He glanced back at Yang Xiyin, and slowly walked into the smoke and dust, as if he was about to leave again. Because he was masked, Yang Xiyin only saw his bright eyes, but could not see his true face.

"Classmate, who are you? Are you interested in joining my Boxer Rebellion, I can make you the deputy leader! If this battle is successful, you and I can share the super title of 'Boxer Heroes' together! ”

Seeing that Huo Zongtang was leaving, Yang Xiyin hurriedly stopped him and threw out an olive branch. In his opinion, this invitation is really very sincere.

Huo Zongtang turned his head again, glanced at him meaningfully, and then shook his head.

"I'm sorry. I'm not interested in joining you. ”

"So you...... Is it the New Party, or someone from the Royalist side? Yang Xiyin was a little nervous. Such a strong opponent, if he joins the side of the New Party or the Royalist Party, it will be like a tiger with wings, and it will be an absolute big trouble.

Huo Zongtang also said: "I am neither a new party nor a royalist. ”

Yang Xiyin was stunned. Such a strong candidate, no matter what faction he is placed in, is definitely one of the best figures, how can he not belong to any faction?

"Then you are ......"

Huo Zongtang thought for a while and said, "Maybe I'm a fourth-party force." ”

What kind of fourth-party force, in the exam script, is there this ghost? Yang Xiyin's mood and expression have become very complicated.

"If you don't want to join us, why do you want to help?"

Huo Zongtang slowly walked into the darkness and left a word. "Whether it's an exam situation or a historical truth, I want you to recognize the real enemy. A word for you: take care of the big picture. ”

His figure vanished into the darkness, but the voice remained in place for a long time.

The ninth kui looked at Yang Xiyin, and then looked at the direction where Huo Zongtang disappeared, and said tentatively: "I'll chase him over and touch his details?" ”

Yang Xiyin's face became a little ugly.

"Bai Xiaolong, he's Huo Zongtang, right? You just want to go with him, there's no need to play tricks on me. ”

The Ninth Kui looked at him with some surprise, and then took off the hood in embarrassment, and sure enough, it was Bai Xiaolong, who looked innocent. "I didn't expect you to find out like this."

Yang Xiyin snorted coldly. "You think I'm an idiot? In fact, I have long found out your true identity. Keeping you by my side is to deliberately attract Huo Zongtang over, and then clean him up on the battlefield. But what I never expected was that keeping you by my side would let Huo Zongtang save me once. If you go, it will be regarded as a return to Huo Zongtang. ”

Bai Xiaolong looked at him, then bowed his hand, and turned around and disappeared into the darkness.

"So, let's have the final battle."

Yang Xiyin turned his head and looked at the roof of a western-style building behind him. There, a dark shadow crossed his arms, and his cold eyes were like two magic stars, coldly locking him.

The people upstairs were wearing a set of dark yellow Yamato army uniforms, with a pair of military boots on their feet, tall figures, and a long Japanese knife at their waists, and they were full of domineering and majesty unique to soldiers.

The strong wind blew across the roof, taking away the smoke and clouds of the battlefield, but it could not take away the thick murderous aura here.

The man leaped forward, his feet stomped on the ninety-degree vertical wall, and flew down like a night bat!

With a loud bang, a figure fell to the ground like a god, and the thick military boots shook up a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground, and the momentum was awe-inspiring.

Yang Xiyin was full of soul power, and on his hair and between his eyebrows, there were sparks, light shaving-like soul power particles flying slowly.

In his hand, there is also an extra Taiping Heavenly Book Dao Soul Text.

"Let's make a decision, Yasumasa Fukushima."

Both sides stared at each other for a moment, and then their figures burst out at the same time, rushing towards each other.

"Brother Zongtang, wait for me!"

Bai Xiaolong chased a few streets, but he didn't see Huo Zongtang's figure, so he couldn't help but cry out anxiously.

A dark shadow suddenly appeared behind him. Bai Xiaolong only felt a chill down his spine, and when he turned around, it was a punch!

The man dodged away ghostly, and then whispered, "Stop, it's me!" ”

Bai Xiaolong heard the voice, hurriedly put away his fists, and said happily: "Brother Zongtang, is it you?" ”

"This is not the place to talk, follow me." Huo Zongtang pulled him with one hand, and the two disappeared into the shadows under the wall at the same time.

A few minutes later, the two appeared in the broken inn where Huo Zongtang was resting in the middle of the night.

The two asked each other what happened to them after entering the examination room.

Bai Xiaolong told Huo Zongtang how he joined the Boxers. Because of his super defensive power, he is like a tank against ordinary soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance. So he was soon favored by Yang Xiyin and arranged for him to be the ninth sub-leader of the eighteen kui - the ninth kui.

Bai Xiaolong was originally reluctant, but seeing that Yang Xiyin had been tracking Huo Zongtang's whereabouts, he had a little more heart and stayed in the Boxers, planning to secretly help Huo Zongtang in the future.

After listening to his narration, Huo Zongtang smiled and said: "Yang Xiyin is very shrewd, the two of you are just using each other." ”

Bai Xiaolong asked Huo Zongtang about what happened to him again, and Huo Zongtang briefly recounted.

