Outside the window, insects chirped, the night wind rustled the sycamore trees in the courtyard, and the roars of wild beasts came from the distant mountains and forests.
As expected, this one-eyed old man is the master of Hell Gate, Ximen Xiao, known as the "One-eyed Flying Dragon" in the world.
Ximen Xiao made his debut when he was sixteen years old, and first moved around in the northwest. Although he was young, he was quite smart. He started a fur business in Yumenguan, Gansu, reselling various animal skins, and opened a business in the small town of Anping at the pass of the post road. I walked into a leather goods shop, which is located on an important transportation road. The town is not big, but it is very prosperous and lively.
Here, there is an endless stream of merchants coming from north to south. Gradually, using his eloquent mouth, he got acquainted with many fur goods traders. He quickly accumulated connections and his business went smoothly. When he was twenty years old, he had become a well-known local businessman. After gaining a certain amount of fame and fortune, his ambitions expanded rapidly and he was no longer satisfied with just being a businessman. Be a businessman.
In the northwest, bandits are rampant, posing a serious threat to merchants traveling from north to south. Frequently, merchants are robbed by rampant thieves along the way, and some even lose their lives.
Ximen Xiao is quite ambitious. No one in the local area knows his origins. Many people only know that he came from a young age and watched him make his fur business bigger and stronger day by day through his own diligence. When mentioning this young talent with a mysterious background, everyone gives him a thumbs up and praises him highly.
One day, a group of horse teams suddenly appeared on the post road. The horse team consisting of dozens of people came to the town in a mighty manner. The leader was a tall and powerful man riding on a horse. There were also several carriages loaded with goods and several horsemen in the team. Holding a large flag with the words "Changfeng Escort Bureau" written on it.
It turned out to be a passing escort!
While the cavalry team was resting in the town, Ximen Xiao looked at the carriage full of goods and suddenly thought: This escort delivery business is not bad. I can definitely make a lot of money by escorting escorts. I might as well change my career. Escort masters, when you have experience and the time is right, you can set up an escort bureau. In this way, you can not only sell your leather goods to further places and have a larger market, but also take the opportunity to make more friends in the world. Isn’t it the best of both worlds?
At that moment, he asked the waiter to bring some snacks and drinks to the escorts who were resting outside the door. Out of professional sensitivity, the escorts became suspicious of the food sent by the escorts. They were afraid that the owner had evil intentions and staged a cruel trick, knocking down the men and horses with tampered food and taking the opportunity to rob the escorts.
Ximen Xiao saw that this group of people were very alert, so he greeted them with a smile and got close to the escorts. Ximen Xiao was already eloquent, and with a few words, the escorts gradually put their guard down. After a pleasant conversation, Ximen Xiao inquired about the situation of the escorts. Gradually, I became familiar with the escort head.
In this way, Ximen Xiao, who was thoughtful and thoughtful, joined the escort agency as he wished and became a traveler traveling from south to north. Due to his diligence and intelligence, he became the deputy head escort within two years.
His purpose did not stop there. Seeing the huge revenue of the escort agency, his ambition doubled and he wanted to set up his own business and establish an escort agency of his own. In recent years, several escort agencies have emerged in the northwest area. It is not easy to start a new one.
Before I knew it, more than a year had passed. At this time, he was no longer satisfied with just being a bodyguard working for others. He gradually developed a crooked idea and came up with the idea of his own escort agency. Once, the Escort Bureau took over a big business of transporting 100,000 taels of official silver. Seeing that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had come, he bribed a group of thieves who had already been dissatisfied with the Escort Bureau in advance, and prepared to wait for an opportunity to rob the amount on the way. Huge official silver.
One hundred thousand taels of official silver is a huge temptation to anyone. With these one hundred thousand taels of silver, what else can't be done?
The escort team set off as scheduled. When they arrived at a deserted mountain jungle, he took advantage of the commander-in-chief's unpreparedness. He took the opportunity to pull out his long knife and suddenly penetrated the commander-in-chief's back with a knife. The commander-in-chief could not even dream of it. Unexpectedly, Ximen Xiao, who was usually a brother-in-law, would suddenly attack him and kill him on the spot with a glare. Under Ximen Xiao's coercion and inducement, the other unsuspecting people put down their resistance and surrendered to his lustful power.
After Ximen Xiao succeeded, he and dozens of his men collected one hundred thousand taels of official silver and fled overnight. The government received a report from the escort agency and posted notices throughout the city to arrest Ximen Xiao. At this time, Ximen Xiao and dozens of other gangsters had already escaped without a trace.
No one could have imagined that later on, Ximen Xiao would gradually transform from a bodyguard to a ruthless thief. In order to evade the pursuit of the government, he hid in the inaccessible mountains in the northwest border, and with dozens of his gangsters, he established the bandit organization "Hell Gate".
Ximen Xiao's past was almost unknown to outsiders except for a group of his henchmen.
Xu Feng has been wandering around the world for many years, and has seen many dangerous and bizarre scenes, and has heard of many strange things. However, he has no idea about the details of the hell sect master, except for listening to other people's stories on the way here. , I only know that there is such a person, and he is rumored to have a very bad reputation. In the eyes of local insiders, he is a devil-like existence. Although Hell Gate has been entrenched in the northwest area for many years, people on the Northwest Road are even more shocked when mentioning Hell Gate. But Xu Feng had already retired from the world for many years, and Ximen Xiao was originally just a little-known bodyguard, so his name had never been heard in the world.
