On the second day of the seventh month of the fifth year of Yuanzhen, and then headed by Huo Quai, a total of fourteen horsemen poured out of the Champion Houfu.

Huo Quzhi was wearing regular clothes and carrying a sword at his waist. And behind him, Huo Guang was also wearing regular clothes and carrying a sword. The twelve horsemen behind were the twelve guards, but the twelve guards were all wearing armor and immediately hung with long swords.

When Chang'an City was still quiet, the fourteen horsemen and horses had already left Chang'an City and were heading towards the southeast without stopping.

"Ah Guang, the dark pavilion is in Jiawutai, sixty miles southeast of Chang'an. Today we will break into this dark chamber, and I will ask them to hand over the assassin who killed you anyway. "It's been more than 20 days since Huo Guang was assassinated, and his wounds are almost healed. Yesterday's court meeting, Huo Quai, successfully asked Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to crown the three princes as kings, and today he took Huo Guang to the dark pavilion to settle accounts.

"Brother, how many people are there in the Dark Pavilion? Isn't it wrong for just a few of us? "Huo Guang is a more cautious character, although I don't know what the strength of the dark pavilion is, but I think there must be more than a dozen people.

"There should be more than 100 people stationed in Jiawutai, and there may be no less than 1,000 people in the entire Dark Pavilion, but many people should be scattered. Rest assured that there is a promising brother, and the dark pavilion does not dare to come nonsense. Huo Quzhi comforted Huo Guang, but seeing Huo Quai's galloping figure, Huo Guang was really relieved.

"It seems that I am overthinking, my brother is not a reckless person, since he has arranged it so, he must be sure. The Mo family's assassin organization is really an eye-opener this time. Huo Guang thought about it carefully and gained confidence, not only did he not have the initial worries, but he was full of curiosity about the organization of the Dark Pavilion.

Huo Qubing and his entourage traveled for nearly two hours and finally arrived at Jiawutai, the so-called Jiawutai is actually the name of a mountain. Several peaks of Jiawutai are fault-block mountains formed by rocks in the movement of the earth's crust, so it looks like there are many strange peaks and strange rocks. And this kind of steep mountain is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is a good choice for the dark pavilion to be located here.

When they arrived at Jiawutai, Huo Quzhi and the others did not go up the mountain immediately, but found a place at the foot of the mountain, took out the dry food prepared before leaving, and ate it. After nearly a morning of riding, the consumption of physical strength is still relatively large, and it is also extremely prudent to replenish physical strength and then go up the mountain.

"Alright, Ah Guang, let's go! You stay at the bottom of the mountain. Huo Qu ate some dry food in a hurry, and then got up and asked Huo Guang to go up the mountain. Ya * Wen * Yan * Qing * Shou * Fa But he ordered the twelve guards to wait at the bottom of the mountain, but he and Huo Guang went up the mountain.

After Huo Guang followed Huo Quai, now Huo Guang didn't know how Huo Qubing would negotiate with the Dark Pavilion. However, Huo Guang has an almost blind worship for Huo Quai, and the contact with Huo Qubing for more than a year, coupled with Huo Guang's understanding of this brother, in fact, Huo Guang has no worries at all.

The mountain road into Jiawutai is no different from other mountains near Chang'an. However, after the two of them walked a mountain road and climbed a rocky mountain, the scenery in front of them suddenly changed.

Huo Guang found that a cliff about 20 meters long appeared in front of him, which was isolated between two mountain peaks, like a single-plank bridge across the two. On top of the cliff, a solitary road is formed only three feet wide, and on both sides is a bottomless cliff.

Seeing this scene, Huo Guang couldn't help but admire the magic of nature in his heart, and only this cliff also made the dark pavilion easier to defend and difficult to attack, at least this cliff wall could not be used for the army to pass, if the dark pavilion was strictly defended at the other end of the cliff, even if the army was sent to encircle and suppress, it would lose the numerical advantage, and in the case of the number of combatants was not much different, these dark pavilion assassins were all masters of one block hundred.

Huo Guang took a deep breath and followed Huo Qu's illness on a three-foot-wide stone road. I have to say that just walking this road is already a huge psychological test, not to mention fighting to the death on it!

"Ah Guang, are you afraid?" Huo Quzhi walked in front, still looking idle.

"I'm not afraid of my brother." Huo Guang actually didn't care about looking at the cliffs on both sides, his eyes kept staring at Huo Quai's back.

Huo Quzhi didn't continue to say anything, and soon the two of them came to another mountain. The road here is much narrower, and the mountain road is carved between the stone walls.

"Who?" Huo Quzhi and Huo Guanggang took a few steps. Suddenly, two figures sprang out from behind a huge rock. These two people were holding long swords in their hands and wearing ink-colored tights, and they were holding swords at Huo Guang and Huo Quai.

"I'm going to tell you the pavilion master, Hou Huo, the champion of the Han Dynasty, is sick." Huo Quzhi looked at the two of them coldly and said unceremoniously.

The two Dark Pavilion swordsmen glanced at each other, and both showed very solemn expressions. "You wait." One of them hesitated for a moment to put away his sword and said, then turned and disappeared into the winding mountain road.

