Chapter Seventy-Four: The Ice Phoenix Tribulation (Dilemma)
"It's ...... Meteor Twin Swords, you are the descendant of Chu Yi, the Pavilion Master of the Water Heaven Pavilion? ”
The mysterious master used his iron claws to contend with Chu Birou's dual swords, and in the next dozens of rounds of evenly matched battles, this person quickly recognized Chu Birou's martial arts moves.
"Who are you? Is someone like you also Zhou Xuan's subordinate? Chu Birou couldn't help but be stunned after hearing the other party's question.
"Hehe, if I tell you my identity, I'm afraid you won't survive tonight." The mysterious master suddenly used all his strength to continuously repel Chu Birou, and then he walked away, leaving only the confused Chu Birou in the woods.
"That man...... Exactly? Chu Birou faintly felt that this person seemed to know a lot about the tragedy of the Shuitian Pavilion back then, but she couldn't catch up with this person because she was worried about Chen Fangning's injury.
On the other hand, Chu Birou recalled the confession of Zhou Xuan's subordinate before he died, and it seemed that once he failed to return to Tanzhou, Zhou Xuan would definitely know that something was wrong with the Ice Phoenix Valley, and it seemed that it was only a matter of time before Cheng Zhang's army arrived.
Thinking of this, Chu Birou quickly rushed back, thinking that she had to inform everyone who had entered the Ice Phoenix Valley of this situation as soon as possible.
However, when Chen Fangning was finally settled, Chu Birou was harassed by the guards at the gate of the Ice Phoenix Valley.
"I don't want to talk nonsense with you, don't blame me for being rude if you don't let me in!"
Chu Birou, who was a little anxious, made a decisive move after being ridiculed and insulted by the guards disciples, and fought with the guards with her bare hands with the sword in hand, and a few guards were obviously not her opponents.
"Who is so bold? Dare to break into the Ice Phoenix Valley. As Chu Birou entered the residence of the disciples of Binghuang Valley all the way, Zhang Xin and the others who rushed over after hearing the news quickly surrounded her.
"Brother Zhang, I advise you not to mess with her, she is the most powerful among us!" Gao Che laughed and watched from the sidelines, and said loudly to the two people who were facing each other.
"I don't mean to offend you in any way, it's just that the situation is urgent, I have to take a few of them out of here immediately, please forgive me!" Chu Birou clenched her fists and bowed to Zhang Xin.
"Hmph, I originally begged you to leave quickly, but you are so presumptuous in my Ice Phoenix Valley, how can I let you come as you say, and leave as you say!" Zhang Xin did not give up, and the two seemed to be unable to avoid another fierce fight.
"Stop it!" The valley lord Yu Zhongrui appeared in time to stop the two and other disciples who wanted to do it, and Chen Yuxia, Tong Kun and Liu Yangyang also came here at the same time.
"Valley Lord, these people are really too much, you are kind enough to take them in, they even take revenge and maliciously hurt people, I implore the Valley Lord to ask for an explanation for our beaten disciples!" Zhang Xin saw that it was not good to do it directly, so he had to hold back his anger and "complain" to Yu Zhongrui instead.
"Hmph, the people of Ice Phoenix Valley really like to play with right and wrong and reverse black and white, it seems that it is not surprising that there is an inner ghost here that can be easily bought by Cheng Zhang." Chu Birou said angrily, and her words unsurprisingly immediately attracted loud accusations from the surrounding Ice Phoenix Valley disciples, and the atmosphere at the scene gradually became tense again.
"Boss, as you know, all forces have coveted the treasure of our town, Xiyuanzhu, for a long time, and I would rather believe these things than believe them!" A man dressed as an elderly butler whispered in Yu Zhongrui's ear.
Yu Zhongrui thought for a moment, then she walked between Chu Birou and Zhang Xin, and loudly announced to all the surrounding Ice Phoenix Valley disciples that from now on, Ice Phoenix Valley will enter a state of full alert, and at the same time, every Ice Phoenix Valley disciple needs to be prepared to deal with the invaders.
When everyone present began to respond to Yu Zhongrui's call, only Zhang Xin's expression suddenly looked a little strange, and his abnormal demeanor and behavior at this time were also keenly noticed by Gao Che.
