Chapter 378: Cicada's Wings
Sitting on horseback and feeling the spring-like scenery around him, Chu Haoyun's heart calmed down a lot, and this kind of comfort made him enjoy it very much. Shushu.com is the fastest updated
In order to learn more about the Imperial Orchid style, Chu Haoyun followed a caravan to the Imperial Imperial City. Generally speaking, caravanserai are the most accurate in their information, except for the intelligence organizations of various countries. They walk in the north and south of the world, grasp all kinds of information in a timely manner, and seek profits from it, which is their way of survival.
In this caravan of the Tang Chamber of Commerce, Chu Haoyun joined it as a mercenary. After talking to some of the people in the caravan, I got a lot of useful information. For example, now that the Qiongwu Douqi is about to be held, there will be those people who will go to the Imperial Lan Imperial City, or how can the flow of people during the Qiongwu Douqi period create greater profits.
Only then did Chu Haoyun realize that a conference of the Yulan Empire had indirectly driven all the economic development of the Yulan Imperial City. He secretly wondered if he would also engage in this form after his Bailing Xichuan and Tanglin were stabilized in the future? However, he must first do a good job of attracting and publicizing this matter.
After two days of getting along, Chu Haoyun discovered a very strange phenomenon, after passing through several cities, the original caravan of 1,000 people was inexplicably divided into five teams, each team was about 200 people, and they went to the Imperial Blue Emperor City from different directions.
During this time in the caravan, he also gradually learned about one of the main goods transported by this caravan, and when Chu Haoyun learned about it, he couldn't help but smile dumbly. Most of the goods transported in this caravan turned out to be magic lanterns and spirit crystals. Unexpectedly, his commodity industry has expanded here.
By chance, under the reminder of the little furball, Chu Haoyun noticed the carriage in the center of the caravan, and there was a strange force in that carriage that blocked his divine sense from probing.
"Hey, good thing!" the little furball shook his little head and looked around him. Chu Haoyun rolled his eyes and asked casually, "I can't even see through the situation inside, do you know what's in that car?"
Along the way, no one in the carriage got on or off.
Xiao Maoqiu stared at Chu Haoyun's mask for a long time, and said with some uncertainty: "Although I am not sure, the things inside should be the same source as the mask on your face." ”
"Oh?" Chu Haoyun's eyes lit up, the mask on his face was the greatest convenience for him, that kind of mysterious power could not only change his temperament and part of his appearance, even the Heavenly Realm powerhouse couldn't see through the expression under his mask, which Liu Qinglin had personally tested.
"Tempted, do you want to grab it, anyway, the strongest guy here is just the Void Spirit Realm. Little Furball egged him on.
"Curiosity is curiosity, I haven't done that yet. Chu Haoyun suppressed the throbbing in his heart, and the little hairball smiled: "Forget it, even if you don't grab it, someone will rob it." ”
"Huh?" Chu Haoyun's heart moved when he heard this, and his divine sense expanded, and sure enough, more than a dozen figures were rapidly approaching, and the people at the head were two Void Spirit Realm peaks, and the rest were far stronger than most of these caravans.
"Stop!" At this time, the leader of the escort caravan raised his hand and shouted to stop, and quickly ordered the mercenaries to make a defensive formation. Apparently, he also discovered the arrival of the enemy. In between breaths, everyone clenched their weapons in their hands, and watched the situation around them with full vigilance.
"It's weird, these guys are weird. Chu Haoyun frowned, his divine sense could easily grasp the movements of those people. In his senses, these guys were always in the shadows as they continued to move forward, but their speed was very amazing, and in the blink of an eye, they had come to the surroundings and spread out under the gestures of the leader.
Chu Haoyun's luck magic pupils, thousands of compound eyes, discerning everything, finally saw one of them. The man was sneaking in the shadows, quietly approaching the two unbelievable mercenaries. By chance, Chu Haoyun saw a ring on the man's hand, with a silver pattern, scattered with feather-like carvings, and a word "kill" carved on the round orb.
This subtle picture was stretched and magnified by Chu Haoyun's phantom pupil compound eyes. That ring, so familiar!
After thinking about it for a long time, Chu Haoyun remembered that the ring was exactly the same as the ring he wore on one of his arms that was cut off by a mysterious force in Cangyun Ridge. He remembered that Moon Scar told him that this was a sign of belonging to an assassin organization called the Shadow of the Orchid.
