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Chapter 296
In the silent night, the sky boiled in an instant.

The place where the fire started was the Treasure Pavilion in Wuhen Palace.Cangzhen Pavilion, as the name suggests, contains precious treasures.In addition, there are some important martial arts cheats, for example, those evil kung fu cheats that Li Xu painstakingly brought out from his teacher.

Therefore, the outside of Cangzhen Pavilion has always been guarded at every level.

But for some reason, there was no one outside Cangzhen Pavilion today, the fire was allowed to take advantage of the wind and spread straight up, and the "cracking" sound became louder and louder.

After a while, someone finally noticed the strangeness here and rushed to put out the fire.

For a moment, everyone flocked to this side.

But at night, the mountain wind blew violently. Although a steady stream of water was brought in and buckets were poured on the fire, it was like a drop in the bucket.

Zhu Ming also rushed over after hearing the news, and his face turned green when he saw this posture.Hastily yelled at the crowd, "Quick! Send more people over to put out the fire!"

What is hidden in this Zangzhen Pavilion is the painstaking efforts of the Palace Master's life, not to mention those jade artifacts and antiques, even those rare books and secret books, which are hard to buy. Now... I am afraid that all of them will be burned.

Even though the flames were raging in front of him and the heat wave was pressing, he felt that his whole body was so cold that he couldn't help shivering.

Even if the fire can be extinguished now, most of the things in the Cangzhen Pavilion will probably be burned.

Ruojiao Palace Master saw the scene in front of him——

He bit his lip tightly, a look of fear flashed in his eyes.

If the master of the Jiaojiao Palace sees this scene, everyone in the Wuhen Palace may suffer.This meeting is a sensitive period, but the Cangzhen Pavilion suddenly leaked, no matter how I think about it, I feel that something is wrong.The most urgent task at the moment is to put out the fire first, and then quickly find out the cause of the fire.

Thinking of this, he looked behind and beckoned others to move quickly.

At this time, Li Xu courtyard.

Cangzhen Pavilion was some distance away from his courtyard, so when the sound of boiling from Cangzhen Pavilion reached him, it seemed to be nothing.However, people who practice martial arts are always sensitive, and he has a shallow sleep, so he still woke up from his sleep.

The moment he woke up, he vaguely felt that something was wrong, and subconsciously opened his eyes and looked out the window.

Looking at it, I saw a crimson red in the southeast corner outside the window, and the sky was as bright as day for a while.

But the night in the courtyard was clearly still very dark.

Startled, he threw off the quilt and jumped up from the couch, put on his coat and opened the door.

Seeing him coming out suddenly, the two people on duty outside the room turned around and saluted in a panic, "Master."

"What's going on?!" Li Xu asked in a cold voice with a gloomy face, his eyes fixed on the fire that soared into the sky in the southeast corner.

The guard guarding the gate shook his head, lowered his head and said, "If you go back to the Palace Master, it seems like you've lost your mind."

"Walk?" Li Xu's face darkened suddenly, and his voice was covered with icicles, which made people tremble involuntarily.

"Is that the Cangzhen Pavilion?" He asked again in a gloomy voice.

"It seems...it seems to be..." The guard felt that he was in a bad mood, and he dared not raise his head even more, and replied tremblingly.

"Idiot!" Li Xu waved his hand and slapped him, his eyes were red with anger, "The Cangzhen Pavilion caught fire, why didn't you wake me up?"

The guard was staggered by his sudden slap, but he didn't dare to refute. He stabilized his body and kept bowing and apologizing.

Their most important task is to protect the safety of the palace lord. No one has reported the flooding of the Cangzhen Pavilion, and they dare not disturb the palace lord's rest. Unexpectedly, the palace lord woke up.

Li Xu's eyes narrowed into a sharp straight line, fixed on the southeast corner, his eyes were full of anger.

At this time, Cangzhen Pavilion suddenly flooded, there must be something tricky!
Thinking of those rare rare copies of secret books in Cangzhen Pavilion, his heart felt cramped. With a flick of his sleeves, he jumped into the night with a light kung fu, and hurried to Cangzhen Pavilion.

