The night is getting deeper; spring is getting warmer, and the tender buds and green branches are quietly reviving.
The inn built along the lake is very quiet. Zhao Zhengli sits cross-legged on the bed and settles into meditation. The true energy circulates on its own, opening up the muscles and acupuncture points, and tempering the body. Zhao Zhengli is sensing his body in subtle ways. Although he is close to death and the poison disappears, he still feels that there is something in his body. There was some kind of change, but he just didn't notice it. Now he wanted to determine whether the change would be good or bad for his body, but unfortunately he had not gained anything for several months.
While he was concentrating, several needle holes were pierced through the oil paper window, and five or six flying needles hit Zhao Zhengli who was sitting cross-legged on the bed. When the flying needles came three inches closer to his body, they were blocked by the invisible Qi, and they were frozen in mid-air. move.
The calm Zhao Zhengli's body was shaken, and the zhenqi waves from the inside out directly bounced the flying needle back, and then he broke out of the window on the same path. He only heard several "clang clang" sounds outside the window as the sword fended off the flying needle.
"puff!"
A sword energy broke through the window and struck again. Zhao Zhengli opened his eyes slightly and drew back his strength. He drew a true energy barrier with one palm to smooth out the incoming sword energy without causing any ripples in the room.
Zhao Zhengli waved his sleeves and opened the window, only to see him leaving a dark shadow on the spot and reappearing on the roof outside the window. He stood holding a sword with his hands behind his back. His expression was indifferent throughout, looking at the roof from a distance. There were three or two people, a man in a linen and cotton-padded jacket, a woman in satin and fur, and a thin monk. However, the monk was not wearing a cassock, but an expensive tiger and leopard skin coat.
While he was staring at the three of them, the three of them were also sizing him up.
"call!"
Without saying a word, Zhao Zhengli pierced the night sky with his sword and struck at the three of them. The bright sword energy on the dark roof of the inn was so brilliant that it was better than the bright moon in the sky.
The three of them were obviously taken aback by his decisiveness. Normal people would ask questions first before taking action, but this guy in front of them just took a look and took action, and he took action with decisiveness.
The woman and the monk retreated immediately. Only the strong man in a linen jacket picked up a big knife and resisted. The price was that he flew hundreds of meters upside down like a kite with a broken string, and fell heavily into the lake, causing a large amount of water to rise on the calm lake. wave.
The woman and the monk were shocked. They didn't expect that the fair and clean boy opposite him could be so terrifying. You must know that a strong man can be at the level of a grandmaster. Although he is only a first-class man, he is also among the strongest masters. In the end, he could not hold a sword. gas! How could they not be surprised.
At that time, Zhao Zhengli didn't pause at all. He held a sword in one hand and left an afterimage in the night sky on the rooftop. His eyes were filled with coldness and cruelty. He wanted the world to know the price of harassing him.
When the monk and the woman saw this formation, the first reaction in their minds was to retreat. However, Zhao Zhengli was so fast that he appeared within twenty meters in almost the blink of an eye. This distance was basically zero distance in the Grandmaster realm.
The two of them passively resisted, both using their full strength, because they knew that the other party's good-looking skin hid terrifying strength.
The woman shook out dozens of flying needles, the monk scattered more than a dozen rosary beads, and then prepared for attack and defense. The sound of "Puff" broke through the air mixed with infuriating energy, like a meteor. Zhao Zhengli swept the sword with one hand, and the sword was like a rainbow. The Qi directly shattered the flying needle rosary and flew away, and the action of reducing the strength of ten will be clean and neat.
The strong man who was knocked into the lake with a sword was very angry. He did underestimate the enemy just now, but he had to be sure that the opponent was very strong.
He volleyed through the water waves and jumped onto the roof. His vast energy directly dried the wet clothes, and then joined the group that attacked Zhao Zhengli.
The three men surrounded Zhao Zhengli from three sides. Zhao Zhengli still didn't have any stage fright. On the contrary, he was full of fighting spirit.
The woman couldn't hold it in anymore and spoke for the first time: "Don't you ask why?"
Zhao Zhengli's mouth curled up slightly: "Is it possible that we can still be friends if we carry out a sneak attack in the middle of the night? Why are we talking nonsense if we are not friends?"
After saying that, he took the lead and slashed at the woman with his sword. The three of them didn't have time to react. The woman once again hurriedly resisted. She was a little annoyed. Why did she hit him so easily when he said he was such a pretty face? It caught her off guard every time. Even a middle-grade master was knocked hundreds of meters away by the sword. She drew an arc in the air and took off all the force. Finally, she landed on the lake and used her buoyancy to step on the water waves and jump onto the bare lake. The top of a willow branch.
