The sound of a needle dropping could be heard in the study. It was not until the silent and oppressive atmosphere was broken by a chuckle that things returned to normal.
Bai Hao chuckled and said, "You should focus on the matter I entrusted to you. You don't need to worry too much about the Nether Flame Formation."
Geshan lowered his head and said: "The news I just received before coming here is that there are several real strong men in the Hidden Valley in the south of the city. They are wearing masks."
Bai Hao's eyes moved slightly, turned around and asked, "How many people are there?"
Geshan answered truthfully: "There are three new faces in total. Two of them are wearing masks. Judging from the information left by the stall, they should be Qinglong and Baihu. The other person should be Jiang Shangxiu, the great deacon of the Hidden Valley Assassin lineage."
Bai Hao was silent for a moment, then suddenly started to smile again, but his eyes were much colder, "There are four masters in the late stage of transcendence alone, and there is also a Suzaku in the early stage of transcendence. It is normal for this lineup to make you worried."
Geshan showed a bit of worry at the right time and said hesitantly: "My subordinates have checked all the information about the Nether Flame Formation in Suzaku City. A hundred years ago, the upper limit of the power of the Nether Flame Formation was just at the late extraordinary stage. So many If people rush into the inner city together, I don’t think that the city defense army alone can stop these people for a while, if the Nether Flame Formation cannot keep all these people behind."
Only then did Ge Shan say: "The people from the Gu family haven't arrived yet. Now the only real masters in the inner city are you, the city lord, and Eunuch Cao. Are you making more preparations, or simply grabbing some people to help refine the medicine?" ?”
Ge Shan's words were cryptic, but Bai Hao's eyes suddenly turned cold several degrees. He fell on Ge Shan's face for a long time before moving away, and said without emotion: "You only need to refine the Dragon Blood Pill for me, and everything else is fine." Stop worrying."
Seeing that Ge Shan still looked panic-stricken, he shook his head with some disdain and said: "Besides the Nether Flame Array, I naturally have other preparations. When the war comes, you only need to do the explanation for me. As long as I am done, You will always be my most capable subordinate, and no matter what ambition you have, you will have a chance to realize it."
Geshan's expression became much more solemn, "City Lord, please rest assured!"
"Then you go down, I want to rest." Bai Hao walked back to the desk coldly and sat down. Geshan was about to leave when the sound of swords came from the side courtyard.
Bai Hao's buttocks were stiff in the air, and he simply stood up. His energy was restrained and his gaze shot towards Geshan like sharp arrows.
Ge Shan looked slightly condensed and said: "Xiong returned to the south gate three times and was on standby. The guards at the side courtyard are weak."
Bai Hao didn't express anything, just looked at him coldly.
Geshan bowed and walked out of the study. When he was about to turn around, he said, "My subordinates are planning to let Li Fu leave."
"So, what's going on over there is you deliberately giving them a chance?" Ge Shan nodded calmly, and continued: "Then Li Fu should be a first-level cultivation. I'm afraid he has already broken through the limit of true energy. My subordinates can here If you issue a military order to the city lord, you will only let him go."
Bai Hao's reaction was not as cold as Geshan imagined. Instead, he smiled and said: "Then do it. I want to see what kind of surprise you plan to give me?"
Geshan's eyes were shocked and he asked: "The city lord didn't ask me what I planned to do, nor did he punish his subordinates for reporting it now?"
Geshan stood up and gestured sideways in a certain direction. Within a few breaths from the east side courtyard, the sounds of fighting could be heard.
Ge Shan did not go there, but made a scholar's bow to Bai Hao with a sincere expression on his face, and said respectfully: "It seems that the city lord has noticed my recent actions."
Bai Hao was noncommittal and asked with interest: "What news do you plan to let Li Heng take back?"
Ge Shan said: "Of course the news is true. There are stable and forbearing people in Hidden Valley. They should have guessed that the inner city is the dragon's pond and tiger's den. At this time, if they want the people in Hidden Valley to rush in desperately, they must have no choice. I don’t have a sense of urgency, so Lord Qing forgives me, and my subordinates will ask Li Fu to tell the masters in Hidden Valley that people from the Gu family will soon come to Zhuque City to help."
After Bai Hao listened this time, he was silent for a long time. When his eyes fell on Ge Shan's sincere face, he said with a half-smile: "If Hidden Valley retreats when it is difficult, is it you?" Most hopefully.”
Ge Shan said without any hesitation: "Suzaku City has been provoked by Hidden Valley time and time again, especially that Mu Qing. The city lord will not tolerate it, and his subordinates will not have this choice. In addition to this news, I will send Hidden Valley an additional message." A gift."
"That's it, it won't happen again."
Bai Hao finally let Ge Shan leave, but before Ge Shan's back disappeared at the end of the corridor connecting the study, a figure with purple robe and white hair appeared out of nowhere. Cao Jin said coldly: "Although this boy always He's just a little out of line, but he's still essentially a man who is more resourceful than a demon. How dare you leave such an important matter like refining dragon blood pills to him?"
Bai Hao looked at the empty corridor, turned around and looked at Cao Jin, who looked slightly better in front of him, and said with a smile: "My father-in-law, aren't you watching from the side? This huge Suzaku City is qualified to be my Bai Hao ally. I can You are the only one who completely believes it.”
