Chapter 85: Assassination

In mid-February, the first warm current after the beginning of spring is like a girl's soft wattle caressing Huangzhou City, bringing the breath of spring, and the severe cold begins to gradually recede.

Bian Yao has been in the palace for a month, and on the surface, life seems to be very boring, but secretly it is full of tense and exciting challenges. During the day, like ordinary people, he was sent to do all kinds of errands, and at night he spent his bedroom thinking about various problems or meditating and cultivating.

Since becoming good friends with the little dog, Bian Yao has cleaned the home seven times in total, saying that he is helping to clean the ground together, but in fact he is secretly checking and familiarizing himself with the environment and terrain, investigating and understanding Duan Tianliang's daily habits, and collecting all the information that will help him plan his actions.

After a few sneaky observations, he found that the guards would often visit each other, such as three or two people getting together to drink and eat meat. Of course, it wasn't that he cared about, but something else that he secretly rejoiced about.

Bian Yao unexpectedly found that when those guards were visiting the door, they only needed to knock on the other party's door a few times, and the people in the room often opened the door without even asking. The same is true of Duan Tianliang, who lives on the top floor of the pavilion, and he can almost be said to be defenseless against the knockers outside!

In fact, if you think about it a little, it's easy to figure it out. First of all, the palace is not a place where ordinary people can enter and exit at will! If you want to infiltrate the palace unconsciously, you must at least have the realm of the Dream King to be able to do so; besides, even if there are cultivators from the Dream King or higher realm who sneak into the palace and plan to assassinate them, the target will definitely not be the palace guards who are only in the realm of Dream Mania; third, for these guards, the relationship between them can almost be regarded as companions of life and death, and the object of allegiance is the same person, so it is absolutely impossible for each other to become enemies, and there is no need to guard against each other at all.

In the evening of this day, in the Nuwang Mansion, the warm wind from the south swept by, and the clear lake surface was blown by the evening breeze and rippled, which was difficult to calm down for a long time.

After a day's work, Bian Yao went to the cafeteria for dinner as usual, and then returned to the bedroom alone and waited quietly.

Since yesterday, Duan Tianliang's patrol time has changed from night to day, and after thinking about it for a long time, Bian Yao decided to carry out his first operation since entering the palace tonight, which is also a key part of the entire planned task!

As the darkness fell, Bian Yao's mood began to rise and fall uncontrollably! This palace is an extremely dangerous place, and there are many masters in it! From the information given to him by the night corpse, it is known that in this palace of the King of Anger, there are no less than twenty people in the realm of the Dream King, and most of them are worshiped by the palace. As for the first worship of the palace, the "Jade Face Venerable", it is even more of a dream venerable, and he is proficient in sealing and enchantment!

Bian Yao lay on the bed with his eyes open and kept tossing and turning, and it took a lot of effort to calm down the chaotic and complicated mood. Tonight's action is both risky and gambling, and there must be no carelessness or mishap!

After nightfall, about an hour later, the courtyard where Bian Yao was located was completely quiet, and the servants in the chores room had fallen asleep one after another.

A full silver moon hung over the black canopy, and occasional dim night clouds drifted by, briefly obscuring the silhouette of the bright moon.

Suddenly, Bian Yao's bedroom was opened a crack, and quietly, a black figure flashed out of the room, and quickly closed the wooden door with his backhand, and left the chores room after a few movements.

The moonlight poured down like a veil, and in some places glow-in-the-dark stones were placed. Although it was night, many areas of the palace were very bright. In this case, it is not easy to sneak away. Fortunately, in the past month, Bian Yao has already had a general understanding of the environment of the former mansion, especially all the roads from the miscellaneous room to the West Nursing Courtyard, as well as the various terrain and environments nearby, which he has always remembered in his heart.

Bian Yao's every move was very cautious, he chose a relatively secluded path, with dim light and more obstructions, and leaned on the cover of flowers, trees, and rockeries to move in the direction of the West Courtyard without hurrying. After half a pillar of incense, the four pavilions in the West Nursing Courtyard finally came into Bian Yao's sight.