The movements were very graceful, not as embarrassed as a strong man falling into the lake, which shows that women are stronger than strong men. However, Zhao Zhengli did not pay attention to the three masters. He swung two swords and then used all his strength to kill them. The three of them couldn't get close at all. At ten meters, even though they all have magical powers, they are still severely suppressed by Zhao Zhengli. Even though the woman is at the same level as a master, her eight meridians are not as fast as Zhao Zhengli's infuriating energy. The three of them are like a small net catching a big fish, and they are helpless.
After only fifty moves in the exchange, Zhao Zhengli penetrated the thin monk's shoulder with one finger. The translucent holes on the front and back made the monk forget the pain. It was not until Zhao Zhengli cut off his arm with a sword that he realized that he was seriously injured and soaked in red blood. A large piece of wet tiger and leopard skin jacket.
The monk fled away quickly; without saying a word, Zhao Zhengli was restrained by the strong man and the woman, so he did not have time to leave the monk behind. Therefore, he vented all his anger on the two of them, and his madman-like fighting power suppressed the two of them to a low level. Even escaping was a luxury, and fear gradually appeared in the eyes of the two of them, because Zhao Zhengli had murderous intent in his eyes.
There was a fight outside the inn for eighty moves. The strong man's throat was sealed with a sword, and blood spread across the lake. His last look was full of shock and horror, because he didn't see the speed of the sword clearly, and he didn't even realize that his throat had been cut. , fell into the lake water, and slowly sank to the bottom.
There was despair and fear in the woman's eyes, and she shouted: "You can't kill me! I'm from Changle Hall, I know Tai...poof!"
Before she finished speaking, Zhao Zhengli struck out with one finger and one sword, directly piercing her head. Her eyes widened, perhaps thinking why the other party had to kill her. If she knew the meaning of shooting the first bird, maybe she Won't take action tonight.
Zhao Zhengli killed two grandmasters and seriously injured one Yuan Dun. The key was that he had not used more than a hundred moves from beginning to end.
There were many masters in the inn near the lake who noticed a fight, but few people came out, and most ordinary people were in deep sleep without noticing.
There were also experts in the world who did not mind the trouble opening the windows to look out. Among them was Song Maoling, the sixth prince of the Tianshi Mansion who was traveling with Zhao Zhengli. I doubt that all three of them will be destroyed here.
Zhao Zhengli may not know the three of them, but the Sixth Prince Song Maoling does. The thin monk wearing the tiger skin coat is Xiao Jingyuan, a former northern Shaolin monk. He was expelled from Buddhism for committing serious murders. He wandered around the north all year round, and was finally imprisoned in Changle Hall. Recruited as a killer.
The woman in satin and fur is also an assassin who has joined the Changle Hall in recent years. She specializes in taking on tasks with high commissions. She was well-known in the assassin world in the capital a few years ago. She has received several tasks from the prince and successfully completed them. Therefore, she is with the prince. We met several times and even rewarded her with gold and silver.
The strong man is a bit unfamiliar. If the three of them are together, they must have some kind of reliable relationship.
Two of the three grandmasters died, and most of those who escaped were seriously injured. This was news all over the city. A first- and second-grade official and a distinguished family could have a grandmaster as a guest. They slept very well, but now the three grandmasters combined He failed to survive a hundred moves under Zhao Zhengli. Where is he now? The pinnacle of Grandmaster? Or a half-step grandmaster? Any possibility makes the two of them unbelievable, because he is too young, he has just turned sixteen this year!
Song Maoling and Yang Zhiming thought that they were in a good state, but now they were a little worried about Zhao Zhengli, a lunatic. Looking back on the friendship discussion among the three saints in the temple years ago, he seemed to have kept a low profile?
The rest of the night passed peacefully, and it was not until the early morning of the next day that the town began to riot. The county government soldiers recovered two white corpses from the lake based on the clues reported. After they were confirmed to be a massacre, no further investigation was carried out, and they only waited three days to collect the bodies. If a person is not claimed, he will be hastily buried; he will become a lonely grave without a monument or name.
Everyone in the world knew that the person who died was a member of the Changle Hall, and someone claimed the body in the afternoon. It was the funeral arrangements hired by the Changle Hall, and it also allowed the two coolies who served him to be buried in peace.
On the same day, the news came back to the capital, and a red letter suddenly appeared at the top of the Changle Pavilion's hidden reward list, "There is a reward of one million gold bars for those who take Zhao Zhengli's head!"
The sky-high price of the reward shocked the entire world and shocked the entire capital. Such a huge sum of money made many great masters jealous.
The king of the city made an exception and went to the palace to meet the emperor, telling him that someone had murdered Daochang Zhao, a fourth-rank official in the imperial court, through dark means. The old emperor naturally knew the instigator behind the scenes. The scheming emperor did not answer immediately, but fell into deep thought again, because the prince and party had no need. Zhao Zhengli paid a sky-high price to kill a man who was on the edge of a party dispute. Apart from him, the king of the country, the only employer who could pay such a sky-high price was a few senior masters and tutors in the country. Could it be possible that they really discovered the clue? Is Zhao Zhengli related to the traitor? Did the old Heavenly Master of Tianshi Mansion hide something from him?
