"Just the two of you?" Rou Ji said worriedly: "Can it be done? Tonight, the Eighth Prince's Mansion is probably the Longtan Tiger's Den, and it is very well defended!"

"Don't worry, we're not going to assassinate the Eighth Prince. ”

Kiyohime turned her gaze to the other core figures of the Holy Clan who participated in this event: "You all go and act. Please note that although the area around the capital has always been the prince's sphere of influence. But now that the power of the Eighth Prince is in full swing, there are his spies everywhere, so everyone still has to be careful in their actions, and try not to let them see the identity of our Holy Clan, understand?"

Everyone nodded in understanding, and then a few people discussed some details together, and then they dispersed and went to deal with related matters.

After the eighth prince entered Beijing, he rushed to the palace Ouchi that night to meet his father, who was seriously ill, but he was blocked from the Taiji Gate of the palace by the chief eunuch of Ouchi, saying that His Majesty the emperor had just taken medicine and went to bed, and asked him to play it early the next day and come to visit again.

On the eve of this storm, Qin Baiyu left several masters of the Transforming Realm such as Tie Heng, Lu Zhan, and General Wu in the British Palace, and they were responsible for protecting the safety of the Eighth Prince.

In the dead of night, Lu Zhan carefully inspected the palace for a while before returning to the guest room provided for him by the Eighth Prince. This richly decorated room is very close to the sleeping palace where the Eight Princes rest.

Qin Baiyu laid a tight three-line defense line around the Eighth Prince's dormitory. The innermost line of defense was in charge of the royal guards led by Tie Heng. The second line of defense was personally commanded and arranged by Qin Baiyu, and the outermost line was in charge of several generals of the Huajin realm who were sitting in the palace, such as Lu Zhan and General Wu.

Lu Zhan sat cross-legged on the bed in the guest room, first took out a small porcelain bottle, poured out a third-level pill "Zhenyuan Dan" from it, stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it. The third-level elixir "True Yuan Dan" was indeed very effective when he first entered the realm of transforming strength, and the cultivation energy provided by taking one of them was enough to last for half a month.

However, this third-level elixir is an extremely rare thing in the world, and this elixir can only be produced in a small scale and limited time by the Royal Alchemy Workshop, so even if you are powerful and wealthy, you may not be able to buy a few.

After Lu Zhan successfully captured the "Floating Immortal Island", the Great Chu Emperor rewarded him with twelve at once, plus what he got from Qi Lingkong, and one that the royal family gave him every month as an earl. It's barely enough to take.

When he attacked the palace of the Great Sui Empire before, he was besieged by several Sui State Transformation Realm powerhouses who guarded the palace, and these Transformation Strength Strongmen were all loyal personal guards cultivated by the Sui Emperor. Each of them carried a lot of third-grade pills given by Emperor Sui. Lu Zhan killed two of them in a row and seriously injured one of them in that battle, and obtained a total of thirty third-level pills from them.

So he has now increased the amount of Zhenyuan Dan to take. From two pills per month to three pills per month. Due to the combined effect of exotic treasures such as "Mysterious Crystal Space", "Bronze Fragment" and "Wanhua Lotus Table" in his body, coupled with the continuous catalysis and warmth of the third-level elixir, he could clearly feel that the martial arts attainments in his body were still advancing rapidly, and at this moment, he was not far from the peak of his strength.

He lay sideways on the bed, his qi running in the veins for a week, completely absorbing and dispersing the medicinal power of the third-level elixir.

Suddenly, he felt a slight noise on the ground under the bed, so he sat up and jumped out of bed, leaning down to put his ear to the ground and listen.

There was a faint "buzzing" sound from under the ground. The voice was very light and thin, and if it weren't for the sharpness of his five senses, which was very different from ordinary people, he really wouldn't have noticed this slightest abnormality. ...,

What's going on deep in the dirt below?

Lu Zhan listened intently for a while, then stood up, his figure flashed, and he flew from the window to the middle of the courtyard with a "whoosh", he paced back and forth in the courtyard for more than a dozen steps, calculated the direction, gathered the qi in his body on his right fist, and with a "hey" sound, he blasted his right fist to the ground under his feet.

A muffled sound rang out.

The floor tiles around the right fist are cracked in the shape of a spider web. Then I saw the ground sink downward, revealing a deep black hole.

Lu Zhan jumped out of the cave, and now with his martial arts cultivation, he was completely able to use the night vision method, so those shadows and darkness in the cave were nothing to him at all.

His figure had just fallen into the hole. I felt that there was an abnormal qi machine below that was fluctuating continuously, so I quickly released the qi in my body. A thick shield was formed on the soles of his feet.

As soon as this layer of qi engine protective shield was arranged, he felt a strong qi engine energy rush into the protective shield, and there was a strong man in the Transformation Realm attacking below.

But that attack was easily bounced back by the qi shield laid by Lu Zhan, and it was obvious that the martial arts attainments of the people below were under Lu Zhan.

In fact, now looking at the entire Great Chu Empire, how many people can compete with Lu Zhan? If you calculate it carefully, I am afraid that there is only one national teacher sitting in the Tianji Academy.

Lu Zhanzhi fell seven or eight feet before he stepped on the ground smoothly, only to see an underground tunnel more than six feet high appear in front of him, and at the other end of the road, there was a black shadow escaping along the road into the distance.

"Where to escape!" Lu Zhan snorted softly, and the cat bent into the corridor nimbly, and chased after the black shadow.