Bai Xiaolong asked again: "Brother Zongtang, Yang Xiyin is your important competitor, seeing that he is about to be hunted by ninjas, why do you want to help him?" ”

Huo Zongtang said: "To put it nobly, we should focus on the overall situation. But in fact, my real motivation is to track down these ninjas and save people, but it's just a matter of doing it. ”

Bai Xiaolong thought of those envoys with strange whereabouts and superb ninjutsu, and his heart was still a little awe-inspiring. "Who are these ninjas? Couldn't their purpose be the same as Yang Xiyin, who wanted to assassinate the supreme leader of the other party? ”

Huo Zongtang shook his head and said, "I followed these envoys for a long time, and found that their real target was not Yang Xiyin. It was only in the process of the operation that he happened to meet Yang Xiyin, so he temporarily changed the task and intercepted him. ”

Bai Xiaolong was very surprised: "Their real target is not Yang Xiyin?" Then when I just left, Yasumasa Fukushima showed up to fight Yang Hee-in, so what happened? ”

Huo Zongtang shook his head and said, "That is definitely not the real Fukushima Yasumasa, just the shadow warrior of Fukushima Yasumasa." ”

"Shadow Samurai!?"

"The Shadow Warrior is an important inheritance of Toei Ninjutsu. During the Warring States Period, the princes fought for hegemony, and the battle was extremely fierce. Among them, there was a prince named Takeda Shingen, who rose rapidly in the chaos of war and was invincible, and was known as the Tiger of Kai and the first general of the Warring States. But because of this, he made too many enemies and became the first person on the assassination list of various daimyos. Takeda Shingen then chose a person who looked like himself among the ninjas, as a shadow warrior who took the risk of assassination, and he himself hid behind the scenes and controlled the overall situation. The inheritance of the shadow warriors has been passed down as an important part of ninjutsu. ”

Bai Xiaolong froze. "Brother Zongtang, are you saying that the Fukushima Yasumasa who fought Yang Xiyin just now is actually just a stand-in?"

Huo Zongtang nodded, his expression was very serious. "That's right. Because the real Fukushima Yasumasa was hidden in the Shadow Ninja team just now, and I had a fight with him. ”

Bai Xiaolong was stunned. He didn't expect that Huo Zongtang would have such a dangerous and complicated experience.

"So...... Who wins and who loses? He was very curious about the result of the battle between Huo Zongtang and Fukushima Yasumasa.

Huo Zongtang smiled bitterly and said, "I have made three moves with him, and almost every move has been completely suppressed by him. If it weren't for the Lost Sect Body Method and Tai Chi Leisurely Steps, I'm afraid I would have been more and less lucky this time. ”

Bai Xiaolong showed an extremely surprised look on his face: "This can't be, Brother Zong Tang can't beat him?" ”

Huo Zongtang thought about it seriously, and said with a serious expression: "Fukushima An is a super robot in the fifth and sixth stages of the bachelor's degree, and there are mysterious masters who are controlled by soul power, and have human thinking and wisdom. I think that the three final bosses of the exam script design are simply impossible to defeat in a one-on-one situation. ”

Bai Xiaolong showed a pained look: "Can't be defeated!?" So what else can be done? Pull a group of masters to beat him to death, or rely on more people to kill him? ”

Huo Zongtang smiled bitterly and said, "It's not that simple. The number of candidates is about the same as the number of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and it is simply unrealistic to rely on the number of people to kill them. ”

Bai Xiaolong was dumbfounded: "Then what should I do?" Did we take the test for nothing this time? ”

Huo Zongtang smiled: "That's not necessarily. It is certainly more difficult to make such a setting in the exam script, but there will always be a hidden solution. I just went through three tricks with Fukushima Yasumasa, and although I suffered a little, I also gained something. ”

Bai Xiaolong's eyes suddenly lit up: "What harvest?" ”

Huo Zongtang took out a small bamboo pipe, and then took out a roll of yellow paper from the bamboo pipe.

"This ......"

Huo Zongtang smiled at him a little proudly: "Although I can't beat him, I stole this important information from him." ”

"Brother Zongtang, your cultivation is superb, I didn't expect to be so good at stealing things. Open it up and take a look! ”

Huo Zongtang smiled. This hand-in-hand kung fu is also one of the few housekeeping skills left over from his previous life, and it just came in handy today.

The small piece of yellow paper was opened, and there was not a single word on it, but it exuded a faint fluctuation of soul power.

"It turned out to be a secret letter sealed with soul power, come, let me crack it."

It took Huo Zongtang some time to finally untie the seal of the soul power left on the letter. After seeing the information on the secret letter, the faces of the two changed slightly. There are only three words on it:

The Imperial Study, Emperor Guangxu, Temple of Heaven.

There seems to be no logical relationship between the three words, and it is not clear what the real intention behind it is.

But at this moment, a message came from the exam helmets of the two at the same time: The ultimate hidden test question that has triggered the exam, will it accept the task assessment?

The two of them were shocked, and after glancing at each other, they chose "yes" at the same time.

In the early morning of the second day, the morning light lit up the red palace walls, tall towers, and golden glazed tiles covered with black smoke and dust.

The roaring cannons, the dense gunfire and the bursts of rushing and killing still resounded from time to time in the four directions of the imperial capital. Inside and outside the city, fires could be seen everywhere, and thick black smoke and pungent gunpowder smoke were still diffused in the wind.

On the second day after the Eight-Nation Coalition entered the city, the battle situation not only did not ease, but became more intense.

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