It's a dark night again, dark clouds are shrouded in the sky above Dragon City, and the patrolling soldiers are patrolling back and forth on the wide street, and now Dragon City does not have a special approval from the imperial court, even His Royal Highness the Crown Prince cannot go out of the city. The former bustle of Dragon City is gone. Now at night, the entire Dragon City is dark, because of the curfew of the imperial court, the common people have gone to bed early. The loss of the gem of Zhenguo completely forced Emperor Tang Ning's madness out, and now suspicious officials and ordinary people are beheaded at the entrance of the vegetable market in the south of the city every day.

Suddenly, a figure moved quickly back and forth on the roof, and the tinkling tiles on the roof kept ringing. Soon attracted the attention of the patrol soldiers in the city, they did not catch up, but first released a signal flare, beautiful fireworks bloomed in the sky, countless patrol soldiers rushed in the direction of the assassin's attack, the inner guards, the Qianyuan Academy, and the masters of the various sects invited by the imperial court all chased in that direction.

Soon the assassin was surrounded in the middle, and the assassin at this time looked at the many masters of the Dayin Dynasty, and his eyes showed a playful smile, he reached out and pulled out his sword, and suddenly countless weapons hit her body, and her body was suddenly beaten into a sieve with only one breath. The chief guard stepped up and searched carefully, and suddenly she found a box in the female assassin's backpack, and he carefully opened the box, and a red light almost blinded everyone's eyes. Liu Cheng hurriedly closed the box and carefully put it into his arms, and suddenly countless masters came up, Liu Cheng hurried to the palace under the close protection of everyone, he wanted to present the life gem to His Majesty the Emperor as soon as possible.

When the news that the female assassin had been killed and that the Life Gem had been lost and recovered reached the palace in an urgent manner, His Majesty the Emperor was still staring at the ceiling with his eyes open in a daze. Only since the loss of the Life Gem and the destruction of the Dragon Cultivation Array, he has not slept well for a day. At this time, the emperor heard the news and hurriedly followed the reported guards to the front door of the palace to wait. When Emperor Tang Ning took the box containing the life gem from Liu Cheng's hand, his hand was trembling all the time, and he was the happiest thing in his life. At this time, Tang Ning's mood was as agitated as the mood of the new emperor when he ascended the throne.

He slowly opened the box, and a red light shone out, and he couldn't open his eyes. He hurriedly closed the box, carefully put it in his arms, and hurriedly walked towards the imperial study, he couldn't wait to restore the dragon cultivation array now, he knew too well how important the dragon raising array was to Dragon City and to Da Yinshi. When he came to the imperial study, he opened the stone door of the secret room, and hurriedly walked in, and there was an old eunuch standing on both sides of the door and guarding quietly. Tang Ning carefully took out the Life Gem, put it in his hand and put it in the direction of the Formation Eye, but when he walked three inches away from the Formation Eye, no matter how much strength Tang Ning used, he couldn't move forward a single inch, as if there was an invisible wall in front of him blocking the way.

"Hurry up and invite the dean of Qianyuan Academy to come to the imperial study. Downing shouted anxiously out the door.

The two little eunuchs hurriedly rushed in the direction of Qianyuan Academy, but after walking for less than half an hour, a little eunuch turned back again.

"Your Majesty, during the curfew, the gates of the city are not opened, and no one can leave the city without your holy decree. ”

Tang Ning was angry and just wanted to curse people, these stupid fools, now that the life gems have been found, as for those assassins, how can they be as important as the dragon cultivation array.

"Pass on my will, because the gem of Zhenguo has been found, and the entire Dragon City cannot be deactivated because of a few assassins. Starting today, the curfew will be lifted, and the people of the city will be free to enter and leave, and the soldiers defending the city will only need to strictly check and make sure that the assassins are apprehended. ”

The little eunuch led the holy decree and left, and soon the dean of Qianyuan Academy rushed into the palace.

Niu Qingcao stroked his gray beard, thought for a while, and said slowly to the emperor.

"I remember that in the top secret books of the academy, there is a record about the Dragon Cultivation Array and the Life Gem, and the eye of the Dragon Cultivation Array must be touched with a hand wrapped in blood, so whether you take the gem from the array eye or put in the gem, you must use blood to wrap the palm of the hand. His Majesty asked people to prepare silver bowls and silver knives. “

Soon the silver bowl and silver knife were placed in front of Niu Qingcao, Niu Qingcao carefully cut his arm, and the blood slowly flowed down the silver bowl into the bottom of the bowl. Soon half a bowl of blood was shed. Niu Qingcao immediately sealed the wound and carefully bandaged it. He put a palm into the blood, the whole process, the people next to him held their breath, quietly watched, Dean Niu Qingcao picked up the gem emitting a brilliant red light, carefully put it towards the array eye, the gem slowly approached the array eye, everyone stared at the gem slowly forward, closer to the array eye, suddenly, snapped, a slight crack appeared on the gem, as the gem got closer and closer to the array eye, the crack on the gem is gradually expanding, when the gem is a finger away from the array eye, the gem can no longer withstand the huge power of the formation, and finally shattered, turned into countless red powders floating around the formation.

Tangning stared blankly at the scene in front of him, and then he let out a howl of despair. He screamed like crazy

"How could it be, it couldn't be, how could it fail, it couldn't be, it couldn't be like this. "Now Downing is a little crazy, happy and sad, and it is easy to make people crazy.

