Tearing the Prince's Clothes after Withdrawing Marriage
Chapter 441 - 440: Who Blocked the Medicine Man for Them?

Chapter 441: Chapter 440: Who Blocked the Medicine Man for Them?

Chu Qianli turned her head to glare at him, almost rolling her eyes.

"You never told me, how would I know?"

"Ali..." Fu Long took a step forward, staring into her slightly tipsy eyes.

Some words, impulsively, he wanted to blurt out.

But quickly, he suppressed them.

He chuckled, "You can’t keep a secret well enough, I can’t tell you."

He turned his face away, his smile gradually turning bitter.

"Don’t try to match me with any girls, I already have someone I like, Ali, do you understand?"

How could Chu Qianli not understand?

"I didn’t know before, rest assured, I won’t try to set you up with Ziyue again."

Matters of the heart, truly, cannot be forced.

If there was affection between them, lending a hand would be a good thing.

But now, helping Long Ziyue had become aiding and abetting, bullying the rightful partner.

She wouldn’t do such a despicable thing.

"Mhm." Fu Long nodded, his voice hiding complexities she couldn’t discern, "The way things are now... it’s quite good."

Chu Qianli was about to say something when suddenly, her expression darkened.

The scent... was off!

A smell of decay!

In the next moment, even Fu Long felt it.

That decaying scent was approaching the backyard.

"Ziyue might still be in the backyard!" Chu Qianli took off in a sprint, heading to the backyard.

Fu Long immediately dropped the bucket he had just picked up and followed suit.

The backyard was still peaceful, for now.

Long Ziyue didn’t go straight back to her room after Chu Qianli had left, she decided to wander around the backyard instead.

The inn’s backyard was dilapidated, desolate everywhere you looked.

Their main focus of protection was in the front, so the defenses were a bit weak in the backyard.

Seeing Chu Qianli and Fu Long hurrying over, Long Ziyue wore a very strange expression.

"Ziyue, are you alright?" Chu Qianli quickly walked up to her.

Long Ziyue shook her head; she was still feeling awkward about her failed confession to Fu Long just half a day ago and didn’t know how to face him.

She just wanted to whisper a complaint to Chu Qianli, "Ali, in the future..."

"Wait! It’s an ambush!"

Chu Qianli leaped up, her arm shooting out, and whoosh whoosh whoosh, a dozen silver needles flew out.

From a pile of weeds not far from the backyard, there was a disturbance.

Suddenly, with several hissing sounds, multiple figures shot out from behind the bushes.

Their speed was incredibly fast, like lightning!

"Ziyue, watch out!" Chu Qianli drew her dagger with a swoosh, her light body landing in front of Long Ziyue, slashing with her blade.

The blade wind, charged with robust Inner Strength, forced the black-clad men to take two steps back.

Two of them had slashes ripping open their chests right there and then.

If their Qinggong hadn’t been formidable enough, the mere wind from that blade would have claimed their lives!

Long Ziyue and Fu Long were astonished.

Since when had Ali’s speed and Inner Strength become so formidable?

Even Chu Qianli herself was somewhat stunned.

The power Murong Yu had given her was truly generous!

No wonder she found herself coughing up blood while leaning on the railing when she woke up; it must have been due to overexerting her abilities.

Murong Yu must have had reasons to stay in Beiming Country and couldn’t follow them to Longteng Country.

Therefore, she sought out Chu Qianli, imparting her Inner Strength, so that Chu Qianli could protect Feng Wuya!

This Inner Strength was too powerful!

The men in black didn’t ponder for long. Their strike missed, and the uninjured three rolled on the ground, vanishing in the blink of an eye.

"Invisibility arts!" Fu Long and Long Ziyue exclaimed in unison.

Chu Qianli, dagger in hand, stood beside Fu Long who had come over, "Could it be the legendary Dongying invisibility arts?"

"It’s not necessarily from Dongying! The Fusang people also understand invisibility arts."

Two more, who had been injured, sprang up from the ground, and immediately lunged towards them.

It seemed that once injured, their stealth techniques were no longer effective.

However, those three black-clad figures had vanished without a trace.

Fu Long alone dealt with the two black-clad figures, while Chu Qianli, gripping a dagger, and Long Ziyue, drawing his longsword, stayed alert to the movements around them.

A gust of wind swept by.

Chu Qianli felt her hair by her ear flutter lightly.

As the wind struck fiercely, she twisted her wrist, and with a whoosh, the black-clad figure that streaked past her side instantly fell to the ground!

But, there were still two more!

Behind her, Long Ziyue swung his longsword but struck nothing.

A chill attack came from behind.

"Be careful!" Fu Long’s broadsword chopped towards her back.

Chu Qianli’s dagger had already thrust out beside her left arm.

With two hissing sounds, two black-clad figures were hit and immediately appeared.

With a sweep of Fu Long’s broadsword, one of them suffered a gory head wound and collapsed, dead on the spot.

The light of Chu Qianli’s dagger flashed, and another figure was severely wounded and fell to the ground, unable to rise again.

"Assassins!" Danqing, leading his men, rushed over and quickly subdued the four black-clad figures.

But at the moment they were subdued, the four figures forcefully bit into the poison hidden in their teeth.

They died on the spot!

There was no time to save them.

"Don’t touch their bodies!" Fu Long hurried over, pulling Chu Qianli, who had crouched down to examine the corpses, to her feet.

"The bodies are poisoned," he urged.

"I know, I’m wearing gloves."

Fu Long remained uneasy, "What do you want to see? Let me do it."

"You don’t understand." Chu Qianli searched their bodies carefully but ultimately found no useful clues.

Tie Xin, guarding Feng Wuya, arrived.

But Chu Qianli suddenly stood up, dropped her gloves, with a grave expression, "Something’s not right."

Fu Long furrowed his eyebrows, "Ali, what’s wrong?"

"It’s not their scent." She clearly smelled the odor of decay.

It was... just like the scent she had smelled on the Medicine Man before!

"Not good! There’s a Medicine Man!"

The words ’Medicine Man’ didn’t mean much to Danqing and Long Ziyue.

But to the guards of Beiming Country, those words turned their expressions on a dime!

How could a Medicine Man have pursued them here?

"Miss Chu, are you sure it’s a Medicine Man?" Tie Xin immediately protected Feng Wuya, "But why do we not see any signs of the Medicine Man?"

"I am certain I smelled the Medicine Man, I couldn’t be wrong!"

She did smell it.

But at times the scent seemed clear, then it would become fainter, as if not so distinct.

It came and went with the wind.

She had detected it for a while now, so why hadn’t it approached yet?

Suddenly, she leapt and landed on the rooftop.

Fu Long followed closely behind her, landing not far from her side.

The two of them looked into the distance, and quickly located where the smell was coming from.

"There’s a fight going on!" Fu Long looked at Chu Qianli, "You stay here with them, and I’ll check it out."

"No, it’s too dangerous for you to go alone!"

Having witnessed the prowess of a Medicine Man before, Chu Qianli couldn’t rest at ease letting Fu Long go alone.

"Someone is holding them off for us."

Chu Qianli floated down lightly from above back to the ground.

He looked at Feng Wuya, "I’ll go with Fu Long to have a look. You all pack up immediately, and as soon as..."

"No need."

Feng Wuya’s face had an odd tint.

After a moment, he pursed his lips and said, "They’re my people."