Chapter 67 Assassination
A crescent moon shone into the room through the window.
Chen Zhenyi sat in the dark room, watching the moonlight illuminate the wooden couch.
He suddenly missed Zhonglin Village, as well as the earthen house that he had desperately wanted to escape, and the second master who he had always wanted to stay away.
He pulled out the Tai Chi gossip that he had been wearing around his neck. This brand, which looks like jade but not jade, and looks like wood but not wood, is like a blue lantern in the dark night, reflecting Chen Zhenyi's face in blue. He flipped the gossip diagram over, and engraved the eight characters of his birthday on the back: Gengchen Year Ren Wu Yue Yi Wei Day Xin Si Shi, but this is not Chen Zhenyi's birthday eight characters, nor is it the second master's.
Chen Zhenyi has been wearing this brand since he can remember, and he has never taken it off.
I didn't think there was anything special about this brand before, but since I crossed it, there have been several times when it was this brand that saved my life.
Chen Zhenyi was about to take it off, when the voice of the second master suddenly sounded in his mind: "This is your talisman, you can't take off the ...... at any time."
He smiled wryly and put the sign back down.
got up, gently pushed the door open, jumped down, and came to the backyard of the inn.
The courtyard was overgrown with all kinds of flowers and plants that Chen Zhenyi couldn't name, and a winding path paved with bluestone stretched to a pavilion in the middle of the backyard, where a few dim lanterns hung in the pavilion.
Chen Zhenyi walked along the path and walked into the pavilion.
The night breeze is a bit cold.
The dim lights could only illuminate the pavilion, and it was pitch black outside. A thin white mist filled the pavilion, cold to the touch.
Suddenly, only a wall separated by the courtyard next to the faint sound of the piano, empty and far away, the soothing sound of the piano like a pair of wings, with people flying over thousands of mountains and rivers, across the five lakes and four seas, the artistic conception is far-reaching and open.
Chen Zhenyi stood in the pavilion with his hands in his hands, raised his head, closed his eyes, and followed the sound of the piano into the world that made people extremely quiet and empty-minded.
As soon as Chen Zhen opened his eyes, the fog around him seemed to be thicker.
Suddenly, a song came to mind, although he didn't understand Yaoqin, but the fierceness and unwillingness of this song were extremely strong, like a heroic warrior who was unwilling to succumb to the darkness, lifting his sword to the darkness, with that unyielding spirit, fighting to the death with the darkness, or passionate like a river rushing, or generous like the sea to accommodate a hundred rivers, and a fearless and relieved emotion was born in his heart.
Chen Zhenyi walked out of the pavilion and flew to the wall.
In the courtyard next door, it is also full of flowers and plants, and in the same pavilion, a green-clothed girl sits on the piano, and the dim light reflects her face, clean and delicate.
Chen Zhenyi unconsciously walked towards the pavilion.
The green-clothed girl who heard the footsteps turned her head and was a little surprised to see that the person who came was the white-clothed young man she had seen in Zuiyue Tower before. couldn't help but stand up and looked vigilantly at Chen Zhenyi, a young man in white who was walking towards him step by step.
Chen Zhenyi walked into the pavilion, smiled at the young man, and sat down in front of Yaoqin.
Closing his eyes, his hands naturally relaxed, as if he had been controlled, and began to pluck the strings, and an impassioned tune alarmed everyone in the two inns who had fallen asleep.
Xian Yu Wuji and Xian Yu Huachen walked out of the room, stood on the corridor, and looked at Chen Zhenyi, who suddenly appeared in the courtyard.
The girl in green seemed to be surprised to see Chen Zhenyi's hands sliding on the strings, picking, picking, wiping, hooking, supporting, and beating, the technique was very skillful, and the music was something she had never heard before. Only then did I hear that it was tasteless, and then I heard it and felt very exquisite.
The sound of the piano passed through the thick white fog and echoed in the sky above Liangxi City. The white-clothed young man standing outside the corridor on the second floor of the inn saw in the night sky, a man with a sword on his back flew from the south to the top of a house opposite, quietly watching the courtyard next door.
Chen Zhen forgot to play, completely ignoring the girls around him.
Even the white fog in the night sky seemed to have receded a lot. Opening his eyes, looking at the girl in green, Chen Zhen smiled and said, "I'm disturbing ......."
The girl in green was still immersed in the song, and she didn't slow down, she found that many of Chen Zhenyi's techniques were something she had never seen before, and she couldn't help but be more curious about this young man who had seen it a few times but didn't know his name. When she came back to her senses and wanted to ask the boy's name, she found that there was no one around her, and she wondered if it was a dream just now?
Chen Zhenyi, who returned to the inn where he came, saw that everyone who had fallen asleep had come out, and he was looking at himself at this time. Unable to see their expressions clearly in the night, Chen Zhen ran back to the room and fell asleep.
Outside Liangxi City, in the middle of a forest.
A man in black was anxiously pacing back and forth, stopping from time to time to look up at Liang Xicheng.
