Fourth watch, on the side of Phoenix Mountain, Gutong Temple.
When the breeze picks up, the sound of barking dogs in the city can be faintly heard in the darkness, and the occasional lamplight flashes across the ancient city like a ghost.
In later generations or in another period of time, the mountain range that will become the Imperial Palace of the Southern Song Dynasty is now only on the outskirts of the city, not far from the city wall, and does not appear to be prosperous. Gutong Temple is not a big Taoist temple, and it was robbed when the army entered the city.
The Taoist priests ran away and died, and were later occupied by rebels from three religions and nine schools. In the process of dividing the forces among the rebel armies, the ancient Tong Temple also had a new owner. In terms of function and appearance, it still maintained the original Taoist temple.
It looks like that, but naturally there are no more people coming to pay homage.
The hillside where Gutong Temple is located is only separated by a small forest from the inhabited area, but now it is a forbidden area that is difficult for idlers to approach. It is often guarded by sergeants. Since a few people who accidentally approached it have been killed, they dare to come here at will.
There are no more people. People who have no connection with the outside world can probably find out that there is a group of soldiers called the Quenching Battalion stationed here. The leader is a dark-skinned man with a scarred face and a terrifying look. Occasionally, someone will know that,
This person’s name is Yamaluta Lutuo.
And on top of this, even within the Fang La Military Department, not many people can find out who is the final backend of the Quenching Battalion. The Quenching Battalion is a new establishment. In the complicated Fang La Military Department, who is on the hilltops?
It is difficult for unrelated people to figure out who it belongs to. It is quite relevant in itself. In addition to maintaining this three-acre land, it does not have any high-profile actions. People who are interested in it will not
How come there are so many?
Only occasionally when the wind is strong, some sounds will be blown out along the wind from the mountain. To the outside world, they sound like sobbing, like ghosts crying, or like women's shouts. The city of Hangzhou has only experienced the baptism of war, in which countless people died, many of whom were still alive.
It belongs to the category of "the bones are not yet cold". There are not many people living around it, so there are no rumors of being haunted for a while.
It is only the fourth watch at this time. As the saying goes, the first watch is for people, the second watch for gongs, and the third watch for ghosts. The fourth watch is for thieves, and the fifth watch for chickens. This is the darkest time before dawn, and everyone is already exhausted. Gutong Temple
There were not many lights inside, only dim spots of light were faintly exposed, and it was quiet, as if he had fallen asleep. In the small woods here, a figure carefully avoided various traps set by the guards, and quietly
Sneaked into the Taoist temple over there.
Although Gutong Temple is not as good as those real famous mountains and grand temples, its jurisdiction is not very small compared to ordinary people's homes. It is a courtyard from front to back. The three- and two-story buildings connected are quite large. At this time, there are patrols inside.
There were not many people. The infiltrator in black was not tall, but he was agile and strong. He skillfully avoided the few patrollers and finally entered the largest building in the center of the Taoist temple.
Perhaps it was because not many people in Hangzhou City wanted to come here at this time. Although there were patrols outside the Taoist temple, there were not many guards inside. A man in Taoist robes sat by the door and fell asleep with his head lowered. The door was opened a crack.
There was dim light seeping out from inside. The man in black thought for a moment, then quietly moved forward, pushed open the door, and sneaked in. Once inside, he was stunned.
The woman's cries came like a tide. The sound was not loud. But probably because there were so many people crying, the sobs gathered together one after another. This was still on the fourth watch, and I didn't know what would happen during the day.
A scene. On this side of the door, the lights are dim. This was originally a hall, but now both sides have been made into cell-like compartments, some are houses, and some are just fences.
The man in black walked along the corridor. The cells on both sides were covered with straw. Young women were locked inside, with chains on their hands. Some were in ragged clothes and disheveled hair, and some had hair on their bodies.
Their clothes were stained with blood, and they didn't know how much abuse they had suffered. Most of the women near the door had fallen asleep. Some of them had their eyes open and their eyes were dull. In the late autumn, half of their bodies were still naked and they were groaning. Their bodies were in a mess.
Unbearable, he was probably injured and dying. The stench of blood and sex lingered in the air. At the end of the hall was the Sanqing statue that had been half smashed, and behind the statue, there was a man's body.
The sounds of laughter and curses, as well as the woman's pain, could be heard faintly.
The man in black was actually just a boy of thirteen or fourteen. He could probably understand the meaning of these things, but he had never experienced them. For a moment, he was a little confused. After a while, he gritted his teeth and trembled slightly, and walked inside.
He stopped and slowly began to retreat. After taking a few steps, he stopped again. He looked at the locks on the cells and felt a little at a loss. At this moment, the sound of the night wind pouring in from behind was heard in a low voice.
whimper.
He was startled for a moment. The door was originally closed, which meant... it was now open.
When I turned around, the breaking wind hit me, and my head suddenly buzzed!
"Who."
The body of the young man wearing night clothes flew out of the door, his mask was torn in the air, and blood spurted out of his mouth and nose.