The remaining two looked at each other in dismay, and hastily performed their lightness kung fu to follow.

When Li Xu arrived at Zangzhen Pavilion, the fire had just been extinguished, but there were still sporadic embers.The scene was a mess, and the entire Zangzhen Pavilion was burned beyond recognition. Zhu Ming was directing people to rescue the surviving things from the fire.

At this time, someone saw Li Xu, and was so frightened that he dropped the bucket in his hand, he hurriedly saluted, "See... see Palace Master."

His voice was not low, and the people next to him were also alarmed. Turning around, they saw Li Xu standing in the shadows, with a strange and indiscernible expression, exuding a cold air all over his body. He was startled immediately, and hurriedly saluted, "See Past Palace Master."

Li Xu didn't look at them, his eyes were as dark as the night, with deep undercurrents, making people even more flustered.

At this time, Zhu Ming heard the commotion here, turned his head to look, and saw Li Xu coming suddenly, he was startled in his heart, and hurried forward, "Master, why are you here?"

"What's going on?" Li Xu stared at the ruins in front of him, and said each word coldly, with the darkness of eternal night in his eyes, which made people tremble.

"Back... if you go back to Palace Master, Cangzhen Pavilion... Cangzhen Pavilion suddenly flooded."

"Where are the people on duty?"

"The person on duty..." Zhu Ming was taken aback.Cangzhen Pavilion suddenly caught fire. He was only focused on the valuables inside, and for a moment he forgot to pursue the responsibility of the person on duty. When asked by Li Xu, he was immediately speechless.

Li Xu gave him a gouged look, and said viciously, "Hurry up and send people to search around!"

"Yes." Zhu Ming hurriedly clasped his fists in response, and ordered someone to look for him.

Li Xu glanced at the panic-stricken crowd, fixed his eagle-like eyes on the half-extinguished fire, and asked in a deep voice, "Are there any abnormalities in other places?"

Zhu Ming wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said in a murmur, "No abnormality, Palace Master, please rest assured."

Li Xu suddenly turned his eyes, gave him a cold look, and said with a sneer, "Don't worry? How can I rest assured? I just told you to be careful in everything, and now I have made such a big mistake."

After a pause, he stared at him and asked, "Where Ye Luo and Ji Liuyun are, did you send someone to watch carefully?"

"Twice as many people have been dispatched." Zhu Ming didn't dare to say anything to reassure him, so he just murmured, his eyes were deep, and he didn't dare to look up at him.

Li Xu snorted coldly, didn't ask any more questions, and walked forward with his hands away, checking the situation of Cangzhen Pavilion by himself.

Hearing the words he dropped, Zhu Ming's face turned pale as paper.

Everyone knows that the guardians of Wuhen Palace are the palace lord's confidants, won the palace lord's favor, and are the palace lord's left arm and right arm, but only he knows that Fan Ting is the most important thing in the palace lord's heart.

The palace lord always felt that he was hesitant and indecisive, not as ruthless as Fan Ting, so the important task of besieging Wuyou Valley this time was entrusted to Fan Ting instead of himself as expected.

Gritting her teeth resentfully, she drooped her eyes to hide the strange look in her eyes, and followed quickly.

Li Xu hastily inspected the area, but hadn't found anything yet. The person Zhu Ming sent to search for the guards came back in a hurry, with a bad look on his face.

"How is it?" Zhu Ming hurriedly asked in detail.

The visitor hurriedly stopped and said in a deep voice, "Guardian, Palace Master, I found a dozen or so guards who died in the grove over there."

Zhu Ming's heart sank suddenly, and he subconsciously looked at Li Xu.

Li Xu's eyes were filled with anger, his face was so ugly that it was about to drip ink, his eyelids drooped, and he said viciously, "Take me there."

"Yes." The visitor nodded in response, hurriedly led the way, and led Li Xu and Zhu Ming to the grove where the corpse was just discovered.

This grove is located in Zangzhen Pavilion, because it is located in the southeast corner, so there are not many people coming here on weekdays.At this time, the dozen or so guards who were supposed to be guarding in front of Cangzhen Pavilion were lying on the ground with their eyes closed and their faces pale.

