At dusk, on the street of the north gate of Guanxi City, three riders hurriedly came. All three of them were covered in heavy armor, and even their face armor was put down.
The soldiers guarding the city signaled the three of them to stop from a distance. I don't know what kind of changes had happened in the Jinchun Palace these days. Suddenly, they tightened their checks on people coming in and out, and even implemented a curfew at night.
The leading rider raised his visor and glanced at the blocking soldiers.
The soldier quickly stood up straight and said, "Xiang Your Excellency." He turned around and said, "Open the city gate quickly."
The three knights did not stop and went straight out of the city gate. After walking five or six miles, Xiang Qi stopped and said to the two people behind him: "I can only send you two here. When the rooster crows tomorrow, I will wait here."
One of them took off his mask, cupped his hands and said, "Thank you, I'll meet you for a drink later." This man was Wu Gen, and the one accompanying him was Lu Ke.
"Be careful along the way, that guy is very evil. Kill these rotten people earlier, otherwise the old man will have to worry about being dug out of the soil a hundred years later." Xiang Qigong handed over, turned around and ran towards the city gate.
Wu Gen turned to look at Lu Ke, who was quite uncomfortable with this heavy armor. "Brother Lu, please be patient. I'm going to be blinded along the way. When you get to that village, take off this outfit."
Lu Ke smiled bitterly and said: "I, Lu Ke, grew up in college and studied martial arts, and then turned to Qi training. I never thought that one day I would wear this tiger skin. But does Qiu Yuan really live there? I once asked Zhao Yan After asking around, the other party doesn’t know his whereabouts.”
"It should be about the same. The news was given to me by Xiang Qi. Thanks to Brother Lu, you know the name of the other party, so I can take the target. If you and I join forces, will Qiu Yuan be able to escape?" Wu Gen gritted his teeth. The right hand slashed hard. Qiu Yuan almost harmed himself and Chu Ji, and he must be killed today.
The two stopped talking and started galloping. After running for more than twenty miles, dots of lights appeared in front of them. When they got closer, they saw a manor.
Wu Gen and Lu Ke took off their heavy armor, tied their horses under a tree, changed into black clothes, and walked towards the manor under the cover of night. After jumping up to the wall, Wu Gen took out a piece of paper on which was drawn the interior layout of the manor described by Xiang Qi.
After scanning the manor, Wu Gen pointed to a place with brighter lights, "That should be there."
"Walk."
The two of them kept silent, covering their faces to avoid people who happened to pass by, jumped off the courtyard wall and sneaked towards the bright light.
When I arrived at this house, through the open window, I saw only an old man in the house, with disheveled hair, holding a bell, and dancing around a coffin.
After a while, a zombie suddenly sat up in the coffin, with dried and rotten flesh all over its face.
The old man put down the bell, picked up a pen, cut his wrist, dipped the pen in blood, and began to write and draw on the zombies like dragons and phoenixes.
No wonder there is no one around the house here. Anyone who lives with this person would be terrified. That's why the old man does this openly without any scruples and with the windows open.
Wu Gen and Lu Ke looked at each other. Judging from this person's behavior, there was no doubt that he was the Fuming Sect's method. From previous inquiries, we learned that there were only two people in Fu Mingmen who had taken refuge with King Jinchun. One was Naluo Yuanbing, who had been killed by Wu Gen, and the other should be the person in front of him.
Looking at each other with Lu Ke, Wu Gen pointed to the movement in the room, then pointed twice respectively, and Lu Ke nodded.
This time, the key is to resolve the matter quickly to avoid attracting others, and to do it secretly so as not to leave any traces.
The bamboo sword was pulled out, the iron arrow was taken out, and the two of them became tense.
"Who is it?" At this moment, shouts came from the room.
Wu Gen and Lu Ke froze. Oh no, they were discovered. Just as he was about to stand up and attack, a meow came from the house, and a black cat Shi Shiran walked past the window, took a look at the situation in the house, jumped up to the roof with a slight jump.