The old emperor thought a lot, and for the first time he became suspicious of the old Heavenly Master.
At the same time, Master Zhao of Tianshi Mansion frowned and paced on the top floor of the attic, looking anxiously at the black and white chess pieces on the big chessboard.
Early the next morning, the old emperor secretly summoned the old heavenly master and ordered him to leave the capital and bring back the seventh prince who was traveling in the world.
The old Heavenly Master was silent, but he still underestimated the emperor's mind.
The battle between the princes is about to take place.
The old Celestial Master left, and the old emperor summoned the old eunuch Cao Yan who had been waiting on him: "Secretly observe the actions of Celestial Master Zhao in contacting the Seventh Prince, and the movements of Zhao Zhengli!"
Although Cao Yan had doubts, he still accepted the secret order. The old eunuch organized his thoughts and deduced that the old emperor was wary of the Tianshi Mansion. Now he asked the old Tianshi to contact the Seventh Prince for experiments, and perhaps to find out what he was protecting. Zhao Zhengli's clues.
In the entire capital and even in the Qing Kingdom, only the old emperor knew that the fourth greatest master in the capital was the old eunuch Cao Yan beside him.
Near noon, the old emperor summoned the three saints of the temple and the other two saints, Confucian Master and Imperial Master Yuan Yi, and ordered Confucius Mu Deqing to go out of the city to pick up the seventh prince in the same way. When the two great masters bumped into each other and received the same secret order, they would definitely be frightened. Breaking into a cold sweat, because he was suspicious that the old emperor would not make such a stupid mistake, he quietly sounded the alarm to the two great masters. This is the terrifying power of the emperor's mind.
Let Fang Yi's Imperial Army go north to drive away the Khitan envoys who stopped in the Qing Kingdom. It was reported that after the vision appeared in the northeast of the Qing Kingdom, the Khitan envoys went back to report that Halasa, one of the three commanders, was determined to stay in the Qing Kingdom.
At this moment, Zhao Zhengli and his party had left Yinshan Town hundreds of miles away. The sixth prince Song Maoling and Qiyun Shanyang Zhiming were walking side by side in the carriage driven by Zhao Zhengli. The two had something to say, but neither opened their mouths and just moved forward quietly.
Zhao Zhengli ate a nut peeled by Biore and leaned against the door frame of the carriage to look at the two people on the bumpy backs of the horse: "If you have anything to say, just say it! I don't like the sultry type."
"...Now you are walking with millions of gold, and you are not afraid at all?" The sixth prince Song Maoling, in white clothes, looked sideways to observe his expression.
Zhao Zhengli opened his mouth again to catch the nuts that Biyu fed to his mouth, and said leisurely: "What? The dignified Sixth Prince is also attracted by millions of gold?"
The Sixth Prince shook his head: "I'm just curious about your identity. What is your relationship with Zhao Liwei?"
The Sixth Prince naturally found out from clues that Grand Master Qi and Grand Master Xiao were familiar with the past events of the founding of the country, but he just didn't know the deep meaning.
"Zhao Liwei?"
Zhao Zhengli frowned and shook his head slightly. He was extremely unfamiliar with this name.
The Sixth Prince Song Maoling asked again: "Where is Ye Qiong?"
Zhao Zhengli still shook his head in confusion, because this was the first time he heard these two names.
Yang Zhiming did not speak; he rode quietly aside and listened.
Birou opened the curtain in the carriage and whispered softly: "Zhao Liwei and Ye Qiong are husband and wife. They were heroes in the world of chaos more than ten years ago. In the end, they rescued His Majesty, who was still the governor, in Jizhou. The two became sworn brothers. For unknown reasons, Zhao Liwei Ce rebelled against the then Emperor of the Zhou Dynasty and became a 'rebel' at that time."
"More than ten years have passed, looking back at history, Zhao Liwei has gradually faded away from the label of 'rebel'. Because of his overthrow, the foundation of the Qing Kingdom was laid, and Emperor Qingyuan unified the Central Plains, quelled decades of wars that had made the people miserable, and from then on To a certain extent, Zhao Liwei is a turning point that ends the disputes among the Ten Kingdoms ahead of schedule."
Zhao Zhengli listened quietly; "What does this have to do with our Dao?"
"He and his wife have an heir!" Yang Zhiming, who had never spoken, said lightly, "And you happen to have an ambiguous identity and similar looks."
"You two think that I am the heir of Zhao Liwei and Ye Qiong?" Zhao Zhengli was stunned, then turned his eyes to the Sixth Prince, and he nodded accordingly.
"That's nonsense! Why don't I know this?"
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