The dark-skinned barbarian raised his hand and waved, and several Yihe tribesmen immediately dispersed and walked towards various parts of the inn.
In the City Lord's Mansion, the originally dark buildings were now lit up with bright lights, illuminating the City Lord's Mansion with bright lights.
"You two, please go inside. The banquet for Jie Feng has been prepared." The old man in black robe led Zhong Xiu and Ling To into the mansion.
Along the way, the garden rockery was elegantly decorated. The old man smiled and introduced it eloquently to the two of them, and walked towards it without stopping.
Zhong Xiu's expression was calm, and his beautiful eyes looked around from time to time, and the vigilance in his eyes never diminished.
"Don't worry, Miss Zhong. Fellow Taoist Yunyang is my good friend and he won't have any bad intentions." Ling To's lips moved slightly and he spoke to Zhong Xiu via sound transmission.
"Be careful in everything." Zhong Xiu glanced at Ling To and replied through a message.
The old man in black robe walked in front, talking to himself, and seemed not to notice the exchange between the two behind him.
The three of them walked through two corridors and came to a spacious living room. In the middle of the hall was a round table filled with sumptuous dishes.
At this moment, there is a woman in red sitting at the round table. If Shi Mu were here, he would definitely recognize that this woman is Liu An's junior sister, the woman named Zhen.
Zhong Xiu and Ling To were slightly startled when they saw the woman named Zhen.
"Both of you, nice to meet you!" The woman surnamed Zhen stood up, with a sweet smile on her face, and greeted Zhong Xiu and Ling To.
"Haha, this is Fellow Daoist Zhen. He is a member of the Ming Yue Sect and a good friend of me. He happens to be in Yunyi City, so we invited him over together. You two won't mind, right?" said the old man in black robe.
"Of course not." Ling Tou smiled quickly and nodded friendly to the woman named Zhen.
Zhong Xiu looked at the woman named Zhen, but said nothing.
"Please take a seat, both of you. These dishes are all specialties of the Yihe Mountains. They are carefully prepared by our chefs and cannot be eaten elsewhere!" the old man in black robe said enthusiastically.
Several people took their seats respectively. The old man in black robe and Ling To were both good at socializing. The woman named Zhen also spoke in agreement from time to time. As they drank and drank, the atmosphere quickly became lively.
In the corner of the garden outside the living room, in a shadow, Shi Mu stood motionless.
Cai'er's clairvoyance ability allowed him to see the situation and what happened in the living room at a glance.
"Shitou, what should we do now?" Cai'er asked.
"This old man definitely has bad intentions when he invites Zhong Xiu and the others over. You and I should split up and investigate around first before making a plan." Shi Mu pondered for a moment, glanced around and said.
Cai'er agreed, flapped her wings and flew into the distance.
Shi Mu also lurked towards the other side.
In the hall, we drank for three rounds.
"City Lord Yunyang, the wine and food have been used. I wonder where the goods you mentioned are. Let's take a look first." Zhong Xiu said.
She barely ate, and she didn't touch the wine glass in front of her.
"Haha, Miss Zhong is right." The old man in black robe smiled and stood up.
"Goods?" the woman surnamed Zhen asked curiously.
"Yes, I have a batch of goods to sell, so I invited Miss Zhong to come over and have a look. Are you interested in coming over to see if you, fellow Taoist Zhen," said the old man in black robe.
"Since Yunyang City is mainly engaged in business, it is inconvenient for me to go with you. I would like to thank the city lord for hosting a banquet today, so I will take my leave." The woman surnamed Zhen smiled, bowed her hands to the people present, and said.
The old man in black robe sent the woman surnamed Zhen to the door, and the woman surnamed Zhen quickly walked out.
"You two, please come with me." The old man in black robe said to Zhong Xiu and the other two, and walked in a direction next to the hall.
After turning a few corners, the three of them came to a remote attic building. The attic was surrounded by a faint black light curtain.
Seeing this, Zhong Xiu frowned, and for some reason, she had a vague premonition in her heart.
"This is where I store important things, so there is a layer of formation restrictions outside." The old man in black robe explained.
At the same time, he turned his hand and took out a black token and muttered something.
The token flashed, and a black light shot out and disappeared into the black light curtain.
The black light curtain flashed and a portal slowly opened.
Zhong Xiu's spiritual consciousness came out of his body, and he explored the black light screen for a while, and his eyes relaxed slightly.
She also has a certain understanding of the formation method. This black ban is a protective ban and has no other attack functions.
"You two, please." The old man in black robe said and opened the attic door and walked in.
Zhong Xiu and Ling To followed closely.
When the old man in black robe heard the footsteps behind him, a strange color flashed in his eyes, and then disappeared without a trace.
The space in the attic is quite large, but it is very empty inside. There are no tables, chairs, benches, etc. There are more than a dozen shelves placed in the center of the room. The outside is covered by a layer of gray cloth, so the situation inside cannot be seen.
Zhong Xiu's eyes lit up, and she quickly walked to a shelf, reached out and opened the gray cloth covering it.
However, the shelves were indeed empty, with nothing at all.
The smile on Zhong Xiu's face suddenly froze, and she turned to look at the old man in black robe.
