Chapter 232: Secret Meeting
The next day, Li Shimin really only took Shi Luoshasa and Dou Zhongxian and left the courtyard in the dead of night.
It must be mentioned here that the latter, originally Li Shimin was a little wary of this and Li Xin. It's not that they're unreliable, but their allegiances are to someone else. And what he wants to do now is never want to be known by his family.
However, Dou seems to know everything about him. And the jade slip given by his mother a few days ago also has Dou Zhongxian's name,
This meaning is very clear, the Dou family is ready to really hand over Dou Zhongxian's person to him for use.
Li Shimin is now short of manpower, thinking that he doesn't have many secrets to hide from the Dou family now, so he pushes the boat down the river and regards this master who has cultivated to the third grade as his cronies again.
And when they came to the agreed meeting place between the east of the city and Yuwen Chengdu, they found that Yuwen Chengdu and a man in black were already waiting here.
Li Shimin smiled without apologies: "I'm sorry, I'm a step late-"
When he spoke, he stared at the person behind Yuwen Chengdu. This man was dressed in a black cloak, completely blending into the darkness, and if it weren't for those sparkling eyes, others might not have noticed this person's existence.
"There's no need to apologize, I know that the patrol in the east of the city has suddenly increased a lot today. It seems that the embroidered guards have obtained some clues, and what anti-thieves are searching for here, it is not surprising that you have been delayed on the road for a while. ”
Yuwen Chengdu's face was cold, but the words he said were very understanding.
This one was also looking behind Li Shimin, unlike his side, Shi Luoshasa and Dou Zhongxian didn't do much to hide it, and he also recognized the identities of these two people.
He seemed slightly disappointed, but then he put away his emotions: "Since everyone has arrived, let's go directly." Their hiding place is fifty miles outside the city, and we must get back before the morning!"
After saying this, Yuwen Chengdu should fly up first. He was majestic, but at this time, he was like a civet cat, galloping on the roof in front of him.
Everyone followed behind him, except for Li Shimin, who was quite leisurely, the other three could only barely keep up with him.
Fortunately, Yuwen Chengdu also noticed it in time, slowed down slightly, and kept the same pace.
And when they came to the city wall, they didn't bother much. Yuwen Chengdu seems to have made arrangements for a long time, and the forbidden army patrolling the city in charge of this section completely ignored them, allowing a few people to climb the city wall one by one, and jumping into the darkness at full speed.
After that, under the leadership of Yuwen Chengdu, they galloped in the darkness for half an hour, and entered the Yanshi realm before stopping.
"Is this the place?"
Li Shimin stood on a hill and looked ahead. This is a small village, which should have been prosperous in the past, and is located on the trade road from Luoyang to Xingyang, Chenliu County.
But now, with the opening of the Tongji Canal and the Yongji Canal, many caravans from the north and south of the Yangtze River have switched to waterways, and the village has begun to show signs of decay. Don't look at the many buildings inside, in fact, there are not many people. Of the six inns on the outskirts of the village, three have closed down.
Li Shimin tried to find out where their target was, but he was worried that he would startle the snake, which alarmed Sima Jianqiu, and Qianjizi, the disciple of the famous Gu Chengyun's Shenji Sect.
However, Yuwen Chengdu had his own way, and he took out a gray talisman from his sleeve. As this talisman spontaneously combusted, a small black shadow flew out of the village in an instant, hovering in the air for a while, and then slid into Yuwen Chengdu's hand.
Li Shimin took a look and found that it was a mechanical bird made of metal, but it was extremely agile, no different from a real bird.
"Both targets, both in that manor. ”
Yuwen Chengdu pointed into the village: "Gu Chengyun doesn't know what method he used, pretending to be the owner of this Wei manor, it seems that he has maintained this identity for eight to nine years. And that Sima Jianqiu is now a courtyard martial artist in the Wei manor. ”
Li Shimin was not surprised, thinking that this force had indeed been operating near the Eastern Capital for a long time, so it was no wonder that the people of Qinglong Villa couldn't find out their traces.
He also took out a talisman and activated it to bless himself—a thunderbolt technique that could mask the perception of others and conceal his own killing intent.
After that, Li Shimin opened his Yin Yang Yuan Pupil and looked inside carefully.
"In addition to Sima Jianqiu and Gu Chengyun, there are four fifth-grade and sixth-grade martial artists, and there are also about twenty people. As for the buildings inside, I'll give you the drawings later. ”
"Five products?
Speaking of this, Yuwen Chengdu looked at Li Shimin again: "You will command this hunt!"
