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In the Prince's Palace——

"Inform His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, my subordinates have just received news that the third prince visited the emperor late at night last night and was assassinated by assassins in Xuanwu Gate. A personal guard wearing armor and a sword at his waist bowed his head to a man with sword eyebrows and a slightly wide forehead.

"The third brother was assassinated in Xuanwu Gate last night?" the prince stood up from his chair and slapped the table.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, yesterday the emperor announced to the civil and military officials that they could not go to the court due to the recurrence of the old disease, and they refused to see anyone. And why did the third prince go to face the saint late at night, have you ever thought about the reason!" This personal guard is called Lu Ming, and he has always been the confidant of the crown prince Li Chengqian, so he kindly reminded him.

"You mean, my father summoned the third brother alone late at night?" Li Chengqian reacted and asked.

"This subordinate doesn't know, but His Highness has to guard against it!" Lu Ming said.

"But ......," Li Chengqian seemed to have something to say.

"Your Highness, do you know how Your Majesty ascended to this throne back then!"

"Of course I know this......" Li Chengqian had not finished speaking. I thought of something and frowned.

"Go, go and find the second brother!" Li Chengqian said to the guards.

"Obey!" Lu Ming half-bowed and retreated.

Not long after, Li Chengqian's second brother, Li Tai, came.

Li Tai was a little fat, and he walked up and down. Li Chengqian saw Li Tai coming, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Second brother, you are here!" Li Chengqian said with some anxiety.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, I don't know what to do with my courtiers. Let General Lu Ming invite me over in such a hurry!" Li Tai didn't know, but when he saw the appearance of his eldest brother Li Chengqian, he also guessed a few points from it.

"Second brother, you know, last night my father summoned the third brother Li Zhi late at night!" Li Chengqian did not hide anything, he trusted this Li Tai very much. Because Li Tai also said that he would not compete with Li Chengqian for the throne. Although Li Zhi also expressed his willingness to be a minister and do his duty as a courtier. But for some reason, Li Chengqian always felt that Li Zhi was not compatible with him.

"What does the crown prince mean that yesterday my father announced that he was seriously ill, but he summoned his third brother in the middle of the night?"

"My father said he was sick and didn't see anyone, even me, the prince, was turned away from the palace. Why did you summon the third brother late at night! There must be something strange about this!" Li Chengqian said thoughtfully.

"But I heard that the third brother didn't see his father last night!" Li Tai was also puzzled by Li Shimin's move.

"Last night, because an assassin assassinated the third brother in Xuanwu Gate, the third brother did not go to see his father. What Li Chengqian didn't know was that the third prince Li Zhi was not summoned by Taizong, but heard that Emperor Taizong's old illness had relapsed, so he chose to go to see the saint late at night. Li Zhi was so smart, he could see that Emperor Taizong was not really a relapse of the old disease. Maybe it's just something you want to do.

"What does His Royal Highness the Crown Prince think?" asked Li Tai.

"Although I am the crown prince now, but the father of the third brother Shen likes it, it seems that there is only one way!" Li Chengqian did not explain what it was, but Li Tai also understood and nodded.

"I heard that the third brother will go to the Muta Temple tomorrow to pray for his father!" Li Chengqian said lightly.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really decided to do this?" Li Tai said with some uneasiness.

"Second brother, there is no turning back!" Li Chengqian sighed.

"Lu Ming, go find someone from the Shadow Hall!" Li Chengqian said to Lu Ming.

"This—" Li Tai seemed to think of something, but he didn't say it.

What the Shadow Hall is, Li Tai naturally knows. One of the most famous killer organizations throughout the Tang Dynasty. They are mysterious, and no one knows exactly where the exact location of the Hall of Shadows is. Once the people of the Hall of Shadows accept the task, they will complete the employer's task at the end of the world, even if the cost is great.

On the second day, Li Zhizhen, as Li Chengqian said, went to the Wooden Pagoda Temple to pray for Emperor Taizong. To get to the Wooden Pagoda Temple, you have to pass through a forest. Li Zhi didn't like to be too pompous, so he only brought a few guards all the way.

The third prince, Li Zhi, looked at the woods in front of him, the woods moved with the wind, there was no bird call, and it was very quiet.

"Third Prince, after passing this forest, you can reach the Muta Temple!" said one of the guards to Li Zhi.

"Okay, let's go! My father's illness is unusual, if I can pray for him today, I think the heavens will see it!"

The third prince Li Zhi and his guards walked into the woods for about a quarter of an hour, and suddenly the surrounding wind was fierce, and the sky was covered with dark clouds.

Just when Li Zhi and the others were still in the disagreement, the wind suddenly blew and the dark clouds filled the sky, more than a dozen black-clothed people rushed out from both sides of the woods and surrounded them!

"Are you Li Zhi?" asked one of the men in black who was blindfolded and couldn't see clearly.

"Who are you? Dare to intercept and kill the prince of the dynasty!" A personal guard could see that this group of people was not good.

"Okay, since it's the prince, it's right!"

"Kill them all, leave no one alive!" ordered the man in black. More than a dozen men in black picked up the knives in their hands and rushed towards Li Zhi and them.

Li Zhi's personal guards are not vegetarians, although each one is carefully selected, but they are still inferior to the man in black.

