It is the time when people who go to bed late have gone to bed, but people who get up early have not yet gotten up so early. This is also the time when Yunqin people believe that the yin energy is the strongest at night, and it is most likely to encounter ghosts when going out.
There was a dark cloud covering the bright moon.
A man in dark night clothes flashed out of the shadows like a ghost and used a sharp blade to cut the door bolt of the room where Mu Chenyun was.
Mu Chenyun, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, had also opened his eyes.
His eyebrows were originally very light, but now in the darkness, his face looked like there was no hair on it. His pale complexion made his facial features look as if they were made of white wax, not like a body of flesh and blood.
Looking at this night traveler who appeared in his sight like a ghost, his waxy face was instantly filled with a mocking look, and he sneered: "Young people really have no patience, they can't even last one night... It's just that I originally
I thought it would be Lin Xi who came, but I didn't expect it was you."
The night traveler's voice trembled slightly, but there was a sense of joy in it: "I'm here, and he doesn't have to come again."
"What a deep brotherhood." Mu Chenyun had a look of ridicule on his face, but there was also a chill in his heart. He had already figured out what opportunity the emperor gave him, but he always felt that this opportunity was biased towards him.
More, but I didn't expect that one of these people would be so bold as to assassinate him regardless of his own future and life. He took a deep breath, tried his best to attack the weakness of the other person's mind, and sneered: "But I advise you
Don't harm Lin Xi instead, because you should understand that Lin Xi has always been in charge of this matter, so what the Holy One wants to see is Lin Xi's stance, not yours. So the Holy One only allows him to kill me, and I'm afraid you can't kill me.
...If something happens to you here, given his friendship with you, I am afraid that he will desperately come to kill me to avenge you. You are young, and you are all practitioners, with a bright future, why bother with someone like me who has already failed?
Half of the people drowned in a river?"
"So I advise you to leave immediately to avoid harming Lin Xi."
Jiang Xiaoyi held a long black knife in his hand. Although he was not as passionate as Li Kaiyun, he was also the kind of person who was willing to sacrifice in pursuit of some kind of justice and Lin Xi admired him. He was not afraid of death...
And every time I think of Mu Chenyun's face in my mind, I think of Wang Simin, I think of the beautiful woman who made his heart beat with excitement on the river bank, and has occupied a corner of his heart ever since, and is unforgettable, and I think of her being humiliated by Mu Chenyun.
, being tied up and whipped by him, he was so heartbroken that he couldn't breathe.
Love is a very inexplicable thing. It is not obvious, but it will slowly sprout in the heart. Lin Xi knew Jiang Xiaoyi's affection for the stubborn woman, but she still underestimated it.
This most direct emotion that silently grew in the heart overpowered the etiquette and the supremacy of imperial power deeply rooted in Jiang Xiaoyi's heart, making him determined to come here to kill Mu Chenyun.
But at this moment, his hand holding the knife was trembling slightly, because Lin Xi was also more important in his heart than his safety.
The two of them were silent for a while, and the deep mansion became completely cold again, with only the gentle breeze rustling the leaves in the courtyard.
Mu Chenyun's mind was slightly relaxed, thinking that the other party was still immature and only had the courage of an ordinary man. However, at this moment, the wind seemed to be a little more urgent. His cold and proud pupils shrank sharply, and a dense layer of cold sweat broke out all over his body.
, making him feel even more powerless and weak.
Another black figure emerged from the shadows like a ghost, wearing a green shirt and a black scarf, with bare hands, but also holding a black scarf in his hand.
Jiang Xiaoyi turned around suddenly, and when she saw this man, his eyes were slightly moist, but there was something blocked in his throat, making him unable to speak.
Lin Xi, whose face was covered, did not make a sound. As if walking on water, she silently came to him, patted his shoulder, and stuffed the black scarf in his hand into his hand.
"Lin Xi, what do you mean by doing this?" Mu Chenyun couldn't help but speak out, her voice trembling, a little too shrill and mutated: "Don't you know you are Lin Xi because you cover your face?"
"Who said I am Lin Xi?"
Lin Xi looked at the officer of the Military Supervision Office who was already in fear, and said softly in a serious voice: "What evidence is there?"
"You..." Mu Chenyun almost burst the wound on his back. He subconsciously wanted to scold Lin Xi for being shameless, but he thought that the other party was just imitating him and deliberately mocking him.
Tonight is destined to be anything but peaceful.
Lin Xi herself knew very well that even if she was not in such a hurry, she might not be noticed by anyone when she entered the courtyard.
"Lin Xi, you shouldn't come." One person did not hide his footsteps, and let the cloth soles make clear footsteps in the corridor, and his figure appeared from a circular arch leading to the courtyard.
This is a slightly fat middle-aged man dressed as a scholar.