A moment later, as a black shadow landed, a young man with a sword on his back stood firmly beside the man in black.
The man in black hurriedly asked, "Young man, how is it?" ”。
The young man turned around, looked at Liang Xicheng, and whispered, "I didn't find their ...... where they stayed."
The man in black sighed and said, "Then what next?" ”。
The young man turned and walked forward, saying as he went, "As long as they come, they will always show up, so let's go back first!" ”。
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Wudang Mountain, Yuxu Palace.
The Seven Peaks Star Lord gathered again in front of the statue of the Xuanwu Emperor in the Holy Ruins Palace. In the main hall, Zhang Ruolin in the jade mirror sat cross-legged.
After Sun Wuji rushed back to Wudang Mountain, he reported everything he saw and heard in the Valley of the Holy Spirit to his master Qiao Xuanlou. Although Qiao Xuanlou was jealous of Zhang Xuandao, he was not a person who fell into the well, so he took Sun Wuji to the Tianzhu Peak Yuxu Palace.
After listening to Sun Wuji's report, Qu Guanzi immediately notified the star lords of the other peaks to come to discuss the matter.
Zhang Xuandao nodded gratefully at Sun Wuji, and said to Zhang Ruolin who was sitting on the ground: "Ruolin, have you seen anyone before the Seven Peak Martial Arts?" ”。
Liu Ruoxu removed the jade mirror, and Zhang Ruolin looked at the uncles and uncles around him blankly, with an expression of what are you doing.
Zhang Xuandao asked again, and Zhang Ruolin told him about the black-robed man he had seen before the competition. Zhang Xuandao asked again: "Then did he give you anything?"
Zhang Ruolin thought for a while and said, "He gave me a pill, saying that it was a refined pill, which can increase qi and blood, so I took it."
Everyone understood that Zhang Ruolin had been deceived, and they also knew that he didn't know about it, but he was just used as a tool. The Six Peaks Star Lord, Liu Ruoxu, and Sun Wuji all looked at Crane Guanzi and wanted him to decide.
Que Guanzi thought about it, since Zhang Ruolin was used without knowing it, and it didn't cause any losses, he could redeem his merits, and after thinking about it, he shook his feather fan and said loudly: "From now on, Zhang Ruolin will regain his freedom, remember that you are not allowed to associate with the people of Guigu in the future, otherwise you will be expelled from Wudang ......."
Zhang Ruolin smiled with relief, got up and bowed down and said, "Thank you, uncle, thank you, uncles, ........"
Crane Guanzi suddenly said with a solemn face: "Taihu Tianjing Stone is about to appear, we have to go to Taihu Lake, everyone discuss, who is the right person to send?" ”。
Everyone looked at each other and talked about it, and then, Qiao Xuanlou stepped forward and said loudly: "If the Heavenly Spirit Stone really appears, it will definitely cause a scramble, I think we should all go to the Seven Peaks Star Lord, everyone knows that the Heavenly Spirit Stone contains infinite power, if it falls into the hands of evil, it will set off a bloody storm ......."
The crowd agreed.
Que Guanzi shook the pu fan, thought for a moment and said: "What Senior Brother Qiao said is not unreasonable, but Wudang must be guarded, and the seven of us have gone, if there is anything wrong in Wudang, the gains outweigh the losses."
The crowd began to talk again, and in the end they all had a good solution.
Crane Guanzi interrupted everyone and said, "I'll stay in Wudang, and the six of you will take the three of them to Taihu Lake, and you can't let the Ghost King get the ...... of the Heavenly Spirit Stone no matter what." After a while, he continued: "Senior Brother Zhang leads the team, don't kill innocents indiscriminately, don't break the precepts, as long as the Heavenly Spirit Stone doesn't fall into the hands of evil, you are not allowed to compete with other decent people."
Everyone agreed in unison.
"Ruoxu, you have a jade mirror, in case something happens, the jade mirror can keep you safe......" Crane Guanzi was not at ease and handed over the jade mirror to Liu Ruoxu.
"Leave tomorrow morning, you can't delay ......."
The next morning, the sun had just climbed the hill.
The people of Wudang were ready to go, and after sending them to Baixiantai, and after telling everyone to be careful, he watched everyone go away with their swords.
North of Liangxi City, Ethereal Peak.
When the first soft light of the early morning illuminated the more than 100 wooden pavilions of the Ethereal Peak, the white crane had already led a few people to a pavilion at the highest point of the Ethereal Peak.
Everyone overlooked the sparkling lake at the bottom of the mountain, and although there were still nine days before the fifth day of the fifth month of May, it was still necessary to familiarize themselves with and observe the changes in Taihu Lake in advance.
Chen Zhenyi, who didn't sleep well, yawned again and again at this time, and when he walked into the pavilion, he leaned against a pillar and dozed off.
Several people watched for a while, and a black shadow suddenly appeared on the surface of the lake, and they plunged into the water.