At this time, a total of five people appeared here, including the guard outside the door who was napping. They were led by a small leader. They suddenly took action. The most serious injury was a scabbard swung on the young man's head. Because the victory was in hand.
, the little boss didn’t shout out the words “Who is that?”, the young man’s body fell to the ground, and he was already fainting. Someone drew a knife, and another said: “It’s a child? Do you want to give a warning?”
"look……"
Dark shadows fall from the sky!
The five of them can be considered as people in the world of martial arts. They had already followed the young man out the moment they beat him out. They were now on the corridor outside the gate. The black shadow suddenly landed among the five of them, and the right fist he swung was like a wave of anger.
The force of the wind broke through and hit the temple of the person in front of him. In an instant, the person's entire face began to distort, and wave-like impact lines spread from the head with blood that broke the skin and bones.
The black shadow's moves were like roaring thunder, swinging, stepping, whirling, smashing monuments, wielding swords, and moving like a wild dragon. He trampled on the calf of one of the people, who was slightly shorter.
The man's head was hit by the extremely violent handprint of the stone-throwing hand, which was directly bent from the cervical spine to the back. His head dragged his body and was smashed out on the bluestone corridor like a ball. A man walking next to him had a knife.
He pulled it out and snatched it away, and swung out four knives in the blink of an eye. The extremely fierce knife slashed his face, broke his neck, and shattered his chest. The leader had just finished saying the word "look".
When he could shout loudly, the figure had already moved in front of him, and a hand was enlarged in front of his eyes.
A dull sound.
The outer wall of the hall is made of hard bluestone. The little leader was pushed back two steps by the huge momentum, and the back of his head hit the bluestone. His skull was probably broken. The palm of his hand twisted his mouth and nose, and pulled him
His body had been pushed off the ground. What finally became clear in the eyes of the little leader was the young man's fierce and cold eyes like a beast and the figure that was not exactly burly. The eyes stared at him until the last moment.
.
Chen Fan stabbed the opponent's stomach with the steel knife, watched the opponent's eyes slowly twist 180 degrees, and then let him go. At this time, two people were beaten to death by his fists and palms under the eaves.
, two of them were split open by the extremely fierce sword technique. He took action with all his strength at this time, one of them was hit in the head and neck. The other was hit in the neck and chest, and the bones had been split. In addition to these
There was almost no other sound like the collision of human bodies falling out. As soon as he let go of the body in his hands, he immediately turned around and picked up the young man. He took out a piece of cloth and tied it on his back, and looked back.
Stride outside.
The five people couldn't shout loudly, but the initial movement still alerted the people nearby, and a figure suddenly rushed over. He shouted: "Who is it!" The steel whip in his hand hit Chen Fan head-on. The man was short.
He was fat and shaped like an iron tower. He was also very strong, but Chen Fan just grabbed the steel whip with one hand and kept walking forward. The fat man kept retreating, switching from one hand to both hands, trying to take back the steel whip. He said "Ah"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh..." Di shouted, his face already turning blood red. But with a swipe, the tiger's mouth burst open, Chen Fan kicked him in the heart, and swung the steel whip down on his head.
Blood spurted out, and the fat man covered his head, staggered back and fell to the ground. Chen Fan walked over. Two more figures appeared on the side of the courtyard. He thought for a while, turned around and hit the fat man on the head again, and then again.
.In front of the two of them, he hit the fat man several times until he couldn't move, and then turned around and walked out.
The defensive power in this Taoist temple has been completely awakened, but the Taoist temple itself is not big. Chen Fan rushed straight out, going straight forward. It looked like he was walking under his feet, but in fact he was faster than a galloping horse. In the blink of an eye, he had arrived at the main entrance.
Two soldiers with swords were guarding the gate. Chen Fan barely slowed down and rushed towards the already somewhat damaged Guanmen.
On the side of the woods outside Gutong Temple, two figures, one large and one small, were looking at the commotion inside with some confusion. At this time, it was Ning Yi and Zhuo Xiaofeng who had reported the news. It turned out that there was opposition to Ning in the school.
Yi's group of students are also vying to do a few good deeds to show that they are better than Professor Ning Yi's group of students. Under the comparison between the two sides, various inquiries and investigations have not been restrained. At this time, all kinds of messy things are going on in Hangzhou.
It's not that there are none, but there are too many. This time Zhuo Xiaofeng and others accidentally found a name that they couldn't mess with, and there were internal differences for a while. Newborn calves are not afraid of tigers, and one of them named Chen Teng is an expert in arts.
He was brave and decided to visit Gutong Temple at night despite Zhuo Xiaofeng's dissuasion. Zhuo Xiaofeng thought about it over and over, but finally came to Ning Yi for help, hoping that he could find a way to persuade him.
But Zhuo Xiaofeng arrived too late after all. They rushed here but failed to intercept each other, and then they discovered that there was a commotion in the Taoist temple. Naturally, they did not expect that Chen Fan had been paying attention to the two groups of children in the academy from the beginning.
Movement. After watching for a moment, I saw that the gate of the Taoist temple burst into pieces, and a figure rushed out from the debris in the sky with two guards. One of them had a steel knife pierced through his chest and rolled several times on the ground. The other one also
He was not dead. He was dragged by the figure with one hand and turned around a few times. Then he held his neck under his arm and broke it like a chicken while running.
