Since the founding of the Great Chen three years ago, Chen Baxian still uses the imperial palace of the Southern Dynasty since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, that is, the Jiankang Palace, which is located in the north-central area of the Jiankang capital.

There are eight gates in the palace city, the south is in the middle of the big Sima Gate for the emperor to enter and exit, is facing the Xuanyang Gate of the capital, and between the two gates is the imperial road, that is, the central axis of the whole capital.

Jiankang Palace is also known as Yuancheng, also known as Taicheng, the city wall is ten zhang higher than the city wall of more than 20 zhang high, the so-called Kyoto has something, and the Taicheng is solid.

With such a high city, even a master at the level of a great grandmaster could not easily jump over the city wall and sneak into the palace purely by light skill.

In this era of frequent wars, Miyagi was not tightly guarded.

Especially at night, in addition to five steps and one sentry, three steps and one post, a large brazier was erected at every three zhang on the head of the city, and a raging flame was lit with wood and pine resin, illuminating a large area of the nearby wall, so that anyone who wanted to climb the city wall had nothing to hide!

Of course, in the eyes of some people, it is too stupid and untechnical to want to sneak into the palace city and climb the city wall at night!

As the main side gate to enter and exit the palace, Donghua Gate is lined with soldiers and guarded in front of it.

Seeing that the sky was getting dark, the guard estimated that the time was almost up, so he waved his hand and ordered his guards: "Prepare to close the door and lock it!"

At this moment, an ugly call from a male duck came from afar: "Old Chen...... Wait a minute!...... Whew, swoop, and so on!"

The guard turned his head to look, but saw a tall and thin young man dressed in the costume of an inner eunuch rushing towards him, running out of breath.

When he got closer, the guard general said unhappily: "Xu Zhongxian, how did you get it?...... It's not that you don't know the rules of our guards, it's too late to be locked, but you have to eat military sticks!"

'Xu Zhongxian' gasped for breath as he hurried towards the palace gate. Annoyed responded, "Hey, don't mention it......

Those pickpockets who killed a thousand knives took away the purse of the miscellaneous family, so that the miscellaneous family had no money to hire a carriage, and walked all the way from outside the city, almost not tired to death!"

The guard pouted disdainfully. sneered: "I'm afraid it's not a pickpocket who empties your purse, but a girl in a building!"

'Xu Zhongxian' shook his head and sighed, "I finally went out of the palace, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen, it's really his grandmother's bad luck!"

Lao Chen, thank you this time...... Next time I have a chance to invite you to drink!"

The guard looked at the back of 'Xu Zhongxian' who was heading straight to the Hualin Garden in the north of the palace and smiled, and commanded his subordinate guards to start closing the door and locking it.

"Crunch ......"

The loud sound of the palace door closing, and the corners of 'Xu Zhongxian's mouth slightly flashed a strange smile, but it was fleeting......

In the wilderness outside the city. A young man with only shorts left was unconscious, looking at his face, who is not Xu Zhongxian?

As soon as the upgraded version of [Soul Shifting Dafa] came out, the little eunuch who didn't know martial arts shook off the eight generations of his ancestors in a daze, but he would still be unaware afterwards, and he didn't know anything!

Shi Zhixuan was wearing Xu Zhongxian's 'skin', taking advantage of the fact that the sky was not yet completely dark. Walking briskly, I inadvertently touched my soft and smooth hair. I sighed very emotionally in my heart: it takes six days to give birth to the normal length of hair, and I have to make persistent efforts to cultivate this flesh * body!

In the past six days, he has been going back and forth between Jiankang City and Qixia Mountain, and has explored the general structure of Jiankang Palace, the general information of Emperor Chen Baxian and the terrain of Qixia Mountain through various means such as stepping on plates, buying news, eavesdropping, and moving souls.

Of course, at the same time, he also relied on the Yuan Shi True Qi and the physical * body to control. As soon as possible, the full head of hair was restored.

Originally, it was not impossible to grow two feet of hair in one day, but it would hurt the scalp hair follicles, after all, even if he was strong in flesh and body, strong in qi and blood, and full of true yuan. However, the metabolism of a certain part of the limb * body still has its limit, and it is too much.

However, if he really cultivates the flesh * body of 'breaking the void and seeing that the gods are not bad', it is really possible to grow two feet of hair in the blink of an eye!

And the reason why I sneaked into the palace today is not because my hair has grown, but because I received a major news yesterday - Chen Ba is sick first and is seriously ill and bedridden!

This incident is not very strange in the eyes of ordinary people, and how can people eat whole grains without getting sick? However, in the eyes of the masters of the forces in the north and the south, it is almost as good as a thunderbolt from the sky!

It must be known that Chen Ba has fought all his life and has never been defeated, but he is the overlord of the party who has risen in a hundred battles, a grandmaster-level master, and after ascending to the throne, he should take advantage of this idea to reach out, his momentum is like a dragon, and his martial arts have gone further.

