The devil has too many vests

Dayong, Yunzhou.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the wind is biting.The continuous flames of war are still burning on this land and have not been extinguished for several months.

There were [-] prefectures in the Dayong Dynasty, and Yunzhou belonged to the southern frontier. Eleven cities in Banzhou were the fiefdoms of King Qi, also known as Qi State.The other Banzhou is adjacent to the borders of Qi State and Dongli, and there are more than [-] Dayong permanent troops.

At the beginning of October in the seventh year of Jingtai, with King Qi raising troops, Dongli army suppressing the border, and Beimo stalking, Dayong, the largest country in Central China, was caught off guard and dragged into the flames of war.

Now more than two months have passed, this year is coming to an end, the flames of war have not been extinguished, and the entire Yunzhou has been completely divided by the Qi State and Dongli coalition forces.

Dayong, who had reacted from the surprise attack, naturally would not let it go, and launched a crazy counterattack.There are even several great masters in the three parties who have fallen.

On the border of Yunzhou, Cold Stone City.

This is a small city. It is said that a hundred years ago, a casual cultivator of the Heavenly Human Realm lived in seclusion here. Although it is not known whether he is dead or alive now, in order to avoid misunderstanding, the Dayong court has greatly reduced the control over this place.

In addition, this place is located on the border between Yongli and Lizhou, so there are often rangers and merchants, and some fugitives are fleeing.Therefore, fish and dragons are mixed, forces are entrenched, murders in the street frequently occur, and many transactions prohibited by the imperial court are carried out in private, which can be described as an out-and-out chaotic place.

Later, Qi State raised troops and occupied this place by the way. Since the leading general didn't know the details of this place, he tried to send people to investigate the whole city in order to stabilize the rear.

That night, seven Dutong were assassinated to death, and the general also died across the bedside.There are many ways to die, which almost caused the Qi army to be defeated before fighting.

——This is a small town shrouded in gray fog.Many people who can't see the light, and things that can't see the light, are shrouded in this gray fog.

If someone tries to dispel this layer of gray mist, so that those who are used to hiding in the fog can see the light, this person must die.

Naturally, even if the nominal ownership of Cold Stone City falls to Qi State, it is still the uncontrolled chaotic place it used to be.

On this day, outside Cold Stone City.When the sun was about to set, a strange young man came here.

He was dressed in white, which was white from the inside to the outside.What it brings to people is not the cold like ice and snow, but it reminds people of pear blossoms falling in the spring breeze.

The man in white seems to have brought the spring breeze, warming the snow and the biting cold wind.

It's just because the waves in his pupils are so gentle and intoxicating.

This is a person who doesn't fit in with Cold Stone City. He is even too dazzling in the eyes of many people, so that everyone looks sideways along the way.

Street vendors, children wandering on the road, even pedestrians and beggars all looked at him, showing undisguised malice.

The man in white turned a blind eye to everything around him, with a faint smile on his face all the time, like every ordinary person who came here, entered the city normally.

And those people who secretly followed behind him with the idea of ​​slaughtering fat sheep disappeared one by one without knowing it, neither alive nor dead.

It can be seen that if it is not for this person's own superb means, there is an expert protecting him secretly.

Not far from the city gate, there is a small teahouse, and the business is very deserted.As soon as the man in white sat down, the little Er, who was so idle that he almost dozed off, hurried forward and poured tea for him courteously.

"This guest officer looks very strange, he must be new here. Then you have to taste the cold wood tea unique to our Cold Stone City."

Xiao Er was wearing a closet, when a gust of cold wind blew in, and another guest walked in.

A very young and beautiful woman.

Although it was the twelfth lunar month of winter, she was only wearing a thin light blue long dress, the hem of which curled up like flower petals, making her even more attractive.

"Third Ma, take care of your subordinates, don't let anyone stretch out their hands indiscriminately!" The woman was so beautiful that she was pitiful, but she spoke unceremoniously, and called into the teahouse, "This is the distinguished guest of our pavilion master. .”

