The most prosperous city in Sichuan, the land of abundance, is none other than Chengdu.

In the city of Chengdu, the most majestic and tall house is the Chi family ancestral hall located in the west of the city.

The fourth day of the third month is not an auspicious day of the zodiac, but it is the annual day of ancestor worship for the Bashu Chi family, and it is also the most lively day of the year in the Chi family ancestral hall.

Li Hu was wearing a green cloth shirt, his cheeks were smooth and shiny, and his hair was neatly combed. He carried a light bamboo pole in his hand, standing in the procession of porters carrying the sacrifices of three animals in front of the ancestral hall of the Chi family, although he looked leisurely, in fact, the handle of the short knife hidden in the meat was very uncomfortable on his back.

Of course, he did not come here to worship his ancestors, but to kill people.

There were thirteen companions who came to kill together, ten of whom had already arrived in front of the ancestral hall, and the other three were in the streets and alleys in the distance, waiting for them to take the retreat.

There were three people dressed as porters and one as a Taoist priest, one hiding in the belly of a cow as a sacrifice, and the other four mixed in with the onlookers.

The target they want to kill is the head of the Bashu Chi family, Master Chi Siyuanchi.

The Bashuchi family is the largest local tyrant in Chengdu Prefecture. The so-called local tyrants refer to the fact that the Chi family owns tens of thousands of acres of fertile land around Chengdu Mansion, and it is said that the gold and silver treasures of the Chi family are more than the wealth of all other people in the entire city of Chengdu combined.

Half of these lands and properties were handed down by the ancestors of the Chi family, and the other half was earned by this Master Chi. Money can make money, and a rich man with a lot of money, a shrewd mind, and good means will make money much faster than a self-made person.

A rich man like Chi Siyuan is of course very thoughtful in protecting himself. Although he is not a martial artist, he has a good relationship with various rivers and lakes in the Sichuan realm, and has invited many masters to be bodyguards, and there are no less than 300 people in the Chi family's courtyard alone. Chi Siyuan rarely goes out, staying in his deep mansion compound all day long, protected by a group of nursing masters, and it is almost impossible to kill him.

But there is one day in the year when Chi Da's hometown must go out, and that is the fourth day of the first month of March.

Wealth is extensive, and many blessings and longevity rely on the blessing of the ancestors, Chi Siyuan will certainly not be sloppy about paying tribute to the ancestors, and he will definitely go to the Chi family ancestral hall on this day. However, this year, the ancestors of the Chi family may not be able to bless him, because the "Heavenly Punishment" has chosen to do it on this day.

Li Hu is no longer the fourth in the "Five Little Dogs", but a member of "Tianzhu", and now "Wang Worm" is his name.

Today's "Evil Dog Gate" has become the fastest rising gang on the rivers and lakes, within the past five years, Shili expanded to Henan, Shandong, Zhejiang, Hebei and other realms, and set up a rudder in the seven provinces, and its reputation is no less than that of the "Central Plains Seven Major Sects".

Rather than offend Yama and don't provoke vicious dogs, this is what many people in the rivers and lakes often say nowadays. Among the masters of the "Evil Dog Gate", in addition to the cold noodles and the jade fairy, the prestige of the "Four Little Evil Dogs" is also in full swing.

The "five smalls" will become the "four smalls" because two years ago, Li Hu died in a fierce battle with the "Tianhu Gang" in Zhejiang. At that time, Hua Bushi, the "evil dog boy", personally sent his body back to Wuyang City in Xiangxi for burial and built a tombstone.

Of course, the real Lihu did not die, and he was not even injured in that battle. After living in seclusion for half a year, he joined the "Heavenly Punishment" according to the path pointed out by Chu Yiyi, and he became the current king worm.

In the year and a half since joining the "Heavenly Punishment", Li Hu has participated in a total of 16 assassination attempts, about once a month, and these operations have been successful 13 times. The manpower of each operation is fixed, in fact, the "Tianzhu" killers are divided into groups, each group is thirteen people, and Li Hu's group is called "Xunli Group".

Xunli is a hexagram name. There are 64 hexagrams in the "I Ching", and I don't know if this means that there are 64 assassination groups in the "Heavenly Punishment".

Xun is the wind, and the separation is the fire. There is a hexagram that says: A flower opens in the mirror, and it looks very good and can't be taken. The wind and the fire, it is really a great omen, this hexagram is also the next hexagram, if the person who asks for the lot draws this hexagram, the family will be ruined.

However, murder is originally murder, and the hexagram of the great murderer is not necessarily bad for the killer business. The success of the operation does not depend on the hexagram, but on the ability of the killer and the rigor of the jihua.

For this assassination, the ten days that the Xunli group had been preparing for had already set up an action, and its name was called "Killing Sacrifice".

The ancestral hall of the Chi family is a large house with a black roof and white walls, and the spirit tablets of the ancestors of the Chi family are enshrined in the house. This house is located on the stone platform five zhang high, under the ancestral hall gate is a hundred steps to summon the steps, and under the stone platform is a square of tens of zhang long and wide, and there is a big wall two zhang high on the outside of the square.

Every year when he goes to the ancestral hall to worship his ancestors, Chi Siyuan will bring at least thirty or more bodyguards, as well as more than 100 people to protect the courtyard, and there are only thirteen killers in the Xunli group, and if it is attacked, there will definitely be no chance of victory. Therefore, the most haode opportunity is to wait for Chi Siyuan to enter the big house on the high platform, and then do it in the house.

