Otherworld Qin

Chapter 36 40 Imperial City Assassination
Quickly crossing the canyon, and then climbing up on the opposite side, Sheng Xuan hurriedly hid behind a rock, peeped into the canyon secretly with his probe, and found that the pursuers hadn't caught up, so he got up and walked down the incomplete corridor Suddenly, a forest of dilapidated steles came into view. I walked slowly and looked at the once vivid names on them. Now these steles have been destroyed and incomplete, and most of them have been smashed to the ground. Behind the stele is There were earthen graves covering several hillsides, and suddenly a huge mausoleum appeared in the middle of the many tombs, but the mound of earth had obviously been turned over by someone, so he hurried over and saw clearly written on the collapsed tombstone: When Shengxuan saw the tomb of Lord Huguo Mu Tianyi, his head buzzed, and he accidentally walked to Mr. Dongfang's tomb. He couldn't help but kneel down with a plop, and climbed a few steps to the tomb, kowtowing his head again and again, tears welling up in his eyes .

Now is not the time for him to cry. For him, the most precious thing right now is time, and he must not waste it. Fortunately, after crying for a while, Shengxuan has stopped crying, and seeing that his face has been occupied by anger, biting Ya stared at his hands, his hands were about to bleed, he suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly, "Master, I want to avenge you." This sound echoed in the valley, and it could not go away for a long time, as if even the trees were trembling under this shout trembling.

At this time, the little princess was chasing behind with a group of wizards, and she was startled when she heard this loud cry, she hurriedly spread out her battle, but there was no movement for a long time, and then she continued to climb up the valley. Chase down the corridor.

Shengxuan ran to the end of the tens of miles of mountain road, and Yongchang was in front of him. He saw a city wall more than ten feet high standing tall, and the huge city was ten miles wide. After all, this is the capital of Nanming, and there are 50 people alone. Among the crowd, he calmed down when he saw the soldiers guarding the city gate. He looked at his clothes carefully and found that they had been torn to pieces in the forest and covered in mud. He couldn't help laughing. Turned into a beggar, but this is just right, because no one is willing to pay attention to a beggar, Sheng Xuan deliberately moved to the city gate with his waist curled up, and the guards just squinted at him and moved He kicked to the side, and he also took two steps to sneak into the city gate.

The little princess chased all the way, and found that Shengxuan seemed to have entered the capital city, she couldn't help being stunned, if they were in the mountains, they could do whatever they want, but this is the capital city after all, once so many wizards appear, it will definitely cause riots, and they can't help but stomp their feet." This cunning boy actually ran to the city to hide, do you think he ran away like this?" After saying this, everyone took out their black cloaks and put them on their bodies, and then lowered the hoods to cover their faces, and then led them slowly Go to the capital.

Yongchang was originally a prosperous place, but after years of turmoil, it has lost its original prosperity. Even so, it is still a rare majestic city. When Shengxuan came in, he was immediately shocked by the aura of this capital. Seeing a straight avenue with no end in sight, there are probably more shops lined up on both sides than he has seen in all these years. Although the crowds are not as glamorous as before, judging from their calm steps, they can still walk. Feel the leisure.

But Shengxuan is not interested in paying attention to these things. He just wants to find a place to eat something well, and it is best to find a place for him to sleep well. The part of the day and night running around in the past six days has really overwhelmed him. He was exhausted from torment, but now that he was dressed up, he didn't dare to go to the investment shop. He was just thinking of a way, and suddenly found a beggar next to him, with a pattern drawn on the wall behind him, and this pattern immediately caught his eyes. , hurriedly ran to the beggar and squatted down, then cut out a stone from the ground, carefully drew a pattern next to the pattern, and drew an arrow under the pattern, then got up and turned into the alley.

After waiting in the alley for a while, I saw a beggar running in. Seeing that he was the only one left and right, he asked, "Which hall is my brother?" Sheng Xuan rolled his eyes and said casually, "Punishment Hall." , I hurriedly cupped my hands, "So it's the brother of Xingtang, I don't know if there is anything I can help with?" "I want to find a place to rest, and then I can eat something. It is best to change clothes. I have important things to do tonight. "The beggar nodded and didn't ask any more questions, "Come with me." Then he took Shengxuan to the depths of the alley.

All the streets in the capital are straight, and even the alleys are in the standard cross shape. The beggar led him to turn left and right for a while before he walked out of a courtyard, and then knocked on the door carefully three times. Kai flashed half his face, seeing that they were acquaintances, he hurriedly let them in.

"Old Wang, who is this?" "It's our brother from the punishment hall." Hearing that it was the person from the punishment hall, he hurriedly said politely, "I'm Xu Da, the leader of this group. I don't know what to call my brother?" Sheng Xuan took a look. Then he said, "Can I go in and talk?" Xu Da hurriedly said to Lao Wang, "Go and do your work." Then he took Sheng Xuan into the inner hall.

