Wife Is Still Too Kind

After nearly half an hour of flying at full speed, Luo Ruying finally led Ning Yechen and Luo Hongye out of the Demon Realm Forest.

The journey had gone far more smoothly than expected. They had not even encountered a single demon beast.

Worried that Ning Yechen and Luo Hongye would not be able to endure flying at high speed for too long, Luo Ruying landed for the time being to rest.

Just as Ning Yechen and the others had sat down to rest, the urgent pounding of hooves faintly drifted over from not far away.

Ning Yechen was not surprised in the slightest.

He had long since sensed that something was happening ahead.

The other party's cultivation was exceedingly low. He guessed they were not specifically after his wife and child, so he had not rushed to make a move beforehand.

The moment Luo Ruying sensed someone approaching, her nerves tightened.

Worried that they had come specifically to hunt her down again, she told Ning Yechen to watch over Luo Hongye while she went alone to investigate.

Concealing her aura, Luo Ruying followed the sound and leaped onto the branch of a large tree, secretly watching below.

On the road below, two people were galloping along swiftly on horseback.

One was a girl of no more than fifteen or sixteen. Her features were delicate, her hair tied in a ponytail, and between her brows was a valiant, dashing air no less imposing than a man's.

The other was a middle-aged man with a square face.

The middle-aged man was wounded in many places, his entire body covered in injuries.

Behind the two of them, a group of masked black-clad men wielding sharp blades continually bounded through the forest in pursuit.

The disparity in strength between the two sides was glaringly obvious.

Yet neither side's cultivation was particularly high.

The strongest among them was only at the Martial Spirit Realm.

Luo Ruying quickly determined that these people were not here for her.

This was merely an assassination she had happened to stumble upon.

Seeing the assassins behind them about to catch up, the middle-aged man instructed the girl:

"Miss, go quickly!"

"I'll stay behind and hold them off!"

"No!"

"Uncle Zhang, if we go, we go together!"

"Nanli Capital City is just ahead!"

Qi Yuan cried out to the middle-aged man reluctantly.

Zhang He was a Qi Family steward who had accompanied her throughout her upbringing, as well as her personal guard. She truly could not bear to watch him die here just to buy her time.

"Hmph! Don't even think about escaping!"

A black-clad man behind them leaped into the air and hurled dozens of throwing darts down at Qi Yuan and Zhang He from above.

The darts were incredibly fast. Qi Yuan and Zhang He had no time to dodge at all.

Zhang He immediately threw himself over Qi Yuan, using his own body as a shield to block the darts that should have struck her.

The two were knocked from their horses as a result.

Both horses were struck by several darts and died on the spot.

"Uncle Zhang! Uncle Zhang! Are you all right?"

Seeing Zhang He shielding her beneath him at the cost of his life, Qi Yuan hurriedly asked in concern.

Zhang He had been struck by several darts in the back. Coupled with his existing wounds, his expression was already extremely weak.

"Miss, don't worry about me. Go quickly!"

"Go? Where do you think you're going?"

More than a dozen black-clad figures landed, surrounding Qi Yuan and Zhang He on all sides. Holding bloodstained swords, they slowly closed in on the two.

Seeing that they had been surrounded, Zhang He could not help but despair.

In his current state, it was already impossible for him to break out of the encirclement.

As Qi Yuan watched the black-clad men slowly approach, there was not the slightest trace of fear on her face. She rose with her sword in hand, swept her gaze over them all, and had already prepared herself to die!

The black-clad men exchanged looks, their expressions mocking.

Instead, they were in no hurry.

A little girl at the Spirit Communication Realm wanted to fight them?

How laughable!

"Let me have a go at this little girl!"

One black-clad man stepped forward and disdainfully beckoned Qi Yuan over.

Qi Yuan swung her sword forward in fury, but the black-clad man easily dodged it, only to toy with her instead.

"Just as expected of the Qi Family's good-for-nothing young lady."

"You think you can resist us with that little ability? Hahaha."

"Her talent may be lacking, but her looks are truly exceptional~"

"I wonder what the Qi Family's daughter tastes like~?"

The black-clad man's lecherous gaze boldly roamed over Qi Yuan's body.

"How about we strip her naked first?"

"That would surely be quite a sight to behold~ Hahaha!"

The other black-clad men around them joined in, jeering and mocking her.

Qi Yuan's face flushed crimson with rage. Gritting her teeth, she swung her sword at the black-clad man once more in fury.

The black-clad man sidestepped the strike, then casually knocked the longsword from Qi Yuan's hand with a swing of his own blade before kicking her to the ground.

Qi Yuan clutched her abdomen, her expression filled with unwillingness and despair.

Her cultivation and strength were simply far too weak!

She was no match for these assassins at all!

She was nothing but fish on the chopping block, at their mercy!

"Hehehe, not resisting anymore?"

The black-clad man slowly approached Qi Yuan and used his longsword to slice open her clothes.

"Miss!"

Zhang He lay sprawled on the ground, trying to rise, only for another black-clad assassin to pin him down beneath a foot.

He could only watch helplessly as Qi Yuan was about to be stripped bare, utterly unable to do anything, his ears filled with the licentious laughter of the black-clad assassins.

Unable to bear the sight, Zhang He shut his eyes.

Yet at that moment, the lewd laughter abruptly stopped.

When Zhang He opened his eyes again, he saw an incomparably beautiful woman standing before Qi Yuan with a sword in hand.

His own young lady, renowned as Nanli City's greatest beauty, was utterly overshadowed before this woman...

Even Qi Yuan, a woman herself, could not help staring blankly at Luo Ruying in a daze, her heart brimming with astonishment:

There was actually such a breathtakingly beautiful woman in this world...

After recovering her senses a moment later, Qi Yuan discovered that the black-clad man who had stood before her moments ago had already been pierced through the heart by a sword, lying on the ground with disbelief still in his eyes!

When had this woman appeared, and when had she killed that man? Qi Yuan had not reacted at all!

Holding her sword, Luo Ruying swept her cold gaze over the remaining black-clad men and warned icily:

"If you do not leave now, then do not even think of leaving!"

After observing for a while, Luo Ruying ultimately decided to step in and save Qi Yuan and Zhang He.

She had not wished to meddle, but she truly could not stand the filthy, despicable methods of these black-clad assassins.

In a patch of grass not far from Luo Ruying, two heads—one large and one small—peeked out, secretly watching her.

They were Ning Yechen and Luo Hongye, father and daughter, who had quietly followed after her...

Seeing that Luo Ruying still intended to spare those black-clad assassins, Ning Yechen could not help shaking his head.

Wife was still too kindhearted...

If it were me, I'd simply and brutally finish every last one of them!

If these people were let go, they would inevitably cause fresh trouble in the future.

Though no matter how many mosquitoes there were, they posed no threat—at most, it just meant swatting a few more times—mosquitoes buzzing by one's ears were still irritating in the end.

Looking at Luo Ruying surrounded by the men, Luo Hongye raised her little head toward Ning Yechen and asked worriedly:

"Father, are those bad people going to bully Mother?"

Ning Yechen rubbed Luo Hongye's head and smiled.

"Don't worry, Yeye."

"Those bad people can't bully your Mother..."