"Dead?" Li Xusen glanced coldly and asked coldly.

"Yes."

"The cause of death?" Li Xu asked again, seeing that there was no obvious trauma on the corpse, his brows frowned even tighter.

"There were no fatal injuries on the body, and the deceased's lips were blue. He should have died of poisoning."

Li Xu bent down, squatted down in front of one of the corpses, swept his face with condensed eyebrows, and stretched out his hand to probe his nose.

He quickly withdrew his hand, stretched out his hand to the back and said, "Torch."

The people behind hurriedly handed over the torch.

Li Xu held the torch in one hand, and stretched out the other hand, lifting the man's eyelids.In the firelight, the inside of the eyelids showed bluish spots.

His face suddenly sank.

Standing up and walking in front of another corpse, he reached out and lifted its eyelids.When the torch was lit, the blue spots on the inside of the eyelids were clearly visible.

Li Xu stood up "quickly", and turned his head to look at Zhu Ming suddenly, his face was so gloomy that ink dripped out.

"Go to the prison!"

As he said that, with a touch of his toes, he lifted up his lightness kung fu and flew towards the dark prison.

Zhu Ming didn't know what happened, but seeing Li Xu's expression suddenly changed, he knew that he might have discovered something, so he didn't dare to be negligent, arranged a few words hastily, and led a small group of people to chase after him.

When he led people to the dark prison, before he approached, he sensitively sensed that the atmosphere was not right.

quiet.It's too quiet.

Moreover, it was dark all around.

He took a quick look and was shocked.

The guards who were supposed to be guarding outside the dark prison fell to the ground one after another. There was a small wound in the heart, which seemed to be injured by some arrow. The blood had not yet coagulated, but the person had already died.The lock on the door of the dark prison was also cut off, and the door was half-open, and there was no light leaking out from inside, so I don't know what's inside.

Zhu Ming suddenly became alert.

I looked around, but there was no sign of Li Xu.He was secretly surprised, and a little inexplicably nervous.

Just now the Palace Master was clearly in front of them, but in the blink of an eye, he didn't know where he went?
He withdrew his eyes, and his condensed eyes fell on the half-closed door, his face became more and more cold.

He waved his hand back to signal the people behind him to silence, and then walked forward lightly, the sword at his waist was tightly grasped in his hand.

Walking to the door of the dark prison, Zhu Ming held his breath and accumulated his energy. Just as he kicked the door open, the door was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

He quickly dodged back and stabbed at the person who came out with his sword.

Unexpectedly, a huge palm wind hit him suddenly, and the tip of his sword bounced away.The whole person was also thrown back a few steps by the huge internal force in the palm wind.

He frowned fiercely, and was about to beckon the people behind him to come along, when a cold and stern voice came into his ears, "What are you doing?!"

Hearing that familiar voice, Zhu Ming took a closer look, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, hastily withdrew his sword gesture, clasped his fists and saluted, "I don't know if this subordinate is the Palace Master..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Li Xu's stern voice, "A bunch of idiots!" He snapped and pushed the door behind him violently, "Everyone has run away, and they are still doing here in a daze. what?!"

Shocked, Zhu Ming looked in through the door he had pushed open.

The candles lit in the dark prison have been extinguished, only the faint and cold moonlight shines in, sprinkling hazy moonlight all over the place.Where Ye Luo and Ji Liuyun were originally locked, there were only messy iron chains on the ground, and no one was seen.

There was a buzz in Zhu Ming's head, and he looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

How could this be?
Obviously all the places in Wuhen Palace have been guarded today?Why were Ye Luo and Ji Liuyun rescued?Could it be—

Just now, the water leak in the Cangzhen Pavilion was just a trick? !
Li Xuyin's eyes were gloomy, and there were turbulent waves in his eyes. The veins on the back of his clenched fists burst out, and he seemed to be holding back to prevent himself from bursting out.

Zhu Ming and the others felt Li Xu's suppressed anger, lowered their heads, did not dare to vent their breath, and panicked for a while.

Li Xu took a deep breath, barely suppressed the boiling anger in his heart, and ordered in a hoarse voice, "Ring the bell to warn! A thief is coming in! Everyone is on high alert!"

