Before the night left, the earth was still sleeping, and a touch of fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky.

When Qin Yun arrived here overnight, the gate of Lingyang City's western city was closed, keeping him out of the city.

The large lanterns used for lighting on the high walls emitted an orange-red glow, evenly illuminating the black bricks, and a group of heavily armed soldiers patrolled back and forth.

Unlike many cities in the north of Dayan, Lingyang City, located on the border of southern Xinjiang, was threatened by bandits from Dachu and the plains all year round, so the city gates would be closed very early every day and reopened until dawn.

"Who is it?"

A guard spotted Qin Yun who appeared in front of the city gate, and he asked loudly, "What are you doing?"

Qin Yun, who had been in the dust all the way, couldn't take a breath, and said in a deep voice: "Down there is Qin Yun, a disciple of the Heavenly City Sword Sect, who has a very urgent matter to ask to see Lord Xu Jingye, the city guard, which is related to the safety of Lingyang City, and please allow me to enter the city with your accommodation!"

With the strength of Qin Yun's innate realm, it is not a problem to use light skills to climb over the city wall, but Lingyang City, as a fortress city in southern Xinjiang, must be quite well guarded, maybe there is a defensive formation, he is here to report the news instead of looking for trouble, so there is no need to be sneaky.

The guards on the city wall were burly and sturdy in armor, looking like officers in the city guards, hearing Qin Yun's words, his eyes flashed and he said coldly: "I haven't heard of your name, who knows if you are a fake or not, besides, Lord Xu can be seen when you meet?" Recently, there have been bandits and spies in Lingyang City, I think you are pretending to be a disciple of the Sword Sect with bad intentions!"

Qin Yun never expected that the other party would treat him as a bandit, and he was angry and funny: "I'm not a spy." Please inform the City Guard, I know Lord Xu!"

"Ridiculous!" The city guard officer didn't listen to Qin Yun's explanation at all, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, shoot this spy to death, Lord Shangguan has an order, kill a bandit and reward ten taels of silver!"

Dozens of archers with longbows immediately appeared behind the city wall, and without saying a word, they pulled the bowstring and shot feather arrows towards Qin Yun!

Qin Yun was furious!

He came day and night for the safety of Lingyang City. On the way, he almost lost his life in a fierce battle with the enemy, but he didn't expect that what he got in exchange would be the result of sharp arrows!

Boom!

The long sword was unsheathed, and a little sword light suddenly condensed and all the feather arrows that would attack in the future were shot down.

Boom! Boom!

But the next moment. More than a dozen black stone bullets fell from the city walls, and many soldiers pushed the giant crossbows used to defend the city to the battlements, and pulled the winch to load the crossbow arrows with the thickness of their arms!

This siege crossbow has a range of up to hundreds of paces. Specially designed to destroy enemy siege vehicles, it is extremely powerful.

Qin Yun never wanted to test whether he could block the bombardment of the heavy crossbow, so he hurriedly used his light skills to fly backwards, but the three loaded giant crossbows still fired crossbow arrows at him!

Whew!

The sound of the crossbow arrow breaking through the air was very loud, and the tip of the metal arrow was glowing with a terrifying cold light, which could easily pierce through a fierce beast, and the speed of the shot was extremely fast.

Looking at the menacing crossbow, a cold light flashed in Qin Yun's eyes, and he suddenly changed to a sideways evasion.

The three crossbow arrows all missed, and they were almost handleless when they were shot into the mud. The strength is extremely strong!

At the same time as the crossbow arrows were fired, three figures jumped down from the city wall, chasing Qin Yun in the air like night owls, and the long sword in his hand flashed with cold light.

At this time, the anger in Qin Yun's heart turned into doubt. Because the other party didn't look like a temporary idea at all, but was premeditated and prepared to wait for him to come to the door.

What is the reason for this?

With a thousand thoughts turning in his mind, Qin Yun continued to retreat to the rear, retreating to a relatively safe place before the second wave of crossbow arrows struck.

In front of him, three sword-wielding black-clothed men were rapidly approaching with great momentum!

It came at the right time!

Qin Yun stopped, and a wave of anger suddenly arose in his heart. Swinging out a flaming sword qi!

Call!

The crimson sword instantly dispelled the darkness around it, roaring through the air and slashing at the leading enemy.

The other party never expected Qin Yun's attack to be so fast and powerful, and he hurriedly raised his sword to block.

Boom!

The sword qi slammed into the blade, and the latter instantly shattered into countless pieces of metal, and under the action of the true qi containing powerful power, it mercilessly bombarded the head and face and body of the leader in black!

This man in black was nothing more than the realm strength of the Qi Refining Seventh Heaven, where could he resist it without defense, and his entire body was suddenly shot out of the sieve, and countless blood mist erupted from the piercing wound.

He didn't even have time to let out a scream, he was already dead and fell to the ground!

Such a scene made the two men in black behind couldn't help but stop, dumbfounded and couldn't believe their eyes, one of them was so frightened that his hands trembled, and suddenly turned around and fled in the direction of the city gate with a strange scream.

