Listen to the king's order

It's night, the Xin family's mansion hidden in the peach grove.

A few days ago, the place was brightly lit and happy, but now it is eerily quiet.

In front of the gate of the Xin family, there were only three or two guards from Chengtianjian watching.Who would have thought that a famous family in the past could only end up in a field where outsiders collected their corpses.

Two figures in night clothes flashed over the Xin family courtyard like ghosts, and flew straight to the study of Xin Zhiyuan, the head of the Xin family.It was Jiang Qichen and Lu Ming who were going to visit Xin's house at night.

The two landed silently, facing a strong smell of blood.

Lu Ming always hated the smell of blood. He frowned and put a finger under his nose.Glancing at Jiang Qichen, the latter nodded understandingly, and pushed open the door of the study.

The two walked into the room, Lu Ming carefully closed the door, walked to the case, pointed to the table and said, "Master, Xin Zhiyuan's substitute died here that day. When I arrived, the body was still hot. of."

Jiang Qichen walked to the table, took out a fire pocket from his pocket, and ignited it.With the faint light of the fire, a large piece of dried blood on the table could be vaguely seen.

Lu Ming walked to the bookshelf, just like that day, gently turned the lamp on the wall, and the bookshelves separated in response.

"Master, this is the secret passage in Xin Zhiyuan's study, and there is a small room behind it."

Hearing this, Jiang Qichen strode in. The secret path was hidden deep in the peach grove. It was the season of peach blossoms, and the dense peach trees on both sides were the best cover.Even if you fly to the top of the peach forest, you may not be able to find a secret path here.

But soon, the peach trees on both sides became less and less, and a hut suddenly appeared in front of them.

Jiang Qichen's usually calm eyes became sharper, staring at the hut in front of him, he felt that something was wrong, and asked, "Did Xin Zhiyuan die here that day?"

Lu Ming nodded and opened the door.The hut is still the same as that day, with only an old table in the empty room.Lu Ming walked to the table, pointed to a pool of blood on the ground and said, "When I arrived, he was lying here, not completely dead."

Jiang Qichen walked up to Lu Ming's side, and walked around the small room again. He frowned and said in a deep voice, "What did he say?"

Lu Ming lowered his head and thought for a while, trying his best to restore the scene of the day: "At that time, he was wiped by someone on the neck, and it was already very difficult to speak. He saw me and pointed to an empty box on the ground..." Said Lu Ming and took a step forward , pointing to his feet and said: "Probably in this position, there is an empty box. He just said the word 'please' and died."

Jiang Qichen didn't make a sound, stared at Lu Ming's feet thoughtfully, and said after a while, "So, because of this, you think that the box originally contained a life-giving talisman."

After Jiang Qichen finished speaking, Lu Ming suddenly trembled.That's right, when Xin Zhiyuan pointed to the empty box on the ground and said the word "please for life", he subconsciously felt that the box was originally filled with a plea for death.

Although this room is hidden, if someone knows the secret passage in that room, it will be easy to find it.Something as important as a life talisman will be placed directly in this room?But if not, what did Xin Zhiyuan want to tell him?

"In this room, there is nothing but this broken table. Xin Zhiyuan will not be such a trifle as the guardian of the plea talisman for four generations." Jiang Qichen said, stretched out his hand to pull Lu Ming away, squatted down, and pulled out his waist. The folding fan in the room was tapped lightly on the ground with the handle.

Soon, two different noises came, Jiang Qichen and Lu Ming subconsciously looked at each other, there was indeed a secret passage in this room.

Lu Ming walked around the house and touched the wall for a long time, but found nothing.Then, he turned his gaze to the table in front of him.

There is nothing in this room except this table, but this room is cleaned spotlessly, but this table is old and worn out, and it is covered with a thick layer of dust, as if no one has used it for a long time.

Lu Ming glanced at Jiang Qichen and held his breath.

The next moment, Jiang Qichen waved the folding fan in his hand and fanned it lightly on the table, and a layer of floating dust floated in the air profusely.

"No wonder." Jiang Qichen murmured calmly, "This is unconsciousness. Once inhaled, the power will be exhausted and you will lose consciousness."

Thinking about it this way, Xin Zhiyuan might have been hit by the Wuzhi powder first, and then someone took advantage of it after losing his skills.

Jiang Qichen has been poisoned by the nameless poison since he was a child, and he grew up soaking in the medicine jar for so many years.He doesn't know the world's poisons well, but he is quite proficient.Furthermore, I would like to thank the person who poisoned him back then, not only did not kill him, but made him invulnerable to all poisons by mistake: "It seems that the mechanism should be on this table."

Hearing this, Lu Ming stretched out his hand to turn the table a few times, and found that the table was nailed to the ground and could not turn at all.In this way, if one wants to open the secret passage, one must start from the table.And there is Wuzhisan on the table, which is exactly the same as ordinary dust in both color and taste. Once someone carelessly touches the table, Wuzhisan will be inhaled.It's a brilliant move.

Lu Ming took two steps back, moved his left hand, and a sharp palm swept towards the table.All Wuzhi scattered in the air in an instant, revealing the table below.

