A few days after Ling Rui's men left Victoria in two ways, under the cover of night, dozens of heavily armed Yuzhou soldiers quietly landed on a small island in the center of Longshui Lake from all directions on a fast boat. They skilfully scuttled a wooden boat on the shore and, after quickly checking the weapons they were carrying, surrounded a thatched hut on the island, waiting for the order from Zhou Xuan, the Taishou of Yuzhou behind them. As Zhou Xuan's big boat docked, Zhou Xuan raised his flag and gave an order, and several soldiers attacked the house from the roof, but the people in the house had already expected their arrival and set up a mechanism, and several people who jumped from the roof were killed by crossbow arrows shot everywhere in the house in an instant. Zhou Xuan was stunned by the sudden wail from the house, and immediately ordered the soldiers to attack from the main entrance, but as the door of the house suddenly closed, a painful wail came from the house again, and more than a dozen soldiers who forced their way into the door were also killed by the people in the house in a very short time. Zhou Xuan was a little dumbfounded, seeing that after a while, the room was quiet again, he didn't dare to send any more soldiers to take risks, and then ordered his men to set fire to try to force the people in the house out. As the flames engulfed the house, the occupants quietly escaped through the passage under the bed with some of their weapons and quickly exited through the exit on the other side of the island. However, when he was a little more relaxed and ran to the shore of a lake where another wooden boat was secretly kept, the wooden boat suddenly exploded violently, and the owner of the hut was also affected and fell to the side. At this moment, several torches were lit in unison around him, and the bright light of the fire reflected the terrifying sneer on Yin Eclipse's face.

"Ling Daxia, don't come unharmed, I am Yin Eclipse, I have been waiting for you here for a long time!" With a terrifying smile on his face, he said to the owner of the hut who was lying on the ground struggling to get up.

"How do you know......," said the owner of the hut, with some surprise, "Well, since the retreat has been cut off by you, it's a big deal to fight and die!" ”

The owner of the hut roared and drew his sword and slashed at Yin Eclipse, who immediately took out his halberd to fight back, and while the two were fighting, Zhou Xuan and the rest of the team of men and horses also quickly arrived from the other side of the island. Due to the impact of the previous explosion, the owner of the hut was severely injured in his body, and gradually he could not withstand the powerful attack of Yin Eclipse in one move, and at the same time, under the repeated chasing and heavy blows of Yin Eclipse, he also became scarred in several rounds of seemingly evenly matched encounters.

"Haha, back then, the name of 'Yunmeng Sword Sect' Ling Wanli was like thunder in the rivers and lakes, but now in my opinion, he is just a mediocre person!" After Yin Eclipse proudly taunted Ling Wanli, he used more of the strength he had reserved before, and Ling Wanli finally couldn't support it and fell to the ground after being hit hard by Yin Eclipse several times, and streams of blood slowly flowed out of his mouth.

"Yin Daxia, that's enough, leave him alone, the official and your boss still have to ask him something." Zhou Xuan saw that Ling Wanli was seriously injured and fell to the ground, and hurriedly stopped Yin Eclipse from continuing to attack.

"Zhou Xuan, you despicable villain, you have killed hundreds of lives up and down the Shuitian Pavilion, this debt, sooner or later someone will come to you to ask for it!" Ling Wanli sat up with difficulty leaning on his sword and said sharply to Zhou Xuan, who had a high-spirited posture.

"Hmph, you can punish the tongue now, wait for me to get the Dragon Soul Sword in the future, and clean up the remnants of these Water Heaven Pavilions, see who of you martial arts dares to disobey me, hahaha!" Zhou Xuan looked at Ling Wanli who was dying in front of him and became very proud, and then he ordered his subordinates to take Ling Wanli away, and he also led everyone to board the boat and leave the burning island.

