Chapter 1: The Enemy's Treacherous Scheme
After Chai Shaoning and the three of them looked at the main gate, they avoided the lights and hid in a forest outside the west wall.
Looking at the courtyard wall separated by a wide street, Chai Shaoning said, "Please wait for me here with Brother Geng and Sister Fang!"
Geng Qiuwen and Fang Xiaoyun knew that Chai Shaoning would not let them go with him, because they were worried that if they alarmed the Nine Sons Ghost Mother, it would be detrimental to the two of them. Thinking about it, the strength of the two of them is indeed much worse than Chai Shaoning, and going in together does not help Chai Shaoning too much, so he nodded in agreement.
A light smoke rose to the top of a nearby tree, and Chai Shaoning stood there to look at the Fengyuemen people and vicious dogs who were not patrolling in the courtyard, and they quietly blew across the street like fallen leaves, drifting into the courtyard and disappearing.
Geng Qiuwen and Fang Xiaoyun, who stayed in the forest, secretly admired it. Chai Shaoning debuted less than a year ago, and his progress is so fast that he can almost catch up with his predecessors You Long Swordsman, at this speed, within ten years, he will definitely be able to enter the ranks of the top masters.
The two of them were sighing here, but they didn't know that a black shadow was coming through the forest, standing behind the two in the blink of an eye!
Chai Shaoning went straight inward over the triple courtyard wall and went deep into the hinterland of Fengyuemen's mansion.
In the middle of the night, most of the manor was dark, except for a small building not far to the left.
Chai Shaoning saw this piece of light and looked for it all the way.
At this time, when I arrived outside the building, I saw that this two-story building turned out to be a double-storey octagonal pavilion surrounded by wooden walls on all sides.
The upper floor of the pavilion was covered with lamps in the corners, but the inside of the building was dark, while the lower floor was the opposite, with no lights at the door, but the room was illuminated by the light of the giant candles.
Although it was a winter night, the window on one side of the small building facing the garden was opened.
Chai Shaoning walked around the pavilion, far away in the dark and looked through the open window, and saw a felt mat spread on the floor in the center of the room, a low table was placed on the table, several Chen opened the chessboard, and a chess jar was placed at each end, and two people, a monk and a layman, were sitting cross-legged on the side of each other to play chess.
Because he knew that it was a monk who killed Chen Zhizhou, Chai Shaoning paid special attention to the monk in the house.
Although the monk sat on the ground, his figure still looked very tall, and he looked more than fifty years old, and he could see one side of him from the window, with a wide face and wide forehead, and the pimples on the back of his head were like peaks and peaks.
Sitting opposite the monk was an old man in a black robe, full of white hair, afraid that he was already seventy years old, but his face was still full of red light, especially the corners of his forehead and nose, which were so bright that he was about to get oil.
The monk was already very majestic, but the black-robed old man was sitting there, half a head taller than the monk opposite. The two of them were obviously playing chess for fun, but the old man was absent-minded and angry.
After a few steps, the old man snorted angrily, picked up the hot tea that had just been brewed in front of him, and threw his hand at a corner of the room that could not be seen from the open window sash.
There was a faint snort of a woman being burned, and Chai Shaoning's heart suddenly tightened, and he leaned in front of the window.
The distance was shortened, and the voices inside became clear, and the old man was heard calling the maid.
A maid carefully opened the door and entered the house to refill the tea, and glanced at the right side of the room in horror before leaving the door.
Chai Shaoning saw all this clearly, and quietly walked around to the opposite side of the direction where the maid was looking, to find out if the woman who was suffering in the house was the third sister Song Yuanlan?
In the middle of winter, the flowers and plants in the garden have been gone, but the dead branches are still dense. Chai Shaoning squatted among the withered flowers and looked in, only to see an iron pillar stand erected in the corner of the octagonal hall, and a girl of the same age as Song Yuanlan was hanging on it.
The girl's shoes have been thrown away, revealing her snow-white slender feet, and the torn clothes on her body are stained with blood, and she can't tell if it is the cotton jacket that Song Yuanlan is used to wearing?
Because she had been hanging for a long time, the girl's head hung down weakly, and her long hair was scattered, so that Chai Shaoning couldn't see her face, and listening to her muffled snort just now, the inside of her mouth should be blocked.
At this time, the monk spoke: "Since His Holiness is annoyed when he looks annoyed, why should he bring her out of the dungeon and disturb her heart?
The black-clothed old man on the opposite side snorted angrily: "How can there be such a cheap thing? I am a thirty daughter, regarded as a pearl in the palm of my hand, but I died in the hands of that Chai Shaoning child, I don't torture these people to death, it will be difficult to vent this evil breath in my heart!"
As soon as Chai Shaoning heard this, the black-clothed old man in the room was indeed the Holy Heaven Venerable Murong Dingyi, then the monk sitting opposite him should be a destined monk, and at the same time, Chai Shaoning no longer doubted that the suffering girl in the room was Song Yuanlan.
Seeing Murong Dingyi's posture, he didn't forget to torture Song Yuanlan to get angry while playing chess. According to the current situation, let alone going to the Western Xinjiang to invite the Western Wilderness to hide, even tonight, Song Yuanlan may not be able to survive!
Looking at Song Yuanlan's miserable appearance of being tortured to the point of not being human, Chai Shaoning's heart ached, and a wave of anger rose up, and even the fear of the nine sons and ghost mothers was thrown out of the clouds. He got up and approached the front of the house, and when he reached the window, he was about to launch a thunderous attack on the two people in the house, killing the two first, and then saving Song Yuanlan.
