Nine o'clock in the afternoon has passed, the song and dance street of Shichang City is still lively, even more lively than during the day, the sound of silk and bamboo, singing and chanting, lingering in the silent night sky, the rich son, the officialdom is also enjoying the dance music of the heavenly palace at this time, the peerless good news, but in the corner of the city, those civilian merchants have mostly slept at this time, looking down on this huge city that is enough to accommodate six million households from the air, I have to sigh that it is worthy of being the first city of Cangluo, although there are more than 20 million people living here, but it does not look messy, The houses are arranged in an orderly manner, the single-storey houses are arranged like tofu blocks in the form of the word "Tian", and the multi-storey buildings are arranged in the word "Pin", and the long streets and alleys are intertwined in all directions, so it can be inferred that the person who designed the house and the block must have been a well-educated person. Otherwise, it would not be possible to build such an orderly and convenient urban streetscape.

The tall city wall of Shichang City is three or four zhang high, and at night the brazier on the wooden support on the city wall will be put into the appropriate amount of high-beam lamp oil, and no one can hide within four or five zhang around after ignition, and some lights that can be protruded out of the city wall three zhang away will be appropriately placed between the battlements, so as to illuminate the appearance under the city wall, and in addition to the city wall at intervals of three zhang away, there is a patrol team composed of more than ten people, patrolling around the city wall, to prevent the city wall guards from being lazy and dozing off, The second is to prevent bold thieves from coming here to try the risk.

Although the defense level of the city wall is very high, it is still not enough for a high-level knight with good skills. The tall man looked at the defense of the city wall from a distance, and found a few flaws, and then compared these flaws in his heart, and soon found the flaw that was most easy to break through, so he took advantage of the protection of the night and the lack of lighting, sneaked to a shadow under the root of the city wall, three or four zhang high city wall for ordinary people, naturally there is no ladder or rope can not climb up, but if it is replaced by a famous knight, it is completely different, I saw the tall man leaning down and bending his knees slightly, and jumping up violently, jumped one foot and two feet high at once, and at the same time performed the 'gecko skill' to attach the limbs and body tightly to the vertical wall, and then used the limbs to climb up like a gecko, although the speed is not as good as ordinary people walking, but ordinary people can't walk on the vertical wall after all. The tall man soon came to the city wall, near the city wall, and vigilantly showed half of his head first, and scanned the situation next to him with his eyes, sure enough, the lighting here is insufficient, and the city wall guards are also secretly dozing, the tall man is on the city wall directly, taking advantage of the fact that the patrol team did not come, he ran to the city not far from the two city wall guards, and when he came to the side of the city wall, he found the nearest alley about six or seven zhang away from here, the tall man jumped high from the city wall, and the tall man in a night suit blended into the night againHis body glided like a kite into the alley not far away, and the two guards under the city wall didn't notice that someone was flying overhead, only hearing a small movement like a bird flying by.

The tall man was overjoyed, but he didn't expect that the defense of Changcheng was just like this at this time, and he was happy but still didn't forget to keep a low profile, and walked quickly along the alley to the distance, about the time of walking for a cup of tea, and he was alerted that he was being followed! The tall man suddenly slowed down, listening carefully to the sound behind him, and as expected, although the person who followed him also slowed down immediately, but it was this second of time, the tall man could judge that there were footsteps nearby that did not belong to him, so the two of them walked forward unhurriedly, and when the tall man passed by a private house, he naturally turned around and entered an alley, and then immediately jumped on the roof with light skills, using the deep night to try to cover his whereabouts, with the help of many roofs and courtyard walls as a foothold, Quickly run into the distance, at this time the tall man already knows that his whereabouts are exposed, and it is difficult to get out of the city, and now there is only one way to get out, that is, you must hurry to the downtown street, and take off the night suit before entering the downtown street, pretend to be an ordinary person and blend into the downtown street, with the help of the large number of people there is easy to confuse the sight of the tracker to escape, so the tall man quickly ran to the distant downtown street, at this moment suddenly realized that the evil wind behind him was not good, and instinctively flashed to the side, In order to dodge the enemy's long-distance attack, the tall man needs to divide his attention to the back, to observe the hidden weapon sent by the enemy, and to use his body to avoid the hidden weapon, so that the running speed is naturally affected, at this time, the tall man noticed that the tracker behind him had arrived less than five feet behind him, and he knew that this was a tall man who could not escape, so he simply pulled out the knight's waist knife on his waist, Suddenly turned around and slashed at the shoulder and neck of the tracker behind him, and the tracker immediately sensed his intentions, and also pulled out the official wolf tooth knife at his waist to block the incoming knight's waist knife, and the two fought together.

