Ming Dynasty: I am truly not the Emperor of Longevity

"My lord!"

Just then, a guard from the Marquis of Wuding's residence rushed to Guo Xun and knelt down in a panic.

"Your Highness... Your Highness has been stabbed through the abdomen by an assassin and is seriously injured!"

"What?!"

Guo Xun was greatly alarmed.

"How is His Highness doing now?"

"His Highness is of sound mind, but no one dares to touch the long sword stuck in his abdomen."

The guard quickly replied,

"The Third Young Master has already ridden a fast horse and headed to the Imperial Hospital."

"Hahaha!"

Duan Chaoyong burst into wild laughter.

"Zhu Houyu died in the Wuding Marquis's mansion. Who else can plead for you?"

So what if I, Duan, perish here today? Will your entire Guo family still be buried with me?!

"You thief, how dare you!"

Guo Xun was furious and gave a stern order.

"All soldiers, heed my command! Kill these two traitors on the spot!"

. . .

Outside the guest room of the Marquis of Wuding's residence.

"The two assassins broke through the back gate of the Marquis's residence and escaped; we couldn't stop them."

With a trickle of blood at the corner of his mouth, Peng Rui knelt down on one knee before Lu Chen.

"We deserve to die for causing Your Highness's injury."

"This injury won't kill me!"

Lu Chen looked down at the long sword stuck in his lower abdomen.

We underestimated these masters of internal energy!

The six assassins easily dealt with the ordinary guards outside the door and sneaked into the guest room.

Peng Rui, who was lying in bed pretending to be asleep, had already heard the commotion. Before the assassin's swords and knives could strike, he immediately got out of bed, picked up the two long knives he had prepared, and engaged the assassin in combat.

When masters clash, their skills don't lie.

The assassin immediately realized he had been ambushed and that his opponent was not him at all.

One of them shouted a coded message that was difficult to understand, and the six assassins, no longer willing to fight, retreated outside through the doors and windows.

They encountered four Imperial Guards lying in ambush outside the guest room, and a fierce battle ensued.

Peng Rui also came outside and joined the battle.

Lu Chen tiptoed down from the roof beam, but did not leave the room immediately. Instead, he used his mental power to sense the battle situation outside through the wall.

Unexpectedly, the six assassins sent by the other side were all highly skilled!

Our side only has two Imperial Guards who can barely hold their own against the enemy's two-on-one opponents.

The other three, including Peng Rui, can only struggle to hold on, and it's hard to say how long they can last.

What's more, the other side has one more person than our side.

While the other four were holding off their opponents one-on-one, the two assassins attacked Peng Rui simultaneously, and within just a few rounds, they had Peng Rui in dire straits.

There was no other way, so Lu Chen had to take action himself!

Although experiments had been conducted before, showing that when the distance was reduced to within one meter, psychic power could break through the passive defense of a master of internal strength and directly attack internal organs, it could not kill with a single blow like it would with an ordinary person.

The moment the telekinetic energy enters the body, the opponent can sense it and immediately use their internal energy to resist.

It takes time to break through the resistance of internal force, and the opponent still has the power to retaliate for a short period of time.

At that time, "Ghost Fear" was imprisoned and could only rely on his internal strength to resist. He had time to use his mental power to slowly break through the opponent's resistance.

But this is a battlefield where masters clash, and the opponent is not stupid. Why would they honestly compete with me in terms of internal strength?

Getting within a meter of the other party is extremely dangerous.

Lu Chen's choice was naturally to use ranged attacks.

First, he fired more than a dozen darts hidden in his belt to disrupt the opponent's movements and temporarily reduce the pressure on his side. Then he used a musket to launch a surprise attack.

The first shot was the most effective!

When Lu Chen raised his gun to aim at one of the two assassins who were besieging Peng Rui, the other party only glanced at him contemptuously and did not even try to dodge.

Firearms were not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty, and these people had obviously seen them before. But precisely because they had seen them, they fell into a misconception.

Because these firearms all require an open flame to ignite.

The thing in my hand looks like a miniature version of a three-barreled gun.

Without being ignited, it's just a lump of iron, and nobody would be afraid of it.

Of course, this person soon paid the price for his ignorance.

The first bullet struck the opponent's head at close range, resulting in a direct headshot!

But this immediately triggered a chain reaction.

The other five assassins immediately abandoned their opponents and attacked Lu Chen together.

Peng Rui and the others tried their best to stop them, but they only managed to stop two assassins. The other three still rushed to a position very close to Lu Chen.

Lu Chen fired two shots at close range, knocking down two of them, but they were only shot in the torso and not killed instantly.

The last person rushed to Lu Chen's side. Lu Chen had nowhere to avoid it, so he had no choice but to use his telekinesis to directly attack the opponent's exposed eyes.

This move was indeed effective. At this point, the distance was less than one meter, which was equivalent to directly poking the other person's eyes with a finger, causing both eyeballs to burst on the spot.

At the same time, the long sword in this person's hand also pierced into Lu Chen's lower abdomen, with the tip of the sword protruding from his back.

Something unexpected happened to Lu Chen!

Lu Chen clearly sensed with his mental power that the long sword had pierced through his body and penetrated his liver.

Logically speaking, the liver would soon bleed profusely, and the person would die from excessive blood loss in a very short time.

Strangely, there was no bleeding where the sword pierced the liver; an invisible force directly sealed the wound, forming an invisible barrier.

Lu Chen was very familiar with this power; it was exactly the same as the psychic power he could control.

The difference is that this mental energy was not actively controlled by the individual, but rather it automatically enveloped the wound.

Despite suffering such severe injuries, I couldn't even feel much pain.

Moreover, Lu Chen discovered that his actions were completely unaffected.

Despite having a long sword stuck in his lower abdomen and his liver pierced, he not only didn't fall down, but he could also walk around leisurely, and the wound didn't even bleed!

Since that's the case, what's there to be afraid of!

At this moment, the assassin whose eyes had been pierced by his own telekinesis had his head chopped off by Peng Rui, who had caught up with him.

The other two assassins, who had been shot in the torso, struggled to their feet and were looking at him with terrified eyes.

The outcome of the next battle was no surprise.

Lu Chen simply walked past them, and the two men's eyes popped open as well. Peng Rui followed behind, finishing off the two expert assassins with a single slash each.

At this moment, the last two assassins, who were intercepted by the four Imperial Guards and unable to get close to Lu Chen, looked as if they had seen a ghost.

The two men unleashed a flurry of powerful attacks, forcing the four Imperial Guards to retreat, before fleeing without looking back towards the back gate of the Marquis of Wuding's residence.

The two top-level experts were determined to escape, making it extremely difficult to stop them.

As expected, they eventually broke through and escaped from the Marquis of Wuding's mansion.

Guo Shoulu led his men to the Imperial Hospital as soon as Lu Chen was injured. They should have arrived by now, right?

The problem is, I don't look like I've been seriously injured at all.

Lu Chen even felt that if he simply pulled the sword out, he might not even bleed, and the wound would heal on its own without any treatment!

When the imperial physician arrives, how will we explain this?