I practice ruthless way

The night was dark, and the city of Shenjing, which had been noisy for a day, gradually fell asleep, but the garrison government office was always lit.

The general in charge, Chen Mingli, sat in the chair, drank the tea in the cup with a bitter face, and said, "This is because the people under my command did something wrong. We visited them for several days, seeing that the ceremony is about to begin, Finally got the exact news, it is inevitable to be a little eager for quick success."

"My lord, don't worry, there is still time before the ceremony, maybe not." Xiao Man sat opposite Chen Mingli and said in a low voice.

After what happened just now, Chen Mingli's attitude towards Xiao Man and his party was different again.

He sent someone to serve tea, intending to ask the group of children how much they knew about the Qing Kai Sect, and if they had any other clues. Suddenly, he saw a silver-haired man in black clothes come in from the outside, without even saying hello, he shook his clothes and sat down. Unhurriedly took a cup of tea from the hand of the servant, with a calm posture and an indifferent demeanor.

"Where did you come from?" Chen Mingli had never seen this person before, and he frowned, intending to dismiss him, but when he finished speaking, he realized that he couldn't see through this person's cultivation.

The realm of the comer is above him!

Chen Mingli's heart trembled slightly, and he quickly saluted, "...Senior, I'm sorry."

"Senior Wu." Qu Hanxing and the others also stood up.

Xiao Man glanced at Yan Wushu, and after confirming that Chen Mingli didn't recognize him, he said, "We are Gushan disciples, and he is the teacher who takes care of us when we come to Shenjing City to practice."

"It turns out that you all came from a lonely mountain." Chen Mingli was secretly surprised, with a more serious expression on his face.

"Lord Chen, how much does the garrison know about the actions of the remaining party of the Qing Kai Sect?" Xiao Man sat down again and brought the topic back to business.

Chen Mingli drank another cup of tea, frowned, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you know what Qing Kaijiao did 30 years ago?"

Everyone said: "I have heard a little bit."

"They're here for revenge." Chen Mingli's voice was dignified, "They intend to use a rare high-level magic weapon to blow up the entire city of Shenjing."

"Do you know what magic weapon it is?" Xiao Man asked.

Chen Mingli sighed again: "We are investigating, but now the clues are broken."

Xiao Man lowered his eyes.

In fact, the clue was not broken, and he still held one in his hand, but Chen Mingli and his subordinates were not very reliable in their actions, and after careful consideration, they never revealed it.

Qu Hanxing and the others never told this matter, and there was silence in the room.

The wind blew the candles shaking, and not long after, a person came quickly with a secret letter in his hand: "My lord, there is news from Si Tianjian!"

Chen Mingli hurriedly took the letter, removed the seal, opened it and read it, the solemnity on his face was even more serious.

"Master Chen, what happened?" Xiao Man's expression became serious.

Chen Mingli frowned deeply, and then said: "'Half Step to Heaven' believes that I have entered Shenjing."

"Half step to the sky?" "Who is this?" Xiao Man and the others were puzzled.

It was Wei Chuyun who spoke.He whispered: "Half step to the sky is the name, and the person who believes in me is his name. He is a practitioner who has stepped into the realm of the Taiqing saint with half a foot. He was once a member of the Taoist sect, and later entered the Buddhist gate. Cultivate demons."

Then the tone became serious: "This person has killed countless people with cruel methods. When he was rampant in the rivers and lakes, it is said that his name can stop children from crying at night."

"Is he connected with the Qing Kai Sect?" Qu Hanxing asked.

Chen Mingli said frankly: "It was invited by Qing Kaijiao."

"Can this kind of person be allowed in?" Qu Hanxing was very puzzled.

"How can you say it was put in? It was sneaked in." Chen Mingli corrected his wording.

Everyone knows that a grand ceremony will be held in Shenjing City in the near future. People from all walks of life will come. Although the investigation is cautious, it cannot stand the crowd and there will always be omissions. With the guards at the gate of the city, it is impossible to see the clues.

Xiao Man and the others were not overly entangled in believing how my people entered the city. They exchanged glances. Wei Chuyun pondered for a while, and then speculated: "Half a saint in the Taiqing realm, it seems that he was specially invited to deal with Shenjing City. A large formation protecting the city."

Shitang wondered: "Didn't it mean that only the real Taiqing Saint Realm can pose a threat to the Shenjing City Defense Formation?"

"Believe in me, people who cultivate demons use extreme methods." Wei Chuyun shook his head, "It is said that he has stepped in with half a foot, but you must not treat him as a half-sage."