Breaking down doors, running, killing people, and abandoning corpses, this man's speed did not stop at all, and he seemed to be carrying someone behind him. At this moment, a bunch of fireworks rose into the sky.
An arrow pierces the clouds, and thousands of troops come to meet you.
This was a warning signal from the spectators to their companions. The firelight vaguely revealed the outline of the figure rushing out. The two sides were actually close. Ning Yi looked at it, pulled Zhuo Xiaofeng with his backhand, and also tried to escape down the mountain.
, after running for more than a hundred meters, someone suddenly came towards me in the darkness: "Who is this thief, how dare you..."
"Look at the knife!"
These were probably soldiers returning from nearby after seeing the fireworks. Zhuo Xiaofeng was already frightened, but Ning Yi immediately shouted, waved his hand, and slashed with the sword in front, and with a pop, a packet of powdery
The thing covered the opponent's upper body, and the man swung his knife wildly: "Cough...puff...what..."
"Powdered lime."
After Ning Yi finished speaking, he got close to the opponent and chopped him into the weeds with one knife.
Chen Fan was not far away from here at this time. As soon as the sound came from here, he noticed it. Ning Yi chopped down the man, and Chen Fan had already heard the sound, but he hesitated slightly and made a few moves towards this side.
With a gesture, Ning Yi pointed to his side. Chen Fan nodded and led the pursuers to run down from the other side.
"Walk."
Turning around and saying hello to Zhuo Xiaofeng, Ning Yi continued to run towards the original road. Zhuo Xiaofeng was slightly stunned when he saw the clean and neat killing method of the academy gentleman. No matter what they did to him because of what happened to Ning Yi during his escape
No matter how dissatisfied, Ning Yi's image in the academy is that he is a scholar after all, and an extremely orthodox scholar, knowledgeable, incompetent, the kind who hangs out with the government, "slaughtered with bloody hands" and so on, although he is
People mentioned it, but naturally they just thought it was a joke. At this time, I finally saw his bloody and aggressive side, but I only hesitated slightly, finally reacted, and hurriedly followed him.
However... it seems a bit despicable to carry a lime bag with you to hit people, but looking at the casual and frank manner in which Mr. Ning acted just now, he seemed to be very upright when he did it... Thinking of some of the rumors I have come across,
This little confusion flashed through Zhuo Xiaofeng's mind, but after all, it was more important to escape. After a moment, this idea was forgotten by him...
The noise and fire gradually approached, then gradually moved away, and then caused a small-scale commotion on one side of the city. Dawn gradually came, stirring a pool of spring water...
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At around ten o'clock, the sun had risen. Groups of soldiers gathered outside Gutong Temple, and inside the Taoist temple, there were some Taoist priests and Taoist nuns who appeared to be relatively formal. The fighting scene inside the temple was still intact.
As it was, a middle-aged Taoist wearing a yellow Taoist robe, who seemed to have a bit of an immortal spirit, was walking in while looking around. He had a gentle face and a slight smile, but he didn't look very angry. Behind him
Following are several people with different appearances. The most eye-catching one is the big man on the left who looks like a black iron tower. His face and body are covered with scars. This man is Lu Tuo, King of Hell.
, he was originally entrusted to be stationed at this time, but he was called out to attend a banquet last night and never came back. Unexpectedly, this happened.
"Ah... good, good... seize the whip, kill people... clean and neat all the way... good, good, good... big stone thrower, not bad... look, the sword skills are a bit worse... except for the strength
, all the cooks are better at chopping than him...there is nothing he can do with his strength..."
The middle-aged Taoist leader seemed to be commenting on the battle along the way, sometimes praising and sometimes ridiculing him with relish. After he finished looking at the five corpses under the eaves of the main hall, the Taoist turned his back to everyone, stepped back and looked at the half-opened door.
, seemed to be thinking about something, stretched out his hand and patted the wooden pillar on the right, then took it back, clenched his fist to his mouth and exhaled a cold breath.
Lu Tuo, who had been behind for a long time, said at this time: "Master Tian, do you know who came last night? I saw this place. I was not here last night. I was negligent in my duty. Tell me who he is and I will kill him."
Kill him!"
The Taoist turned around, waved Fuchen, and still laughed: "I don't know who it is. There must be evidence and rules when speaking and doing things, but..." He reached out and patted the other party's shoulder, "
...There is a chance.”
After saying this, he raised his head and stood under the eaves, narrowing his eyes slightly. He didn't know what he was thinking. There was a bit of vicissitudes in the bones of Xianfeng Dao, and there seemed to be a bit of depression. For a moment,
He shook his head with a wry smile.
If Ning Yi were here, he would recognize his identity because he was someone he had met at the Hundred Officials Banquet.
Nowadays, in Hangzhou, he is said to have the most money, the most guys, the most brothers, and he accepts all his followers. He is a gathering of all three religions, but he is also the most uneven. No one can ignore him.
——The Celestial Master who protects the country, Bao Dao Yi.
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