Chapter 40: Inexplicable Beauty
The battle movement on the side of the West Courtyard is getting farther and farther away, thinking that the two Zhuang Kui are retreating, this time is the best time to save people, and it will be troublesome if the guards come back, although Zheng Yan feels that the current timing is also very reluctant to him, after all, the Dongchuan Dao Leader who did not show up is at least a ground-level cultivator, and that young man is at least above the Qi Refining God.
Zheng Yan touched the long sword on his shoulder and gave up, pulled out the "Blue Bridge" from his leg, took a deep breath and continued to keep his breath hidden, sliding down the wall like a ghost, and then quietly jumped onto the railing on the second floor, and slid into the room in a flash, and the window closed silently again.
The scale of the house is very large, the decoration is simply magnificent, Zheng Yan is more and more puzzled, this is indeed the meaning of staying for a long time, the construction of such a scale is under the nose of the Xuanwu Army, the instructions of the government cannot be easy, and the movement will not be small, it stands to reason that the government will send people to supervise, and it is difficult to collude with officials and businessmen to deceive the upper and lower levels, after all, the Xuanwu Army and the state and county are not the same system, and the supervision of the imperial history will also hear the news to check, is there some special background?
While thinking about it, he quickly walked around the building, the whole building has a total of three floors, the master named Dongchuan is on the first floor, according to Zheng Yan's observation and analysis of the young man, that guy is estimated to be on the third floor if he wants to do something, but he still has to check the second floor thoroughly.
The whole building was surprisingly quiet, I didn't even see anyone after walking for a long time, most of the houses were not lit, Zheng Yan walked through a few corridors on the second floor and didn't find anyone, he sank down and perceived it carefully, and finally heard some subtle sounds upstairs, so he didn't hesitate anymore and touched the sound.
The third floor is much smaller in scale, and it is more elegant, Zheng Yan saw the room with the lights on at first glance when he went upstairs, but there were two guards standing at the door, and the same as the two master costumes recruited by the young people in the courtyard before, it was obviously a martial arts cultivator above the four realms. Zheng Yan leaned on the staircase and thought quickly, the distance of two zhang, with his own speed, could he exceed their reaction time? Obviously, no, the Heavenly Rank Cultivators had no hope.
The environment is simple, there is only one staircase and one corridor, and Zheng Yan didn't want to cover up the sneak attack at all, and fell back halfway up the stairs, slightly increasing his footsteps, so that the two guards could hear but never let the master on the first floor notice, which was a test of the grasp of strength, fortunately, it felt good.
Turned out of the stairs and went up to the corridor, sure enough, the two guards had already looked over to this side, Zheng Yan walked over like a leisurely walk with an expressionless face, and just when one of the guards was about to ask a question, Zheng Yan made a silent movement, and pointed to the room with a wicked smile, and the two guards were full of doubts.
Generally, martial arts cultivators have a safe distance and a shooting distance, and it will be easier for the spirit to relax within the safe distance, and in the current situation, Zheng Yan's shooting distance only needs to be longer than the safety distance of these two people. The two of them opened a three-foot distance one after the other, but they didn't show the intention of making a move or making a sound, Zheng Yan was a little helpless in his eyes, well-trained, things really won't always go smoothly, but it doesn't matter, this distance is enough.
Just as he was about to make a move, a thought crossed his mind, "Are the people in the courtyard really bad? That woman in black and her sister are good? Do you sympathize with the weak or are you worried that the woman in black will be humiliated?"
Only the second guard let out a slight muffled grunt, and in just an instant, the two unconscious guards were held against the window, their bones had been fixed by Zheng Yan to ensure that they would not collapse to the ground.
At this time, the tender and sweet voice of the young man before came from the house, Zheng Yan controlled his strength and quietly opened the door and dodged in, first paused outside, and saw that the young man was standing by the big bed in the inner room, taking off the clothes of a woman in white while talking. There were two women on the big bed, and the woman in black was lying flat facing death, still wearing the black tights.
Zheng Yan didn't notice that there was a fourth person, one dodged and ran towards the young man, covering his mouth with one hand and cutting his neck with the other, and punching at the dantian qi sea, the man slowly fell, Zheng Yan quickly glanced at the woman who only had one underwear left, threw the cover on the ground to her, and went to help the woman in black.
"Your Highness, why are you here?", suddenly the woman in white spoke,
Zheng Yan was full of surprise, and asked strangely, "Do you know me?"