With such great power, there was another silence in the room.

The interruption of the clues of the Qing Kai Sect, and the entry of semi-holy demon cultivators such as those who believe in us, is undoubtedly a double blow to Chen Mingli.His face was slumped, his eyes were lowered, and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

Qu Hanxing rolled his eyes slightly, and suggested: "You have no clue about the movement of the Qing Kai Sect, and now there is another... oh, half a saint, the only thing I know is that they are going to use the ritual to cover up and destroy the entire city of Shenjing!" .If it’s not like this, just stop the festival, wouldn’t most of the crisis be resolved?”

Unexpectedly, Chen Mingli said decisively: "The ceremony cannot be stopped."

"Why?" Qu Hanxing said, "If you let it go, the whole city will be in danger!"

"Not to mention that the ceremony is not something that I can stop at will. This is a grand ceremony that is held once every ten years. Not only are teams from all over the country sent to congratulate the performance, but people from the entire Xuantian Continent have come. This is a grand event for all nations to come to court. Just calling it a stop, isn't it destroying the ambition of one's own country and increasing the prestige of other countries!" Chen Mingli said in a deep voice.

Shitang felt that such a reasoning was ridiculous, and put the teacup back on the table heavily: "It must have been a while since you have received the news of the Qing Kaijiao, and their harm must be better understood than us, because they want to keep The majesty and prestige of the whole city of Shenjing will be put in the fire and water?"

Chen Mingli waved his hand: "You are still young and don't understand these things, I don't mind."

Both Qu Hanxing and Shitang felt that this person was unreasonable, Xiao Man sighed silently, and acted as a peacemaker:

"Okay, it's useless to argue. No matter whether the ceremony is held or not, the people of the Qing Dynasty must be found out, and the magic weapon they used to threaten the city of Shenjing must be removed."

Immediately, he cast his eyes on Yan Wushu: "Ling...what do you think, Senior Wu?"

"My idea?" Yan Wushu, who hadn't said a word since sitting down, said with a smile, "If you want to know what magic weapon the Qing Kai Sect plans to use to destroy Shenjing, why don't you come with me, there is a place Maybe you know the answer."

Chen Mingli stood up abruptly: "Senior, please lead the way!"

Yan Wushu stood up.

The vehicles of the Imperial City Defense Army were dispatched again.There is also a hidden formation on it, which was opened before leaving the mansion to prevent the eyes and ears of the Qing Kai Sect.

The evening wind was raging wildly, blowing the sleeve robes like flags, and Yan Wushu was standing in the front leading the way. Qu Hanxing suddenly thought of something and asked him: "Senior Wu, since you can't stop the ceremony, then when the ceremony starts, set aside the guarding formation for a while. It’s fine if you don’t open it.”

Yan Wushu said indifferently: "Once the city protection formation is opened, all parts of the city will be affected, and the ceremony is the same, so the Shenjing City will not open the formation unless it is absolutely necessary."

"...Others have come to destroy the city, I really have nothing to say." Qu Hanxing couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

"What you meant before was that the Qing Kai Sect had placed the magic weapon properly. Then they let the believer in me enter Shenjing at this time, because they want him to suppress the battle?" Xiao Man walked to Yan Wushu and asked in a low voice.

"If their plan succeeds, it is impossible for Shenjing City not to open a large formation to protect itself. At that time, people who believe in me will take action to suppress the formation in Shenjing City." Yan Wushu said, and at the end, he added: "Of course, this is my guess. It can be regarded as a battle."

Xiao Man lowered his eyes, looked at Shenjing City under the night light, and let out a soft "oh".

He walked to the other side of the car, and this time it was Chen Mingli who came up, standing behind Yan Wushu, and asked cautiously, "Senior, where are we going now?"

Yan Wushu raised his eyebrows, and asked back: "As the commander of the garrison, don't you even know this road?"

"Isn't this just a street job?" Chen Mingli looked bewildered.

Yan Wushu felt uninterested, and turned around: "It seems that you really don't know each other. Who did you follow to get this position?"

His tone remained the same, with a hint of a smile at the end, but Chen Mingli's back tightened.Yan Wushu didn't talk much, and when asked by others, he basically answered every question. He also looked friendly, but his gestures showed a faint aura that belonged exclusively to the superior.

Chen Mingli had an intuition that this person's status was unusual, so he immediately laughed along with him: "Senior, you are joking."

