavenly Wheel aura emanated from the woman in green, instantly pinning Zhong Wen down.

"Miss, where have I wronged you?" Zhong Wen said, using a classic TV drama line, "I'm going to die anyway, so let me die with some understanding."

"My mission is to ensure that Miss Nan Gong returns to the capital safely." The woman in green said calmly, "From what I know, once the matter with Palace Master Lin is resolved, she will definitely return with me."

"Palace Master Lin's matter?" Zhong Wen was taken aback, "What happened to her?"

"However, after meeting you, Miss Nan Gong has changed. Now, even I can't read her." The woman in green ignored him and continued, "You are an unstable factor. If I let you continue to interact, I'm afraid she might have some inappropriate thoughts."

"Miss Nan Gong is a living, breathing person and should have the right to make her own decisions." Zhong Wen argued, "If she wants to go with you, I won't force her to stay. But if she doesn't want to return to the capital, why force her?"

"Is that so? Do living people have the right to make their own decisions?" The woman in green's eyes flashed with a strange light, "If so, I also have the right to decide whether to kill you."

"How unreasonable you are, miss." Zhong Wen complained.

"Is that so?" This sentence seemed to touch a nerve with the woman in green. She suddenly raised her right hand and slapped Zhong Wen, sending him flying several meters away, landing on the ground with a dusty face.

Zhong Wen felt dizzy and struggled to turn over. Before he could sit up, a powerful aura pressed down on him, and he collapsed with a thud, unable to lift even an arm.

The woman in green had already appeared in front of him, her foot slightly raised, and she gently stepped on Zhong Wen's chest, her voice filled with anger and madness: "I am unreasonable, so what? Men are all scum anyway."

"Thump!" Zhong Wen felt a crushing weight on his chest and spat out a mouthful of blood. He forced a smile and said, "If in your eyes, all men are scum, then why do you obey Nan Gong Tianxing? Isn't he a man too?"

"Lord Nan Gong has been kind to me." The woman in green seemed to anticipate this question, "I promised to protect his daughter."

"Protect?" Zhong Wen sneered, "It's clearly surveillance, but you make it sound so noble."

"Surveillance is surveillance." The woman in green's eyes flashed with a fierce light, and her right palm slowly raised, "Since you're going to die anyway, what's the point of arguing?"

Zhong Wen, with only Earth Wheel cultivation, was no match for a Heavenly Wheel expert. Despite his many skills, he couldn't use them. The woman in green had brought him to a remote valley far from the Floating Flower Palace, where no one could hear his cries for help. A sense of despair crept into his heart.

Wushuang, I'm sorry!

Thinking of the gentle and considerate assassin girl, Zhong Wen's face turned somber. He forced a smile and said, "It seems I'm really going to die here. Dying under a peony, even as a ghost, I'll be a romantic one. To die at the hands of a beauty like you, I won't be too disappointed in the underworld."

Just as the woman in green was about to strike, she heard Zhong Wen call her a beauty and trembled. Her eyes flashed with a cold light, and her voice became unusually soft: "You've never seen my face. How do you know I'm a beauty?"

"Miss, you don't know, I, Zhong Wen, am the world's greatest physician." Zhong Wen, facing death, still boasted, "My understanding of human anatomy is unmatched. Just by looking at your eyes, I can tell you are a beauty of the highest caliber."

"Is that so?" The woman in green laughed coldly and suddenly pulled off her green veil, "Then take a look. Am I beautiful?"

A perfectly proportioned oval face appeared before Zhong Wen, with large eyes, long lashes, a delicate nose, and a luscious red lip. If judged by her features alone, she was a beauty on par with Shangguan Mingyue.

However, this exquisite face was marred by red scars, winding like centipedes. The blood had long clotted but hadn't scabbed over, instead forming a strange, sticky texture that adhered to her fair skin, making it look terrifying.

"Hisss!" Seeing the terrifying scars on the woman in green's face, Zhong Wen was shocked and drew a sharp breath.

"Am I beautiful?" The woman in green's voice became incredibly soft, but her eyes were filled with killing intent.

"If we only consider your features and figure, you are undoubtedly one of the most beautiful women in the world," Zhong Wen, recovering from his shock, answered honestly, "But these scars greatly diminish your beauty."

"You're honest." Unexpected by the woman in green, the killing intent in her eyes lessened, "If you had lied and praised my beauty, you would already be a corpse."

Feeling the pressure on his body ease, Zhong Wen suddenly moved and reached out his right hand to touch the scars on the woman in green's face.

The woman in green, caught off guard by Zhong Wen's action, forgot to dodge and was touched by his fingers. A warm sensation from Zhong Wen's fingertips made her shudder, recalling past times.

After a long while, she suddenly came to her senses, slapped away Zhong Wen's hand, and shouted, "Are you courting death?"

Zhong Wen sighed, "Miss, it seems you were injured by a sharp weapon on your face and then had coagulant grass applied. While it stopped the bleeding, it also left permanent scars. I wonder who could be so cruel to a beauty like you."

"Since you're going to die anyway, I might as well tell you." Touched by Zhong Wen's words, the woman in green sighed and felt the urge to confide, "My face was injured by my fiancé, and the one who applied the coagulant grass was a shameless fox spirit."

What a melodramatic plot!

Zhong Wen couldn't help but ask, "Why? Your fiancé betrayed you with a fox spirit, which is already wrong, but why did he treat you like this? If I had a fiancée as beautiful as you, I would cherish her like a treasure."

"Because I didn't allow him to associate with that fox spirit. His cultivation was lower than mine, so he resented me, thinking I was 'unreasonable.'" The woman in green said with hatred, "Knowing how much I valued my appearance, he drugged me on the night before our wedding, took advantage of my inability to fight back, and disfigured me. That damned fox spirit pretended to be remorseful, claiming to heal me, but used coagulant grass to fix the scars on my face, ensuring I would never recover my beauty."

Such a beautiful woman was drugged, and the man didn't do anything unspeakable but disfigured her?

Zhong Wen despised the woman in green's fiancé and understood that her high cultivation and strong personality likely made her unappealing to the man, allowing the seductive third party to take advantage.

"Miss, with your high cultivation, why didn't they eliminate you completely?" Zhong Wen asked, puzzled. "Aren't they afraid of your revenge?"

"At that time, Nan Gong Tianxing happened to visit. The couple mistook it for a discovery and fled in a panic, allowing me to escape." The woman in green recalled the scene, her heart filled with hatred, and her aura became powerful, making Zhong Wen suffer. "Grateful for Lord Nan Gong's kindness, I agreed to protect his daughter until she marries."

"What about that couple later?" Zhong Wen, intrigued, was filled with a desire for gossip.

"I exterminated the man's entire family." The woman in green's voice was filled with excitement, "But the fox spirit was very cunning and fled before I could catch her."

Seeing the woman in green's brutal eyes, Zhong Wen shuddered.