Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Killing Begins
The sky had not yet dawned, and the cloud shuttle swept directly over the city wall of Pingdu City, and flew straight to the Shen family compound.
Not far from the Shen family's compound, Liu Junhuai put away the cloud shuttle, the eye of heaven opened, and the shadowless wind piercing trick was added, and he disappeared in place, and his figure appeared in the third courtyard of the Shen family's compound.
At this time, the lights in the courtyard were still bright, the inspectors holding torches were constantly coming and going, and the waiters carrying lanterns were entrusted with wooden plates to move around the rooms, and the sound of pushing cups and changing lamps came from time to time in a certain room.
In the midst of the chaos, there are vigilant eyes in the corners of the roofs.
Liu Junhuai's heavenly sense enveloped the entire Shen family compound, and every room was clear at a glance, a faint smile overflowed from the corner of his mouth, his toes were light, and his figure disappeared into the endless darkness.
Outside Pingdu City, in a hidden place, Liu Junhuai entered the chaotic space.
Everyone was waiting by Qingyun Lake, and when they saw Liu Junhuai returning, they stepped forward to ask.
Liu Junhuai said: "I went to the Shen family compound, the third courtyard is where the third wife and Shen Linghan's family live, and now it has been changed to the fifth courtyard, and the second wife and the fifth wife are in the sixth courtyard. The original residence was all hidden by cultivators, and the family members and attendants were also disguised by monks who practiced qi and above. There are three in the foundation building period in the third courtyard, and five in the foundation building period in the fifth courtyard, all of whom are late monks. The sixth entry has one in the early stage of Jindan, who is with the head of the family, Shen Ao. There are also ambushes on the roofs of every place, and there are many more monks in the foundation building period in the entire Pingdu City area, and there is also a Jindan in the middle of the city lord's mansion.
"It seems that the Shen family has invited a lot of foreign aid, a few more than what we have mastered, and there should still be their people in the Pingdu City area, including that Jindan mid-stage. There must be a lot of sect monks allied with the Tianji Sect who have entered the city, and the current situation is a bit chaotic, starting from today's evening, I will collect specific information for the Shen family to see how many people they have come. ”
Fang Keyin said: "Jun Huai, according to your plan, apart from the three suspects, don't you want to take action against those foreign aids tonight?"
Liu Junhuai said: "It's not time yet, the situation has changed a little, now the whole city is paying attention to the Shen family, and the City Lord's Mansion will also be involved, I want to think of a way to make them retreat." ”
Mo Sitong said: "Jun Huai, am I going to shoot with my eldest brother today?
Liu Junhuai waved his hand and said, "It's not a bloody means to let them retreat in the face of difficulties, I want to make them fear first!"
After everyone discussed for a while, Liu Junhuai entered the No. 1 Mansion, crossed his knees to adjust his qi, and silently operated the exercises to reserve his true yuan power.
Shen family compound.
In the sixth courtyard, Shen Ao, the head of the Shen family, was discussing something with a few people, and Yun Jiezi of Tianji Gate was impressively listed.
The early Jindan monk said, "Senior Brother Yun, according to what you said, Liu Junhuai didn't gather many people in Tianji Gate, so he should rush here now." ”
Yun Jiezi said: "At most, he found my Wu Wanqian master and nephew to help him in Tianji Gate, and he was not allowed to go out just after a ban was issued in the door, even if Wu Wanqian helped him find a helper elsewhere, he was not afraid, they were all in the early and middle stages of foundation building." ”
Shen Ao said: "That kid is really already in the late stage of foundation building?"
Yun Jiezi nodded and said: "He must have eaten some kind of heavenly and earthly treasure before forcibly advancing, this is not to be feared, but there is a senior brother in the early stage of Jindan in my sect who is missing, I suspect that it is related to him, if it is really him, then there must be a Jindan stage monk behind him, and his strength is extraordinary." ”
The early Jindan monk said in surprise: "Oh? It's a little interesting, you can talk about it!"