The black shadow escaping in front of him looked very short, and his body was very dexterous and moving in the corridor.

Lu Zhan's stature is relatively tall, and it seems a little uncomfortable to move in such a low corridor, and he can't fly here at all, and he is about to catch up with the other party.

The dazzling electric light illuminated the pitch-black corridor, and the black shadow running in front of him was unprepared to chase the enemy and unleash the electric light from a distance, and was suddenly screamed by the electric "ouch", and his head also turned around.

By bright electric light. Lu Zhan could see that the man's face was covered with tattoos. It's a middle-aged man with a small man.

He was about to release a few more beams of lightning to completely subdue the man, when he suddenly heard a woman's graceful voice from the corridor in front of him: "Come on!"

Lu Zhan didn't dare to easily pick up the object that was speeding at high speed in front of him, and hurriedly laid down a qi shield in front of him; after the flying thing hit the qi shield, it fell lightly to the ground, Lu Zhan looked down and saw that it was a snow-white paper ball.

He leaned over and wrapped the paper ball with the gas machine, and just wanted to continue to chase forward, when he suddenly heard a rumbling sound in the corridor, and the ground under his feet also shook for a while, and the corridor in front of him collapsed, and there was no way to chase.

He had no choice but to exit the road. Leap back to the ground. Because the corridor below is very deep, it did not alarm the people in the palace on the ground, and the courtyard where he was still very quiet, only the cold night breeze in early spring gently blew by. But no one else rushed to hear the news.

Lu Zhan stood in the moonlight, unfolded the paper ball in his hand and took a look, only to see a line of beautiful small characters written on the paper ball: "Someone will assassinate the Eighth Prince tonight, beware of the people around him!"

Strangely, the man who excavated the road did not seem to be hostile, so what did this paper ball mean? Did it specifically alert him? Why did he do this? The other party did not know whether he was friend or foe, and if it was a friendly army, why did he not show his face easily?...,

Lu Zhan was full of doubts in his heart, he remembered the woman's soft voice at the end of the corridor just now, and he felt a sense of déjà vu. It's just that I can't remember who the woman really is for a while.

No matter how doubtful he was in his heart, he felt that he should go to Xiao Guoshi first to explain the matter, and then make a calculation.

Lu Zhan's imperial qi flew up, and in a few vertical leaps, he had already flown outside the Eighth Prince's bedroom, and just as he wanted to land to a courtyard below, he heard Qin Baiyu shouting on the ground and asking, "Who is it?"

"It's me Lu Zhan. Lu Zhan replied, secretly wondering in his heart how Qin Baiyu discovered himself so quickly, after all, his martial arts cultivation was deep, and the speed of his qi flying method was usually extremely difficult for other powerhouses of the Transformation Realm to discover at once.

At this time, his gaze fell on the sky above the dormitory. I saw a blood-red spike suspended every three or five zhang in mid-air, and twenty-four spikes surrounded the dormitory, and between each nail, there were several long white rays of light connected.

He remembered that Qin Baiyu's gold-painted folding fan contained these blood-red spikes, which were the pseudo-spirit soldiers he used the most.

It turned out that these twenty-four blood-colored nails had actually placed a circle of alarm arrays over the dormitory. Once someone approached the edge of this alarm formation, they would all be detected by Qin Baiyu.

Lu Zhan floated down in the courtyard. Qin Baiyu walked out of the shadows and asked him a little strangely, "Why did Lord Lu fly here, is there something big going on outside?"

"I want to come and see His Highness, is he okay now?" Lu Zhan asked.

"His Royal Highness Prince Ying has just discussed the layout of the Beijing Division in the study for the past few days, and now he has returned to the dormitory and is preparing to rest?

"Little National Teacher, look at this. Lu Zhan handed him the note in his hand, and briefly recounted the strange events of the dark night that had just happened.

After reading the note, Qin Baiyu's face became extremely solemn, "Someone can actually dig a tunnel to enter the British Palace? ”

"After digging such a long underground tunnel, the movement is still so light, and it is not detected by the existence of many Transformation Strength Realms in the palace, how did this person do it?" Lu Zhan also felt strange.

"Maybe he has a pseudo-spirit weapon in his hand that specializes in digging underground tunnels. Qin Baiyu, who was well-informed, guessed and said: "Or maybe there are some evil beasts growing underground or even wild beasts helping him dig it, it is rumored that there are indeed strange people who can walk underground." Fortunately, this person has no ill will towards us, otherwise as long as he finds the right direction, piles up fire and thunder bombs in the ground, and creates a powerful explosion, His Royal Highness the Eighth Prince may be ......."

"So," Lu Zhan pointed to the note in Qin Baiyu's hand, "What is written on this note is likely to be true?"

"Yes, does the phrase 'beware of the people around you' remind us to pay attention to the fact that there are spies planted around the Eighth Prince?" Qin Baiyu muttered to himself softly.

Lu Zhan nodded and asked, "Who are some people around His Highness now?"

"At this moment, General Tie is guarding outside His Highness's bedroom," Qin Baiyu said, "In addition, it is the personal attendant Grandpa Xiang who grew up with His Highness since he was a child who sent supper snacks in. ”

"General Tie followed the Eighth Prince to fight in the south and the north, and he was loyal and brave, and he would have already done it to assassinate the Eighth Prince, so he couldn't be this spy. Lu Zhan analyzed: "Is this Xianggong reliable?" (Welcome to your support, which is my biggest motivation.) )