Beiliang City looks a little desolate at night. Since the founding of the Chu Kingdom, countless warriors have died here for thousands of years.
The general died in a hundred battles, and his body was returned wrapped in horse leather!
The walls of Beiliang City were poured with the blood of countless soldiers and built with their bodies. It is precisely because of this that this huge city looks tragic and majestic.
Li Haomiao was not in a hurry to find Yu Zhi. Since he came to Beiliang City, he should have tasted the unique wine of Beiliang Mansion - the blood of the strong man.
This is a must-have spirit for military commanders and celebrations in the Northern Territory. A mouthful of the blood of a strong man will keep your heart cold for ten years.
The blood of a strong man is strong wine. When it enters the throat, there will be a stinging sensation. The smell of wine hits the nose, and a warm current rises from the abdomen, echoing in the limbs and bones.
"Happy!" Li Haomiao likes the delicate and mild craft beer of Nanzhou Prefecture, and also likes the strong wine that the warriors in the north can't cool down.
In just half an hour, Li Haomiao drank a whole jar.
There are always many more drinkers at night than during the day, and the atmosphere in the tavern is also more lively.
Just as Li Haomiao continued to drink, the hand holding the wine suddenly stopped in the air, and his eyes looked in a certain direction in the dark night. Immediately, Li Haomiao also frowned.
The next moment, a silver coin appeared on the wine table, and Li Haomiao's figure disappeared.
Beiliang City Meiyuan, this is Xiao Jingyao's residence in Beiliang Mansion, a courtyard specially set aside by the magistrate of Beiliang Mansion for Xiao Jingyao's arrival.
The yard is full of plum blossoms. It's winter, but this magnificent scene is nowhere to be seen.
At this time, there was no night's tranquility in the plum garden. An earth-shattering sound came from the depths of the plum garden. Plum trees fell down one by one, and the plum petals still hanging on the branches were scattered.
Jamel Xiao was sitting in the study, drinking tea quietly, as if the massive battle outside the study had nothing to do with him.
Wan'er, who was waiting on the side, looked outside nervously, her eyes full of worry.
Xiao Jingyao smiled slightly and said calmly: "Wan'er, sit down and have a sip of tea."
Wan'er was not in such a mood and said: "Your Highness, why do you still have the heart to drink tea now? The enemies have all come to Meiyuan."
Xiao Jingyao smiled bitterly and shook his head, looking at Wan'er lovingly, "Little girl, if someone wants to kill me, can I stop him from doing it? Besides, isn't there the enshrinement of Lei Xun blocking this? There is Zi Mu outside the study. Now, you have nothing to worry about."
"But..." Wan'er hesitated.
Xiao Jingyao didn't understand Wan'er's worries. In the plum garden, the battle between Lei Shen and the enemy lasted for as long as a cup of tea.
If it were placed on other practitioners, the fighting time would be extremely short. However, the person fighting was Lei Shen, a great cultivator of the ninth level. Sending an enemy who could fight against a great cultivator of the ninth level of the Open Monument for such a long time showed that the opponent attached great importance to this assassination.
And there must be more than one enemy.
Xiao Jingyao understands all this, but the more critical moment now, the calmer Xiao Jingyao becomes. Once he is in chaos, the morale of the army will be unstable.
Is it someone sent by Third Brother?
It’s really interesting that I didn’t do it on the road, but I waited until now. From this point of view, it doesn't look like the third brother's temper.
Xiao Jingyao looked out the window with a complicated expression. There must be more enemies hidden in the darkness.
At this moment, the door of the study room exploded open, and Yan Zimu, who was guarding the door of the study room, flew into the study room. Without any resistance, he passed out.
"Zimu!" Xiao Jingyao was shocked. He knew very well what kind of skills Yan Zimu was. But just now Yan Zimu fell down without any resistance.
Wan'er also trembled, standing behind Xiao Jingyao and nervously holding the armrests of the chair to support her body.
Immediately, a figure in black robe walked in from the door of the study.
The other party's entire body was shrouded in a wide black robe. His thin and tall figure was like a bamboo pole. The moonlight lengthened the shadow of the man in black robe, as if he was the only one in the world. As the man in black robe walked into the study, a rotten stench reached the noses of Xiao Jingyao and Wan'er. It's like the rotten swill accumulated in the restaurant for several years, or the stench of feces that has been sealed in a certain cesspit for a long time.
Tick tock. Drops of black viscous juice fell on the floor, and the floor was burned with black holes. White smoke floated up, mixed with the stench.
Silence, all sounds disappeared in this study.
Xiao Jingyao held the cup in his hand, and the fine white porcelain cup actually had some cracks.
"Who are you?" Xiao Jingyao asked pretending to be calm.
Black shadows flickered, and the man in black robe sat on the chair in front of Xiao Jingyao, with only a desk separating them.
The smell of rotten food became more and more obvious and disgusting.
Xiao Jingyao resisted the strong feeling of vomiting in his stomach and looked directly at the man in black robe in front of him, trying to see his face clearly through the black robe.
"Kill...your...people." The voice of the man in black robe was hoarse, and his tone and speed were a bit weird, like a toddler who was just learning to speak and couldn't enunciate clearly.
