The Thousand Corpse Monster’s gaze attracted everyone’s attention.

The old men are not here. Except for Lin Yehuo, who ran out to play, the four top masters in Kaifeng, there are three left here. Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang, Zhao Pu... plus Nangong Duoluo and a roof of shadow guards, who are stunned.

No one noticed anything strange in the house.

The Thousand Corpse Monster didn't say anything. He just stared at the shadow for a while, then turned back and entered the prison.

Zhao Pu, Nangong and Doluo, who were still left in the yard after being done by the old man, unconsciously glanced at the shadow with their peripheral vision.

Because it was a tree shadow in the sun, or a willow tree, the three of them always felt that the tree shadow was moving... But the strange thing was that they couldn't feel any internal force, and there was no human breath.

Several masters felt strange - is there some kind of sensory imbalance? Why can't they notice it at all? What master can hide the aura so completely?

Unlike several masters, Zhao Zhen, who was sitting at the stone table, couldn't care about anything except being angry.

As long as they are human beings, everyone has a taboo. For example, the fifth master is not happy to hear people praise him for looking good, and the fourth son is not happy to be told that he is fat... But these are just small taboos and cannot be regarded as real taboos. What is true?

What about taboos? For example, slandering the Demon Palace in front of Zhan Zhao and promoting witchcraft in front of Gongsun are really taboos.

The emperor is also a human being, what is Zhao Zhen's most taboo? If he catches an enemy spy today, and calls him a coward in front of his face, he will take it as a compliment. But Zhang Qiaoer was born into such a situation, and even if he is not afraid of death, he will call him a coward, then

His eyes were full of contempt, which Zhao Zhen couldn't bear!

The emperor's teeth were grinding together loudly. When he heard the footsteps outside the courtyard door, he raised his eyelids and looked outside.

At this moment, the two princes Jingrui appeared at the entrance of the courtyard.

The two old men were also quite puzzled. They originally wanted to stay in Kaifeng Mansion, but unexpectedly a few guards suddenly came. Without saying a word, they dragged them to the backyard and said that the emperor had summoned them.

When they walked to the backyard, they saw that Zhao Zhen was really sitting at the stone table. The two old men were also a little confused.

The Duke of the Seven Kingdoms actually had very few opportunities to meet Zhao Zhen, and most of what he knew about this emperor came from the way he invited the officials to dinner during the celebration. Anyway, he was very different from the previous emperor. He was an emperor with a very good temper.

However, at this moment, from a distance, the two princes could tell that something was wrong... Regardless of their faces, just the atmosphere where Zhao Zhen was sitting reminded them of the late emperor unconsciously.

The two of them looked at each other, communicated with each other for a while, then lowered their hands, tried to be as low-key as possible, and went in to prepare to pay homage to Zhao Zhen in Dali.

…

In the dungeon, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang followed Gongsun in, but they were not in a hurry to enter because in the cell, Ye Wangyou was talking to Zhang Qiaoer.

Gongsun motioned for everyone to keep their voices down, and then they all stood by the door and listened.

Zhang Qiaoer's attitude towards Ye Wangyou has obviously improved a lot. She said that she knew that he had taken care of his late father's future and was grateful for his great kindness.

Ye Wangyou felt sad when he looked at Zhang Qiaoer, and asked her what she had been through these years. Was she kidnapped by someone when she disappeared?

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang listened carefully. Gongsun poked them and asked where the funeral flowers were. He wanted to discuss saving people with the old man.

Zhan Zhao reached out and pointed at the cloth pocket behind the Thousand Corpses Monster.

But when Gongsun looked behind the old man... he found that the cloth bag was deflated and the mouth of the bag was open. It didn't look like there was anyone there.

In order to make sure that no one was there, Gongsun opened his pocket and looked inside. Indeed, the pocket was empty... Where was the person?

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At the entrance of the courtyard, the two princes Jin Rui walked towards Zhao Zhen. Before they could reach the front, suddenly... Zhao Pu noticed subtle changes on the ground... Although he still didn't feel the internal force, the willow trees under the

The shadow... moved!

"There's an assassin!"

Outside the cell door, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang were stunned when they heard the shouts. They frowned and wanted to go out, but the Thousand Corpse Monster stretched out its hand and stopped them.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang looked at the old man.

Qian Zhi stretched out his hand and licked the parrot he was holding

The little fourth son picked it up and handed it to Gongsun.

Gongsun caught his son, and the old man walked into the room, reminding Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang, "Don't move, watch your steps."

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both lowered their heads subconsciously... At this time, they were standing in the corridor at the door of the cell. This was not a dungeon but an ordinary prison. The sun was just right at noon, and most of the cells were vacant. The sunlight filtered through the cell doors.

Draw intervals between light and dark in the corridor.

Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang both stared at the ground. They always felt that something was hiding in the dark shadows, but why couldn't they feel the inner force?

The Fifth Master was also very confused. When Zhang Qiaoer assassinated the Duke of the Seven Kingdoms that day, he even noticed the internal force!

While staring, they suddenly noticed that the ground between light and dark at the end of the corridor began to change...the bright grids were disappearing, one by one...being swallowed by darkness.