Then, although Yu Zhongrui wanted to keep Chu Birou in the Ice Phoenix Valley, she still refused Chen Fangning to enter. As a result, Chu Birou rejected Yu Zhongrui very simply, and a close disciple of Zhang Xin wanted to take the opportunity to step forward to find fault, but was frightened back by Chu Birou's fierce eyes.
That night, Gao Che waited for the arrival of the carrier pigeons released by Zhu Yifu at the Binghuang Valley String Song Platform as agreed. Before they left Tanzhou, Zhu Yifu had been entrusted by Chen Fangning to investigate the prisoner who was behaving strangely.
After sitting leisurely on the roof of the building and waiting for a pillar of incense, Gao Che was surprised to find that two carrier pigeons had flown from the same direction at this moment, and one of them fluttered its wings and flew in the direction where the disciple's room was located.
After Gao Che retrieved the letter tied to his pigeon's feet, he did not immediately open it to check it, but quickly rushed to the disciple's room to investigate the location of the other pigeon.
After quietly wandering on the roof and searching for a while, he finally found a close disciple of Zhang Xin in a courtyard preparing to release carrier pigeons.
Gao Che quickly shot it down with a stone after the carrier pigeon flew out of the hospital, and from the content of the secret letter, Gao Che knew that the inner ghost who had been in contact with Cheng Zhang was Zhang Xin, and he wanted to send a message this time to let Cheng Chang and others carefully guard against the ambush set up for them by Ice Phoenix Valley, and reiterated that he would hand over the Xiyuan Zhu to Cheng Zhang after stealing it as soon as possible.
"Hehe, Ice Phoenix Valley is getting more and more lively now." Goucher smiled helplessly, then took the letter into his arms, and walked briskly back to his room.
"Hmph, this Chen Yuxia has come out to harm me every time, I thought that by blocking these tricky people out of the valley, we could continue to implement our plan, but now it seems that the time for our action has to be greatly advanced." After Zhang Xin learned that the carrier pigeon was released, he said to his subordinates melancholy while drinking stuffy wine.
"Second Senior Brother, when are we going to do it? According to the anxiety of the troublesome girl during the day, it is estimated that the people and horses on the side of Tanzhou will be here in a day or two. A disciple asked Zhang Xin.
"Without further ado, let's do it tonight, if we wait until the defense of the Moon Reflecting Tower is strengthened, we will have no chance." Zhang Xin then instructed his close disciples about their plan to steal pearls tonight.
And when the disguised Zhang Xin and the others quickly knocked down the guards and infiltrated the Reflecting Moon Tower according to what they thought were a seamless plan, Gao Che waited for them leisurely while drinking on the road to the top of the tower.
"I advise Your Excellency not to meddle in your affairs, so as not to set yourself on fire!" Zhang Xin threatened Gao Che with a deliberately adjusted voice.
"Hehe, this ...... I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint a few people, if I don't help the master's family take care of the important treasure, once the treasure is stolen, won't those of us of unknown origin have to give a few people the black pot? Goucher said in a mischievous tone after taking a big sip of wine.
"Hmph, since you are looking for death yourself, then you can't blame us!" After Zhang Xin finished speaking, he waved his big hand, and several of his subordinates rushed upstairs with big knives to fight Gao Che, but Gao Che coped with it easily, and these Zhang Xin's subordinates were knocked downstairs one after another without being able to catch Gao Che's several moves.
"A bunch of rubbish, so many people can't beat him!" Zhang Xin saw that his subordinates couldn't help Gao Che, so he personally drew his sword and fought fiercely with Gao Che. Against the backdrop of the bright moonlight, the two flickered and moved on the eaves outside the tower, you chased after me, and fought for dozens of rounds and were inseparable.
Seeing that the delay was too long, in order to avoid being detected by the patrolling disciples of Ice Phoenix Valley, Zhang Xin quietly arranged for other subordinates who had come back to their senses to steal the beads first without Gao Che paying attention, and tried his best to drag Gao Che back.
However, as the men hurried up the stairs leading to the highest floor of the Reflecting Moon Tower, Goche saw the right moment to throw a small iron dart, which smashed a large oil tank that had been prepared at the top of the staircase, and the oil stored inside suddenly gushed out. Unbeknownst to him, Zhang Xin's subordinates rolled down the stairs one after another after stepping on the oil-lubricated stairs, and some of them even fell to the ground from the sixth floor of the Moon Reflecting Tower because they couldn't control themselves and were killed on the spot.
