41. The lurker in the shadows
Dean Lin is really a rare wonderful person!
When Lu Renjie finally left the study, he commented so in his heart.
At this moment, Lin Jie'er has disappeared.
Lu Renjie didn't ask about it, she had been assisting the Demon Slayer Division for more than a month, so she naturally knew when and where she should go.
And he needs to deal with the sixth child who is lurking in the shadow to listen to him as soon as possible to feel at ease.
Lu Renjie was eager to know, who sent this old six, and whether it was really the legendary Fuso Ninja of Dongdao?
But one thing he is sure of is that this lurking stalker must be related to the case of the murder of the Liu Hall Master!
Otherwise, he is a nameless official, and it is impossible for someone to take a lot of trouble to hide in the shadows to follow and monitor him at this juncture.
Holding the words written by the dean, Lu Renjie hurriedly left the academy with great expectations.
After walking for two quarters of an hour, crossing several brightly lit and noisy night market streets, and after walking for another quarter of an hour, he finally found an empty alley with no people.
It smells of blood.
When he left the academy, he deliberately picked up a hanging lamp from the corridor at random, and at this moment, he could clearly see by the light in his hand that there were many uncleaned pig's trotter shells and hairs floating in the ditches on both sides of the street corner.
Swarms of fat rats were chattering in the ditch, even if they saw Lu Renjie appearing with a lamp, they just looked up one after another and glanced at it briefly, and then what to do, without any fear of escaping.
Xuanjing really deserves to be the imperial capital, and the mice in the alley are all fat like rabbits!
It looks like a slaughterhouse or something like a meat market, but it's a good place to kill people......
Lu Renjie muttered in his heart, raised the lamp in his hand, stretched his shadow away, and then moved his hand casually, "accidentally slipping" off the piece of paper.
"Huh? The prescription given to me by the dean is to blame for this group of dead rats in the way, and the dead rats get out of the way......"
In order to act realistically, Lu Renjie stomped his feet "anxiously", and deliberately complained to the people in the shadows.
"Squeak?!"
Hearing the sound, the rats in the ditch screamed in unison, and even many of them grinned at Lu Renjie, like vicious dogs on the street.
This reaction was what Lu Renjie didn't expect, who said that he was as timid as a mouse, you come to Xuanjing, I will take you to see the big rat here......
Lu Renjie couldn't help but mumble in his heart.
The next moment, the paper had already followed the dark energy pushed out of his fingertips, and smoothly fell into the shadow reflected by the lamplight.
"Sudden death?! Huh? Not good! There is fraud! Ahh βββ
Almost at the same time, a strange man's surprised voice came from Lu Renjie's shadow.
Then the paper suddenly glowed with a dazzling clear light, as if an incandescent lamp was instantly lit on this street corner, and the suspicion turned into a scream.
Lu Renjie stood motionless with the lamplight, his brow tightened, watching his shadow writhe wildly on the streets and walls.
"Ahh Ahββ!h It hurts me! β
As the man's extremely miserable screams rang out one after another, the shadow gradually twisted and separated, and a black-robed person shrouded in it gradually separated.
This person's outfit couldn't help but remind Lu Renjie of the lotus root puppet he had hacked to death in Qianlong Lake that night.
There is also the black-robed protector in the fate of the Poisonous Lotus Dao people.
Is this the uniform of the Blood Lotus Sect's higher-ups? Lu Renjie was curious.
"Ahh - Sect Master, helpβ"
Click, click, click-
The black-robed man held his head and rolled on the ground and roared, and at the same time, there was a crisp sound like the cracking of eggshells from his skull, and wisps of light as sharp as lasers gradually overflowed irregularly from his skull, eye sockets, and cheeks, and then brought out red blood.
Lu Renjie felt that this person looked like he was about to be torn apart by the Haoran Qingguang in his head.
Sure enough, knowledge is power......
The old dean can produce such a lot of lethality just by writing two words casually......
Lu Renjie was thrilled to see it.
"Squeak?"
The sudden occurrence of such a huge movement frightened a group of rats in the ditch, and they all gathered together in fright, staring at the black-robed man who was roaring wildly.
But they were not in a hurry to leave, for their experience told them that the roaring shadow seemed to be dying, like a fat pig slaughtered on this street corner in the early hours of the morning.
They'll stay and they'll be able to add dinner and supper later!
"It seems that this person's cultivation is really not low, and the dean personally wrote the word 'violent death', but he can still roll and howl for so long after reading it...... Fortunately, I didn't have the experience and ashes, and recklessly tried to make a single kill on my own......"
"Then let me give you a ride......"
Lu Renjie muttered in his heart, bent down and found two thick stacks of poison talismans from the soles of his shoes and the large pockets lined with self-sewn linings.
After fighting hard that night without a drop of spirit left and fighting the Tianshui River Demon, Lu Renjie has deeply understood the truth of accumulation.
So during the few days of "healing" and fishing at home, he took the time to draw a lot of various poison talismans to hide in case of emergency.
When Liu Zhigang brought it in and knocked on the door that day, he didn't dare to open the door because he was busy cleaning up the poison talisman that he had hidden on the table.
