Each of the Twelve Guardians is armed with a spear, and each is armed with a crossbow arrow and a scimitar. Most people don't usually use a scimitar, so their scimitar hangs on the right side of the horse's belly, not within reach. Only Fang Rui's scimitar was always hung on his left waist, and it was within reach when he needed to fight. Because Fang Rui's spear skills were not good, he preferred to fight with a scimitar.

If the assassin wanted to assassinate the floating leaf, he had to pass past Fang Rui. Fang Rui saw the assassin pounce like a mad dog, and he thought that the assassin had completely lost his mind. He clenched his scimitar in both hands, and gathered all his strength in his arms, ready to split the assassin in two.

Suddenly, he heard the Floating Leaf reminding him to "be careful of the Order". His combat experience was still small, and he ignored that some of the Banners could also be used as weapons.

The assassin seemed to frantically meet Fang Rui's blade, but as he approached Fang Rui, his right hand suddenly slid out of his cuff with a thick-backed and thin-bladed three-edged dagger. He appropriately blocked Fang Rui's scimitar with a three-edged dagger, and at the same time, his left arm followed his upper body with a whirlwind, stabbing Ling Qi into Fang Rui's neck as a short arrow.

The assassin's movements were performed in one go, and at first glance they were simulated countless routines. It's just that this style of play doesn't spare any effort at all, paying attention to hitting a hit, and failing is certain death, because he didn't leave a way out for himself at all. If nothing else, he will be killed with one blow as long as he succeeds.

Fang Rui passed the reminder of the floating leaf and shifted his attention from the three-edged dagger to the Ling Qi. But he slowed down a bit, and by the time he could judge the Assassin's intentions, the arrow on the banner was already within striking distance of his left neck. Fang Rui's hands were on the hilt of the knife, he had no time to react, he could only wait for death.

"Whoosh-" At the last moment, a crossbow arrow in the hand of the floating leaf came out of the string. The bolt struck the Assassin's left arm, piercing the soft muscles of the Assassin's upper arm and digging further between the ribs in his armpit. Even though the Assassin was frantically unaware of the pain, the injury prevented him from extending his left arm, which was holding the arrow. Fang Rui was horrified to see Ling Arrow rubbing the skin against the back of his neck. If it weren't for the crossbow arrows shot by the floating leaves that blocked the assassins, Fang Rui would definitely die.

In the moment when Fang Rui hesitated, the assassin turned around again and pulled the three-edged dagger out of front of Fang Rui's scimitar, so that the left side of the assassin's body was completely exposed to Fang Rui's scimitar.

Fang Rui didn't hesitate to raise his knife and slash the assassin. The knife was so deadly that it nearly cut the assassin in two. The knife was long, blood splattered, and the intestines and internal organs that had fallen from the cracked wound were scattered all over the ground.

But he was still a step too late. Just before the assassin was stabbed, the assassin had already used the three-edged dagger as a throwing knife and threw it at the floating leaf with all his might.

The three-edged dagger shot like a cold light towards the floating leaves. At the same time, Floating Leaf shoots the last crossbow arrow at the triangular dagger. Crossbow arrows and triangular daggers go toe-to-toe in mid-air.

"Click-" sounded. The bolt shattered into a pile of sawdust, and the triangular dagger struck the left side of the left chest of the floating leaf directly to the heart.

The three-edged dagger itself weighs more than ten times that of a crossbow arrow, and when it meets in the air, trying to block a three-edged flying knife with a crossbow arrow is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.

The entire assassination process took the Assassin less than three breaths. This was just enough time for the Captain Ten to lead a group of knights in defensive formation.

The Twelve Guardians were petrified in an instant when they saw all this.

After a while, there were two coughs, "cough-cough-", who knew that the floating leaf, which looked like it was going to die, was still alive. The Tenth Master watched in amazement as Fushengye pulled out the three-edged dagger on his chest with his own hands, without a trace of blood on it. Immediately afterwards, the floating leaf took out a double-layered heart-protecting bronze mirror from the shirt on his chest. The two central layers of the heart protection bronze mirror are pierced with a translucent hole by a triangular dagger.

"Hahaha!" Fushengye laughed, "I scared the baby to death, and finally escaped it!" ”

Fang Rui excitedly stepped forward and hugged Fusheng Ye and said, "I'm scared to death!" I thought you were ......"

"Hahaha!" The floating leaves can't stop being excited. The scene that had just happened proved his own speculation. He has the ability to perceive in advance the events of an impending crisis. If he hadn't sensed the danger an hour in advance, and had been aware of the impending danger, he wouldn't have been able to take precautions in advance. Then now at least the Captain Ten and Fang Rui and him have been killed by the Assassins.

The feeling of escaping death will be subtle, and the floating leaves are excited but also have lingering palpitations.

His ability to adapt to the situation just now was shocked by the Captain of Ten. The arrogant ten-master knelt down on one knee in front of the floating leaf horse and said, "Thank you for your life-saving grace just now." The subordinates have nothing to repay, and they are unforgettable. ”

Fang Rui also knelt on the ground with joy and sincerity, and followed to express his gratitude. For a while, the relationship between Fushengye and this team of knights was much closer.

"Get up! I don't like to bow down. "Floating Leaf Road." Let's keep going. This assassin is strange, and he will definitely check it out when he arrives at the Moon Temple! ”

When the floating leaf spoke, the twelve guardians all consciously stood behind him and bowed their heads to obey. When it was time to march, five of the knights in front of and five in front of them guarded the floating leaves in the middle of the line. The captain of the Ten was on standby before and behind his saddle, ready to be sent. Fang Rui explored the way ahead and led everyone to march.