On the shore of Longshui Lake, the great boss of the Wind and Thunder Hall silently stared at the burning island, and a subordinate behind him rode a horse from a distance and knelt down on one knee to report to him: "Report to the big boss, Zhuoxi has returned to the general rudder, and she said that she has something important to tell her, and asks to see the big boss as soon as possible." ”

"Well, go tell Yin Eclipse and go back to the helm directly!" After the small soldiers were dismissed, the big boss led his men around him and quickly rode away from the shore of Longshui Lake, leaving only the smoke of the fire burning over the rippling blue waters.

On the other side, a young man who had been asleep for many days slowly woke up in a small room in a remote corner of Chengdu, but when he tried to use his hand to soften his eyes stinged by the sun, he found himself lying on a wooden bed, and his hands and feet were tightly tied to the corners of the wooden bed. He tried to cry out for help immediately, but found that his throat was no longer sound for some reason, and it was so hot that it seemed that no liquid remained in his throat. He broke out in a cold sweat as he used his last strength to bang on the wooden table, hoping that the noise would attract others to rescue him.

After a while, a man dressed as a eunuch walked in with a servant with a plate pushing the door, and he looked at the young man struggling on the wooden bed, and a satisfied and cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He waved his hand to the servant, who placed the plate beside the wooden bed where the boy was. The boy saw all sorts of knives in the middle of the plate, and a circle of gauze, and he struggled even more desperately on the wooden bed as if he immediately realized something, but the ropes that bound his hands and feet did not loosen in the slightest.

"Save your effort, the people who come into this house won't be able to run away before they use the knife." The old eunuch gently washed his hands in a basin of hot water, and his contemptuous smile made people instantly get goosebumps like an executioner's machete, "Don't worry, no one in the palace has seen your wanted portrait except for the emperor, you are just an ordinary fat meat here in the old slave, and after entering the palace, you are no different from ordinary slaves and maids." You say yes, right? The beloved son of the famous Jin Wangye, the son of Meng Yan, hehehe! ”

The boy's eyes widened with extreme fear at this moment, the green tendons between his eyebrows bulged, and his hands and feet did not give up a second of struggle as if they were twitching. The servant took off the clothes on the young man's body one by one, and the old eunuch wiped his hands with a handkerchief and walked slowly to the young man's side and fiddled with the knives on the plate, and then he continued to sneer and said to the young man: "Don't worry, our family is the fastest knife in this Chengdu city, grit your teeth and survive this short period of pain, you will be able to 'reborn' like us, and when the time comes, enter the palace and serve the master in the palace well!" Then the attendant shoved a wooden stick into the boy's mouth, and streams of warm blood flowed along the grooves in the wooden bed to the iron basin placed on the ground, and the boy gradually fell into a coma again from his angry eyes because he could not bear the double pain he had endured physically and mentally.

"You new slaves and maids all listen to our family, obediently follow us down the main street into the palace, if our family finds out that any of you dare to play some clever tricks on the road and try to escape, our family will have hundreds of means to let you taste the taste of open skin and flesh!" Under the intimidation of the old eunuch, the twenty little eunuchs who had not long completed the "cleansing" standing in front of him were trembling with fear, but Meng Yan, who was standing at the end of the line, bowed his head expressionlessly at this moment and said nothing, his hands were tightly tied together, as if the soul of the whole person had been stripped from his body.

A group of people were bound by a long rope like prisoners on the street, and walked in two columns on the most prosperous main street in Chengdu City, and let the people around them point and point, Meng Yan was always like a marionette with his head bowed and silent, it was hard to imagine that he was still able to repel the young heroes of the two major forces of the Wind Thunder Hall and the Beggar Gang alone a month ago. When everyone walked through the intersection of two streets, a beautiful woman in a silk green coat passed by the right side of the team on horseback, and on the way back to Chengdu, she happened to meet a little girl who claimed to be looking for Ouyang He.

"Sister Chu, who are these people? Why did you tie them up and take them to the palace? The little girl looked at the people in front of her who were tied together like animals, and felt a little curious.

