Chapter 180

  Against the Shadow Curse, the two guests also dared not to be careless, although they had Ling Cai protecting their bodies, but they still needed to consume spiritual energy to neutralize it. When the black blood splattered onto themselves, the two guests had no choice but to stop in their tracks, quietly releasing spiritual energy, reinforcing the Ling Cai on their bodies, and resisting the corrosion of the Shadow Curse.

  Soon, the effect of the Shadow Curse wore off, and the spiritual armor on both of them was also corroded to exhaustion. When they re-released their spiritual energy and put up their spiritual armor again, they looked up to find Tang Yin's trail, but there was no sign of him anywhere.

  What a cunning assassin! The two door guests jumped in fright and could only continue to chase forward directly.

  They were chasing northward, but Tang Yin was running westward. At this time, without the pursuit and killing of the two door guests, his pressure was greatly reduced, and it was not as tense to deal with the palace guards as before, trying to avoid them if possible, and hiding if possible, trying not to confront each other.

  The situation is no longer as urgent as it was just now, and Mu Mei also let out a slight breath of relief. Looking at Tang Yin, who was dressed like a palace maid, she asked in doubt: "Who are you after all? Are you human or a monster? Where do you want to take me?"

  "I am a human, you can rest assured of that. Now I need to get you out of here and let you reunite with your family. As for who I am, you will naturally find out later." Tang Yin replied, without revealing his own name, still within the palace walls, in a precarious situation, not yet the time to formally meet with Wu Mei.

  He said he was human, but Mei was very suspicious. If he were human, how could a hole be blown in his chest without bleeding, and how could he heal so quickly? Moreover, he was now running rapidly with himself, but when speaking, there was no panting at all. However, upon hearing that she would reunite with her family, her body shook, and she hurriedly said: "My family is all in Zhong Tian's mansion."

  "They've already been rescued, and if nothing unexpected happens, they should be arriving at the outskirts of the city about now."

  "Ah?" Mei heard this and was shocked, somewhat disbelieving her own ears. All of her family members had been rescued? How is that possible? She hesitated for a moment, asking doubtfully: "Was it you who rescued them too?"

  "It's not just me."

  "Why? Why are you helping us? I've never seen you before!"

  Dance enchantress's questions were endless, Tang Yin didn't have the mood to answer her in detail now. He lightly hissed and said in a low voice: "Don't speak, the enemy will come again soon!"

  These words were very effective, and as soon as he said this, Wu Mei immediately tensed up and closed her mouth tightly.

  Indeed, the enemy has come again from the front, and there is more than one. The guards stood in a dense formation, each with their bows strung, swords drawn, and waiting in a tight array. Looking ahead, Tang Yin saw that an arrow formation had been laid out, and he secretly took a deep breath. However, at this moment, thinking of retreating was impossible, and the only option was to grit his teeth and charge forward.

  "Fire!"

  With a loud shout, the guards in front simultaneously released their arrows, which flew towards Tang Yin like dense rain. Wu Mei saw this and closed her eyes in fright. To say nothing of the fact that she had eaten the Dispersing Spirit Pill and was unable to gather spiritual energy, even if she were in top condition, with her current cultivation level, she would not be able to withstand such a dense barrage of arrows.

  Tang Yin said in a low voice: "Hold onto my neck!" As he spoke, he put Hua Mei behind his back and then bent down to charge forward into the rain of arrows.

  Ding ding dang dang - the arrows shot onto his body, making a crisp sound of metal collision, Tang Yin suffered from the impact force of the arrow shafts, and his body involuntarily retreated several steps in a row.

  This won't do, I can't even get through their arrow formation.

  As he thought, he suddenly had an idea and bent down, his body began to change at any moment. His two arms grew longer, his legs shorter, the clothes on his body disappeared, revealing wrinkled and pale skin. Looking at his face again, his eyes were reduced to two thin slits, his nose turned into two black holes, his mouth was wide open to the root of his ears, and his fangs were exposed. His appearance was terrifying. The dancer behind him was frightened by this sudden change, her face lost color, fortunately she was still behind Tang Yan, unable to see his front face, otherwise she would have fainted directly.

  She felt her hands around her neck loosen slightly, and Tang Yin said coldly: "Hold me tighter!"

  As he spoke, he suddenly darted forward, and now he was running on all fours, his speed increasing, just like a cheetah pouncing on its prey. The guards had never seen such a monster in their lives, the entire phalanx was thrown into chaos, and the arrows shot out were no longer as accurate as before, the power of the arrow formation greatly reduced.

  Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Tang Yin carried Huai Shun and rushed towards the front of the guard formation. He jumped high into the air and landed on top of one of the guards.

  Because he was too fast, the impact force generated was also too great. He stepped on the chest of that guard and pushed him out five or six meters away. All the palace guards who passed by were knocked down, and when Tang Yin jumped off the guard's body, the latter had been crushed into a meat pie, unable to distinguish his human form, leaving only a vague mass of flesh and blood.

  Among the crowd of guards, Tang Yin changed his shape again and restored his original appearance. His hands transformed into hand knives, with dark flames burning on them. The leather armor on the guards' bodies could not withstand his slashing, and in an instant, more than thirty people were struck by his hand knife and fell to the ground dead.

