Wang Hao saw that the imperial decree had arrived, and all kinds of eyebrows had been informed, and his goal had been achieved. Especially when he saw Guizhuang's eyes with determination, he felt that this person was still very useful.

Wang Hao smiled, walked out of the door in a flash, and hit the wine jar under his feet without paying attention, only saw the shaking of the two wine jars, but did not hear any sound, Wang Hao buffered the collision with his sword qi. The swordsmen in the Sword Academy turned their faces when they saw this prosperous Xianggong and pretended to practice seriously. Wang Hao ignored it and walked straight out of the Sword Academy, he understood that there was no need to pay attention to them in his identity, and if he cared about other people's opinions, he was destined to live in the shadow of others for the rest of his life.

Wang Hao sighed, some time ago he was fighting against strangers and Khitan dogs at the border, and he also trekked overnight, which consumed a lot of yuan of energy, and he has not recovered yet. At this age, the body and bones are not as good as before, and it is still unknown whether they can practice to immortality, only the official position and silver are real.

The people have a very prejudice against the six princes such as Wang Huang and Tong Guan, and the swordsmen run around the temples and rivers and lakes every day, and their movements are clearer than anyone else. On weekdays, they will also secretly find Wang Huang's protégés and cronies through connections, but they still pretend to be high on the surface, especially when they meet the ministers in person, they will be extraordinarily high. Presumably, the martial artists and the literati are all materials who dislike the poor and love the rich and have to cover them up.

Wang Hao's words were only half said, and he didn't say them thoroughly. The emperor was furious when he heard about the Tokyo robbery at first, but later, the temperature slowly cooled down. Wang Hao estimated that half of it was because he wanted to make a big thing a small thing and a small thing, and the other half had a reason that could not be said.

Previously, Wang Hao had asked Guizhuang to monitor "Kou Laoxi", and when Kou Ze went to the river to fish, he tried Kou Yuan with swordsmanship. He didn't really take Kou Yuan's cultivation to heart, but wanted to lure the snake out of the hole and lure Kou Yuan's master "Lang Sword" Liu Sinji out. At the very least, it should be confirmed that the old guy's movements have always been around the Koufu.

Cui Lu investigated the case and found the Museum of Culture and History, which was enough to make many people panic. It's just that this matter is inexplicably involved in the Khitan rangers, which is incomprehensible.

Guizhuang struggled to sit up, only to feel swollen and numb, and the strength of the wine was still on his head, shaking dizzy. For many years, I haven't felt this way, dazed, lonely and scared. He only said that Cui Lu died and he was more unrestrained, which Cheng wanted to be sad about the rabbit and the fox, and even he felt ridiculous.

Cui Lu's body had been transported back to Shanzuo before he took over, and he only left a Maoling sword. What does the letter left by Xiao Han mean? What does it have to do with Cui Lu? What does it have to do with ten years ago? Why did I receive a notice from that person?

Guizhuang felt a kind of fear in a trance, and the words "come to Wudaofu first" have been haunting him in his dreams recently. He was afraid that he would become like Cui Lu and die in vain.

Some people have some strange things, obviously they are disgusted, but when you have been in contact for a long time, you will have an indescribable reluctance in disgust, Guizhuang shook his head, listening to the birds outside the door and thinking.

In the past few days of drunkenness, he has been practicing swords in the sea of knowledge, and in the blur and haze, he only feels that the sword moves are fleeting and his vitality is frivolous. He thought it was caused by his dream, and he meditated on it, but he felt that there was a vitality running through the three acupoints of Baihui, Houding, and Qiangjian. He was originally in the seventh stage of the second rank of the priesthood, and the drunken cultivation of these days seemed to be in the broken stage.

This sword thief still aroused Guizhuang's great interest, and there are fewer and fewer young and promising cultivators, usually rare, all of them are some old and decayed qualifications that are slowly boiling. There is not exactly the same between rank improvement and strength improvement, it depends on individual conditions. In the final analysis, fighting is a physical confrontation, not a literal change of rank.

Gui Zhuang cleaned his face, ordered thirty six-section sword masters, explained the paperwork, carried the Maoling sword, and rode a Shenxing horse to leave Beijing and come to Liangzhejiang Road.

The faces of the nine people who overlord have long been accurately recorded by the painter, and now they are wanted in the fourteen states of the two Zhejiang roads, two armies, and one hundred states. And the wanted notice spread northward, and all the fortified checkpoints along the road began to be posted to prevent the nine people from escaping very quickly.

The portraits of these nine people are extremely expressive, and they are all made by a Danqing skillful hand who lives in the southeast. This person's surname is Cao, his name is Ji You, after the Tang Dynasty's old painting horse general Cao Ba, the painting has ancestral advantages, and he also worships the first painter of the Great Song Dynasty Liu Xi as a teacher, and the painting can enter the second grade in the "Ancient Painting Catalogue" of the Southern Qi Sheikh. "The first product is naturally his master.