Yun Jiezi explained the situation in detail, and Shen Ao exhaled deeply when he heard it, and his face was a lot lighter: "So you can't be sure that it was him who did it? Maybe that Altaïr had already made a deal with him and fled with that exercise." ”
An old man who looked similar to Shen Ao said: "That's not right, Senior Brother Yun didn't say that Liu Junhuai didn't go out of the Heavenly Machine Gate at all, where did the deal come from. ”
The early Jindan monk said: "If there is an accident with Altaïr, then the person who killed him is at least above the middle stage of Jindan, and there are other helpers, think about it, there are still a few people who disappeared at the same time as Altaïr, and they are all in the middle and late stages of foundation building." ”
Shen Ao said: "Master Cheng is right, this Altaïr's disappearance must have nothing to do with that son of a, if he has such a powerful helper, he still needs to ask for help everywhere, and he still wants to take refuge in the Heavenly Machine Gate?
This Master Cheng is none other than Cheng Kelei of Yanfu Palace, and the old man who looks similar to Shen Ao is Shen Jin, the younger brother of the head of the family, Shen Ao, the deputy city lord of Snow City in Mengze Country, and he cultivated in the middle of foundation building.
The mid-stage Jindan monk who lived in the Pingdu City Lord's Mansion was Shen Jin's master Pa Moji, the second elder of the Meteorite Mansion of the first-class sect of Mengze Country.
The monk in the early stage of foundation building who was standing aside with tea and pouring water was Shen Bingwen, Shen Bingwen said: "Grandpa, then Liu Junhuai is not as unbearable as you imagined, I am the first time I have heard it in the late stage of foundation building at the age of fifteen, and I believe that you seniors have not seen a few." From what the younger generations have seen, Altaïr's disappearance must have something to do with him, and I have not heard of his teacher, so he must have used unusual methods. ”
Cheng Kelei smiled and said: "Bingwen's analysis is very reasonable, Senior Brother Yun will go back and interrogate the disciples who drank together, maybe they have already colluded to confess!"
Yun Jiezi seemed to ponder in a trance, and Shen Jin on the side said: "No matter what, the day after tomorrow is the time agreed by that kid, and now there are eyeliners installed in the city gates everywhere, as soon as there is his whereabouts, we will know that the entire Shen family compound has been arranged into a net, no matter how powerful that kid is, he can't escape from this Pingdu City." Big brother, there won't be anything wrong with the arrangement of the city lord, right?"
Shen Ao said: "The city lord of Xi has already made arrangements, as soon as Liu Junhuai's people appear in Pingdu City, the Praetorian Guards will go to arrest him and disrupt his position first!"
The lord of Xi City is called Xi Nanyu, who cultivated in the early stage of foundation building, and became good friends with Shen Ao, the deputy city lord, and is also a family of sons and daughters, and he can be regarded as a hegemon in the remote town of Pingdu City.
As he spoke, the sky had gradually darkened, and as the wind gradually rose, the night was like a thick inkstone, so deep that it could not be dissolved.
In the night sky, the moon is dim, the starlight is sparse, and the whole earth seems to have fallen asleep, and Pingdu City is only as bright and crowded as the Shen family's compound.
In the third courtyard of the compound, a long figure suddenly appeared in the corner of the roof on the east side, and the long black knife in his hand silently slashed through the neck of a ninth-order Qi cultivator, and the monk only had time to gasp for turbid breath before falling to the ground and dying, and the curtain of Liu Junhuai's revenge battle officially opened.
The tip of his foot tapped the roof tiles, and as his footsteps moved rapidly, the shadow blade in his hand slashed through the necks of the two Qi cultivation stage cultivators one after another, and his body disappeared in place.
In just an instant, Liu Junhuai had already appeared on the roof on the west side, and the shadow blade in his hand flashed in the dark light, and three Qi cultivation period monks died on the spot, and the blood on his neck was still bubbling out, and he had already appeared on the roof on the south side.
