Calm Before the Storm

"Large legions are built through enough accumulation."

Reclining in the car with his head on Shirley's supple thighs, Xu Yue enjoyed the massage of her scallion-white fingers against his temples.

The cute little maid in front, who had driven the chauffeur away and taken his place, was driving with her mouth hanging open in an O. She seemed completely unable to understand how her young lady could do something like this.

Just as the two of them were wondering why Xu Yue had said that, a chilling sense of death suddenly rose in both their hearts.

The hairs all over their bodies stood on end.

"Your Highness, be careful!"

The little maid who was driving did not even have time to stop the car. She smashed through the driver's seat and rushed to Shirley's side, spreading her arms protectively toward one direction.

Looking out through the car window, they could see a ronin clad in a straw raincoat, wearing a bamboo hat, and carrying a katana at his waist, slowly walking down from the sky on clouds.

"Only by abandoning oneself can one see the truth..."

As the ronin descended from the clouds, his voice echoed through the heavens.

Yet only the three people inside Shirley's car could hear his voice and see him!

The entire car seemed to have been peeled away from the world. All the vehicles behind them had come to a complete standstill, turning black and white. Everyone inside them seemed unaware of what had happened, frozen in place!

Gradually, strands of Sword Intent emerged within this space, eventually filling every corner of it!

The instant the Sword Intent appeared, even Shirley and her fairly capable little maid were both frozen in place, as though the surrounding space itself had solidified.

They had no power to