There was a faint cold snort from inside the teahouse.

Xiaoer shuddered, flipped his wrist nimbly, and tilted the teapot, the tea that was about to pour out seemed to be attracted by something, turned into a long white line, and fell into the pot again.Just looking at the exposed hand, it is not something ordinary people can do.

He quickly took back the pot of tea in his hand.

He ran to the counter again, and took out a small pot made of cold jade from some hidden compartment, which was extremely precious just looking at it, and carefully poured Yan Weilou a new cup of tea.

Xiao Er smiled ingratiatingly: "Please use the honored guest. I was a little rude just now, and this cup of tea is a little treat."

Yan Weilou picked up the teacup, took a sip in Xiao Er's eyes full of anticipation and pain, his eyes lit up immediately, and he praised: "Good tea!"

Since he is willing to drink tea, it means he accepts his compensation and doesn't care about what happened before.Xiao Er's expression relaxed obviously, and a smile appeared on his face again.

After Xiaoer left, the woman in a light blue skirt came to Yan Weilou and sat down directly opposite him.He didn't say anything, just stared at him and sipped his tea silently.

Yan Weilou also remained silent and drank his tea silently.As the tea entered his stomach, the true qi in his body circulated slowly, until a burst of warmth emanated from his limbs and bones.

After drinking a cup of tea, Yan Weilou put down the teacup, stood up, and looked outside.

It was like a signal, the woman in Tsing Yi also got up and walked to the front to lead the way, and the two left the teahouse one after the other.

"I'm sorry, I haven't given my name yet. The little girl Qi Yue is currently one of the twelve Shadow Envoys in the Dark Pavilion, and she is the last one."

When the two were walking on the street, people who knew each other avoided the road without a trace, and the woman in Tsing Yi spoke first.

Yan Weilou smiled faintly: "Xiayan Wulun. It's not as big a family business as the dark pavilion, but it's just a small business to make a living."

"..."

Qi Yue was dumbfounded for a while, and then said for a while: "The landlord of Yan is too humble, if even Xiaoyaolou is only a small business, it will be very difficult to find big business in this world."

Yan Weilou's business boasted to each other: "The strength of the dark pavilion is not simple. It took only half an incense stick to enter the city, so you know it?"

Qi Yue smiled complacently, and her beautiful face became more and more attractive: "I may not dare to say it in other places, but in this cold stone city, there is really nothing that the dark pavilion doesn't know about."

After exchanging a few compliments, Qi Yue suddenly said with a compliment or sarcasm:

"Everyone in the world says that the host of Xiaoyao is approachable and magnanimous. I just saw it. If it were someone else, if Xiao Er dared to put medicine in the tea, his life would have been lost, and even the black shop would have to be demolished for him! But he has a good temper."

Yan Weilou nodded secretly in his heart.

……is not that right!If he followed his heart, he would not only kill people and tear down the store, but even give him his ashes~

But now he is Yan Wulun, the landlord of Xiaoyao, so of course he can't destroy the character design casually.

So he just shook his head, with a disapproving tone: "After all, I made the money. That Xiao Er lost a cup of spiritual tea that is hard to buy, so he must be taught a lesson."

Speaking of this, the smile on the white man's face showed a hint of fun, making him a little more lively.

... As for whether Xiao Er will be punished by the behind-the-scenes boss of the black shop, that has nothing to do with him.

The two walked together, testing each other along the way, Yan Weilou seemed undefended, and frankly, but whenever it came to a critical point, he dealt with it in twos and twos, but it gave people the illusion of a happy conversation.

Qi Yue didn't realize until he brought him to the destination. The two seemed to have talked a lot, but in fact Yan Weilou never revealed anything important.On the contrary, Qi Yue herself was caught up in a lot of talking.

However, she didn't notice it at all along the way, and felt that talking with him was like a spring breeze, and she unknowingly developed a lot of affection for this Xiaoyao landlord in her heart-not a relationship between a man and a woman, but pure appreciation.

"..." After thinking it over, Qi Yue felt complicated for a moment.