The cries of the fallers inevitably alarmed the patrolling disciples around them. Seeing that more and more garrison forces were rushing towards the direction of the Reflecting Moon Tower, Zhang Xin had no choice but to lead the remaining cronies and disciples to evacuate from the Reflecting Moon Tower as quickly as possible after using all his resources to get rid of Gao Che's entanglement.
"This is Senior Brother Yang Shu, the second senior brother's subordinate." After removing the mask of the dead disciple who fell under the tower, a disciple reported to Chen Yuxia, who rushed to hear the news.
However, when Chen Yuxia led people to Zhang Xin's residence in a menacing manner, Zhang Xin was about to undress and sleep at this time, without the slightest sign of panic.
"Joke, it's Yang Shu's kid who tried to steal the Yuan Zhu by himself, how are you qualified to search my room without evidence?" When Chen Yuxia proposed to search Zhang Xin's room, she was rejected by Zhang Xin, "Chen Yuxia, for the sake of Master's face, I still call you the third junior sister, I advise you not to be too aggressive!" ”
"Hehe, everyone in this Ice Phoenix Valley knows that Senior Brother Yang Shu has always followed you every step of the way. Now that he is dead under the tower, if the second senior brother doesn't have a ghost in his heart, let me briefly investigate the tables, chairs, doors and windows in the room, why not? Chen Yuxia was not frightened by Zhang Xin's threat, and saw that the disciples around Chen Yuxia and the disciples who hurried to help Zhang Xin were about to face each other.
At the moment of emergency, Yu Zhongrui, who was wearing a black veil, landed in the courtyard from the roof with light skills accompanied by the maid, and stopped the two factions from fighting each other in time.
"Xia'er, the teacher just asked you to go to check the situation, but he didn't let you come to question your elders without permission, and you didn't retreat?" Chen Yuxia originally happily thought that Yu Zhongrui had rushed to help her, but after Yu Zhongrui said this, she could only lead people away angrily and confused.
Zhang Xin, who was temporarily relieved, stepped forward to thank Yu Zhongrui for his relief, but Yu Zhongrui didn't say anything to Zhang Xin, just looked at him with complicated eyes, and then threw his sleeves and left.
After that, the Reflecting Moon Tower quickly sent additional personnel to defend it, and Gao Che, who was suspected of trespassing on the forbidden land of the Ice Phoenix Valley, was also temporarily placed under house arrest.
Goucher didn't seem to be paying much attention to the so-called "house arrest", and he took advantage of the moment to start reading the letter that Zhu Yifu had written to him.
The letter mentions that the mysterious man they rescued from prison appears to have been poisoned by some kind of poison that prevents him from speaking, and his mind is always in a state of intermittent confusion. However, even so, Zhu Yifu still found some interesting details, such as the fact that the prisoner actually used his left hand in his natural state, but he always deliberately made it appear that he was using his right hand, and this kind of oppressive correction was often common among the imperial relatives.
In addition, Zhu Yifu also found that the prisoner was carrying a well-camouflaged jade, and the pattern on this jade was very similar to the pattern of the jade worn by Liu Yangyang's ears. Thinking of this, Zhu Yifu felt that the mysterious prisoner seemed to have some kind of relationship with Liu Yangyang. In order to confirm his judgment, he will try to take this prisoner to find a suitable time to secretly sneak into the Ice Phoenix Valley, so that he can meet Liu Yangyang, and maybe they will be able to find the secret buried in this prisoner in an instant.
On the other hand, the frightened Zhang Xin was drinking tea in his room to suppress the shock, and a close disciple quietly pushed the door in and stepped forward to advise Zhang Xin to leave the Ice Phoenix Valley as soon as possible.
"Hehe, leave, where to go? Tanzhou General's Mansion? Do you think people who are no longer useful are still valuable to Cheng Zhang? Now, it's up to us! ”
The rain was falling in the night sky, and everyone in the Ice Phoenix Valley was watching everything soaked in the rain outside the window, uneasy and uneasy.