They were ordered to hunt down and kill Qin Yun, thinking that they were overwhelmed and captured, but they didn't expect that Qin Yun's strength was far above that of themselves and others, and they really kicked on the iron plate!

Want to run? It's not that easy!

Qin Yun, who had fire in his heart, took a step forward, his legs and body suddenly swept out, just catching up with the black-clothed man who was trying to escape between breaths, and the scorching sword in his hand swung out like lightning.

The sword flashed, and a huge head flew into the sky!

After killing the second enemy, Qin Yun's footsteps kept turning and changing direction, blocking the last person's retreat.

This man in black was already frightened, he didn't have the courage to fight Qin Yun at all, he also wanted to run for his life, but just turned around, Qin Yun stood in front of him!

"Spare your life!"

There was no trace of luck in his heart, and the man in black who was exhausted fell to the ground with a "poof", kowtowed and begged for mercy: "My lord, please spare the little one's life, I am also acting on orders!"

Qin Yun rested the blade of the Sun Sword on his neck and asked coldly, "On orders, whose orders are you?"

Feeling the sharp aura from the sword body, the man in black swallowed hard and replied, "Yes, it's Lord Shangguan, it's the order of the Shangguan family!"

Shangguan Family?Qin Yun was shocked and suspicious in his heart, why did the Shangguan family do this?

Under Qin Yun's questioning, the man in black told everything he knew like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.

It turned out that he and the other two men in black were all retainer swordsmen of the Shangguan family in Lingyang.

Yesterday morning, there was a sudden chaos in Lingyang City, several bandits sneaked into the city and killed and injured more than a dozen civilians, and horse thieves and horse teams also appeared outside the city, causing panic in the city.

Therefore, Shangguan Wuya, who was in charge of the city guards, ordered martial law in the whole city, closed the city gates to search for bandits who had infiltrated the city, and sent elites to strengthen the defense of the city walls.

Since noon yesterday, Lingyang City has forbidden anyone to enter or leave, and it is reasonable for Qin Yun to want to enter the city at this time, and it is reasonable to be regarded as a bandit and a spy.

After listening to what he said, the doubts in Qin Yun's heart did not disappear much.

The Shangguan family is the largest local family in Lingyang City, and its power has been intertwined for a long time, and the United Seven Families can be said to cover the sky in the city, even if they lose the throne of the city guard, they still control the city guard force.

Shangguan Wuya is the younger brother of Shangguan Wuji, the original city guard of Lingyang City, and he is also a congenital-level powerhouse.

But these bandits didn't come sooner or later, but they appeared in the city when Da Chu was about to launch a northern invasion, and Shangguan Wuya made a big move for a few horse thieves, declaring martial law and closing the city gate is absolutely unreasonable, is there some kind of connection between the two?

Thinking of this, he was shocked, his hand moved, and the blade of the sword immediately cut the skin of the man in black.

"My lord, spare my life!" The man in black thought that Qin Yun was going to kill him, and he was so frightened that he burst into tears: "Don't, don't kill me, please have a lot of me, I'm telling the truth."

Qin Yun couldn't help but shake his head, put away his long sword and said, "You can go." ”

The other party is just an insignificant little character, and he doesn't know much about it, so it doesn't matter if he kills or not.

The man in black couldn't believe it, looked up at Qin Yun uneasily, and when he looked at Qin Yun, he was suddenly frightened, and hurriedly ran for his life......

The man in black ran all the way back to the city gate, looked up at the city wall and shouted hoarsely, "Open the door, open the door, let me in!"

It is easy to jump off the city wall, and it takes a lot of light skill to jump up, and the man in black obviously does not have such strength, so he hopes that the soldiers above will open the city gate for themselves and enter the city to be completely safe.

The officer of the city guard stood on the rampart and watched him return, his gaze extremely cold.

One of the attendant warriors next to him asked in a low voice, "My lord, what should I do?"

The city guard officer did not answer, and raised his hand to make a slashing motion.

Kill!

The next moment, dozens of archers reached out and drew their longbows and shot the man in black into a hedgehog with feathered arrows!

When he fell to the ground, his eyes were still wide open, and he didn't seem to believe it was true.

The city guard officer said in disgust: "Incompetent fellow, you still have the face to come back alive! Someone, immediately report what happened to Shangguan to Lord Shangguan, please make a decision!"

His gaze shifted to Qin Yun standing on the plain in the distance, due to the distance between the two sides and the darkness, he could only see a confused shadow, unable to distinguish the true face.

"Qin Yun hum!"

Hundreds of steps away, Qin Yun watched as the other party died under his own people's bows and arrows.

After a moment of silence, he unfolded his body and disappeared from the spot without a trace, sweeping in another direction.

On the surface, Qin Yun seems to have given up and no longer entered the city, but in fact, he just wants to think of a way in a different direction, the current situation in Lingyang City is very wrong, and he must warn Xu Jingye and the Shui family in time.

And the sky is about to dawn, and there is not much time left for Qin Yun!rq