Chapter Seventy-One: Round-up
On the roof, the gods and Li Ruoxue were in a fierce battle, and the Jinwu guards in the Xiang Society quickly slashed and killed all the men in them, and rushed to several houses near the Xiang Society with the warriors of the Luoshui Society.
The snake spirit warriors guarding the courtyard rushed out one after another, brandishing horizontal swords to fight with them.
The sword light burst into bursts, slashing at Jin Wuwei's armor, leaving only a crack in the Dao, and Jin Wuwei shot with a spear and a horizontal knife to kill the snake spirit warrior very embarrassed. Of course, the people of Luoshui Club are also good hands, and they play a great role in pulling things around.
Li Rong reluctantly reluctantly put away his gaze, jumped off the roof, and walked towards the several mansions behind the incense society that Xin Yuan had mentioned.
Hearing the conversation between Qiu Shenji and Li Ruoxue, Li Rong understood the truth behind Zheng Lianshan's death. The snake spirit didn't know what means he used to control Zheng Lianshan, forcing him to continue to provide military secrets, and Zheng Lianshan had no choice but to hang himself.
Li Rong wanted to continue to watch the battle of the grandmaster-level masters, but the purpose of coming this time was to find Ma Wenxiang and confirm his guess, so he could only give up regretfully and go to find someone instead.
Ma Jiayun was quickly tying up some confidential documents in the study and putting them in the package, and throwing the rest into the brazier next to him to burn them, just carrying the package on his back and preparing to leave.
"My lord, the people of the Luoshui Society rushed over with Jin Wuwei, there were too many of them, and the brothers couldn't resist it." A snake spirit warrior hurriedly rushed in and said.
"It's late," a red blade pierced through his body, causing his shout to come to an abrupt end.
Qiu Lingtong drew back the bloody knife and pushed the samurai's corpse to the ground, blood flowing from the samurai's chest.
"Blood Knife Qiu Lingtong?" Ma Jiayun looked at Qiu Lingtong who was carrying a blood knife and asked.
The blood knife is a unique weapon of the Qiu family, slightly shorter than the ordinary horizontal knife, the blade is red, and it is made of refined steel and the unique secret recipe of the Qiu family, which is tough and sharp. Qiu Lingtong is famous for his knife skills in Luoyang, with the title of Luoyang's second knife, and the first place is naturally "Qinglong" Li Yuanfang.
"You are the one of the six snake heads of the snake spirit?" Qiu Lingtong said, "It's a pity that I will die here today." ”
In addition to Li Ruoxue, the snake spirit organization has six snake heads, and each snake capital is a first-class master, with a great reputation.
"The ground mouse of the Qiu family, you are not ashamed!" Ma Jiayun smiled, his body moved, bypassing the bookcase, and a short sword appeared in his hand, stabbing towards Qiu Lingtong.
The Qiu family was born in the Xianbei clan, the surname Qiu was changed from the Xianbei surname Qiu Dun after entering the Central Plains, Qiu Dun has the meaning of mouse in the Xianbei language, and all people ridicule the Luoyang Qiu family as ground rats, one is to laugh at them, and the other is to say that they are the overlords of the underground forces in Luoyang.
The short sword kept oscillating in the air between the electric light and flint, spilling out a sword aura as dense as raindrops, and the sound of the sword whistle filled the study, heading towards Qiu Lingtong.
"Looking for death," Qiu Lingtong said angrily after hearing this.
The title of "ground mouse" has always been a taboo in the Qiu family, and the old man in front of him actually ridiculed him with this.
Qiu Lingtong's body moved, and his left foot gently picked up the corpse of the snake spirit warrior who fell to the ground to meet the sword qi, but his body flashed to the right, and he stepped sideways, slashing horizontally with the bloody knife, enveloping the corpses of Ma Jiayun and the warrior, and the blood-colored sword light roared through the air.
Ma Jiayun's body suddenly shrank, like an ape squatting, flashed to the side of the corpse, turned around and lightly hit the corpse with an elbow, and the corpse accelerated to meet Qiu Lingtong's bloody knife blow.
With a "bang", Qiu Lingtong flashed with a knife, and cut the corpse in two pieces, and the heart, liver, and internal organs of the corpse were all spilled, and blood gushed out, like a rain of blood in the sky.
Ma Jiayun took advantage of some gaps to dodge and snatch the door.
The attack and defense of the two sides around the corpse fully shows how cunning and ruthless the two cunning guys are. For these people, the lives of his men were not worth mentioning, let alone corpses, but Ma Jiayun undoubtedly had the upper hand and managed to escape.
Qiu Lingtong's face changed, his body's true qi rose slightly, and he shook off the splashing blood rain, and turned to chase after Ma Jiayun.
The battle in the mansion is still going on, the number of warriors in the snake spirit organization is still too small, and the Jin Wuwei are all wearing armor, although the snake spirit warriors have taken advantage of the small space and their skills to kill many Jin Wuwei, but the people of the Luoshui Society are also very skilled, forcing the snake spirit warriors to fight and retreat.
At this time, Qiu Xingfang also joined the battle group and helped Qiu Shenji resist Li Ruoxue together to stabilize the situation.
After all, Li Ruoxue is an eight-rank grandmaster, and her realm is higher than that of the Qiu Divine Achievement, and the Qiu Divine Achievement is really not Li Ruoxue's opponent in a one-on-one situation.
Of course, Qiu Xingfang couldn't let the only grandmaster master among his juniors fall, so he helped out.