Xiao Jingyao secretly took a few deep breaths to calm down the tension and fear in his heart. In just a few breaths, Xiao Jingyao let go of the white porcelain cup in his hand and reached out to hold Wan'er's cold palm.
At this time, he did not forget Wan'er beside him. The warm palm gave the frightened Wan'er a little strength.
Xiao Jingyao returned to his usual calm and elegant character. Before his death, as the Crown Prince, he maintained the royal family's character of not fearing life or death.
"Since you want to kill me, why don't you show your true colors?"
The man in black robe was silent, as if thinking. Xiao Jingyao, on the other hand, was thinking about strategies to retreat from the enemy and praying that Lei Shen could come as soon as possible. Only Lei Shen can deal with the enemy in front of him.
After a moment, the man in black robe nodded and responded: "Okay!"
Then, the man in black robe stretched out his hand and lifted off his hat, revealing slender fingers from his sleeves. They were as thin and skinny as dry wheat stalks. One finger was only twenty centimeters long, twice as long as a normal person. There are extremely sharp "nails" on the fingertips.
Xiao Jamyao was surprised, was this a human finger? But what happened next shocked him even more.
Under the dark hat, an extremely pale face appeared in front of Jamel Xiao and Wan'er. That paleness was paler than the snow on the snowy peaks. There is some gray in the pale face.
On the pale face, a pair of extremely protruding eyes, with white eyeballs hanging outside the eye sockets, with only a little blood, a collapsed nose that was almost flat on the face, and the most horrifying mouth, the corner of which was pulled open to the base of the ear. , the sharp triangular teeth in the mouth are vaguely visible.
The man in black robe looked at Xiao Jingyao opposite him seriously, because Xiao Jingyao was the first person to see his face without crying and running away.
Calm and elegant, there was no trace of disgust or other emotions in Jamel Xiao's eyes.
Xiao Jingyao also looked at this strange-looking "person" seriously. Can he still be called a person?
There was a sound of footsteps outside the study. This was the arrival of Meiyuan's guards.
"Hug...I'm sorry, the time has come. I...I'm going to kill you." The man in black robe put on his hat again, as if he didn't want others to see his appearance.
As soon as he finished speaking, the man in black robe had already taken action, and a bamboo-like palm protruded from his wide sleeves. It was dry, like several dead branches entwined together, without any moisture.
The attack went straight to Xiao Jingyao's heart, and it was so fast that Xiao Jingyao had no time to react.
"Your Highness, be careful!"
Wan'er beside her didn't know where she got the strength to push Xiao Jingyao aside.
Whoosh!
The sharp blade-like fingers pierced Wan'er's shoulder, and blood spattered and fell on Xiao Jingyao's face.
"Wan'er!" Xiao Jingyao roared, catching Wan'er's fallen body.
The man in black robe wanted to take action again, but continued to attack Xiao Jamyao with his other hand!
At this moment, in the night outside the window, a wisp of spring breeze came caressing some plum blossom petals, and in the blink of an eye, it was in front of Xiao Jingyao's eyes.
Buzz!
A sword chant sounded like wind and rain.
The spring breeze that blew into the study cut off the wrists of the men in black robes.
Blood spurted out, no, more accurately, thicker black juice gushes out from the arm and spreads on the desk, instantly turning the desk into a piece of charcoal.
This is definitely not human! ... Xiao Jingyao picked up Wan'er and backed away.
"Who..." The man in black robe seemed to be unable to feel the pain. He turned to look out the window and saw a figure standing in the moonlight, staring at him.
And the sword hanging on the man's waist made him even more afraid.
In an instant, the figure suddenly disappeared from the moonlight, and when it reappeared, it was already standing in front of him.
"You..." The man in black robe said with difficulty. Speaking is still a very difficult thing for him, even more difficult than killing a strong man in the realm of opening a monument.
"Li Haomiao!" Li Haomiao seemed to know what he was going to say and answered directly, "My name is Li Haomiao."
At this moment, the battle in the plum garden came to an abrupt end. The sounds of battle disappeared between heaven and earth.
The man in black robe in front of Li Haomiao also retreated instantly and disappeared into the study.
Li Haomiao did not pursue them. Instead, he looked at the charcoal in the study. He seemed to have thought of something and said to himself: "Night ghosts...why did these monsters get here?"
The next moment, Li Haomiao waved his fingertips, and a sword energy burst out of the window and escaped into the night.
...
In the dark night, true energy spurted out.
A figure blocked Wang Wufeng's attack!
Ye Chong?
It was actually Ye Chong?
There were exclamations of surprise from the crowd. No one was surprised by Ye Chong's appearance.
The little turtle of the Ye family has been shrinking for ten years, is he finally going to poke his head out?
boom!
The two of them exchanged palms, refusing to give in to each other. Within a few breaths, the collision of true energy exploded between the two of them, and each took a few steps back.
Wang Wufeng glared at Ye Zhong who suddenly came to kill him. He was only one breath away from killing Ye Qinghuan. But Ye Zhong appeared.
"Ye Chong, you are so brave. Don't you, the Ye family, want to survive in Qinggu?"
