Chapter 23: The Fate of the Betrayer
Two days later at midnight.
The sky was cloudy, as if it was going to rain.
Zhoujiazhuang, which is thirty miles away from the north of Chang'an City, is particularly quiet.
Li Yan was dressed in black and wearing a fox mask, and appeared at the entrance of Zhoujiazhuang Village, and then, he raised his head to identify the direction, hid his figure, and disappeared into the darkness.
In the middle of the night, he came to the outside of Zhou Tai's mansion in the middle of the village, jumped lightly, jumped on the wall, and then used the technique of flying eaves to walk the wall, and came to the garden in the backyard of the house, and lurked in the shadows.
At this time, Zhou Tai was in the garden pavilion, entertaining a black-faced man, and the two were chatting happily with wine, the atmosphere was warm, and they talked happily with each other.
Seeing the face of the black-faced man, Li Yan's pupils froze, and a cold light swept by.
"Good guy, what the fourth uncle said in the secret letter was right, Zhou Tai really betrayed the Li family and walked with the Zhu family, this kind of villain like a wall grass, no wonder the fourth uncle wanted to assassinate him. ”
Li Yan's eyebrows rose, and he said angrily.
It turned out that the guest Zhou Tai was entertaining was none other than Zhu Gaochi, the core clan of the Zhu family.
Although this person has not advanced to the Heavenly Realm, he also has the peak strength of the ninth layer of the Mortal Realm, and he is only one step away from entering the Heavenly Realm, so he can be regarded as a master.
"Come, Brother Zhu, let's drink ...... together"
Zhou Tai drank the royal family's special Feixian wine provided by Zhu Gaochi, and he was full of spirit and drunk, only thinking that in the next moment, he could establish a powerful family, which was enough to fight against the Li family.
Zhu Gaochi came to win him over, he was 10,000 unwilling, but behind Zhu Gaochi, it was not the Zhu family, but the royal Yang family, which made him think twice.
He, Zhou Tai, is also a person with great ambitions, and he is unwilling to be subordinate to the Li family, so he agreed to Zhu Gaochi and dedicated all the information he knew about the Li family to the royal family, so as to seek royal protection.
"Haha, Brother Zhou is polite, if it weren't for the city guard map you gave us, our people would not have been able to sneak into Chang'an City so easily. ”
Zhu Gaochi laughed, his face was full of red light, and he was very proud.
Zhou Tai put a glass of wine into his stomach, spit out a breath of turbidity, and said happily: "This is nothing, my two sons and three sons, one is in the city guard, and the other is working for the Li family's secret agents." I sent a letter to my third son Zhou Zhiping yesterday, asking him to come back as soon as possible, he has top secret news about the Li family, Brother Zhu gave these news to the royal family, the royal family will definitely reward you, I hope that when the time comes, the old brother will not forget my hard work. ”
"How come, Brother Zhou abandoned the dark and turned to the light this time, my Zhu family welcomes it, if the elder brother doesn't dislike it, I can recommend your four sons to enter the royal guard, this thin face, my Zhu family still has it." ”
Zhu Gaochi does not exist in the mortal realm, and he is called a brother and brother to Zhou Tai, and his face is extraordinary.
"yes, that's great. ”
When Zhou Tai heard this, he was very excited, and said in ecstasy: "I have four sons, the eldest son inherits the ancestral business, the second son and the third son have arrangements, and now the fourth son has also entered the royal family, then I will die without regrets." ”
Zhu Gaochi listened to it, and pretended to blame: "Brother, what are you talking about discouragement, you and I still have a lot to do." As long as we provide the information of the Li family to the royal family in a steady stream, the royal family will definitely reward them, and dare not say anything else, but your fourth son, I heard that the talent is superb, and it is absolutely not a problem to enter the heavenly realm in the future. ”
Zhu Gaochi has co-opted the existence of Zhou Tai this time, and it can be said that he has spared no effort, all kinds of temptations, and all kinds of guarantees have been taken out to ensure that Zhou Tai will serve them with all his heart.
"Brother is right, we still have a lot to do. ”
The two looked at each other, revealing a look of sympathy, and suddenly they burst out laughing, as if they were quite optimistic about the future in the future.