Those guys haven't been seen for a long time, and Chu Haoyun is about to forget. Unexpectedly, in the Yulan Empire, these guys could still be encountered. Chu Haoyun looked at it coldly, this is Yulan, he is not familiar with the place, he still has to see the situation clearly before making a decision.
The scene in front of him made him sigh deeply, as strong as the Yulan Empire, such a secret battle could not be avoided. This made him think a little deeply, how should he position himself in the future? The current three laws of Tianwee are just the concept of Datong that he had whimsical ideas for a while, and there is still a long way to go if he wants to implement it in an all-round way.
Turning his gaze, Chu Haoyun focused his attention on the carriage in the center. Even in this case, there was still no movement in the carriage.
Between breaths, dozens of mercenaries on the edge fell to the ground at the same time, with only a blood mark between the Adam's apple on their bodies, and the clean and neat kill made them not even make a sound for help, until the sound of them landing echoed, which woke up the surrounding companions.
"What a quick means!" Chu Haoyun narrowed his eyes, and at that moment, his phantom pupil only saw a faint blue light, which flashed and disappeared. It was a dagger stained with poison, and at the moment of killing, the person who did it had already sneaked back into the shadows again, changed directions, and re-locked on to a new target a few meters away from his side.
Such a clean and neat killing made those mercenaries who licked the blood at the tip of their knives have some heart palpitations, and some of the caravan members who were protected in the center began to tremble.
The leader of the Void Spirit Realm had a solemn face, and his battle spirit had not yet been transformed into a condensed divine sense. Although the perception is strong, the members of the Shadow of the Orchid are very clever in stealth. If it weren't for Chu Haoyun's cultivation being far stronger than theirs, it would be difficult to discover their actions.
In silence, blood bloomed one after another, and the mercenaries who were weaker in the outer areas died tragically one by one, bringing them huge psychological pressure. After a third of the hundred mercenaries died, those Phantom Shadow Assassins stopped the assassination, but except for the two strongest Void Spirit Realm masters, everyone locked on to the target again, and this time, Chu Haoyun was also within the range of the attack, but they did not continue to kill.
"The head of the Tang Chamber of Commerce, if you don't show up again, none of you accompanying you will want to leave here alive. Two masters of the Void Spirit Realm appeared, the strongest bronze-skinned black-clothed man, holding a crystal ball in his hand, looking like he was in control, a cold voice entered the caravan, and an invisible cold wind blew, blowing the curtains of several carriages in the center to hunt.
The curtain floated, and Chu Haoyun also saw the figure in the carriage. The phantom pupil clearly saw that in the central carriage, an old man in a white-haired robe slowly stepped out of the carriage. Behind him, there was a young man in his twenties who looked panicked, clutching a continuous silver chest made of high-purity Mithril.
"Ahem......" The old man's body looked a little weak, and he coughed as soon as he stepped out of the carriage. His body was a little rickety, and the wrinkles on his face had just folded. He arched his hand and said: "Your Excellency, since you know that we are the Tang Chamber of Commerce, why bother us? However, if you insist on killing, my Tang Chamber of Commerce is not a vegetarian in Yulan. ”
"Don't talk nonsense, hand over the things in your carriage, and you won't die. Otherwise, don't blame us for being ruthless, even if your Tang Chamber of Commerce is among the top three in Yulan, but you want to be our enemy, hehe!" The big man in black raised his hand, revealing a ring on his left hand, so that the old man in the Chinese robe could see it clearly.
"Shadow of the Orchid?"
The old man's face changed slightly, he thought that this interception was caused by the old opponent sending someone to stir up the situation, but he didn't expect that it was someone from this organization who came. He still knows some about the history of the Youlan Assassin, although the power in Yulan is very weak, but the elusive ability, even the Yulan Empire's years of suppression, have not been able to exterminate it, and the hidden forces behind it can be seen.
"How?" Seeing the change in the face of the old man in the Chinese robe, the black-clothed man sneered, and the deterrence of the Youlan Assassin Shadow was enough to make most of the forces jealous. Because they are masters who haunt the dark night, coming and going without a trace, for many forces, it is nothing to fight head-on with a big force, they are afraid of these guys who do not have any lower limits.
"Well, I just want to keep this carriage to carry my old bones, and the rest of the cargo will be fine for you. In the end, the old man in the robe made a decision. The face of the man in black immediately sank, and he raised his hand slightly, and several more people died. This time, under their deliberate circumstances, the men let out a terrible scream, and were pierced through the heart and died.