Xu Feng, Lei Zhentian and Luo Xiangxue came here originally to rescue them, but unexpectedly they suddenly saw such a weird scene in front of them.
There is a deep and complicated mystery hanging in everyone's mind!
The night they returned to Wolong Valley in Zhongnan Mountain: they saw with their own eyes the destroyed thatched cottage, a mess inside and outside the house. The most important thing was that Chu Yunfei and Lei Zhentian were missing, and the man they found in the quilt inside the house was The blood-sealing book clearly states that Chu Yunfei was kidnapped by people from Hell Gate...
Xu Feng couldn't help but think of that nightmare night...the bizarre scene that suddenly happened.
Since the people from the Hell Gate used such cruel means to kidnap Chu Yunfei, they must have acted like an enemy. But now, what they saw was that Chu Yunfei was regarded as a guest by the owner of the room and treated with courtesy. , such a situation cannot be justified emotionally and rationally. There must be many unknown hidden things in it.
Xu Feng secretly thought: We must find out the ins and outs of this matter. What is the relationship between Chu Yunfei and this hell sect master? Or have any grudges to celebrate the holidays? Are they friends or enemies? The most important thing is, why did this mysterious one-eyed man bring Chu Yunfei here? What is his real purpose in doing this? ...All kinds of unexplainable questions seemed to have plunged his whole body and mind into an abyss!
He pondered in his mind for a long time, and finally couldn't help but ask: "The purpose of our coming here must be well known to the master of the Ximen Sect. I won't be pretentious here. I only have one question to ask." He turned his eyes to Chu Yunfei, Liu Ruyan and Zhao Qingzhu, paced, and said slowly: "Why did the Lord Ximen bring my friend to this place?" He frowned slightly and turned his eyes. Ximen smiled and looked at him steadily.
Ximen Xiao blinked his eyes, and said with a slight smile in a rather conceited tone: "Xu Daxia and my sworn brother are close friends for eight years. I know about your friendship. Brother Chu once saved my life, and I How could I kidnap Brother Chu? Over the years, I have always kept Brother Chu's kindness in mind, hoping that one day I can repay him. How could I harm my life-saving sworn brother? Master Xu really misunderstood me. "He walked slowly, sighed quietly, and then said, "Brother Chu was invited by me, not a kidnapping!" He looked at Xu Feng, with that weird and unpredictable smile in his eyes again. .
Xu Feng was startled and sneered secretly: This man kept calling Brother Chu, and he looked extremely friendly, but the blood letter clearly stated that he was kidnapped, but when it came to his mouth, it turned out to be "Brother Chu". They were invited here, and the thatched cottage was so badly destroyed, weren't they the ones who did all this?
Chu Yunfei, who was sitting aside, looked a little dazed. He sat there without saying a word and didn't know what was going on. He neither acknowledged nor refuted what Ximen Xiao said. Even his apprentice Liu Ruyan remained silent. This kind of abnormal behavior is really incredible!
Looking at this weird scene, Xu Feng suddenly had a terrible thought in his heart: Could it be that the three of them were all controlled by this hell sect master? He was well aware of Chu Yunfei's martial arts attainments, and ordinary people could not do anything to him. And his internal skill "Sound Transmission into Secrets" has been practiced to the extreme. Even if he has any difficulties that he can't talk about at the moment, he can still transmit sounds into secrets to tell them, but why is he silent? After not seeing him for many days, he seemed to be a completely different person! Why did he become like this?
Lei Zhentian and Luo Xiangxue also felt that the room was filled with an indescribable and strange aura. Could it be that the abnormal behavior of the three of them was really controlled by the Hell Sect Master using some evil martial arts? They suddenly felt extremely uneasy, thinking in their minds, how can they be rescued? At this moment, as she looked at Liu Ruyan, a raging fire seemed to rise up in her eyes, burning her heart into ashes bit by bit. Seeing Liu Ruyan's devastated look, she really couldn't believe that Brother Liu, the handsome and powerful brother in her heart, turned into this after a day of separation. She could not wait to rush to his side immediately and ask for explanation!
Xu Feng glanced at the strangers in the hall. They were all expressionless and sitting there, as if their souls had been absorbed. Why is everyone suddenly silent? The expressions on their faces were pale and stiff, and their eyes had lost their luster.
The atmosphere in the whole room suddenly became quiet and tense!
Xu Feng couldn't help but tighten his grip on the hilt of the sword. The originally cold hilt was warmed by the energy in his body. His fingers are long, flexible and strong. He also hasn't drawn his sword for a long time.
Xu Feng wanted to ask one last question. He looked at Ximen Xiao and said firmly: "Even if you invited Brother Chu here? Then why did you invite him here?"
Ximen Xiao suddenly looked up to the sky and laughed loudly: "Didn't I tell you before? Brother Chu is my life-savior. I invited him here, of course, to repay his life-saving grace!"
Xu Feng had no expression on his face and asked: "Then how do you plan to retaliate?"
Ximen smiled and said, "Of course there are many ways to repay a favor. If I want to repay a favor, of course I have to use my own method!"
Xu Feng said: "Oh, which method did you use? I just want to see it!"
As soon as he finished saying this, the strangers with expressionless faces suddenly stood up together. Each of them had an extra weapon in their hand. Each person's weapon was different. Some used swords, and some carried weapons. Some have knives, some have axes, some have guns, and some have a flute.
