Two years ago, the twentieth year of Xuande, outside the city of Anyang

In late autumn, the night is like ink, the cold wind is howling, the trees are swaying with the wind, making a terrible "whoosh" sound, and the dry branches shine on the ground under the pale white moonlight, like the "ghost claws" with teeth and claws

At this moment, a carriage was galloping through the woods, bringing up a field of dead leaves and dancing in the wind, when the horse's hooves suddenly stopped, the horse neighed wildly, and then a cold light flashed, and the groom had a deep wound on his neck, and his body fell off the carriage with a bang!'. A group of men in black descended from the sky to surround the carriage, and the masked man in the lead drew his sword and approached the curtain of the carriage, at this time, several stones flew out, and with a groan, the other men in black fell to the ground and lost consciousness. Only the leader looked in the direction of the curtain in surprise, and he didn't even notice how the people in the carriage had made a move.

"Don't worry, I just hit their sleeping hole, and they don't have to worry about their lives. As he spoke, a young man in dark clothes lifted the curtain and slowly stepped out of the carriage, his cold gaze approached him, "Honorable driver, what are you doing in the middle of the night?"

The leader was visibly surprised, "Who are you?"

The man smiled coldly, "Why? I robbed someone else's carriage and didn't know who the other party was?"

When the leader heard this, he smiled contemptuously, and the person in front of him was only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he actually spoke wildly, and he sneered twice and said, "Boy, if you don't answer the question well, you will only be left with your life." ”

"Then we have to see if you have the ability!" said the young man in deep clothes lightly, and as he spoke, the long sword unsheathed, drawing a circle of sword light like water.

The leader waved his hand, and several other black-clothed people hiding in the trees flew down and launched an attack, the black-clothed man's attack was fierce and ruthless, but no matter how the black-clothed man besieged, the dark-clothed young man was always able to defuse the wave of attacks with skill. Strive to move quickly, and never waste every ounce of effort.

After a while, the weapon in the hand of the last man in black fell to the ground, and the man stood still and closed his eyes to breathe, the tip of the long sword trembling slightly, pointing low to the ground.

The autumn wind became more violent, but it could not disperse the fierce bloody atmosphere in the forest, and the leader of the man in black attacked! Fierce and swift attack! This is the speed of the killer! The two men fought faster and faster, and only two black shadows were intertwined in the woods.

The leader of the man in black underestimated his opponent, and he gradually felt a little powerless, and the consumption of his physical strength became more and more great. And the young man's attack was not slow at all, and suddenly the tip of the sword had reached him, and the leader hurriedly swung his sword to block, but he might as well swing the long sword from the left side, and his weak right arm could not dissolve the fierceness of the opponent's long sword at all, but was shocked and numb. Only to hear a "clang", the leader's long sword fell to the ground, pale face pressed his chest and retreated, finally exhausted his physical strength, retreated a few steps and fell to the ground.

Before he could breathe a sigh, the dark-clothed young man was approaching step by step, and the leader seemed to be frightened, rubbing the ground, sitting and retreating, in the fight just now, he obviously saw the other party's swordsmanship, "You... Are you from the Hengshan faction?"

The dark-clothed young man's face was dark, and he sneered, "The people of Lingye Palace are really not simple. ”

"What did you say?"

"I don't understand, do you?" the dark-clothed young man looked cold, "It's okay, I'll change you somewhere." Then his eyes fell on the groom who fell to the ground by the carriage, and his tone was a little calmer, "I said, have you pretended to be dead enough?"

The coachman actually rolled over, uncovered the thick skin on his neck, and quipped, "The chief disciple of the Hengshan Sect also has some reasoning, okay? Obviously, you asked me to play dead in order to observe the movements around me, and you dealt with the others alone, why are you blaming me now?"

The young man in deep clothes was the eldest apprentice of the head of the Hengshan faction, the chief disciple Li Zifeng, and the coachman was his personal bodyguard Xu Weixiang.

The leader suddenly understood everything, "So this is what you discussed?! It turns out that you rescued the son who was being hunted down by us, and then drove me out in his carriage?"

