The bonfire was burning brightly, and the dry wood kept crackling.
Under the jumping firelight, people only felt a cold light flashing in front of their eyes, as if they saw something, but they seemed to see nothing.
"What a fast knife!" The Mu family guard covered his neck with his hands, looking at the young man named Zhang Meng in front of him in horror, and struggled to squeeze out a sentence from his throat.
He regretted it.
What's wrong with looking at his knife?
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world.
Even if there was, he didn't have time to buy it.
Blood spurted out from between his fingers, and no matter how hard he used his hands, he couldn't cover it up.
Bang!
He fell to the ground in front of him, his body twitched several times and became motionless.
Before he died, a thought flashed through his mind. It was so fast!
Canglanglang
The Mu family guards drew their swords one after another.
"You are so brave!" Yang Tongjin, the guard captain, pointed at Zhang Meng and yelled angrily. He never expected that Zhang Meng would draw his sword and kill someone.
Zhang Meng's face was expressionless, his indifferent eyes scanning Yang Tongjin and the Mu family guard who was drawing the knife. His voice was so calm that there was no ripple, and he asked, "Who else wants to see my knife?"
The air suddenly became quiet.
Zhang Meng just said that he was going to draw the sword, and they all watched curiously, but they didn't see clearly when the sword was unsheathed, when it was slashed across their companion's throat, and when it was sheathed.
All they saw was a cold light.
They held the hilts of their knives tightly, with fierce expressions on their faces, wishing to kill Zhang Xiaopeng with one strike, but for a while no one dared to respond.
When Zhang Meng's indifferent gaze swept across their faces, they even felt their breaths suffocate, as if Zhang Meng was looking at them like a dead person.
Zhang Meng's eyes finally fell on Yang Tongjin's face.
"What, you still dare to attack this senior colonel?" Yang Tongjin shouted angrily with eyes wide open.
"Take good care of your subordinates, don't cause trouble, let alone make trouble, and steadily carry out the tasks assigned by your master."
"It's best not to challenge my endurance, because I have no endurance at all."
Zhang Meng ignored Yang Tongjin's angry shouting and said in a calm voice. After speaking, he ignored Yang Tongjin's reaction and turned around to leave.
The crowd automatically moved out of the way.
The guards of the Wanyan family all looked excited and sent Zhang Meng away with admiration in their eyes.
Along the way, they all felt the contempt from the Mu family's guards. They felt that Zhang Meng's sword gave them a strong breath of bad breath, and their bent waists straightened immediately.
"You, your Wanyan family's generals have such qualities?"
"You draw your sword and kill people when you disagree, and you still despise your superiors!" Yang Tong came forward and asked Diao Zhengzhen.
Diao Zhengzhen spread his hands with an innocent face and said, "Mr. Yang, I have reminded you more than once and tried to dissuade you, but you refused to listen. Now, are you blaming me?"
"You" Yang Tongjin was speechless, snorted coldly, and walked away with a livid face and fluttered his sleeves.
…
Zhang Xiaozu was sitting in the dimly lit carriage, rubbing the handle of the knife with the five fingers of his left hand, and the corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.
Looking back on his experience this month, he felt that he had accomplished his task fairly well.
Disguised as a big-ya man and successfully sneaked into Wanyan's house.
After showing his strength, he was appreciated by Wanyan Yongnan, took him under his command, and became a family general.
He helped Wanyan Yongnan capture Taihui City, and beheaded the three emperor uncles of Daya Emperor. The Wanyan family was imprisoned for their rebellion, and there was no room for recovery.
His current task is to send Wanyan Keke safely to Jingcheng, so that the Wanyan family and the Mu family can marry and form a smooth alliance. Then the two families will definitely join forces and advance southward, happily creating
Emperor Daya's rebellion.
At that time, if he works hard to help the two families conquer the territory and retreats at the right time, the mission will be completed.
Sneak into the Wanyan family and fight for the Wanyan family.
All you need to do is put in effort, no need to use your brain. There will be dedicated people responsible for the things that use your brain.
This is the task given to him by Ghost Face.
It was so simple that Zhang Xiaopou felt baffled. He didn't understand why Rakshasa kept keeping secret.