Bang bang bang β
Lu Renjie was worried that the other party had any dark magic hole cards, so he tried his best to keep a distance of more than a zhang from the black shadow that was rolling on the ground and wailing and slowly cracking, and then as if he was a dealer dealer, he urged one by one to rush the poison talisman in his hand and pour it into him like waste paper that didn't want money.
"Ahh It hurts! It's so itchy! - you! You don't have to die wellβ"
Bang! ββ
With the help of Lu Renjie's poison talisman, the black-robed mouth cursed wildly, and quickly finished the last journey, with a muffled sound, his whole brain could no longer hold back, and it exploded like a rotten egg in the blink of an eye, mixed with red and yellow and white slurry, spraying all over the ground.
"Squeak!"
A group of rats suddenly couldn't help but show their eyes, and then they surged like a tide and pounced on them.
In Lu Renjie's mind, the ancient furnace of cremation also appeared at the same time......
β¦β¦ Wang Yuye, an orphan, was adopted and raised by a sweeping monk named Zhifeng in Xuanjing City Jianan Temple since he was a child.
For example, using talismans to penetrate walls and shrink the ground, blend into rivers and rivers to sneak silently, and even blend into the shadows of others to hide, as well as various assassination methods.
It wasn't until he became an adult that the monk Zhifeng told him that the technique taught to him originated from the secret art of the Ninja Sect in the Fusang Kingdom of Dongying, but this is only a branch of the Ninja Sect, not the most orthodox stealth secret art, it is said that the most authentic stealth ninjutsu can reach the same or even more powerful point by using the ninja spell alone.
Before the age of twenty, Wang Yuye lived a peaceful and quiet life, except for assisting the master in the temple to sweep the floor every day, he practiced hard, but under the master's teachings, his ninjutsu was never revealed in front of the rest of the temple.
One day after he turned twenty, his master, the monk Zhifeng, took him out of the temple and met a man shrouded in black robes in a forest outside the city.
The Master instructed him that from now on, he should serve this person and not disobey him.
Wang Yuye has been trained by his master to be extremely filial and obedient since he was a child, so he naturally does so.
So from then on, according to the instructions of the black-robed man, he also put on the black robe that shrouded his face, and abandoned the secular name of Wang Yuye, and got a flower name - Black Lotus.
At this time, he learned that he had joined a secret organization called the Black Lotus Sect, and the black-robed man that the master took him to meet was the Holy Envoy of the Blood Lotus Sect.
There are unimaginably many resources such as money in the Blood Lotus Sect, but the management of identity is extremely strict, and a few important high-level figures like him are all shrouded in a layer of black robes, and their faces are not revealed, and even the voice of their voices has to be deliberately changed, and they must not leave identity memory points for anyone.
After joining the Blood Lotus Sect, his first task was to search for all kinds of outlaws with uneducated talents, trying to lure them into joining the Blood Lotus Sect and controlling them as pawns in the sect.
And as far as he knew, on him and the Blood Lotus Holy Envoy, there was also a true helmsman of the Blood Lotus Sect, and that person was honored as the master by the Holy Envoy.
However, over the years, the biggest permission he has obtained is only to transmit information to the other party through the two arrays disguised as incense burners in the building last night, and he has not seen the other party's real person.
The only person in the sect who could meet that master in person was the unfathomable Blood Lotus Holy Envoy.
And in the assassination of Liu Jinglei on the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Black Lotus Protector was also deeply involved.
Liu Jinglei, as a martial artist at the peak of the four-rank God Killing Realm, and the holder of the Red Courage Silver Whip, has the strength to kill him quickly and easily, except for the master who has not seen him in the Blood Lotus Sect, there is only one Blood Lotus Holy Envoy left, and the Blood Lotus Holy Envoy chooses to start from a distance in order to reduce the mistake of revealing his identity.
And in this process, Black Lotus needs to locate and lock the other party for him and find the best time.
Since Liu Jinglei left the Demon Slayer Division that day, the black lotus has quietly hidden in his shadow.
Halfway through that night, when the entire Xuanjing was shrouded in the bustle of fireworks, Liu Jinglei, who had been out for most of the day, finally walked alone into the black alley where he was finally killed, an invisible power grabbed from high in the sky, and the yin and yang Qiankun collapsed and squeezed instantly, and the black lotus escaped from its shadow in time, witnessing the sudden Liu Jinglei killed in the ditch.
As for the specific reason why Liu Jinglei had to die, Hei Lian didn't know, and the sect had its own duties, which was obviously not within his authority.
Relying on his status as a protector of the Dharma, he only vaguely learned from the mouth of the holy envoy that it seemed that it was because the other party had recently secretly investigated a case that would endanger the master's plans, and even had a lot of substantive evidence.
However, according to the eavesdropping that he had been hiding in the shadow of Liu Jinglei for most of the day that day, the other party seemed to have been visiting officials related to Caoyun that day, all kinds of coercion and temptation, and interrogating the nearest transportation, so Heilian guessed that the master he had never met was probably a big man in the Xuanjing court.