Zhou Tai drank a few more glasses, became a little drunk, smashed his mouth, and said, "Brother Zhu, I have a private message here, I just got it recently, and your Zhu family will definitely be interested." ”
"Oh, Brother Zhou, please say, as long as my Zhu family needs it, I am grateful. ”
Zhu Gaochi clasped his hands together and bowed with his fists.
"As far as I know, the Li family has recently produced another Heavenly Realm existence, and he is a core member of the Li family, you Zhu family must be careful?"
Zhou Tai lowered his voice and said quietly, and at the same time looked to the side as if he were a thief.
"Really, who is it? Li Fangyuan, or Li Wenwu?"
Zhu Gaochi was surprised, and blurted out the two peak masters of the Li family's mortal realm.
"Neither. ”
Zhou Tai shook his head, his expression was embarrassed, and said: "It's Li Yan, who is known as a young genius, this kid, who is only fifteen years old and less than sixteen, actually broke through to the heavenly realm, which is unheard of." ”
"Is that him?"
Zhu Gaochi put down his wine glass and frowned slightly.
He had also heard of Li Yan's genius name, and he had always disagreed with it before, thinking that it was the Li family themselves who put gold on their faces and hyped it up.
Now it seems that the name of Li Yan's genius is actually worthy of the name. No, it shouldn't be said that this son's cultivation talent is almost demonic.
In such a short period of time, he cultivated to the Heavenly Realm, not what a demon is!
Hearing that another Heavenly Realm existence appeared in the Li family, Zhu Gaochi was worried, this news was not good news for their Zhu family.
For a while, Zhu Gaochi felt quite excited, and a table of delicacies became tasteless.
Seeing this, Zhou Tai could only lower his head and stop talking.
The atmosphere at the wine table suddenly became silent.
Under the flowers in the garden, in the dappled shadows of light and shadow, Li Yan had been eavesdropping on the conversation between the two.
His hearing, strengthened by the Star Map Exercises, was three or four times that of ordinary people, and at this distance, he could clearly hear the conversation between Zhu Gaochi and Zhou Tai.
"It's hateful, this week, Tai ate inside and out, and dared to tell Zhu Gaochi so many secrets of our Li family, especially about my intelligence, this guy, damn it!
Li Yan was furious, angry flames erupted from his eyes, he stood up suddenly, and shouted, "Dog thief, give me death." ”
He shot out angrily, struggled to drum up his true qi, pushed forward with both palms, and a golden dragon flew out of his hand and shot towards Zhou Tai.
This time, he shot with all his might, and Jin Jiao's strength was running to the extreme, and in addition, in the attack, he also added a newly learned ability-blood poison.
I could see the violent golden dragon, with a deep blood light on its abdomen, faint and silent, although it was inconspicuous, it eroded the surrounding golden Jiao's true qi cleanly.
"What kind of person, so bold, dare to come to my Zhoujiazhuang to spread wild. ”
Zhou Tai got up instantly and shouted at Li Yan's direction.
In vain, he witnessed the swiftly attacking golden dragon, and said in horror: "Golden Jiao is really angry!"
He and the Li family are allies, and they are a tyrant in the neighborhood, if they don't know the Li family's famous Jin Jiao Zhenqi, it would be strange.
"What's going on? Could it be that the Li family already knows that I betrayed them? How is it possible, this matter, apart from me and Zhu Gaochi, only my two sons know. How did the news leak?"
Zhou Tai's mind turned sharply, and when he saw the golden dragon approaching, he didn't have time to think, so he ran the exercises and shouted: "Iron Arm Gong!"
All of a sudden, his palms, as well as his arms, were dyed with a layer of black iron, as hard as steel.
"It's someone from the Li family!"
At the same time, Zhu Gaochi was also shocked.
He knew more about the Li family than Zhou Tai, and when he saw the golden dragon, he knew that he was the core clan of the Li family.
Without thinking, he immediately waved his sleeve robe, and more than ten cold stars burst away at the golden dragon.
These hidden weapons, as soon as they came into contact with the golden dragon, were shocked out and were useless.