After more than ten breaths, the lurkers on the roof and in the dark corners have been eradicated, Liu Junhuai's heavenly sense took a look, and he lowered himself to the window of the south room, and pinched the mantra cloth to make a simple prohibition, and the body of the window sash opening and closing had already entered the room.
Hearing the sound of the window, the two monks in the middle of the foundation building who were sitting and drinking tea were stunned, and one of the monks felt a chill in his heart, and his sword blade was already half a foot long from his chest.
The other monk's screams of horror came to an abrupt end, the pitch-black blade of the sword slashing through his throat, and with a few whines, the monk fell to the ground with his hands clutched around his neck.
Liu Junhuai's eyebrows jumped suddenly, he quickly came to the back of the door, a young maid in cuiyi came in with a stacked curtain, Liu Junhuai quickly stretched out a finger to knock down the maid, and the other hand held the stack and put it aside.
Pulled the door of the house, inserted the latch inside, returned to the windowsill to lift the ban, and turned out of the room.
In half an hour, all the male friars were slaughtered, and the maids were all thrown aside.
Liu Junhuai only used the Shadow Blade to solve it all, and did not use any other means.
After squatting for a while, he killed two groups of patrol guards, and Liu Junhuai's figure returned to the second courtyard.
This time, it took a total of more than 20 breaths to kill all the male monks in this courtyard.
After Tianzhi checked it, Liu Junhuai skipped over the courtyard wall, left a few footprints on the outer wall, and then disappeared into the endless night.
Half an hour later, with the scream of a maid, the Shen family's compound immediately boiled, with the dogs howling in the distance, and the lights of the courtyards outside the Shen family's compound flashed one after another, indicating that Pingdu City had fallen into an invisible panic from this time on.
In the sixth courtyard, Shen Ao, the head of the Shen family, was discussing something with Shen Jin in the study, when he suddenly heard a noise outside the courtyard, and then Shen Bingwen flew in from outside the courtyard and ran to the study.
"Grandpa, Liu Junhuai has appeared, and now the second and third courtyards have been killed except for the maids, and no one has found Liu Junhuai!" Shen Bingwen said in a low voice.
Shen Ao sat down on the Taishi chair in shock, and asked in a trembling voice, "Are they all dead? There is not a single one left alive?" Oh, there are also maids, yes! Interrogate the maids!"
Shen Bingwen said: "I am interrogating, I shouldn't be able to interrogate anything, everyone is in a coma at the acupuncture point, and I just woke up before I came here." ”
Shen Jin said: "Have you invited your master and them all over?" Gather the second, third, and fifth rooms here, and your branch master and uncle of the Sea God Temple have also arrived, and all of them live in Sanding Restaurant, and you have all invited them all over." ”
When the arrangement was being made, more than a dozen people suddenly rumbled into the courtyard, and everyone with a panicked expression on their faces, looking around and rushing into the hall, it was the wives and their husbands and children.
Shen Ao and the three of them got up and came to the hall, and the dozen or so people rushed up, listening to the nonsense of these juniors. Shen Ao shouted, and those people closed their mouths in panic.
Outside the house, another monk rushed into the middle stage of foundation building, it was Zhang Shizhuo, a guest secretary hired by the Shen family.
Zhang Shizhuo walked quickly in front of Shen Ao, and said something in his ear, Shen Ao's face gradually turned pale with Zhang Shizhuo's narration.
Shen Jin said: "Okay! When is it, say something out loud!"
Zhang Shizhuo glanced at Shen Ao and said, "The previous statistics have been made, the second entry, the third entry and the patrol guards, a total of seventy-three people were all killed, including three foundation building period monks. None of the maids were injured, but none of them saw the murderer. ”
Before Zhang Shizhuo's words fell, with a pop, the third wife fainted on the ground, and the jade bracelet on her wrist shattered, splashing jade chips all over the ground.