The woman seemed to be unable to move, and at this time she was a little relaxed, and then said urgently, "Your Highness, leave us alone, go quickly, there is a master downstairs, and we can't go out with the tight defense here",
Zheng Yan heard that there seemed to be movement from the two guards at the door, probably about to wake up, and sure enough, when they arrived at the four realms of martial arts, they still couldn't make them unconscious for a long time with their own emergency methods, so he made a silent action on the two of them, wrapped his coat around the woman in white, one in each hand, and picked up the two of them and prepared to leave, but the woman in black suddenly pulled out the blue bridge from Zheng Yan's body, and inserted it into the eyebrows of the young man, and seemed to be a little surprised by the sharpness of the dagger, Zheng Yan was a little helpless, put away the dagger and jumped out of the window.
The way out has long been thought of, but as soon as he jumped on the courtyard wall, he was noticed by the people in the building, thinking that it was the two women who had someone's sealing technique, Zheng Yan didn't care that there were still some surprised guards outside the courtyard wall, and they jumped down, and there were chasing soldiers after interception, obviously the chasing soldiers were the greatest threat to themselves.
The guards finally reacted and drew their swords to intercept them, Zheng Yan tried his best to mix with these guys, relying on the ghost's body to dodge, and moved towards the distant ravine, after all, there was a ground level master in the air eyeing him, and he needed these guards to cover.
The woman in black pulled out the blue bridge again, and slashed through the unlucky guards one by one without mercy, and deliberately looked for the vital part to greet her, the blue bridge is not an ordinary sharp weapon, it is an evil soldier who can kill the soul, even if it is because the banned woman can't hurt the guards with much strength, but the damage to the soul is great, as long as the stab is basically howling and losing her combat power, Zheng Yan secretly said that this woman is really murderous, but it is inevitable to have this kind of resentment, but in this way, how can you rely on the guards to avoid the trouble in the air?
"Don't make trouble, we still have to rely on them to escape, didn't you look at the old man above, forgot how he was beaten by others", Zheng Yan finally couldn't help but shouted in a low voice,
The woman was stunned for a moment, snorted coldly, and finally stopped moving, and the woman in white on the other side shouted eagerly, "Xilan, don't show the way quickly, lead this old man over there",
Zheng Yan originally expected to go into the ditch to find a chance to get rid of the pursuers, and also expected the entanglement of the earth-level master in front of him, but he was completely clueless about escaping in his heart, and he rushed in to save people because of the situation.
The woman in black seemed to be a little surprised, but soon she suddenly began to show Zheng Yan the way, Zheng Yan ran in the direction the woman said while entangled the few remaining guards, and for some reason she felt a little bottomless in her heart.
The Taoist priest called Dongchuan in the air did not hit Zheng Yan with several qi and spells, and finally realized the problem, and ordered the guards to keep a distance from Zheng Yan, how could Zheng Yan let him wish, after a tug-of-war, the Taoist priest had no choice but to let the guards stop, Zheng Yan saw that the situation was not good, and suddenly accelerated his speed, I don't know how many times faster than before, the old Taoist priest was a little unable to catch up in the air for a while, let alone release the spell, he could only wave out a wave of energy, which was easily avoided by Zheng Yan.
Generally speaking, a Five Realms martial cultivator wants to escape, and it is basically impossible to catch a martial artist like Lao Dao who has entered the Tunnel Realm for a short time, but Zheng Yan has brought two people, and Lao Dao seems to be the type that is not good at fighting, as long as Zheng Yan can use the terrain to escape.
Finally flashed into the ditch, this is really a wide sea with a fish jumping into the sky and letting the birds fly, Zheng Yan wanted to turn around and say a few words to Lao Dao, and suddenly there was a terrible cry from the other side, followed by a powerful qi machine that soared into the sky, Zheng Yan immediately realized what was going on, that guy's body was found.
"Dongchuan, catch them, I'm going to crush them to ashes and scatter their souls!", an angry voice rolled in,
Dongchuan Lao Dao, who was originally listening to the movement, sneered a few times and suddenly sped up, Zheng Yan didn't stop, feeling the movement behind him, he realized that Lao Dao had some water released before, and sighed in his heart, he was going to be killed by this woman today.
"Childe, let us go and run first, otherwise everyone will die here", the woman in white said urgently, and struggled to get rid of Zheng Yan's arm, but she was banned and pointed, and she didn't have much strength.
Zheng Yan naturally wouldn't let go, and the more curious he was in his heart, the identity of this woman could be revealed, could it be the people of the imperial court? They were all doing things for the imperial court, and it was even more impossible to let go.