Zhu Ming gasped.

His conjecture just now finally came true, he didn't dare to ask any more questions right now, and hurriedly retreated to make arrangements after saluting.

Li Xu stood at the door of the dark prison, looking up at the cold moonlight in the sky, the humiliation and anger in his heart grew wantonly like weeds.

Unexpectedly, Ye Wen's people sneaked into the Wuhen Palace without anyone noticing.

Among the guards in front of Zangzhen Pavilion is Wudusan.

He is very clear about this kind of poison. It is colorless and odorless, but it is highly poisonous. Once it is inhaled, it will die immediately and silently. There is no abnormality on the outside, only blue spots will appear inside the eyelids.

Wudusan was originally a secret poison of our sect. The master only passed it on to Ye Wen. Later, the master passed away. In the whole world, only Ye Wen knew the formula of Wudusan.

Just now, the Zangzhen Pavilion was flooded, but it was just a slapstick trick. His real purpose was to let the people who sneaked into him in the Wuhen Palace take advantage of the chaos to rescue Ye Luo and Ji Liuyun. Facts have proved that he also succeeded.

Thinking of this, the gloom in his heart reached its peak in an instant, and with a wave of his hand, a huge palm wind struck forward, and the trees at the door of the dark prison broke down in half.

When he was in the teacher's school before, he was inferior to Ye Wen.

Master's martial arts, the first to teach, is always him.

Obviously he is the one who likes Junior Sister, but Junior Sister is absolutely devoted to him.

Even after the junior sister died because of Ip Man, the master still wanted to pass on the headship to him.

Why? !

I am not as good as Ye Wen in any way, why should he step on everything? !
He is not willing!

There was a violent look in his eyes that kept rolling, and after a while, he tapped his toes and flew towards a certain place.

He had a premonition that Ye Wen must be here today.

Now that you're here, let's end the grievances of the past with one stroke!

*
Before a stick of incense.

The night wind was bleak and cold, and the branches and leaves in the forest were whistling.

The crescent moon was hidden in the clouds, the moonlight became dimmer and darker, and the night was as dark as splashed ink.The lanterns under the corridor of the dark prison gave off a faint light in the night, and the wind whirled slowly, creating an inexplicably bleak atmosphere.

There were eight people guarding the gate of the dark prison, all standing with their swords in their arms, with solemn expressions.

Suddenly, they heard movement from the northeast corner not far away, turned their heads to look, and saw a faint light shining over there, and they couldn't help being slightly startled.

"What's going on?" One couldn't help asking.

"I don't know." The other person shook his head, "It looks like he's gone into the water?"

"Flooded? That location is Cangzhen Pavilion!" Someone answered in surprise.

During the chatter and discussion, I saw that the fire was getting bigger and bigger, and there was a faint tendency to break through the sky, illuminating most of the sky.

They finally noticed something was wrong.

Well done, why did Cangzhen Pavilion catch fire all of a sudden?

Although they were suspicious in their hearts, their most important duty was to guard the dark prison, so they suppressed the uneasiness in their hearts and guarded it firmly at the door of the dark prison.

After a while, the fire didn't seem to be going down.

The louder the noise over there, the more quiet this side becomes.At this time, someone suddenly noticed something was wrong.

"Where are the patrolling people?"

One person opened his mouth, and the others also noticed the clue.

Now that important people are being held in the dark prison, except for the eight of them guarding here, there will be a small team patrolling here to check the situation every incense stick.But now it has been half an hour since the last patrol team left, and there is still no sign of anyone.

"Could it be... that you went to the Cangzhen Pavilion to help?" Someone guessed.

Wuhen Palace has recently received a lot of tasks, many people have been sent out, and the manpower remaining in the palace is indeed somewhat insufficient.Thinking about it this way, this explanation makes sense.

So, everyone was relieved again.

At this moment, the sound of arrows piercing the air was suddenly heard, and before they could react, they heard a few "swish", and the lantern above their heads went out in response, and the next moment, there was a sharp sleeve arrow radiating cold light towards them fly.

(End of this chapter)