Where the courtyard is located, the top of the pavilion in each courtyard is inlaid with luminous stones, and the light illuminates the courtyard relatively brightly, and there is nothing to cover and dodge here.

Bian Yao did not pause, and walked directly to the second courtyard, which was the courtyard where Duan Tianliang, the target of his operation, was located.

The early spring night is still cold. Qiong Yue, which hung in the night sky, exuded a bit of loneliness, and the luminous stone at the top of the pavilion emitted a faint white light. There was no one in the courtyard, and no sound could be heard, so it was very quiet.

Bian Yao slowed down, looked up at the top floor of the pavilion, quickly identified the room where Duan Tianliang was, and then walked to the steps of the pavilion and quietly stepped up.

The door to the bedroom where the palace guards lived was also made of wood, but the wood used was much better than that of ordinary people's bedrooms, not only was it very hard, but it also had a good sound insulation effect, because they needed a relatively quiet environment when cultivating.

Tiptoeing to the door of the room where Duan Tianliang was, Bian Yao took out a black cloth from his arms and covered his face, revealing only his blazing eyes, then hooked his fingers into his sleeve, skillfully pulled out the Wusha Sword short sword, and held it tightly in his palm. He leaned his ear to the door and listened, but heard no sound or noise. After a moment's hesitation, he took a deep breath, then suddenly raised his left hand and knocked the door twice.

In the ensuing wait, Bian Yao felt as if his heart was about to jump out, and he tried to adjust his chaotic breathing so that he would not be too nervous and panicked. After about six or seven breaths, just as he was about to turn and flee, there was a sudden knock on the door, and then someone pulled it in.

The door had just been pulled out half a foot wide, and at that moment, a sword shadow suddenly drilled out diagonally, stabbing towards the crack in the door!

"Ahh

Bian Yao was stunned by the sudden roar for a moment, and his right hand quickly drew out the Wusha Sword like electricity, and at the same time, he faintly felt that there was something wrong in his heart: "No! Listening to the voice, it doesn't seem to be Duan Tianliang himself." ”

"What's the matter?" another voice sounded in the room, which was from Duan Tianliang.

"There's an assassin!" the man behind the door who was stabbed by Bian Yao shouted in pain! Suddenly, he slammed the door open, and stepped back with his hands on his chest.

The estimation was wrong, but Bian Yao didn't have time to think about it, turned around and jumped on the railing of the pavilion, and then jumped down from the top floor of seven or eight feet high, eager to escape from this place.

Presumably it was Fang Cai's roar that alarmed the others, and at this time, in the entire pavilion, the doors of several bedrooms were suddenly opened, and several guards with swords in their hands rushed out of the house one after another.

"Grab that man! he's an assassin!" Duan Tianliang rushed out of the door, pointing at Bian Yao's back and shouting loudly, and hurriedly turned around and ran into the house after shouting.

Bian Yao took a few steps at great speed, rushed to the corner of the wall in a blink of an eye, kicked the ground his toes, jumped on the courtyard wall and escaped from the West Courtyard, and ran desperately south.

"Someone has infiltrated the palace! Catch the assassin!" the guards shouted, and they jumped off the courtyard wall one after another, jumping out of the courtyard and chasing after them.

The bright moon shines down on the earth, and there is nowhere for people to hide. Bian Yao rushed wildly, and the guards behind him were in hot pursuit, those guards were all dream-mad, and they were one level higher than Bian Yao in the realm, and the speed was naturally faster than Bian Yao, so the distance between the two sides was quickly shortened.

Passing through the garden, we fled to a lake that was roughly semicircular and at least twenty feet to the other side of the lake. Without even thinking about it, he jumped down, stepped lightly into the lake, and ran straight towards the opposite shore, and the water splashed wildly.