Even if you can't reach the edge of the Great Grandmaster, you should still achieve the high level of the Grandmaster!

But now that Chen Baxian has only been the emperor for less than three years, he is seriously ill and bedridden, no matter what else, he is only over fifty years old, and he is in the golden age of a grandmaster-level master, so he fell ill so inexplicably, isn't it a strange thing?

If it weren't for the fact that he learned from Zhang Seng that the Demon Gate had been in a dormant period in recent years and had not come to stir up the wind and rain, Shi Zhixuan would almost have doubted whether Chen Baxian had fallen into the path of the Yin Demon Girl [Yinnu Da * Fa] and squeezed it out of adulthood......

However, this made it easier for him to plan......

When you arrive at the harem range, there are many pavilions everywhere, and the lanterns are shining.

Or because the emperor is critically ill, the minds of the vast majority of people in the palace are concentrated in the emperor's bedroom, and the attention to the rest of the palace gardens will inevitably decline, so that the real eunuch 'Xu Zhongxian' actually touched the Bailiang Hall as a treasure inner treasury all the way unimpeded.

It was so smooth that he couldn't believe it!

Glancing at the stainless steel chain and the large copper lock hanging on the copper ring of the temple gate, 'Xu Zhongxian' pouted disdainfully.

After sensing that there was no one around, the subtle spiritual sense turned his fingers into knives, and his feminine inner strength was revealed, like an invisible and qualitative blade, drawing a circle around each of the knockers on the two thick red lacquered wooden doors.

Then gently pull the door knocker, the big copper lock, the stainless steel ring chain, the brass door knocker and two round wooden boards fell off silently, and the luxurious red lacquered wooden door had two more round holes, which were immediately difficult to see.

A moment later, an irrepressible whisper sounded in the dark and silent hall, "Good fellow...... Hardware Elite, Essence of Dark Iron, Underwater Cold Iron, Extraterrestrial Meteoric Iron, Dark Gold Sand...... It is worthy of a world where the vitality of heaven and earth is on a higher level, and there are many genius treasures!

Huh, what is this?"

"Yin ......" A slight and distant sword roar, ethereal and ethereal, like a pleasant sound in the sky.

"Jiushao Dingyin Sword?...... What a baby!

Tsk, it's a pity that Xie Xuancheng is also attacking. Defeat is also a sound attack, use a sword to use a sword, what is it to be distracted and distracted to perform a sound attack? Without Ling Donglai's spiritual realm, the sound attack is not a real master at all!

However, the sword is cheaper for this young master!"

Then there was a burst of blades breaking through the air, as if they were slashing through wooden pillars. Or cut curtains, or even move wooden frames......

The 'big thief' who did anything wrong in it actually understood very well that this treasure house of the Bailiang Palace, which had accumulated cherished ores and divine weapons for several generations of the Southern Dynasty, was a priceless place in the eyes of people in the martial arts, but in the inner courtyard of the palace, if it was not for the emperor's order, it was a remote place that no one cared about.

Just because from the prince and concubine to the palace maid and eunuch. Everyone knows that in this palace, everything such as Huang Bai, divine soldiers, ores, beautiful jade, etc., is empty, and only one thing is true - power!

Those who have power, even if they have nothing, will eventually have everything, and those who have no power, even if they have everything, will eventually have nothing!

A moment later. 'Xu Zhongxian', who was carrying a package and a sword in his hand, flashed out of the Bailiang Palace, turned around and gently closed the door of the hall. Press back the door knocker, and immediately take advantage of the night, sneak towards the Hualin Garden next to it.

In the Bailiang Palace, a little spark looms, as if a pillar of sandalwood is burning quietly......

As the largest imperial garden in the palace, Hualin Garden is picturesque...... Of course. The most important thing is that there are many flowers and trees, rockery pavilions, ponds and canals, which are convenient for lurking, and the canals lead directly to the lake and waterway outside the palace.

In the dark, 'Xu Zhongxian' strictly follows the characteristics of the palace in strict accordance with the layout of the north and south. After a little discernment of direction, he immediately selected a canal and slid silently into the water.

The outer breath suddenly turned to an inner breath comparable to that of the congenital womb, and he dived backwards towards the water inlet like a swimming fish.

Even though he was underwater, he often saw bright lights and longing for people along the way, so it can be seen that if he walked from the shore with a backpack and a sword, it was pure delusion to hide his whereabouts, and I am afraid that he would only be killed by force.

Of course, the most likely thing is that you can't kill it, but you will be besieged by countless elite guards, and finally chopped into meat sauce!

After a long while, the water flow in the canal became bigger and bigger, and it became more and more urgent, and it was estimated that it should be close to the water inlet of the palace wall.

"Huh?"

During the underwater dive, 'Xu Zhongxian', who was gathering his eyes, suddenly saw the black pressure in front of him and the pillar with a thick human head, and secretly exclaimed......

In fact, in order to prevent anyone from sneaking into the palace through the inlet and outlet of the aqueduct and plotting against it, each inlet and outlet would be set up with three or five horizontal and vertical gates with thick stainless steel railings.