He is Gao Gongyue, the great minister of the Governor of Donglin Province. Very few people can see him in ordinary times, and they have no idea what amazing cultivation level this great minister of the provincial governor has.
Gao Gongyue also knew about Lin Xi's deeds. If Lin Xi didn't come, it would make him feel a little disappointed, but coming would make him appreciate it even more, so he came out at this time, not for Mu Chenyun's life.
But because of Lin Xi.
"Where is Lin Xi? I am not Lin Xi."
Lin Xi still gave a "shameless" answer. He looked at the middle-aged Bai Shengsheng who came out, and felt the terrifying aura naturally flowing from him, and asked: "I wonder who you are?"
"I'm Gao Gongyue, I'm not famous outside."
Gao Gongyue smiled kindly, looked at Lin Xi and said, "What evidence did you just say...you yourself are the evidence."
Lin Xi looked at Gao Gongyue and said, "As long as you can run away, there is no evidence."
"What you said makes sense. As long as you can run away, there will be only witnesses and no physical evidence. I'm afraid it will be difficult to convict you of your crime even if you struggle with it later." Gao Gongyue touched his chin with his fat and white fingers like lotus joints, and shook his head.
He shook his head and sighed: "It's just that you have to understand who you are showing off to... and how could you possibly run away."
Lin Xi shook her head: "How do you know you can't run away if you don't try?"
Gao Gongyue curled his lips, but at this moment, he felt a trace of Qi that only people of his level could sense.
He suddenly looked back and looked up at the bright moon.
The bright moon was still covered by dark clouds at this moment, but there was a person who seemed to have fallen from the dark clouds and landed under the wall of the courtyard.
There was no terrifying force hitting the ground, and even the soil under the man's feet was not splashed out. However, a certain aura from this man made Gao Gongyue's skin tingle slightly.
This is a person who is covered in a thick black robe and cannot see his face. It seems that everything inside the black robe is black.
It wasn't until Gao Gongyue turned around to face this person that Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi realized that there was another person under the wall. However, their cultivation was not enough, but they did not immediately feel the terrifying aura on this person's body.
, I just feel that this man is extremely calm and determined, as if he is everything and nothing can be shaken.
"There is no master like you in the entire Donglin Province." The look on Gao Gongyue's face changed, "Does your Qingluan Academy want to blatantly ignore the laws of Yunqin and intervene in this matter?"
Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi looked at each other and saw a hint of excitement in each other's eyes.
"Do you want to break the long-standing rules and completely cross this line?" However, what Gao Gongyue said next made the two of them worry again.
"It is undeniable that there are agreed-upon rules of the game in this world."
The man shrouded in a thick black robe spoke, his voice a little hoarse, but with some unique magnetism that attracted everyone's attention: "But for me, there are no rules in this world, only
What I think is the difference between darkness and light, and I am originally a traitor, someone who has been wanted by Yunqin for a long time. I originally came to kill this person who deserved to die despite you not letting him die. This has something to do with Qingluan Academy.
what relationship?"
Gao Gongyue's body shook violently, and his hair flew back, each strand piercing the air like steel needles. He said in disbelief: "You...are you the dark priest Mu Xinli?
"
The man in black robe nodded, "I heard that your strength ranks among the top three in the entire Donglin Province."
Gao Gongyue took a deep breath. The clothes on his body swelled up, and his body seemed to swell up and began to glow. "Ni Henian, the great envoy of Wang Ting, has been chasing you. If you take action here now, I'm afraid you may not be able to escape."
out of his hands."
"There are some things that you are worried about and why don't you just do them?" The man in the black robe made countless rustling sounds under his feet, as if there were countless silkworms crawling in the soil. At the same time, he looked at Lin Xi and Jiang from a distance.
A smile.
Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi didn't know what the dark priest meant, but they suddenly felt respect for this invisible dark priest. They both bowed to him at the same time, and then turned around.
Mu Chenyun's whole body was soaked with cold sweat. When he heard Gao Gongyue spit out the words "dark priest", he had already thought of countless terrifying legends, and there was only fear in his heart.
"Roar!"
Just when Lin Xi and Jiang Xiaoyi turned around, he had already let out a low roar like a wild beast, with cold sweat dripping all over his body. He jumped up from the collapse and crashed into a window next to him.
All the wounds on his back burst open again, and the blood instantly dyed the white bandage on his back red.
Gao Gongyue didn't move, because his opponent didn't move either. A huge aura surrounded him, rotating within three feet of him, and the ground under his feet slowly began to glow.
"Wow!"
Mu Chenyun broke the window and fell to the ground.
At this moment, he felt another sharp pain in his right heel, and a streak of blood flew out from his right heel.
Jiang Xiaoyi fell heavily behind him, causing him to groan, but his hands and body were straight, and the long knife in his hand could reach Mu Chenyun's heels.
"Hermaphrodite, does your heel hurt?" At this time, Lin Xi's voice also sounded.