Taiping Inn

It was almost noon, and the snow was still falling, but the area around Luohua Terrace was already bustling with people.

Luohua Terrace was a beautiful hill surrounded by pine and cypress trees. The top of the hill was a flat and open space. A high platform had been built on the open space, and a shed was built on the platform to block the snow. In the shed, there were nearly a hundred chairs for the dignitaries of Jinling City to sit.

Among the many visitors, in addition to the people from various government offices and the followers of many gentry, there were also a considerable number of civilians. They knew that the person to be executed this time was the famous Qin Dudu Qin Xiang, who was a general who had recovered Liangzhou and Qinzhou. They were very angry, but they did not dare to show it too obviously because of the soldiers in armor.

But even so, the invisible attitude of the people made Zhao Shixian, the governor of Jiangnan, who was sitting on the high platform, a little uncomfortable. He coughed lightly, turned his head and looked at Chen Fang who was sitting next to him, and whispered: "Eunuch Chen, are you ready to read the imperial edict?"

Chen Fang nodded.

A eunuch who was very unfamiliar in the circle of dignitaries in Jinling Prefecture slowly stood up.

He was the imperial envoy this time. Unlike Cui Shufeng and others who went south secretly, they took the imperial edict and went south along the Grand Canal by boat. They were very powerful all the way and just arrived in Jinling a few days ago.

The eunuch took out a long tube, and the Qingluan Guard beside him opened the sealed lid on the long tube. Then the eunuch took out a golden scroll from the tube. It was made of brocade woven with fine silk and used white jade as the axis - this was the imperial edict.

At the same time, a large number of armored soldiers escorted six prisoner cars to Luohuatai.

There was one person in each prisoner car, a group of people led by Qin Xiang, among whom was a familiar face to Li Xuandu, Qiu Anqing.

After the prisoner car appeared, the entire Luohua Terrace suddenly became noisy, and countless voices gathered together to form a huge noisy sound wave, which made Zhao Shixian frown again.

Zhao Shixian's cold and handsome eyes swept across the crowd.

Without any instructions, a Xiantian Realm master from the Governor's Mansion stepped forward, sank his qi into his Dantian, and roared "Silence" with a method similar to "Lion's Roar", like thunder in the sky, and the sound swept across the entire Luohua Terrace in an instant like rolling thunder, and the sound wave was like a strong wind blowing in the face, causing many people to fall directly.

The Luohua Terrace, which was originally noisy, suddenly became quiet.

The Xiantian Realm master retreated behind Zhao Shixian again.

The strange eunuch then unfolded the imperial edict in his hand: "Imperial edict."

The eunuch's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard throughout the Luohua Terrace. It was obvious that he had a good cultivation.

Including Chen Fang and Zhao Shixian, everyone on the high platform knelt down. The people who were excited just now hesitated for a while, but they did not dare to disobey the emperor who had been hanging over their heads for hundreds of years, and they all knelt down in a black mass.

The eunuch began to read the imperial edict: "By the grace of Heaven and the Mandate of Heaven, the emperor proclaimed: There are many ministers who plotted rebellion in all dynasties. At the beginning of the founding of the Wei Dynasty, there were five people who intended to plot rebellion. They were all of high rank, and they had made contributions to the court and the country, and to Emperor Taizu. Emperor Taizong Gao still punished them according to the law, and the ancestral system was not lax. Now you, Qin Xiang, the former governor of the Central Qin and the left commander of the left army, have formed a party to disrupt the government and plotted against the law. According to the law of Emperor Taizong, although you have made great contributions to the court, you should be punished according to the law! I follow the ancestral system and immediately remove all the titles of Qin Xiang. I order Zhao Shixian, the governor of Jiangnan, not to escort Qin Xiang to the capital, but to execute him immediately in Jiangzhou. I decree this."

The person sitting in the first prison car was Qin Xiang.

He was an old man with gray hair and a tall stature. His many years of military career had left too many traces of wind and frost on this famous general of the time, but it also made him tough. Even though he was now a prisoner, he still did not show any sign of decadence. He shook the shackles on his hands. These were made by skilled craftsmen from the Ministry of Industry. They could block the movement of Qi and were extremely strong. Even a great master in the Heavenly Man Realm could not break them with his physique alone without using Qi and True Essence. In addition, Qin Xiang was now sealed in several major acupoints in his body, so he was really unable to break free from the imprisonment.

At this time, the great eunuch from the Imperial Household Department had finished reading the imperial edict, and it was "received". Qin Xiang was still sitting in the fine steel prison car specially made for him, indifferent.