In the meantime, each of the steel pillars with the thickness of a human head is deep into the underwater foundation and connected to the gate of the city wall, and guards check whether the gate is in good condition every day......

In short, it's okay to cross the water, but not to pass people!

Fortunately, 'Xu Zhongxian' didn't want to squeeze out of the cracks in the less than three inches of stainless steel, and the only thing he really wanted to get out of here was the package with the ore on his back.

"Three steel gates, a total of five zhang apart, not far ......"

After figuring out the situation, 'Xu Zhongxian' quickly dismantled the flexible steel wire that had been wrapped around his body for a long time, and with a flick of his wrist, the steel wire passed through the gap of the steel column like a spiritual snake, and probed to the outermost steel gate......

In the Bailiang Palace, a little spark is rising.

This special pillar of sandalwood, which had been burning slowly for more than half an hour, was about to burn out, but as if it was returning to the light, a green flame burst out when the spark touched a pile of powder at the bottom, igniting a large pile of fluffy shredded wood and satin rags next to it......

The crimson flames burst into flames, illuminating the small half of the Bailiang Hall.

It can be vaguely seen that the satin curtains that should have hung on the roof of the hall and the big red pillars have long been gone, and even many of the thick pillars have been cut off by some sharp weapons, including the flammable red lacquer surface......

And beside the flames, which grew stronger, were piles of silk and firewood, and next to them were tall red lacquered wooden shelves used to hold the treasures......

At the underwater steel gate, the package containing the best ore and iron ingots was tightly tied to the stainless steel pillar of the outermost gate by steel wire, and 'Xu Zhongxian' was greatly relieved in his heart.

Even if the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi in this world is full of spirituality, and the spiritual power and innate true qi spread very far after leaving the body, the consumption is also small, but if you want to control the thin steel wire at a distance of five zhang, the consumption is not light after all......

After silently calculating the time, he felt that the fire in the Bailiang Hall was almost burning, and 'Xu Zhongxian' quickly sneaked back to Hualin Garden with the Jiushao Dingyin Sword.

This time, it was much faster, but it was back to the vicinity of Hualin Park in a quarter of an hour......

Suddenly, Xu Zhongxian's subtle spiritual sense sensed that there was a master standing on a stone bridge in front of him who was quite close to the grandmaster level, and he was about to dive under the bridge when he was about to run his innate breath to the limit and lock his breath......

"Hu ......" The figure on the bridge flashed and floated into the water......

'Xu Zhongxian' was speechless for a while: "......"

There was a soft thud, and the man fell into the water, just two feet to the left of 'Xu Zhongxian'.

At such a close distance, in the face of a first-class peak master, any retreat technique is in vain.

'Xu Zhongxian' did not hesitate to unsheath the Jiu Shao Dingyin Sword, and at the same time, he also felt that he was tightly locked by the other party's condensed momentum, and a domineering sword aura struck quickly.

The dark and mysterious true qi filled the Jiushao Dingyin Sword, and the sword body, which was originally a blue glow, suddenly became black and non-reflective, and the shadow was full of shadows under the water, and the sword qi was hazy......

In the blink of an eye, 'Xu Zhongxian' had already understood that it was not that he had exposed his whereabouts, but that this benevolent brother had the same idea as himself, and he was also here to be an 'underwater gentleman', but unfortunately the 'fate' between the two was too deep, and they just collided!

With a swing of the sword in his right hand, countless black and fine sword qi filled the bottom of the water, surging towards the opponent like ink, it was the [Phantom Sword Technique] passed down by the descendants of the Heaven Repair Pavilion, but the Imperial Sword Heart Technique was a [Sword Interception Dao] that had not appeared in the world for fifteen years!

'Xu Zhongxian' was hidden behind the jet-black sword qi sword shadow, and his body twisted left and right like a spiritual snake, and then he unexpectedly avoided the opponent's menacing sword, but instead took advantage of the opponent's sight to be covered by countless ink-like fine sword qi, and through the subtle grasp of the water flow, a sword struck the opponent's waist and eyes silently.

But this person not only dared to 'spread wild' in the palace, but also clearly held his own stunts, which was by no means comparable to ordinary mediocre hands, and saw 'Xu Zhongxian' display such a dark and mysterious energy, and after his inevitable blow easily missed, he immediately punched out with his left hand.

The whirlpool-like majestic fist power continued to wear away the fine pieces of pitch-black energy that filled the water, but before he could see clearly, the skin of his waist and eyes was faintly cold.

He knew that this was the intuition honed by the rest of his life on the battlefield to remind him that the opponent's blade was quietly looking at his waist, and he couldn't help but snort coldly, and waved his sword to block without hesitation.

Even if he was underwater, 'Xu Zhongxian' could clearly hear the commanding spirit and iron-blooded domineering contained in the other party's humming.

"Peng!"

The blades clashed, the sword qi exploded, and the water flowed backwards. (To be continued.) )