【Source World Weapon Spectrum】

1. Official wolf tooth knife (excellent quality): The overall length is two feet six inches, the length of the blade is two feet one inch and two minutes, the width is one inch and five minutes, and the weight is one pound and three taels and two dollars.

2. Lingyan Dart (excellent quality): Shaped like a flying swallow, weighing less than two taels, the attack is average but the damage is good, and it can cause obvious damage to enemies without defense.

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The higher the quality of the equipment, the stronger its corresponding attributes (attack, defense, damage, etc.), but the play of attributes is largely limited by the user's own practice, and the same part of the exercises used will also seriously affect the actual combat effect of the equipment.

The quality of equipment is ranked from low to high: Inferior, Normal, Excellent, Excellent, Legendary, Epic, Legendary, and Artifact.

The tall man immediately showed his cultivation level when he performed his body method, and the first rank of the chivalrous man was eight stages.

At the same time, a basin-sized 'chivalry' has become larger and smaller, and then melts into the chest of a tall man.

The tracker sighed secretly at a glance, "The cultivation is not good", and then he also used his body to show his cultivation level, the first rank and ninth stage of the martial artist.

At the same time, the hands glowed with a reddish glow.

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The level of cultivation is used as the basic reference value for judging combat effectiveness, and under normal circumstances, there is one or two gaps between the 'ranks', and the outcome is unpredictable, but cross-'level' combat is very prone to the situation of being crushed in combat effectiveness, because every improvement of the rank means that the combat effectiveness increases sharply, and the attributes such as the 'essence and spirit' as the basic attribute will appear similar to the 'generation' difference, and the most important point is that all the advanced 'exercises' need the support of the corresponding level. In addition, if you have high-quality equipment, the increase in rank will be more exaggerated for the increase in combat effectiveness.

The order of practice from lowest to highest is: Beginner, First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth.

In addition, if the practice has completed the '10 stages', it will move up to the 'first stage', and at the same time, it will return to 'none'.