In fact, this alone is not Rakshasa's fault, because the most basic and strictest discipline of the Six Doors is confidentiality.
Speak when you should say it, but don't say a word when you shouldn't.
Although this mission is simple, the content of the mission obviously needs to be kept strictly confidential. Naturally, he will not tell Zhang Xiaozu in advance. This is a matter of principle.
If the first person who came into contact with Zhang Xiaozu was Ghost Face, Ghost Face would certainly not have said anything before Zhang Xiaozu arrived at the border.
But with Ghost Face's tactful way of dealing with things, the relationship with Zhang Xiaozu should not become so tense, unless he also has the same idea as Rakshasa and wants to tame Zhang Xiaozu and let Zhang Xiaozu do things for him.
The only thing that Zhang Xiaozu is not used to is that he cannot have too much contact with the people around him. Firstly, he is afraid that his identity will be exposed. Secondly, he is afraid that he will get along too closely and he will not be able to bear to kill him.
Therefore, he has always acted as a taciturn character, with a hands-on and non-talking style.
But this is not bad, no one will bother him, so he has a lot of time to practice.
After a month of concentrated cultivation, his cultivation improved again and he was promoted to the fifth level of heaven, but this was accompanied by a huge consumption of the Yuanshi Golden Pill.
In one month, he consumed more than 300 Yuanshi Golden Pills.
You know, the annual revenue of large businesses like Piaomiao Palace and Yangshen Temple is only a hundred Yuanshi Golden Pills.
The scary thing is that more than 300 Yuanshi Golden Pills only allowed him to break through from the fourth level of heaven to the fifth level of heaven.
In other words, he spent a large amount of more than three years of revenue and only improved one level.
If he were an ordinary sect disciple and relied on the training resources provided by the sect each month to practice, it would probably take him decades to improve to this level.
There were only more than 600 Yuanshi Golden Pills left in his Sumeru Mustard Seeds.
When he came out of Yancheng, he carried a total of 2,800 pills with him. He gave 300 pills to Qi Yoyo in Fuzhou City, and asked Ghost Face to deliver them to Niu Dawa, Zhou Jianlai and Yuan Taiping each had 500 pills, plus
He consumed more than 300 pills himself, and only had more than 600 pills left.
He originally asked for a meeting with Niu Dawa and the other two, but Ghost Face said that the three of them had dispersed all over the territory of Daya and could not meet, so he could only ask Ghost Face to deliver the Yuanshi Golden Pill on his behalf.
As a reward, he blessed Ghost Face with a jade pendant with twice the effect.
As for whether Ghost Face had delivered the Yuanshi Golden Pill as promised, Zhang Xiaozu was not sure. He could only choose to believe in Ghost Face.
Naturally, he was afraid that Ghost Face would steal the 1,500 Yuanshi Golden Pills, but he was even more afraid that Niu Dawa and the others would have no cultivation resources to use, so he was willing to take the risk.
Carrying out a task in a foreign country may seem simple, but in fact it is a life-threatening task, and it is absolutely impossible without the support of strong cultivation.
However, judging from the replies Niu Dawa and the others gave him, it seems that the three of them received all of them.
The three replies to him were each interesting.
Zhou Jianlai drew five swords, Niu Dawa drew five circles, and Yuan Taiping wrote five lines of words of thanks using the calligraphy he didn't know when he learned it.
Zhang Xiaozhu rubbed the handle of the knife with his fingers, and decided to wait until he returned to the metropolis after seeing off his relatives, and immediately contacted Ghost Face with a secret code, asking him to find a way to sell a batch of jade pendants in Daya Kingdom to earn a wave of Yuanshi Golden Elixir.
Because he discovered that after being promoted to the fifth level of heaven, the effectiveness of the Yuanshi Golden Pill on him was greatly reduced.
In the past, the effect of taking one pill now required taking two pills, which meant that his consumption of Yuanshi Jindan had doubled. The remaining 600 pills were estimated to only be enough for one month, so he had to find a way to supplement Yuanshijin.
Dan.
In addition, Niu Dawa and the other three also need to send some more.
He took his fingers off the handle of the knife, took out three Yuanshi Golden Pills from his pocket, drank them, and started practicing in the Dantian.