Shengxuan thought for a while and said first, "I am a friend of Lao Xiami. I need your help today. I wonder if Xu Tuantou can help me?" My friend, if there is anything I can do for you, please ask me."

"I want to take a rest here, and you can help me prepare some food and a set of black clothes." Xu Da hurried out to make arrangements, and someone will deliver some meals after a while. Although simple, it is better than dry food by a hundred times , Shengxuan hurriedly shook off his hands and feet and began to eat sweetly. While eating, he suddenly saw Xu Da walk in, "I don't know what to call this friend? Someone wants to see you." "Oh? Someone wants to see me? I don't know who it is? "When Shengxuan heard that someone wanted to see him, he should be someone he was familiar with, but in this gang of beggars, I am afraid that only Lao Xiami is familiar with him. Maybe it was these people who immediately said, "Just go and tell me Ye Shengxuan."

"Oh, it's really you." There was a pleasantly surprised voice outside the door. You didn't need to look to know that it was Lao Xiami, and Shengxuan hurriedly stood up, "So it was you, Lao Xiami. When did you come to Yongchang?" As soon as Xiami entered the door, he hurriedly saluted, "I don't know if the owner of the door came here and his subordinates are far away, so don't be surprised." Sheng Xuan helped him up, "Why are we still so polite?" Xu Tuantou was already stunned. , I don't know what to say, it's the first time he saw the sect master, and he wanted to go forward to salute, but was stopped by Sheng Xuan, who asked the two to sit down and talk.

Old Xiami saw Shengxuan sitting down, so he took a seat beside him, and then said to Xu Da, "Thank you Tuantou Xu for taking care of you outside." Xu Da hurried out, and Lao Xiami said, "Don't we still have the Qin Gang? ? Not long after you left, someone inquired that a merchant in Yongchang wanted to join our Qin Gang, so I rushed here, I don’t know why the owner of the door came here?”

Shengxuan briefly talked about his own experience, and then took out the set of martial arts mentality from the Najie, "You put these away, find a suitable person to teach to the young people in your family, and you can help me find another person, this person is called Chu Zhengnan is a master, if you see him, you must not lose courtesy, and tell him that I, Ye Chengxuan, appreciate Brother Chu's friendship and hope that he can join our Tianyi Sect, and I plan to let him be the head of the martial arts hall." Old Xiami wrote down one by one.

Shengxuan took out several sets of high-level martial arts and magic, "You also keep these as a reward for those who are loyal to the Tianyi Sect and have made contributions to the sect. In addition, I have found another candidate for the deputy sect master. It's Baili Yunfan from Tiegong Mountain, I believe I will contact you in a few days." "Okay, do everything according to the sect master's wishes." "I have another matter, you immediately find reliable people to go outside the palace to investigate and report the situation of the guards there. Tell me, you need to do this right away, I will wait for your news tonight."

Old Xiami couldn't help being stunned when he heard it, "What does the sect master mean?" Sheng Xuan pondered, of course he couldn't say revenge, but there must be a reason, and smiled slightly after a while, "Didn't I tell you that there is a big brother?" Is the enemy eyeing me? I think the palace should be the safest right now. I’ll hide there for a while, and then I’m going to go to Lone Bamboo.” After careful consideration, the old Xiami nodded quickly, “Don’t worry, the master, I’ll order someone to go there right away. Let’s do it.” He stood up and said goodbye.

After Lao Xiami left, Shengxuan continued to eat. He couldn't help but think that although there is a pattern to recognize each other now, it is too cumbersome. It is better to specify a set of code words to facilitate future contact. In addition, he should leave some tokens. Once he leaves Finally, I am afraid that the old Xiami will not be able to control the order, so I can leave a token to act on my behalf. Thinking of this, I hurriedly asked someone to take a pen and paper, searched all the things in the ring, and finally found a pair of jade pendants inside. Two dragon patterns, one front and one reverse, one yin and one yang, he put the Yinwen jade pendant on the table, then soaked the Yangwen jade pendant with ink and rubbed the pattern on the paper, and wrote next to it, "The sun and the moon are unknown, only There are fallen leaves." The eight big characters were used as a code word, and he took out the Jueying and put it on the table, writing that it will be handed over to the head of the punishment hall tomorrow, and it will be used as a punishment in the door. original intention.

After he finished his work, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep with his head covered. The six days of torture really made him tired, and he started snoring as soon as he lay down.