The two started hand-to-hand combat on the roof, the tall man danced the knight's waist knife, the move was wide open and combined with the chopping as the main means of attack, and the tracker was defended with the wolf's tooth knife, delaying time while fighting, the tall man was busy slashing left and right chopping but were parried out by the opponent's weapon, the tall man jumped up in place in a hurry, and slashed forward with the knight's waist knife, which is to increase the instantaneous attack power for the chop with the inertia of the fall, the tracker saw that the strength of the knife was very heavy, but he was also very confident in his own strength, Then he raised the wolf tooth knife sideways, and grabbed the back of the knife head with his other hand, slightly bent his knees to increase the cushion, and the next second the two weapons collided together, making a piercing metal collision sound, which was particularly loud in the quiet night, the tall man saw the opportunity to raise his right leg and kicked it out, the tracker hurriedly used his body to dodge, when he was still unable to dodge and was scratched by the tall man's toes, he suddenly felt obvious pain in his abdomen, but this level of damage alone could not make the tracker give up the fight, The tracker pretended to be unable to stand the pain and covered his abdomen with his hand, the tall man thought that the other party had given up the fight, but he also knew that this was the enemy's territory and could not fight for a long time, so he wanted to turn around and flee, just at the moment when the tall man turned around, the tracker suddenly threw two Lingyan darts from his hand, the tall man heard the sound of the hidden weapon crossing the air, knew that it was not good, and hurriedly used his body to dodge, but he only dodged the attack of a Lingyan dart, the tall man suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, knowing that he was injured by the hidden weapon, Although this level of injury is not fatal, but after the injury, the combat effectiveness will be discounted and the ability to escape will also be greatly affected, the tall man will put the index finger and middle finger together, apply the appropriate strength, point on the two acupuncture points on his chest, at the moment when the fingers and the body acupuncture points contact, as if you can see a light blue light starting from the acupuncture points, along the winding veins straight to the back injury, this is the famous point acupoint technique in the rivers and lakes, the function is very powerful, can hurt the enemy, can restrict action, You can also give first aid to yourself, and the tall man just used the acupoint technique to stop the bleeding for himself, and then gritted his teeth to pull out the Lingyan dart that pierced into the back and threw it away, and then he used light skills again to escape into the distance, and the tracker took out the signal arrow from his waist, unscrewed the arrow cap, and gently blew the arrow, the arrow immediately spontaneously combusted, and the next second was launched, with a scream, the arrow rose to a height of ten zhang and suddenly exploded, a red fire appeared in the air, and then there was a big ' written in Cangluo Clean', stay in the air for a long time can not disperse, and the nearby clean clothes division from the signal from the sight, but also immediately from all directions to chase over, this number advantage was immediately reflected, noisy arrest sound, let the tall man feel nervous, after all, he was injured, although he used the point technique to stop the wound bleeding, but his own point point technique cultivation is not high, so once in a hurry, it is likely to destroy the effect of the point point, the speed of action is weakened by the tall man, a careless rush to support the division from the discovery, most of these division from the ordinary sword skills do not understand light skills, can not jump on the roof to chase the tall man, but they can rely on their understanding of the terrain, just act quickly in the alley to achieve the chase of the tall man, and they will shout loudly to other teammates to surround together, the tall man is injured, and his whereabouts have been exposed, in the face of the situation that the enemy is outnumbered, he already knows that he is going to explain here today, and sure enough, the tall man who didn't run out far, he felt that the pain in his back was getting worse, and the blood had flowed out when he touched it with his hand, and it seemed that the acupoint technique had failed......

By this time, the tracker had already chased closer, and when he saw that the tall man was already kneeling on the roof due to his injuries, the tracker showed a smug smile.

Hua Nian has ambition: "This chivalrous man, are you injured?" ”

Tall man: "Hmph, you don't have to be proud, if you don't cheat, you can't win me!" ”

Hua Nian is ambitious: "Your skills are not as good as others, and you are defeated in my hands, and you are still ashamed to say that I am cheating?" ”

Tall man: "You can't hurt people with a secret weapon, it's not a good thing!" ”

Hua Nian has ambitions: "Hahaha, my goal is to capture you alive, otherwise you think that you can beat me in the knife competition?" ”

Tall man: "You do it, give me a good time"

Hua Nian has ambition: "I said that I would capture you alive, so I won't kill you"

Tall man: "I'm not going to be captured alive by you!" ”

Hua Nian has ambitions: "This can't help you, you can just arrest it, I will find a doctor for you to diagnose and treat, and if you honestly explain your origin, our Pure Clothes Division will even consider letting you go, if you can offset the merits, you can even get a lifetime of wealth, this is just a matter of my Pure Clothes Division's first words"

Tall man: "I'm here today, and I don't plan to go back alive!" ”

After that, the tall man stood up hard, looked at the tracker in front of him and the accomplices around him, and then looked at the dark night sky, not even a star could be found, suddenly a flash of light crossed the tall man's eyes, and the knight's waist knife in his hand was crossed to his neck, and the tracker on the side was stunned at first when he saw this scene, and then stabilized his mind.

Hua Nian has ambitions: "This chivalrous man, why are you so troubled!" You still have a chance to survive, so why bother yourself like this"

The tall man didn't reply, but just injected the strength of his hand into the blade, and with a slash of the blade, the two veins of qi and blood were cut off in an instant, and the blood immediately gushed out, and the tall man fell straight to the roof, thus losing the breath of life.

The servants of the Cleansing Division set up a ladder, and a group of people rushed up to dispose of the corpses and bloodstains, and rummaged through the pockets of clothes, but found nothing. And not far away is the downtown street, where it is still so lively, even if there are lives here, but it does not affect the people to be greedy for fun, the sound of drums and the singing of the singers are still narrating the peace.