Li Zifeng squatted down and looked at him playfully, "There is nowhere to find out if you step on the iron shoes, we are worried that we can't find your whereabouts several times, but you just came out to make trouble at this time." Who the hell is he? Why do you want to chase him so hard?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. ”

"Very good, don't you understand, right?" Li Zifeng said coldly, "When you get to the Hengshan faction, someone will let you speak." As he spoke, before he could react, a palm quickly slashed down, and the leader fainted and fell to the ground with a bang.

"Bring it back to the Hengshan faction, hand it over to the master, and explain everything. ”

Xu Weixiang responded, "What about you?"

Li Zifeng smiled helplessly and pointed in the direction of the carriage, "I'll deal with that troublesome person." ”

"Uh... Okay! If you're happy. Xu Weixiang sighed lightly, "Take care." ”

The woods were quiet again, Li Zifeng sighed helplessly, lifted the curtain, and looked at the person who was already curled up in the corner of the seat, he looked up in shock, and saw that it was Li Zifeng, so he breathed a sigh of relief, "It's over?"

Li Zifeng nodded, and looked at this person carefully again, dressed in plain but luxurious clothes, exuding an aristocratic temperament, but a little green, Li Zifeng sighed, "Look at your outfit, you should be a rich son, didn't you bring an entourage when you went out? Also, why do they want to hunt you down?"

There was a hint of dodging in the man's eyes, "I don't know, maybe they want to grab some silver taels!"

Li Zifeng took in the hesitation that flashed on his face, sighed lightly, but didn't ask any further, "Forget it, I'll escort you for a ride!"

"Get out of the car!" Li Zifeng saw that the boy in the car was still unmoved, as if 'if you don't help me, I won't move' is both helpless and funny, saying that he looks like a noble son, and he really put up a shelf, Li Zifeng looked at him carefully, saw that he was breathing normally, and there was no blood on his body, and smiled faintly, "This son, if you want to be killed by the follow-up killer, just sit down, no one cares about you." ”

After that, he put down the curtain of the car and strode forward, and after a while, the anxious footsteps behind him hurriedly followed, and at the same time a voice complained in his ear, "Save people to the end, you saved me, and promised to escort me for a ride, and in the blink of an eye, I am still in the deep mountains and old forests, what is the reason?"

"Throw?" Li Zifeng stopped and looked at him curiously, the corners of his mouth hooked into an imperceptible smile, "Do you think you are an object?"

"You are presumptuous!" the boy's little face turned red, "he speaks so ignorant of the rules." ”

Li Zifeng restrained his smile and stared at this son with a deep gaze, not because he was angry at what he said just now, but the tone he spoke just now was like the son of a dignitary, or even higher.

"You... What are you going to do?"

Li Zifeng came back to his senses, presumably because of the look just now that scared him, and he didn't want to talk to him anymore, "Let's go! Where do you live, I'll send you back." ”

The boy said, "My family... If you live in the city of Guard, you can send me into the city. ”

"Good. Li Zifeng stopped being polite to him, and then continued to walk forward.

Childe hurriedly followed, "I heard you say that there is another wave of killers who were just ordered by you to sleep in the cave, why don't you also solve them?"

"Don't worry, someone will clean them up for me. ”

"You mean their leader, just because you captured their leader?"

"What do you say?"

"That's... Are you really the chief disciple of the Hengshan Sect?"

"Yes. ”

"Then presumably your master is also the head Ouyang Ze, right?"

"You know a lot. ”

"No wonder it's so powerful. Oh, by the way, don't you want to know who I am?"

"If you want to say that you have already said it, you don't need me to ask again and again. ”

"You're so boring. ”

......

Lingye Palace, hidden in the west of Anyang City Qingyang Mountainside position, through the layers of mountain gates, through the dangerous terrain, bypassing the organs all over the place, only to count the interior of the Lingye Palace, a stone steps straight down, came to the hall, there are several stout stone pillars in the hall, the oil lamp hanging on the stone pillar wall flickered on and off, the position in the middle of the wall in front of the carved huge tiger head, with a big mouth of blood, very hideous.

