The morning sun has slowly risen.

The tired winter sun came belatedly and shone on this seemingly abandoned land.

The earth was cracked, the north wind blew through the lifeless yellow earth, and in the middle of the land was a mud house, outside which was a simple fence, and there was a well in the yard, and some sun-dried corn and peppers hung outside, everything seemed so unremarkable.

It's like any ordinary farm yard in this era.

But when the sun finally entered the house, it was a room full of blood and corpses.

He Tieming lay on the bed steadily, and he didn't blink a blind eye.

The golden dragon knife that had amazed countless people was placed by his side, but this time, there was no one who could dance him.

There were also three corpses lying beside the bed, with different faces, some frightened, some desperate, and some indifferent.

Everyone was injured differently, the only thing that was the same, their fatal wounds, were just knife wounds.

Without exception.

This is naturally Xu Yang's masterpiece.

Unfortunately, he ambushed all night, waiting only for three pursuers who had come to report the information.

As for the others who did not appear, he decided to give up on continuing the ambush.

For him, there is no more precious treasure than time.

He had to kill four second-rate masters one by one before the other pursuers realized something was wrong, while killing and wounding as many pursuers as he could.

It's hard to do that.

Even He Tieming, who was poisoned, could still pose a certain threat to Xu Yang.

If it weren't for the strange body style in the Hu family's knife spectrum, perhaps, Xu Yang would have been seriously injured at this time.

The other three second-rate masters, it is not clear how their martial arts are, but they will not be too weaker than He Tieming.

Especially those two who joined forces to go east, maybe Xu Yang could barely defeat one of them, if the two of them were together, Xu Yang was not sure.

It has only been one day since Xu Yang was promoted to the second rate, and the real battle was only the assassination of the Golden Dragon Sword He Tieming last night.

Or to be more precise, it was half time, after all, He Tieming had been poisoned at that time, and his overall martial arts had been weakened a lot.

Killing him yourself is more tricky than hard.

Of course, if a similar opportunity arises, Xu Yang doesn't mind using it again.

If you can win easily, why bother with it.

After all, what he had to face was a group of martial arts masters who were chasing him, not just He Tieming.

Putting He Tieming's body on the bed safely was already his greatest respect for the opponent who died under his gossip blade.

At this time, Xu Yang had already ridden his horse on the mountain trail, taking a shortcut, to chase Situ Lang, the third of the four.

As for Huang Chong and Fei Qing, Xu Yang did not hesitate to put them at the end to deal with them.

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Situ Lang was already very close to the imperial capital.

He didn't know how many times he had walked this road.

Almost every time he went south on a mission, he had to start from this road and return.

Among the four brothers, he is the only one who has started a family, so every time the four brothers go out to run errands, he is the first to return to the imperial capital.

He admits the love of his brothers, but the family is the one who puts the most important position in his heart.

That year, he was eighteen and she was sixteen, the best years, the most beautiful encounter.

Once the spring breeze is blowing, it is better than countless people in the world.

Then she left everything behind and followed him without hesitation.

This journey is 20 years, half a lifetime.

Although he didn't have a son and a half daughter with him, he felt that it was enough.

Enough happiness.

Among the four brothers, he is not the highest in martial arts, nor the most scheming, nor the smoothest in his career.

But no one can help but admit that he is the luckiest.

can meet the most suitable person at the most suitable time, in his previous life, he must have accumulated several lifetimes of blessings.

The brothers all say so and think so.

So did he.

So no matter how dangerous the task was, the brethren would leave him with the safest position.

This time is the same, compared to the other two roads, returning to the imperial capital is definitely the safest way, and she can return to her side earlier.

Now, it's only a few dozen miles away from home.

However, Situ Lang was more cautious.

The more dangerous the place, the safer it tends to be.

Conversely, the safest place is probably also the most dangerous.

It was this prudence that saved his life more than once, as well as the lives of several of his brothers.

Ten years ago, in the battle to besiege and kill the people of the Amazing Dao, if it weren't for his caution and not chasing into the seemingly empty Xingtian Temple like everyone else, then their brothers would have become broken corpses like everyone else.

Seven years ago, he was attacked by a sneak attack on the way back, if it weren't for his caution, the four brothers were afraid that they would have lost at least two or three of them on the Nine Heavens Flying Gu of the Miao Jiang Gu Poison Lady.

Three years ago,............

There are many such examples, and sometimes, Situ Lang also feels that his greatest strength is prudence.

Especially when encountering danger, Situ Lang always has an innate alertness, and he can premonition that something is wrong.

This innate alertness is a gift from heaven.

Situ Lang has always been grateful to God for giving him a wife who can rely on each other for life, giving him the insight to stay away from danger, and giving him three brothers who share life and death.

In this life, he has lived a more wonderful life than many people in ten lifetimes.

Today is the fourth day of the four brothers at the crossroads.

In the previous three days, I tracked all the way, and there was no trace left by Yan Ji on the road.

The pursuers who set off first, although their martial arts were far weaker than their four brothers, but when it came to chasing the enemy's traces, they were the real experts.

He knew that Yan Ji must not have chosen this path.

However, turning around at this time may not be the right route.

Instead of turning back and reuniting with the other three brothers, it is better to go directly to the imperial capital and dispatch more of the lord's subordinates.

This is the old decision.

However, when I got up this morning, that feeling of danger returned.

At this time, the warm winter sun has hung high in the middle of the sky, and it is time to take a break and eat some dry food.

He stopped himself and sat down on a flat rock on the side of the road.

Like He Tieming, he eats dry food that he brings with him to ensure his safety.

He is more careful than He Tieming, and even drinks water, he drinks the water in the gourd he carries with him.

Safety is the greatest guarantee that Situ Lang pursues all his life.

He didn't dare to take the risk because he was afraid that one of his carelessness would break her heartbreak.

The way she looks when she is sad must be beautiful.

Situ Lang suddenly had such a strange thought in his heart.

You're about to see her, right......?

Thinking of this, Situ Lang smiled.

Then, the smile with happiness on the corner of his mouth suddenly turned into a sneer.

"Well done. He said silently.

Twist around, shoot out, gun out like a dragon.

Under the warm winter sun, the flame spear bloomed with unprecedented light, like a fire dragon, stabbing at the figure behind him.

Resolutely, resolutely.