Wu Gen's heart beat fiercely, he was really discovered. This cat was the black cat in Zhao Ling's arms. He hadn't seen it since he came back from Xingluoyuan, but he didn't expect it to be here.
At such a close distance, even though it could be hidden from the people in the house, it could not be hidden from the cat. The sensitivity of his consciousness was something Wu Gen had experienced before.
"Dead cat, if I hadn't protected you, I would have killed you sooner or later and turned you into a cat corpse."
The people in the room cursed. The cat suddenly appeared, almost interrupting his spellcasting.
The black cat jumped to the roof, lay down sideways, its tail swaying comfortably, glanced in Wu Gen's direction, and then turned to look elsewhere. That mean gesture seems to say, do it, I can't even see you.
After regaining his composure for a moment, Wu Gen nodded to Lu Ke.
Chi chi, two whistles, an iron arrow and a bamboo sword flew into the house like lightning. The iron arrow shoots directly at the zombie in the coffin, and the bamboo sword stabs directly at the person who cast the spell.
Immediately afterwards, two figures flew straight across the window and rushed into the house.
The iron arrow shot into the zombie's body and nailed it firmly to the coffin, leaving only the arrow feathers outside. The bamboo arrow penetrated into the chest of the person who cast the spell. The person who had not yet reacted had looked down at the slightly trembling hilt of the sword in confusion.
With a wave of the broken knife, Wu Gen slashed horizontally with great force, dividing the person who cast the spell into two parts from the waist. The caster made a whooshing sound from his mouth, and fell to the ground with two pieces of his body.
"Is Qiu Yuan?" Wu Gen asked coldly.
The caster tried to reach out to pull out the bamboo sword in his chest, but the sword suddenly jumped out, as if he didn't want to let the other party's hands get dirty. With a flash of light, he cut off another arm of the opponent.
"You are..." The caster glared at the two of them and said with difficulty.
Wu Gen took out a small person from his body, which he found when he was at Zhaoluan Peak.
"So it's you little thing." The person who cast the spell looked ugly and recognized the person in front of him. Wu Gen nodded. The person lying on the ground was Qiu Yuan.
"Don't think that if you succeed in the sneak attack, you will win for sure, haha." Qiu Yuan smiled ferociously, with blood flowing out of his body. The remaining hand made a quick squeeze, and the zombie beside him twisted hard, shaking with the iron arrow.
Just as Lu Ke was about to step forward, a shrill meow came from the roof. The zombie stopped suddenly and lay down again.
"Beasts." Qiu Yuan cursed and stared at the two of them fiercely, "Let's die together." His body shook like chaff, and turned into a ball of black smoke, rolling towards the two of them. ..
Wu Gen quickly handed the soul crystal to Lu Ke, and he himself was submerged in the black smoke.
Sure enough, as soon as the black smoke reached Lu Ke, it dissipated like snow meeting fire. Lu Ke looked at this inconspicuous black jade in surprise, and looked at Wu Gen worriedly, as all the rest of the darkness had disappeared into his body.
Wu Gen stood quietly, and in the mental space, Qiu Yuan's vague figure appeared. This method of transformation is a secret technique of Fu Ming Sect. If things are not harmonious, you can use this technique to transform your opponent into a powerful soul and annihilate the opponent's soul.
Qiu Yuan came in anger. This man had destroyed his own body. If he didn't give him a good meal, it would be difficult to understand the hatred in his heart.
Hey, what a big millstone and shining silver ingots. What is this?
A huge human-shaped flame appeared under the millstone. The flame jumped and the huge millstone flew over. A huge suction force came, trying to stuff Qiu Yuan's sharp soul into the grinding eye.
He had never seen such a weird thing before. Qiu Yuan knew something was wrong, so he turned around and wanted to withdraw from Wu Gen's mind. But a huge butterfly flew over, leaving little ripples wherever it passed.
Qiu Yuan felt as if his surroundings were frozen, unable to move or think, and watched helplessly as the millstone pressed down.