"Sister Xiahou, these are all little eunuchs who were caught out of nowhere, and they want to escort them into the palace to serve the people in the palace, and they are tied up like this just to prevent them from escaping. Alas, they are all poor people......" Chu Birou turned her head sideways and glanced vaguely at the inside of the team a few times, and when Meng Yan, who bowed her head and was silent at the end of the group, passed by her side, she unfortunately withdrew her gaze from these people and looked in front of her, and an opportunity to rescue Meng Yan in the simplest way was unfortunately missed on the noisy street.

When Chu Birou returned to the door of the Thousand Medicine Hall with Xiahou Regret, he suddenly faintly heard a series of increasingly fierce quarrels coming from inside the Medicine Hall, and it seemed that Xiao Wu was being loudly reprimanded by someone for failing to heal the patient he brought. Chu Birou hurriedly entered the room where the voice came from the inner hall, and saw that in the room, in addition to Xiao Wu arguing with a person dressed in simple cloth clothes but holding a Xuanwu Wei sword, there was also a person wearing armor, black lips, and obvious symptoms of poisoning on his face.

"Ah, shopkeeper, you can count it back, you can show this military master, he looks like he is dying, I have been looking through the medical books in the Thousand Medicine Hall in the past few days, and I still haven't been able to effectively suppress the trend of aggravated toxicity." Xiao Wu saw Chu Birou who rushed to the room and cried aggrievedly as if she had seen her own relatives.

"Hmph, are you the shopkeeper of this Thousand Medicine Hall? Since my eldest brother took the medicine every day according to the prescription prescribed by this little man, his condition has deteriorated dramatically instead of improving, and he is now unconscious. If my eldest brother has any strengths and weaknesses here, Lao Tzu will burn your Thousand Medicine Hall to ashes with a fire! The man with the sword in his hand and his eyes glared angrily roared at Chu Birou excitedly.

Chu Birou did not pay much attention to this person, and after she then leaned over to observe and diagnose the patient's pulse, after repeated thinking in her brain, she finally decided that this person had been infected with the peacock gall, a highly toxic peacock gall unique to Dali, which was not common in medical books edited by the Han because there were few precedents outside of Dali. She also mentioned that the poison is colorless and odorless, dissolves when it enters water, and has a long incubation period in the body of the poisoner.

"I've seen this prescription, and there is nothing wrong with the selected medicinal materials such as benzoin, Suhexiang, and white medicine, but there is no problem with this kind of antidote to suppress ordinary poisons, but for poisons such as peacock gallbladder, which can attack violently and take people's lives in an instant, it can only play a certain alleviating role. Therefore, in my opinion, it is extremely rare for him to be able to maintain even breathing until now, and I am afraid that this military master's internal strength is also much stronger than ordinary people. Chu Birou said in a calm tone to the person holding the sword beside her.

"Hmph, I don't understand what you're saying, as long as you can cure my eldest brother, no matter how much you pay Uncle Ben can give you. But if you're as helpless as that little guy, I'm afraid you won't want to open a thousand medicine halls in Chengdu! This person still threatened Chu Birou with a menacing look.

"Your Excellency, please leave for now, the little girl knows how to behave." After persuading the people in the house without looking back, Chu Birou began to take needles to seal the various acupuncture points on the patient's body, and then she luckily spread the toxins that spread throughout the body of the patient to the various acupuncture points sealed by the silver needles, and the ultimate goal was to release poisonous blood to evacuate the poisonous gas. However, the condensation of toxins must rely on a deeper internal force for the operator, otherwise once the condensation fails, the toxin will spread faster, and the patient's condition will deteriorate even more. After some thought, although Chu Birou was not completely sure of her internal strength, she still chose to do her best to give it a go, not for the reputation of Qianyaotang, but just so that anyone she treated could take the idea of life into her own hands.

At the same time, when Chu Birou began to do her best to detoxify this mysteriously poisoned patient, the news that Meng Yan had been brought into the palace had already reached the Wind Thunder Hall through the assistant of the old eunuch who had colluded with the Wind Thunder Hall.