When they arrived at the destination, Yan Wushu didn't tell Chen Mingli where he was going, and Qu Hanxing and the others were so embarrassed when they saw Chen Mingli that they didn't dare to ask again.

In the dim night, in front of a certain rouge shop on Ganyi Street, Yan Wushu stretched out his hand and knocked three times, three times and six times on the tightly closed door.

After about three breaths, the door creaked and opened from the inside.Yan Wushu plucked a branch from the tree in front of the door and handed it to the person who opened the door.

At this time, there was finally a "come in" from inside.

A group of people followed Yan Wushu in.The front hall was not lit, and the dim interior was filled with a faint fragrance of rouge.The shop assistant who opened the door took everyone to the backyard, led them into a door, snapped his fingers again, and lit the lamp on the wall.

"This is definitely not just a rouge shop." Xiao Man couldn't help but said.

"It's the dark pavilion." Yan Wushu said with a low smile.

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Man and the others finally understood Yan Wushu's intention for bringing them here.

The Dark Pavilion is the most famous intelligence organization in the Jianghu. It is rumored that as long as they can be found, as long as they can pay the price, they can find out what color underwear those saints in the Taiqing Realm on the Xuantian Continent are wearing recently.

But naturally, no one was too bored to inquire about this matter.

The shop clerk brought them to a table, without any hospitality such as tea, turned around and stood opposite, without speaking, staring at them.

Yan Wushu made a "please" gesture and looked at Chen Mingli: "Master Chen, please."

"Me?" Chen Mingli was startled, looked at Yan Wushu, then at the buddy, and asked, "...How much is a piece of news?"

"It depends on what you're asking?" the store clerk said.

Chen Mingli thought for a while, and said, "Qing Kaijiao brought something into the city these days."

The store clerk said without hesitation, "One hundred thousand."

Chen Mingli was shocked: "10 taels of silver?"

The shop assistant corrected him: "It's gold."

"10 taels of gold?" Chen Mingli was so frightened that he took a few steps back, turned around and wanted to leave.

The lights in the room were not bright, Yan Wushu stood in the corner, most of his body was shrouded in shadow, and he was dressed in black clothes, like a shadow floating from the wall.Seeing that Chen Mingli was like this, he said quietly: "Master Chen, if you really let the Qing Kai Sect cause trouble in Shenjing City, you will lose your black hat."

Qu Hanxing opened his mouth to agree: "One hundred thousand gold, if you exchange it for high-grade spirit stones, it's not much, right? Master Chen, I just saw that the decorative sword hanging on your car is inlaid with many high-grade spirit stones."

"It was given by someone else." Chen Mingli defended in a low voice, looked around, struggled and thought for a while, and finally took out the banknote from Qiankun Ring, and handed it to the clerk behind the table.

"Wait a moment." After the shop assistant said this, he turned and went to a dark room behind the wall.

Not long after, he returned to the house and said to Chen Mingli: "They transported a magic weapon called Dan'er into Shenjing City."

"Dan Er? What is this?" Chen Mingli had never heard of such a name.

The shop clerk stretched out his hand to Chen Mingli, and gently twirled his thumb and index finger.The meaning is obvious, this is a new problem, and more money is required.

Qu Hanxing smiled, and poked Chen Mingli's elbow.

"How much is this news?" Chen Mingli asked reluctantly.

"This is not expensive, three thousand gold." The shop assistant said.

Chen Mingli exclaimed, "It's gold again?"

The store clerk may have seen such people a lot, and his expression was extremely indifferent: "You can also check it yourself."

Chen Mingli paced back and forth, took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and said, "Give it to me!"

At the same time, he took out several banknotes.

The shop assistant went back to the darkroom again.This time, he brought out a piece of paper.

Several people hurried over.

Qu Hanxing was surprised after seeing it: "It turned out to be an incense burner!"

"...The inner wall of the furnace belly is engraved with formations and spells, and a large number of spirit stones are cast to activate them. After the formation spells take effect, the incense burner will absorb the sound from the vicinity into the belly, and when the load reaches a certain level, it will explode. .” Xiao Man frowned, and whispered the small characters next to the portrait to explain, “Its power can wipe out a city.”

"This, you can take it away." The store clerk said.

Chen Mingli didn't care about a piece of paper at all, he grabbed the buddy and asked for a while: "Where is the location of Dan'er? How to resolve it? How to destroy it?"

The store clerk sneered: "Let us investigate everything, what's the use of your imperial city garrison?"

