Chapter 153: Thunder
Li Mengzhou did not hold the Drunken Dream Sword in his hand, nor did he hold the Wuqing Sword, but a simple knife.
This is what he has been preparing for a long time.
The killer who is active in Shuning Town is to make a simple knife.
And when Fusheng appears in the capital, he also needs to have a simple knife.
Zhu Zaitian is the squire of the Xuanzheng Division, but he does not live directly in the Xuanzheng Division like Xu Hexian, he has his own home in the capital.
This is not a secret, so Li Mengzhou and Gu Shiyan didn't spend much time and came to the door.
Zhu Zaitian is a relative and has children, but because he once carried out the task of the Xuanzheng Division, offended a lot of monks in the mountains, one day, his wife and children were intercepted and killed by the monks in the mountains on the way back to their parents' house in a carriage, although Zhu Zaitian, who learned the situation, led the Xuanzheng Division to find out those monks one by one and killed, but the dead wives and children could not be replaced.
So far, Zhu Zaitian has become a person and has never married a wife again.
The courtyard gate is just a small courtyard of ordinary people's homes, which may be better than the small courtyard in Chaosi Lane in the outer city, but it is definitely not a rich mansion.
Zhu Zaitian has no servants in the family, he is really the only one.
After all, he is the squire of the Xuanzheng Division, which is second only to Xu Hexian, although the official position in the court is not high, but it is also equivalent to the prefect order in the big city, and the one who is slightly weaker than the Langya Jingzhao Mansion is also a middle-class and upper-grade official in the court.
Even if it is just a small county order, it is a large group of domestic servants, and the middle and upper grade officials live in small alleys, and they are alone, which is indeed uncommon, even if it is very down-to-earth and very popular with the people, Yue Shiting is also served by domestic servants in the house.
However, Zhu Zaitian does not need a slave for any other reason, in the Xuanzheng Division, except for Xu Hexian and other waiters, he is served every day, and when he returns home just to rest, if there is a servant there, occasionally making a little noise, he can't help but want to kill.
If this goes on for a long time, it will not be a good thing for his career, only when he is alone is the purest, and he can completely put aside the affairs of the Xuan Zheng Division and truly relax.
Li Mengzhou and Gu Shiyan did not hide their aura, in fact, unless they were in the same door, no cultivator could judge who the person was based on their aura alone, and it was more because they saw it in their minds.
The aura between heaven and earth is of the same origin, and each faction practices different methods, and the exposed breath is naturally different, but it is not a personal breath, but the entire cultivation faction.
Unless it is a very special breath and it is difficult to find a second person, there is generally no way to judge a person's identity purely by relying on the breath.
Because the same door is very familiar, it is normal to be able to judge it, and of course there will be situations that are not the same door, but can also be detected because they are very familiar.
Zhu Zaitian is familiar with Li Mengzhou, but he is not very familiar with him, after all, although he has some entanglements, he does not meet often, so he can only be regarded as a relatively familiar stranger.
When Li Mengzhou and Gu Shiyan appeared outside the courtyard gate, Zhu Zaitian noticed the abnormality.
Picking up the saber hanging on the wall, he stood under the eaves and looked in the direction of the courtyard gate through the rain curtain that poured down the tiles.
Under the short-distance fugue thoughts, the two black-clothed men wearing cat faces and rabbit face masks outside the courtyard gate clearly appeared in Zhu Zaitian's consciousness.
He was confused.
The cat-faced and rabbit-faced masks look very strange against the backdrop of the dark night, especially the moment when lightning falls in the night sky, it seems like being in a horror story.
But at the same time, the cat face and rabbit face mask look ridiculous, which normal person would wear this mask to hang around in the middle of the night, can only be perverted.
A curtain of rain enveloped the small courtyard.
The three people standing outside the courtyard gate and under the eaves seemed to be facing each other from the partition wall.
The sky thundered and thundered, and lightning roared.
At a certain moment, the two black-clothed men who were under Zhu Zaitian's mind disappeared abruptly.
At the moment when Zhu Zaitian was searching, a flash of lightning fell again in the night sky, and the light was very dazzling, and Zhu Zaitian's vision became clear again, and the courtyard door was still closed, but there were two more people in the courtyard.
