A team of carriages entered a small town two hundred kilometers away from Bingcheng. There were about a dozen guards and more than a dozen carriages. The team was led by one of Shi Jue's senior brothers, Gu Hongwen. Since Shi Jue's last confession, they
Then he started going out to guard the caravan for training.
The cavalry entered the inn quietly.
"Pull the carriage into the backyard and unload it," Gu Hongwen said. Several guards and coachmen unloaded the goods into the inn's warehouse and then went to the restaurant to eat and drink.
"Dry!"
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The guards started drinking happily. There was a royal guard in the caravan who didn't need them to worry about at all, and basically no bandits bothered them along the way.
There are very few royal guards in the caravan, and royal guards will only be used unless those valuable items are to be escorted. What this caravan escorts are some medicinal materials, although their value is not low, but they are not valuable items.
Ordinary bandits would not dare to make plans, and high-level bandits would not make plans for this batch of goods. Moreover, this is not a chaotic place, and the security is relatively better than a chaotic place. Even emperor-level masters would not dare to do so.
Committing a crime near the Ice City is undoubtedly a challenge to the authority of the Ice Palace. Relatively speaking, it is very safe to be escorted by a royal guard.
However, Gu Hongwen was still very careful and left two guards outside the inn's warehouse to guard the goods. The goods were worth tens of millions of taels of gold.
In the evening, Gu Hongwen checked the goods and then went back to his room to rest.
After midnight, two black figures appeared in the inn. After a few ups and downs, they arrived outside the warehouse. A black figure raised his hand, and two flying needles pierced the body of the guard.
"Something's happening!" the guard shouted loudly. Then he fell to the ground.
Gu Hongwen, who was sleeping in his clothes, jumped up from the bed.
"Bang!" The window was shattered by Gu Hongwen. He jumped down from the window with his sword in hand. He rushed in front of the two guards. By this time, the guards had already passed out with black faces.
Gu Hongwen quickly stood up and looked around at the situation.
Suddenly a black figure rushed out and stabbed Gu Hongwen with a long sword in his hand.
"Second style of Xueling Sword Technique!" Gu Hongwen did not retreat but advanced.
"Man……"
The two swords were immediately intertwined. They were evenly matched and could not be separated.
At this time, another dark shadow touched him, and stabbed at him silently like a poisonous snake.
Gu Hongwen suddenly realized the danger and used his sword to block the sword thrust from behind. The sword from the front also attacked, and Gu Hongwen was immediately at a disadvantage.
However, the two of them were like a cat playing with a mouse, gaining an absolute advantage but had no intention of killing Gu Hongwen.
Gu Hongwen was confused from left to right, and suddenly there were many flaws.
Suddenly, a needle shot through Gu Hongwen's exposed flaw.
"Ah!" The poisonous needle pierced Gu Hongwen's left shoulder. He fell to the ground.
The two black figures looked at each other and then disappeared.
At this time, the guards rushed over with weapons. The enemy had disappeared, leaving only three people who had been poisoned and fell to the ground. They hurriedly fed the three people with antidote pills...
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"Shi Jue!" Uncle Qin ran in and shouted.
"Uncle Qin, what happened?" Shi Jue asked.
"Several guards have been poisoned! Ordinary antidote pills don't work at all!" Uncle Qin said.
"Let's go take a look." Shi Jue stood up and said.
The two of them walked to Uncle Qin's residence. Three people were lying motionless on three beds, one of them was his senior brother Gu Hongwen. Shi Jue's face became colder as he walked over.
"Shi Jue, what is this?..."
"Where were they poisoned?" Shi Jue asked.
"Since the trade routes in the Land of Chaos were blocked, we have avoided the trade routes of the Iron Banner Country, Beiliang Country and the Wilderness Country. We didn't expect that they were plotted on the road. And they were in a place not far from Ice City.
There was a plot in this small town." Uncle Qin said.
"This is ice centipede poison!" Shi Jue said coldly.
"What? Did Bing Gong do this on purpose?!" Uncle Qin shouted loudly.
