Monarch Night

"Form the circular formation! Form the circular formation!"

Zheng Yunqi shouted desperately, organizing the small demons within the Escort Agency into a circular defense formation without any worries.

Everyone continued to gather towards him.

The fight on both sides turned bitter and desperate right from the start, entering a life-or-death struggle.

It was a fight to the death.

Life and death seemed especially swift.

Starlight Master wielded a blade alone, like a flash of lightning, moving swiftly through the air, blocking all the experts, preventing them from descending.

Moreover, he held the upper hand.

A dozen or so Marquises couldn't advance an inch in front of him!

And he even managed to kill three!

In the time it took to drink a cup of tea, Starlight Master's hands had already ended nearly a hundred lives. Blood scattered from the sky like rain.

He was a fourth-grade Marshal, capable of defeating Marquises, and now that he was a seventh-grade Marshal, he was even more formidable.

Swiftly killing, unless the opponents teamed up, no single opponent could last even a single move.

"Roar!"

Starlight Master let out a loud roar, splitting a Marquis in half with one stroke of his Nine-Ring Saber.

Just at that moment.

Distantly, a glimmer of light appeared.

It transformed into a meteor, speeding toward the battling Starlight Master.

Starlight Master suddenly felt a surge of danger, instinctively slashing three times, forcing back all the enemies ahead.

With calm focus and raging sword light illuminating the night sky, he channeled all his cultivation into a move of the Hentian Heavenly Saber Technique.

Hentian no eye.

Desperately unleashed.

With a loud boom, the entire Escort Agency shook. An air wave surged, sending the few masked men nearby who wanted to take advantage spinning out.

The approaching person was forced back, looking in shock at the rolling figure of the Chief on the ground.

He actually blocked my strike.

Fang Che was directly hit back, his internal organs displaced, landing on the ground like a cannonball. As he landed, his blade continued to slice, cutting three nearby masked men into two.

Only then did he cough out a mouthful of blood and trembleingly said, "King level?"

From all directions, a chorus of long whistles rose.

The defenders of the Guardian Hall finally arrived.

The King level master in the sky waved his hand, "Retreat!"

Coldly said, "Worldwide Escort Agency, don't meddle!"

All the masked men leaped up, flying away.

Can you just leave after killing someone?

Zhao Wushang and others were not willing to let them go; hidden weapons were thrown one after another in pursuit, even their weapons thrown as hidden weapons.

But the King level in the air slashed horizontally, sword light knocking down the hidden weapons, and the black-clad group disappeared into the night.

Fang Che staggered, finally collapsing to sit on the ground, blood gushing from his mouth like a spring.

"Chief!"

Zheng Yunqi, covered in injuries, ran over, "Are you alright?"

Everyone rushed over in a panic.

Everyone understood the battle just now.

If not for the Chief, tonight none of them would survive.

He fought desperately, blocking all the superior Marquises.

"No problem."

Fang Che quickly took a Dan Yun Divine Pill, gasping, still feeling the burning pain in his internal organs.

"How's everyone?"

Zhao Wushang and others didn't reply yet,

Swish swish swish swish...

Experts from the War Hall of the Guardian Hall landed one after another.

Then, with a long whistle, Fan Tiantiao flashed down into the Escort Agency, shaking his head regretfully, "Entered the residential area of the city... sigh."

Everyone was silent.

"How are the casualties of the Escort Agency?" Fan Tiantiao asked.

"More than thirty brothers died." Zheng Yunqi reported after checking, eyes burning with anger.

The original rotation of grandmasters had increased to twenty per day, and this day thirteen of the twenty died, while among the escort heads, the small demons, nineteen died!

Including two women!

It can be said that the losses were heavy.

"Who were those people, Demon Sect?"

"Don't know, haven't checked. The bodies are all here."

The bodies of the masked men were laid together.

A total of 149!

Most were killed by Fang Che.

"Chief Yin Xiu's Kung Fu is impressive." Fan Tiantiao said while examining.

Over there, the Chief's mouth was still bleeding, weakly saying, "Lord of Hall... overloaded, cough cough cough..."

"The heart veins are all missing."

Fan Tiantiao examined several masked men's bodies, sighed, stood up, and said, "They are indeed from the Demon Sect."

This point, actually, Zheng Yunqi and Zhao Wushang and others knew more than Fan Tiantiao.

Everyone remained silent.

They all went forward to look, some were indeed from the batch that left the headquarters with them, but most were not.

People from the Guardian Hall were cleaning up the bodies, while those from the Escort Agency were cleaning up their own dead.

If the Guardian Hall people dissected even the dead from the Escort Agency, they would surely find that a section of these people's heart veins was missing too.