The two of them stopped in front of an inconspicuous house in the city, and Yan Weilou immediately noticed dozens of auras hidden in it, each one more dangerous than the other.

There was no change in his expression.

Qi Yue led him to the gate of the main courtyard, then turned to look at Yan Weilou, and gave a slight salute: "Master please, my pavilion master is waiting for you inside."

Yan Weilou politely returned her a salute, then straightened her clothes and stepped into the courtyard.

Qi Yue looked at his back and frowned slightly.I have a premonition that things may not develop according to the pavilion master's plan.

As the silent wind blew, another shadow envoy wrapped in a robe appeared at some point, guarding the hospital door with her on the left and right.And asked curiously: "Why, this Xiaoyao landlord is difficult to deal with?"

"That's not true." Qi Yue paused, shook his head and said, "This person has a very good temperament and is not difficult to get along with. But if you think about it from another angle, he is quite difficult to deal with. He really does not leak water!"

The dark pavilion is full of killers, the most proficient in killing techniques.It would be really embarrassing for them to let them intrigue and make stereotypes.Qi Yue was already taller than short.

Qi Yue raised her eyebrows again, and the more she thought about it, the more amazed she became: "Sure enough, no matter what kind of heart you have, a person who can start such a big business from nothing can never be an idiot. This time, I was careless."

This house is a temporary stronghold of the dark pavilion. Not long after it was cleaned up, many places are still a little empty.The so-called main courtyard has a special structure.

After Yan Weilou walked in, his eyes were immediately filled with a frozen lake, and then he saw the extremely elegant water pavilion in the middle of the lake, and two figures, one big and one small, behind the fine bead curtain.

Yan Weilou looked down at the lake in front of him.

It was deep winter, and the surface of the lake was covered with a thin layer of ice, which was less than half an inch thick, and it was afraid that it would be broken into pieces with a little force.But there is no bridge on the bare lake, making the waterside pavilion look like an isolated island in the middle of the lake.

"Is this a test..."

With Yan Weilou's insight cultivation base, he can fly in the sky for a short time, and naturally he doesn't care if there is a way.But now he is a low-level Xiaoyao landlord.

In the absence of major changes, he didn't want to change the character settings rashly and ruin his own fun.

call……

The chilling wind blew across the sky and the earth, and unknown leaves fell, dotted on the snow-white robes of the man in white, the edge of the headband of the same color, and the black ink-like hair.He took a sudden step forward, pointing his toes to the surface of the lake.

click...

A very slight sound sounded, the ice layer was about to crack a gap, and the man in white had already taken another step.

With the help of the strong wind from behind, his wide sleeves fluttered, his figure was incredibly light, and his toes calmly touched the ice. Every time he borrowed strength, he "floated" forward, and in a moment he calmly came to the water pavilion. Then the figure floated in gently.

For the people in the water pavilion, this is another scene.The man in white came stepping on the lake without any haste, his pace seemed slow but fast, almost turning into a white shadow, but there was no trace left on the lake behind him.

He lifted the curtain and entered with a smile on his face.

"It's a step late, I kept you waiting for a long time."

The water pavilion is quiet and quiet, and the one sitting on the main seat is an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. His aura is restrained, and he looks like an ordinary person. If you don't look carefully, you may even ignore his existence.Looks a little taciturn.

But in Yan Weilou's eyes, this man hides a very strong murderous aura, like a dagger hidden in a sheath, blood will be seen when it comes out of the sheath.

Standing next to the middle-aged man was a little servant boy with red lips and white teeth. He looked about ten years old, handsome and cute, and extremely agile.

Seeing Yan Weilou approaching, the little servant boy raised his head all of a sudden, his bright eyes rolled around him, and then he showed a pleasing smile, and stretched out his little hand:

"This way, distinguished guests, my pavilion master has been waiting for you for a long time."

Yan Weilou sat down in the direction he directed, and his smiling eyes fell on the little servant boy, a little curious:

"The master and slave change positions. The master always likes to hide his identity, but let his subordinates show up instead. Is this the usual way of doing things in the dark pavilion?"