The old man in black robe stood aside with a smile on his face, but he had no intention of explaining.
At this moment, Ling To also lifted up a gray cloth on a wooden frame, but it was also empty underneath.
"Fellow Taoist Yunyang, what do you mean?" Ling To's face darkened and he said.
The old man in black robe still smiled and said nothing.
"not good!"
Zhong Xiu's face changed, and with a wave of the staff in his hand, a ray of white light flew out, turning into a huge light blade, and struck the old man in black robe headlong.
The old man in black robe did not dodge at all, and his body was suddenly split in half by the light blade.
However, the two halves of the body immediately turned into a burst of black smoke with a "bang" sound, and quickly dispersed in the air.
"It's an illusion!" Ling To's face changed drastically, and he was stunned for a moment.
"We've fallen into a trap! Let's go!" Zhong Xiu shouted, and moved towards the entrance of the attic.
Ling Tou also reacted instantly, and the two of them turned into two rays of light and headed outside.
But at this moment, the attic door suddenly clicked and closed.
The black light curtain outside also closed automatically, covering the entire attic again.
Zhong Xiu and Ling To's bodies lit up with white and green lights almost at the same time.
With a "boom", the attic door was shattered, and two rays of light, one white and one green, struck hard on the black light screen.
The black light curtain trembled violently and rippled like water, but it was still endured.
Outside the light curtain, the old man in black robe stood with his hands behind his hands, a proud smile on his face.
Beside the old man, more than a dozen Yihe clan members appeared at some point. They were mumbling something, and black light emitted from their hands, blending into the black light curtain. The black light curtain quickly stabilized again.
Not only that, eight humanoid animal head patterns slowly emerged on the surface of the light curtain.
These monsters look weird and ferocious, like eight devils, wandering erratically on the surface of the light curtain.
Within the light curtain.
A dazzling blue light flew out from the attic, brilliant and dazzling, and made a scream that could pierce the eardrums.
In the blue light was a green stick, which pierced the light curtain as fast as thunder.
The sharp point penetrated the light curtain for more than half a foot, and then stopped, unable to move forward any further.
On the surface of the light curtain, among the eight monsters, a monster with a human body and a sheep's head flashed red eyes, and a red light flew out from its mouth, hitting the cyan.
Cyan was shocked and was suddenly knocked back.
At the door of the attic, Ling To's expression changed, and with a move of one hand, the green color flew back to his hand.
The eight monsters on the light screen became increasingly clear, as if they were about to break away from the light screen.
"Yunyang, what do you mean?" Ling To's face was particularly ugly. He stared at the old man in black robe outside the light screen and said in a deep voice.
"What do you mean? Hahaha... It's really ridiculous. Even now, you still don't understand?" The old man in black robe laughed wildly. There was no trace of kindness on his face, and he looked at Ling Tou sarcastically.
Ling Tou's face was extremely ugly, and his body was trembling with anger.
"You tried so hard to lure us here because you want to kill us and plunder the supplies we escorted?" Zhong Xiu said coldly, looking at the eight devil patterns on the light screen.
"Haha, Miss Zhong is still smart." The old man in black robe laughed.
"By doing this, Your Excellency has offended the Tianwu Chamber of Commerce, aren't you worried about the consequences?" Zhong Xiu asked coldly.
"Since we have decided to take action, we are naturally fully prepared, so there is no need for Miss Zhong to worry about it." The old man in black robe said with a smile.
Zhong Xiu's beautiful eyes flashed, her face was as pink as ice, but one hand was behind her back, holding a purple jade slip with streaks of purple light on it.
The purple light lit up for a moment and then went out immediately.
Zhong Xiu frowned slightly and held the jade slip tightly. The purple light on it lit up again, but immediately went out again.
"Hey, Miss Zhong, there's no need to try. The formation that traps you is called the Black Tibetan Formation. It's impossible to send messages from inside." The old man in black robe said with a smile.
Zhong Xiu's expression finally calmed down.
"Besides, those people you left in the inn have already been dealt with. I'm afraid it's already a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood." The old man in black robe laughed.
When Zhong Xiu and Ling To heard this, their expressions suddenly changed.
"It's that woman just now, you actually colluded with the Ming Yue Sect!" Zhong Xiu's thoughts changed rapidly and she lost her voice.
"Zhong Daoyou is really sharp and his guess is absolutely correct. But for now, you should still pay attention to your own situation!" the old man in black robe said with a smile.
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As Mo Yunyang said, the inn is now a battlefield, with shouts, fierce battles, and loud noises of collapsed buildings.
In the courtyard, the remaining guards of the Tianwu Chamber of Commerce formed a circle with their backs against the convoy, and all of them were injured.
All around them were countless undead creatures, skeletons, rotten corpses, and zombies, rushing up like a tide.
Outside the courtyard, a three-foot-wide space passage opened in the void, dark and deep.
Above the door of space, a woman surnamed Zhen stepped on black clouds, her eyes were shining, and she was mumbling words.
Around this woman, there were also several gray-robed figures standing, who were the former subordinates of the woman named Zhen.
Several people also recited incantations and waved their hands to create streams of light that blended into the space passage, seeming to maintain the stability of the passage. (To be continued.)