Li Rong cautiously avoided the fierce fighters everywhere, and his figure couldn't help but move very quickly, and came to a mansion in the east behind the Heshan Xiang Society.
The shouting of killing in the courtyard here is the loudest, and it should be the place where the battle is most intense, presumably the high-level inside the snake spirit lives here.
Two samurai were fighting at the door, one of them was a samurai of the Luoshui Society wearing brocade clothes, and the other was a samurai in green clothes.
Li Rong was dressed in black, and at a glance, he knew that it was not either of the two parties.
"The falling leaves are silent," Li Ronglong flashed his sword, and two sword qi slashed through the air, without making a sound, and the sword qi swept through the necks of the two warriors, leaving a red blood line.
Li Rong crossed the two fallen corpses and dodged into the courtyard.
Neither the Luoshui Society nor the Snake Spirit are good things. Luoshui Society operates the most brothels and casinos in Luoyang, and also trafficks in human beings, lends usury, and bullies the market and collects protection fees, which is the biggest cancer in Luoyang. As for the snake spirit organization, although it is under the banner of supporting the Li Tang clan, it is just as cruel and domineering in its actions, and it cares about people's lives, and they should all be killed.
Qiu Lingtong turned around to catch up with Ma Jiayun, who was trying to escape, and the two fought together again, and for a while, the sword qi overflowed, hitting the walls and pillars, and the huge power almost destroyed half of the courtyard. The warriors who fought in the courtyard avoided them one after another, so as not to be affected.
Li Rong walked along the ruined cloister and the collapsed courtyard wall towards the place where the two were fighting.
Qiu Lingtong and Ma Jiayun fought very loudly, and they couldn't hide a master like Li Rong.
Li Rong totoed, jumped on the wall, stepped on the tiles like a civet cat, and bent over. There were many people fighting on the ground, and Li Rong didn't want to kill them one by one, so it was more convenient to walk on the house.
Ma Jiayun's body is flexible, not like an old man in his fifties and sixties, but Qiu Lingtong's "Blood Shadow Phantom Body" is not bad, stepping on the roof is like walking on the ground, and the speed is extremely fast.
Ma Jiayun tried to get rid of Qiu Lingtong several times but failed, and the two fought together, dozens of breaths of kung fu, and fought hundreds of blows.
On the battlefield over there, Li Ruoxue used one enemy and two enemies to suppress Qiu Shenji and Qiu Xingfang, if it weren't for Li Ruoxue's injury a few days ago, it would be even more difficult for the two to resist, so they were all embarrassed, they could only parry, and it was rare to fight back.
Just as there were fierce battles on several battlefields, a man in a green shirt with a black face crossed the street, evaded the blockade of the Jin Wuwei, and stepped into the area. This person is none other than the pit viper, one of the six snake heads of the snake spirit.
The pit viper stood on a high place and looked at the movement everywhere, glanced at the battle between Li Ruoxue and the Qiu family, and turned to walk towards Ma Jiayun.
The pit viper moved like the wind, and after a few steps, it came to the place where Ma Jiayun and Qiu Lingtong fought.
Li Rong immediately ducked down to avoid the pit viper, frowned, and jumped in the opposite direction.
Li Rong could feel that the strength of the person was extraordinary, and above him, he should also be a seventh-grade grandmaster, not something he could deal with. Of course, the pit viper may also be aware of Li Rong's existence, but it is just that it has no time to deal with him in a hurry.
Sensing the approaching master, Qiu Lingtong slashed Ma Jiayun back with a knife of explosive power, and took advantage of the momentum to fly back to three zhang away, staring at the masked pit viper with a gloomy face.
"Green Snake, you go first, I'll stop him." The pit viper said to Ma Jiayun.
Ma Jiayun didn't say anything, stared at Qiu Ling viciously, and turned to leave.
The pit viper is a seven-rank grandmaster, and it is not a problem to clean up Qiu Lingtong, and Ma Jiayun is not worried at all.
In the distance, Li Rong, who had been staring at this place, found that Ma Jiayun was far away, so he followed closely. He had a feeling that Ma Jiayun was looking for the old man in Tsing Yi, and Ma Wenxiang, the head of the Heshan Xiangshe who was persecuting Zheng Lianshan behind his back.
In Shangyang Palace, Wu Zetian was lying on the brocade couch, covered with a thin silk quilt, thinking lazily about something, and the Bo incense burner next to him was inserted with a finger-thick incense, the incense had been lit, exuding a faint fragrance that made people quiet, this is the secret dragon fragrance made by the palace.
"Qiu Shenji mobilized Jin Wuwei to attack the snake spirit?" Wu Zetian said to Yang Si, who was standing in front of the couch and bowing down.
"Back to Her Majesty the Holy Mother of God, Qiu Shenji mobilized five hundred gold guards, as well as the people and horses of the Qiu Jialuo Water Society, to go to Beishi to encircle and suppress the secret lair of the snake spirit." Yang Siqiao said respectfully.
"Qiu Shenji has been in office for half a year, and now he only thinks of sweeping away the snake spirit, what a heart!" Wu Zetian said lightly, "He's doing it for me to show his loyalty, but that's it." Can they catch Li Ruoxue alone? ”
Qiu Shenji's original intention to encircle and suppress the snake spirit this time was to show loyalty to Wu Zetian, and that's all, there was no purpose to completely kill the snake spirit, otherwise he could always report directly to Wu Zetian and launch a master to destroy the snake spirit in one fell swoop.
Yang Siqiao and the eunuch Yang Jingchen who was standing on the side didn't say a word, these are not things they can interject.