It turned out that Cheng Yiyi had long been aware of the unusualness of the two-story ship where the nine people were, even if he deliberately suppressed it, mixed with many scattered cultivators, there was always a surge of hatred in the sword qi there. He deliberately delayed, just to give Cao Jiyou time to paint nine portraits. Cao Jiyou went both ways, but when he was half a cup of tea, he hooked the demeanor of the nine people, and the situation of the nine people was complete.

Ba Ye and the other nine candidates met in Hangzhou, firstly, because whether they could break through Hangzhou was a precursor to whether they could return to Jinguo. Hangzhou is where the heavy troops of the two Zhejiang roads are located, there is the largest governor's mansion, and it is the intersection of the south and the north, and it must pass through and fight for it. As long as the defense line here is broken, the northward movement will be like a bamboo, and the limelight alone can overwhelm the people who come to intercept the north.

The second reason is that there is the largest intelligence collection center in the south. Different from the Yishui trio of the Liao State and the two envoys of the Song State, the spies of the Jin State generally choose the pawns of the peddlers, which are very scattered, there are almost no capable people, and the sword cultivation is even rarer. The so-called tree is a big move, the more ordinary it is, the more peaceful it is, Wanyan Aguda knows this truth very well, so compared to the assassin spies of the Song and Liao countries, the professional spies of the Jin Kingdom are rarely caught, and even if they are caught, they will not be caught by others.

The third reason is that there are many eyes and ears here, in addition to the Jurchens, there are also Khitans, Dangxiang, and even Uighurs. On weekdays, everyone communicates in Chinese, but when it comes to border disputes, each is its own master, and immediately begins to respond to the incident in the southern part of the Central Plains. The nine of them took advantage of the situation to steal the sword in the name of the Khitan, and they just happened to stir up the troubled waters here.

Showers, lightning, dead wood, strange stones, thunder, and golden snakes were the first to arrive in Hangzhou, and the spies of the Jin Kingdom had already begun to answer and prepare to leave the city.

The Haihe River and Lake on Liangzhejiang Road have taken the lead in strictly banning boats, and as long as nine people are not caught in a day, the water ban will be strictly enforced. The northern state capitals also began to tighten, and the Song government dealt with these tricky thieves with an unprecedented seriousness. So almost everyone can think that once the river is forbidden, the boat cannot cross, the waterway is impassable, and the thieves must take the land route west to Hangzhou, and there is no need to worry that they will cross the river in Jibei, because the empty body crosses the sea and crosses the river, unless there is Rashomon's giant immersion method, otherwise it can only rely on the boat.

These nine people rowed a boat and rowed away, such an obvious thing, Xue Song and Cheng Yi saw through it early in the morning.

However, it was said that Meng Ye had traveled all the way to Hangzhou since he fell, and he was extremely comfortable, and the fun of touring the mountains and rivers temporarily made him forget the pain of not being in it. On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, 36 people from the southeast, northwest and northwest of the Jianghu Sword Sect gathered in the West Lake, drinking and discussing current affairs about the sword, for three or four days, which was not enjoyable.

The first thing they said this time was nothing else, it was the theft of the greatsword.

The five-stage sword cultivator from Siming, Yang Kan, who is known as the "Siming Wild Guest", was the first to mention this matter: "It is said that the spiritual veins of the Wuyue Kendo Hall are in the three uniques of Yongjia Yandang Mountain, and I have never believed it. No, I finally can't hide it, the real spiritual vein of this kendo hall is in Yuyao Sword Valley. It's a pity that this big sword was stolen by the Khitans, alas. ”

Meng Ye also sighed, frowned, and said: "The good things in our Central Plains are about to be pulled out by others, and our own people don't know how to cherish them, so they are ruined." ”

Everyone knew that he was a pun on what he said, and he meant to be sarcastic about the court and Rong, but he didn't say anything, he just made a fuss about the big sword.

Jiangxi He Zhijian clapped his hands and said: "The notice says that this sword weighs forty catties, let me ask, can the princes here use this sword without moving their vitality?"

Everyone shook their heads.

Meng Ye suddenly realized, "I understand what Brother He means, it's nothing more than that this person was born with a good physique and extraordinary strength." This is not the most important thing, I am afraid that this person has the strongest exercises and has advanced cultivation. ”

He Zhijian smiled bitterly: "That's exactly the reason. Moreover, this person must settle in Hangzhou, and if you look at the officers and soldiers on the street, I am afraid that it will not be enough. ”

Yang Kan said thoughtfully: "This is natural, the swordsmen of the Royal Sword Academy will definitely come here, and Hangzhou City will have another bloody storm." ”