"Uncle Qin, withdraw all caravans and guards!" Qin Yantong walked in at this time and said: "Do your best to protect the safety of the Chamber of Commerce and Shi Jue."
"Yes, miss." Uncle Qin said.
"Shi Jue, can their poison be cured?" Qin Yantong asked.
"This is not a poison, it should be the toxin discharged from the body of the ice guard of the Ice Palace. It has also been diluted, otherwise the three of them would have died long ago." Shi Jue said with a gloomy face: "I still want to return this poison.
It can be solved."
"The Ice Palace is so insidious!" Qin Yantong said.
"Brother Yingjie, let them take these three elixirs." Shi Jue took out three elixirs and handed them to Huang Yingjie and said, "I'll make the detoxification elixir right away."
"Don't you want to use the secret method?" Qin Yantong asked.
"Yes, but the difficulty of detoxification is not as high as that of Bing Gong Bingwei." Shi Jue said.
"What help do you need from me?" Qin Yantong asked.
"Take my pharmacist's token and go to the medicine hall to get medicine..." Shi Jue said a few medicine names and left.
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"Shi Jue!" Tong You walked in and called.
"Hall Master Tong." Shi Jue stood up and shouted respectfully.
"I didn't expect that the Ice Palace would use such means to force you." Tong You said angrily: "I will go to the Ice Palace to discuss it with the Ice Lord immediately."
"Hall Master Tong, the problem is not that simple." Shi Jue signaled him not to worry: "Hall Master Tong, I'm afraid I have to trouble you with something."
"Please tell me." Tong You said.
"I thought of putting these three people in the medicine hall for treatment. Once cured, I will leave the Ice City through the teleportation array in the medicine hall." Shi Jue said: "The Rose Chamber of Commerce and my senior brother also asked the hall master to take care of one or two."
"Shi Jue, are you worried that the Ice Palace will be bad for you?" Tong You asked.
"The Ice Guard Chief of the Ice Palace has a high status in the Ice Palace. If he knew that I cured three poisoned people, he would definitely find a way to keep me," Shi Jue said.
"Shi Jue, don't worry. Even the Ice Lord wouldn't dare to force you to stay. I just want to use this matter to ask the Ice Palace for an explanation." Tong You said with a gloomy face.
"If Bing Gong really wants to break up, what should we do?" Shi Jue asked.
"She dares!" Tong You said angrily.
"What if they force us to stay in a 'polite' manner?" Shi Jue asked.
"She..." Tong You was not confident either: "We can help her remove the poison from Captain Bing, and they will definitely give us an explanation."
"I can detoxify the poison on these three people, but I cannot detoxify the poison on Captain Bing." Shi Jue shook his head and said, "The poison on these three people is the venom discharged from the body of Captain Bing, and its intensity is not at all
It cannot be compared with the poison on the Ice Guard Captain. So I can only choose to leave Ice City."
Tong You looked at Shi Jue without saying anything. Shi Jue could tell that Tong You still hoped that Shi Jue could undo the poison on the Bing Guard Chief and establish a good relationship with a super sect. It was very easy for him as the leader of the sect to do so. He probably didn't either.
Shi Jue does not want Tong You to help him wholeheartedly. He just wants to achieve his own goals through him. To be clear, it is mutual use.
"This is the prescription to remove the poison from the three of them. See if you can remove the poison from Captain Bing." Shi Jue handed over two prescriptions and said. He couldn't hide anything from Tong You.
"Why two copies?" Tong You looked at it and asked curiously.
"Combination therapy." Shi Jue said.
"Yes." Tong You nodded and said, "But this elixir is also helpful to the Ice Guard Chief. At least it can control the spread of poison. Shi Jue, what is the secret theory you are talking about?"
"Use the body as a pill furnace." Shi Jue thought for a while and said.
"What?!" Tong You stood up excitedly, then shook his head and sat down and said: "No wonder you said you are not at the highest level. Yes, this prescription should be treated like this!..."