By evening, the sandstorm outside had already stopped.

It was rarely this quiet.

The people in the inn had all gone to rest.

But downstairs on the first floor, many pairs of eyes were hidden in the darkness, watching and constantly glancing upward to the second floor.

These inn workers were waiting to use their dragnet to deal with those black-clothed people from last night. But watching as it was almost midnight, there still wasn’t the slightest movement in the inn. Even the usual sound of yellow sand scraping against the windows was gone. Waiting and waiting, everyone’s hearts grew restless with impatience, and their round eyes could barely stay open.

The worker tending the fire said, “Do you think these people are coming or not? It’s so late already, not a single sound, and Yao Niang hasn’t given any orders either.”

Someone doubted, “Could they not be coming?”

“The person they’re looking for is here, they’ll definitely come. Let’s wait a bit longer.”

“That’s right, let’s wait a bit more. Yao Niang is still waiting upstairs, so let’s be more patient.”

Everyone had no choice but to continue waiting!

Half an hour later, when their eyelids were about to droop in sleep, they suddenly heard the sound of a window opening on the second floor.

A fat man excitedly shouted, “They’re here, they’re here, finally here.”

The prey had finally taken the bait!

Everyone’s spirits lifted. They quickly grabbed their weapons and rushed up to the second floor.

Sure enough, those black-clothed people from yesterday really came.

That man wearing the mask also came!

After they left last night, they had already found out that Wen Yu was staying in the room where Ji Yunshu had previously stayed. So when evening came, they directly aimed for that room’s window and leaped inside. But how could they know that the room was full of traps, with a dragnet laid out waiting for them?

Seven or eight black-clothed people entered the room. The room had no lights lit, only a beam of moonlight falling on the shadowy figure on the bed.

This was precisely their target for assassination—Wen Yu!

The masked man’s eyes narrowed slightly. He nodded, signaling everyone to strike and kill.

Several people slowly approached the bedside, raising the long swords in their hands, preparing to kill.

However—

Before the swords could thrust forward, the person on the bed suddenly sprang up.

That bedsheet was instantly thrown over those several people.

And the person on the bed was none other than Yao Niang. As she flipped up, her hand pulled a long sword from under the pillow and fiercely stabbed toward that bedsheet.

A white blade went in, a red blade came out!

When the blanket was pulled away, they saw a black-clothed person clutching his slashed throat, blood spilling everywhere, dying on the spot.

Yao Niang also immediately rushed to the doorway!

The black-clothed people realized they’d been played. Fury rising, someone ordered, “Kill her.”

They wanted to kill Yao Niang!

But the originally open window was suddenly sealed tightly by a mechanism!

Countless small holes also appeared on both sides of the room’s walls.

The masked man realized he had fallen into a trap, his brow furrowing, “Quickly leave this room.”

But it was too late!

The mechanisms in the room suddenly activated, shooting countless arrows from the left and right sides. Those black-clothed people couldn’t move an inch and could only use all their skills to deflect those arrows.

But no matter how high one’s martial arts were, they couldn’t withstand these densely packed sharp arrows!

Among them, several with slightly lesser skills had already died from arrow strikes.

Yao Niang stood at the doorway, the corners of her mouth curved in a sinister smile, “My Tiansha Inn isn’t a place you can come to whenever you want. This place will be your burial ground.”

Having said that, her hand pressed a mechanism on the door, and suddenly a net was released from above inside the room, covering the remaining several people.

The black-clothed people deflected the incoming arrows while trying to cut through that large net.

Several black-clothed people even surrounded the masked man in the middle, protecting him completely!

At this moment, those workers from downstairs also rushed up.

“Yao Niang, did you catch them?”

Everyone looked inside and saw those black-clothed people trapped by the giant net. The sharp arrows in the room still hadn’t stopped. Counting them, there were at least over a hundred arrows—more than those people could handle.

“Let’s see if they still dare to be so arrogant.”

However, this tremendous commotion attracted the attention of people in the inn.

Some people pushed open their doors and looked this way.

Yao Niang quickly ordered, “Go tell them, everyone stop poking their heads over here and go back to their rooms.”

“Yes.”

The workers then blocked those guests who wanted to come out and watch, one by one.

Ji Yunshu sat in her room. She had been waiting all along.

Waiting for that person to come!

Now hearing the commotion, she immediately stood up and rushed out. Just as she reached the corridor, she was blocked by a waiter, “Miss, it’s so late, you should quickly go back inside and rest. It’s just a small matter outside, don’t look.”

“Let me through!” Ji Yunshu disregarded the obstruction and insisted on rushing over!

Unfortunately, the waiter was very strong and forcibly blocked her in the corridor!

She could only see Yao Niang standing at the doorway from afar.

At this moment inside the room, there were sharp arrows shooting out from the walls everywhere.

Densely packed.

But the masked man surrounded in the middle was unharmed, while the people protecting him around him had all died.

Because there were simply too many sharp arrows!

The man’s arm was cut deeply by an arrow.

Seeing that all his companions were dead, his eyes turned red with rage, and tremendous grief and hatred surged in his heart. With one sword stroke, he severed that giant net, and his body leaped out of the room.

But he had no intention of fleeing!

Like a brave cheetah on the grasslands, after his companions were killed one by one, all that remained for him was to fight to his last breath.

“What great luck!” Yao Niang glared with those phoenix eyes, raising the sword in her hand to stab at him.

Determined to take his life.

The man raised his sword to meet it, but his arm was wounded by the sharp arrow, and much blood had flowed. He had long lost the strength to fight. After several moves, he fell into a disadvantage.

His arm was stabbed by Yao Niang’s sword!

The wound grew deeper, leaving a pool of blood on the ground.

The inn workers also surrounded him, trapping the man in the corridor on the second floor.

Yao Niang’s lips curved in a smile as she said, “Came to my Tiansha Inn to cause trouble and want to leave alive? Simply wishful thinking.”

The man’s grip on the long sword tightened several degrees. His eyes showed not the slightest bit of fear as he said, “Your inn harbored someone you shouldn’t have, and killed my people. Even if I die here, your lives won’t be spared either.”

“Dare to threaten this old lady? Hmph! You should pray for your own blessings right now.”

Yao Niang raised her sword aimed at the man’s chest and stabbed forward.

When Ji Yunshu saw this scene, she shouted loudly, “Don’t!”

Then she pushed the waiter aside and, disregarding her own life, rushed over. Her slender body directly blocked in front of that man.

Seeing this, Yao Niang suddenly withdrew some of the force from her arm and immediately shifted the sword to the side.

The sword edge swept past Ji Yunshu’s face, hooking onto the cloth covering her face, along with the only wooden hairpin holding up her hair.

Three thousand strands of hair cascaded down.

The black cloth covering her face was also pulled away. A delicate and refined face appeared in everyone’s view.