414: Chapter 414 The aura of a sixth-tier expert approaches! Strategic relocation with the Fourth Princess

He could not touch her. He could not give her any false hope. He was, after all, destined to return to his original world.

Imperial Preceptor Wen Wangshan had to be killed, and he had to return to Blue Star; the Great Zhou Dynasty was merely a waystation on his long journey.

If he gave her a promise here today, or left behind any emotional bonds, then when the day finally came for him to leave, it would undoubtedly be an even deeper injury to this innocent girl.

Jiang You's face was cold, his fingers slowly curling, clenching tightly into a fist. He hardened his heart, stiffly withdrawing the hand that had been frozen in mid-air, and reverted to a princess carry.

In fact, he had arrived long ago. From the moment he heard the news, he had directly activated the [Boundless Ink Realm], tearing through the void all the way, and rushed back to the Imperial City at maximum speed.

A few minutes ago, he had already landed on an ancient tree a dozen meters outside the Princesss Mansion. However, just as he was preparing to transform into ink clouds and charge into the courtyard to forcibly take The Fourth Princess away—

A burst of pure golden light, so brilliant it was blinding, swept out from within the Princesss Mansion without any warning. In that moment, Jiang You understood what it truly meant to be unreasonable.

The Law of Time—that was a supreme power that completely transcended conventional physical rules. The instant the golden light swept across his body, Jiang You felt all the blood in his body stop flowing, and even the speed of his thoughts was forcibly slowed down by ten thousand times.

He watched helplessly as he maintained his standing posture on the tree trunk, like a bug sealed in amber, unable to move a single finger. Even though his internal organs were frantically sounding warnings, he could do nothing in a domain where time was completely frozen.

He could only stand on that tree, watching helplessly as The Fourth Princess drained her last bit of spiritual energy to prop up that golden world. It wasn't until The Fourth Princess collapsed from exhaustion and the time domain shattered with a roar that he finally regained the ability to act, leading to everything that happened afterward.

"Eye of Tianshu, activate." Jiang You gave a low shout.

Deep within those eyes, which were like abysses, a dim blue stream of light emerged once again.

The myth-level Supernatural Ability [Eye of Tianshu] instantly covered the entire Princesss Mansion.

In the dim blue vision, the residual spiritual power trajectories in the air, the golden aftershocks of the Law of Time, and the final flow of vitality erupted by the deceased before death were parsed into countless intricate lines, clearly reflected in Jiang You's Brain.

Time seemed to flow backward and replay at this moment. Every event, every detail, transformed into cold and glaring images, looping in his Brain.

Jiang You took a deep breath and forcibly deactivated the Eye of Tianshu. He lowered his head and took another look at the girl in his arms. Looking at the smile on her lips, Jiang You felt unable to speak at this moment.

Jiang You did not dare to keep looking at her face either; he shifted his gaze and cast his eyes toward the night sky. In that very instant, Jiang You's pupils contracted violently, and his gaze suddenly became as sharp as a blade!

"Rumble!" A sound of breaking through the air, like rolling thunder, was racing madly from the very center of the Imperial City toward the direction of the Princesss Mansion at a terrifying speed!

The air pressure was rising violently. Although the people had not yet arrived, Jiang You's keen intuition had already sounded the highest level of alarm. There was more than one person coming, and all of them were top-tier experts.

There were at least three auras of peak Fifth-Order, and, in the very center of these auras, there was also a terrifying fluctuation that even Jiang You felt a trace of pressure from.

"A Sixth-Order expert?" Jiang You's brows furrowed tightly, his expression becoming extremely grave. The heritage of the Great Zhou royal family had finally been fully revealed.

That Sixth-Order aura was deep and vast, and it carried a strange, never-before-seen fluctuation of the Law. Although Jiang You's current combat power far exceeded his peers, and even killing enemies a full major realm higher was not an issue—

—but without knowing the enemy's background, and with The Fourth Princess, who was heavily injured and unconscious with zero self-defense capability, in his arms, engaging in battle rashly was by no means a wise move.

He was a cold hunter who had experienced the baptism of death; a hunter's first rule was to never fight a battle he wasn't sure of. Furthermore, The Fourth Princess's current physical condition could not even withstand a single aftershock of battle.

"Consider yourselves lucky." Jiang You glanced coldly in the direction of the Imperial City, a flash of chilling ferocity appearing in the depths of his eyes. He withdrew his gaze without hesitation and pulled The Fourth Princess's body tighter into his arms.

The bluestone slab beneath his feet instantly melted, and a mass of pitch-black ink-like clouds rolled out from the ground, directly enveloping their figures.

"Swish!" The space rippled slightly for an instant.

The ink clouds collapsed inward rapidly, disappearing without a trace in the blink of an eye, leaving behind not even a shred of an outsider's aura.

And less than ten seconds after Jiang You disappeared with The Fourth Princess, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" several powerful figures wrapped in blinding light crashed heavily in front of the gate of the Princesss Mansion,

The hard ground was stomped into several huge deep pits, and the violent airflow instantly blew away the dust covering the ground. The arrivals were all clad in dark gold battle armor; this was the Great Zhou royal family's most mysterious trump card, the Longwu Secret Guards.

The leader was an old man with a full head of silver hair and an imposing manner that did not need anger to command respect. The pressure radiating from his body had remarkably already reached the late Sixth-Order!

After landing, the old man's gaze swept like lightning across the tragic Shura field in front of the gate. He looked at the corpses covering the ground, and those three piles of ash that didn't even have bones left, only traces of erosion by time remaining.

"Time Scissors... Deprivation of Lifespan!" The silver-haired old man gasped, and on that old face accustomed to great storms and waves, there now appeared undisguised horror.

He walked quickly to those piles of ash and carefully sensed the residual Law fluctuations in the air. Subsequently, the old man's brows locked tightly together, and he turned his head sharply to look into the depths of the empty courtyard.

"This is impossible!" The old man shouted sternly, his voice filled with deep disbelief: "How old is that girl? Forcibly activating such a lethal move that overdraws her origin—she absolutely couldn't withstand it! Where is she?"

The several Fifth-Order Longwu Secret Guards behind him quickly scattered, turning into afterimages as they rushed into the ruins to search. A moment later, they returned with ugly expressions.

"Reporting to the Ancestor, no corpse of The Fourth Princess was found in the mansion. Even Nanny Zhao's head was found in the inner hall, but The Fourth Princess's trail is nowhere to be seen!" One of the Longwu Secret Guards knelt on one knee and reported with a trembling voice.

"Could it be that an expert arrived before us and rescued her?" The silver-haired old man's face was livid, his hands clenched tightly, his eyes so gloomy they seemed capable of dripping water.

"Sigh, it truly is an eventful autumn." "I only went into seclusion for a few years, I didn't expect the Great Zhou to have become this chaotic!" He waved his large sleeve, swept a cold glance over the chaotic ruins, and said in a deep voice: "Go, you all follow me back to the palace. I want to see this new Emperor for myself first and ask him what on earth he is playing at!"