Two years ago, the third ranked Sikong picking stars, once in the rivers and lakes openly claimed to challenge the moon in the clouds on the eighth day of the lunar month, the location of the challenge was set at the top of Mount Tai, every year on the eighth day of the lunar month, Sikong picking stars will be on the top of Mount Tai, many people in the rivers and lakes will also rush to the top of Mount Tai on this day, but every year on the eighth day of the lunar month, Sikong picking stars and those people in the rivers and lakes are full of hope to come, and finally go away in defeat.

In the past three years, Yun Zhongyue has not been to the appointment, and it seems that he has never appeared in the rivers and lakes, so gradually, in the first year, people just laughed at Yun Zhongyue's cowardice and did not dare to fight, and in the second year, people slandered and scolded Yun Zhongyue. But after the eighth day of the third lunar month, people in the rivers and lakes have begun to speculate whether Yun Zhongyue has died.

This kind of speculation naturally has its reason, after all, don't say that it is a top master like Yun Zhongyue, even if it is a slightly bloody person in the rivers and lakes, its dignity and pride will never be allowed to be provoked, if you face the challenges of others, you will only be ridiculed by the entire people in the rivers and lakes, and your reputation will be ruined.

Interestingly, after the rumor of Yun Zhongyue's death came out, another rumor was derived, saying that there was an extremely mysterious big man in the rivers and lakes, who specialized in killing the number one master on the list of killers in the rivers and lakes. After all, Nangong Fei, the number one killer before Yun Zhongyue, died inexplicably in the hands of that mysterious existence, and even the silver spear was thrown in Qianluojian.

Straight to the point. After Xia Peony left, Xiaoyaozi was worried, Yun Zhongyue's martial arts were so high that it was really shocking, if Xia Peony was deceived by the teacher's revenge and looked for Yun Zhongyue to seek revenge, although Yun Zhongyue did not kill her this time, it did not mean that he could let her go again and again.

Therefore, after Xiaoyaozi's acupuncture points were opened, he embarked on a journey to find Xia Peony. Fortunately, at that time, it was rumored in the rivers and lakes that Xiaoyaozi died in the fire, and his former enemies, even the killers of the dark river, did not come to him again, he only changed his disguise slightly, and he escaped everyone in the rivers and lakes.

For several years, Xiaoyaozi didn't hear Xia Peony's news, and he was already a little lazy, but at this time, in a wine shop on the outskirts of Jingyang City, he unexpectedly saw a person, this person was burly, and the most obvious feature was that he had a shocking scar on his face.

This person may not be known to most of the people in the rivers and lakes, but Xiaoyaozi does, his name is Wang Bing, known as the iron maid, he has great strength, and he was Ding Wanqi's most powerful assistant, but since Ding Wanqi's death, this person has rarely appeared in the rivers and lakes.

Seeing him here at this moment, Xiaoyaozi was also a little surprised, of course, at this time, Xiaoyaozi was already dressed in disguise, and he looked no different from ordinary villagers, so although this Wang Bing also knew Xiaoyaozi, but at this moment, he couldn't recognize Xiaoyaozi in disguise anyway, not to mention, the news that Xiaoyaozi was burned to death in the Xinyang Chu Country Inn has spread all over the rivers and lakes.

This Wang Bing carried a wine gourd, and after coming to this wine shop, he did not stay for long, but just made a gourd of wine to the store, and took a roast chicken and a few catties of beef, and then left the wine shop. It is expected that with a brute like him, even if he is in a hurry, he will definitely stay in this wine shop to eat and drink. But at this time, Wang Bing looked cautious, and Xiaoyaozi saw that Wang Bing's appearance was a little suspicious, so he followed him all the way.

Along the way, Wang Bing also seemed very cautious, looking around from time to time, obviously afraid of being followed. But Xiaoyaozi is the tenth-ranked killer in the rivers and lakes, and he has extremely clever tracking methods, so along the way, Wang Bing did not notice the existence of Xiaoyaozi.

Finally, after walking five or six miles of mountain road, Wang Bing entered a mountain temple, and in this mountain temple there were two of his companions, who were also very distinctive, one was thin and weak, but he was extremely tall, and the other was a dwarf.

The tall man is named Ma Wenshan, and the dwarf is Zhu Wenbin. When the two saw Wang Bing coming in, they hurriedly snatched the wine and meat from his hand, and then feasted on it.

The three of them said something in detail in the broken temple, and Xiaoyaozi didn't hear it too clearly, mainly because the strength of this dwarf Zhu Wenbin is not weak, even if it is by Xiaoyaozi's means, too close to them, they will inevitably be discovered, these people can sneakily hide here, naturally they don't want people to know about their existence, so their vigilance must be very high.

Xiaoyaozi only vaguely heard some sporadic words from their mouths, such as Wangfu, Wangyuanwai, and Dashou, and this Wangyuanwai was the most worded word in their mouths. Therefore, this king's outward fall also aroused Xiaoyaozi's interest.

