Star Trace Gate

Bulao Villa, in the main hall.

Lord Rat slowly lifted his right foot that was stepping on the third brother's face, turned around, and walked towards the back hall.

Wu Yuanjun stood deep in the corridor, his figure hidden in the darkness, motionless.

"The emperor has summoned Niu Xi to return to the court to see him." Lord Rat stepped forward and said in an unquestionable tone: "You have to let him go..."

"It's too late." Wu Yuanjun replied in a flat voice.

"What do you mean..." Lord Rat was stunned.

“Ding, gurgle…!”

He had just asked half a question when there was a sound of something falling in the corridor.

Immediately afterwards, a bloody human head rolled out from the darkness, hit the ground, and jumped to Lord Rat's left foot.

He lowered his head and carefully examined the head with disheveled hair and bloody flesh, and finally confirmed that it was Niu Xi's head.

"you……!"

Lord Rat came back to his senses and pointed at Wu Yuanjun with an angry expression: "You act like this, aren't you afraid...?!"

"Haha, just after I left the table, I personally went to the dungeon and chopped off his head." Wu Yuanjun interrupted with a smile: "I have commanded troops for half my life, but in the end I had to kill my brothers to survive. He wants to continue to stay in the court by betraying me? What a foolish dream."

"You know very well that His Majesty..."

"Report to His Majesty, based on my understanding of Niu Xi, if he gets power one day, there's no guarantee... he will really rebel, hahaha." Wu Yuanjun laughed heartily, "I'm cleaning up the treacherous officials for the court. This kind of thing should be done sooner rather than later, and if you have any doubts, you must do it, this is the safest way."

Lord Rat looked at the witch master in front of him, feeling helpless and a little afraid.

Why?

Because Wu Yuanjun gave him the feeling of a madman and a loser who was in a desperate situation and was unwilling to fail or give up everything, but had to kneel in order to survive.

This "madman" had no place to vent his anger. Facing the court and the emperor was like facing a mountain that he could never climb. Therefore, he hated Niu Xi, who had a better fate than him, and hated the other party's betrayal... Only by chopping off the other party's head with a steel knife could he calm his anger.

Wu Yuanjun had clearly demonstrated his loyalty to the emperor through a "bloody massacre", so if he now kills Niu Xi in a way of disobeying orders, wouldn't this cause dissatisfaction from the emperor?

No, his desperate behavior just proves that... he no longer has any intention of rebelling in his heart and is a useless person.

From the perspective of the emperor and the court, Lord Rat admired Wu Yuanjun's understanding of power and intrigue, but he despised his personality and character.

After a brief silence, Lord Rat stepped forward and said coldly, "In two hours, the generals sent by His Majesty will arrive at the camps of the Twelve Generals. You must help them to smoothly take over the camps and their soldiers. Before dawn, I will return... to take over the Bulao Mountain."

"it is good."

Wu Yuanjun replied in a relaxed tone, "All for you... All for you, haha."

"The team of soldiers I brought will personally deal with the bodies of the twelve generals and Niu Xi's... head." After Lord Rat said this, he walked away.

Not long after.

The imperial spies and soldiers brought by Lord Rat were carefully examining the bodies of the twelve generals in the hall.

They were not Lord Rat's men, but spies sent by the current emperor. The death of the twelve generals was such a major event that the emperor would not just listen to Lord Rat's family. He would have to have other people to corroborate the facts before he could rest assured.

In the center of the hall.

Wu Yuanjun looked at the corpses on the ground and the busy spies in the palace, and drank with a smile on his face.

Ren Ye, Fat Dragon, Poison Wine Pot, General Feng and others all stood beside him and watched silently.

After drinking half a pot of wine, Wu Yuanjun slowly turned his head to look at Ren Ye, and asked in a slightly drunken state: "Sir... are you afraid of standing next to me?"

Old thing, if it weren’t for the fact that you gave me too much, I, Garen, would hide in the grass, jump up and use a big health attack to chop off your dog head directly.

"My life belongs to my master." Ren Ye immediately bowed and clasped his fists, and replied solemnly: "I can't see clearly or understand everything in the palace. But if you let me live, I will live; if you let me die, I will die."

“Haha… It’s hard to tell what people’s hearts are like. It’s hard to tell what people’s hearts are like.”

Wu Yuanjun laughed like a drunk, staring at the corpses on the ground, and suddenly raised his glass and said, "Congratulations, everyone! Your dream has come true. This time you are really dead, and you don't have to fight on the battlefield anymore. You will die on the battlefield."

The hall was silent, with only him drinking and muttering.

……

On a country road.

Gui Toudao and others, disguised as refugees, are now heading towards Lingnan.

At the front of the team, the general in charge of escorting Wu Yuanjun's family to escape, Xu Ersan, sent a cold voice to Gui Tou Dao: "What exactly are you trying to do?!"

Gui Tou Dao rode on the horse and started communicating with him through voice transmission.

Xu Ersan's words were full of distrust towards him, and he had the right to kill him immediately if he found anything abnormal in the other party.

At the back of the queue, Weng Sanren and Baihuaxian walked side by side, neither of them paying any attention to each other.

Soon, the cavalry had traveled another mile. Xu Ersan suddenly stopped his horse, looked at the valley in the middle of the distant mountain, and called out softly, "Sanren, Huaxian, hurry up."

