How did I, a fake bodyguard, become a terrestrial immortal?

"Lu Yang, welcome home..."

Lu Yang looked at the people whose eyes were sparkling, and remained silent for a moment.

"Sorry, I'm not used to sleeping in certain types of beds. I don't feel comfortable in this kind of awful place."

The people on the street did not react.

The old man, the woman, and the child all stared at him with the same look.

A moment later, the voice rang out again.

"You don't belong here."

"We don't belong here either."

"Join us, and you will know where you came from and how to get back."

Lu Yang's eyes flickered slightly.

The way back.

These words are indeed very tempting.

Although he had nothing he couldn't let go of in his original world.

If he really had the chance to go back, he couldn't possibly remain unmoved.

"Lu Yang, don't trust them."

Fang Xuan forced himself to get out of the carriage.

"These extraterrestrial demons are masters at reading people's minds. They know what you want, and they'll use that to lure you in."

The people on the street moved slowly forward.

"Fang Xuan is lying to you."

"This world sees you as an evil spirit."

"The Zhenwu Division will hunt you down, the imperial court will imprison you in the Demon Locking Tower, and even those around you will one day fear your identity."

"Only we are your kind."

Lu Yang turned to look at Bai Yixin.

Bai Yixin held Bai Miyao in his arms, his expression unchanged.

Zhao Mingtang then drew his longsword from its sheath.

"Master, if you want to go back, I won't stop you."

She watched the crowd closing in.

"But before that, let these things roll out of the people's bodies."

Lu Yang smiled and said, "That makes sense."

Just then, a familiar voice suddenly rang in his mind.

[Special bodyguard commission detected.]

[The item being escorted: the souls of 31,427 civilians from Ferry Pass.]

[Escort to the final destination: their respective original bodies.]

[Task deadline: Before midnight.]

[Mission Rewards: Calculated based on escort completion progress.]

【Is it accepted? 】

The smile on Lu Yang's face gradually disappeared.

Thirty-one thousand four hundred and twenty-seven people.

More than 30,000 living people.

They have parents, wives and children, and people at home waiting for them to wake up.

"Receive".

Special escort mission accepted.

[Current item integrity: 100%]

Lu Yang stretched his wrists and walked to the front of the group.

"Didn't you say I didn't belong here?"

Thousands of people kept walking.

The Xuanwu Qi and blood within Lu Yang's body began to circulate.

"What a coincidence."

"I never said I was from here."

"I'm just a bodyguard."

He looked up at the end of the street.

"The lives of these more than 30,000 people are now in my hands."

"Who dares touch my dart—"

The phantom of Xuanwu slowly emerged from behind.

I'll kill whoever it is.

The voice remained silent for a moment.

The next instant, the people on the street simultaneously sped up.

Some people were holding kitchen knives, some were holding hoes, and some were even charging forward empty-handed.

Their actions were extremely reckless; they didn't care about their own lives at all.

"Don't hurt their foreheads!"

Fang Xuan immediately reminded him.

"The Soul-Swapping Gu is already connected to the soul; forcibly killing the Gu worms will also damage their souls!"

Lu Yang's raised hand stopped in mid-air.

A burly man rushed in front of him and slammed a cleaver down on his forehead.

The blade chipped instantly.

Blood was also shaken out of the burly man's tiger's mouth.

Lu Yang did not fight back, but simply grabbed his collar and casually put him aside.

Immediately afterwards, more and more people surged forward.

Swords, sticks, and stones rained down on Lu Yang.

The Xuanwu Zhenyue body operates on its own.

All attacks failed to harm him, but the arms of the common people trembled violently from the recoil.

Lu Yang could only restrain his qi and blood, trying to reduce the force of the backlash as much as possible.

"This can't go on."

Zhao Mingtang cleaved several wooden sticks that were hurtling towards Lu Yang with a single sword stroke.

"There are over 30,000 people in the city. Even if they just stand still and let us search, we don't know how long it would take."

Fang Xuan ignored the crowd around him.

He closed his eyes and carefully sensed the Gu energy in the air.

A moment later, the sound of bells rang out again from behind the Zhenwu Division.

thump—

The black lines between the eyebrows of all the people lit up at the same time.

Their actions became even more frantic.

Fang Xuan suddenly opened his eyes.

"It's that bell!"

"The sound of the bell is not the source of their control, but it can transmit commands to the Soul-Swapping Gu."

"Destroy the bell first!"

Lu Yang looked up.

Behind the Zhenwu Division is a three-story bell tower.

A black bronze bell hangs on the top floor.

A person wearing a white mask stands next to a bronze bell, holding a white bone mallet in his hand.

The man seemed to notice Lu Yang's gaze, raised the mallet, and struck the bronze bell again.

Lu Yang bent his knees slightly.

"Protect the carriage."

As soon as he finished speaking, he rushed into the crowd.

Hundreds of people tried to stop him.

Lu Yang did not strike, but instead used his shoulder to brace against the person in front, forcing his way forward.

With each step he took, more than a dozen people were pushed backward.

The crowd was so dense that it couldn't stop him from moving forward.

From a distance, it looks like a ship sailing against the tide.

The white-faced man on the bell tower rang the bronze bell again.

Dozens of Zhenwu Division constables appeared from the rooftops on both sides.

Their eyes also shone with starlight, and all their crossbow bolts were aimed at Lu Yang.

Arrows rained down.

