The prince is very fierce

There are many small tribes in Mobei. When they come to Liangcheng for communication, they are placed in the Foreign Barbarians Hall. Like the Four Barbarians Hall in Chang'an City, they are all built in areas where foreign tribes gather.

Although the name is not very nice, as a place to receive foreign guests, the architecture of the Foreign Barbarians Hall shows the demeanor of a great country. It stands out among a bunch of houses and can be seen from two streets away.

Leaving the prosperous Yangji Street, Liangcheng shows the emptiness and loneliness of Mobei. There are few pedestrians on the street, and only the occasional neighing of mules and horses can be heard.

Xu Buling drove the carriage and walked slowly from the alley to the vicinity of the Foreign Barbarians Hall. He first found an inn on the street to stay, let the little sparrow scout the surrounding area, and then came to the wall of the Foreign Barbarians Hall alone with a straight knife.

In the dead of night, a few voices could be heard in the Foreigners' Hall:

"This Mobei is so fucking poor, it can't be compared with our Jiangnan..."

"Yeah, the women's skin is very rough, I heard it's from the sun..."

...

Xu Buling covered his face with a black veil, listened outside the wall, and after confirming the positions of all the light and dark sentries, he jumped onto the wall and took a look inside.

There were not many people in the courtyard of the Foreigners' Hall. In addition to a few Northern Qi soldiers standing guard, there were five or six people sitting in the middle of the courtyard, wearing Dayue-style armor, chatting around the brazier. There were many courtyards in the back for foreign guests to live in, and two of them were still lit.

Xu Buling only took a glance and confirmed that these soldiers wearing Dayue armor were not under the command of the Four Eastern Kings.

The biggest difference between Northern Qi and Dayue is that Northern Qi "will never wear hair until the national humiliation is gone", because etiquette begins with "correct clothing and hat", and wearing hair is considered a very barbaric and impolite behavior. Going out without tying hair feels like a woman going out without clothes.

Although the soldiers in front of him have their hair tied up, tying hair is a technical job, not just tying it up casually. There are particular styles and the use of hairpins and hairbands. The Central Plains soldiers who are sent to foreign countries cannot make their hair rough, and the men of Northern Qi have long hair since childhood, and obviously they will not deliberately learn this.

After noticing these small details, Xu Buling realized that this was a bait, but he did not retreat.

The mantis stalks the cicada, and the oriole is behind. If he does not bite the bait first, Northern Qi will not know that he is coming, and naturally will not bite his bait.

After Xu Buling glanced around, he entered the Foreigner Pavilion silently and came to the top of the courtyard with lights. From the window, he could see two men in Dayue official robes sitting opposite each other in front of the tea table playing chess.

The bamboo curtain blocked their faces, so he couldn't see who was sitting there.

Xu Buling thought for a moment, then suddenly flew up from the house and rushed to the tea house like a falcon swooping down on a rabbit. He stepped on the wall along the way to gain leverage, and stepped on the snow on the wall. As a result, his feet slipped and he fell directly:

"Oh my god..."

————

The tea house was filled with incense, and Yan Huilin, the sword fairy of Northern Qi, was sitting in front of the chess table, holding the white piece and stroking it gently, as if he was thinking for a long time, but his mind was highly concentrated, paying attention to the slightest movement around him.

Respected as the ‘Sword Immortal of Northern Qi’, Yan Huilin is naturally the best swordsman in Northern Qi. He comes from Baiyuetai in Tianshan, which is the only sword school that can be on the stage except for the three major sword schools in the Central Plains.

Baiyuetai was originally in Mount Tai, and had close contacts with the Jiang family of Daqi. It was more like an academy that trained top masters for the government, rather than a martial arts sect. Daqi retreated to Mobei before the Jiazi year, and Baiyuetai naturally moved.

Yan Huilin became famous very early, and his status in Northern Qi was no less than that of the former Wudang God of Killing Chen Daozi. However, with an official identity, he mostly acted in secret to help the court deal with some troubles, and his achievements in public were rare. The last time he became famous was when he fought against Chen Chong, the gun god of the Northern Frontier, and they tied. He was selected as one of the top ten martial arts champions in the world, and he was also the only martial arts champion outside the borders of Dayue.

The top two or three people in the martial arts world, such as Jia Gonggong, Li Hansheng, and Zuo Qingqiu, were not listed among the martial arts champions, because ordinary people could not see their battle records at all, and those who saw them basically had no chance to tell about them alive. Without accurate battle records, there was no way to determine who was better, so the skills of these people were all a mystery.

Yan Huilin was definitely not as good as Zuo Qingqiu, the national teacher, but he was able to use his short hand to hit the long hand and tie with Chen Chong, the northern frontier gun god known for his fierceness and domineering. In today's martial arts world, he was also an absolute hero.