Cao Jin frowned slightly and said, "Our family is not a subordinate that you can come and leave at a moment's notice."
Bai Hao endured Cao Jin's temper and said, "Didn't you just come from the east? Do you think Li Negative can still leave? Oh, I forgot, since the sound of fighting is still going on, it proves that father-in-law thinks Li Negative I don’t have any control over anything.”
Cao Jin gave him a cold look and walked straight to the cabinet next to the study room. After moving the mechanism, the bookcase was separated on both sides. Inside was a dark secret passage. The end of the secret passage happened to be at the center of the Nether Flame Array under the City Lord's Mansion.
"In the current war, our family must recharge its batteries. Don't bother with such trivial matters again."
Seeing Cao Jin's figure disappear in an instant, Bai Hao closed his eyes, sat back on the chair with some indulgence, raised his head and closed his eyes, greedily taking a few breaths of the faint scent of red sandalwood in the study.
Cao Jin and he were ferrymen on a sunken ship. No one would harm the other until they got ashore.
Consciously holding the eunuch who had lived in the palace for a long time, Bai Hao closed his eyes and took a breath. He seemed to have seen the blood and fire outside the city wall today. These things seemed to be related to him, but he just sat quietly. It was just in this small house. At this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of satisfaction in controlling the situation, which was a bit dangerous but could not move like a mountain.
In his eyes, regardless of whether the following people are loyal or not, as long as he does one more thing, then only the Shura body achieved by Wuzong and the transcendent realm seem to be something that can be touched just around the corner.
But, will all this go as he wishes?
…
In the dead end, Li Fu looked at the elite guardsmen who were approaching. He wanted to call out Geshan's name several times, and wanted to ask him if he had become a chess piece that died without knowing what situation he had become. .
But a scream from the Guards suddenly woke him up.
He and the embarrassed Murong Xiu Ming stared at each other, but they saw a middle-aged man with a strange face, who looked like he was from the Burning Breathing Man. He killed the two guards with one sword and suddenly separated the encirclement.
When the two of them looked at each other, this person shouted loudly: "The hidden stake in Quan Mansion is here to rescue the young master."
Murong Xiu Ming's whole body was agitated. His red phoenix eyes that usually looked extremely evil when squinted at this time were actually more grateful. Li Fu had been quietly unlocking the restriction of his Qi for more than a day.
At the critical moment of life and death, Li Fu didn't need to remind him. In order to get angry, he would rush out of the encirclement through the passage created by the hidden stake.
Regardless of what Chen Zhuo had told him before, after learning from Geshan Pass that Qinglong White Tiger and the others had now entered Suzaku City, at least at this moment Li Fu really wanted to save Murong Xiu Ming, but he had no choice but to save Murong Xiu Ming. Xiu Ming's performance is beyond previous performance.
By the time he shouted to be careful, Murong Xiu Ming had already rushed half the distance.
At this time, Murong Xiu Ming, who felt his blood boiling all over his body, was already thinking about how to order Dugu Wei and the others to attack the city lord's mansion after leaving the city, and how to torture Bai Hao to avenge his broken hand. Only then did the radiance in his Danfeng eyes bloom. Halfway through, the man who suddenly came out to separate the encirclement for him had already been cut into a pulp by the elite swords of the guards who reacted and became furious.
Murong Xiu Ming was completely confused at this time. He wanted to turn around and call for help to Chen Zhuo, but he ignored the distance of only a few feet. As he ran with all his strength, the inertia of his body in the previous moment was enough to carry him there. In front of those soldiers.
A strange scene happened. When Murong Xiu Ming really rushed in front of these soldiers, these elite soldiers who had just killed a traitor suddenly didn't know what to do with the man in front of them who was defenseless and without a palm, and their faces were full of expressions. What to do with the embarrassed guy.
But sometimes people's thinking is not as fast as the memory rooted deep in the body, and I don't know if the daily training is too harsh. Finally, one of the elite guardsmen who faced Murong Xiuming finally found someone. Returning to that familiar feeling, when he judged that the enemy was rushing in front of him, he slashed him directly in the head.
The military formation formed during the siege by the Guards was finally destroyed by the hidden stake just now. The power of the soldier's sword when he slashed it down was only his own cultivation level. Facing this sword of only about the fourth level, the second level sword Murong Xiuming could have easily avoided it, or even killed him directly, but perhaps the soldier's shining sword still had the flesh and blood of the hidden stake on it. Murong Xiuming breathed the special smell of this blood at close range, and in a daze It actually felt like he was facing the irresistible god of death, and his head was about to be split open with a knife.
Probably because he was not destined to die after all, a blade of light flew from the diagonal stab, deflecting the blade that struck his head, causing it to embed itself into Murong Xiuming's left shoulder after cutting off one of his ears. .
"You're crazy. Isn't this the young master of Hidden Valley? The dead are of no use to the living."
Before Murong Xiuming fainted from the pain, when he heard this sentence, he felt filled with endless frustration. He looked towards the dead end where he came from, only to find Li Fu's figure there.
It turned out that he had always been a burden. After experiencing several real injuries, Murong Xiu Ming finally understood this truth long belatedly, and then fainted.