On the seat in the center of the front, sitting was the Lord of the Lingye Palace, his slender and withered fingers tapped on the armrest of the seat, and his cold and fierce eyes looked at the several black-clothed people kneeling and trembling below.

"People can't catch it, and the master can't see it well, and he has lost so many people in vain!" the ghost's voice was as cold and deep as its name, as if it came from a deep hell.

"The subordinate is guilty. ”

The Dharma Protector Han Feng, who was standing on the side, looked at the black-clothed man who was kneeling on the ground, trembling like chaff, clenched his fists, he had long seen that their leader Wang Zhuang was not pleasing to his eyes, and now that it had reached such a point, he didn't mind adding another fire. He took a step forward and replied, "The leader is angry, according to the report, this time it was only a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy who made the attack, but he didn't expect his kung fu to be so powerful, presumably it must be Wang Qiang's intention to underestimate the enemy, so he will ......."

Sure enough, Wei Mei listened, slammed the teacup hard, waved his hand to summon the guards, "It's not good to do things, it's useless to keep you, drag them out and throw them into the oil pot!"

"Yes!"

Several men in black cried and begged for mercy, and were mercilessly dragged away by the guards until the cries faded away.

"Are you satisfied?" When the hall was quiet again, the voice of the ghost came faintly.

The cold wind breathed sluggishly, and he never thought that his small movements could not escape the eyes of the charm, he couldn't help but gasp, his eyes flashed, and he breathed steadily, "Wang Zhuang is not doing things well, and he falls into the hands of the enemy, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit to eat, this time, I just think it is to teach him a lesson." ”

The Charm snorted coldly, and turned the blood-red wrench on her thumb, "That young man ......"

"Back to the Lord, his name is Li Zifeng, and he is the chief disciple of the Hengshan Sect and the apprentice of Ouyang Ze, the head of the sect. ”

"Li Zifeng......" Wei Mei muttered in a low voice, with a look of approval in his eyes, "The hero is a boy." Ouyang Ze has picked up a treasure. ”

Han Feng frowned slightly, for some reason, when Li Zifeng's name was mentioned, there was always an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

"Lord, subordinates will lead people to continue tracking......"

"No need. The Charm stood up, slowly descended the six stone steps, and walked over to the cold wind and stared at him, "You have other tasks. ”

Yeyang City

Autumn is high and cool, the clouds are light and the wind is light, the autumn sun shines on the body, the warmth is very comfortable, the lark street is bustling, the crowds are crowded, the sound of small traders selling comes and goes, so it is not lively.

In the Yunxuan Pharmacy located in the south of the city, Li Zifeng sat on a wooden chair, holding a Hetian jade pendant in his hand and carefully observed, which was sent to him by the son he saved when he was leaving, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, if he was really a rich child, he regarded such a valuable thing as an ordinary pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and did not cherish it, and gave it away at will.

At this time, a medicine boy dressed in a cloth shirt and about fifteen years old walked up to Li Zifeng and said respectfully, "This son, the medicinal materials you need are quite special, and please move to the back hall to talk to our shopkeeper." ”

"Good. Li Zifeng smiled gently, took the jade pendant and walked inside.

Not far from the back door, there is the backyard of the medicine store, a stone road leads directly to the lobby, there are flowers and plants planted on the left, and there are several medicine boys cutting herbs on the right.

On the surface, Yunxuan Pharmacy is a place to catch medicine and practice medicine, but in fact, it is the largest branch of the Hengshan faction in Anyang City, which is responsible for tracking and collecting the movements and intelligence of various martial arts sects, and Qingsong Hall is the place where Ouyang Ze and Li Zifeng have a secret conversation with the hall master Shen Zhiping.

A waiter-like man came out to greet him, "Senior brother, the hall master is waiting in the study. ”

The study is elegant and generous, with a faint sandalwood burning in the incense burner, speckled sunlight shining in the hollow carved windows, and a rosewood table in the middle of the room, on which are all kinds of books, and a brush is inserted in the pen holder. To the right of the bookcase is a unique bookshelf.

