The sun had long disappeared beyond the horizon. Dark clouds partially covering the purple-blue colored sky.

From within the town, as the various groups busied themselves. Strange figures began crawling out from the many, small hidden passages that linked the town's drainage system.

Stealthily, they silenced the patrolling guards. Disappearing as quickly as shadows back into the darkness of night.

Booooooooooooooon.

But when they thought they had evaded being noticed, a loud war horn blew.

The sound of hooves clobbering and the trembling sound of hundreds of men shook the ground.

Surrounded by men in black armoured plates with the emblem of the White Tiger, the Bu army stood their ground.

The men on each side clashed with each other, shouting out with each strike to raise their moral spirit. Their spears and swords clanging against each other.

Arrows fell from the sky with neither care for friend nor foe. Anyone who stood in the area were mercilessly rained upon with arrows. The Bu army was prepared to use any possible method to win even if it meant killing their own.

The rain of burning arrows ignited patches of fire and smoke, covering the town. Men screamed and the smell of burnt flesh and hair filled the noses of those nearby.

The cries of men could be heard all over the small town. No where was safe people lost their lives cutting down each other.

Donning on her black outfit, with light armor and a small dagger at her back, her face wrapped in a black cloth while her hair was tied into a ponytail.

The black clothes wrapped perfectly around her body. The sleeves hid dozens of poisoned silver needles. On her thighs and ankle were poison coated small knives and her back was a twin dagger she used for close combat.

"You sure those weapons are enough."

Ruyi looked unsure as Feiyun appeared behind him. He knew that Feiyun had some level of martial arts at least above his level but having strenght and having experience are 2 different things and seeing how "unprepared" she looked, he was slightly worried.

If Tianhuo knew this were the weapons she wanted to use , he would definitely bully him to no end. Already able to see the hardship of the future, Ruyi sighed.

"What? I don't need to cut off their heads off to kill them. A single cut no matter how big the wound as long as blood flows, they will die. Want to give it a test?"

Although wrapped in the black cloth, Ruyi knew that right now Feiyun probably had a evil looking smirk.

"At this point I think princess is more scarier than Tianhuo."

Backing off slightly, Ruyi let out another sigh as he resigned to his fate of getting bullied by Tianhuo. Their princess was still a mystery to him.

Tianhuo had left Feiyun's protection in both his and FeiAn's hands to protect but why does it seems the dangerous on here is the princess?

"Tianhuo seems to be somewhere near the middle. Let's go. The faster we find the leader and kill him, the faster we can get back to the capital."

Leaning forward, Feiyun felt the adrenaline rush. She was finally in her zone, this was her sky. Lightly traversing the darkness jumping swiftly and landing so silently from roof to roof. Not a single sound or footstep could be heard whether she was running on the roof tiles or the sandy ground.

'princess definitely has experience doing this type of job. Just who and what has this princess been doing before coming to Tianhuo? Wasn't she supposed to be a sheltered lady?'

Ruyi silently thought to himself as he tried his best to follow after her. Both FeiAn and him were trained to be shadow guards yet they could barely keep up with her. A feeling of embarrassment washed over him.

The enemies who appeared to block her way was simply dealt with. Like a butterfly, she danced through the crowd. Leaving no more than a thin red line on them.

Perhaps if there were no killing it would have been the prettiest war sword dance Ruyi has ever seen. Graceful with no unnecessary movements. Each strike confident and fatal.

Wherever she passed, after seconds they would fall bubbling and foaming at the mouth, eyes rolled back into the sockets with tears of red.

Each man wore thick armour that normal daggers wouldn't be able to pierce, but Feiyun aimed for their face, neck and joints which didn't have a single armour save for the leather cloth.

Ruyi and FeiAn had nothing to do the entire time. They didn't have to lift a finger before the enemies died and the path had been cleared. They could only follow and watched from behind as they tried to keep up, slightly out of breath.

Her hands were washed in the blood of those she passed, a dagger in both hands glistening, in the light of the flames around them. The dark red blood looked almost black as though the twin daggers were happy from all the blood they had shed.

Just in front, about few hundred meters away, Feiyun caught sight of Tianhuo briefly.

He was easily deflecting uncountable numbers of enemies. a single swing of his black halberd sent groups flying. Blood, limbs and armour sprayed out where ever he went. Some hesitated and ran but was still felled by his halberd.

'No wonder he got that nickname.'

She'd never seen a man stronger than him. Respecting his strength Feiyun felt even more pumped to find the man who murdered the innocent children.

Just as she deflected and slice the neck of the man in front of her,out of the corner of her eye, Feiyun felt a killing intent on to her back. Spinning around, she met eyes with the man from this morning.

His eyes were smiling as he aimed towards her.

Her deep dark eyes turned towards the man, her lips slowly curling into a smirk.

Without a second to waste, she darted towards him, leaving FeiAn and Ruyi to take over deflecting the various group of man who she had been fighting.

An arrow wheezed towards her and she dodged it with ease. But something didn't feel right. The man with the red bow, he had a sly smirk and an evil expression but he was not looking at her but the person behind her.