His tone was categorical, as if he was not ready to give Li Shimin room to refuse: "If it's just martial arts, I don't think I'll lose to you, but it's my turn to command the battle formation, but it's not my strength." ”
Li Shimin was also not polite: "Zhongxian, you will lurk over later, choose a good position to watch the east, if they flee in the direction of the village, they must be intercepted no matter what! Brother Yuwen and Shi Rakshasa are the main attackers, and I will provide cover for you." ”
Then he looked at the man in gray again: "Can you knock down the four walls of this manor?"
He had already discovered just now that this was not a martial cultivator, but a sorcerer. The reason why I was able to keep up with them along the way was completely by virtue of the Daomen's wind skills and horse skills.
Jiama, also known as paper horse or Jiama paper, is an item used by the people of the Great Sui to worship the god of wealth, the god of the moon, the god of the stove, the birthday star and other gods. The ancients sacrificed with livestock coins, and Qin custom animals used horses, and since the two Jin Dynasty because of the preciousness of horses, they began to worship ghosts and gods with paper horses. Later, some people painted various colored statues of gods on paper, collectively known as Jiama.
Therefore, this armor horse technique is also a kind of 'séance', which pastes the armor horse paper drawn with the gods on the legs to obtain the power of the 'gods', which is a land galloping technique commonly used in the Daomen, which is not inferior to martial arts.
"Knocking down walls?"
The man in gray glanced ahead, and then replied without hesitation: "There is no magic circle in it, and there is no special material in these high walls, it is not difficult to collapse, but I need time." ”
His voice was strange, neither male nor female, and he couldn't tell his age.
"No amount of time is worth it. ”
Li Shimin immediately made a decision: "Your Excellency, by the way, find out if there are any tunnels under this manor." ”
He thought that since this person could collapse those high walls, then he must have some attainments in earth-based spells, and it was not difficult to do this.
After that, he went all the way around the manor, burying a talisman and a yellow spar. However, in order to prevent the people in the village from detecting, this person had to be a mile away.
However, the rest of the people are not idle, making final preparations. Li Shimin also explored several nearby vantage points and found that a ginkgo tree to the west had the most suitable angle. Once the four high walls are collapsed, there will be the least number of dead spaces.
- In fact, those high walls can't stop his yin and yang yuan pupils, and they can directly peek into the flow of people's vitality, which has the effect of indirect perspective. Especially after experiencing the Heavenly Realm Divine Spring, like this kind of ordinary stone wall, he had no problem being able to penetrate four to five times.
But the problem is that once the Yin Yang Yuan Pupil is opened, it will consume a large amount of True Yuan. Since you can knock these stone walls down, there is no need to be reckless. The saved Yuan Li can already be used for him to send more than a dozen arrows.
After that, Li Shimin began to adjust the longbow in his hand again. This time, it was naturally impossible for him to bring out the Yue Shen Bow, and the previous Blood Battle Bow, the bow power was obviously insufficient at his stage.
However, as early as more than a month ago, Li Shimin spent a full 200,000 yuan to acquire a demonic longbow called 'Celestial Phenomenon'.
It is also a king rank, and the power of the Celestial Elephant Bow is nearly double that of the Blood Battle Bow. If the latter is the lower limit of the king-rank battle bow, then this 'celestial' battle bow is already close to the upper limit of the king-rank.
In fact, he originally wanted to buy a quasi-god-level war bow, but unfortunately, this kind of weapon was hard to find, and Li Shimin waited for nearly two months, but he didn't see a quasi-god-level weapon appear on the market.
- The quasi-god level is still like this, and those who are even more divine soldiers on it are naturally becoming more and more rare.
But in today's battle, this 'celestial' battle bow is enough.
After about a moment, the man in gray was finally arranged. This person then retreated behind Li Shimin's ginkgo tree and began to prepare the Dao method.
Very few Sorcerers have sufficient self-defense in the time between casts. And this one has already regarded Li Shimin as his shield.
In the next moment, the entire ground in front of them suddenly shook violently. Starting from the yellow spars buried by the man in gray, countless spiderweb-like cracks extended in the direction of the manor's interior.
Then there was another loud earthquake, causing smoke and dust to fly, and all four high walls were shattered in an instant. And those cracks did not stop there, they were still spreading inside, and many buildings in the manor were also collapsed.
When the momentum of the ground movement stopped, the gray-clothed man folded his hands and his eyes flashed slightly: "There is indeed a tunnel, but the entrance has been shaken by me!"
In the distance, Yuwen Chengdu and Shi Rakshasa had already put on their ink armor as early as the beginning of the earth movement, and they rushed towards the direction of the manor like fierce tigers.
Just as the man in gray spoke, the two of them were only one step away from the collapsed courtyard wall.
There was also a cry of anger and panic from inside: "Who is it?"
Yuwen Chengdu and Shi Rakshasa did not answer, and at the same time accelerated their pace. Li Shimin really looked at the inside of the manor indifferently, and his hands were flicking.