"Third prince, you go quickly!" a guard came out with Li Zhi from the side! At present, the third prince Li Zhi can only go first.

"What about you?" the third prince, Li Zhi, didn't want to leave his guards behind.

"Third prince, leave me alone! We as guards have known for a long time that there will be such a day. It's also a pleasure to protect you!"

"But..."

"Don't say it, Third Prince, you go quickly!" The guards pushed Li Zhi away and rushed forward to block the man in black who was chasing.

The third prince, Li Zhi, ran and looked back at the fallen guards one by one, and was heartbroken!

The third prince ran along the woods, and as soon as he got out of the woods, he was saved. But that's easier said than done.

The man in black killed all the guards and soon caught up.

"Third prince, don't run away! The black-clad killer blocked Li Zhi's way.

"You guys, who the hell are you? Why did you come to kill me? Li Zhi fell to the ground in fright.

"Kill you, naturally someone invited us, our Shadow Hall never makes loss-making transactions!"

"You are from the Shadow Hall!" Li Zhi was also shocked, who had the ability to invite someone from the Shadow Hall to kill him.

"Okay, you already know who killed you, but you'll never know who your employer is!" said the man in black and raised his knife to slash at Li Zhi.

At this moment, a voice sounded not far from the forest.

"Know the destiny of heaven, know the future, and pass yin and yang. Predict the afterlife, and ask the knife man first. With the sound of the voice, a carriage came slowly.

A man in black on the carriage, his face covered by a coat and hat, he couldn't see clearly, and he was holding a knife in his hand, and under the dark clouds, the knife revealed a trace of luster, and a trace of coldness.

In fact, it was killing intent, not some cold. It's just that the killing intent of Xie Feng already makes people feel a burst of cold and piercing.

"Yes, it's the Knife Man!" shouted a black-clad killer.

"Sure enough, the knife man!" said the killer who took the lead and saw the slowly approaching carriage.

The carriage said that it was moving slowly, but in a blink of an eye, it had already come to the front.

"Knife man, why are you here!" the black-clad killer who took the lead asked.

"What's the matter? This road belongs to your Shadow Hall, and no one else is allowed to go?" Xie Feng was not polite. Xie Feng went back last night and calculated a hexagram for Li Zhi, and calculated that Li Zhi would have this catastrophe today, so he came here to wait.

"Since you know that it is the Shadow Hall, then please don't interfere!"

"I'm here to get a knife! I don't want to mind your business!" Xie Feng's tone was not polite.

"No one here wants your knife on credit!" the black-clothed killer also felt that something was wrong, and immediately said.

"Isn't there one here?" Xie Feng said, pointing to Li Zhi on the ground.

"Looks like you're trying to go against me?"

"Third prince, my knife can save your life. I don't know if you are willing to take credit?" Xie Feng didn't have a chance to kill the head of the man, so he just asked the third prince Li Zhi.

The third prince, Li Zhi, looked at the man in black in front of him and seemed to have seen it somewhere. I suddenly remembered that in the Xuanwu Gate the night before, it was this person. Li Zhi is also quite smart, and he can see that Xie Feng is here to save himself, but he still regarded him as an assassin the night before, which really shouldn't be!

"Knife man on credit, I'm willing to give your knife on credit!" the third prince, Li Zhi, stood up and said.

"Huh"

Xie Feng pulled out a palm-sized knife and threw it in front of Li Zhi.

"You can take this knife, if your father is seriously ill in half a month, I will come to ask you for money again!" Xie Feng said slowly.

"But hero, I'm afraid it's not half a month!" Li Zhi didn't say directly, you help me drive these people away, I know you're here to save me.

"Are you talking about them?" Xie Feng looked around and glanced at the black-clothed people around him.

"The Shadow Hall is really a big deal! The Eyes of the Five Elements of Yin and Yang have all been used! It seems that you have really made up your mind to kill the Three Princes!" then Xie Feng looked at the dark clouds in the sky and said.

"Break!" he saw the wind roar, and something that looked like a charm flew out of his hand, flying towards the dark clouds in the sky.

The spell flew into the dark clouds, and the clouds immediately dispersed. And in the distance on top of an altar on a hill. An old man vomited a large mouthful of blood. With anger in his eyes, he looked in the direction of the woods.

"Okay, you knife man!"

"What's the matter? The Eyes of the Sky are broken, and you still don't leave, or do you think you have the ability to kill me?" said Xie Feng as he looked at the killers around him.

"You ......" The killer leader glared at Xie Feng angrily, but it was not easy to attack, he knew the power of the credit knife man, and he had seen it.

"Let's go!" he reluctantly turned to leave!

"By the way, go back and bring a message to your master, if the Shadow Hall doesn't want to exist anymore, you can continue to assassinate the three princes, but you have to think about it carefully!" Xie Feng looked at the black-clothed man who turned to leave.

"Big brother, let's go like this, how do we go back and explain to Lord Shadow!" said one of the killers to the man in charge.

"Didn't you hear that just now? That sword man can even say whether the Shadow Hall exists or not, if he really does it, I'm afraid we won't even be able to make a move. The killer turned to look at the man in the carriage behind him, who still couldn't see clearly.