'FUCK! DOUBLE ARROW! IT WASN'T ME!'

"FEI AN!!!"

Feiyun twisted her body around and pivoted, bending down low, using her hands to support her as she slid to stop her momentum, then quickly as before darting back towards FeiAn.

The arrow shot out by Lord Jie was a double arrow technique where two arrows are shot in succession the first as a distraction while the second hits the real target.

FeiAn couldn't hear Feiyun's call over the loud sound of men and swords, Feiyun clenched her fist, worried she couldn't reach in time, if it had been anyone else, for sure they wouldn't be able to surpass an arrow's speed.

*Pierce.* "MASTER!!!"

FeiyAn screamed as she supported Feiyun who rammed into her.

Having made it just in time, Feiyun managed to save FeiAn by sacrificing her left shoulder. An arrow digging right into her left shoulder blade from behind the tip of the arrow barely poking out from the other side.

"Mmmnn.. I'm okay!"

Feiyun winced as she stood back up. This amount of pain was nothing compared to what she had to endure in her last life. Staggering up, she felt like she was unable to stand properly, her vision blurred.

" Red Carnation... Fuck."

The poison was one she knew, it's a fast acting poison which can be fatal within 5 minute.

She felt her body getting weaker there's no choice but to administer some form of emergency treatment.

Stumbling to the ground. She quickly slipped out an anti poison pill she had for emergency, from her sleeve.

Popping it into her mouth and keeping it beneath her tongue so it can take effect which would take roughly an hour. Although it wouldn't cure her completely, it could momentarily stop the poison from spreading too fast.

Just as she done this, her consciousness started fading to black the poison was already in her bloodstream. She could no longer hear the voices of FeiAn who shook amd called for her.

Rain had started falling, slowly pitter-pattering on her face as FeiAn held her in her arms.

The voices drowning out, as she slowly lost the feeling in her finger tips.

The battlefield which was suppose to be filled with screams of men and clashing from swords instantly became a muted world in the eyes of Tianhuo. Watching his beloved fall to the ground with an arrow stuck to her back.

BOOM!

A terrible wave of intense pressure froze the enemies in front of him.

Tianhuo's deep blue eyes was gleaming in the fire's flicker ablaze with killing intent.

There was no one else in his sight but the man with the bow, who stood in the distance.

Consumed by his rage, who ever got in his way was swiftly cut in half.

Arrows, humans, horses, swords and even wooden beams. Like an intense tornado that destroyed everything in its path, leaving a bloody and messy wreck behind.

Lord Jie felt the intense bloodthirst moving towards him, the hair standing in his back and a chill running down his spine. When his eyes met he froze momentarily. There was no doubt that the man was Tianhuo.

Swallowing his fear, he notched 3 arrows steady, pulled his bow to a taut and aimed towards Tianhuo but all he could see were the blue eyes that locked onto him filled with the rage of a unpredictable ocean wave.

The fear made him unable to steady his shaking hand. One arrow, shot right through Tianhuo's shoulder, another grazed his arm, another deflected by his halberd.

Before Lord Jie could notch another set, Tianhuo had already arrived in front of him.

His soul had already been consumed by the raging blue eyes, his knees buckled and dropped to the ground, the pressure emitting from Tianhuo sent his stomach into a knot he cowered his head with his hands together,

"W-wai!"

There was no "wait". Before the man that had injured his beloved and killed all those innocent children could speak, his weapon swung without hesitation cleanly separating the body and the head.

The strike was so powerful a wave of dust followed behind the body. The head tumbling a few metres away.

Covered head to toe in blood and sweat, Tianhuo speared his halberd into the center of the body, right where the heart was at all the way through until it exited and slammed into the ground, sending out a loud ringing sound followed by a wave of dust.

"If you were ready to harm what is mine, you should be ready to pay with your life."

Then, Silently without a word he went over to Feiyun who had fallen, picked her up gently in an embrace and left.

FeiAn sat in the muddy field, watching the limp body of feiyun being carried away. Tears streaming down her face as she drowned in self-destruction, blaming herself. The events replaying time and time again in her head.

Ruyi who had been stunned in place the entire time returned back to his senses, the chills he got from watching Tianhuo lost in his rage sent goosebumps throughout his body, still unable to recover from the fear that he felt. He has never seen Tianhuo so angry before, not even when he found out how his mother had died.

"R-r-retreat!!"

The remaining Bu army, seeing their leader speared through with guts spilling out and a pool of blood around, decided to flee back to their rocky peaks.

However, as they poured out of the main gates, FeiDu and the snipers who had positioned themselves in places of the Bu army's back up , picked them off slowly. Completely annihilating the Bu lords army.

The back up they had were already on the ground, dead with foam from their mouth and skin turnt purple and blue.

Feidu chuckled as she sat on the branch of a tree her legs swinging as she watched the various men who tried escaping further.

"Idiot! A single arrow may not kill you but a single drop of that poison can kill 10 man."

Captain Huang felt a chill as he watched the young lady laugh at the escaping Bu men who started suffocating and choking, falling over from poison and writhing in agony.

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