Then let them offer their loyalty!

But those shadowy figures seemed to have already figured out the guards' routines and locations.

The leader of the shadowy figures made a few hand gestures, and immediately, more than a dozen shadowy figures scattered in all directions.

A few moments later, several exclamations rang out in the darkness: "Who are you?!" "What are you doing?!" "Ah!"

"Pfft!" "Pfft!"

With the sound of blades piercing flesh and blood being cut, several sentries and patrolmen quickly fell to the ground.

"Rustle, rustle..." The sound of changing clothes.

Before long, everything returned to normal: the sentries were still on duty, and the patrol personnel were still patrolling.

After the outer guards were relieved, the leading figure in black made a few more hand gestures, then led the group to infiltrate Villa No. 1...

Tonight might be my last night in Dong Ye State.

Therefore, the guards of the envoy group were somewhat lax.

After the outer perimeter was easily dealt with, the shadowy figure encountered little resistance when it broke into the villa's courtyard.

They easily dealt with the guards in the courtyard. Just when the shadowy figures thought the operation would go smoothly...

Suddenly, on the second floor of the villa, a female guard walked to the window and glanced down unintentionally.

As a result, that one glance startled her, and she immediately turned around, shouting loudly into the villa, "Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Help! Enemy..."

"Thud!" A sharp fruit knife precisely slit her throat, cutting open her trachea and blood vessels!

The female guard clutched her bleeding neck, staring wide-eyed at the person in front of her in disbelief.

And in her bright eyes, the figure of Princess Xi, dressed in black, holding a fruit knife, with a cold and expressionless face, was clearly reflected...

With a swift, precise, and ruthless strike, Princess Xi killed the female guard. Holding the fruit knife, she walked downstairs expressionlessly.

He walked past his bedroom, where the bodies of two maids lay on the floor.

They were all clutching their necks, blood trickling from between their fingers, their eyes wide with disbelief.

Clearly... they, like the female guard, never expected that the seemingly harmless and motherly Princess Xi would suddenly attack someone, and be so ruthless and decisive.

Holding a fruit knife, he killed his way to the first floor of the villa.

At this moment, the first floor of the villa was already in chaos, with shouts of killing echoing everywhere.

Although the female guard had been silenced, her initial shouts still alerted the other guards in the villa.

Seeing this scene, Princess Xi's expression darkened slightly, and she whispered, "Stop suppressing your strength! Finish this quickly!"

"The longer it drags on, the more likely it is to attract other guards."

Upon hearing her command, the shadowy figures indeed ceased to suppress their power.

Once their aura erupted, they were all experts at the third or fourth level.

In a flash, swords flashed and shadows clashed; in just a few moments, almost all the guards in the villa were beheaded.

Seeing this, Princess Xi pointed to a few people and quickly instructed, "Ah Da, Ah Er, you bring five people with you and come with me."

"The rest of you, immediately disperse and clean up the battlefield."

After saying that, she threw down the fruit knife in her hand and walked towards the villa's courtyard.

The two people she called out quickly pointed to a few other people and followed her out.

As she stepped onto the threshold of the villa, Princess Xi paused, then ordered without turning her head, "Take off your night clothes."

"If you're not wearing any clothes underneath, then just leave your upper body exposed."

"Yes," the men replied.

Perhaps it was because the fight at the villa caused quite a stir.

A dozen seconds later, there was a knock on the villa's door.

A woman dressed in black, now a maid, walked to the villa's gate, opened it, and asked, "Is there something you need?"

When the maid opened the door, the patrolling guards looked suspiciously into the room before asking, "Hello, is there anything unusual?"

"Is the Princess alright?"

Hearing the patrol guard's words, the maid gave him a strange look and said, "What could be wrong?"

Before she could finish her sentence, Princess Xi's voice came from the villa courtyard, "Little Rabbit, what's wrong?"

Upon hearing this, the maid deliberately stepped aside and called out into the courtyard, "It's alright, Your Highness, it's just a guard from the 8th Shelter."

"They seemed to hear us packing, so they came over to ask."

Hearing the maid's words and seeing the maid's identity as she stepped aside, the guards took a few steps forward without making a sound, glancing sideways at the scene in the villa's courtyard.

As a result, he saw several burly men, mostly shirtless, struggling to carry boxes of things and organizing them.

Princess Xi sat on a recliner in the courtyard, quietly reading a book.

Upon seeing that Princess Xi was safe and sound, the head guard breathed a sigh of relief and then greeted her, "Princess Xi."

After greeting him, he added, "You're still up so late?"

Princess Xi glanced at him, then gave a soft "hmm," and said, "I couldn't sleep last night, and I remembered the gifts I gave to Elder Rao and Elder Tang, which I haven't checked yet."

"So before you leave, do one last check."

Upon hearing Princess Xi's words, the head guard quickly responded and then withdrew from the courtyard.

Once outside the gate, he shook his head at his teammates, "It's nothing. Just a misunderstanding. Let's go."

After saying that, he led the way to continue the patrol.

After the guards from Shelter No. 8 left, the maid visibly breathed a sigh of relief. She closed the door, then quickly went to Princess Xi's side and whispered, "Your Highness."