The next day, the solemn Tailuan gold shop held a court meeting as usual, in the spacious and bright hall, the 39 people standing on the left side are all civil servants who discuss politics, and the 39 people standing on the right side are all beautiful women and men for His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress to see. There is a scene of about nine zhang high and about 12 zhang wide on the nine-story golden ladder, and the place behind the golden tent is three feet and three feet away is the Tailuan golden chair, and the golden chair sits two people, on the left is the current emperor of Cangluo Kingdom, and on the right is the new queen, because of the unique design of this golden tent, we can not see the appearance and expression of the person on the golden chair under the golden step, but the person on the golden chair can clearly see the appearance and behavior of the person under the golden step, and the court discussion has just begun.

After His Majesty's permission, a director of the Criminal Department walked into the main hall from outside the palace, first gave a great salute to the monarch and ministers, and after obtaining His Majesty's permission, he got up and began to narrate the events of last night and his own views.

The director of the Criminal Department: "Last night, a man in black suddenly appeared in the city, and he happened to be bumped into by the Pure Clothes Division, and the man in black was killed in the fight, this is the fourth murder case of the Pure Clothes Division Fighting this month, and the minister thinks that even small towns should not be so frequent homicides caused by law enforcers, not to mention that this is the capital at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and it should be a place where the law is more respected. ”

With that, he stepped aside.

At this time, the Ministry of Rites also followed the example of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu from outside the hall to greet the head of the Ministry of Rites, and the head of the Ministry of Rites also handed over his own notebook, and began to narrate the content, the Department of Pure Clothes is a subordinate of the Ministry of Rites, and naturally the Ministry of Rites wants to exonerate it, but the reason given is a bit ......

The head of the Ministry of Rites: "Last night, there was a black-clothed snitch who took advantage of the night to sneak into the capital and try to do wrong, fortunately he was found by the head of my clean clothes department, but seeing that this life is very ugly, he wanted to expel him from the capital, but this person refused to leave, and finally saw that he couldn't fight my main company, so he had evil thoughts and used his own blood to defile the capital market to vent his anger. ”

When the emperor on the golden chair heard that this life was very ugly, he suddenly felt a feeling of nausea in his stomach.

Emperor Cangluo: "How can this be reasonable, an ugly person dares to set foot in my capital, he really deserves to be killed"

Hearing the emperor say this, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites hurriedly gave the director of the Ministry of Rites a look, and the director of the Ministry of Rites immediately understood the intention and continued.

The head of the Ministry of Rites: "Your Majesty, as the so-called appearance is born from the heart, and the ugly person will definitely have a dirty heart. And music and dance music can best warm people's hearts, so that they can gradually make people beautiful, so the minister proposed that music and dance music should be added to the national examination, so that everyone in my Cangluo country can obtain beauty. ”

As soon as the emperor heard that this was the case, he couldn't help frowning, because just half a year ago, the Ministry of Rites had submitted a transcript to officially mention the matter, although he also agreed with their statement, but after this matter was raised, there were a number of ministers on the spot who objected, the reason was that 'judging people by their appearance, not gentlemen', the emperor still remembered in a trance that the words of the transcript were more intense at that time......

'The country of Cangluo should develop into a kingdom of music and rhythm, and all the people should be able to sing and dance well, so that I can turn the country of Cangluo into a heavenly palace Yaochi, and those who are born with a lack of musicality or dance skills are not worthy of study, and those who are ugly in appearance are even more unworthy of survival, and should all be exiled to the northern wilderness, left to fend for themselves, and save the darkness of the world with their beauty."

Part of the recital submitted by the Ministry of Rites half a year ago.

Just when the emperor was still recalling the recital half a year ago, a sudden noisy voice pulled him back to reality.

It was not someone else who was talking, it was the official book.

The official book: "It's just a bunch of nonsense, people's appearance is given by their parents, whether it is good or bad, people should not have grudges, and your so-called learning music rhythm can change people's appearance is just nonsense, not to mention that music is just an object of recreation, how can it be written into the national examination?" If you really do this, you will definitely mislead the country and the people! ”

As expected, as the emperor expected, once this kind of matter is raised, it will definitely cause controversy, and there will definitely be no conclusion. The emperor shook his head helplessly, his mood was a little bad, but he turned his head to look at his queen, and immediately felt that his eyes lit up, and his heart was not so panicked......