"He is a master of the Heavenly Realm, and in the Heavenly Realm, he is not a mediocre hand. ”
Zhu Gaochi's face sank, an ordinary Heavenly Realm master, the attack of the True Qi release was definitely not comparable to his divine weapon blessed with True Qi, after all, he was also a master at the peak of the Mortal Realm, and he was only one line away from entering the Heavenly Realm.
Those few cold stars just now seem inconspicuous, but they are actually divine weapons-level secret weapons, but they can't stop this golden dragon at all.
It can be seen that the strength of the people who came is strong, and it is possible that the two of them together may not be opponents of others.
"Smack!" "Smack!" "Smack!"
Zhou Tai's palms flew like butterflies, and he used his iron palms to the extreme, only to smash the golden dragon from head to tail.
However, he himself was struck by the furious force and flew backwards.
"Bang!"
Zhou Tai's body hit a pillar, coughing up blood in his mouth, and only then did he stop the momentum of flying back.
"Who is this person, just the release of true qi, it is so difficult, could it be that the late Heavenly Realm exists, is it Li De, or is it Li Xinren?" Zhou Tai was shocked and guessed.
Just with his true qi, he was sent flying away, and I am afraid that only the existence of the late stage of the Heavenly Realm had this ability.
He didn't notice that in the golden Jiao that he had burst, the blood color melted into his palm at the moment of contact with his palm.
"It's over, I don't even have a low-grade magic weapon, how can I fight these two people in the late stage of the Heavenly Realm, they have a high-grade magic weapon on them. ”
Zhou Tai's face turned pale and he thought desperately.
"Boom!"
The pavilion was affected by the energy of the two of them, and it collapsed with a bang, rolling up a large amount of dust.
Li Yan stepped over, stared at Zhou Tai, and said coldly: "Old dog, you should die!"
"Huh?"
Zhou Tai looked at Li Yan's fox mask, showed a dumb expression, and said with wide eyes: "You are not Li Xinren, nor Li De, who are you?"
He had heard the voices of Li De and Li Xinren, Li Xinren was an old man, and Li De was a middle-aged man, and the black-clothed man in front of him with a fox mask had an extremely young voice, which he had never heard.
"It's him, it's the sun, it's the killer sun. ”
Zhu Gaochi drank excitedly, his eyes were full of anger, and he stared at Li Yan with hatred.
The killer Lieyang's iconic fox mask was a nightmare for the Zhu family, how could he admit his mistake.
The fox mask, the heavenly killer, and the strength are all signs of the scorching sun.
"It turned out that it wasn't Li De, or Li Xinren. In that case, I still have the strength to fight. ”
Zhou Tai's expression was relaxed, he stood up, and said: "Lieyang, it turns out that your hidden identity is a member of the Li family, so it seems that Zhu Jianwen and the other four people didn't die in the hands of your Li family?"
If it weren't for Li De, and Li Xinren, he wouldn't be so afraid.
His strength may not be able to beat the scorching sun, but it is no problem to escape alone.
"Yes, Zhu Jianwen and the others were all killed by me, I am Lieyang, and I am also a member of the Li family. Now that you know my secret, I don't mind letting you know a little more. ”
After that, Li Yan took off the fox mask, revealing his true face, and glanced at the two of them mockingly.
"Is that you?"
Zhou Tai opened his mouth wide, his eyes were shocked, and he couldn't believe it: "How is this possible?"
"How's it going, surprised?
Li Yan asked with a smile, his tone seemed a little playful, but Zhou Tai listened to it, and he almost choked with anger.
When he spoke like this, he was naturally very confident in his own strength, fearless, and not afraid of what tricks these two people would come up with.
"Brother Zhou, who is he?"
Looking at Li Yan's extremely young face, Zhu Gaochi asked in a deep voice, although he also had a vague guess in his heart.
"It's Li Yan, the genius Li Yan we just talked about. ”
Zhou Tai's mouth opened bitterly, and he regretted it slightly in his heart, regretting that he had betrayed the Li family so easily for the beautiful cake of the future that Zhu Gaochi had painted for him.
Now it seems that the strength of the Li family is even higher and unfathomable than he expected.
"Is it him? Is he the one who killed my fifth brother? and the three worshippers of my Zhu family?"