He wanted to know what the relationship between these people and Wang Yuanwai was, or whether these three people had any bad thoughts about the so-called Wang Yuanwai. After all, these three people are also some famous figures in the underworld in the rivers and lakes, although they have not done any great evil, but they have also done a lot of shady things.

In this way, Wang Yuanwai became the target of Xiaoyaozi's curiosity, and after some inquiry, Xiaoyaozi soon got the information of the so-called Wang Yuanwai, it turned out that the three people said that Wang Yuanwai was a rich family in Jingyang City, and it was also a rich family that suddenly rose in the past two years.

Through a few months of understanding the Wang Yuanwai, Xiaoyaozi found that although this so-called Wang Yuanwai was a serious businessman on the surface, he was engaged in buying and selling human beings behind the scenes, and these people were almost all young men. On the outskirts of Jingyang, Wang Yuanwai has a large manor, in which there are many domestic slaves, and these domestic slaves are his thugs.

Not only that, Xiaoyaozi can feel that in addition to the king who seems to be weak and weak, his own strength should not be weak. Every time Wang Yuanwai buys and sells human beings with underworld insiders, Xiaoyaozi can feel the anger and murderous intent exuded from Wang Yuanwai's body.

This kind of anger and murderous intent is very strong, and only people who have experienced countless killings and blood baptism can exude such a strong murderous aura. It's just that Xiaoyaozi feels a little regretful that in the past few months of tracking, Xiaoyaozi has not seen Wang Yuan's foreign move, and he doesn't know his martial arts path.

The longer he tracked him, the more interested Xiaoyaozi was in Wang Yuanwai, he wanted to see what Wang Yuanwai was buying so many people for, or who he sold it to.

It wasn't until five months had passed, that Wang Yuanwai finally freed all the people he had bought, a total of a hundred young men, from his big manor, and then loaded them in a prisoner cart and escorted them to the dock outside Jingyang City in the dark, at that time, there was already a big ship waiting.

It seems that Wang Yuanwai is preparing to use this big ship to transport these slaves, after all, a hundred slaves, if they take the main road, are too public, and if they take the water route, hiding these slaves on the ship can naturally avoid the eyes and ears of many people.

In order to find out all this, Xiaoyaozi also quietly followed the ship, fortunately, the ship was big enough, otherwise, it would be difficult to hide the hundred slaves. It is precisely because of the size of the ship, Xiaoyaozi is a killer, and he is extremely proficient in concealing his traces, so when he was unprepared for the king, he hid in a small corner of the big ship, and naturally did not attract the attention of the king.

After following the boat through the river for almost three days, the hull finally stopped being so bumpy and entered the extremely flat water. Looking out through the gap in the board, Xiaoyaozi found that the boat had entered a slightly narrow river, and the river was still relatively deep, at least after a big ship like this entered the river, although it was obvious that the draft of the hull was deeper, but the boat did not run aground.

With this small river as a branch line, a smaller river channel is dug every other distance, and there are more than a dozen small rivers like this one along the way.

After entering the river, the speed of the boat was noticeably slower, and after about half an hour, the boat entered a huge waterhole, which was surrounded by a high embankment made of huge stones.

There is only one place in this huge arc-shaped embankment where there is a huge breach, and on that breach, there is a huge sluice, which has been hoisted high by thick cables. It can be seen that the tributaries excavated along the small river channel outside, as well as the sluice gate that you see now, were prepared for the flood season of the river.

Seeing this, Xiaoyaozi had to marvel at the vastness of this project.

On the embankment at the location of the sluice, there is a large marble archway with the words "Jiudao Villa" written on it.

Jiudao Villa is surrounded by mountains on three sides, facing water on one side, and this waterhole, Jiudao Villa is called Frog Singing Pond.

Jiudao Villa, located in an inconspicuous small county, but it covers an extremely wide area, the geographical location is relatively private, it has never been involved in the affairs of the rivers and lakes, so no one in the rivers and lakes will care about it, at least Xiaoyaozi has never paid attention to it before.

Following this ship, Xiaoyaozi came to Jiudao Villa for the first time, no, to be exact, it was the first time Xiaoyaozi approached Jiudao Villa. As soon as he approached the villa, he had a feeling that was so cold that it made him creepy, as if he was being targeted by a beast lurking in the dark night, and it sent chills all over his body.

The direction where the frog pond is located is the north gate of Jiudao Villa, in the position of the north gate, a very small wharf has been repaired, and a steep and wide stone ladder goes up to the north gate.

Xiaoyaozi originally thought that the boat would be close to the pier, but to his surprise, the ship did not approach the pier on the bright side, but stopped under a high wall, in Xiaoyaozi's doubts, soon after, the sound of "ding bells" sounded the sound of iron chains, and soon, Xiaoyaozi saw a very smooth trestle bridge surfaced, and another platform for ships to load and unload suddenly appeared.

And in the midst of the high stone wall, a stone door was suddenly opened, and a dark and smooth path was revealed by the light of the fire inside.