The first moment of the day is the brightest time of the day.

The streets leading from the capital to Gentle Township are full of small stalls and vendors, as well as all kinds of idlers walking the streets and alleys, and there are also swordsmen with swords on their backs, and swordsmen with swords on their backs miss each other coldly. The noise, quarrels, plays, shouts, and fights are incessant.

In Li Mengzhou's cognition, this time should not be the best time for the assassin to choose, and it may indeed be able to hide people's eyes and ears by being too crowded, but it is also full of great unexpected threats, and if he is not careful, the assassination will fail, and even he will be buried here, unless he has extraordinary self-confidence.

Along the way, he went to the wine shop and bought a pot of wine, all of which he put in his own wine gourd, and at this point, he raised the wine bottle to drink it again, but when he shook it, the wine was empty.

He wasn't drunk, but his head was a little ethereal, which was a sign that he was about to get drunk, but fortunately, when the wine was gone, he couldn't get drunk.

Jiang Zihua looked at him in surprise and said, "When I arrived in Gentle Township, there was wine, why did I get too addicted now?"

Li Mengzhou hung the empty wine gourd on his waist and said, "Because I can't help it, I want to drink it, and of course I can continue to drink it when I get to Gentle Township." ”

"I didn't expect you to be an alcoholic. ”

"Isn't that something you've known for a long time?"

"Although I know that you are a good drinker, and every time you come to my place, you will ask for wine, but I don't like to drink, so I don't really understand it, and now I know that you love wine so much. ”

Li Mengzhou narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with a smile: "Wine is a good thing, it can make the brain ethereal, and at this time, when you enter meditation, a lot of whimsical ideas will appear out of thin air." ”

Jiang Zihua looked thoughtful and said: "Most of the sword learners can drink, for example, there is a special wine cabinet in the teacher's courtyard, and I heard that the sword fairy in the world is also a drinker. However, the senior brother and the fourth senior brother don't like to drink, I can drink, but it doesn't matter if I don't drink. ”

Li Mengzhou said with a smile: "Wine is a wonderful thing, it has a personality, it is arrogant enough, and it is domineering and fiery, this should be the bearing of sword cultivation, so if you want to become a sword immortal, learning to drink is the first step, and I am already half a sword immortal." ”

Although he was just a habit at the beginning, sometimes the habit would turn into a liking, and it would be only when he really fell in love that he could understand the subtlety.

Of course, his so-called ability to drink is half a sword immortal is pure nonsense, but it also seems to have some truth.

At least Jiang Zihua didn't know how to refute it.

The two of them were talking and laughing and gradually approached the shore of Yueming Lake.

In the shadows of a dilapidated house building.

Suddenly, three people appeared.

They all wore hats, with their front pressed down, covering their cheeks and revealing only their noses and mouths.

All dressed in black, each holding a sharp simple knife in his hand, hiding behind his back, his posture is tall, and his eyes occasionally look up to reveal a wolf-like fierce light.

The eyes of these three people have never shifted since Li Mengzhou appeared.

Seeing Li Mengzhou and Jiang Zihua passing through the dilapidated archway and continuing to move forward, the leader lowered his voice and said, "That person is Jiang Zihua, a disciple of the Sword Academy?"

A black-clothed man standing against the wall said in a condensed voice: "That Jiang Zihua is a specific disciple of the inner courtyard of the palace, and his strength is extraordinary, and according to speculation, he may have reached the peak of his artistic conception. If he is present, it is difficult to start. ”

The third man in black looked down at the cold Pu Dao in his hand, wiped it lightly with his sleeve, and said in a cold voice: "Your task is only to contain that Jiang Zihua, even if it is for a moment and a half, it is enough for me to kill that kid." ”

If you want to temporarily contain Jiang Zihua, who may be the peak cultivation of the artistic conception, it is obviously not an easy task for the two men in black, but it is not something that cannot be done, as long as it is not a life-and-death battle, if it is delayed, it can be delayed for a while, so they have no objections and nodded silently.

"The prince gave a death order, and the kid surnamed Li must die, so even if you risk your lives, you must drag Jiang Zihua to death. ”

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The streets around Moonlight Lake are all bordering the inner city or belong to the inner city, all of which are more prosperous than many streets, and there are many residents from powerful backgrounds.

Especially as the end of the year approaches, the already bustling streets are crowded with pedestrians, and vehicles pulling goods pass by like long queues.

Such a scene is very familiar to Li Mengzhou, of course, compared to the atmosphere in Shuning Town when the New Year is about to be celebrated, it is far inferior to the first male city in the world.

Thinking of leaving Shuning Town in early autumn, the New Year is approaching in a blink of an eye, and I can't help but miss the little rich woman Wang Pan'er and the blacksmith Cui Debt in Biansai.

Although they have only been together for three years, it is the only place where Li Mengzhou can feel at home in Shuning Town.

No matter how cold and the atmosphere of the New Year were, he couldn't attract more emotions, and when he was about to step into the street where Gentle Township was located, his brows suddenly frowned deeply.

He looked up at the narrow alleys on the left and right, the kind of strong intuition that ordinary cultivators did not have, and it was exclusive to being a killer, made him feel the numbness of his scalp as danger was coming, and it was exerted to the extreme in that moment.

