"Su Heng?" King Pingping rolled his eyes stiffly, and a strange smile appeared on his broken face, "Are you here for that old man?"
Fang Zilan said coldly: "I'm too lazy to listen to your nonsense. Let me ask you for the last time, where is Mr. Su Heng?"
"Dead." King Pingping lowered his head and breathed a long sigh of relief, "They all turned into ashes..."
"Do you have the guts to say it again." Fang Zilan sternly stopped what King Pingping was saying. He looked up and said, "Don't believe it? Zixiu, you know best the methods of the underworld..."
"So what?" Fang Zilan's voice trembled slightly, "You have made yourself into such a mess. Others in Shi County... Mr. Su Heng may not have a chance of survival."
"The gate of hell will never stop until death." King Pingping said ferociously every word: "Zixiu, I am still alive, even if I am just lingering, others will not survive!"
Fang Zilan took a deep breath and slowly said: "Where is King Biancheng, are you the only one who survived?"
King Pingping did not speak, but showed an expression uglier than crying. Seeing this, Fang Zilan understood in her heart, "How did he die?"
"What, you want to avenge him?" King Pingping said sarcastically, Fang Zilan was noncommittal, "Maybe."
"You..." King Pingping was stunned, and Fang Zilan leaned down, "You won't live long, why not save some energy and listen to me, am I right?"
King Pingping was silent, and Fang Zilan continued talking on his own, "You and King Bian Cheng were ordered to come to Shixian County, but unexpectedly the heavy rain blocked the road. They finally completed the task, but they couldn't get out, so they went on a dangerous journey. But instead, he killed King Bian Cheng and made himself..."
"Zixiu, you are wrong." King Pingping coughed a few times and his breath gradually weakened. "The road was blocked by Qianmo Dao. He also set the fire."
"What did you say?" Fang Zilan was stunned for a moment, then reacted, "Although you don't know each other's mission, how could you not have noticed when Qian Mo Dao started to attack..."
King Pingping said sadly: "So what if I find out? It's too late..."
A few simple sentences were enough for Fang Zilan to piece together the cause and effect. The ghost gate is fornicating, so no one knows the specific mission of the other party. King Bian Cheng and King Ping killed people in Shixian County, Lu Tian and others pretended to be gods and ghosts in Taoyuan Village to distract attention. As for Qianmo Dao's mission, it should be to set fire to erase All traces were removed, and then the road was blocked to keep out all those who came to support.
But when Qian Mo Dao set fire, King Bian Cheng and King Ping Ping were still in Shixian County. They were caught off guard and could only struggle in the sea of fire. In the end, one died and the other was injured...
Taking advantage of the unequal information gap and time difference to kill people without leaving any traces was undoubtedly Ji Ningtian's work.
"It seems that you are all abandoned." Fang Zilan straightened up and said these words expressionlessly, making King Pingping furious, "What nonsense are you talking about! This is an accident! An accident..."
King Ping Ping was almost out of breath due to his excessive emotion. Fang Zilan looked at him coldly, "Accident? King Ping Ping, is it so difficult to admit that he is cruel and ruthless and does everything possible?"
"Don't even think about...bluffing me!" King Pingping said intermittently, "You are not...anything...good..."
"I admit it." Fang Zilan pulled out the plum sword and pointed the tip of the sword directly at King Ping. "If I asked you, you haven't answered me yet."
King Pingping spat softly, "You should be glad that you are dead...I didn't see the old man's miserable state when he died. His bones were torn out piece by piece, but he didn't say a word. He was a man..."
Fang Zilan stepped on King Pingping's head hard, but he suddenly laughed out loud, "Zixiu, that old man, is he very important to you?"
"Shut up, you don't deserve to mention him." Fang Zilan gritted his teeth, and King Pingping smiled more and more wildly, "Zixiu, you can't save the whole family of the Zhen family in Hidden Sword Villa, you can't save Wanhua Villa, you can't save Wu Sheng, Yang Zhiqing, you can't save Su Heng, you can’t save anyone..."
The moment the plum sword penetrated, Fang Zilan felt that everything around her was quiet, only warm blood spattered on her body, leaving a bright red color that was almost dazzling.
"Girl..." Zheng Yan stretched out his hand and tried to help the shaky Fang Zilan, but he saw her draw out her plum sword, turned around, and her eyes fell on the sneaky Lu Tian and others behind her.
"You all saw and heard it." Fang Zilan's voice was much more sophisticated. Lu Tian bit his lip and forced himself not to make a sound, but the men following him could not help but explode.
Fang Zilan listened to the boiling voices in her ears and became irritated for no reason. She yelled, "Get out!"
Lu Tian and his men left quickly. Fang Zilan folded her arms and squatted on the ground, repeating King Ping Ping's words back and forth in her mind.
Su Heng, dead?
Although he had been mentally prepared, when he heard it with his own ears, Fang Zilan still felt like he was struck by lightning.
She couldn't believe that such a man had endured all the hardships in the temple and remained unyielding, had endured hardships in the mountains and wilderness, and had always regarded it as his mission to preach and teach and help the world. He had many students all over the world but had no wife and no children. He stayed in a piece of land but still cared about the imperial court. The old man who wanted to go to the capital to take charge of the overall situation at an advanced age actually met a tragic end.
That was Su Heng, a man of character, who treated her equally and taught her poems and books...
"Girl." Zhuge Yu's voice suddenly sounded. Fang Zilan did not raise her head, so he squatted next to her, "There is no one alive in the entire Shi County, and the county government has been razed to the ground. Mr. Su Heng is afraid..."
He didn't say anything anymore, Fang Zilan's eyes turned red, "Why..."
"The ghost sect has been doing evil for a long time. Although the imperial court is determined to eradicate it, it is not familiar with it and it will take time..." Before Zhuge Yu finished his explanation, he was interrupted by Fang Zilan, "Zhuge Yu, you don't have to complain. Some people have no reason to worry, so don’t bother me.”
After hearing this, Zhuge Yu stood up, took a step back, and bowed respectfully, "If I can get help from the girl, Zhuge Yu will be grateful."
"Do I need your gratitude?" Fang Zilan stood up staggeringly, shook off Zheng Yan's hand, and said solemnly: "After one month, there will be no more ten palaces in the ghost gate."
Zhuge Yu's expression turned serious. Before he could say anything else, Fang Zilan said again: "I'll take the first step. I'll leave it to Master Zhuge."
After saying that, she left straight away and went to the Shixian government office shown on the map in her memory. She knelt down and kowtowed three times.
Sir, I may never come back from this trip. You have spirit in heaven, please bless Dajing to be safe and sound.
*
It didn't take long for Li Shengxuan, who was far away in Beijing, to receive Zhuge Yu's letter. He used an eagle in the army to convey the message. It was extremely urgent.
After he saw it, he was speechless for a long time. Xia Houzhang couldn't help shouting "Your Majesty". He seemed to have come back to his senses. He took out a piece of plum branch from his arms and ordered: "Take this thing and go outside Xu Youtong's house." Guard.”