"It's rare for you to come once. With a calm voice, a middle-aged man in an ink-colored robe walked out of it, this person was the hall master of Qingsong Hall, Ouyang Ze's fellow disciple Shen Zhiping, Li Zifeng hurriedly and respectfully bowed to the disciple, "Disciple to meet uncle." ”

"No need to be polite, sit down!"

After the two of them sat down, a waiter brought hot tea and hurriedly retreated. Shen Zhiping picked up the teacup and took a sip, "I guessed that you were coming today, so I asked people to prepare your favorite red date lotus seed tea and try it." ”

Li Zifeng was also not polite, picked up the teacup and took a sip, sweet and delicious, "I can't hide anything from you." ”

"If I'm not mistaken, you came here for the sake of the little boy you saved?"

Li Zifeng was not surprised that Shen Zhiping knew so much, "Senior Uncle Mingjian, the disciple was ordered to track down Wang Zhuang, a person from Lingye Palace a few days ago, and happened to see a rich son being chased and killed by him on the way, so he rescued him, and then when he asked about his family background, he was hesitant and couldn't say much. Oh yes. Li Zifeng took out the jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Shen Zhiping, "This was given to me when he left." ”

Shen Zhiping looked at the jade pendant carefully, the best Hetian jade, carved with exquisite double dragons, head to tail to form a circle, the jade pendant was hollowed out in the middle, loosely inlaid with jade beads, so that it could rotate in the middle, and the bottom was hung with yellow tassels, "Double dragon play beads, but not ordinary people can have." Shen Zhiping muttered in a low voice, and then smiled, "So... Are you asking me to find out where this jade pendant comes from?"

"Yes. ”

Shen Zhiping was accustomed to seeing Li Zifeng's straightforward words, so he responded happily, "If you believe me, you will leave this here, and as soon as there is news, you will immediately send someone to Hengshan to send it back." ”

Li Zifeng got up and bowed slightly, "Thank you, uncle." ”

The Hengshan faction is built according to Hengshan, simple and solemn, bordering Anyang City in the north and Yuxia Town in the south, which is the best terrain and the largest scale in all the martial arts sects.

The scale is large, and the hierarchy is naturally strict, the whole faction is respected by the head Ouyang Ze, and below is the solemn elder Haiyi, who is responsible for the transmission of secret reports and assists the head of the sect in handling some tricky affairs; the Fajie elder Yan Cheng is in charge of the prison and is responsible for interrogating and punishing the wrongdoers in the sect; Xiang Rui, the elder of Zongyuan, is responsible for the food and living and etiquette teaching of the disciples and attendants in the door, and is in charge of the etiquette arrangements for major activities; the medicine pill elder Mingsu has no real power, as the name suggests, he is responsible for refining medicine, diagnosing diseases and other affairs.

The following is the chief disciple Li Zifeng, who plays a pivotal role in the Hengshan faction, assisting the head of the sect in handling daily official documents, disciplining and restraining the younger brothers and sisters, accompanying disciples, guards, etc., and can bypass the elders to deal with anyone who makes mistakes, and if necessary, can act as the head of the sect.

Further down is Xu Zining, the second disciple of the head of the sect, and the deacon disciples under the elders, and then the ordinary disciples, the attendant disciples, the guards, the miscellaneous disciples, the attendant disciples, and the ordinary attendants......

At night, the Hengshan faction was a quiet and peaceful scene, Li Zifeng walked up the seventy-two stone steps, looked at the gradually clear mountain gate, and suddenly felt that the autumn wind was blowing on his face and warm. At this time, the figure hidden in the night gradually deepened, it was the secret guard who was responsible for the secret guard, and the secret guard saluted respectfully to the visitor, "Senior brother." ”

Li Zifeng nodded, "Xu Weixiang is back?"

"Those who came back two days ago, as well as the informant of the Lingye Palace who was arrested, have also been taken to the dungeon to await trial. ”

"Okay, got it. Li Zifeng waved his hand, and the secret guard disappeared into the night again, Li Zifeng adjusted his breathing, trying to make himself look safe and sound, before stepping into the mountain gate.

"Senior brother is back?" was greeted by Feng Yichen, the personal guard of Ouyang Ze, the head of the family.

"Hmm. Li Zifeng nodded, and wiped the corners of his mouth silently, "It's so late, are you waiting for me?"

