When it's just dawn.

Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue came to a secluded alley in the outer city with low and old houses and sewage flowing through the streets.

When she walked to the third courtyard gate in the alley and took a look at the charcoal marks on the corner that looked like children's graffiti, Mu Qingxue stopped and made a gesture to Shen Lang.

Shen Lang pointed his finger at the center of his eyebrows, and his mental energy surged out. He scanned the yard and said via voice transmission:

"The layout of one main house and two side rooms. There are four people living in the main house, one person in the left side room, and two people in the right side room. The atmosphere is not right. There is a large space on the ground floor of the main house, but there are some restrictions

, unable to penetrate the restrictions and get a glimpse of the specific situation.”

Mu Qingxue nodded and said:

"It seems Guo Xiaojing is hiding here!"

This nearby area is an area where poor people and migrant workers in the capital gather. There is a large flow of people and a mixture of good and bad. Many lawless people, even killers and assassins, hide in this area.

It’s not surprising that Guo Xiaojing is hiding here.

Shen Lang asked: "After you find Guo Xiaojing, should you kill him on the spot or capture him alive?"

Mu Qingxue pondered:

"Guo Kai was killed because he was afraid that he would be protected by the emperor. Guo Xiaojing fled here to hide, but did not escape into the palace to seek asylum from the emperor. This shows that he did not know how to refine the elixir of youth and was of no value to the emperor.

"But he should know a lot of secrets between Guo Kai and the emperor... Capturing him alive, interrogating him to find out the secrets, and then explaining the canonical punishment may make the emperor restrain himself."

Shen Lang shook his head:

"You want to use black materials to force the emperor to restrain himself? It's impossible. His Majesty, Da Chu, I think is a master who won't shed tears until he sees the coffin."

Mu Qingxue had long been accustomed to Shen Lang's disrespectful and even contemptuous attitude towards the emperor, so she said nothing more and only said:

"Let's take action, capture Guo Xiaojing first."

When the two of them jumped up together, they flew over the courtyard wall and landed in the courtyard.

As soon as he landed, the doors to the main room and the side rooms on both sides opened one after another, and seven men, women and children, holding weapons and swords, surrounded him with stiff steps.

Mu Qingxue glanced up and saw that their expressions were dull, their eyes were straight, and there seemed to be maggots twisting and squirming under the skin of their faces, and a hint of anger suddenly flashed in his eyes:

"They've been bewitched!"

Among these seven men, women, and children, only one strong man showed signs of having practiced martial arts. The other six were just ordinary people. But at this time, they were all controlled by someone, and they were like walking zombies. It was obviously the good deeds of Guo Xiaojing.

Shen Lang slapped out a palm and knocked an old man in front of him to the ground.

As soon as the old man's back hit the ground, he stood up straight using the force of the shock, without even bending his knees.

Although Shen Lang's palm did not kill anyone in the first place, an ordinary person without martial arts would fall to the ground and pass out after receiving this blow. However, not only did the old man not faint, he could get up immediately. It was obvious that his body had been strengthened by the Gu.

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Ho ho!

The seven men, women, and children roared like beasts from their throats, with muddy saliva dripping from the corners of their mouths. They raised their weapons and charged at them like zombies.

Mu Qingxue whispered:

"Knock them unconscious first!"

Just as he was about to take action, a ray of moonlight fell from the sky, split into seven strands, and enveloped the seven men, women, old and young.

Under the moonlight, the seven men, women, and children stopped at the same time, twitching all over like convulsions. At the same time, smelly black smoke kept coming out of their mouths and noses.

As black smoke emerged, the seven people's facial skin, which seemed to be twisted and squirming with maggots, quickly returned to normal.

The following seven people collapsed to the ground at the same time and passed out.

Seeing this, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue were slightly startled. Looking around, they saw a girl wearing an arrow-sleeved outfit, riding boots and breeches, and a dozen pigtails appearing on the wall of the courtyard.

The girl was sitting on the wall, crossing her legs and swaying her calves, looking very playful.

"Your Majesty?"

Seeing this pretty girl, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue were startled at the same time and were about to step forward to greet her.

Shh!

The pretty girl made a silent gesture, winked playfully, and said via voice:

"Little Fahai, don't shout so loudly, and there is no need to salute. Just be quiet and don't alert the thief."

Shen Lang couldn't laugh or cry:

"When he first entered the courtyard, the thief was already alerted... Venerable Sir, why are you here?"

Fa Liuli, who looked like a pretty girl, smiled:

"I promised Yan Baotou and Yu Zhen to help them keep an eye on the movements in the capital. Then if you go out to catch the bad guys, I will naturally follow you and take care of them."

Mu Qingxue said:

"Your Majesty, if your meddling in worldly affairs is known by the royal family, there may be some trouble."

Fa Liuli smiled disapprovingly:

"I also heard the tip and knew that the people I wanted to arrest this time were the remnants of Guo Kai from the Yujing Temple. Guo Kai was a demon and cannibal. This was not a purely mundane matter. I had also helped little Fahai check the identity of the victim before.

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"Besides, as long as you don't say anything, no one will know that I was involved in this matter. Okay, stop talking nonsense. You go and arrest the people. I will help you guard the formation to prevent the thieves from escaping."

Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue looked at each other and walked quickly towards the main room without saying anything else.

With Fa Liuli holding the formation here, even if Guo Xiaojing made some arrangements underground, he would be able to capture it safely.