His pupils contracted slightly, and his right hand, which was holding the knife, tightened subconsciously.
The man in the cat-face mask stood in the rain, drenched in the rain, and the sound of the rain could hardly hide his voice, "I'm here to take your life." ”
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Li Mengzhou said what He Zhengrong said to Ni Zhenchun at the beginning.
"I've come to take your life. ”
A very concise and crisp sentence, which can best express his intention.
Gu Shiyan held up a black oil-paper umbrella, although with her cultivation realm, she could completely avoid the rain curtain on her, but she seemed to like holding an umbrella very much.
There is a curtain of rain separating them.
Zhu Zaitian stood under the eaves, the series of rain lines seemed to divide the two sides in two different worlds, but their eyes were in the same world.
"Do you clearly understand what you're talking about? This is the capital, and although fighting between cultivators is not a capital crime, I am in the Xuanzheng Division, even if you only have the idea of killing me, you are committing a serious crime. ”
Zhu Zaitian has the idea of trying to overwhelm people with power, and no cultivator dares to blatantly murder the court officials, although officials in the capital have often been killed recently, but there are still a few cultivators who have the courage to do so.
Thinking of this, Zhu Zaitian's heart suddenly moved.
Although there is no conclusive evidence that the deaths of Zhang Chong and Tang Taijing were committed by Li Mengzhou, this is already a fact that Zhu Zaitian has already determined in his heart, and now the imperial historian Yue Shiting has also been killed, but under the insurmountable realm gap, it also makes Zhu Zaitian have no reason to suspect Li Mengzhou, but the two people who appeared in front of him may not be able to say.
Wearing a strange mask like a cat face and a rabbit face, he said that he would take his own life as soon as he came, which was very suitable for the murder of court officials.
Li Mengzhou used the breath of "Silkworm Annihilation Volume" to cover up his original cultivation realm, so the aura on his body was very similar to a cultivator who had crossed the threshold of the Four Realms, Gu Shiyan himself was a great monk who was very close to the peak of the Four Realms, and in Zhu Zaitian's perception, these were two undoubted Four Realm monks.
And according to the strength of Gu Shiyan's breath, she also has the strength to kill Yue Shiting.
Zhu Zaitian thought that he had nothing to do with Yue Shiting, and the murderer of Yue Shiting had no reason to find him.
If it weren't that he was completely wrong, the murderer didn't have a certain purpose at all, but simply wanted to be an enemy of the court and wait for an opportunity to kill the court's officials.
Villains like this must be punished!
Li Mengzhou didn't care what Zhu Zaitian was thinking, he looked at him calmly and said: "As the squire of the Xuanzheng Division, but he wantonly peeps at others, isn't it also considered to be guilty and acted, I want to kill you, what's the matter?"
Zhu Zaitian frowned slightly, shook his head and said, "I don't understand what you're talking about, but since you want to kill me and you're still in my own yard, then I can only leave all of you here." Murdering court officials is a serious crime, and I have reason to believe that Yue Yushi was also killed by you, which can be regarded as a credit sent to the door, and I have no reason to avoid it. ”
Li Mengzhou was stunned, he didn't understand how Zhu Zaitian attributed Yue Shiting's death to himself, and what he said just now also had a test to see if Zhu Zaitian was the one who peeked outside Chaosi Lane, and Zhu Zaitian's reaction and answer seemed to indicate that Li Mengzhou seemed to have found the wrong person.
But looking at Zhu Zaitian's awe-inspiring appearance, it is obvious that this matter can no longer be good.
He gritted his teeth with a headache, well, forget it, if it's wrong, it will be the same as always, Zhu Zaitian has not troubled him once or twice, and no matter who the eyes peeping outside Chaosi Lane are, the matter has come to this, Zhu Zaitian has to be killed.
Since he was basically sure that he had found the wrong person, Li Mengzhou didn't want to say any more nonsense, glanced at Gu Shiyan, and then pulled out the Pu knife hanging from his waist.
Zhu Zaitian is a great monk who has broken through the lower realm of the four realms for many years, although it is difficult to break through the realm in a short period of time relying on his qualifications, but at least he can cross the threshold of the four realms, then in his lifetime, it is inevitable to break through to the upper realm, but unfortunately, there is no such opportunity now.
