That year, that cicada, that sword

Chapter 295: The Autumn Wind Has Not Moved the Cicada

On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, Xu Beiyou went out of the city to visit Xie Suqing again.

This time he was going to do something in Tianxiang Tower. He didn't plan to use his own people, but wanted to borrow some of the manpower from the Jiangnan Dark Guard Mansion through Xie Suqing, and let the people from the Dark Guard Mansion take action.

Xu Beiyou didn't intend to keep alive, he just wanted to kill people.

If Xu Beiyou and Zhang Daosuo met on a narrow road in the deserted land outside the Northwest Great Wall, they would have to fight to the death to see how well each of them cultivated. However, in the mighty city of Jiangdu, there are countless rules. Behind the rules, this overwhelmed opponent can be buried here without even going off the field himself.

This is the smell of power.

The Jiangnan Dark Guard Mansion is the only one among the six dark guard mansions that has a governor and a magistrate. It has the responsibility to supervise the major families in the south of the Yangtze River, as well as the Sword Sect, the White Lotus Sect, and the Wenxiang Sect. It is far from comparable to the lower-ranked Northwest Dark Guard Mansion.

Regarding the transfer of manpower, Xie Suqing agreed very happily, and promised to give Xu Beiyou two masters of the ghost realm and ten first-rank realm guards, equipped with an equal number of Tianji crossbows, god-killing arrows and Xuansha heavy armor, and 12 people would be clothed. If you set up an ambush, as long as you are not an expert in the realm of the earth fairy, everyone else will be enraged on the spot.

It can be said that this is not a big deal. Looking at Jiangnan, it is Xie Suqing who can understate it so lightly. If it is someone else, even Jiang Bin, the governor of Jiangnan's Dark Guard Mansion, would not dare to use public tools so blatantly.

Xu Beiyou returned to Jiangdu at noon, and Xie Suqing's manpower would be a little later, and it would be around evening to arrive at Jiangdu.

Tomorrow is the Hongmen Banquet in Tianxianglou.

As for the owner of Tianxiang Tower, Xu Beiyou knew who it was, and Zhang Zhaonu also knew who it was if he wanted to come. As far as that person's temperament is concerned, he would probably watch the show gloatingly, and would never stop him.

There is a shortcut from the Xie family's ancestral house to the river, through a valley called Baiqing Valley. Xu Beiyou would pass by here every time he went to Xie's house, and today is no exception.

Xu Beiyou, who was sitting in the carriage, lifted the curtain and glanced at the early spring scene outside where the snow had not yet melted, feeling a little uneasy in his heart for no reason.

Ever since he opened the upper dantian purple mansion, he has had a sense of wonder that only people in the earthly fairy realm have before the autumn wind moves. As the carriage continued to move forward, the haze in Xu Beiyou's heart became more and more intense.

Almost at the same time that Xu Beiyou was about to give the order for the carriage to turn around and return, there was a sharp whistling sound in the air.

Xu Beiyou's face changed suddenly, because he recognized the source of this sound. It was the sound that the siege ballista made after it broke through the air, and there was definitely more than one.

At this moment, time seemed to freeze, Xu Beiyou's face became paler and paler, but his eyes were extremely hot, and the phantom of an ancient sword slowly emerged in his eyes.

Why is the imperial court able to overwhelm the world and make countless monks bow their heads?Not only because of a Heavenly Secret Pavilion and a Dark Guard Mansion, but more because of the elite and powerful army of hundreds of thousands sweeping the world.

The army is dominated by cavalry, and the cavalry is dominated by heavy cavalry. A certain number of heavy cavalry can pose a huge threat to the realm of ghosts and immortals. This is a bloody lesson learned by countless monks in exchange for their lives. The cavalry will inevitably be dwarfed by the fairyland.

There are not many Earth Immortals who can truly block a million divisions with a single sword, but there are quite a few Earth Immortals who can fly away for a long time. When they face the siege of heavy cavalry, they can just walk away and let them go. You have thousands of troops, even if I insist on leaving, I can't.

Without the deterrence of the heavy cavalry, it is inevitable that the immortals from all walks of life will not obey the rules.

In order to deal with the unruly high-ranking Earth Immortals, the Metropolitan Governor Wei Ban ordered the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to further improve on the basis of the Dark Guard Mansion's Mie Shen Arrow, and developed this ballista named Thunder, implying that the Earth Immortal's ascension would have to endure The punishment of thunder and punishment, this crossbow is designed to kill earth immortals in imitation of the way of heaven.

A thunder crossbow car needs 36 crossbowmen to operate, and each crossbow bolt is almost as tall as a human.