The two broke into the main room. Shen Lang launched a mental scan and found a mechanism hidden in the mezzanine of the wall. He went over and opened the mechanism, revealing a secret passage leading underground.

As soon as the secret passage opened, several rays of black light shot out from the entrance of the secret passage and flew towards Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue. They were four black-backed centipedes with wings.

Mu Qingxue flicked her finger and shot out a bit of golden light. The golden light was divided into four and attacked four black-backed flying centipedes at the same time. In the blink of an eye, they were shot to pieces from head to tail.

After killing the four flying centipedes guarding the door, Mu Qingxue took the lead and stepped into the secret passage. Shen Lang followed closely behind, casting spells as he walked, blessing "Vajra Indestructible Body" and other protective spells.

Originally, he wanted to give Mu Qingxue some defensive spells, but she refused.

"My protective aura can withstand even second-level magic spells several times. Guo Xiaojing is only a fifth-level Taoist practitioner. Even if I stand and let him cast spells at will, he can't break my protective aura.

There's no need to waste spells on me."

Mu Qingxue's words made Shen Lang a little upset - your husband and I are only at the fifth level of Taoism...

Walking down the stone steps of the secret passage for more than ten steps, we came to a corner. Just as we passed the corner, a guillotine fell from the sky and struck Mu Qingxue head-on with a heavy sound of breaking wind.

Mu Qingxue casually waved her hand upwards, and with a clang, she split the guillotine into two pieces and flew away left and right.

At this time, densely packed small holes were opened on both sides of the secret passage, and countless poison-quenching steel needles were shot out.

But Mu Qingxue had Gang Qi to protect her body, and Shen Lang also put on the Vajra Indestructible Body, Golden Bell Shield and other defensive spells. The steel needles didn't even touch their clothes, and they fell to the ground one after another.

The two of them strode forward with steel needles in their hands, and suddenly several small holes in the dome of the secret tunnel opened silently. Several small green snakes flew down, opened their snouts, showed their fangs, and bit Chen fiercely.

Lang, Mu Qingxue.

Shen Lang raised his hand and pointed, and shot out a fire-enhanced version of the "Finger Arrow Technique", which penetrated into the mouth of a small green snake, shooting it from head to tail in an instant, and roasting it until it was ripe.

Several other small snakes were raised by Mu Qingxue, and a golden thread as thin as a hair flew out from his fingers, cutting them all into several pieces in one stroke.

The mechanism of this secret passage is actually not too weak.

In particular, the flying centipedes and these little green snakes were all Gu insects that had been sacrificed using evil methods, and their lethality was actually quite terrifying.

At least an average fifth-grade warrior, or a warrior in the early or middle stages of fourth-grade, even if they are cautious and step by step, they may be seriously injured or even die.

It's a pity that the people who came to break through the secret path at this moment are one of the best in the world in the second-level Gang Qi realm, and a fourth-level martial arts practitioner and a fifth-level practitioner of both law and martial arts.

All the mechanisms in this secret passage were useless in front of the two of them, and they couldn't even slow down their pace a little.

After going through poisonous smoke, poisonous fire, ground spears, poisonous bees and other traps along the way, Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue finally arrived at the end of the secret passage, in front of a stone door.

There are restrictions on the stone gate, and it is these restrictions that prevent Shen Lang from scanning with his mental power.

However, although this restriction can block prying eyes, the defensive power is not very strong.

Mu Qingxue stood in front of the door, observing carefully with the insight given by the "Tianmu Point", and quickly saw through the weak points of the restriction.

She raised her slender white palms, and the wrist guards made of black gold sand dripped with a golden solution that shimmered with purple light, covering her palms and turning into a pair of golden gauntlets.

Then she slowly clenched her golden gauntlet-covered palm into a fist, and punched a certain part of the stone door. There was a muffled sound on the ground, the whole stone door shook, and there was a click sound at the location where the fist was hit, and dense cracks burst out.

Spider web cracks.

The cracks quickly spread in all directions, spreading throughout the entire stone gate in the blink of an eye. Finally, with a crash, the stone gate was completely shattered, turning into countless rubbles no larger than a fingernail, and scattered everywhere.

Once the stone gate is broken, there is no barrier in front.

Mu Qingxue and Shen Lang stepped into the door, looked up and saw a spacious stone hall behind the door.

In the center of the stone hall, there is a white jade altar carved with various evil spirits.

A young man wearing a black robe with a sinister face was sitting cross-legged on the top of the altar, flanked by a girl wearing the same black robe.

Seeing Shen Lang and Mu Qingxue breaking into the hall, the young man in black robe said sharply:

"Why? I've already hid underground and never seen the light of day. Why are you, the evil bitches of the Divine Catcher Hall, still unwilling to let me go?"

Shen Lang looked at the young man in black robe with cold eyes and said calmly:

"Guo Xiaojing, you assist your master Guo Kai, who is a demon and cannibal. He is a heinous and unforgivable crime. If you are captured without mercy, you will die a good death. If you resist stubbornly, the punishment of Lingchi is designed for you!"

Guo Xiaojing said angrily:

"We masters and disciples work hard for the emperor! We raise the four-winged demon lord to refine the elixir of immortality for the emperor! The emperor is the culprit. You are so righteous, go catch the emperor and cut him to death with a thousand knives!"

Do you think I don’t want to?

Just give me a chance...
To be continued...