"This is the famous dark pavilion in your house!" Chen Mingli yelled in dissatisfaction, "It has been established for hundreds of years, and it claims to be omniscient and omniscient."

The store clerk was unmoved, glanced around the crowd, his eyes fell on Yan Wushu, and said: "If there is nothing else, please go ahead."

"You really don't know how to crack it?" Chen Mingli didn't give up.

The store clerk asked back: "The Dark Pavilion has never touched the real thing, how do you know how to crack it?"

"Any amount is fine!" Chen Mingli said.

"Let's go." The clerk said with a blank expression.

"Hey!" Chen Mingli sighed, turned and walked out the door.

Xiao Man thought it was a bit funny that the generals of the defense army of the imperial city were like this.

"I know a lot of things." Yan Wushu said with a low smile while playing with the folding fan.

"I suspect they hid Dan'er under the river. That thing needs a lot of spirit stones to activate, and that's how the spirit energy in the river comes from." Qu Hanxing speculated.

Xiao Man shook his head: "The river water will weaken the sound passed down, so it can't be the bottom of the river, it should be in a place... where all the rivers in Shenjing City flow through."

Qu Hanxing's eyes lit up: "Is that the upper reaches of the river?"

"perhaps."

Chen Mingli, who was walking in the forefront, said in a deep voice, "I will contact Si Tianjian to investigate the location."

"How do you deal with someone who believes in me?" Xiao Man asked.

Chen Mingli: "Compared to ordinary people, the garrison under my command is of course brave and good at fighting, but that's only compared to ordinary people. No matter what, they can't stop the invasion of a high-level practitioner who has become enchanted. Si Tianjian also needs to find a way to deal with this matter."

Then he flicked his sleeves: "It's getting late, you children, you'd better go back and rest."

After he said this, it was obvious that he wanted to go back and make arrangements. Xiao Man and the others said goodbye to him, and Wei Chuyun sacrificed the cloud boat.

It only took a moment to return to the post house, the lights in the house were all extinguished, and everyone rested.Wei Chuyun and Qu Hanxing returned to the backyard, while Xiao Man and the others walked to the west wing of the front yard.

Xiao Man changed his clothes, Shitang asked him to give himself a cleansing technique, and Mo Juntian sat on the other side, and began to calm down and adjust his breath.He glanced out, pushed the door open and went out.

Yan Wushu stood under the osmanthus tree in the courtyard, the corners of his clothes fluctuating in the wind, like black wings.Xiao Man walked over and asked softly, "How much do you know about Dan'er?"

"It's the first time I've heard of it." Yan Wushu said.

"I just don't know how to destroy it." Xiao Man's eyes showed disappointment.

Yan Wushu laughed: "It's easy to think about, just take out the spirit stone inside, or destroy the formation above."

"But you have to take it out and destroy it." Xiao Man sighed silently, only feeling a headache, and looked up at the blue and black sky outside the wall, "I'm going out for a walk."

After taking two steps, he suddenly stood still, and said to the people who followed slowly, "Don't follow."

"Although the matter is a bit difficult, it is not hopeless. Although the general of the garrison is stupid, Si Tianjian is not a freelancer. Besides, don't you have a clue in your hand?" Yan Wushu comforted in a low voice, pointing It was he who still had the whereabouts of the man who was monitoring the posthouse during the day.

Xiao Man responded, rose against the wind, jumped over the green wall, and came outside the post house.

The bustling long street during the day is now empty, and the flags outside restaurants and bars are fluttering, but there are no other guests to attract except jackdaws.

Occasionally, I can see a lantern that I forgot to extinguish, dangling alone in the wind, looking very lonely.

The crescent moon rose to the middle of the sky, and the tip of the crescent was covered with some clouds, so the light was not as bright as before.

Xiao Man walked alone for a long time, walked across the street, and came to the top of a gazebo on the river.

He looked aimlessly into the distance, and suddenly, a voice sounded in his ears:

"Little boy, where do you see that?"

The owner of the voice raised his finger and pointed somewhere, and looking at the appearance of this person, it was Shen Juan who was going to give Xiao Man an antler mask that night in the east of Shenjing City.

Xiao Man couldn't see through Shen Juan's cultivation level, but he spoke with a smile, and there was no danger on his body. What's more, he showed a [-]% closeness to him.

Xiao Man didn't understand why this person wanted to get close to him, but he still looked in the direction of his finger, and said, "The imperial palace."

Shen Juan nodded: "Many years ago, I left a magic weapon there. It can penetrate all solid objects in this world, maybe you can use it."