Zhu Gaochi clenched his fists unexpectedly.
If he hadn't been self-aware and knew that he was not Li Yan's opponent, he would have made a move a long time ago.
"Li Yan, are you here to kill me? You have just entered the Heavenly Realm, I want to escape, can you stop me?"
Now that he has betrayed the Li family, Zhou Tai is also ready to tear his face, quickly straighten his mentality, and say coldly to Li Yan.
"Joke, do you think you two trash still have a chance to escape today? In my eyes, you are already dead. ”
Li Yan's voice was piercing, he turned his back on his hands and stood there, without any intention of making a move.
"What do you mean......?
Zhou Tai's face was furious, and he was about to speak, but suddenly his face changed, he raised his arm tremblingly, pointed at Li Yan, and said in fear: "What kind of poison are you, why is it so powerful?"
His body was paralyzed and fell into a state of immobility.
On the other hand, his arms, from the palms to the elbows, the blood vessels under the skin catapulted out one by one, piercing the skin like sharp needles, like old tree roots, wrapped around his arms.
A large number of blood vessels, wriggling like living creatures, climbed all the way, covering Zhou Tai's entire arm in a blink of an eye, and quickly occupied his neck, spreading towards his head and whole body at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"What the hell is this? Give me the antidote?"
Zhou Tai was frightened and inexplicable.
He could feel that a powerful, domineering evil force was rushing into his body from his arm, eroding in, and the Heavenly Realm True Qi that he was proud of was vulnerable in the face of this force.
"Why should you give you an antidote, you better die. ”
Li Yan flicked his fingers, and a light blue light flashed and disappeared, penetrating through Zhou Tai's eyebrows, and then returned to Li Yan's hand dexterously.
It's the throwing knife weapon.
"You, you?......"
Zhou Tai's mouth opened, emptyly wanting to express something, however, he couldn't say a word, and he died of poison in an instant, and his body fell limply.
At this time, his body was all covered with valgus veins, which looked particularly terrifying and disgusting.
"No, I'm also in danger. ”
Zhu Gaochi never expected that Zhou Tai was also a strong man in the Heavenly Realm, so how could he be solved by Li Yanshen unknowingly.
While feeling ridiculous, he also deeply sensed Li Yan's strength, and as soon as his mind moved, he galloped towards the outside of the garden.
He originally planned that Li Yan and Zhou Tai would fight and lose both, and he would take advantage of the chaos to escape, but he didn't expect that between one move, the winner would be divided, so that his wishful thinking did not succeed.
"Did you run away?"
Li Yan's figure flickered, and at an extremely fast speed, he appeared behind Zhu Gaochi out of thin air, and the heavy palm knife was imprinted on the latter's neck, Zhu Gaochi rolled his eyes and fainted.
"Ding Ding Dong Dong!"
"Come on, there are assassins. ”
"Protect the ..... of Lord Zhou"
“......”
“......”
The piercing alarm bell sounded under the sky of Zhoujiazhuang, and the huge Zhuangzi lit hundreds of torches, shining the sky like day.
The battle between Zhou Tai and Li Yan had already alarmed the sleeping Zhuangzi, and hundreds of Zhuangding ran out from all over the corner.
"Dirt dog tile chicken. ”
Li Yan glanced at the group of people, his body jumped into the air, stagnated into mid-air, and then exerted his ability to stay in the air, jumping continuously, and flying towards the outside of the village.
"This is a master of the Heavenly Realm!"
Zhuang Ding saw Li Yan grabbing Zhu Gaochi's figure in the sky and shouted, and then more people looked towards the sky.
The firelight shone brightly, and they widened their eyes, and they could see very clearly that Li Yan's increasingly faint figure was rapidly shrinking until it disappeared into the sky.
"Oh, my mother, it's a Heavenly Realm powerhouse! Run, whoever runs slowly will be killed!"
When these Zhuang Ding learned that it was the Heavenly Realm that was fighting, they rushed to scatter one by one, panicked, and no longer dared to stay in place.
A moment later.
On the official road outside the village, Li Yan grabbed Zhu Gaochi, rode on a wind-chasing horse, and the two of them ran towards Chang'an City.