  Tang Yin also took advantage of this opportunity to absorb spiritual energy to make up for the loss of spiritual energy he suffered during the explosion earlier.

  The guards were thoroughly frightened by this half-human, half-demon monster, and the formation of hundreds of people was thrown into chaos. At this time, someone suddenly shouted: "Sir, we're here!"

  With a loud shout, twenty Dark Arrow brothers led by Cheng Jin burst out from behind the guards.

  When he saw them, Tang Yin was overjoyed at first, and then asked in a condensed voice: "How did you get here?"

  Cheng Jin said, "We will lend a helping hand to the adults!" In fact, they could no longer delay, as news of the assassination attempt in the palace had already spread outside and a large number of troops had rushed over, surrounding the palace. If Cheng Jin and his companions did not hurry, they would be blocked outside.

  "Hurry up, adults! Outside, Chong Tian's henchmen are everywhere. If we're late, it might be too late!"

  Tang Yin's heart tightened, and he nodded at Cheng Jin, saying "Go!" As he spoke, he stopped entangling with the guards and continued to run towards the west wall of the palace.

  The guards in front of us were dispersed by Tang Yin and others, but more guards are gathering quickly. Zhong Tian's throne was obtained unjustly, and with a guilty conscience, he had heavily guarded the palace.

  Seeing more and more guards rushing over, Cheng Jin shouted: "Leave ten people behind to block the opponent!"

  At his command, ten archers immediately withdrew and dispersed, going separately to block the enemy who were pouring in from all sides.

  Ten people, compared to the guards who were as numerous as mountains and seas, were too insignificant. They were instantly submerged in the sea of people. All that could be heard was the sound of fighting from the crowd, but the figures of the ten people could no longer be found.

  While cutting down a large number of guards, the Dark Arrow personnel also suffered heavy blows from time to time. The attacks came from all directions and hit them one after another. Every time they were hit, black smoke emerged, and the condensed spiritual energy on their bodies was weakened a little bit.

  Later, seeing that they were indeed brave and fierce, the guards did not rush forward to their deaths, but instead sent out long spear hands.

  With a long spear, it was firmly held in place, making it difficult to move. Then the surrounding guards shot arrows together. As the arrow rain swept over, the dark shadow was pierced with thousands of holes and became a beehive. The dark spirit could no longer condense and drifted away into the air.

  However, the desperate blocking by the ten of them indeed won a lot of time for Tang Yin and others. They rushed to the bottom of the west palace wall in one breath. At this time, the wall was already crowded with palace guards. Tang Yin, carrying Hu Mei on his back, couldn't use Shadow Drift, so he shouted at Cheng Jin beside him: "Rush up and open a gap!"

  "Yes!"

  Cheng Jin responded with a nod, and with a flick of his head, he led the dark arrow personnel in a simultaneous deployment of Shadow Drift. In the blink of an eye, they appeared on top of the wall, where they clashed with the guards stationed there.

  With their charge, the guards on the wall were in great disorder and could not shoot arrows. Tang Yin took advantage of this opportunity to rush to the foot of the wall, his fingers curled up into a spiritual knife, stuck to the wall, and quickly climbed up.

  At this time, he had returned to his original appearance, and the sound of his speech also changed back to its original tone. The dance music behind him sounded more and more familiar, but he couldn't see Tang Yin's face, so he couldn't confirm it.

  Taking advantage of his climbing over the wall, she asked in a suspicious tone: "You... are you Tang Yin?"

  "It's neither here nor there, I'm just a split body!" Tang Yin casually replied with a sentence. As he spoke, the person had already climbed onto the city wall, and the ten fingers transformed into spiritual knives merged together, turning into two long-handled hand knives, which, along with Cheng Jin and others, beheaded the guards on the wall.

  She tightly wrapped her arms around his neck, and her body also stuck closer to him. Her cheek slowly leaned against his back, although she couldn't hear his heartbeat, although he was just a shadow clone, but she still felt a strong sweet feeling.

  It was him, the man he had been thinking about day and night.

  When Zhen Tian announced that he would marry her as his concubine, she thought that she would never see Tang Yan again in this lifetime. Unexpectedly, she still met him and was even close to him, lying on his back, tightly hugging him. Even if she were to die immediately now, she would be content.

  "These days, I often dream that you will come to rescue me and take me far away!" Mei whispered in his ear, tears falling down unknowingly.

  Tang Yan didn't respond and continued to slash at the surrounding guards, but his movements were noticeably slower.

  "Even if I were to die right now, I would have no more regrets..."

  "I won't let you die!" Tang Yin retorted, lowering his head to glance outside the palace, where dense cavalry troops were arrayed. He turned back to Cheng Jin and bellowed, "Stop fighting, retreat quickly!"

  "Yes!" Cheng Jin responded with a loud voice, and then shouted at the other ten hidden archers: "Withdraw!"

  "Captain, protect the master and leave first, we'll cover the rear!" The ten dark arrow personnel, hearing Cheng Jin's command, did not retreat half a step, still stubbornly blocking the guards who were rushing up from both sides. If they all withdrew and let the guards reassemble on the wall to set up an arrow formation, neither Tang Yin nor anyone else would be able to escape.