At this time, the sky was already bright. After obstruction by the strange young man, even if everyone used their light skills and rushed to the ambush site at full speed, they might have probably gone far away.

Zhu Yushou originally planned to take this opportunity to fight Heifengzhai and the Zhu family in front of Wei Wuji. It would be better for several masters to "seriously injured" a few to reduce the city lord's vigilance.

Now that such an accident has occurred, the plan can only be put on hold.

The matter was already like this, and everyone was helpless. Zhao Wuji immediately took everyone back to the village and prepared to write a letter to Zhu Yushou to report the situation here.

Who is Cao Zhengchun, who is still resentful, takes the initiative to go to Jiangning City to apologize to his master?

And he would take the intelligence personnel who had been initially trained in Jiangning City in the past few days to find out the details of the strange young man.

Zhao Wuji had no reason to object to Cao Zhengchun's request.

First of all, Cao Zhengchun is the King of Suzaku who was appointed by Zhu Yushou himself, and he was in charge of night spies;

Secondly, Cao Zhengchun's cultivation is still above Zhao Wuji.

In this copycat, Zhao Wuji is the leader in everything, which is to give face to the master Zhu Yushou.

Zhao Wuji naturally thought that he could really command Cao Zhengchun.

After rushing to Jiangning City, Cao Zhengchun ordered his men to act separately and lurk in Jiangning City with various identities to inquire about the news.

He himself used his light skills to sneak into Zhu's mansion, found Long'er, asked her to inform him, and asked Zhu Yushou to see him.

Then in Zhu Yushou's study, Cao Zhengchun met Zhu Yushou and carefully reported what happened in the morning.

Then he said that he was not doing well, delaying Zhu Yushou's plan, begging for punishment.

After listening to Cao Zhengchun's detailed narrative and the tearful apology, Zhu Yushou frowned slightly.

I always feel that what Cao Zhengchun said seems to have seen the strange young man there.

Immediately, he asked Long'er to prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Cao Zhengchun, and asked him to paint the portrait of the strange young man.

Cao Zhengchun was originally the governor of the East Factory, and what he did was to supervise the emperor's intelligence work and draw pictures of all officials. That was the foundation of the foundation.

I immediately splashed ink and wrote, and within a moment, the appearance of the strange young man was depicted. It was both spiritual and physical, and the painting style was realistic, comparable to modern sketches.

If ancient painters were of this level, then the wanted orders in costume TV series were completely distorted, which would probably save money and should not be true.

The person in Cao Zhengchun's painting is the masked man who was defeated and escaped by invincible manor in the west of the city.

This result, even as Zhu Yushou expected, was somewhat unreasonable.

Didn’t the masked man have been refined into a medicine puppet that day? But after Cao Zhengchun said that, this person was sober.

Moreover, his cultivation has made rapid progress again and has reached the level of great success in the Gangqi realm, which is simply incredible.

Cao Zhengchun is best at observing words and expressions. When he saw Zhu Yushou's expression changing, he knew that Zhu Yushou must have seen this person and said carefully:

"Master, do you know this person?"

"Yeah! Meet."

Zhu Yushou nodded, and then carefully told Cao Zhengchun about the battle at the west manor that day.

After hearing this, Cao Zhengchun said in confusion: "Master, is this person who has long had an old grudge with the Zhu family?"

"That should be true of his words that day."

Zhu Yushou pondered for a moment, then said solemnly: "Zhengchun, after you formed an intelligence department, your first task is to find out the details of this person. Are you sure?"

Cao Zhengchun said with a serious expression:

"Don't worry, my master, within ten days, the slave will be able to find out the details of this person, otherwise he will be willing to come and see him."

"I can naturally trust your abilities, Zhengchun."

Zhu Yushou patted Cao Zhengchun on the shoulder and said with a smile:

"But you don't have to put too much pressure on yourself. Just try your best to do it. That person was injured by your Tiangang energy and should not pose any threat to us in a short period of time."

"Yes, the slave takes his leave!"

Cao Zhengchun bowed and left the room and went to do what Zhu Yushou told him.

After Cao Zhengchun left, Zhu Yushou asked Long'er: "Is there any movement in the city lord's mansion?"

Long'er shook her head and said:

"Recently, perhaps because of the tax and silver affairs, the City Lord's Mansion is quite cautious. The spies we have installed are just servants serving outside, and we can't find out any important information. Why not, I'll sneak into the City Lord's Mansion tonight."

Zhu Yushou shook his head and said:

"It is not a long-term solution to let you go every time. In this way, from tomorrow, you will hand over all the spies placed in the city lord's mansion to Cao Zhengchun and he will take care of them."

"yes!"

Long'er gave a little blessing and showed that he understood.

In the next few days, Jiangning City, which had been in chaos for three months, finally ushered in a few days of rare peaceful time.

