Xia Sheng and his party took advantage of the night to quietly leave Jinling City, completely ignoring how big a mess they left here.

Within one night, the city lord's mansion in Jinling City was destroyed, the head of the Han family's branch was stabbed to death, and more importantly, the entourage of the Jiangzhou patrol envoy and the guards found that their family had disappeared for no reason!

In an instant, Jinling City, which had always been peaceful and stable, immediately fell into incomparable chaos.

Everyone is at risk!

Before dawn, two groups of people hurriedly left from Jinling City, one north and one south, bringing two completely different news to the capital and Huizhou.

The light cavalry that rushed to the capital was the regular army of the imperial court, which was sent by the city lord Lu Botao, in order to plead guilty to His Majesty.

Jiangzhou Inspector, Xia Sheng, was assassinated in Jinling City, his whereabouts are still unknown, and his life and death are unknown!

All the way south, it was the private soldiers of the Han Mansion who rushed to Huizhou, but there were only three people on this trip.

Because the news they brought was more shocking and earth-shattering than Xia Sheng's disappearance.

It's also more secretive.

The Pei family, where the sword saint Pei Xu is located, actually made a move against the Han family among the nine families of Jinguo!

At the same time that these two groups of men and horses left Jinling City, the entire Jinling City was under martial law, and the whole city was banned, and the soldiers and horses of the City Lord's Mansion and the Ruling Division walked through every street and alley, searching everywhere.

Catching the assassin is secondary, the key is to find the whereabouts of Xia Patrol!

City Lord Lu Botao personally led a team of people, with the City Lord's Mansion as the center, looking outward inch by inch, almost turning the entire Jinling City upside down, but not even half of Xia Sheng's shadow was found.

Fortunately, at least no one found Xia Patrol's body, so things haven't gotten to the worst yet.

Up to now, City Lord Lu can only pray to God to bless Lord Xia with great blessings. Able to escape this catastrophe.

Otherwise, when His Majesty is furious, it will not be just him, Lord Xia, who will be unlucky!

At this time, of course, Lu Botao couldn't have known that Xia Sheng and the others were already about to walk to Xiucheng.

In terms of historical status, Xiucheng is far less famous than Jinling City. But for Xia Sheng and them, it is of great significance to go south and arrive in Xiucheng this time.

On the vast territory of the Dajin Dynasty, it was divided into seven large states, from north to south and from west to east, namely Qingzhou, Quanzhou, Jingzhou, Liangzhou, Bianzhou, Jiangzhou, and Huizhou.

For example, the three cities of Luoyang City, Jinling City, and Xiucheng all belong to Quanzhou.

And Xia Sheng's hometown, White Horse Town. It belongs to Bianzhou.

This time, Xia Sheng was appointed by the emperor as the Jiangzhou Inspector, because of the Sunset Valley, which is located on the boundary of Jiangzhou.

So what is the division of the north and south of the Dajin Dynasty on?

The answer is to divide the river.

In the heart of the Dajin Dynasty, there is a very famous long river, called Shuo River, which starts from the Meili Snow Mountain in the west, flows through the four major states of the Jinguo Kingdom, and finally flows into the East China Sea. It spanned the territory of the entire Dajin Dynasty, and served as Qingzhou and Bianzhou at the same time. There is also the natural dividing line between Quanzhou and Jiangzhou, which also divides the Dajin Dynasty into two camps, north and south.

To the north of the Shuo River is the so-called family of soldiers who advocate martial arts.

To the south of the Shuo River is the gathering place of the major giants of the spiritual path headed by the Heavenly Star Academy.

Among the seven states of Jinguo, the first four are all located in the north, only Bianzhou, Jiangzhou and Huizhou. It is located south of the Shuo River.

And now Xiucheng, where Xia Sheng and others are about to arrive, is the last town south of Quanzhou.

After Xiucheng, it is the Shuo River.

Further on, it is Jiangzhou, Sunset Valley. It's within this.

After leaving behind the large number of forbidden army guards and honor guards, the speed of Xia Sheng and his party has really been qualitatively improved, and everyone is a cultivator, when things are urgent, food and accommodation are not so particular, everything is simple.

So along the way, sleeping in the countryside and eating wild fruits is really normal.

Of course, because all of the five people in this line are not ordinary people, if they encounter any beasts or something......

The beasts could only consider themselves unlucky.

Meng Qi's injuries had already healed for six or seven years, and most of the credit for this had to be attributed to Pei Yuan's six-vein Bichalun Pill, but in the final analysis, if there was no Xia Sheng, Pei Yuan would not have been able to take out this precious pill.

This time, Xia Sheng not only saved her life, but also helped her complete the task, which can be said to owe Xia Sheng a great favor.

Of course, the process of the mission did not meet the assassination regulations of the assassins at all, but Meng Qi didn't care so much, anyway, she successfully took down the target, as for the rest......

There is no need to pay attention to so many details!

From now on, she was a true Assassin.

Originally, according to Meng Qi's temperament, the best way at this time was to strike while the iron was hot, and hurry up to take on the next task to hone her assassination skills, although she originally had no skills to speak of, but it was better than following Xia Sheng all the way to do nothing.

However, in the Seven Laws of Killers, a favor owed must be repaid immediately.

For Meng Qi, who has always regarded this law as a motto in life, how could he just leave Xia Sheng?

So the two went together again, and they went all the way to Xiucheng.

Everything seems to have gone back to when they went to Luoyang from Blackwater Town.

The difference is that now the two of them have to watch out for a surprise attack from an old guy named Pei Yuan at any time.

"This is a specialty of our hometown, autumn pear, take a bite of it and call it a sweet, do you want to taste it?"

"Hey, this craft of grilling fish is passed down from my family, my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather, I grew up by the sea when I was a child, look at how tender this fish is, take a bite?"

"Today, Miss Meng has finally recovered from her injury, how can you not drink two glasses of such a celebratory thing?

In order to counter Pei Yuan's ubiquitous poisoning attempt, Meng Qi also gradually launched a counterattack.

"Mr. Pei, thanks to your care all the way, why don't I sing you a song to relieve your fatigue?"

"Ahh......h A knife is cut down, and the blood flows like a river, hehe...... The white knife goes in and the red knife comes out, one knife is not enough to cut two knives, and one is counted as one, oh Xi yo ......"

"Huh...... Mr. Pei, don't run...... Mr. Pei......"

Now for Xia Sheng, watching Meng Qi and Pei Yuan's open and secret battles every day has become a part of daily life, and of course, for himself, there is also a hurdle waiting for him that can never be overcome.

"Husband...... You ...... again Give Yue'er again, tell, tell a story...... Okay? Then Hou Yi shoots ...... Shoot the sun, what about after that? Yue'er wants to hear it...... I want to listen to Hou Yihe and Chang'e's ...... It's a love story!"

Yue'er's face was as red as a ripe apple, and the last few words were as thin as the voice of a mosquito, but they firmly tugged at the corners of Xia Sheng's clothes.

Xia Sheng had no choice but to make a bitter face and speak honestly: "After that, Hou Yi will return home......

As the saying goes, if you walk with five people, someone will be left alone.

And now Kang Wuwei has become the one who is alone.

But no one would have thought that in the days when he was fighting with Pei Yuan's forbidden place in his body, his sword intent had improved by leaps and bounds, and his comprehension of the way of the sword was deepening at a terrifying speed.

Everything, we can only wait for time to prove it.

And it was in this group of five people who had their own hearts and did their own things that they finally arrived at the most inconspicuous small city on the dividing line between the north and south of the Dajin Dynasty.

The single name is Xiu.

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