The people Lian Que brought were numerous, and each one was a martial arts expert.

No matter how much Jingrong and Bai Yin held on, they probably couldn’t last much longer.

The two were quickly surrounded on all sides.

Several sharp swords pointed at them.

Jingrong hadn’t brought any weapons with him, so he could only seize a sword from one of those assassins.

Bai Yin wielded his personally carried curved blade to fight against their long swords.

They were evenly matched.

“I told you to leave quickly,” Jingrong said to Bai Yin.

But Bai Yin refused. “I can’t leave you here alone.”

“Don’t worry about me, take Yunshu and leave here safely first. Only when she’s gone can I be at ease. Go quickly!”

“No!”

“I’ll shake them off and catch up with you all later.”

After saying this, Jingrong grabbed Bai Yin’s wrist and threw him out of the encirclement.

He shouted loudly, “Go quickly!”

Bai Yin hesitated. If he left, it would be very difficult for Jingrong to fend off so many people alone, but considering the bigger picture, at this moment he could only follow Jingrong’s intention and take Ji Yunshu away first, then find a way to come rescue Jingrong.

He said, “Alright, hold on!”

After speaking, he immediately ran back to the front courtyard.

Those assassins saw this and raised their swords to pursue, but were immediately blocked by Jingrong.

Fortunately, there was only one passage from this location to the front courtyard!

Jingrong blocked it there, so no one could chase after them.

And those seven or eight people focused all their martial force on Jingrong alone.

He could still hold on!

But how long he could last was unknown.

The sound of clashing weapons soon attracted the attention of the inn’s waiter.

When he ran over, he was frightened by the scene before him.

“What… what’s going on?”

His voice was trembling.

Why were the guests who had just checked in fighting?

Knowing he couldn’t stop them, he ran off to tell the innkeeper.

The innkeeper was still working the abacus, counting silver!

Because he was so absorbed in calculating, he didn’t notice the sounds coming from behind at all.

He was still muttering about several sums of money being calculated incorrectly.

The waiter hurriedly ran over, shouting loudly, “Innkeeper, this is terrible, terrible! People are fighting in the back courtyard, you’d better go take a look quickly.”

“What?” The innkeeper paused in his abacus work.

His eyes suddenly widened.

Unable to believe it.

“What did you say?”

“People are fighting in the back courtyard, the ones who checked in today. You’d better go look quickly, otherwise… otherwise someone’s going to get killed.”

This was terrible!

The innkeeper’s face turned deathly pale in an instant, and he rushed over.

No time to count money anymore.

Fortunately, only Jingrong’s group and Lian Que’s group had checked into the inn tonight!

Otherwise, who knows how big a commotion it would cause.

When the innkeeper ran over and saw the scene in the back courtyard, he quickly slapped his thigh, crying out painfully, “Oh my, what’s happening here? Honored guests, show mercy! Stop fighting, stop fighting! If you keep fighting, I’m afraid this inn will have to close!”

They didn’t hear his words at all, and instead fought even more fiercely.

Those assassins’ every sword stroke was aimed to kill.

Lian Que’s every sword pressed closer to him.

Jingrong was also becoming increasingly strained.

The potted plants placed in the back courtyard were also smashed to pieces.

Making crackling sounds!

The innkeeper had a headache, sweating profusely. “Oh my, my flowers and plants! Please stop fighting, great heroes! Brave warriors! I beg you to stop fighting.”

The waiter wrung his hands, also very anxious. He asked the innkeeper, “How about… how about we report to the authorities?”

“Report what to the authorities?” The innkeeper slapped him hard on the head and said, “If this gets out of hand, how much money will I lose? Definitely no one will come to eat here anymore.”

“But if they keep fighting like this, what should we do?”

The innkeeper was distressed.

Extremely anxious!

He didn’t know what to do either.

He could only clasp his hands together and pray that they would stop smashing things.

And please, please don’t let anyone get killed!

At this time, Ji Yunshu seemed to hear some noise coming from outside. She went out to look and saw several of Jingrong’s guards standing outside.

“Has something happened?” she asked.

The guards also heard the noise but weren’t clear what had happened, so they said, “I’ll go take a look.”

Just as he was preparing to go downstairs.

He saw Bai Yin rushing up from below, extremely anxious, grabbing Ji Yunshu’s hand and saying, “We need to leave here quickly.”

“What?”

Ji Yunshu was completely confused.

Bai Yin instructed the guards, “Bring her things, quickly.”

The guards didn’t understand what had happened either, but following orders, they quickly brought Ji Yunshu’s bundle and those two sandalwood boxes.

Bai Yin also instructed the guards, “You two, go bring Song Zhi.”

“Yes.”

Ji Yunshu hadn’t figured out at all what had happened when she was already being pulled downstairs by Bai Yin.

Song Zhi had also heard the noise outside.

He got dressed and came out of his room.

Just as he came out, the guards “seized” him and dragged him downstairs!

“You… what are you doing? What’s happening?” Song Zhi asked.

The guards said nothing.

They dragged him downstairs following Bai Yin.

Bai Yin pulled Ji Yunshu toward the stables.

But she heard that those sounds were coming from the back courtyard, and not seeing Jingrong’s figure, she suddenly realized something.

She immediately shook off Bai Yin’s hand. “Has something happened to him?”

Bai Yin said, “You leave first.”

“No! I can’t leave him behind.”

Saying this, she prepared to rush toward the back courtyard.

But she was immediately pulled back by Bai Yin. “Listen to him, you leave here first.”

“No!”

But her strength was no match for Bai Yin’s.

In the end, she was pulled to the inn’s stables.

Bai Yin pushed her into the carriage.

Song Zhi was also pushed into the same carriage.

Ji Yunshu grabbed Bai Yin’s clothing, her face full of worry. “Brother, I can’t go! I can’t leave him alone.”

Bai Yin said seriously, “You leave here with them first. I promise I won’t let anything happen to him.”

“Brother…”

“We’ll catch up with you.” Bai Yin turned to instruct those four guards, “Escort her to a safe place and wait for us.”

“Yes!”

Bai Yin then pushed away Ji Yunshu’s hand that was grasping his clothing and ran toward Jingrong’s direction.

The guards also immediately drove the carriage away.

…

Jingrong’s strength was almost depleted.

Those eight people’s martial arts skills were too high.

He was repeatedly forced back several steps.

The single sword in his hand was simply unable to withstand them!

Lian Que ruthlessly determined to kill, thrusting his sword straight at Jingrong’s heart.

In that moment, the innkeeper turned deathly pale with fright.

If someone really died here, his century-old inn would truly never be able to open again!

He fainted on the spot from fright.

“Innkeeper!” The waiter immediately supported him and quickly dragged him away to avoid innocent casualties.

He didn’t want to die!

Just at the critical moment when Lian Que’s sword was about to pierce Jingrong’s body, Bai Yin arrived. He used the dagger in his hand to deflect the sharp sword from Lian Que’s hand in time.