I saw that the tabletop covered by the thick ignorance powder was a blue color, like a high-quality bluestone, but when I looked closely, it seemed that there was water flowing on the stone.At that moment, Lu Ming only thought of the words "live to death".

"Qingshuishi." Jiang Qichen said in a deep voice, and was about to reach out to the table.

Lu Ming has heard of Qingshuishi.It is rumored that this stone grows in the deepest pool in the world, and it takes tens of thousands of years of washing and polishing in the pool to form a piece.This stone is extremely hard and invulnerable.Once it is formed, it will live and die with the pool water, and because of the symbiosis with the pool water, a few pools of water will be injected into the cracks, and the water will never dry up.

But this blue water stone also has a taboo.That is not to touch it at will, unless the person has drunk the pool water of the raw stone in advance to reshape the meridians.Otherwise, once you touch it, you will immediately be swallowed back by the blue water stone, and even a 20-year-old boy will immediately describe it as haggard.

Lu Ming looked at the pair of slender and white hands in front of him. He knew that that person would not do anything he was not sure about, but he was still a little worried.He subconsciously strangled Jiang Qichen's wrist, which was slender but not weak, with full strength, Lu Ming called out in a low voice, "Master..."

Jiang Qichen's other hand holding the fan was attached to Lu Ming's, and he patted it lightly twice.Lu Ming only felt a slight chill coming from the back of his hand, he paused, and silently let go of Jiang Qichen's grip.

Jiang Qichen gave Lu Ming a reassuring look, and said softly, "It's okay."

I saw Jiang Qichen slowly put his hand on the green water stone, the water in the stone seemed to be alive, and the moment Jiang Qichen touched it, it immediately flowed.The stone seemed to be no longer hard, and Jiang Qichen felt as if his hand had been inserted into a puddle of clear water.Strictly speaking, it was more like the pond water in the crevice of the stone melted the indestructible stone the moment Jiang Qichen touched it.

Jiang Qichen put his hand into the "melted" stone, and as expected, he felt a bulge. He stretched out his hand and pressed it without hesitation, and a gap was opened on the ground where Lu Ming was standing.Afterwards, the gap opened wider and wider, and it turned out to be a passage leading to the ground.

Jiang Qichen slowly withdrew his hand from the stone. As soon as he left, the water flow stopped immediately, and the stone hardened immediately, returning to its original appearance.

Lu Ming saw that he was successful, and waved his palm up in the air a few times.The Wuzhi powder that had just landed on the ground gathered in Lu Ming's palm in a flash.Then his palm lightly fell on the Qingshui stone, Wuzhi scattered on the stone safely.Everything is the same as before.

Only then did Lu Ming walk up to Jiang Qichen, and said in a deep voice, "Master, are you alright?"

Jiang Qichen shook his head with a smile, and said, "I was poisoned when I was young, and the toxins accumulated on my legs. My meridians had long since withered, so I couldn't walk. Later, my mother invited the King of Medicine to save me. To reshape the meridians, the Medicine King asked me to drink the pond water that was pregnant with blue water stones. Unexpectedly, it will come in handy today.”

Hearing Jiang Qichen's explanation, Lu Ming felt relieved.He quietly let out a sigh of relief by looking at the secret passage on the ground.

"Master, it seems very deep down here."

Taking advantage of the fire folder in Lu Ming's hand, Jiang Qichen also stretched his head to look towards the secret path.It was pitch black, and nothing could be seen.

The two were so close that their heads were almost touching.

Jiang Qichen's sudden approach made Lu Ming panic.The unique scent of agarwood on Jiang Qichen's body slowly slipped into his nostrils, Lu Ming clenched his fists, and moved back half a step with a cold face.

"There's not much time, let's go down and have a look." Jiang Qichen turned his face to Lu Ming and said, his good-looking eyebrows glanced at Lu Ming's calm face, maybe the light here was too dim, and he didn't notice anything wrong.

While Jiang Qichen was speaking, he was about to jump out of the hole, but Lu Ming grabbed his wrist again. He looked puzzled at Lu Ming's eyes that were especially dark and bright at night.

Lu Ming didn't meet his gaze. He felt that if he looked at Jiang Qichen more now, he might reveal his flaws. He just pointed to the secret passage on the ground and said coldly, "Master, there may be a trap down here. I'll go down first."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for Jiang Qichen to respond, he jumped down.

Jiang Qichen looked at the figure that disappeared into the darkness in an instant, and without thinking about it, he jumped down behind Lu Ming.

Only a "bang" was heard, and the mechanism on the hole slowly closed.The little light that was so easy to have is now completely gone.Not only that, the entrance of the cave has been closed, if they are trapped here, it may be difficult to escape.

Lu Ming stretched out his hands, using his inner strength under his feet, and slowly fell down.This passage is very deep, I don't know how many meters have been dug underground.The torch in his hand had been burnt out long ago, and even though Lu Ming had excellent eyesight in the dark, there was only endless darkness in front of him.

It took them about a cup of tea in a row before Lu Ming felt a sporadic light.After a while, Lu Ming stopped and finally stepped onto the flat ground.He took a step forward, and took out a fire pocket from his pocket. After blowing it up, he worked a little with his hand, and an invisible barrier was able to protect the weak flame.

Not long after, Jiang Qichen also landed steadily behind him.