Whoosh-whoosh-whoosh!!!

Shrill whistles tore through the air.

More than a dozen arrows flew from behind the roof ridges of the houses on both sides.

Assassins in black charged out of the alleys beside them, from the front and from behind.

Sword light flashed.

Clang-clang-clang!!!

With nothing but his sword, Ning Chen blocked every one of the dozen-odd arrows himself.

"Roof-Ridge Beast, no, Brother Xie, Old Gao, get up on the roofs and deal with them... Sister-in-law, protect the children. Everyone else, kill!"

Chen Chong said, "His Majesty agreed to let us go. Who are these people?"

"Are you a moron? Who cares who they are right now? Just kill them!"

Feng Qizheng charged out with a roar, and his rebar whistled through the air at one of the assassins.

Geng Jing had given them back their weapons when they left the Inspectorate.

The man swung his saber up to block.

The rebar snapped the saber in two, and with a sickening crack of bone, the man's shoulder caved in.

Feng Qizheng kicked him flying.

Ning Chen went at them with his sword. Before the assassin facing him could even bring his blade back around, Ning Chen's blade was already through his throat.

Ning Chen's sword was so fast these days that only someone like Tantai Qingyue, the first in the martial arts, could probably have blocked it.

His sword was fierce, and every stroke dropped a man.

"Protect the children!"

With that shout, Chen Chong charged out swinging his rebar.

Xie Siyu and Gao Ziping had already gotten up onto the roofs on either side.

Roofs were Xie Siyu's territory.

Nobody knew roofs better than he did.

He kicked out again and again, and broken tiles went whistling at the assassins.

The assassins scrambled to dodge and had no chance to loose their arrows.

When they had dodged the tiles, Xie Siyu's sword was waiting for them.

Gao Ziping followed his lead.

One agonized scream after another rang out, and bodies came rolling off the rooftops one by one.

Two of the assassins saw Lin Ying, a lone woman guarding…