Shengxuan was shaken awake in the middle of the night, but when he opened his eyes, he saw that it was Old Xiami, "Master, I have already found out what you ordered. The imperial city is 280 feet from east to west, and 240 feet from north to south. The wall is four feet high and there are four streets wide. Seventeen feet, twelve teams of guards outside the imperial city, each team has a hundred people, and the time for each incense stick is about 10 minutes. "There will be a team of Habayashi patrols passing by, and the shift changes every hour. I don't know much about the situation inside, but I heard that there are probably thousands of emperor's personal guards inside. The house is nine thousand nine thousand and ninety-nine, I believe the door owner will find a hiding place to hide." Sheng Xuan nodded again and again, it seems that the strength of this beggar gang is indeed not to be underestimated, and it always brings surprises to himself. It has been investigated so clearly.

The old Xiami went on to say, "I have already taken the things that the sect master told me to put away. Please rest assured, the sect master. If you want to contact me in the future, you can recognize each other according to the secret message left by the sect master." After speaking, he took a set of black clothes and handed them to Shengxuan , "I have already prepared the things that the sect master asked me to prepare." "It's really hard work, you should go to rest quickly."

After sending away the old Xiami, Shengxuan lay down for a while, and did not get up until after midnight. After sleeping for half a day, Shengxuan's mental and physical strength had obviously recovered, but the fighting spirit was still not working well, it was magic instead. Seeming to be diligent again, he changed into black clothes, turned over and left the courtyard.

Taking advantage of the dark night to sneak in the street, the cold wind of the winter night made him feel very refreshed, his heart of revenge seemed to be burning like a raging fire, he knew that this trip to the palace might be a narrow escape, but when he thought about the little princess, Instead of letting her kill him, why not go find that Yu Wenjie now and give it a go.

After a while, he came to the outside of the imperial city, and saw a team of guards under the wall, guarding it tightly. Obviously, such a wide street cannot be entered from above without being discovered. When he was at his wit's end, he suddenly thought of the technique of escaping from the ground, and hurried Gathering energy to condense the magic, and chanting the spell secretly, the whole person actually sank into the ground slowly, and the soil that was separated by him just now closed up as he drilled into the ground, without a trace, which surprised him for a while , but let this distracted his mind, the huge pressure suddenly hit from all directions, almost stuck in the ground, he quickly gathered his mind and got out of the ground.

Seeing that this method is feasible, he has already made up his mind to sneak into the palace quietly using the ground escaping technique. As long as he can successfully enter the palace wall, everything else will not be difficult.

Condensing the magic again and sneaking into the ground, slowly sneaking underground, after a while, suddenly his forehead bumped against a rock, he was so scared that he almost shouted, and the pressure rushed to him immediately, but his mind immediately reacted, It must be because I haven't sneaked deep enough, this time I hit the foundation of the palace wall, gathered my mind with all my strength, quickly gathered magic and continued to dive for a few feet, and then went through the palace wall and dived inward.

Through spiritual exploration, he saw that there was no movement on the ground, so he slowly rose out of the ground, and found that he was just in the shadow under the city wall, so he got up and quickly moved towards the palace.

There are more than [-] houses in the huge palace, so Shengxuan took a long time to search for it. Holding his breath, he sneaked to avoid teams of guards, and finally saw a few eunuchs standing outside a palace from a distance. It was almost early morning, and it was When people were most sleepy, a few eunuchs stood there but kowtowed their heads unceasingly. Sheng Xuan rushed up and beat them unconscious with heavy hands. This series of movements did not make too much noise. They helped them up and leaned against the wall, and they couldn't see any difference in the distance, so they hurriedly woke up a little eunuch and asked softly, "Where is Yu Wenjie?"

Seeing the shining sword resting on his neck, the little eunuch was already trembling with fright. He kept pointing his fingers back and forth, left and right, and finally stopped in one direction. Said, "Yu Wenjie's bedroom is over there." After finding the direction, Sheng Xuan raised his hand and slapped him on the forehead, knocked him unconscious again, then grabbed his belt with his hand, and then jumped to take him to the roof, He quickly took off his clothes and changed them by himself, and when he jumped off the ground, he had transformed into a little eunuch.

Putting on the lantern, he walked quickly towards Yu Wenjie's residence. Along the way, he encountered guards, but they didn't interrogate him. It seemed that the clothes were really effective. When he came not far from the bedroom, he heard a man inside screaming crazily "Come here, serve me wine." He hurriedly dodged in the shadow of the lamp, pricked up his ears to listen carefully, and a sharp voice said from the side, "Your Majesty, you have drunk too much, you can't drink any more, you have to take care of yourself." Your body." The man was furious immediately, "Slave, even you dare to contradict me." Then he heard a slap, obviously the eunuch was beaten, "Bring me wine." After a while, only one eunuch was seen He ran out in a panic, with five fingerprints on his face, and when he came out and saw the eunuch at the door, his face suddenly changed, "Get the fuck out of here," then turned around and gave a vicious look, "Do you really think you are still the emperor?" ?Pooh!"

