Hero Saves Beauty?

Hero Saves Beauty?

Primordial Continent, Azure Kingdom, White Tiger Wasteland.

A fierce wind howled, while orderly footsteps shook the gravel on the ground.

Three hundred soldiers clad in jet-black, murderous armor were advancing swiftly through the wasteland.

At the center of the orderly formation, four masters of exceptional lightness skill carried an ornately decorated sedan chair, treading over the rugged mountain road as if it were level ground.

Suddenly, a greatsword fell from the sky.

"Boom!"

The greatsword crashed into the ground amid the soldiers, sending shattered rocks flying and making the earth tremble violently.

"Enemy attack!"

"Quick! Protect the princess!"

The three hundred soldiers roared as they drew their weapons and stood ready for battle.

The four masters carrying the sedan chair darkened their gazes and drew the swords at their waists.

A burly figure draped in a tiger-skin coat landed atop the greatsword like a dragonfly skimming water. With his arms folded across his chest, he looked arrogantly at the hundreds of soldiers before him and said in a booming voice, "Ji Hongxue, someone has bought your life."

A pair of snow-white, jade-like hands lifted the curtain of the sedan chair.

A woman dressed in red stepped gracefully out of the sedan chair. Her dignified appearance carried an indescribable seductive charm.

Her phoenix eyes shimmered alluringly, her lips were like cherries touched with rouge, and every glance seemed capable of stealing one's soul. Her black hair cascaded to her waist, tied with a ribbon that gleamed faintly. Her exposed skin was fair with a rosy glow, and her features were exquisitely flawless—a peerless beauty chosen from ten thousand.

She was the Third Princess of the Azure Kingdom, Ji Hongxue.

At the sight of such beauty, the man in the tiger-skin coat revealed a regretful expression, as though he had gained a deeper understanding of the phrase "beauties die young."

Ji Hongxue saw the strange red flower on the tiger skin. Frowning slightly, she spoke softly, "When flowers bloom on the Other Shore, there is no shore; when souls fall into Forgetting River, they remain within the river... You are an Earth-grade assassin of the Other Shore Pavilion?"

"Heaven-grade," the burly man said.

Ji Hongxue's long lashes trembled.

The expressions of the three hundred soldiers changed drastically. Some faces were already filled with terror and despair.

The Other Shore Pavilion was a colossal assassin organization spanning more than a dozen nations. The Heaven-grade assassins it dispatched were top-tier experts in any small kingdom, and all possessed a perfect mission success rate.

"A Heaven-grade assassin... Elder Brother truly thinks highly of me." Ji Hongxue smiled bitterly.

The burly man drifted down to the ground and pulled up the eight-foot Mysterious Iron Greatsword. "Since you already know who sent me, there is no need for further words. The one killing you is Tyrant Tiger, a Heaven-grade assassin of the Other Shore Pavilion. Third Princess Ji Hongxue, please die!"

Whoosh!

Tyrant Tiger charged into the formation of three hundred soldiers at terrifying speed. The Mysterious Iron Greatsword howled through the air, and with one savage swing, he sent more than a dozen soldiers in steel armor flying. Their armor caved in and shattered, and by the time they hit the ground, they had completely stopped breathing.

"Protect the princess!"

"Kill!!"

These soldiers were the princess's personal guard. Even though their enemy was a Heaven-grade assassin of the Other Shore Pavilion, they still charged fearlessly toward the burly man.

Like a bulldozer, Tyrant Tiger plowed straight through them. With every casual swing of his sword, more than a dozen soldiers died.

Even the princess's elite guards were experts capable of fighting a hundred men alone. Yet before Tyrant Tiger, they were no different from ordinary soldiers. One sword slew more than a dozen; a dozen swings could wipe them all out.

The four masters exchanged glances, then attacked Tyrant Tiger at the same time. The longswords in their hands erupted with incomparably sharp Sword Qi. They were all top experts of the martial world, capable of projecting true qi outward and causing immense destruction.

"No matter how many pieces of trash come, it's useless." Tyrant Tiger laughed loudly at the four charging masters. Golden light suddenly enveloped the Mysterious Iron Greatsword in his hand as he slashed at them with even greater tyranny.

One of them saw the greatsword coming and immediately raised his sword to block it. Then, with a bang, his sword snapped, and he was cleaved into two.

Tyrant Tiger continued swinging his sword, one slash for one, one slash for one...

The four masters were soon all cut in half.

The remaining soldiers did not last even a minute before they too were all hacked to death.

Wreckage lay everywhere, and blood covered the ground.

