Raising Orphans, Not Assassins-Chapter 7Vol. 2 - - A Radiant Smile

Zhao Jiangzhu hastily shut her eyes, her small face burning hot.

With her acupoints sealed, she couldn’t move—her only options were opening and closing her eyes.

So, she squeezed them shut, pretending she was dead.

Da Ming opened his mouth, and before he could stop himself, blurted out, “You… Why haven’t you left?”

He glanced at Zhao Jiangzhu twice before realization struck him.

“Oh! You’re immobilized?”

At his words, Zhao Jiangzhu’s eyes widened slightly in surprise.

Feeling her gaze on him, Da Ming’s face reddened again.

He hesitated, scratched his head, and muttered, “Too bad, I don’t know how to unseal it.”

His face flushed even deeper, his expression helpless.

“Pfft…”

Leaning against the stone, Zhao Jiangzhu couldn’t help but laugh.

Da Ming’s honest, bewildered look was just too amusing.

Hearing her laughter, Da Ming clenched his fists. His palms were sweating, his heart pounding in panic.

…

Deep in the forest.

The eunuch Zhang Heng’s hands were numb, a thin layer of frost coating the backs of them.

His purple robe had stiffened from the cold.

Across from him, a man in gray stood with an impassive expression, his jade-green eyes locked onto Zhang Heng.

Every move he made carried a chilling internal energy.

With each exchange, his frost-infused strikes transferred their biting cold into Zhang Heng’s body.

A thin sheet of ice instantly formed on Zhang Heng’s skin.

Even the breath the gray-robed man exhaled was deathly cold—if inhaled carelessly, it would disrupt internal energy, injure the lungs, and send its victim into violent coughing fits.

Zhang Heng’s face was pale, his movements restrained.

He practiced the imperial eunuch technique Remnant Sun’s Hollow Canon, which lacked the robust yang energy of ordinary martial arts.

Against an opponent with cold-based internal energy, he was at a natural disadvantage.

And his adversary happened to practice the Profound Ice Demonic Art.

At the same cultivation level, no eunuch who practiced Remnant Sun’s Hollow Canon could stand against it.

If this went on any longer—he would die.

Zhang Heng’s expression darkened, his heart filled with urgency.

Sunset was the time he stabilized his internal energy.

His moment of carelessness had led to Princess Jiangzhu being taken.

If the princess suffered even the slightest injury, he could only atone with his life…

As his mind raced, the gray-robed man suddenly exhaled a thick, white mist.

Zhang Heng struck out with both palms, landing a blow on his opponent’s chest before retreating several yards, barely escaping the freezing air.

The deadly mist gradually dispersed.

The gray-robed man had vanished.

"Not good!"

Zhang Heng’s heart sank. He immediately took off in pursuit, following the direction the tiger had fled.

After running a few hundred meters, he spotted a shirtless woodsman standing on the path.

Beside him lay the lifeless body of a massive, striped tiger.

The ground was slick with blood, the stench spreading far through the forest.

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