Until the third night, Zhu Yushou received an emergency report from Cao Zhengchun that the two statues of the mocking beasts on the roof of the main hall of the city lord's mansion disappeared.

After Zhu Yushou received the news, he immediately ordered Zhao Wuji to transport the tax silver to be shipped out and ordered him to prepare.

Worried that they were not strong enough, Cao Zhengchun also asked Long'er and Dong Tianbao to go back overnight to support.

...

On the official road leading from Jiangning City to Guangling City, a convoy left Jiangning City in the middle of the night and was slowly moving towards Guangling City.

Compared to Wei Wuji's out of the city with great fanfare two days ago.

This convoy seems much low-key. The convoy has only a hundred guards, and everyone is dressed in a cloth shirt, tied with trousers, and looks like a hunter in the mountains.

Although the carriage was covered with oil cloth, some animal skins, grain bags and other goods could be seen from the corners that were not tied.

It makes people think that they are hunters in the mountains and return after entering the city to trade goods.

However, the divine light that occasionally flashed in the eyes of these hunters fell into the eyes of masters with keen spiritual consciousness, and it was still possible to see that all of them had excellent cultivation.

In one of the carriages, the tarpaulin slowly lifted up, revealing a face that was not angry and powerful, and asked the guard beside him: "Where is the front?"

The guard beside his voice bowed quickly and said, "Sir, there is a line of gorge in front of you."

It turned out that this time the tax silver was actually escorted by the city lord himself, which shows his importance to this matter.

From Jiangning City to Guangling City, due to being blocked by Thorn Ridge and Qianqiu Wall, there is only one official road and two small paths can be accessed.

Although the two paths are close, the roads are rugged and it is difficult to drive.

The amount of taxes and silver in Jiangning City is huge. Even if it is converted into gold, it will take more than ten carriages to transport them away.

It is obviously unrealistic to take a small path with such a expensive and heavy thing.

"First line of gorge!"

Upon hearing this, the city lord frowned slightly and said solemnly:

"The terrain of Yishiya is steep, with Qianqiu Wall on the left and Jingthorn Ridge on the right. It is sandwiched in the center by two mountains. It is most suitable for ambushing, but you must send more scouts to investigate and confirm it correctly before you can enter."

"yes!"

The guard took the order and left. In an instant, more than a dozen scouts who were good at light skills and body techniques flew out of the convoy.

Just like a gecko, climbing up along the cliffs and mountain walls on both sides, occupying the highest point, then checking around and confirming that there is no ambush in the entire "first line of gorge". Then, the long roar was released and the agreed signal was sent, indicating that the convoy could pass.

In the carriage, the city lord heard the whistle and breathed a sigh of relief. This "Yi Line Gorge" is the most suitable place for ambush on the way from Jiangning City to Guangling City.

If there is no ambush here, then the terrain ahead is flat and it will probably be much more difficult to do a large-scale ambush.

After the convoy slowly passed through the "First Line Gorge", there were endless fields on both sides of the road, which made people feel broad-minded.

Such a terrain cannot ambush a large number of people.

However, the city lord was very cautious and sent out several scouts to investigate three miles in advance to confirm that there was nothing wrong in front of him before moving forward.

Moving forward slowly, before I knew it, it was already the sky, at noon.

Although everyone in the convoy has a good cultivation level, it has been traveling for most of the day since the middle of the night and has been exhausted since now.

The city lord was planning to let everyone have a rest, but at this moment, a sudden change broke out.

There was a loud bang, and a flame ignited out of nowhere on the official road ahead, instantly covering the entire official road, turning it into a sea of ​​fire.

The sea of ​​fire was spreading rapidly along the official road towards the convoy.

"Hard turmeric oil!"

The city lord sniffed his nose slightly, his face changed slightly, and he quickly ordered: "The convoy turned around and all retreated."

The escorts of this convoy were the most elite men in the Jiangning City Patrol Battalion. The orders were prohibited. After receiving the order from the city lord, they immediately turned their horse's head and quickly retreated with the carriage.

But I saw smoke and dust everywhere in the sky, and a strange yellow smoke covered the sky and swept towards them with the wind.

Where the yellow smoke floated by, birds fell in the sky, which were obviously a highly poisonous thing.

There was a fire in front and toxic smoke behind, and there were fields on both sides. If everyone wanted to escape, there would be no problem, but the more than ten extremely heavy silver cars could not leave the official road anyway.

Faced with such a desperate situation, the city lord smiled coldly and ordered: "Forge a tiger evil formation and meet the enemy!"

Upon hearing this, the soldiers of the patrol battalion changed rapidly and according to the command of the city lord, they formed a mysterious formation.

As soon as this formation was set out, more than one hundred soldiers circulated their true energy with all their strength, and their aura was completely integrated.

A powerful and fierce tiger evil aura soared into the sky and condensed into a huge white tiger phantom like a substance.

The white tiger suddenly opened its mouth and let out a loud roar, shaking the whole field.
Chapter completed!