The stench of blood spread through the wilderness.

Tyrant Tiger stepped over the corpses of the fallen soldiers as he walked toward Ji Hongxue. "What a delectable beauty. It would truly be a pity to kill you just like this..."

His gaze roamed over the woman's exquisite, alluring body.

Ji Hongxue approached Tyrant Tiger with lotus steps. Her autumn-water eyes gradually became vivid and spirited, and in a soft, seductive voice, she said, "I truly never expected it... Big Brother Tyrant Tiger is also a man who cherishes flowers and treasures jade..."

As Tyrant Tiger watched Ji Hongxue walk before him, his body suddenly grew hot, and a bold thought rose in his heart.

At that moment, red light flashed!

A sense of danger instantly flooded his entire body.

He saw a flash of chilling killing intent stab toward his chest at incredible speed!

It was too late to block with his sword!

Almost in that same instant, acting on an assassin's instinct, Tyrant Tiger raised his hand before his chest and retreated rapidly.

Ji Hongxue held a crimson dagger, her body moving like a flying swallow as she swiftly followed. The dagger transformed into an incomparably sharp streak of red light.

"Pfft!" The edge pierced through his palm and drove forward!

But at that moment, Ji Hongxue felt an indescribable force obstructing her thrust. Her dagger had been tightly clamped by his closing palm. Though the hand was drenched in blood from the stab, it did not budge, gripping the blade with deadly force.

"How is this possible..." Ji Hongxue froze, and a trace of despair finally appeared on her face.

"Heh heh... I never expected the Third Princess, rumored to be so weak she could not withstand a gust of wind, to actually be a cultivator at the Profound Body Sixth Layer. I nearly fell for it. You hid your aura well..." Tyrant Tiger looked at the woman before him, his gaze suddenly turning vicious as he bared his teeth in a grin. "Unfortunately, I'm at the Profound Body Eighth Layer."

His fist came crashing down, striking the woman directly in the abdomen.

Bang! Waves of air surged outward.

Ji Hongxue was sent flying dozens of meters by the punch, vomiting blood. She smashed the sedan chair behind her into pieces before tumbling miserably to the ground.

The fierce light in the Woman in Red's eyes gradually faded, and despair surfaced on her face. She had only one chance. Having missed it, she had no chance to kill him in return...

"You actually managed to injure me. Tell me, how should I repay you?" Tyrant Tiger sneered as he walked step by step toward the Woman in Red on the ground. His heated, invasive gaze roamed over her body.

He had originally planned to settle the target with one sword, but he had changed his mind.

The princess had given him a surprise, so naturally he had to give the princess a few surprises as well.

Ji Hongxue pressed her lips tightly together, the dagger in her hand trembling faintly.

She had one final choice left. Rather than be humiliated by the enemy, she would end her own life first! Looking at Tyrant Tiger drawing closer and closer, she finally made up her mind. Raising the dagger, she stabbed it toward her own heart!

At that very moment.

A huge hole suddenly appeared in the heavens.

"Boom!"

A white beam flashed down like a startled thunderbolt, landing before Tyrant Tiger!

Energy exploded with a thunderous roar.

Tyrant Tiger screamed as the explosion's aftershock blasted his massive body away.

Ji Hongxue's hand holding the dagger stopped dead. Her beautiful eyes widened, her heartbeat quickened, and a peculiar guess arose in her heart for no reason at all.

A hero saving a beauty?

Yes! It had to be a hero saving a beauty!

What woman did not dream that, in her darkest hour, a hero would arrive astride seven-colored auspicious clouds and save her from fire and water?

Now, this absurd thought had actually come true!

A somewhat weak voice interrupted Ji Hongxue's reverie.

"Cough, cough, cough... Is this the mortal world?"

"Forget immortal qi—even spiritual qi is so thin..."

"This is bad, I'm suffocating..."

A White-robed Youth lay sprawled in a large-character shape on the sunken ground, his hair disheveled and his voice as faint as a thread.

Ji Hongxue parted her rosy lips, staring at the scene before her in disbelief.

Why is my peerless hero lying face-down?

The plot of a hero saving a beauty seems different from what I imagined?

After her brief burst of wild joy, Ji Hongxue fell into despair again.

She had already seen the youth's cultivation. He was merely at the Profound Body Third Layer!

Judging by his age alone, reaching the Profound Body Third Layer at such a young age made him a genius throughout the Azure Kingdom. But that was useless here. He was no match for Tyrant Tiger at all. This was not a hero saving a beauty—he had come here to throw away his life!