At the moment when he looked around, I don't know when, the man in black wearing a hat stood on a roof, several slight noises sounded at the same time, a dazzling pillar of light tilted, accompanied by two black-clothed people holding sharp knives, jumping from the roof, and the terrible killing intent had been sprinkled from all directions.

Li Mengzhou's face suddenly froze, and his body was almost reflexively lowered, and he quickly drew a distance, dodging the two sword intents that came in the air.

Dingdingding......

There was a dense crisp sound, and Jiang Zihua looked blankly at the confined space around him, and the condensed heaven and earth aura spread about a meter around him, forming a prison.

The incident happened suddenly, after the man in black made a move, the pedestrians on the street were only stunned for a moment, and then they quickly reacted, and they broke out with a method comparable to that of a cultivator, and in the blink of an eye, they fled a hundred meters away, and the entire street was in chaos, and the wails were everywhere.

Li Mengzhou stood alone in the middle of the street, dressed in white, and the black green sword that was already unsheathed in his right hand was clenched.

Jiang Zihua was trapped in the prison of heaven and earth with a dazed face, Li Mengzhou was also very confused, he thought that the killing intent was coming straight towards him, and the target should also be him, but it turned out that the real purpose of the assassin was Jiang Zihua.

But soon he overturned this idea.

Because the two black-clothed people who appeared were forced to hold the prison of heaven and earth in the first place, they had already lost the ability to kill Jiang Zihua.

And the chaotic footsteps sounded, and another man in black appeared, completely ignoring Jiang Zi's painting, and ran directly towards Li Mengzhou.

Jiang Zi's portrait only then reacted, staring at the two black-clothed people outside the pillar of light, and said in a deep voice: "You are cultivators who inherit the artistic conception. ”

The so-called Heaven and Earth Prison is just that the Cheng Artistic Realm Monk relies on his mental power to isolate the space with the help of the aura of Heaven and Earth, and it is not a lethal means, unless a third party appears, relying on the people in the prison to be trapped and manually killed, otherwise it is just a prisoner.

As the consumption of mental power is too large, the prison of heaven and earth will be self-defeating, and if the trapped person cultivates to a higher level, of course, he can also break through from the inside.

These are all means that belong to the monks of the Cheng Realm.

Li Mengzhou also heard Jiang Zihua's words, even if his heart was down, even though he had entered the peak of the Far Journey Realm, but in fact, the gap between his strength and that of facing Zhang Chong was not big, the martial arts masters on the rivers and lakes were already able to overwhelm Amaterasu's imagination, and Zhao Wouji was even able to kill the monks of the Far Wandering Realm, which was equivalent to being at the same stage.

When he had not yet entered the long journey, with the strength of the martial arts master and the protection of the black silkworm armor, Li Mengzhou's strength could indeed be improved a lot, but in the face of the monks above the Cheng artistic conception, even if he entered the long journey, he still could not win the battle.

This is a heavenly moat that belongs to the realm of cultivators, and unless you cross this moat, if you want to use external forces to take advantage of opportunistic means, it is definitely not something that just anyone can do.

In the short process of his thoughts, the man in black had already jumped up with a loud shout, occupying a high altitude advantage, and the Pu knife slashed Huashan from top to bottom.

Li Mengzhou rolled on the spot and escaped into a small alley next to him.

He wasn't worried about Jiang Zihua's safety, thinking that Jiang Zihua was also a monk who inherited the artistic conception after all, and all the mental power of the two black-clothed men was supporting the prison of heaven and earth, and Jiang Zihua couldn't do anything about it, all he could think about was the safety of his own life.

If he wants to fight hard, he will inevitably suffer a big loss, and he can only escape.

Recalling the picture of dealing with Zhang Chongshi, the killing intent of the black-clothed man who was chasing after him was even stronger, if he had the belief that he would kill, only one thought force was enough to control Li Mengzhou, lacking this key means, Li Mengzhou did not dare to fight the black-clothed man at close range, so he could only move left and dodge, trying to get rid of it, and then looking for an opportunity to sneak attack.

Even if there is a body tempered by a medicinal bath and the protection of the black silkworm armor, if there is no way to offset the mental power, then even if the body is indestructible, it will not have the slightest effect, not to mention that Li Mengzhou thinks that no matter how resistant he is, it is not impossible to die, knowing that he will die, how dare he take this risk, an idiot will do that.

Although he was running away in embarrassment, Li Mengzhou's brain was running rapidly.

Just by contacting him, he could almost confirm that this assassin's cultivation realm was definitely not comparable to Zhang Chong's, and Zhang Chong's cultivation realm was in the upper realm of Chengyi, and from this inference, it was easy to know that this assassin's cultivation was the first to enter the lower realm of Chengyi.

Since he is a cultivator in the lower realm, with the time he has spent in the library pavilion outside the palace, he has read countless books, and he can naturally understand very clearly that the distance of the cultivator in this realm is very limited, and Li Mengzhou's best thing is speed, as long as he keeps running forward, the pursuer behind him will not be able to do it.

But there is obviously no way to completely solve the dangerous situation, of course, the escape is to temporarily survive, but in the process you must also come up with a solution to the problem, otherwise your physical strength will be exhausted sooner or later, and what awaits him next is a dead word.