Upon hearing this, the two men reined in their horses and ran to the front of the queue at a faster speed.

Weng Sanren asked, "What's wrong?"

"You two and Gui Toudao, go into the canyon ahead to explore." Xu Ersan raised his whip, pointed at the canyon and said, "Once we get out of there, we will leave the territory of Funan. Let's be careful."

After the words fell, Weng Sanren and Baihuaxian looked at the Ghost Head Knife at the same time and nodded slowly: "Okay."

"You all will go with us." Xu Ersan looked at the seven or eight soldiers with better skills and said, "If there is anything unusual, don't inform us. Just show your supernatural powers and cause a stir."

"Yes."

Everyone clasped their fists.

"Let's go." Gui Toudao called out.

"Tap!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of more than ten riders rode their horses towards the canyon.

Xu Ersan watched the crowd go away, and immediately turned around and called to his confidants, "Spread out and go into the forest on the right to lie in wait. Mingdong, you lead the others to spread out and stand guard in the surroundings."

"General, have you discovered...something wrong?" asked a confidant.

"It's better to be careful." Xu Ersan replied indifferently.

Upon hearing this, everyone stopped asking questions and quickly dived into the forest on the right.

……

"Tap tap...!"

The horse galloped on the ground, and dust billowed along the way.

Gui Tou Dao, Weng San Ren and Bai Hua Xian, along with seven or eight trusted generals, arrived at the canyon ahead in less than a quarter of an hour.

A general looked up at the quiet and dark canyon and frowned, saying, "This is indeed a good place to set up an ambush..."

"We will ride our horses quickly through here, keeping our heads down as much as possible and not revealing our faces." Gui Toudao said softly, "We will pass through once. If there is no movement, we will notify General Xu in the back to bring his men over."

"it is good."

After a brief exchange, everyone sprinted forward at full speed.

After a while, more than ten riders rushed into the canyon, galloping all the way, and soon arrived at the exit on the opposite side.

"It seems that we have too many..." A general was about to speak when he saw that everyone around him was quiet.

"Whoosh!"

At this moment, a cold arrow shot down from the mountain.

"puff!"

The general, who was about to speak, was shot through the neck by an arrow before he could react, and fell off his horse sideways.

“Squeak…!”

Blood splattered half a meter high, and the general's body twitched several times before he died completely.

"There's an ambush!" Weng Sanren shouted, "Stop, I'll go back and report first."

After saying this, he led the horse's head, bent over, and ran faster than a rabbit.

"kill!"

In the mountain, an angry roar arose, and both sides of the cliffs suddenly shone with light, which was a strange sight of someone with supernatural powers demonstrating his abilities.

Gui Tou Dao was about to call for the Yun Lei Ji, but he forgot that this treasure was kept by Master Fo until his death, so he couldn't take it out for the time being.

"brush!"

He summoned the long sword, blocked the arrows around him, and shouted: "Retreat, retreat to the outside of the canyon."

Soon, more than ten people entered the canyon, but only seven of them managed to get out, and the rest all died in the ambush.

Everyone displayed their strongest magical powers, caused strange visions, and fought against the ambushes.

……

rear.

Xu Ersan looked up at the canyon and saw a divine light flashing there. He immediately said, "There are indeed ambushes. You should quickly evacuate to the right. Mingdong, you lead your men to advance three miles to keep watch. If you encounter strangers, just attack them. Quick!"

"Yes!"

"As ordered!"

"...!"

When everyone responded, some soldiers had already driven away in their carriages, while others led their soldiers forward to stand guard.

For a moment, the wild mountains and wilderness outside the canyon became chaotic, and it seemed that there were people and horses running everywhere.

In front.

No one knew where Weng Sanren had run off to, while Baihuaxian, Guitoudao and the others were besieged by at least dozens of men in black, all of whom were third-level masters and extremely difficult to deal with.

The group fought and retreated, and were forced to separate on a path in the wilderness.

After a while, the grass in the woods was covered with corpses. After Baihuaxian killed eight pursuers in succession, the horse he was riding was also shot dead.

She was not injured, but could only rely on her body to move quickly.

After flying at high speed for more than ten breaths, she was ambushed again.

More than a dozen men in black stopped her and attacked her.

The Flower Fairy controlled the golden thread. Although her figure looked a little disheveled, she was far from exhausted.

"Little girl... don't resist. Wouldn't it be better if you can have fun with us in this long night?" said a man in black, speaking dirty words.

"Whizzing……!"

Baihua Fairy frowned slightly, and was worried about the witch master's family. After all, this was the last mission. If it failed, it would be a big trouble.

Upon hearing this, the other party didn't speak human language at all...

The Fairy of Flowers was so angry that she decided not to hide her incompetence any longer.

"Ong!"

She controlled the golden thread, ready to use her core magical power to end the battle quickly.

Just then, a figure approached in the darkness. He stared at Baihuaxiang's back and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"brush!"

A silver needle magic weapon longer than a finger appeared.

The figure aimed at Baihuaxian's back and struck out decisively.

"Whoosh...!"

The silver needle flew by at such a speed that it almost disappeared.

Not far away, the Flower Fairy who was fighting with the man in black suddenly felt a chill on her back, and a sense of extreme danger surged in her heart...

"Roar!"

Suddenly, a dragon roar resounded from within the body of the Hundred Flower Fairy.