Lu Jing followed Zhihai's instructions and threw the iron box out first.
However, at this moment, a black shadow suddenly appeared on the roof opposite, grabbed the iron chain on the box first, turned around and ran away, regardless of the fact that it was hot to his hands.
When Zhihai saw this, he immediately became anxious and shouted, "Quick, stop him!"
Xia Huai hesitated for a moment, then chased after him.
As a result, the black figure ran two steps, suddenly stopped, and avoided Xia Huai's stab. Then he took out a small, exquisitely crafted crossbow from his arms, turned around and shot an arrow at Zhi Hai.
Seeing that the crossbow arrow had already flown in front of him, Zhihai didn't have time to think too much, and quickly used the iron bridge move, leaned back, and finally narrowly avoided the arrow.
However, the wooden fish he had been knocking was interrupted, and the fire that had been separated instantly swept towards Lu Jing.
You must know that this is not an ordinary flame. It cannot be extinguished with water. If it gets a little bit of it, it may end up being burned to coke.
After dodging the crossbow arrow, Zhihai hurriedly tried to regain control of the flames, but in the end it was still a step too late.
Xia Huai watched helplessly as Lu Jing was trapped in the sea of fire. At this time, she could no longer care about the masked man in front of her. The only thought in her mind was to rush into the fire.
However, she had only taken two steps when the fire in front of her suddenly dimmed.
Then Lu Jing's figure flew up from the sea of fire.
However, judging from the speed and height of his jump, it was obvious that he was not completely out of danger, and the area around his foothold was still covered in flames.
But there was no trace of panic on Lu Jing's face, and he threw out a porcelain jar in his hand unhurriedly.
This is the oil bottle he found in Taiping Bank to store lamp oil.
Adding oil to the fire is usually tantamount to suicide, but when Lu Jing observed the oil lamps in the warehouse, he found that they were all out.
Of course, it was late at night and there was no one in the warehouse, so it was normal for no one to light the lamp.
But considering the current intensity of the fire in Taiping Bank, it was a bit strange that these oil lamps were still unlit, especially when Lu Jing looked inside and found that the lamp oil in the lampstands was still there.
So he tried pouring some of the lamp oil on the fire and found that the lamp oil actually extinguished the fire.
Well, since water can support combustion, it’s not surprising that oil can put out fires.
So Lu Jing did a little search nearby and found two oil bottles. One was full, and the other was half full of lamp oil. He took it with him, and it turned out to be useful now.
He first smashed the oil bottle full of oil, forcing back the surrounding flames, then jumped into the air in a hurry, and threw the remaining half of the bottle out.
Immediately, a clearing was cleared under his feet. Although the clearing was not big, Lu Jing had no intention of staying there for a long time. He just tapped his toes and jumped up again.
But this time he jumped directly out of the sea of fire.
Seeing that Lu Jing was safe and sound, Xia Huai breathed a sigh of relief and turned around to continue dealing with the masked man.
On the contrary, when the masked man saw Lu Jing getting out of trouble, he seemed to realize that the situation was not good. He dropped the iron chain in his hand and prepared to run away, but was enveloped by Xia Huai's sword light.
In order not to be recognized by Zhihai, the girl did not use the swordsmanship passed down by her master. She now used the swordsmanship from the "Thirteen Swords of Tianmen" that she had obtained in the ruined temple.
Although it hasn't been long, Xia Huai has already mastered this sword technique.
One move is faster than the other, like a surging river, continuous and without any sluggishness.
The masked man was quickly killed and daunted. Although he tried hard to dodge, he soon became stained and was slashed in the left rib by Xia Huai's sword.
But the next moment the girl let out a light moan, because her long sword did not feel like it was piercing the flesh, but instead made a somewhat hollow muffled sound.
Xia Huai frowned, sheathed his sword, and then the sword became more fierce.
He forced the masked man to the corner of the eaves!
At this time, Zhihai no longer needed to control his Heavenly Fire Formation, so he shouted, "Xia Nu, I'm here to help you."
After saying that, he was about to jump to the roof, but as soon as his heels left the ground, a hand pressed on his shoulders, and then his body fell down again.
Zhihai turned around and saw Lu Jing grinning at him.
"It's just a little pawn who hides his head and shows his tail. I don't need to worry about it. Xijun can deal with it by himself."
Before he finished speaking, Xia Huai succeeded again.
The girl's sword was aimed at the masked man's open chest. However, halfway through, she suddenly changed her move and thrust it upwards diagonally, directly lifting the veil covering the man's face.
"Shadow puppet?" After Xia Huai saw the face under the veil, his eyes moved slightly and he uttered four words.
Zhi Hai's expression also changed slightly, but he soon regained his composure, revealing a look of sadness and sorrow, "I have long heard that there was a rebellion in our Tianjian, but I didn't expect it to be true."
The shadow puppet is a magic weapon that is activated by talismans and formations. It can execute some simple instructions. However, the cost is high. The total materials required to build a shadow puppet can already catch up with a flying sword.
And this is just a small shadow puppet. The cost of a tall shadow puppet like this is three to five times that of ordinary puppets.
In addition, since the shadow puppet is a magic weapon, it can only be driven by practitioners. In other words, Mr. Ji and his group of magical subordinates obviously cannot control such a thing.
This is also the reason why Zhihai is sad.
Lu Jing raised his head and asked Xia Huai, "Can you find its owner through this shadow puppet?"
Xia Huai shook his head, "Perhaps only great monks above the Fourth Palace can do this kind of thing."
The girl paused, then continued, "But... I can cut off the connection between this shadow puppet and its owner, and in this way, the person will not feel too good."
"Very good, let's do it."
Lu Jing had also heard of the name of the shadow puppet. Even the academy only had one shadow puppet, and it was usually serving tea and water to Su Tixue, so most people couldn't see it at all.
He didn't expect that a shadow puppet would be sent to him right now. Wouldn't it be a bit unreasonable not to accept this generous gift worth millions of taels of silver?
Zhihai finally changed his color and said, "If we don't rush to cut off the contact, let's catch this shadow puppet first."
"Why?" Lu Jing looked sideways at Zhi Hai.
"The poor monk can take this thing back to Si Tianjian and ask experts to track down the owner behind it. In this way, he can know who the traitor is."
Zhihai's heart was beating wildly, but he still managed to find a reasonable excuse.