Niu Qingcao, who was standing aside with blood on his hand, hurriedly said,

"Your Majesty, this gem is a fake. It's just a fake. The real gem was still in the hands of the Assassins. ”

Tang Ning listened to Niu Qingcao's words, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the gem was not broken, there was still hope for the restoration of the Dragon Raising Array. Tang Ning suddenly realized something, stomped his foot violently, and shouted,

"No, we have fallen for the scheme, quickly spread the holy decree and close the city gate immediately. Emperor Tang Ning shouted again and again, and led everyone towards the city gate.

A large group of people under black pressure protected His Majesty the Emperor and came to the main city gate.

"Immediately give me a survey of all the people who have left the city gates tonight. ”

Soon the records of the entry and exit of the four city gates were sent to the hands of His Majesty the Emperor, the east city gate, the west city gate, the main city gate, and the three city gates have no records of personnel entering and exiting, only the south city gate has two records of entering and exiting the city gate, one is the record of two eunuchs going out of the city, and the other is a family marrying a bride, because it is a special period, all the people dare not slack off, so the city gate guards of the south city gate inspected all the bride team in detail, including the bride herself, they also carried out inspections, and did not find any traces of it, because the city gate official insisted on checking the bride herself, and the two teams almost fought。 It stands to reason that this should be fine.

Niu Qingcao stepped forward and asked,

"Did each of you check it, did you do a body search? Have the horses, sedan chairs, etc. been checked?"

An apparently shrewd gatekeeper responded,

"In the past, there were only four or five people guarding our city, but now in a special period, there are more than 500 people guarding our city defense. The villain is afraid of mistakes, this bride's convoy, the entire city defense of more than 500 people went up to investigate, more than 500 people searched more than a dozen people, I think there should be no mistakes, we even looked at the horse's hooves, there is nothing suspicious. ”

Niu Qingcao stared at him and continued to ask.

"Did you search the bride?"

"My lord, we searched. The gate guard said with a flicker.

"After all, she is a bride, and we sent someone to search the upper body, and we are not embarrassed to search the lower body. ”

After listening to the words of the guards at the city gate, the emperor shouted angrily, and went up and slapped the guard to the ground.

"The gem of Zhenguo is hidden in this bride's pants. You idiots. ”

His Majesty the Emperor jumped on his horse and chased in the direction of the procession. Behind was a large group of people.

According to the old yellow calendar, today is the day of great murder, and it is not suitable for marriage. If it was usual, the city defense officer would definitely be able to find this big flaw, but because he has been arresting assassins day and night recently, and looking for the gem of Zhenguo day and night, he has been nervous too much and ignores this flaw.

The dark clouds in the sky pressed one layer after another, and the team that sent off the relatives quickly fled towards Zhentianguan when they left the city. His Majesty the Emperor in the back led the army in a hurry, following the mark of the horse's hooves.

Soon the crowd caught up with the procession.

"If you hand over the gems, I'll let you live. His Majesty the Emperor rode on his horse and shouted, but the team in front of him did not answer, but drove his horse and fled quickly. Soon hundreds of people surrounded these dozens of people, and since Tang Ning had already given them a chance, they would not be talking nonsense, and soon more than a dozen teams of relatives were cut into pulp by everyone.

Everyone searched carefully, but still found nothing.

"Report to Your Majesty, the bride is not in the send-off procession, and it is estimated that the gem should be on the bride. Liu Chengyu, the head of the internal guard, said.

"All the soldiers and horses, if you search separately, you have to dig three feet into the ground for me. ”

After a night of tossing, Emperor Tang Ning's eyes were already blood-red, and his spirit was almost on the verge of collapse.

After a night of searching, nothing was found.

The next day, the people of Longcheng heard about the Emperor's holy decree last night, and they all looked at the city gate with trepidation, and finally someone tentatively went out of the city. Everyone found out that he could go out, so more and more people went out of the city to run errands. When the people outside the city heard about the decree, they began to enter the city one after another for normal trade. Long Cheng slowly regained some of her former vitality, a village girl with a basket walked out of the courtyard, she took a basket of eggs, to send to the grandmother, when she came to the north gate, there were not many people queuing out of the city.

After she came for a short while, a long queue began to form behind her, because everyone hadn't been out of the city recently, so there was a backlog of things to be done outside the city.

Finally, it was the village girl's turn to go out of the city, she took out the residence certificate, and the city gate official looked at the bright red seal on the certificate, checked the eggs in the basket, and let her go. The village girl slowly walked out of the north gate of Dragon City, and she let out a long breath. Outside the city, another group of people was already hiding on the side of the road waiting for her, and when she saw her figure from a distance, she immediately appeared.

A tall man with a huge axe on his back fell to the ground in front of the village girl and said loudly,

"The Chilu Pagoda visited the master, wishing the master a permanent youth and boundless mana. ”

"Hehe, funny, you really recognize me. ”

Chilu Ta continued to kneel, obviously he was very afraid of the village girl in front of him, he replied with his head against his head,

"Returning to the master, the villain is naturally very sensitive to smells, and the unique aroma of the master, I can ask a mile away. ”

"You kid, you look like five big and three thick, I didn't expect to have this kind of talent, well, it's a talent, let's get up. The village girl said with a smile.

Chilu Pagoda and the crowd in the grass behind him stood up cautiously.

The village girl rode on the horse that had been prepared by the Chilu Tower, and followed everyone to run in the direction of Zhentianguan.