As the screams fell, the man in black said coldly: "Don't be sloppy with me, you can take the rest of the carriage away, and leave the one you are riding!"
"Since Your Excellency has appeared, you obviously don't want to become mortal enemies with us...... the old man in the Chinese robe wanted to say something more, but the man in black sneered: "Ridiculous, do you really think that we can't destroy you? ”
"Captain Lei!" Seeing that there was no way to avoid it, the old man in the robe had no choice but to ask for help from the only master around him. The mercenary commander is also beating a drum in his heart at the moment, listening to their words, he is obviously involved in the beginning of a dark tide, and this dark tide, soon a random wave can beat their mercenary group to the scum.
"Since you've made your choice, let's do it ourselves. The black-clothed man had a chill in his eyes, and he glanced at his companions beside him. The man slapped directly at the carriage in the center, and his figure followed. The leader of the mercenary group was still making his choice, and the force of his palm had already shattered the structure of the upper part of the carriage, revealing a shivering young man and an eye-catching Mithril chest.
"Captain Lei, don't do it yet. Through this crisis, I can guarantee that you will enter the Tang Chamber of Commerce. Do you think they will let us all go?" the old man roared, and Captain Lei suddenly made a choice. Yes, today's things are already difficult to be good, and fighting a bloody path and obtaining the protection of the Tang Chamber of Commerce is already the only way he can choose to survive.
"Stop!" Captain Lei leaned in to block, and several henchmen on his side also gathered around the old man in the Chinese robe very tacitly, these people's cultivation is not bad, but in the face of the man in black, they still seem to be weaker.
"That kid has a problem, save him. As they were moving, Chu Haoyun's ears heard a reminder of the little hairball. Not only him, but even Chu Haoyun himself has made some discoveries. The young man who was guarding the Mithril Box had a face full of fear, and when the upper part of the carriage was shattered, Chu Haoyun saw clearly that he didn't want to keep the Mithril Box, but the two chains on the Mithril Box that tied him firmly to it.
That young man looked like an ordinary person, without any Yuan Force fluctuations on his body, but Chu Haoyun could feel a trace of weirdness in his body, and that feeling was like those condensed demon souls he had seen in the Snow Moon Secret Realm.
Secretly, Chu Haoyun used the phantom pupil to turn into a dense defense around the young man. The current illusion pupil Yunsheng's illusionary rebellious power, Chu Haoyun can already easily act anywhere within a thousand zhang around him.
"Bang!" Captain Thunder confronted the Shadow Shadow of the Orchid, sending the young man and the Mithril Chest flying out at the same time. The dagger of the Blue Thorn Shadow flashed, severing the young man's chains, and the Mithril chest was crossed. In the roar of the old man in the Chinese robe, the wide nine-ring knife slashed at the opponent, and the person on the opposite side had just cut off the chains, and his body was not yet stable, so he had to resist the Mithril Chest for a moment.
"Boom!" there was a shock, and the Mithril chest suddenly shattered. The instantaneous change made the eyes of the black-clothed man and the old man in the Chinese robe condense. The defensive power of the Mithril Chest, the attack of the Ethereal Spirit Realm is impossible to break, how could it be so unbeatable just now?
In fact, at the moment of their confrontation just now, Chu Haoyun ruthlessly added a condiment, and the invisible sword qi invaded the battle. He was also a little surprised that the Mithril Chest had been shattered after blocking his eight sword qi. From the beginning of their move, Chu Haoyun also had the idea of wanting to see the contents of the Mithril Chest, after all, the little furball said that the contents were likely to be from the same source as his mask.
As the Mithril chest shattered, a piece of cicada wings the size of a foot, a small piece at the end, fluttered gently in mid-air. The crippled cicada wings, but with an amazing breath, just a few breaths, the surrounding temperature plummeted, the surrounding spring subsided, within a radius of thousands of feet, there was a sign of winter.
"What a pure cold!" Chu Haoyun narrowed his eyes, and the little hairball was gluttonous, sending out its longing: "What a delicious superb!"
"Kill!" The secret inside the Mithril chest was revealed, making the man in black move to kill. With his order, those guys who were sneaking also launched a new round of assassination operations, but this time, their actions were no longer as smooth as before, because among the people they assassinated, there was also a Star Realm master.