After arriving in Daya Kingdom, he put Sumeru mustard seeds in his arms and hid them.
…
At three o'clock in the afternoon on the fifth day, the motorcade drove to Yanshan Mountain and crossed the Yanshan Ancient Road to reach the boundary of Jingcheng.
There are steep mountains on both sides of the Yanshan Ancient Road, and the mountain road is slightly narrow.
When Zhang Xiaozu asked Qi about the terrain of Daya, Qi You emphasized the Yanshan Ancient Road and said it was a good place for ambush warfare.
But it is not a battleground for military strategists, because there are wide roads on both sides to go around it. Although it will take an extra day to travel, the most important thing is safety.
"This terrain is really conducive to ambush warfare." Zhang Xiaozu opened the car curtain and said to himself as he looked at the steep terrain on both sides of the road.
Before he finished speaking, his expression changed.
In his subtle state of mind, he discovered that a group of people was ambushing on the cliffs on both sides of the mountain road ahead. This group of people did not rush to launch an attack, but were waiting for the convoy to continue moving forward and to wait until everyone entered their ambush circle before attacking.
Zhang Xiaozu was quite speechless, he was really afraid of what might happen.
"stop!"
"There's an ambush on the mountain!"
Zhang Xiaozu jumped out of the carriage, climbed onto the roof, shouted loudly to the front, then jumped up and landed with a thud on the top of the sedan chair Wanyan Keke was riding in, forcing the sedan chair to the ground.
"Miss, don't panic, as your subordinates are here, the thieves will not even think of hurting you." Zhang Xiaozu said to Wanyan Keke in the sedan.
"I am not afraid of thousands of horses rushing to kill me, how can I be afraid of a group of thieves?" Wanyan Keke snorted disdainfully.
Rumble
boom
Zhang Xiaozu's roar alerted the robbers who were ambushing the mountain, and they immediately attacked the convoy. Arrows and rolling stones fell from the top of the mountain, knocking the convoy members off their feet.
But after all, it was the killers who came down from the battlefield, and there were two senior colonels in command, plus Zhang Xiaopou's timely reminder, the chaotic situation quickly calmed down.
The rear team of the convoy changed to the front team and wanted to exit the ancient road.
"Kill!"
The robbers screamed for kill and came down from the mountain with gleaming swords.
"Well-trained, he is no ordinary robber." Zhang Xiaozu said with a frown.
"Could it be the soldiers and horses of the imperial capital? They don't want our two families to successfully marry." Wanyan Keke guessed while sitting in the sedan chair.
"Miss"
Suddenly, there was a shout that penetrated the sky from behind
"The head of the family was murdered by Wanyan Yongnan. The imperial edict from the imperial capital had been sent long ago, but Wanyan Yongnan sent people to intercept and kill him. The grain and grass supplies provided by the imperial capital were also robbed by Wanyan Yongnan in collusion with the Mu family.
Already."
"Wanyan Yongnan killed his brother to seize power!"
"Miss, don't let this bastard take advantage of you!"
"What?!" Wanyan Keke heard this series of shouts, and her whole body felt like it was struck by lightning, and her brain fell into a brief blank.
"Where is this dog thief from? He is barking wildly and deceiving the public with his monstrous words!"
"kill!"
The thieves blocking the road were lured down from the mountain, and Diao Zhengzhen and Yang Tongjin immediately issued orders to launch a counterattack.
To rush to counterattack before exiting the ancient road seems a bit guilty of being a thief.
Zhang Xiaozu frowned.
I thought it was an easy mission, but I didn't expect that something unexpected happened halfway. If what the visitor said was true, there was no way Wanyan Keke would marry well and go to Jingcheng.
Bang!
This thought just flashed through Zhang Xiaozu's mind, and Wanyan Keke smashed the sedan chair with a punch and rushed out.
Wearing a bright red wedding dress, she had a frosty expression on her face, and a pair of eyes radiated a fierce light that chose others to eat.
It can be seen from her angry reaction that she believed the thief who blocked the road.
"Hey" Zhang Xiaozu sighed inwardly, grabbing the handle of the knife.
