Before the man even arrived.

Surging internal force was already sweeping up a massive wave of air that rushed toward her.

The hair on Jiang Zirou’s ears was blown up.

With that palm strike, the man let out a long howl and was about to soar into the air like a blue dragon rising to the heavens.

‘Petty tricks!’

Jiang Zirou wrinkled her small, upturned nose.

She felt a little underestimated.

She lightly pointed forward with one finger and the ocean-like torrent of internal force was instantly broken apart by Jiang Zirou.

Then Jiang Zirou stepped forward.

Her figure flickered like a ghost, crossing more than ten meters in an instant to appear in front of the masked man in black.

“How is that possible!?”

The man in black was utterly stunned.

He simply could not imagine that such a young girl could possess such terrifying movement technique.

Jiang Zirou pushed out a palm sideways.

This was her first time fighting someone, so she did not use her full strength and hid her Grandmaster Realm cultivation. She only used about as much internal force as a Ninth Rank Qi Refining cultivator.

But even so.

The cultivation that the system had given her was far beyond what an ordinary cultivator could imagine.

The masked man in black was already a top assassin of Dead Man Lake, having roamed freely through Great Xia for more than ten years with a fearsome reputation. Yet in his haste to respond, when he raised his hand to counter, he still suffered a huge loss.

“Wah!”

From the very first exchange.

He was already severely injured, blood spraying from his mouth and nose as his whole body flew sideways like a kite with its string cut.

Jiang Zirou withdrew her hand.

She was just about to capture this mysterious assassin and interrogate him about his background.

But at that moment.

“Good brother, I’m here to back you up!”

A loud shout.

Like thunder, making the whole forest tremble.

Behind Jiang Zirou, a burly man, eight feet tall with a hulking build, also dressed in black and masked, charged in. He held a long blade in his hand and chopped down toward the back of Jiang Zirou’s head.

Cold light flashed and the blade wind was bitterly sharp.

However, Jiang Zirou’s perception at the Grandmaster Realm was keen beyond compare.

There was no way two cultivators of lower realms could succeed in ambushing her.

“Heh!”

With a soft shout.

Jiang Zirou tapped in midair, her body rising like a dead leaf caught by the wind. While dodging the fierce blade qi, she slapped her palm onto the blade’s edge.

Crack!

With the long-term aid of Body Tempering Pills, Blood-Revitalizing Pills and other elixirs, Jiang Zirou’s body might look slim, yet it already possessed extraordinary toughness and strength.

Under Jiang Zirou’s palm.

The cold, gleaming long blade instantly developed countless hairline cracks, as if it might shatter completely at any moment.

“How is that possible?”

The burly man’s eyes, big as bronze bells, were filled with doubt and shock.

But Jiang Zirou did not give him any chance.

“Break!”

The girl cried out sharply.

A layer of pale light wrapped around her white palm, making it look like carved jade, as she slammed it hard into the burly man’s chest.

The black-clothed burly man flew sideways, smashing through two trees as thick as a person’s arm-span before finally crashing to the ground.

Even though his body was robust.

Even though he was a martial artist who specialized in physical strength, after taking Jiang Zirou’s palm he could only groan for quite a while without being able to get up.

“Let go! If you keep attacking, don’t blame me for showing no mercy!”

Behind her.

A voice, tinged with pain, rang out.

Jiang Zirou folded her hands behind her back and turned around.

She saw that at some point, the first assassin in black had already crawled over to the Seventh Imperial Grandson’s side.

The unconscious Seventh Imperial Grandson was seized in his left hand.

In his other hand, he held a dagger that he placed lightly against the Seventh Imperial Grandson’s delicate neck.

The threat was self-evident.

“So this is all you’re capable of…”

Jiang Zirou laughed softly and shook her head, while quietly taking a few steps back.

She avoided further agitating this assassin whose mental state had become somewhat unstable from the beating.

“Let go of the Seventh Imperial Grandson and I can spare your lives.”

“You think we’re three-year-old children? You stay right there and don’t move. We’ll take the Seventh Imperial Grandson with us and once we leave these mountains, we’ll naturally drop him. With your lightness skill, even if you carry him, we won’t be able to shake you off anyway.”

The assassin in black coughed twice.

But he refused to relax in the slightest.

“Boring…”

Jiang Zirou shook her head and the smile slowly faded from her face.

Her patience was gone.

The little girl stretched out her hand, activated her qi-flight divine ability and a dead leaf rose from the ground, falling into her palm.

‘Sword Art! Swift!’

For one who had perfected the way of the sword, a dead branch or a fallen leaf could become a lethal weapon.

Although Jiang Zirou was still some distance away from that realm.

With the pure internal force of her Grandmaster Realm cultivation behind her, using the Sword-Riding Divine Ability to kill a wounded assassin.

It was not difficult at all.

Whoosh!

The dead leaf sliced through the air.

Leaving a streak of blood in its wake.

The assassin in black was about to continue bargaining with Jiang Zirou.

But suddenly felt a sharp pain in his throat.

His words stuck in his mouth.

He could only clutch his neck and make hoarse “hoh hoh hoh” sounds.

His face twisted.

It seemed he wanted to say something, yet with his throat cut open, he could not utter a single complete sentence.

“Martial Grandmaster!”

This line was shouted out by the assassin behind Jiang Zirou.

“Correct, but sadly there’s no reward!”

Hearing this.

A slightly embarrassed smile appeared on Jiang Zirou’s face.

The burly man in black was scared out of his wits.

He was truly terrified by what had just happened.

Between Ninth Rank Qi Refining and the Grandmaster Realm there was a chasm.

So, within the Great Xia Dynasty.

Ninth Rank Qi Refining experts were not few, but even in the most prosperous age of martial cultivation, Grandmaster Realm experts could still be counted on two hands.

The gap between them was like that between heaven and earth.

Jiang Zirou decisively struck again.

Whoosh!

Another dead leaf flew up, pierced through the burly man’s back, passed through his heart and burst out, carrying a spray of blood.

The burly man in black staggered and pitched forward onto the ground.

Only then did Jiang Zirou let out a breath and walk over to the Seventh Imperial Grandson.

Right then, the Seventh Imperial Grandson slowly woke up.

He looked about seven or eight, a chubby little boy and he was quite cute.

When he saw Jiang Zirou standing in front of him, he did not know when she had arrived.

The little fatty widened his eyes.

His face was full of confusion.

“Big sister, are you a fairy?”