The white crane and the white-clothed boy glanced at each other, rose into the air, and went straight to the black shadow. Zou Laodao and the little girl followed, Yu Xuanji glanced at Chen Zhenyi, who was asleep, and did not wake him up, he also followed behind a few people and flew to the lake.
It didn't take much effort, and several people entered the water one after another.
Chen Zhenyi slept soundly under the warm warmth of the morning sun. I didn't notice a few people leaving, and I didn't notice the three people in Guigu who suddenly appeared beside me.
Old Ghost Wang glanced at the brocade-clothed young man beside him, and the brocade-clothed young man slowly pulled out a black long sword in his hand and approached Chen Zhenyi.
The black sword body of the long sword was surrounded by black airflow, and Chen Zhenyi seemed to feel the cold that was slowly approaching, and couldn't help but wrap the clothes on his body.
Just as the long sword was about to reach his throat, a burst of fragrance suddenly wafted in the air, and a flying sword slammed into the black long sword in the hand of the brocade-clothed young man, knocking it off.
Seeing that someone was coming, Wang Lao Ghost struck out a palm and hit Chen Zhenyi in the chest, and the sleeping young man flew to the side, blood flowing from the corner of his mouth.
"Despicable and shameless...... a voice slipped through the air.
The flying sword suddenly burst out with white brilliance, and flew straight towards the old ghost Wang.
Wang Lao Ghost condensed his qi in his hand, and a black ball of true qi formed a barrier, blocking the sword flying towards him, and after a stalemate for a while, Wang Lao Ghost was lucky again, and the long sword flew straight into the sky.
"Tai'an, kill him quickly......" The gray-robed middle-aged man standing aside burst into applause.
The brocade-clothed young man raised his long sword again, and flew to stab Chen Zhenyi who was lying on the ground, as soon as he approached Chen Zhenyi, there was a huge sword qi falling from the sky, and he went straight to the brocade-clothed young man with a hurricane, the gray-robed man saw this, stepped out quickly, and pulled the brocade-clothed young man to retreat, but ignored the sword qi.
The two of them were shocked by the sword qi and flew out, knocking down a pavilion.
Wang Lao Ghost smiled contemptuously, trying to resist, a thick white mist evaporated up and down Zhou's body, and an even more huge black qi wall blocked his body, and the sword qi followed, crashing into the black qi wall, and the qi wall immediately fell apart, and the white sword qi hit Wang Lao Ghost through the qi wall.
Old Ghost Wang's face changed drastically, and he muttered, "Tianwen sword intent ......."
Although the sword qi was blocked by more than half, it still injured Wang Lao Ghost. He looked up at a young man in an khaki robe standing in the air, shocked and frightened.
The two people who were seriously injured by the sword qi struggled to get up from the ground while looking up at the sky.
"Old Ghost Wang, you used a trick to kill the three major families of Nanyang, and you also blamed others, you are ......extremely shameless," the young man standing in the air said coldly.
The young man in brocade was a little surprised to look at the master around him who had been teaching him for almost a month, and the master who suddenly appeared, as if he had been struck by lightning. If what the boy in the air said is true, then wouldn't he recognize the thief as his father and help the thief to commit abuse?
"Master, is what he said true?" The brocade-clothed boy Bian Tai'an's body trembled, and he was seriously full of blood.
The gray-robed man didn't speak, smiled contemptuously, looked into the air, and scolded: "You don't want to spew blood, what Nanyang family?" ”。
The gray-robed man's face suddenly changed drastically, and he looked at a figure that suddenly appeared in the air in surprise, it was the head of the Wan family who had been missing for many days.
"Su Ji, I didn't expect me to be alive, right?" The head of the Wan family asked coldly.
When Bian Tai'an saw the head of the Wan family, he finally saw the face of the person in front of him, roared, raised the black long sword in his hand, and stabbed at the gray-robed man.
The quick-eyed Wang Lao Ghost took the first step, pulled away the gray-robed man, and slapped the shoulder of the brocade-clothed young man with a palm, Bian Tai'an flew out like a kite with a broken string, and there was no movement after a few struggles.
"There is no cure...... the young man in the air said coldly, his hands were sealed, and a thick white mist suddenly filled the air, accompanied by the cry of a terrible ghost, the dark fragrance floated, and the sword shadow was like weaving, surrounding the two of them.
Wang Lao Ghost exclaimed again: "A sword summons the soul ......."
But after all, he was a figure of the ninth order of the Sage Realm, and with a wave of his hand, the two of them disappeared into a sword shadow like a sky net out of thin air.
The boy retracted his sword and fell to the ground.
The head of the Wan family ran over to help Bian Tai'an, found that he still had a trace of breath, turned his head to the young man and said: "Shaoxia, he is still saved, I will take him to heal first, we will have a ....... later", and left quickly after speaking.
The young man walked up to Chen Zhenyi, frowned and looked at Chen Zhenyi, who had passed out, and muttered, "You play the piano very well......
At this moment, the sound of the piano was heard in the air.
The boy glanced back, and Edgeworth left.