World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 371 - 2020: Wedding Invitations!_3

Chapter 371: 2020: Wedding Invitations!_3

"Hehehe..."

Soon, a hundred marauders had Suo Lun and his two companions completely encircled.

As a mid-level Samurai, Suo Lun alone with his sword could probably kill a dozen or twenty marauders, but there were several hundred in front of him.

Moreover, the leaders of the marauders were several high-level Samurai.

So, the odds were grim in this battle.

Suo Lun couldn’t help but say to the little girl behind him, "Girl, I told you, uncle is a good person, right?"

At this moment, the little girl finally nodded her head.

"What’s your name, girl?" Suo Lun asked.

"Anan," the little girl said.

However, this was not a name; it was a family too poor to name their daughter.

"Anan, hold your aunt’s hand tight, uncle can only do his best," Suo Lun said.

"Whooosh whooosh..."

At that moment, about a dozen marauders charged at Suo Lun with fierce slashes of their knives.

"Swoosh..."

Suo Lun wielded his sword in defense.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh..."

The first was killed, then the second...

Suo Lun exhibited the martial prowess of a mid-level Samurai swordsman to the extreme, as more and more corpses fell around him.

One, two, three, five, ten, thirteen, fifteen, eighteen...

Twenty-five...

This was his first time killing so many enemies with his sword, frightening the marauders completely.

Out of two hundred, Suo Lun alone had killed a third.

"Third Brother, it’s your turn!" called the marauders’ leader, hiding among the crowd.

Suddenly, a fierce Samurai charged forward, mixing in with the other marauders.

"Ding..."

Suo Lun’s arm went numb, his white gold sword flew straight out of his hands.

This was a high-level Samurai with immense strength. In a one-on-one fight, he would have died under Suo Lun’s sword.

But now, he had knocked Suo Lun’s sword away.

Suo Lun was weaponless and practically lost his fighting power at that moment.

The next second.

"Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh..."

A massive sword was poised at his neck.

Dozens of curved blades aimed at his head, ready to turn Suo Lun into a pile of mush with just one command.

"Well, aren’t you a pretty boy, killing so many of my men," the marauders’ leader coldly said, "Hack him to pieces and take the beauty away."

Instantly, countless swords and knives swung towards Suo Lun’s head, about to dismember him on the spot.

"Bang..." However, before these blades could touch Suo Lun, they suddenly froze in mid-air and explosively shattered to pieces.

Suo Lun felt the temperature around him drop, and then Ashi Liren slowly stood up.

She had finally awakened, right when Suo Lun was about to be hacked into pieces.

"Anan, close your eyes," Ashi Liren said, then picked her up with one hand.

The little girl immediately closed her eyes and even fell asleep.

Ashi Liren, holding the little girl in one arm, walked forward step by step.

"Crack, crack..."

Where she passed, all of the marauders instantly froze into ice, unable to move a muscle.

With every step she took, ice formed beneath her feet.

She didn’t make a move, nor did she even draw her Dragon Gold Sword, and yet she walked up to the bandit leader.

Her deep, peerlessly beautiful eyes simply stared quietly at the bandit leader.

As he gazed into her eyes, as vast as the ocean and as deep as the starry sky, the bandit leader, transfixed and trembling, rolled off his horse and prostrated on the ground, his forehead pressed to the earth unmoving.

He had come for a beautiful woman, but had he known of such an exceptional beauty, he certainly would not have come.

Because in the presence of such a woman, a single glance made him lose all confidence and feel his soul scatter, let alone harbor any blasphemous thoughts.

Ashi Liren still didn’t make a move, passing directly by the bandit leader.

"Crack..." The bandit leader also became sheathed directly in ice.

Wherever Ashi Liren’s footsteps trod, the ground was icy blue and frosty. Seen from above, a large circle with a diameter of several tens of meters had been entirely encased in ice.

All of the more than one hundred bandits within this great circle were also immobilized.

Ashi Liren turned her head, her cold and dazzling beautiful eyes glanced at Suo Lun, and she nodded in acknowledgment.

Even though she still hadn’t asked Suo Lun’s name, this was the first time she nodded towards him, the first time she truly looked at him.

Suo Lun nodded back in response.

"Whoosh..." A gust of wind blew past.

Ashi Liren, holding the little girl, floated away into the distance.

Meanwhile...

"Bang, bang, bang, bang..."

All of the bandits who had been frozen solid, whether they were mounted or not, exploded instantly.

The spectacle was incredibly magnificent, dazzlingly brilliant.

Even in killing, it was filled with a sense of art.

Each person’s explosion was like blue fireworks bursting open.

There was no bloodshed, no disgusting entrails. In an instant, entire bodies were shattered, turning into countless blue pieces of ice, scattered across the ground.

Without drawing her sword, without lifting a finger, Ashi Liren had killed the remaining hundred or so bandits, cleanly.

When he looked up again, Ashi Liren had disappeared without a trace.

In the air, only that enchanting and mysterious fragrance lingered.

The ground was littered with blue shards of corpses, and the scene that just unfolded truly seemed like a dream, a fragrant dream.

It was their second encounter, yet he still had not seen her face.

What he saw was instead her cool, sparkling gaze, like the stars.

Suo Lun looked towards the western direction where she had vanished, then mounted the Lion-Tiger Beast and sped off towards Wangcheng Zidu to the southwest.

...

The evening after one day, just as the city gates were about to close, Suo Lun, holding the King’s decree, entered the City of Rage Wave.

"Greetings, Count Suo Lun." At the city gate, all the guards and soldiers kneeled neatly in unison, and all civilians were forbidden entry.

This was the ceremonial protocol for a noble’s entry into the royal city.

Just as Suo Lun entered the main gates of the city, two eunuchs leading a procession were already waiting there.

Upon Suo Lun’s arrival, the two eunuchs came forward to greet him, each presenting an invitation.

"Greetings, Count Suo Lun, the Princess’s House is holding a dinner banquet, which is about to start. We respectfully request your attendance," said the eunuch sent by the Zhiyan faction.

"Greetings, Count Suo Lun, His Highness Zhi Li’s attendant, Ling Ao, and Miss Gui Qinshu’s engagement banquet is about to start, respectfully inviting your attendance," said the eunuch sent by the Zhi Li Sect.

Suddenly, Suo Lun received two invitations.

Wasn’t Zhi Li the one who sent people to assassinate him? Why then send an invitation, and how did he know he wasn’t dead?

The union between Ling Ao and Gui Qinshu was finally confirmed.

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Note: The second update is here, nearly eleven thousand words today. Brothers, I ask for your support, I ask for your encouragement.