Bai Yutang felt an unusually powerful yet familiar internal force. Just as he was about to take a step forward, he was stopped by Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao was a little wary just now, but now he was obviously relaxed and told Bai Yutang, "Little Uncle Burian's internal strength."

The Fifth Master nodded and stared at the ground that instantly turned into darkness... and found something emerging from the darkness.

At this time, the situation on the ground was extremely strange. It seemed that the entire ground was covered with a huge black cloth. From under the huge cloth, a hand stretched out from time to time, and half of the body emerged... But as soon as it was stretched out,

He was dragged down again, as if he was trapped in some kind of dark swamp.

Gongsun opened his eyes wide and held his son in his arms as he looked at this strange scene. Inexplicably, he thought of the hell described in the book, where the ghosts were trapped in the dark abyss and could not escape from the quagmire.

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And this strange scene not only appeared in the dark prison, but also appeared in the bright courtyard.

At this moment, the situation in the courtyard outside the door is even more bizarre.

Just now, the shadow under the willow tree suddenly moved quickly in the direction of the two princes. When Zhao Pu noticed an assassin, he raised his hand... and threw an internal force towards the black shadow.

In an instant, the black shadow was cut into two by the Ninth Prince's internal power.

But the severed shadow quickly turned into two, and continued to move towards the two princes without hesitation.

Zhao Pu frowned and chased after him. A large number of guards fell in the courtyard to protect Zhao Zhen and the Eighth Prince.

Zhao Pu caught up with the two shadows, and two black gold formed by inner strength pinned the shadows... Sure enough, the shadows could no longer move, but strangely, they were still twisting.

And if there is an assassin hiding in the shadow, then he will always make a sound when he is pinned. Even if he can hold back the sound, can he not bleed? But the problem is that there is nothing, and there is still no breath and internal power... only

Some strange, cracking sounds like the twisting of joints.

Zhao Pu frowned and muttered, "What..."

Just as I was about to pull those two things out of the ground, I suddenly heard some commotion from the shadow guards around me...

As soon as Zhao Pu raised his head, he saw the guards all drawing their swords and staring at the ground... At this time, starting from the corner, a large number of moving shadows appeared, and they all gathered in the direction of the two princes at an extremely fast speed.

On the roof, Ziying shot an arrow into a shadow, but when the arrow was stuck on the ground, the shadow split into two halves and continued to move. This scene was as weird as it was weird.

Zhao Pu raised his hand and motioned for the guards to take the emperor and the eight kings to the room first... But before anyone could move, a voice came, "Don't move."

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As the voice fell, the ground in the courtyard was like rice paper dripping with ink... darkness spread.

Almost instantly, the ground that was originally bleached by the sun turned into pitch black.

It was pure black, a darkness without any light at all.

In the darkness, black shadows kept appearing, which seemed to be ghosts covered in black cloth. They were in a very hideous state. Most of them had their mouths wide open, their fingers curled, or they were reaching for the sky like they were drowning, or they were clawing.

The suffocating feeling on the neck... Anyway, just look at it

, there is a feeling of despair.

The invasion of darkness did not last long. After a while, the darkness began to gradually recede... The shadows that were moving actively on the ground just now disappeared...

In the prison, the darkness was retreating little by little, and the bright light panels were restored one by one... until everything was as usual.

In the courtyard, everyone saw a man in a black cloak tying an oversized black bag under the tree in the corner. It was the funeral flower.

I don't know how many people were stuffed into the pocket, and the limbs were twisted and stacked together to form a ball, and they twitched from time to time.

After tying it up, Bian Shenghua kicked the huge bag into the courtyard... and the man piled black balls and rolled them in front of Zhao Pu.

The prince frowned, looking at the pile of people twisted into a ball under the bag, with no desire to open it.

Everyone turned to look. Under the willow tree, Burial Flower was hugging the tree and hiding in the shadow. He pointed his finger at the human ball pocket and said, "Di Lingzi."

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"Earth Spirit Son?" Zhan Zhao stood at the door of the cell and asked the Thousand Corpse Monster who was holding a "person" that had just been pulled out from the darkness under Zhang Qiaoer's bed, "What is it..."

The "human figure" held by the Thousand Corpse Monster is a dark, mummified thing.

Gongsun stared at the "person" for a long time, surprised, "This... is a dead person!"

Thousand Corpse Monster nodded, "Yes, it's a corpse."

Fifth Master stared at the writhing mummy with some disgust, "Why is it moving..."

"This is a mechanism used to guard ancient tombs." The Thousand Corpse Monster threw the black corpse on the ground and raised his hand with a knife... to smash the mummy into pieces.

Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao both figured it out. No wonder they couldn't detect any inner force or aura. It turned out that it was not a tangible inner force or a living assassin, but a mechanism...

On the smashed mummy, you can see that there are mechanisms made of metal and leather fixed between the bones.

"This kind of thing must be burned or smashed to pieces, otherwise it cannot be eliminated. Even if it is cut into several pieces, it can continue to move. Once surrounded by them, it will feel like being trapped in a animal trap." Thousand Corpses

The monster pointed at the black steel needles densely arranged among the broken bones.
To be continued...