Fifty miles away from the Twin Peaks, Fang Rui, who was acting as a scout, keenly sensed the smell of blood in the air. He stopped and looked around, and sure enough, he found a body in a bush not far from the road. The corpse had no outer clothes, but the inner lining of his upper body was wearing the standard clothes of the government office. The leader of the clothes has the word "Yi" on it. It seems that the dead should have been a post pawn before his death, and most of the post guards stationed near Tiantai Mountain were messengers of the Moon God Temple.

Fang Rui hurriedly reported the situation to Fushengye. The Captain of Ten and several knights also came to the corpse of the postman. Based on experience, the Ten's deduced that the post man had died shortly before they met the Assassin. So they came to the unanimous conclusion that this postman was the real messenger. The Assassin they had encountered earlier had been impersonated after killing the postman.

The conclusions are there, but there is still a lack of strong evidence. Both of them are dead, and if you want to find a certifier, there is no proof of death. Their inferences can only be confirmed by further physical evidence.

Just when everyone was at a loss, the Twelve Guardians still put all their hopes on Floating Leaf, hoping that he could make a decision immediately.

Floating leaves have no experience in tracking murders. His sentience was unresponsive to the corpse.

At this moment, the little white fox that followed the floating leaves jumped off his shoulder. The little white fox circled around the corpse of the postman on the ground, sniffing from head to toe. In less than a moment, the little white fox put his paw on one of the arms of the corpse of the postman and barked softly.

Fang Rui smiled and said, "I retract my previous prejudice against Ahri, it seems that it has the potential to become a fox hunter." ”

Fushengye nodded and said with satisfaction: "It seems that Ahri has indeed discovered something!" ”

After Fang Rui and Fusheng Ye glanced at each other, without waiting for Fusheng Ye's command, he used his scimitar to cut open the sleeve of the post man. The sleeves turned out to be compartmentalized. Fang Rui found a letter written on brocade in the mezzanine. He respectfully handed the brocade to the floating leaves.

When the floating leaf received the brocade, the first thing he saw was the elephant-shaped jade seal at the end of the letter, which marked the supreme ruler of the Zhangzhung tribe, and the horse-shaped stamp pattern symbolizing his father, the White Horse King.

Seeing such two important seal patterns, the floating leaves had already determined that this letter was written by the White Horse King of the Zhangxiong Division.

The Epistle of the King of the White Horse is a letter of command. The recipient of the letter is none other than the Shozo Shizi Fushengye.

It turned out that after the death of the eighth young master, the process of searching for the reincarnated spirit child in various parts of Mangyuan began non-stop.

Because the 8th Shao Si Ming left a last word before his death, indicating that the appearance of the reincarnated spirit child would be accompanied by two visions. One vision is that the reincarnated spirit child will spit lotus flowers in his mouth, and the other is the reincarnated spirit child will have auspicious clouds on his head.

As for what kind of mouth spit lotus flowers, what kind of auspicious clouds on the head, the eighth young master did not tell in detail.

The visions that accompanied the previous reincarnated spirit children were also different each time they appeared. Therefore, when looking for a reincarnated spirit child, there will also be several qualified candidates found in various places at the same time.

Two candidates for reincarnation have been found so far. They all have the conditions to meet the requirements of the reincarnated spirit child vision. One of them is an alternate from the Temple of the Sun, named Renjay. It is said that the seven priests of the Temple of the Sun God had witnessed the vision of Renjie Qi'er spitting lotus flowers a few days ago.

Another candidate for the reincarnation of the spirit child turned out to be the youngest daughter of the White Horse King of the Zhangxiong Tribe, the county lord of Hanxi. That is, the little sister of the floating leaves, Han Xiye.

It is said that the White Horse King and his wife witnessed the vision of the lord of Hanxi County with auspicious clouds above his head a few days ago.

The White Horse King and his wife were elated about this. After all, Shao Si Ming is a living god as noble as the identity of Mangyuan Khan.

In fact, if you calculate it carefully, even the identity of the Mangyuan Khan is not as noble as the young commander of the Moon God Temple. After all, the Mangyuan Khan was only regarded as a god by the world, and at most he could only be regarded as a demigod. Moreover, in the past 800 years, there have been four major families who have served as Mangyuan Khan. And the young priests of the Moon God Temple are in the same lineage, and they are all inherited by the reincarnated spirit child. Bloodline aside, in terms of the durability of cultural inheritance, the Moon Temple existed for a longer time.

The campaign for the reincarnation of the spirit boy is also very cruel. In order to deter the insincere candidates, at the time of the final selection of the reincarnated spirit child, the unsuccessful candidates were sent to the summit of the eastern peak of the Twin Peaks to be sacrificed to the gods.

And this so-called sacrifice to the gods is actually to let the unchosen children wait on the top of the mountain for the vultures to eat. These children will be eaten alive by vultures within a few days.

When the floating leaves saw the letter of the White Horse King, they felt that their heads were as big as a bucket.

Nominally, the King of the White Horse is his father, and the Lord of Hanxi is his own sister. However, he also remembered that when he left Jiaozi Xing, the first task that the upper line handed over to his grandmother Xingxing was to ask him to support a girl named Ren Jie Qi'er to become the ninth young master.

It's a difficult problem to solve. Is it that for an order, he must catch his sister and feed the vultures as soon as he arrives at the Temple of the Moon God.

The Zhangxiong Department is one of the strongest combat forces of the Southern Barbarian Division, and family affection aside, the White Horse King repeatedly emphasized in his letter that he must ensure the personal safety of the Lord of Hanxi. For this reason, the White Horse King has secretly united some tribes of the Dongyi tribe, and when necessary, they will move their troops westward and attack the Dangping Plateau and Mobei from the north and south. If that happens, it will inevitably plunge the Mangyuan Khanate into an era of endless wars.