Huo Quzhi ignored the person left behind, and looked at the surrounding scenery casually, as if he was just a tourist who happened to come here.

"Brother, who is the Dark Pavilion Master?" Huo Guang asked in a whisper beside Huo Qu's side.

"I haven't seen it either, but I heard that the current pavilion master seems to be an entourage of the giant. After the disappearance of the giant son back then, this person established the Dark Pavilion, and he should have passed his prime. In addition to this pavilion master, there are also the three ink elders of the sun, moon and star, these three people are the real masters, and their swordsmanship and martial arts are all in the world. Huo Quzhi explained a few words, but it can be seen in a few simple sentences that Huo Quzhi still knows a lot about the composition of the dark pavilion.

"It's all too old...... The age of this pavilion master is already very long in this era! "Huo Guang has never seen an old man over seventy years old in the Han Dynasty until now.

While Huo Qubing and Huo Guang were waiting, the Dark Pavilion swordsman who had left to report earlier had already crossed the mountain peak and descended into a canyon. If it weren't for going deep into Jiawutai and walking along the stone road, outsiders would not have known that there was such an open and flat canyon between these steep peaks.

The pavilions and palaces in the canyon are like fairyland in the murals. In these palaces and pavilions, countless figures are busy in their own fields, some are practicing martial arts, some are reading and carving, and even some carpenters and blacksmiths are doing carpentry and ironwork.

The informed swordsman walked into the central hall, and at this moment, there were four old men in the hall reading the books of the people. All four of them are young, and the youngest one is also gray-haired, estimated to be no less than fifty years old. And these four people were all dressed in extremely ordinary linen clothes, and even the eldest old man's clothes had been washed and yellowed.

"Report to the Pavilion Master, the three elders. There was a person outside the valley who claimed to be the champion Hou, and there was a young man in his fourteen or fifteen tens beside him, and they said that they wanted to see the pavilion master. The swordsman just clenched his fists and said, because the Mohists are not Confucians, their philosophy and purpose are equality and mutual benefit, and even the Mohists are extremely opposed to the Confucian etiquette system. Therefore, in the dark cabinet is a relatively equal world, and everyone in the dark cabinet performs their duties and struggles for a common goal.

"Huo Quai? What did he come to do? Is it just two people? The oldest old man in the center of the hall looked up a little stunned and asked. This person should be the pavilion master of the Dark Pavilion, and the other three are estimated to be the three elders of the sun, moon and stars, if you look carefully, you can indeed see on the chests of the clothes of the other three old men, respectively, there are three patterns of the sun, moon and stars embroidered with twine.

"There were more than a dozen of them, but only these two went up the mountain." The swordsmen of the Dark Pavilion are also layers of secret sentinels, and they were discovered as early as when Huo Qubing and his party came to the periphery of Jiawutai, but the Dark Pavilion has never done any obstruction to those who did not enter the cliff, until Huo Qubing and Huo Guang passed through the cliff before they were stopped by the Dark Pavilion.

"Go and ask the champion to come in." The old pavilion master pondered for a moment and then exchanged glances with the three elders, and then said to the swordsman.

"We have no contact with the imperial court, I don't know what this champion is talking about?" As soon as the swordsman left, the old pavilion master frowned and said.

"Since it was just the two brothers who went up the mountain alone, it can be seen that they have nothing to do with the imperial court, and they should have come in a private capacity. However, Huo Quzhi's power is too large, and I have to deal with it well, I hope he doesn't come with any hostility. "Elder Xing seems to be extremely jealous of Huo Quzhi, and he does not despise Huo Qubing because he is young.

"Huo Qubing is just a hairy boy, how can we ink scholars be afraid of him? Could it be that the two brothers still want to be presumptuous in my secret pavilion? "Elder Ri's temper is relatively hot, and there is a smell of saber rattling when he speaks.

"Alright, remember that our priority is to maintain the strength of the Ink Maker and find the Giant. Huo Qu's illness is not easy to provoke, whether you can provoke him or not. But let's not let people underestimate the strength of the ink master, let everyone else be ready, let's also go meet this young marquis! The old pavilion master raised his hand to stop the words of the two elders, he never forgot his task, and he still had the mentality that he could not offend if he was sick with Huo Qu. But these ink artists also have their own arrogance, and not wanting to provoke does not mean that they are afraid of things.

Soon, the swordsman of the Dark Pavilion returned to the cliff, and said to Huo Quzhi and Huo Guang: "The two of you, please come with me, my pavilion master is invited!" ”

The swordsman who led the way was quite polite, but the main reason was that Huo Quai's fame was too great. As the saying goes, the shadow of a person's famous tree is true in any era, and the name of Huo Quzhi is enough to make most people awe!

"Ah Guang, you'll follow behind me later. You don't have to say anything, you don't have to do anything. Everything is handled by the brother himself. Huo Quzhi strode behind the swordsman of the Dark Pavilion, and this Dark Pavilion was not as organized as in later generations, and did not let Huo Quzhi and Huo Guang untie their swords. First, the Dark Pavilion has enough strength to deal with emergencies, and secondly, in this era, the saber is still a status symbol. It would be a great disrespect to force someone to untie their swords, and to do so would still put the positions of both sides in a position of incompatibility, and no one would be stupid enough to do so.