One shot of an arrow is almost equivalent to a life-sacrificing blow in the realm of a peak human being, and it is enough to seriously injure an ordinary fairyland. If supplemented by the help of the heavenly warriors of the Tianji Pavilion who use secret methods to deceive perception and use their own aura as a traction, several Thunderbolts can be used. The ballista set up an ambush array that could kill the masters of the earth immortal.

In an instant, three huge crossbow arrows, with the sound of wind howling and the force of thunder, shot into the carriage where Xu Beiyou was sitting.

Xu Beiyou's carriage was specially made, and there were prohibitions on the outer wall. I dare not say that it is as hard as a diamond, but it is definitely not hurt by ordinary arrows. However, facing these three crossbow arrows, the entire carriage was like paper, and disappeared in an instant.

Even the ground around the carriage was blasted into a huge crater with a radius of tens of feet.

Xu Beiyou did not die in this wave of raids, it was precisely because of the miracle of the cicada's foresight before the autumn wind moved that he had been prepared for it, jumped out of the carriage dangerously at the last moment, and then walked along a gravel path in Baiqing Valley Running wildly, the whole figure instantly disappeared into the dense forest on both sides.

In the process of fleeing, Xu Beiyou's mind changed sharply.

Maybe it was because the matter was a secret, or maybe it was because Xu Beiyou was careless because he was not in the realm of the Immortal Realm. The people who ambushed this time did not dispatch the Tianjimen from the Tianji Pavilion, but simply ambushed with a thunderbolt ballista, so Xu Beiyou had it. A silver lining.

Who would have thought that Xu Beiyou, a freak, would be able to open the Upper Dantian Zifu in advance?If it were someone else, neither Crouching Tiger Zhao Tinghu, nor Qi Xianyun before he was promoted to the realm of Earth Immortal, could not escape the sudden death on the spot.

So who is behind the ambush?Looking at the whole of Jiangnan, only the Jiangnan garrison possesses the Thunder Ballista. Neither the Sansi Yamen nor the Dark Guard Mansion have the right to call the Jiangnan Army. Thinking about it, the only people who can have such a handwriting are the newly appointed left governor Yu Kuang of the Jiangnan Army and the other two right governors.

But why did Yu Kuang kill him?The two had no enmity or enmity, and they could even be regarded as half allies. Yu Kuang had no motive to do this.After all, Xiao Bai behind Yu Kuang is not the emperor, not even the prince, and he has no reason to offend a second assistant in the court, adding many variables to the process of his succession.

Especially this second assistant is still a loner and doesn't have so many scruples. To some extent, such a person is more terrifying than the real head teacher with a big family and a great career.

Above the temple, there are no gentlemen, only ordinary people who weigh the pros and cons. Since Yu Kuang can calm down and endure dormancy for decades, he is definitely not a person who uses his emotions, so it is absolutely impossible for him to kill Xu Beiyou.

Could it be that one of the two right governors of the Jiangnan Army took advantage of Yu Kuang, the left governor's foundation, to act without authorization?

Xu Beiyou, who was extremely cautious, did not make a conclusion prematurely. Whether it was Zhang Zhaonu colluding with the local local snakes, or someone wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make trouble, after this incident, everything will come to the surface.

Xu Beiyou walks through the dense forest, his figure is erratic like a ghost, and behind him is a shadow that spreads rapidly. I don't know how many assassins are lurking in this shadow, trying to put Xu Beiyou to death.

No one would have thought that Xu Beiyou would have escaped the first wave of thunderbolts that were almost certain to die, so the assassins who were supposed to deal with the aftermath were slow and failed to encircle Xu Beiyou in the first place. It was broken because of this small omission, allowing Xu Beiyou to escape from death.

Xu Beiyou didn't have the slightest intention of turning around to show the courage of ordinary people. After all, the sages have made it very clear that a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall. As long as he can return to Jiangdu City alive, the situation is still under control. After all, he He is the local snake, no matter how domineering Zhang Zhaonu, the dragon crossing the river, he has the power to fight.

Of course, the people who ambushed him knew this very well. If Xu Beiyou was allowed to return to Jiangdu alive, then all previous efforts would be in vain.

One chase and one escape, one life and one death will affect the whole Jiangnan situation.

Rushing out of the dense forest, there is a mighty river rushing, and the bridge on the river has been destroyed.

Xu Beiyou's body was like a leaf falling in the wind, he tapped lightly on the surface of the river, and stepped on the water to cross the river.

After crossing the river, Xu Beiyou looked back, and with his eyesight, he happened to see a woman with a vague face jumping out of the shadow three hundred feet away, standing on the top of a towering tree, dressed in purple-white cotton armor. , a head of white hair tied into a ponytail, heroic.

She held a large bow that was half a person's height in her hand, and there was a purple-black aura around the bow.

She was bending her bow and nodding her arrow, and the purple-red aura visible to the naked eye quickly condensed on the arrow.

An arrow into the soul.

(End of this chapter)