Feng Yichen looked up and down, and finally noticed the abnormality in Li Zifeng's breathing, "The head received a report the day before yesterday, saying that you will return soon, and it is estimated that you will return to the mountain today, so he sent me to wait here, saying that as soon as I see you, I will immediately take you to Shang Qingyuan." ”

Li Zifeng frowned slightly, secretly sighed at Qingsongtang's affection, and felt his whereabouts clearly, the pain from the sword wound in his shoulder was left in the battle in the woods, and then he just asked his uncle Shen Zhiping to deal with it briefly, and then came back overnight, the pain stimulated his heart and lungs, and he couldn't help but take a cool breath, but he quickly stabilized his breathing, adjusted his best state, and followed Feng Yichen to Shang Qingyuan.

As soon as he walked into the gate of Shangqing Garden, a faint smell of herbs came, the smell of medicine that he hated to the extreme on weekdays, but it smelled at this time, but it made people comfortable, he was about to open his mouth to ask Feng Yichen if the master's body was unhappy, Feng Yichen took the first step to speak, "The head has been waiting in the study for a long time, please!"

Ouyang Ze's study is simple and tidy, and the incense burner exudes a good smell of herbs. At this time, Ouyang Ze was sitting in front of the desk to review the official documents, the candlelight in the room was glowing warm yellow, Li Zifeng was about to kneel down to say goodbye, but was stopped by Ouyang Ze, "If you are inconvenient, you don't have to salute." ”

Li Zifeng's heart tightened, but when he thought of Qingsong Hall, he was also calm, "Master, the disciple is late to come back." ”

Ouyang Ze put down his pen, sighed heavily, got up and walked to Li Zifeng to look carefully, and finally found a trace of blood hidden by Li Zifeng on his shoulder, and frowned slightly.

Li Zifeng was uncomfortable, and said embarrassedly, "Master, Wang Zhuang, the person from Lingye Palace who was captured this time, do you want to interrogate?"

"No need, leave this matter to the Elder of the Law Rings!" but you..."Ouyang Ze paused, changed his words, and asked casually, "How do you feel the smell in this room?"

Li Zifeng was stunned for a moment, and said, "Very... Comfortable. ”

Ouyang Ze motioned for Li Zifeng to sit down, waved his hand again, and the attendant disciple brought a bowl of red dates and yam porridge, and Ouyang Ze also sat back in front of the bookcase, "I think you are traveling overnight, you must not have eaten anything, so I specially let people boil the porridge and keep it warm and taste it." ”

The red date yam porridge exudes a sweet smell, which makes people appetite great, in stark contrast to the hungry stomach, Li Zifeng smiled slightly, "Thank you for worrying." ”

Li Zifeng drank the porridge in one gulp, with a satisfied look on his face, Ouyang Ze couldn't help but look at him deeply, "You haven't eaten well these days when you've been out, have you?"

Li Zifeng was stunned, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, and his hand holding the spoon also stagnated, going out for a month, there were many twists and turns, but Ouyang Ze didn't seem to be in a hurry to ask him about the results of the investigation, but always cared about his body, and said, "Master, you..."

Ouyang Ze waved his hand, he didn't expect Li Zifeng to say anything to explain, so he changed his head, "Xu Weixiang has already reported the incident to the teacher." It's late today, you go back and have a good rest in a while, as for the people from the Lingye Palace, since you sent someone to bring them back, you will assist in the interrogation by the Fajie Elder, and report it immediately as soon as there is a result. ”

"Yes. Li Zifeng's heart was awe-inspiring, he had seen the methods of the Law Ring Elder, even if it was a dead person, he could get useful clues from it, this time Ouyang Ze asked him to interrogate together, which shows the importance of this person.

"Oh, by the way, I took the best trauma medicine from Elder Yaodan, specializing in treating external injuries, although the medicine is stronger, but it helps to speed up the healing of the wound, remember to apply it when you go back." After that, he looked at Li Zifeng intentionally or unintentionally.

Li Zifeng's ears were hot, and he got up and saluted, "Yes." Thank you, Master. ”