After only two breaths, several guards arrived, and the Assassin was walking in the water, all with a look of confusion on his face. Generally speaking, a dream cultivator can only walk on the water if he cultivates to the realm of the Dream King, and judging from the posture and speed of this assassin's escape, his cultivation is not high, at most he is only at the realm of the initial dream maniac, and it is absolutely impossible to be the Dream King! What's more, the Dream King can directly fly over the lake in the air, and he doesn't have to step on the lake at all.

Without much thought, several of the guards turned around and galloped along the shore of the lake, and they could only make a detour to the other side of the small lake. In this way, the distance between the two sides, which had been shortened, was pulled apart again.

After a few breaths, Bian Yao landed steadily on the other side of the lake, turned his head and glanced at the guards chasing along the lake, and heard their shouts of "arrest the assassin", he couldn't help but snicker, and turned around and ran towards several rockeries not far away.

At this moment, a black shadow flew from the sky not far away, flew to the rockery in an instant, and landed a few feet in front of Bian Yao, blocking his way.

The person who came just touched the ground with his feet, without the slightest pause or hesitation, quickly formed a few handprints with his hands, and then pointed to the place where Bian Yao was standing, and shouted in a low voice: "Sleepy!"

Suddenly, Bian Yao felt a slight shock on the ground, and his body couldn't help shaking. Almost at the same moment, a blinding white circle of light flashed around him, enveloping him in an instant, and rotating in reverse around him.

"Enchantment?" Bian Yao's eyes lowered slightly, he saw the magic of the enchantment for the first time in the Cloud Visitor Inn in Cave City, and then in the days when he walked with the night corpse, he had no less contact with the enchantment, and he also learned some knowledge about the enchantment from the old ghost, so he was not unfamiliar with it.

The speed of the aperture slows down, and the brightness quickly fades and turns transparent. It's a trapping barrier that doesn't have the ability to attack. Bian Yao's eyes rolled, and he flipped his hand on the Wusha sword suddenly, stabbing hard at the aperture that stopped rotating.

However, where the tip of the sword touched, it gave people a soft elastic force, and in the blink of an eye, the Wusha sword was bounced back, and the strange recoil force took Bian Yao's body back two steps back.

"No need to try! Under Mengzun, no one can break this barrier!" The person who came took a few steps forward, and his figure moved out of the shadow of the rockery, and it was a middle-aged man in a black suit, with a cold and solemn face.

At this time, the guards also arrived, and when they saw the man in black, they bowed to him one after another, said "Chief", and then stood in a semicircle, surrounding the assassins trapped in the barrier.

"What's going on?" the man in black first glanced at the black-clothed assassin in the barrier, then swept his gaze over the guards and asked coldly.

"Returning to the Chief!" one of the guards stepped forward, and after a pause, he replied, "We don't know much about this, but we suddenly heard a roar in the bedroom earlier, and when we came out, we heard Duan Tianliang shouting from the top of the pavilion to catch the assassin, and we chased after us." ”

Hearing the guard's words, the man in black did not reply, and once again moved his gaze to the aperture, as if trying to see something through the black cloth on the assassin's face.

"Who are you, and what do you want to do when you infiltrate the palace?"

"You're so stupid, you think I'll answer your questions obediently?" I won't tell you anything!" Bian Yao snorted with a smile and replied nonchalantly, with no fear in his eyes.

"It doesn't matter if you answer me now, as long as you hold you, there will naturally be a way for you to tell the truth!" The man in black had the same expression, and his words were still cold.

Bian Yao raised his hand at the man, and the Wusha sword in his hand suddenly disappeared without a trace, and then said in a light tone: "I'm afraid you won't even be able to touch me!"

The black-robed man's face changed suddenly, and he raised his finger and hurriedly forward, and the enchantment began to shrink the encirclement. But before the aperture touched his body, Bian Yao had already turned into a faint mist, and his figure had disappeared into the enchantment.

"Dream clone!" The man in black raised his finger and waved his finger to remove the enchantment, sensing a trace of spiritual power fluctuations remaining in the air, and couldn't help frowning.