However, since they belonged to their own people, the dead had already sacrificed everything, how could they defile the body further?

After discussing the follow-up with the people from the Escort Agency, as everyone over there was injured and needed treatment, and since it was a mess there, it wasn't the time to speak.

So a few simple words were exchanged.

The Guardian Hall began to retreat.

"Take it easy."

Fan Tiantiao left a few words.

Chief Yin Xiu sighed deeply, "Taking it easy is impossible, but our Yishan Sect won't just swallow this loss!"

The people from the Guardian Hall quickly left.

The air smelled of blood.

In the main hall.

Thirty-two corpses were laid.

Lying quietly.

The small demons all had tears in their eyes.

Just moments ago they were taking exams together, waiting to see the commotion together, and now they lay here silently.

A few girls softly sobbed.

"Assess the damage, tend to the wounds, then come in for a meeting."

Fang Che said.

"Yes."

Finally.

Everyone, with somber faces, entered the meeting hall one after another.

Starlight Master, too, wore a grim expression, wrapped in bandages, seated on the throne.

Though his injuries had healed after consuming a Dan Yun Divine Pill, he still needed to be bandaged. However, the Dan Yun Divine Pills were being consumed too quickly; since returning, seven pills were already used!

There were only twenty in total, and nearly half were gone.

He hadn't even cleaned the bloodstains on his body.

There were still blood marks on his face.

The others, though, had tidied up slightly.

"Let's talk, what do you think about this attack?"

Starlight Master spoke with a chilling aura.

"I checked, and among the dead, there aren't many like us." Zheng Yunqi said.

"Yes."

"Most are Jianghu martial artists."

"This operation doesn't seem like something orchestrated by the Main Sect people."

"Yes, I also feel the same, though they assembled a lot of Marshals, but... for us, who are from the Shi Family, there's still a feeling."

Everyone was of one mind and supportive of Zheng Yunqi and others' viewpoint.

This time, Fang Che became interested, "What feeling?"

He wondered if they could recognize them?

"It's not clear, just a similar feeling, like an intuition."

Zheng Yunqi said, "You know, in our own families, we are not direct descendants. Often, those like us in the family have to behave humbly... greeting the direct descendants when we see them."

"Sometimes when we get something good, we'd rather not use it ourselves and give it away to earn a smile. Sometimes the family geniuses smile at us, and we're happy for days."

"It's this mentality, exactly!"

Zhao Wushang nodded continuously, and others were also nodding with wry smiles.

"We're already twenty-five or six years old, only Marshal level, the resource quota is there, but just average. No matter how hard we try, we can't catch up. While typical family geniuses of our age have reached high-grade Marquis or King level. Some are even at the Emperor level."

"This is a completely different treatment."

"Though we're part of the family, as sideline members, we practically serve as servants or hired workers for the direct members."

"So over time, people like us develop... an instinct to bow and scrape when seeing direct members, always feeling a notch lower."

"And most of those who came out this time are like us, so sometimes we can get along and relate well..."

Zheng Yunqi lowered his head in shame.

This feeling is deeply ingrained, hardly anything to be proud of.

Fang Che realized and said, "So in your recent recruitment, did you rely on this feeling? Finding those who seem impressive and arrogant but are actually insecure inside, accustomed to bowing and scraping? In simple terms, servants recognizing servants, right?"

That's the case, but do you have to put it so harshly?

Everyone was speechless, their heads lowered in shame: "Yes. Though sometimes we make mistakes, we get it right seven out of ten times."

"..."

Fang Che was speechless.

It really is a strange skill.

But a strange thought suddenly arose in his mind: could this mentality be utilized?

Moreover, I just saved their lives tonight. This seems like a good opportunity for a second heart-winning move, right?

He pondered this, considering if it was feasible given the recent deaths.

But such a crisis was rare.

Below, everyone continued to discuss.

"So we all feel that tonight's attack doesn't seem like something orchestrated by people like us. It's not something we could have planned; if we did it ourselves, it wouldn't have been like this."

"These people cooperated as if they were a long-standing military unit, while our plans wouldn't have had such coordination."

Zhao Wushang's words made everyone a bit ashamed.

Starlight Master's eyes gradually focused as if he started understanding.

"You mean, I gather you're suggesting that this attack was actually organized by an affiliated sect?"

Starlight Master's eyes flashed coldly.

"That's right."

Zheng Yunqi said, "Master, did you notice anything strange about the King's leader's words during the retreat?"

"Which words?"

"That phrase: Worldwide Escort Agency, don't meddle."

Zheng Yunqi said, "That statement seemed to be from the Main Sect's standpoint, but if it were our sect's Shi Family, no one would say that."