And on the third day after Liu Jinglei's death, the Blood Lotus Holy Envoy arranged another important task for him: to send all the people under the control of the sect, and within a month, to tie up enough nine hundred children and children, and use the Blood Lotus Sacrifice Array to revive the Tianshui River Demon and control it.
After that, it went very smoothly at first, but the result was very bizarre, the Tianshui River Demon recovered in some twists and turns, and was killed by a demon hunting official from the stomach......
After the death of the river demon, the Holy Envoy Venerable sent an order that all chess pieces involved in the abduction of children must be destroyed by him in person, and there must be no mistakes.
So in the past few days, he has been busy running outside, killing from this county government to that mountain town, and personally killing the subordinates he has recruited into the sect in the past many years to the point that there is no piece of armor and no bones.
Today, he was summoned and instructed to follow Lu Renjie, who was transferred to the Xuanjing General Office by Bai Wuxiang, and waited for an opportunity to assassinate him.
However, the head of the Demon Slaying Division has a strong supervision array to protect him, and there is another Si Tai Baili Dingkong who is said to have reached the Martial Arts Erpin Cave Heaven Realm, he has no courage to enter it, he lingered patiently near the head office for a long time, until he glimpsed Lu Renjie coming out of the side door, he successfully entered the shadow of the other party.
Heilian knew that the little official she was following not only killed the Tianshui River Demon a few days ago, but also cut down a puppet body of the Holy Envoy, its strength did not look high, but it had a lot of magic weapons and tricks, and there was a Confucian cultivator accompanying him by the other party's side, so he must not take it lightly and act rashly.
So, he patiently followed him all the way into the academy, and while eavesdropping on a series of conversations between this person and the dean of the academy, he was also forced to inhale a large amount of second-hand smoke.
Later, it wasn't until Lu Renjie left alone and entered a deserted slaughtering alley, that he was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity when suddenly a piece of paper came into his eyes.
On the so-called conditioning prescription, the word "violent death" was written on it.
He only glanced at it, and he felt that countless Haoran Qi poured into his mind, condensed into thousands of light needle blades, surging out wildly, trying to cut his brain.
He tried his best to suppress it, but in the end, he couldn't bear Lu Renjie's fire......
His last thought was that he wanted to go back to the growing Garan Temple to see if the Zhifeng bald donkey was still alive.
He wanted to question the other party, didn't he tell him when he taught him the shadow escape technique, as long as he blended into the other party's shadow and didn't act rashly, no one would find out......
The green smoke cleared, and the ashes drifted out.
It's a wisp of purple ashes!
Lu Renjie's heart was instantly overjoyed, such a complete memory of Black Lotus's fate in his life, coupled with the purple ashes in his hand, all proved that he had gained all the experience alone, and he was not rubbed away because of the words given by the dean.
However, he soon realized that the dean only used his Confucian magic powers to make a "knife" for him, and it was Lu Renjie himself who used this blade to destroy the black lotus, just like the first time he killed the fox demon with a saber, the blacksmith who made the knife would not take away the experience!
The ashes writhed, and several Dongying Fusang characters in "Ninja Sect Sneaking" came into view.
Water Spell ......
Wind Spell ......
Molten Spell ......
Shadow Curse......
Immediately, a large number of various ninjutsu spells poured into Lu Renjie's mind.
These incantations are all the words of Fusang Kingdom, and when his consciousness began to analyze and realize and finally recite these incantations silently, Lu Renjie actually vaguely felt a little ashamed.
It's all because I watched too many blood-pumping micro-movies in my previous life, and I couldn't help but be excited when I heard this kind of text in a different world......
Lu Renjie muttered secretly in his heart.
I don't know how long it took, after it was confirmed that Lu Renjie had completely comprehended the spell, the Ancient Furnace of the Crematorium and the Purgatory World disappeared from his field of vision.
came back to his senses and stood up, a group of big rats were still in a state of charging at the table.
Lu Renjie hurriedly turned around, carrying the lights and preparing to leave the alley.
Just as he had only taken two steps, a thunderbolt of thunder suddenly sounded in the distant night sky.
"Demonic Outer Path!"
This voice was so loud and loud that it was so loud that Lu Renjie was so startled that he stopped uncontrollably, and for a moment he felt numbness in his back and cold palms.
The bold rat behind him, who had just opened the table for less than two mouthfuls, was also scared and squeaked at this moment, and turned around and ran away in a hurry.
And when the voice sounded, Lu Renjie felt that the night sky above his head in the distance seemed to be torn and pierced for a moment.
The sky is pierced......
Could it be that the Baili Sitai of the Erpin Cave Heavenly Realm is exploding?
What's wrong?
Lu Renjie carefully examined the direction and found that the shouting and scolding was indeed coming from the direction of the Demon Slayer Division.
At this time, he suddenly remembered what the White Hall Master had said in the stone room, she had other things to do tonight.
Probably something happened to her......
Lu Renjie glanced around, and seeing that no one still appeared, he immediately tried to recite the Wind Walking Mantra in the Ninja Sect's stealth mantra for the first time.
A breeze blew in the streets and alleys, and Lu Renjie's whole person disappeared into the wind in an instant, blowing through countless pavilions, and drifting towards the head of the Demon Slayer Division.