Princess Xi gave a faint "Mmm" and then said, "It's alright. It's all in the past."

"As long as it's not exposed immediately, this is our own internal affair at Shelter No. 6."

“Even if the 8th shelter notices a problem, it will not intervene.”

"As for Kou Yu..."

"I didn't expect him to openly break off relations so directly, and I wasn't prepared in advance."

"There are currently six fourth-tier and one fifth-tier fighters. They are still within the territory of the 8th Sanctuary. Once everything settles down by tomorrow morning, he won't dare to make another move."

After saying that, Princess Xi stood up and said, "Alright, clean up the bloodstains and corpses in the villa. You should all go and take your night shifts and go and rest."

"We'll discuss everything when I meet Kou Yu tomorrow."

"Yes, Your Highness." The maid replied and quickly began to make the arrangements....

And then, at that very moment...

Suddenly, the sound of running could be heard outside. The running was uniform and the steps were firm, clearly belonging to elite soldiers.

The next second, Kou Yu's slightly mocking voice rang out above the villa, "Princess, it seems... my brother predicted you again."

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Chapter 541 Saving Princess Xi! (Thanks to the patron "Can I Eat Some More"!)

Upon hearing Kou Yu's arrogant voice, the expressions of everyone in the villa immediately changed.

Even the usually composed Princess Xi was startled.

She couldn't help but turn her head to look at the villa's courtyard wall.

Although she couldn't see the outside world because of the walls and doors blocking her view.

However, judging from the footsteps outside and Kou Yu's words, it is quite obvious that... Kou Xuan, the almost demonically intelligent man from the Kou family, had foreseen the royalists' actions tonight and had made corresponding arrangements long ago.

How could this be...?

Princess Xi frowned deeply, her beautiful face filled with disbelief.

Even she only learned about tonight's rescue plan at tonight's banquet.

How did the other party calculate it from thousands of miles away?

Princess Xi considers herself to be a very ambitious and resourceful woman.

But at this moment, there is still a sense of frustration.

Is the gap between ordinary people and prodigies really that big?

To be honest, at that moment, she would have preferred to believe that Kou Yu was bluffing her. But... now Kou Yu was standing guard outside with his security personnel.

The facts are there for all to see; even if she doesn't want to accept them, she has no choice but to.

Thinking this, her hands clenched involuntarily, and her gaze shifted from confusion to determination.

'There's still a chance! We haven't lost yet!'

Thinking this, Princess Xi composed herself, then turned serious and whispered a rebuke to her confidants gathered around her, who were clearly influenced by Kou Yu.

"What's the panic!"

"I will live and die with you tonight! If he wants to kill you, he will have to step over my dead body!"

"Or do you think he would dare to kill me during his overseas trip?"

In just a few seconds, Princess Xi went from surprise and doubt to composure, and then to comforting her confidants, almost seamlessly.

Therefore, upon hearing her words of sharing life and death, her trusted confidants present were inexplicably relieved.

And at that very moment!

A deafening "BOOM!" was heard!

The villa's steel gate flew into the air and then exploded into pieces!

Fragments flew everywhere, and several guards quickly stepped in front of Princess Xi to protect her.

The guards behind them also grabbed their weapons and prepared to rush out.

However, at this moment, Princess Xi calmly reached out and stopped them from doing so.

She even reached out and pushed aside the guards blocking her way, then walked up to the crowd.

—Clearly, she was fulfilling her promise to live and die with her confidants.

As Princess Xi walked to the front of her confidants, Kou Yu led his troops in from outside.

He was dressed in a magnificent casual outfit, walking with the stride of a dragon and the gait of a tiger. His eyes were imposing and dignified, and his aura as a superior and a fifth-order cataclysmic being was as majestic as a mountain!

As he walked in, hundreds of guards followed him in and then surrounded the courtyard.

When Princess Xi saw this scene, she had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it.

So, she regained her composure, raised her head slightly, and, displaying the demeanor of a princess, asked, "Lord Kou, what brings you to my residence with your troops so late at night?"

Upon hearing Princess Xi's words, Kou Yu chuckled coldly and said, "Princess, you should know better than I what I'm after."

As he spoke, he glanced around at the people being protected behind Princess Xi, and then asked, "Where is Ji Yuan?"

"Does a fifth-tier Cataclysm need to be protected by a woman like you?"

Before Princess Xi could speak after hearing Kou Yu's words, a loud buzzing sound rang out from afar!

The next second, a flying sword gleaming with cold light shot towards Kou Yu with lightning speed!

The speed was as fast as lightning. One second they were a thousand meters away, and the next second they were right in front of Kou Yu!

However, Kou Yu seemed to have known the newcomer's methods all along.

He snorted coldly, then his gaze suddenly sharpened! In that instant, the flying sword seemed to slow down immensely before him!

He could see every phantom, every centimeter clearly!

Then, with one hand still behind his back, he raised the other hand seemingly slowly but actually quickly and slammed it heavily onto the sword!

A crisp "clang!"

The next second, time returned to normal, and the flying sword that had just flown to Kou Yu's front was directly knocked down to the feet of Princess Xi!

The next second!