"Do you think so? This little pavilion master."

The last time he was wearing a general black vest to meet people in the dark pavilion, Qi Yue, who was the real master, deliberately concealed his identity and pushed his men out.It's really a lineage of behavior.

The little servant boy stared blankly, his little face was blank, as if he didn't know what he was talking about: "What little pavilion master?"

Yan Weilou did not doubt his own judgment because of this, on the contrary, he became more certain.

The cold wind blew, and the beaded curtains were blowing. In the dizzy light of the pearl, the man in white smiled slightly, and said in a firm tone, "Before I came, I never thought that the master behind the dark pavilion would be so young."

He picked up the teacup with one hand, and lightly patted the teapot beside him with the other hand. Immediately, a stream of water flew out. The hot tea drew an arc in midair and fell into the porcelain white teacup without splashing a single drop. out.

Then Yan Weilou raised his glass and sipped lightly.

The hot water mist rose, blurring the gentle and smiling eyebrows of the man in white, and his words continued: "In this way, everything makes sense. No wonder the only one who went to see Jiang Xuan in the big dark pavilion Yue, the last-ranked Shadow Envoy, it's no wonder that you chose to cooperate from the beginning instead of forcibly taking the Hanhai Token."

"—Because your strength is insufficient and your position is unstable."

Taking a sip of tea lightly, Yan Weilou put the teacup on the table and looked at the little servant boy with an inexplicable expression again, as if he had seen everything.

"The current dark pavilion does not completely belong to you."

"Hmm..." At this point, a thought flashed through Yan Weilou's mind, and he said softly, "Even, some people in the Dark Pavilion may not know about the matter of cooperating with us from the beginning to the end. The real partner is you, the little pavilion master, not the entire dark pavilion."

There was silence in the waterside pavilion, only Xiao Xiao Hanfeng passed through the curtain.The little servant with an inexplicable expression fixed his gaze on Yan Weilou.After a while, a smile appeared on his face, and two dimples appeared on both cheeks.

"Clap!"

He stretched out his small hand and patted it twice, his voice was clear and sweet: "Yan Wulun, the landlord of Xiaoyao, is indeed you!"

With a wave of the little pavilion master's small hand, the middle-aged man sitting on the main seat stood up instantly, nodded respectfully at him, and then disappeared in an instant, and was hidden in the ubiquitous shadows in an instant. Hard to find.

This is a top killer with a strong hidden ability.

As for the ten-year-old secret pavilion master, he lifted his clothes and sat on the main seat with a serious face.

"Actually, I didn't expect that you, Lord Yan, would come here in person. I didn't even expect that you would have such a keen insight."

...In his original idea, it should be Jiang Xuan who tricked the prince of Qi from Xiaoyao's mouth to find out the whereabouts of Prince Qi, and then rushed to the meeting, and then they worked together to find a way to take the order of Hanhai from Prince Qi.

He stared at Yan Weilou curiously: "Didn't it mean that you and the prince of Qi are inseparable, and that he has saved your life? Why, are the rumors untrue? Or are you going to betray him?"

For some reason, with this thought, he was faintly disappointed.Even though it was only the first time they met, it was hard for him to accept that this seemingly glamorous host would choose to betray his friend.

"Of course not." Yan Weilou shook his head imperceptibly, "About the matter of cooperating to explore the secret realm of the vast sea, Xuanji told me truthfully. And I did not conceal everything from telling His Royal Highness."

"What! Did you all tell him?"

The unknown owner of the dark pavilion was full of astonishment.

He couldn't understand why these few people could tell each other so frankly and trust each other so much in a secret realm that might have countless treasures from heaven and earth, and an adventure that might even tempt the hearts of celestial beings?

Even he himself, if it wasn't for the lack of power under his command and the urgent need to improve his own strength in a short period of time, he would not choose to cooperate with Jiang Xuan, but would try his best to seize this adventure by himself .

