The bell tower and drum tower of Fangling County are located near the north city gate, every morning, the bell rings, the city gate slowly opens, and every night, when the drum fills the whole city, the city gate slowly closes, and the cycle repeats, day after day, year after year.

But the bell tower and the drum are not two independent buildings, they actually belong to a temple, the largest temple in Fangzhou - Baoguo Temple, when the fanatical Buddhism swept the Tang Dynasty again and again, Fangzhou is no exception, in just a few decades, Fangzhou Buddhist Temple from the original three to fifteen, nearly 10,000 monks, and Baoguo Temple is one of the largest Buddhist temples.

The night shrouded Fangling County, the streets and alleys have rarely seen pedestrian footsteps, around the drum tower of Baoguo Temple, there are more than 20 black shadows lurking, they have surrounded the drum tower, on the top of the ridge of a house, Wu Furong stared coldly at the movement in the drum tower.

Wu Furong led 30 internal guards to Fangling County only yesterday, temporarily staying in Baoguo Temple, that is, half an hour ago, she got the news of the outpost, someone sneaked into Baoguo Temple, peeping on their movements, which immediately made Wu Furong annoyed, so he ordered his subordinates to surround the other party in turn, and did not allow the other party to escape.

After Wu Chenghei was banished, there were still more than 50 people left in the Wu family, facing the risk of disbandment, Wu Furong took refuge in Princess Taiping, and all the Wu family generals followed her into the Taiping Mansion, and they took the opportunity of the internal guard to increase the capacity of the internal guard and all joined the internal guard and became Wu Furong's direct subordinates.

Therefore, compared to the other internal guard warriors, this new internal guard transformed from the martial arts family general was more ruthless and experienced, and they held the various exits of the drum tower, trapping several people who spied on them inside the drum tower.

"Who are you who dare to go against the inner guard?" asked a samurai standing on the roof.

In the middle of the night, a woman's voice came from inside the drum tower, "We are the subordinates of Shangguan Sheren, there may be a little misunderstanding, may I ask if the commander of the martial arts is there?"

Wu Furong immediately heard this voice, it seemed to be the voice of the female Taoist priest Xie Ying, it turned out that they were from Shangqing Tower

Over the years, Xue Huaiyi's warrior monks, Wu Sansi's martial arts generals, Wu Chenghei's Wu family generals, Lai Junchen's black officials, Princess Taiping's Taiping Mansion and Shangguan Wan'er's Shangqing Building are known as the six secret guards of Shendu, and they have never stopped fighting openly and secretly for their own interests.

Especially the grudge between Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er is very deep, the struggle between the two women is more intense, and there have been several bloody battles between Shangqinglou and Taiping Mansion, each with casualties, although the internal guard led by Wu Furong is not a warrior of Taiping Mansion, but she belongs to the power of Princess Taiping.

Of course, Wu Furong knew the feud between Princess Taiping and Shangguan Wan'er, in fact, not only Princess Taiping hated Shangguan Wan'er deeply, but she Wu Furong hated it even more, wasn't her father framed by Shangguan Wan'er and exiled to Lingnan?

Today she actually met Xie Ying of Shangqing Lou in Fangling, Wu Furong suddenly burst into murder in her heart, how could she let go of this opportunity to eradicate Shangqing Tower?

Wu Furong smirked, and also said loudly: "It turned out to be Aunt Xie, it seems that I really misunderstood, I won't embarrass you, you just leave"

She gritted her teeth again and whispered: "Pass my orders, as long as they come out, they will be killed."

There were only five members of the Shangqing Tower in the Drum Tower, and Xie Ying led four of her men, who were on Li Zhen's orders to find other forces that had entered Fangzhou.

Xie Ying and they showed that there was a group of people of unknown origin hidden in the Baoguo Temple, in order to find out the true face of this group of people, Xie Ying led his men to sneak into the Baoguo Temple, but they were unexpectedly discovered by the other party, but they were trapped in the drum tower.

Xie Ying was very nervous in her heart, it turned out that the other party was Wu Furong, of course she knew the grudge between Wu Chengsi and her master, she had realized that Wu Furong would never let go of herself, and tonight it was up to her to see if she could break through.

"Thank you Miss Wu for your kindness, let's clean up and leave immediately"

Xie Ying was preparing for Wu Furong while they used fire folds to ignite the wooden frame and curtain cloth in the drum tower, and thick smoke and flames began to rise in the drum tower.

Wu Furong was taken aback, and immediately shouted: "Kill it"

More than 20 black shadows jumped into the Drum Tower compound one after another, rushing towards the Drum Tower from all directions, just as they were close to the Drum Tower, several black shadows rushed out from the northwest corner, the sword light flashed, and instantly split the two surrounding warriors, and a long scream sounded in the night sky.

Xie Ying led five of his men to rush to the northwest corridor, and at the end of the corridor was a small door that led to the backyard of the temple, from where it was possible to escape.

Wu Furong was furious, she stared at Xie Ying's back and shouted: "Don't care about the drum tower, catch up with them, and never let them escape"

More than two dozen samurai shouted loudly and gave close pursuit to the fleeing five.