Standing next to him under the shadow of the lamp, Shengxuan watched the eunuch leave with a group of young eunuchs, leaving only two people at the door, then stepped forward to knock them down like lightning, and then carried them to the palace door and entered the palace, only I heard the man inside shouting, "Why don't you bring the wine?"

Cheng Xuan left the two of them aside, then closed the palace door, and then looked inside, only to see that the place was in a state of chaos, not to mention the smell of wine, and the ground was also full of wine jars, Sheng Xuan gently Walking in, I saw only a big bed in the huge room, half of the bed curtain was lowered, and a person's feet were exposed outside. Hearing the movement outside, he couldn't help sitting up, "Have you got the wine? Give it to me quickly."

Under the dim light, I saw that this person was covered with messy stubble, his clothes were full of stains, and he didn't know how long he had worn them. A big greasy hand stretched out towards him, which made him stunned. This is no emperor, he is clearly a beggar, but there is clearly a golden dragon embroidered on the barely distinguishable clothes, and he couldn't help but ask cautiously, "Are you Yuwenjie?" The man couldn't help being furious "Bold, my name is also called by your slave?"

Hearing this, he was sure that this person was Yu Wenjie, but how could he end up in such a state?Shengxuan couldn't care less about these things now, and couldn't help waving his hand and pulling out Gui Xiao, "Old thief Yuwenjie, I'm going to kill you today." As he said that, he was about to rush forward, but suddenly he heard Yuwenjie shout, "Who the hell are you?" It's just that the flash of light in Yu Wenjie's eyes at this moment still reminds people of the once powerful prestige, but it disappeared without a trace in just a moment, and the gray eyes continued to stare at Shengxuan.

Shengxuan's mood at this time is extremely complicated. First, this big enemy is sitting in front of him. As long as he touches Gui Xiao lightly, he may be able to take revenge. Second, how mighty this person was back then. He dared to take it lightly, but the third person suddenly felt that this person was pitiful from the bottom of his heart, thinking that he had exhausted all means back then but why did he end up like this now?

Shengxuan held Guixiao in his hand in a semicircle on his chest, raised his vigilance by [-] points, and said, "I am Mr. Dongfang's student, Luo Shengxuan, and I am here to avenge you." Use Luo Sheng again today The name Xuan is because all the blood feuds of his family are related to this person in front of him.

Yu Wenjie was shocked when he heard this, but he was relieved in an instant, and he couldn't help smiling, "Here, finally here, I knew that there would be such a day sooner or later, old thief Mu, I still can't match you, even though I I tried my best, but now I am a poor wretch that exists in name only, no one is willing to bring me even a sip of wine, but you, even though you are dead, there are so many people thinking about you, some people say you are a loyal minister You take revenge, but if I die, I’m afraid I can only be scolded as a traitor, I’m not as good as you, I’m still not as good as you, ha ha ha ha.” After a loud roar, he began to laugh, which turned into a miserable gasp at the end .

Shengxuan couldn't feel a trace of vindictiveness in him, but he couldn't help being curious when he heard this sentence, and then asked, "Originally I planned to fight you, but now it seems that you are a useless person, I just don't want to fight." Understand how you ended up like this?" Although Yu Wenjie still had a smile on his face, there was a hint of rosiness on his pale face, and a fierce light suddenly appeared in his absent-minded eyes, "I can only blame myself for being too stupid. I believed in the tricks of Sanmiao and Jingman, they were there to help me, they clearly planned to capture me, Nanming, and the damn green clothes, I really wish I could tear her to pieces." He stretched out his hand and grabbed her. The bed curtain was torn vigorously, but blood was seen dripping from the fingers, but the bed curtain was not damaged at all.

Sheng Xuan couldn't help being shocked when he saw the scene in front of him. Even a normal man might be able to tear the bed curtain to pieces, but Yu Wenjie tried his best to grind his fingers on the bed curtain, and he still couldn't tear the bed curtain. Seeing Sheng Xuan looking at him suspiciously, he couldn't help but smile miserably, "I'm already a useless person, you can do it."

Shengxuan lifted the long sword in his hand again and again, but finally put it down. Suddenly he felt that he might have made a mistake this time, because he didn't need to avenge this big revenge with his own hands. Given Yuwenjie's current situation, it might be better to kill him. Let him be relieved, thinking of this, he can't help but turn around and want to leave.

"You are a coward, you are a coward just like Mu Laogou, hahaha" Sheng Xuan, who had already taken two steps after hearing the word Mu Laogou, suddenly became angry in his heart, turned around and pulled Gui Xiao at the same time, a sword The mang was cut on Yu Wenjie's throat, only two gurgles were heard, Yu Wenjie's blood spurted out, and with the spurt of blood mist, his body also shriveled, and then instantly collapsed on the bed, Ke Cheng Xuan clearly saw him say "Thank you" to himself at that last moment.

(End of this chapter)