In the doubtful expression of the young pavilion master, Yan Weilou smiled faintly: "That's right, I have told His Highness the whole thing and every word - I trust them, just as they trust me."

"And His Royal Highness also agreed to cooperate, so I came."

"He agreed?!"

The extreme surprise immediately exploded in his heart, and the little pavilion master didn't bother to think about the reason of "you trust him and he trusts me".His mind was completely filled with ecstasy.

Speaking of which, it seems that the little pavilion master who has never been named should also have his name.

He has a rare surname - Baili, and his single name is Hui.

Just as Yan Weilou guessed, the previous pavilion master was Bai Lihui's father.However, not long ago, when carrying out an extremely important assassination mission, the previous pavilion master personally took action, but was unfortunately seriously injured, and died shortly after returning to the dark pavilion.

The dark pavilion was in chaos.

Bai Lihui, who was only ten years old, succeeded as the head of the pavilion with the support of his father Yu Yin and a few shadow emissaries who were loyal to him.But he is still young, his strength is still low, and his prestige is not enough, so he has always been difficult to convince the public.As a result, the interior of the dark cabinet began to split.

Now among the twelve Shadow Envoys in the Dark Pavilion, five of them support him.Due to his strength and age, the three of them kept a wait-and-see attitude for the time being.

The other four Shadow Envoys, due to their own strength and many subordinates under their command, gradually formed their own factions, obediently obeying his orders, and showing signs of self-reliance.

Bai Lihui knew that it was only a short period of time, and these people hadn't made up their minds yet.

As time goes by, seeing that he is still so young and weak, the ambition that comes with his strength will definitely make those people determined to stand on their own, which may cause the secret cabinet to completely split.

Even those who are loyal to him now may not be reliable in the future.And his life safety will not be guaranteed.

He must improve his strength or prestige as soon as possible.

Coincidentally, the news that Prince Qi's son had obtained the Hanhai Token spread throughout the world, so he came up with the idea of ​​the Hanhai Secret Realm.

——Once the Vast Sea Secret Realm is acquired, whether it is Bailihui himself who obtains natural materials and earthly treasures in the secret realm, so that his strength will increase greatly and directly suppress the unruly people; ...This is the fastest and easiest way for him.

Originally, he thought that he would have to plan carefully before he could get Han Hailing, but he didn't expect that the prince of Qi would agree directly.This is really a pleasant surprise.

But after calming down, Bai Lihui also knew that the other party was willing to share such a treasured land with him, so there must be strict conditions.

His face was a little dignified: "I don't know what conditions does His Royal Highness have?"

"Don't worry. For the pavilion master, it's not too difficult for someone to force others." Yan Weilou seemed to see his thoughts, and said calmly, "First, the first thing."

"The owner of the pavilion must also know that over the years, there have been people who have used various methods to bribe assassins in an attempt to assassinate His Royal Highness, and the secret pavilion was also the business object of that person."

Hearing this, Bai Lihui quickly said, "I can tell you the identity of that person."

Yan Weilou was not surprised.The last time I asked Qi Yue about Xuan Xuan, Qi Yue only knew that the person was related to the Qi Palace.As the pavilion master, Bai Lihui has higher authority than Qi Yue, so it is not surprising that he knows the other party's true identity.

...It's just that the hidden cabinet killer has the first reputation and will not betray the real identity of the customer no matter what?Sure enough, the benefits are still not big enough, as long as the benefits are enough, betrayal is just a matter of course.

Thoughts flashed through his mind, and Yan Weilou waved his hand: "No, His Royal Highness doesn't care who that person is. His Highness's request is how many times that person placed orders in the dark pavilion and how to assassinate his highness. Return it back as it is, and treat the person in the same way as the person."

"—And this is just the first requirement. Only when this requirement is fulfilled can cooperation be possible."

Bai Lihui said without thinking, "I agree."

He looked at Yan Weilou earnestly, his small face was serious, but his eyes were full of murderous intent: "Don't worry, Lord Yan, you will see the result within three days at most."