Through a series of investigations and reasoning, Xiaoyaozi can almost restore the true situation of Huoyun's killing. It is obvious that Huoyun must have been ambushed after leaving the inn, and his killer used a very sharp and cruel means to pierce the Baihui point above his head with a knife, and then threw him off the cliff, creating the illusion that he had fallen from his horse and died from his injuries.

Then the murderer disguised himself as him, took the sulfur bomb from the fire cloud and returned to the inn, and set fire to Xiaoyaozi.

There are many masters of making knives in the rivers and lakes, but there are not many masters who can kill Huoyun so cleanly, and more importantly, this master of making knives is still a person who is extremely good at disguise. Xiaoyaozi thought about it, and finally he thought of someone.

Ding Wanqi, the number one on the black hand list.

Ding Wanqi's sword skills are extremely powerful, especially his "oolong empowerment" that terrifies the people in the rivers and lakes! Moreover, his disguise technique can be called unique in the world, enough to reach the point of being fake and real.

But at that time, Ding Wanqi was killed by Tang Kai and Perak Hall Master He Zhichong in Lanling Pass three years ago, this is a well-known thing in the rivers and lakes, could it be that a person who has been dead for many years will jump out and kill people again?

But the knife wound on the top of Huoyun's head does seem to be caused by an oolong empowerment, and the only person in the world who can do this trick is Ding Wanqi as far as Xiaoyaozi knows.

Just when Xiaoyaozi thought that the clue was broken, Xia Peony reminded him, that was the bottle of wine. Because Xiaoyaozi always firmly believes that he will never drink so much that he will get drunk. Therefore, he suspected that the wine should have been drugged by that little er.

A colorless and incomatose drug, which is neither enough to kill or coma a person nor cripple a person when drunk, but only to make a person lose coordination.

In order to find out whether this kind of drug really exists in this world, the two decided to go to Tangmen, because Tangmen is known as a family of poisons, and the poisons in the world, as long as they have a name, almost all of them have a record in Tangmen.

Xiaoyaozi disguised himself as an old man and went to the Tang Gate with Xia Peony. This Tang Sect is also a relatively secret sect in the rivers and lakes, very good at poisons and organs, strangers are categorically afraid to enter the Tang Gate headquarters without the recommendation of the Tang Sect's high-level leaders, and the reason why Xia Peony was able to enter the Tang Sect was because her master Wumei Shitai had an old relationship with the grandmother of the Tang Sect.

Sure enough, as Xiaoyaozi and Xia Peony expected, according to Xiaoyaozi's account, Grandma Tangmen did give Xiaoyaozi an answer. This kind of drug, which is neither colorless nor odorless, is not enough to make people die and faint, and even has no sequelae, but can only make people move out of order in a short period of time, is called "half-day drunk".

This "half-day drunk" is extracted from a plant called Osmanthus Yantuo, but Osmanthus Yantuo is produced overseas, not owned by the mainland, which shows that Xiao Er is very likely to come from overseas.

What's even more coincidental is that Ding Wanqi, whom Xiaoyaozi suspects, is not a figure in the Central Plains himself, and his ancestral home is in Taiwan.

To be precise, Ding Wanqi's real name is not Ding Wanqi, but Ma Shiyuan, Ding Wanqi changed his name and surname after he fled to the Central Plains. Ma Shiyuan was once the leader of a huge pirate group, he occupied an isolated island overseas, plundered passing fishing and merchant ships, killed people and goods, and committed the most heinous crimes. Later, the imperial court couldn't stand it anymore and sent a large army to exterminate it.

Under the encirclement and suppression of the elite soldiers of the imperial court, the pirates were quickly annihilated, but the cunning Ding Wanqi and several of his henchmen relied on their clever disguise skills to sneak into the officers and soldiers who searched the island, and escaped from the disaster.

It is said that after occupying the isolated island, the officers and soldiers searched for the money that Ding Wanqi had looted for many years, but what is strange is that the officers and soldiers only found very small treasures. But everyone firmly believes that Ding Wanqi has been evil for many years, and there is never only such a little wealth, as for the remaining treasures, I am afraid that almost no one knows except Ding Wanqi.

When Xiaoyaozi and Xia Peony came out of the Tang Gate, they met a person on the periphery of Daba Mountain, and that was the murderer who killed Xia Peony's master, Wumei Shitai, and Yun Zhongyue, who ranked second on the black hand list.

That time, Xia Peony and Xiaoyaozi teamed up to have a big battle with Yun Zhongyue, this Yun Zhongyue's swordsmanship is extremely high, even if the two join forces, they are not Yun Zhongyue's opponents, in that battle, Xiaoyaozi was not lightly injured, but what is strange is that Yun Zhongyue was obviously able to kill Xiaoyaozi and Xia Peony, but she didn't kill the two, but after defeating the two, they fled.

In that ruined temple, Xia Peony's face was a little solemn, although Xiaoyaozi's injury was not fatal, but it was also extremely injured. That night, Xia Peony told Xiaoyaozi a lot of things, about Yun Zhongyue, saying that Yun Zhongyue was not only extremely high in swordsmanship, but also had an extremely powerful way of using secret weapons.

He was able to send out sixty-four hidden weapons in an instant with his bare hands, and these sixty-four hidden weapons could envelop the opponent in all directions, almost making the opponent unavoidable.

That night was also the last night of Xiaoyaozi and Xia Peony together, after Xia Peony asked Xiaoyaozi to let him help kill the master of the Perak Hall, He Zhichong and the county order of Feng County, he took advantage of Xiaoyaozi's unpreparedness and sealed Xiaoyaozi's acupoint. Since then, it has disappeared from Xiaoyaozi's field of vision.

Maybe Xia Peony went to continue chasing Yun Zhongyue, or maybe it was her fight with Yun Zhongyue this time, knowing that she was not Yun Zhongyue's opponent, and hiding in a deep mountain stream to practice martial arts, in short, after that, Xiaoyaozi never saw her again, nor did she hear from her and Yun Zhongyue again.

Although Xiaoyaozi is the tenth ranked killer in the rivers and lakes, even a master like him doesn't know much about the top three killers, and it can even be said that he only knows the rankings of those people and some of the more famous glorious records.

For example, Nangong Fei, who ranks first, should be the most mysterious existence in the killer list, and there are very few people who have seen his true face, only know that he once assassinated the previous emperor, although the assassination failed, but he retreated from the palace compound where the masters gathered.

Later, there were rumors in the rivers and lakes that he died at the hands of a mysterious being, but no one knows whether the rumors were true or not! People speculated that he died just because his silver spear was found on the edge of the Qianluo stream, after all, for a killer, his weapon is equivalent to his second life.

The silver gun was lost, obviously, Nangong Fei should have fought with someone, not to mention that he died, at least it means that he was defeated, as for who the person who defeated him, no one knows, some people guess that it is Yun Zhongyue, who is ranked second, because in the entire killer list, the person who has the strength to challenge Nangong Fei should only be Yun Zhongyue. But Yun Zhongyue has never said anything about this matter.

Now, twenty years have passed, and the name Nangong Fei has never appeared in the rivers and lakes, so it is natural that people in the rivers and lakes think that Nangong Fei is indeed dead. It is natural to push Yun Zhongyue, who ranks second, to the first place on the list of killers.

But the strange thing is that Yun Zhongyue has not said anything, and even rarely appears in the rivers and lakes, especially in recent years, there is no news of him, as if this man on the throne of the number one killer has evaporated from the rivers and lakes.