"Qin Xiang accepts the order!" The eunuch looked cold and shouted in a shrill voice.

Qin Xiang still did not speak.

There was silence again.

Jiangnan Governor Zhao Shixian was not surprised by this result. He sighed and said, "Let's execute him."

At this moment, a loud uproar broke out.

Zhao Shixian looked up.

Seeing a long rainbow coming from the sky.

The Falling Flower Platform shook violently, and all the gentry who came to watch the ceremony stood up.

Sun Yiqi, a master of Daozhong Sect sitting behind Chen Fang, looked solemn and said in a deep voice, "The man who came is Jing Xiu, one of the three masters under the command of Liaodong Governor Zhao Zheng. He was born in the Butian Sect and is the junior brother of Qin Qing, the 'Heavenly Sword'."

While the two were talking, the grandmaster who ranked fifth on the black and white spectrum had already come with an overwhelming momentum.

Zhao Shixian expected that Zhao Zheng would send someone to meet Qin Xiang and his party, but he had not found this person for a long time. However, it didn't matter. Today, at this time and place, the grandmaster of the Butian Sect still showed up.

At the same time, a streak of purple suddenly lit up in the snowstorm. It was particularly dazzling in the white sky.

In an instant, the falling snow suddenly stopped.

Everyone on the Falling Flower Platform looked up and saw ripples on the sky.

Then a long purple rainbow flew over with unstoppable force, blocking the way of the long rainbow.

The two were separated by more than a hundred feet in the air, facing each other from a distance, revealing their figures.

Jing Xiu was dressed in black, and his face seemed to be only in his thirties, with a black long sword hanging from his waist.

The man who blocked Jing Xiu's way was dressed in embroidered white clothes, with fluttering sleeves.

It was not until this time that the still snow began to flutter and fall again.

The man in white clothes whispered: "Han Yaoyue of Wangqing Sect greets Uncle Jing."

Jing Xiu snorted lightly, and did not speak, but stretched out his arm, and the black long sword hanging from his waist automatically came out of its sheath and flew into his palm, then he took a step forward, and his figure was like a thunder bombarding towards Han Yaoyue.

Han Yaoyue did not retreat but advanced, and began to sweep forward gracefully, rolling up thousands of layers of snow.

The wind and snow were blinding, as if the heavy snow in the world was moving like a shadow, following the white clothes that were running fast.

The two people collided with a loud bang, and then separated at the touch.

The two people did not stop and rushed forward again.

The previous fight seemed to be evenly matched, but in fact Jing Xiu had a slight advantage. If there was no external interference, neither of them would retreat and fight to the death, then Jing Xiu would definitely be the one who survived.

Han Yaoyue was only the ninth in the black and white spectrum after all, and was still a little behind Jing Xiu.

However, if Jing Xiu wanted to kill Han Yaoyue, he would have to pay a huge price.

When the two people collided for the second time, Han Yaoyue's two fingers had a dazzling purple light, which touched the long sword in Jing Xiu's hand, and a sharp sound of metal and stone was heard.

Then Han Yaoyue had to retreat and temporarily distance themselves from each other.

At this moment, Jing Xiu took a heavy step forward, and his momentum instantly climbed to the peak, and he slashed Han Yaoyue's forehead with a knife.

A white rainbow flew backwards at a speed no less than that of the rainbow.

When Han Yaoyue stopped retreating and raised his head again, there was a thin red line from his forehead to the bridge of his nose and then to his lips, dividing his face into two.

Han Yaoyue's expression suddenly became extremely gloomy. He stretched out his slender fingers and gently stroked the red line on his face. Wherever his fingertips passed, the red line slowly disappeared. In just a moment, the whole face had returned to its original state.

The next moment, Han Yaoyue's figure rose from the ground, breaking through the heavy clouds in the sky, bathing in the golden light above the sea of ​​clouds, and a voice fell from the air, "Master Jing, let's fight again in the sky."

Jing Xiu did not hesitate at all and turned into a rainbow and flew into the sky.

This made Zhao Shixian feel suspicious. If Jing Xiu came to save people, he should have tried his best to get rid of Han Yaoyue's entanglement. How could he fight with Han Yaoyue and not care about saving people at all? Could there be someone else behind Jing Xiu?

Before he could think about it, the world shook! The whole flower-falling platform also shook, and the snow on the surrounding pines and cypresses fell.

Then the "snow curtain" between heaven and earth began to flutter. If you regard snowflakes as beads and heavy snow as a bead curtain, it is like a naughty child shaking the curtain.

Heaven and earth resonate.

This is the unique magical power of the great master of the heavenly realm.