Baoguo Temple occupies a large area, many houses, complex structure, Xie Ying led his men into a dead alley, the gate at the end of the alley hung a thick iron chain, unable to get out, helpless, they had to turn around and return to the backyard.

As soon as they ran into the courtyard, the three black-clothed warriors lurking on the wall jumped down, this was the secret sentry deployed by Wu Furong, and Xie Ying and five of his men were intercepted.

Xie Ying was in a hurry and shouted, "Rush over"

"It's too late" Wu Furong sneered behind her, and then nearly twenty black-clothed warriors entered the courtyard, they came fiercely, and instantly scattered Xie Ying and her men.

It was impossible to escape, Xie Ying could only fight to the death, and the two sides launched a fierce battle in the backyard, with swords and swords, and screams kept coming.

A Shangqinglou warrior was surrounded by four Wu Furong's men, he struggled to kill one person, but he couldn't resist the attack of the other three swords, but he was pierced through the vest by the sword of Wu Furong who sneaked up from behind, he screamed and died tragically under Wu Furong's sword.

Another Shangqinglou warrior was covered in blood and slashed his sword, and he fought his way out of the encirclement, but he only staggered two steps before falling to the ground and never waking up.

Xie Ying was besieged by seven Wu Furong's men, she swung her sword left and right, extremely difficult, if it wasn't for Wu Furong who ordered her to be captured alive, I'm afraid she would also be dead on the spot, at this time, another Shangqinglou warrior was killed, only a moment, only two of Xie Ying's five subordinates were left, and Xie Ying struggled to support together, nearly twenty black-clothed people surrounded the three of them, Wu Furong sneered: "Xie Daogu, if you abandon the sword and surrender, maybe I will spare your life, otherwise today next year will be your sacrifice day"

"Phew, you, kill me if you have a kind"

Wu Furong gritted her teeth viciously and said: "Since you have to eat the penalty wine if you don't eat the toast, then I will fulfill you and fall into my hands, it is not so easy for you to die, I will let you not survive, you can't die, kill the other two for me first"

As soon as her voice fell, she felt a cold wind in the back of her neck, and it was too late to hide, only to feel a cold and sharp long sword stabbed against her neck, she immediately rolled on the ground, rolled more than a foot away, and then felt a sharp pain in her left ear, her hand was touched, her hand was full of blood, her left ear was gone, only a small piece of flesh was left with skin, and Wu Furong screamed hysterically.

At this time, not only Wu Furong screamed, but also the surrounding subordinates screamed, Zhao Qiuniang led more than a dozen internal guard warriors to arrive in time, they attacked from behind, catching Wu Furong and her men off guard, and five or six people were killed in an instant.

Wu Furong covered her ears and took a few steps back, and opposite her stood a slender young woman, wearing a black samurai uniform and holding a sharp long sword, staring at her coldly, it was her enemy Di Yan, and one of Wu Furong's ears was still on the tip of the sword.

Although this is an opportunity to kill Wu Furong, Di Yan still did not make a death move at the last moment, Wu Furong is the deputy commander of the internal security of the imperial court after all, and the county lord of the Wu family, although killing her is happy, it will affect her father, but just let her go Di Yan was not reconciled, so he cut off her ear with a sword.

"It's You"

Wu Furong's eyes shot extreme hatred, staring at Di Yan, she suddenly screamed, swung her sword and threw it at Di Yan, Di Yan's body was lightly vertical, and she flipped in the air, the long sword swung in the air, and slashed at her right ear with great speed, Di Yan obviously wanted to cut off her other ear as well.

Wu Furong stabbed the air with a sword, knowing that something was wrong, her body immediately leaned forward, only to see a sword light flashing, although Di Yan's long sword did not cut Wu Furong's right ear, but her head was cut off, only to see the sky full of blue silk flying, Wu Furong's head was cut off a large piece.

In just two rounds, Wu Furong suffered two big losses and almost died, she finally calmed down, and took a few steps back, now her men are no match for the other party, and they have lost nearly half, she shouted, "Withdraw"

She turned around and ran towards the front yard of the Buddhist temple, and the remaining subordinates withdrew to fight, but there were still three people who could not withdraw from the pressure of the internal guard warriors, and were killed by Zhao Qiuniang's men, and the ground was full of corpses, Wu Furong led the people to withdraw from the Baoguo Temple and disappeared into the dark night.

At this time, Xie Ying's legs were weak and she almost collapsed to the ground, Zhao Qiuniang hurriedly supported her, and urgently ordered her subordinates to take the wound medicine, Xie Ying panted and said: "Thanks to your timely rescue, I was able to escape death." ”

"It was Aunt Dao who lit the drum tower in time and gave us the signal, otherwise we wouldn't have known you were here. ”

At this time, an internal guard warrior stepped forward and reported to Zhao Qiuniang: "Report to the captain, we have killed a total of eleven people on the other side. ”

"How many brothers have we lost?"

"We have nothing to lose, but—"

The warrior glanced at Xie Ying, hesitated, and said in a low voice: "The brothers in Shangqing Tower have suffered heavy losses, three people have died, and one person has been seriously injured, I don't know if I can survive tonight?"

Xie Ying slowly gritted his teeth and said coldly: "Today's hatred, I will definitely double the demand for them to repay"

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