Look at the window when he was about to draw his sword, his feet suddenly softened, and the whole person fell into a dug trap.
When his body sank, Chai Shaoning suddenly realized that this was a trap set by the other party.
Since Murong Dingyi wanted to seek revenge on Chai Shaoning for killing his daughter, how could he not send someone to spy on the Bazhou Mansion? As long as he asked the old messenger and Chai Shaoning's conversation, he could completely guess that Song Yuanlan did not meet Chai Shaoning and the others after escaping, so it was easy to make the reasoning that Chai Shaoning would enter Fengyuemen to investigate Song Yuanlan's whereabouts, so he set a trap and waited for Chai Shaoning to throw himself into the net.
All the thoughts flashed in Chai Shaoning's heart, and his toes were a little on the mat at the mouth of the pit, and his body swept forward like a swallow with the only trace of strength.
Seeing that he was about to pass through the range of the trap mouth, the strong wind was blowing in front of him, and Murong Dingyi in the house greeted him like a dark cloud.
Chai Shaoning didn't have time to pull out the dragon sword wrapped around his waist, greeted him with one palm, and wanted to fly back backwards with the strength of the competition with Murong Dingyi, but Murong Dingyi used great skill, and when his palms touched, he immediately changed the downward pressure posture, and Chai Shaoning was suddenly shocked by the force and fell into the trap.
There was a "bang" sound, and the monk rushed out of the house one step slower than Murong Ding, but one of the chess pieces he threw hit the pre-set mechanism, and the trap where Chai Shaoning was located immediately retracted with a wire.
What hung in the pit turned out to be a sharp net full of sharp blades, and if you let this net on your body, you would be seriously injured if you didn't die.
The person who can kill Zhong Luosheng, Murong Dingyi does not dare to take it lightly. After he set up the mechanism, in order to prevent Chai Shaoning from discovering the flaws, he dismissed the minions of the inner courtyard. With the strength of Murong Dingyi and the destined monks, if there is a mental calculation or no intention, it can indeed cause Chai Shaoning to die.
Despite being well prepared, as soon as the two sides fought, Murong Dingyi was still taken aback. Seeing that Chai Shaoning is young, he can compete with his skills for decades, no wonder his daughter Murong Shanshan got the true inheritance of the Nine Sons Ghost Mother, and still died under Chai Shaoning's sword.
Murong Ding didn't dare to be careless, and as soon as he landed, he pulled out a long chain of ghost claws and smashed them at Chai Shaoning, who had already been caught, without giving the other party a chance to breathe.
When the monk saw Chai Shaoning fall into the knife net, he thought that the overall situation had been decided, but he knew that the green light suddenly appeared in front of him. Chai Shaoning's hand was like shaking off a clear spring, and under the glow of the faint light at night, it still shone brightly, instantly smashing the knife net, and the person fell safely to the bottom of the pit.
The monk was taken aback, and was just about to pounce to stop Chai Shaoning from jumping out, when Murong Dingyi had already swept past him, and in the sound of "uproar", the long chain of ghost claws shook open, and slammed down on Chai Shaoning in the pit as fast as lightning.
Chai Shaoning didn't have time to congratulate himself on having an extra sword that sharpened iron like clay, so he was able to survive in the knife net, so he fell into a life and death crisis again.
Chai Shaoning suffered a loss in the pit, and the dragon footwork could not be used, and the soft sword in his hand completely lost its strength in this hard-hitting environment.
This is not all, the monk saw that Chai Shaoning was not trapped by the knife net, so he rushed forward and grabbed the iron fence prepared in advance in the courtyard and pressed it down on the trap mouth.
Chai Shaoning was shocked when he saw it, if he let the iron fence seal the trap mouth, he would never be able to escape again.
In order to survive, Chai Shaoning sought victory in danger, desperately sideways to avoid Murong Ding's ghost claw smashing, while throwing the long sword in his hand, the soft sword was wrapped around the claw chain above the ghost claw like a snake, and forcibly rushed out of the pit when the other party closed the claw.
When Murong Ding saw Chai Shaoning using the soft sword to make it like an arm, rigid and soft, he couldn't help but secretly praise, raised his left hand and slapped it down.
Although the two of them seemed to be evenly matched before, Chai Shaoning knew that it was Murong Ding's attempt to escape with the power of his palm. Relying solely on the strength of the other party to accurately press Chai Shaoning into the pit was enough to prove that Murong Dingyi was far superior to Chai Shaoning in terms of anticipating the enemy's opportunities and experience in dealing with the enemy.
And now is not the time to fight the enemy. Any obstacle may cause Chai Shaoning to fall back to the bottom of the pit and fall into a situation from which he will never recover.
On the line of life and death, Chai Shaoning took a sharp breath, carried all his skills to his chest, and slammed into Murong Ding's iron palm, and at the same time reached out and grabbed Murong Ding's sleeve when he waved his palm.
Murong Ding screamed "looking for death", and hit Chai Shaoning's chest with a "snap", thinking that the other party would definitely die, but he didn't expect Chai Shaoning to spew out a mouthful of blood to cover him in front of him, but the person had already taken advantage of the moment when Murong Ding returned his hand, leading the corner of the other party's clothes to float out of the trap and rush towards the courtyard wall.
The moment Murong Ding slapped Chai Shaoning, he suddenly felt that the other party's chest was sinking, knowing that with these little buffers, the palm power was no longer enough to cause Chai Shaoning to die, and the blood arrow rushed straight to the door.