However, Yan Huilin also knew that he was entrusted with an important task and sat here as bait. It was good that Xu Buling did not come to Beiqi. If he really came, Xu Buling could beat down a circle of martial arts champions in the Central Plains, and it would not be difficult to add him.

In order to prevent being swallowed by fish as bait, Yan Huilin was also in front of Shi Jinhai, the owner of the Beiqi Royal Boxing Hall.

Shi Jinhai is a generation older than Yan Huilin, his temples are already gray, but he looks more energetic than Yan Huilin.

Northern Qi has dominated the Central Plains for three hundred years, so its foundation is definitely not bad. In terms of martial arts attainments, it is not inferior to Dayue at all, but the population is too small after all. Martial artists are like panning for gold in the sand. The base is too small, so there are naturally few top martial artists. At present, the number of famous masters in Northern Qi is only a handful.

Although there are not many, the advantage of Northern Qi martial artists is to strive for excellence. Zuo Yezi's words that "the martial arts champions of Da Qi in the past all crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood" are not empty words. Northern Qi does not have Tang Jiao and Zhang Buzheng, who are just filling in the numbers of official families. None of the famous ones are mediocre, and Shi Jinhai is the same.

Shi Jinhai is good at leg techniques. The whip kick technique "Dragon Swinging Tail" used by Xu Buling was created by Shi Jinhai. It is rumored that he can kick off a huge tree with one leg.

However, his opponent was Xu Buling, and Shi Jinhai, who was already past his prime, was obviously a bit cautious.

As the saying goes, "boxing is afraid of young people." Xu Buling became a harvester of Wu Kui in the Central Plains, and even single-handedly killed Lao Yi and Song Ying. Even if Shi Jinhai had Yan Huilin as a helper, he was not sure about his chances of winning.

Fortunately, their mission was just to pretend to be envoys and wait for Xu Buling to take the bait. As long as they were sure that Xu Buling had come to Northern Qi, they didn't expect to capture Xu Buling alive. If they couldn't defeat him, they could still run away.

Shi Jinhai held the black pieces and looked at the chessboard, while his ears also paid attention to the surrounding disturbances.

I'm not sure if Xu Bu Ling will come, and I don't know when he will come. It's really boring to sit and wait like this.

Seeing that the night was getting dark, Shi Jinhai was about to follow the agreed words and say, 'Master Han, the night is getting dark, let's fight tomorrow', but before the words came out, both of their faces were condensed, and they looked outside the bead curtain in a blink of an eye. 's courtyard.

Under the silvery moon, a black shadow soared into the sky from the wall. His movement was so sharp that he had never seen it before, but he reached the top of the wall in the blink of an eye. The speed was so fast that Shi Jinhai felt a little nervous.

Yan Huilin's face was solemn, knowing that a fierce battle was inevitable, and he touched the hilt of the sword under the chess table with his right hand.

Unfortunately, before the sword was unsheathed, he saw the murderous black figure stepping on the snow on the wall. His feet slipped and he fell directly to the outside of the wall.

"Oh, I'll go..."

Cries of surprise followed.

! !

The two top military leaders of Northern Qi were both stunned. They thought it was some unprecedented move, and they all mustered up their energy to pay attention to their surroundings.

It's just that the black shadow that slipped on the ground didn't use any extremely lethal moves after falling off the wall. Instead, it rose up again and flew away in the direction it came from, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

? ?

Shi Jinhai sat in front of the chess case, his eyes slightly blank.

Yan Huilin was also a little confused, but he quickly came to his senses.

Living in an unfamiliar environment and at night, no matter how powerful the master is, it is impossible for him to go through life without making the slightest mistake, not to mention that Xu Buling is only a young man in his early twenties, so slipping is not uncommon. A mistake during the surprise assassination had already given the opponent a chance to react. It would be too risky to force forward again. Xu Buling was trying to escape!

From his sudden action, Yan Huilin was already 80% sure that the person coming was Xu Buling, and he immediately wanted to get up and chase him.

But Grandmaster Wu Kui ran away with all his strength. If he was too slow, he would never be able to catch up.

Shi Jinhai thought for a moment and raised his hand to stop Yan Huilin:

"If we can't catch up, or if we chase them out, we will be exposed as bait here. Report it to the Imperial Advisor first. If Xu Bu Ling misses this time, he will definitely find another opportunity to attack the envoy team, and then the overall situation will be laid out. It's much better to ask you to go into the urn than to pursue it."

Yan Huilin thought about it. All they had to do was make sure that Xu Buling came to Northern Qi. To close the net, they would naturally have to use all their strength to ensure that they could catch Xu Buling 100%.

Thinking of this, Yan Huilin released the hilt of his sword, stood up, and quickly returned to the house to take out the carrier pigeon...