"Old Dao, I'll send you a few purple pipa", Zheng Yan stopped on a cliff and suddenly threw something at the old Dao behind, and then jumped down without hesitation,
Below is an endless dense forest, Zheng Yan first landed on the treetops to quickly look at the direction, and then fell to the woodland and began to run wildly, trying to land on the trunk of the tree, for a while there was no movement of the pursuers, there were few people who were not afraid of the "purple pipa", not to mention that the old man was life-saving and cautious.
After turning over a few mountains, there was a clear roar in the air, Zheng Yan turned his head and looked a little frightened, and then the moonlight saw that there were actually four ground-level monks who could fly in the sky, with different brilliance, obviously they all had magic weapons in their hands, this time it was really over, Sixth Uncle Feng, don't say that you are not there, I was thinking about stepping on the air and falling into a hole.
Suddenly, the two women let out an exclamation in unison, Zheng Yan finally adjusted his body and took the two into his arms, and hit the stone walls that could not be avoided with his body, and the three of them shrank together and rolled for an unknown number of circles and finally fell to a flat ground. Zheng Yan was in pain as if he had been cut by a thousand knives, and he couldn't help but let out a soft snort, and there were still two delicate bodies pressed on his body, and it was a little difficult to breathe.
It seems that the woman in black moved first, and then the woman in white also let out a soft sound, Zheng Yan just sat up and suddenly took the two of them into his arms again and retreated to the side, there was a human voice outside, and it was already a little blurry when it came into the hole, so Zheng Yan finally roughly estimated the length of the hole that rolled in just now, how could it be thirty or forty zhang.
The three people in the cave all suppressed their breathing to the weakest, and Zheng Yan could clearly feel the hearts of the two women beating wildly through only two layers of clothes.
The voices outside gradually turned away, Zheng Yan groped for a wooden stick that rolled down together and some dry firewood, and took out a fire fold from his arms to make a fire, only then did he see that he was currently in a cave, there seemed to be a deep space inside, there were many watermarks on the cave wall, obviously this cave would be filled with water when the rain was sufficient.
After listening carefully to the outside and making sure there was no movement, Zheng Yan finally asked the doubts in his heart: "Do you know me? Which yamen is from?, why are you here?",
The woman in white pointed to the wound on Zheng Yan's body, Zheng Yan waved her hand to indicate that it was okay, and then the woman said softly, "My name is Shen Ningyi, I guess Your Highness has not heard of it, my sister's name is Shen Ningzhao",
Zheng Yan was a little surprised, but he had only seen Shen Ningzhao when he was a child, and now he has no impression, so naturally he can't see any similarities in the appearance of their sisters, but by the light of the fire, he can see that the woman in front of him is indeed a stunning beauty, and she looks eighteen or nineteen years old, maybe slightly worse than the legendary Shen Ningzhao, and it is reasonable, otherwise she would have been famous in Luoyang; 。
Shen Ningyi introduced, "This is Xi Lan, a year ago, Ning Yi was ordered to come here with three colleagues from Qin Tianjian to survey the landform and draw a map, and half a month ago I explored the Anjia Courtyard, but I didn't expect to be imprisoned by them suddenly, Xi Lan is a friend that Ning Yi met here, and she has been trying to rescue us these days, but I didn't expect to involve His Royal Highness tonight",
Zheng Yan had already taken out a pair of boots from his baggage, and took out the clothes inside, he didn't think to help them get shoes and socks when he was in a hurry in the building just now, and now he was still barefoot, Shen Ningyi was quiet and atmospheric, there was not much shyness in the face of this situation, and she thanked Zheng Yan's shoes and put them on Xi Lan's feet, which were obviously very big, and found two ropes to tie them tightly, and wrapped her feet with clothes.
"I was passing by the village outside the ditch, and I heard from the villagers that someone was building a courtyard here, and I thought I would come in and take a look and leave, but I didn't expect to find that things didn't seem to be simple along the way, so I was going to go in in the middle of the night to investigate, and I saw that Miss Xilan was captured."
Zheng Yan explained briefly, and then asked curiously, "Haven't you found anything strange in the past year? Do you have the habit of contacting the outside regularly? The three Qin Tianjian lords are still in the other courtyard?"