Even if it is just Gu Shiyan alone, she has the strength to kill Zhu Zaitian in an instant.
At an insurmountable distance between realms, this is an undoubted thing.
But Li Mengzhou doesn't plan to just watch the show.
Although he didn't know much about swordsmanship, he had always used a knife before learning swords.
In some aspects, sword skills can also be applied to the sword, especially the artistic conception of the sword.
At the moment when Li Mengzhou pulled out the knife, the rain curtain falling in the night sky seemed to be cut by the waist, and the raindrops splashed indiscriminately, sprinkling on the doors, windows and walls in the eaves corridor, and the completely wooden material was directly pierced through one bead-like gap after another, which was shocking.
After all, Zhu Zaitian was a great monk of the lower grade of the Four Realms, and when he threw out the long knife in his hand, he shattered all the raindrops that were splashing in his face, and then he slashed towards Li Mengzhou with a powerful knife.
Gu Shiyan held a black oil-paper umbrella in one hand and a sword in the other, and before the knife approached Li Mengzhou's body, she directly smashed the knife to the ground with a sword qi, and the solid stone floor in the courtyard cracked inch by inch, making the knife completely embedded in the stone floor.
Zhu Zaitian's expression showed a look of horror.
He looked incredulously at the person wearing a rabbit face mask and knowing that it was a woman by looking at his figure, and a sense of familiarity was inexplicably born in his heart.
In the woman, in addition to Gu Shiyan, there is only Xiao Zhinan who gives him palpitations.
Both of those women were monsters so powerful that he couldn't even pull out a knife.
He had reason to suspect that the woman wearing the rabbit face mask in front of him must be one of the two women.
He then suddenly looked at the person wearing the cat-face mask, his expression was a little cloudy for a while, and he shouted angrily: "It turned out to be you!"
Whether the woman wearing the rabbit face mask is Gu Shiyan or Xiao Zhinan, the man standing next to them must be Li Mengzhou.
Regarding the fact that Zhu Zaitian seemed to recognize him, Li Mengzhou did not show the slightest surprise, because he didn't have the heart to guess how Zhu Zaitian knew, he just needed to seriously pull out the Pu knife and hack him to death with one knife.
At this time, Gu Shiyan, holding a black oil-paper umbrella, silently put away her sword, and looked sideways towards the courtyard gate, she seemed to vaguely notice the abnormal aura not far away.
There were other people in the alleyway outside the courtyard gate.
The smell was familiar.
The sight that had peeked many times outside Chaosi Alley.
Gu Shiyan's expression under the rabbit face mask became a little serious, and the matter of them killing Zhu Zaitian, the squire of the Xuanzheng Division, would be a great trouble if they were watched by another pair of eyes.
She thought about it seriously for a while, and pretended not to notice that there were people in the alley outside the courtyard gate, but instead attacked Zhu Zaitian more quickly and violently.
Li Mengzhou was a little surprised, but he didn't think much about it, Zhu Zaitian's identity clearly showed that he needed to fight quickly, otherwise there would be endless troubles.
Facing Gu Shiyan, who became serious, Zhu was defeated and retreated.
The powerful strength that is extremely close to the peak of the Four Realms is comparable to a monk who is only a low-grade monk in the Four Realms, even if Zhu Zaitian has broken into the Four Realms for many years, it is not an ordinary low-grade monk in the Four Realms who can be compared, but in the face of absolute power, he is like a child, and he has no power to resist.
And Li Mengzhou saw the opportunity and suddenly approached the distance of Zhu Zai's three feet in the sky, and the Pu knife fell heavily from top to bottom.
It's hitting the Heavenly Spirit Cover!
Click-
The sound of bones shattering is clearly audible.
The Pu knife is extremely sharp, and it is not difficult to imagine the bloody scene of this knife falling and splitting in two.
The curtain of rain falling from the night sky smashed to the ground, flowing bright blood red, covering almost the entire courtyard.
The smell of the rain mixed with blood and dirt was strange.
Beads of blood mixed with raindrops splattered out, slapping on the cat-faced mask worn on Li Mengzhou's face, and blood-like traces slid down, making the already weird mask even more terrifying.
The dignified squire of the Xuanzheng Division was beheaded by Li Mengzhou under the sword of Pu in this way.