Lu Yang did not dodge.

The crossbow bolts struck his body and broke off one by one.

Several crossbow bolts flew over Lu Yang and shot towards the crowded people behind him.

Lu Yang suddenly turned around.

His right leg swept out horizontally.

Dragon's Tail Swing!

A force in an arc swept past the crowd.

The crossbow bolts in mid-air shattered completely.

The remaining energy continued forward, accurately sweeping across the crossbows in the hands of the constables.

The crossbow strings all broke.

The constables, however, were not harmed in any way.

Fang Xuan was shocked when he saw this.

Lu Yang used the Eighteen Subduing Dragon Palms for no more than a day.

Now he has actually managed to control his palm power to such an extent.

This is something that can no longer be explained by talent.

Lu Yang did not stop.

When he was still dozens of feet away from the bell tower, he stepped on the stone lion next to him and leaped high into the air.

The pale-faced man on the clock tower immediately changed his target.

Instead of continuing to ring the bell, he pointed the bone mallet at the crowd below.

"If you dare come near, I will make them bite off their own tongues."

The people who were besieging the carriage all opened their mouths at the same time.

Bai Yixin's expression changed drastically.

Even Bai Miyao had her shoulders grabbed by a woman, who forcibly pried open her mouth.

Lu Yang was in mid-air, but his movements did not stop at all.

"You don't dare."

The pale-faced man sneered.

"You can give it a try."

"If you were truly capable of making them commit suicide, you would have done it already."

Lu Yang slammed his palm against the outer wall of the clock tower.

Using the force of the recoil, it rose several meters higher again.

"You went to so much trouble to prepare so many bodies, I bet it wasn't for killing people."

The pale-faced man's smile froze instantly.

Lu Yang had already landed on the top floor of the clock tower.

The white-faced man suddenly raised the mallet and smashed it against the bronze bell.

As soon as the bell rings, he can order the people below to besiege Bai Yixin and his group.

But just as the mallet was halfway down, it was firmly caught by a hand.

Lu Yang slowly tightened his five fingers.

The white bone hammer shattered into pieces.

The pale-faced man turned to run away.

Lu Yang did not give chase, but instead struck the black bronze bell with his palm.

The dragon that soars too high will regret it!

The golden dragon shadow crashed into the bronze bell.

The entire bronze bell exploded from the inside.

The broken copper pieces flew in all directions, only to be swept into the sky by the remaining force of the palm strike.

The clock tower shook violently.

The pale-faced man was also sent flying by the palm strike, crashing heavily into the corner of the wall.

At the same time, thousands of people on the street froze.

The starlight in their eyes quickly dimmed.

Immediately afterwards, everyone collapsed to the ground.

Zhao Mingtang quickly checked on the nearest woman.

"He's still breathing."

Fang Xuan pressed his finger between the woman's eyebrows.

The black line is still there, but it has stopped flashing.

"It has simply lost control of the bell and has temporarily fallen into a deep sleep."

"The Soul-Swapping Gu has not been removed yet."

On the clock tower, the pale-faced man struggled to get up.

Lu Yang walked up to him and took off his white mask.

There are no normal facial features under the mask.

There was only a wrinkled human skin.

The human skin quickly dried up and shriveled, eventually turning into a paper figure the size of a palm.

A line of blood-written words was on the paper figure's chest.

At midnight, the entire city is transformed.

[Master Lu, how many people can you save?]

After reading it, Lu Yang crushed the paper figure into pieces.

The system prompts in my mind changed accordingly.

[Current item integrity: 100%]

[Remaining time: one hour.]

Lu Yang jumped off the clock tower.

"At least none of them have been lost yet."

He looked towards the west of the city.

Without any obstruction from the locals, the group quickly crossed several streets.

At the western end of the city, a courtyard with a very large area appeared.

A black plaque hangs above the courtyard gate.

Wumianfang.

Eighty-one red lanterns were lit in front of the gate, each with a different human face painted on it.

The courtyard gate slowly opened.

A middle-aged man dressed in white sat in the courtyard.

His face kept changing.

The elderly, children, women, and men.

Every face represents a resident of the ferry crossing in Guanzhong.

Before him lay a huge black array plate.

Countless tiny red lines extended from the array plate, leading to the entire ferry pass.

"As expected, Escort Lu did not disappoint me."

The middle-aged man raised his head, and the features on his face finally transformed into Lu Yang's appearance.

Fang Xuan stared at him for a long time, then suddenly remembered a name.

"Yan Wuxiang".

"Weren't you beheaded by the Zhenwu Division six years ago?"

Yan Wuxiang smiled and touched his neck.

"What was beheaded was just the face I was using at the time."

"No one has ever seen the real me."

Zhao Mingtang drew his longsword.

"If you dispel the Soul-Swapping Array, I, the princess, will grant you a complete corpse."

Yan Wuxiang ignored her.

He simply reached out and gently pressed his hand on the array plate.

Eighty-one red lanterns in the city lit up at the same time.

"Lu Yang, didn't you want to protect all the people in the city?"

Yan Wuxiang opened his arms.

The voices of tens of thousands of people resounded from his body at the same time.

"From now on, they will bear every wound I suffer."

"If you hit me, I might not die."

"But there will surely be a thousand people in the city who will be crushed to pieces for me."

He wore Lu Yang's face and revealed a mocking smile.

"Come."

"Let me see how you, bodyguard, plan to kill me."