Shen Ningyi nodded and said, "We are in contact once a month, there is indeed a strange place, there seems to be something buried under the courtyard, they dug that grotto and said that it was to suppress some evil, we were careless, thinking that they were just ordinary people, and they rushed in to negotiate, but unexpectedly... They should still be imprisoned in the dungeon, but An Pingsheng wants to subdue me and let me help them deal with the imperial court, so until now, we can only escape and find the Xuanwu Army to help, there is more than one ground level master in the other courtyard",
At this time, there were voices outside, someone had already begun to come down, Zheng Yan quickly made a torch and lit it and handed it to Shen Ningyi, and covered the fire with the soil accumulated at the entrance of the cave, hastily covered it up and beckoned the two to run inside, in fact, it was also in vain, there were many traces of rolling down all the way, as long as you pay a little attention, you can find it.
Shen Ningyi said that she has a general understanding of the distribution of underground karst caves here, and it should be no problem to stay underground for most of the previous year.
The pursuers who came down found the ashes, and then shouted and continued to go deeper, and for a moment the cave was full of chaotic echoes. Shen Ningyi had already taken the two of them down into the water, Zheng Yan felt that the water was slowly flowing downward, and the water level gradually moved from the calf to the thigh, and the three of them simply swam forward.
I don't know how long it took for the torch to finally go out, Zheng Yan took out the rope in advance and strung the three of them together, there are many passages in the cave, and there are many torrent whirlpools, and they may be scattered if they are not careful, and the sound of the pursuers can rarely be heard behind, and they have been lost in this cave group that is tantamount to an underground labyrinth.
In this dark and extremely complex cave, Zheng Yan was strange that Shen Ningyi didn't seem to be affected in any way, because she rarely hesitated in judging the direction, maybe this was also a kind of talent; Xi Lan was silent from beginning to end, Zheng Yan was not surprised, a person's temperament and appearance can more or less reflect his temperament, Shen Ningyi seemed a little strange when introducing her, Zheng Yan intuitively felt that this woman might be really weird.
After walking for a long time, Zheng Yan suddenly felt that the dark river no longer flowed, and occasionally encountered some swimming things on his body, which should be fish, almost to the end, and was thinking about suddenly bumping into Shen Ningyi in front, it turned out that she had stopped, and then Xilan in the back bumped into it again,
"I haven't been here for this section, there seems to be a voice in front of me, do you want to take a look?" I think it may be the place where the An family excavated that thing", Shen Ningyi said in a low voice,
Zheng Yan felt that this girl had a very adventurous temperament, it was said that Shen Ningzhao was well-behaved and gentle and demure, it turned out that her sister was like this, "Okay, go and see, I also think this place called Daqinggou is very weird",
"Wait", Xi Lan, who had never spoken, spoke, "Ning Yi, I'll release the confinement for you first."
Then Xi Lan helped Zheng Yan to get closer to Shen Ningyi in front, a red light lit up in the dark, Zheng Yan paid more attention to the state of Xi Lan's true yuan, and found that the degree of purity was far greater than that of the previous Dongchuan old Dao, maybe it was because the realm was not enough and he was unintentionally calculated.
Shen Ningyi smiled and said softly, "Xi Lan is a real earth-level cultivator, but she is not very good at using it, Ning Yi is much worse, and she is only in the early stage of refining the gods and transforming the void."
Zheng Yan smiled and said, "Isn't it a burying person?
Xi Lan raised her head and wondered, "You only have refining and refining qi?", obviously not believing it,
Shen Ningyi also looked at Zheng Yan suspiciously, and after getting Zheng Yan's affirmative answer, it was still Xilan who spoke, "But your skills and speed can't even be reached by me."
Zheng Yan smiled and said, "Although the physical body of the spirit is strong, it is not all-round strong, I guess your strengths should be explosiveness and toughness",
Shen Ningyi looked at her friend and whispered to Zheng Yan, "Has Your Highness seen it yet?" Xilan has always lived here and never interacted with people, there may be something inappropriate, please forgive Your Highness,
Zheng Yan glanced at the woman who was still focused on breaking the confinement and shook her head and said, "Ning Yi, when you introduced Miss Xilan, you were a little secretive, I was afraid that I had any special ideas, in fact, it was completely redundant, I think that I have always followed the principle of judging things by facts to people and things, and I will not make any conclusions about people I don't know and haven't had much contact with, not to mention that I never think that the world's prejudice against spirits and ghosts is right, or reasonable."
Shen Ningyi said softly, "It is Ning Yi who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, please forgive your highness",
Zheng Yan was a little strange, and asked curiously, "Ning Yi, you should have grown up in Ruan Guogong's mansion, right?
Shen Ningyi smiled slightly, and said softly, "Although my sister and I are the adopted daughters of our father-in-law, we still have to put our identities right, and we can't break the rules, and it is difficult for people who do not hesitate to be blessed for a long time."