The millstone started turning, and the sharp tearing pain came. Even though he was in a state of ecstasy, the pain was real. After a while, a little bit of black smoke seeped out from the millstone, and tremblingly condensed into one body, turning into Qiu Yuan's appearance. It's just that compared to just now, it's more than a little smaller, and its figure is much duller.
The human-shaped flame opposite him was smiling. Why do I know he is smiling? It is obviously just a ball of flame.
Qiu Yuan was already in a trance, and was thrown into the millstone again by the big hand of human-shaped flames.
"How's it going, Wu Gen." Lu Ke shook Wu Gen's body in the room. From the moment the black smoke entered his body, he stood there blankly. At this time, he couldn't stop laughing, which made Lu Ke unavoidably frightened.
"Oh, it's okay. That old boy wanted to kill my soul, but he was restrained. I won't take advantage of him. I won't let him be completely annihilated without grinding him a thousand times." Wu Gen gritted his teeth. Showing strong white teeth.
"I always feel that you are doing something evil." Lu Ke shivered, "How to deal with this zombie."
Wu Gen looked down and saw that Qiu Yuan's body had disappeared after his transformation, leaving only a pile of clothes. The zombie, on the other hand, lost control of Qiu Yuan and lay quietly in the coffin, "Let's melt it. I don't believe Brother Lu doesn't have any talisman that can produce fire."
Carefully pull the iron arrow out of the zombie's body. The zombie doesn't react at all. Lu Ke put a talisman on the zombie with some pain, "Let's go, I will cast the spell after leaving Zhuangzi, so as not to attract others with the fire."
Wu Gen agreed, and he and Lu Ke left the house and quietly ran to the courtyard wall. After jumping up to the wall, Wu Gen looked back with some confusion.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong?" Lu Ke turned around and asked.
"That cat..., forget it, never mind, let's go." Wu Gen hesitated for a moment and jumped off the courtyard wall.
The two found the horse and rushed back to the place where they separated from Xiang Qi overnight.
When the sky was slightly bright, sure enough, Xiang Qi rushed over on his horse, glanced at the two of them, nodded slightly, "Let's go back to the city quickly while there are not too many people in the city."
Wu Gen did everything he could, put on his mask, and successfully returned to his own yard in Guanxicheng.
In Chang Zhao's mansion, Zhao Qian has been under house arrest for two days.
Accompanied by Gao Cheng, Zhao Chang opened the door and looked at his haggard-looking son, "Zhao Qian, I'd like to ask you again where Wang Rong went."
Hearing the meaning behind his father's words, Zhao Qian felt terrified and quickly knelt on the ground, "Father, I really don't know where this Wang Rong has gone.
In the conscience of heaven and earth, I have no intention of harming my father. I really did not release that poisonous elixir. "As he spoke, he knocked on the ground repeatedly, so that the green bricks on the ground were dyed a bright red.
"You and your careless sister are both careless lamps." Zhao Chang walked slowly in front of Zhao Qian, "I have been working hard over the years to recruit alchemists. For what reason, others don't know, you Don’t you know? How can you really control these people without me?
Born in a royal family, fratricide is inevitable. On weekdays, your brother and sister fight openly and secretly, but I saw it and did not stop it. Without such cruelty, how could we achieve great things? But why are you so impatient? If I succeed in great things, why don't I leave this huge power to you, one in charge of the world and the other in charge of practitioners? Why? "
"My child, my child really didn't do anything to harm you." Zhao Qian cried bitterly.
At this moment, a person reported outside, and Gao Cheng quickly walked out. After a while, he turned around and walked in, whispering a few words to Zhao Chang.
"What, Qiu Yuan was killed?" Zhao Chang asked in shock, "Have you found out who did it?"
"No, the steward searched his residence afterwards and found this in his house." Gao Cheng said and took out something. It was a small blue bird jade ring, which was the certificate of entry and exit of Zhao Ling's house.
"This ***, where has she been these days?" Zhao Chang was furious. Qiu Yuan and Luo Yuanbing were recruited by him and no one else could control them. Could it be that he had secret dealings with his daughter?
"Father, father, my child may know where that *** is." Zhao Qian heard and shouted.