According to the convention, it is not appropriate for non-people of the clan to be present when worshipping ancestors. Although Chi Siyuan will not completely stick to the stereotypes of his ancestors, he will not let too many guards follow the big house on the high platform, according to the habit of previous years, he will only bring two personal bodyguards at most.

Xu Da and Ge Li, the two people with the highest martial arts skills in the Xunli group, entered the big house to solve the bodyguards, and they killed Chi Siyuan. Xu Da disguised himself as a Taoist priest, he was a master of the "Black Evil Palm", and Ge Li's knife, along with his sixty-six-pound butcher's knife, was hidden in the belly of the cattle.

Ancestor worship must have a monk's way, and it is necessary to sacrifice three animals, although it is difficult for others to blend into the big house, they should have no problem entering.

Once Xu Da and Ge Li started to do it, the other bodyguards standing at the bottom of the stairs would definitely find out that the task of Li Hu and the three pretending to be porters was to block the bodyguards in the empty field under the stone platform, and not let them rush up the steps into the big house to save people.

Outside the big wall, there were more than 100 Chi family villagers, who were blocked by four other killers who were mixed in with the busy passers-by, so that they could not enter the gate of the ancestral hall.

Ten breaths is the time limit for Xu Da and Ge Li from the beginning to kill Chi Siyuan, and it is also the time when the two killers of Li Hu must stop others from rushing into the big house. As soon as the time limit was up, they immediately retreated.

Ten breaths is not too long, of course, but it is enough. Before the operation was concluded, they had already found out all the guards and bodyguards around Chi Siyuan, and the detailed situation of each person, and they were absolutely sure that they would complete the assassination within ten breaths.

The sound of horses' hooves came from the street in the distance, followed by a burst of "crackling" firecrackers, and Chi Siyuan finally arrived.

Walking in front on horseback were the thirty bodyguards of the Chi family, and Master Chi did not ride a horse, but sat in a sedan chair, carried by eight strong men. When the sedan chair stopped in front of the archway in front of the ancestral hall, and Chi Siyuan, who was full of red light, was helped out, Li Hu immediately understood why he couldn't ride a horse.

A man weighing 400 pounds is not only difficult to climb on horseback, but also probably not many horses can carry him. And the layers of fat on Chi Siyuan's body, I'm afraid it's more than four hundred catties!

Master Chi was supported by four family members and walked across the square towards the stone steps, and the two people on his side, one on the left and one on the right, were his personal bodyguards. On the left, a middle-aged man in a strong suit of about thirty years, wearing a black sheath steel knife on a cow belt, is Tan Feng, a master of the "Qingcheng faction", he walks calmly, has a long breath, and is obviously not weak in martial arts.

The person on the right is a woman, wearing a long skirt of Qingluo, a long sword with a blue shark skin sheath hanging on her waist, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes, and her appearance is very beautiful. She is younger than Tan Feng, only twenty-five or sixteen years old, but she is by no means younger than Tan Feng.

Although the "Qingcheng faction" is also a major faction, it is still slightly inferior to the "Emei" ranked among the seven major sects, and this woman is from the "Emei faction", named Min Yufeng.

can invite the master of the "Emei faction" to be a bodyguard, and the Bashuchi family is not just rich.

As soon as the master arrived, the drum band in front of the stone platform immediately played, and the large string of firecrackers also kept going, and the people who watched the excitement outside the ancestral hall stretched their necks one by one, wanting to see what the richest man in Chengdu looked like.

Chi Siyuan didn't stop, and walked straight to the big house on the stone platform. It is not easy for a big fat man weighing more than 400 catties to go up hundreds of stone steps. With the support of the four family members, and after three rests, Master Chi finally climbed to the stone steps and staggered into the big house.

Min Yufeng and Tan Feng also followed, followed by a group of descendants of the Chi family, and there should be no masters of martial arts among them.

The three animal offerings were also brought in one after another, and then the ten monks also walked up the steps in turn. Xu Da and Ge Li had already entered the mourning hall, thirty-seven bodyguards and five or six guests who came to watch the ceremony were under the stone platform, and more than 100 Zhuang Ding of the Chi family nursing home were guarding outside the high-walled archway.

Everything is exactly the same as expected, the "Killing Sacrifice" operation has been going very smoothly so far, and the next step is to wait for the signal and launch it together.

Li Hu still looked leisurely, and his eyes glanced at a few companions in the porter group intentionally and indiscriminately. Ma Zhong and Huang Yi were as silent as he was, only Chen Si's cheeks were clenched, sweat was pouring from his forehead, his hands were in his sleeves, and his upper arms were stiff, apparently because he was clutching the weapon hidden in his arms.

Chen Si's weapon is a pair of short steel thorns, and his martial arts are not much worse than Ma Zhong and Huang Yi, but he is a novice to assassination.

No one is born to kill, even in a killer organization like "Heavenly Punishment", there are also novices. Li Hu has been in the "Heavenly Punishment" for more than a year, although the Xunli group has maintained thirteen people, but the manpower in the group has changed sixteen.

Some were killed during the operation, others disappeared inexplicably, Li Hu never cared about their whereabouts, in fact, he also knew that it was useless to ask. Among the thirteen people in the Xunli group, only four people have not been replaced in a year and a half: the head Xu Da, Ge Li, who has the strongest martial arts, Xu Da's wife, Mrs. Xu, and Li Hu.

Ma Zhong and Huang Yi have both carried out more than five assassinations and can already be regarded as veterans, but Liu Xiaosi just joined in a month ago to replace the vacancy of the dead in the last operation, and this "killing sacrifice" operation was the first assassination that Chen Si participated in.

This nervous look and stiff posture, if seen by an experienced master, can immediately detect the flaw.