Before eleven o'clock in the morning, the main gate of an official residence in Shichang City has been surrounded by a group of servants wearing the official uniforms of the Pure Spirit Division, and soon the two deputy envoys broke into the house with thirty or fifty priests, and then heard the crying and howling from the house, and soon there were about sixty or seventy people from the old and young women and children who were brought out of the front door, and five people were in a team, all of them stood side by side with their hands tied behind their backs, and then they were pressed by the servants to the Pure Spirit Division. Today, a total of three official residences were raided by the Pure Soul Division, as for the reason, most of them found evidence of their corruption, or forming a party, as the most trusted organization by the emperor, it must always share the worries of His Majesty, and arrest and punish those unscrupulous ministers in the court who harbor disloyalty, or abuse their private power for their own gain. The people on the side of the street watched the Pure Spirit Division raid the house and arrest the high-ranking officials who despised them the most, and one of them was very happy, and some even applauded and celebrated.

At this time, the emperor was drinking and feasting with a group of courtiers in the Xianle Palace, and listened to songs and dances, only to see that on the red carpet in the middle of the Xianle Palace, a singer was singing, and on one side were twenty-four dancing girls dancing around her, and hundreds of musicians on the high platform on the second floor on both sides of the Xianle Hall were playing with the singing voice of the singer with the musical instruments in their hands. For a while, the bells, drums, gongs, pianos, flutes, and shengxun each did their duty, each showing its own subtlety, with the singer's unique mellow voice, as well as the dancing girl's desire and desire for dance, everyone seemed to be in a fairyland, especially after drinking the wine in the pot, they felt even more like falling into the sea, and they all greedily widened their eyes, staring at the dancing queen's exposed flat abdomen, and the white and soft waist showed the beauty of the female buttocks curve, which was really a family joy of the monarch and the minister.

After the luncheon feast, an attendant came to report.

Inner chamberlain: "Your Majesty is overjoyed, just got the news, the Pure Soul Division has made a great contribution to Your Majesty, Gu Cha reported that three important ministers in the court actually colluded with the anti-thieves in private to subvert the society, and now it has been verified by the Pure Soul Division, and now its whole family has been captured, no one has escaped, please Your Majesty decree punishment"

Emperor Cangluo: "Since it was discovered by the Pure Spirit Division, it will not be wronged, and it will be directly handed over to the Pure Spirit Division for disposal."

Seeing this, the chief of the chamberlain on the side interjected.

Chief of the Inner Chamberlain: "Your Majesty is really the most blessed person in the world"

Emperor Cangluo: "How do you say this?" ”

I asked proudly

Chief of the Inner Chamberlain: "It is precisely because Your Majesty is a blessed person that there will be so many blessings to serve Your Majesty in the future, there is a Pure Spirit Division in the court to punish traitors, and the people have a Pure Clothes Division to arrest the thieves, as for those monsters who dare to be enemies of my Cangluo, they will be solved by the people in the soul path, Your Majesty only needs to bathe in the fairy sound, and when he has completed his merits, he can fly to become an immortal"

When the emperor heard this, he immediately laughed, and the queen on the side glanced at the chief of the chamberlain, and immediately understood the meaning.

Chief of the Inner Chamberlain: Of course, Your Majesty's greatest blessing is that you have established a new queen, the Queen Mother is Your Majesty's immortal couple, and in the future, Your Majesty and Niangniang will fly together to become an immortal class, and we mortals will seek the protection of Your Majesty and Niangniang."

When the emperor heard this, he became even more proud and laughed even more.

People's blessings are always limited, because people will be limited by the length of life, but if you can cultivate immortals, that is longevity, for the world of wealth has been tired of the Cangluo Emperor, now the greatest wish is to be able to cultivate merit and ascend, although this is unattainable in the eyes of ordinary people, but some Taoist friends think that it is not difficult to ascend only when the time comes, and the views of Taoist friends are naturally recognized by His Majesty the Emperor.