Beiguan City, Supervisor Tiansi Yunzhou General Office.
In the prison, in front of the execution platform.
Hong Huang had been stripped completely and was trapped on the shelf with a big character.
In front of him, Lu Nanting, Qin Jinsong, and Lin Ji were looking at the eye-catching scene in front of them with great interest.
None of the three people were in a hurry to be tortured.
Lu Nanting was the first to say: "He is an old man who has been with me for more than ten years. Since I came to Beiguan City, Butler Hong has been taking care of things at home for me."
"A housekeeper actually has the fourth level of cultivation." Lin Ji said calmly.
"I'm also surprised. I haven't seen the cultivation he concealed for so many years." Lu Nanting looked at Hong Huang and asked puzzledly, "Old Hong, how did you do it?"
"Turtle Breathing Technique." Hong Huang spoke directly without any hesitation.
It was difficult for him to fly with the posture in front of him, so he might as well suffer less physical pain.
"Tell me in detail what's so special about this Turtle Breathing Technique..." Qin Jinsong also became interested.
"Create a fake Dantian in your body to hide your cultivation. Even if you enter the Taoist realm, you won't be able to see through it." Hong Huang replied.
"It's so powerful, what's the flaw?" Lin Ji asked.
The more powerful the technique, the greater the limitations.
Hong Huang said: "The disadvantage is that if you want to use your true cultivation, you must first unlock the Turtle Breath Technique. This process requires at least three hours of meditation."
"Three hours later, the day lilies were already cold." Lin Ji said sarcastically.
"No, of course it's too late to take action against others, but to lurk as an undercover agent and kill with one strike when you're not expecting it, the Turtle's Breath Technique is just right." Qin Jinsong said.
Lin Ji nodded in agreement, but Lu Nanting's face turned extremely dark.
"Which force are you the undercover agent sent to me?" Lu Nanting asked.
"Feiyun Sect." Hong Huang answered truthfully.
This answer is not surprising. On the way to the government office, Lin Ji said that he had only offended people from the Feiyun Sect in Yunzhou.
Lu Nanting waved his hand and said: "Continue talking."
You have already spoken, so naturally you have nothing to hide.
Hong Huang lowered his head and said, "Lin Ji killed the sect's elder Riyou a few days ago. This matter has been spread in Yunzhou. The sect's senior officials were furious and said they would never let Lin Ji leave Yunzhou alive."
"But because Lin Ji is not a weakling, the Supreme Elder in the sect must not take action in this matter, so as not to escalate the situation. Therefore, after Lin Ji moved into the Lu Mansion yesterday, the superiors decided to use my secret weapon.
"
Hong Huang continued: "Originally, we planned to send people to intercept and kill Lin Ji after he left the city, but because he came to Lu Mansion, we decided to let me sneak attack."
Things don't sound complicated.
It was just to take revenge on Lin Ji, and because Lin Ji was taken to the Lu Mansion, and the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion happened to be one of his own, he suddenly planned an assassination.
Success is the best, failure is just missing a chess piece.
Although this chess piece has been lurking around Lu Nanting for more than ten years, at least it is said that he is a first-rate chariot, horse, and cannon.
But even chariots, horses and artillery are just chess pieces after all.
When Hong Huang finished speaking, Qin Jinsong looked at Lu Nanting and Lin Ji first.
Logically speaking, if a monk breaks the ban in Yunzhou, Qin Jinsong will naturally handle it. However, the killer is Lu Nanting's housekeeper, and the person involved in the assassination is Lin Ji. They have to ask for their opinions.
"Tell me, what should I do with this person?"
"I don't care, I'm just a minion from Feiyun Sect." Lin Ji shook his head indifferently, "It's up to Uncle Lu to decide."
"Cut it into a human stick and send it to Feiyun Sect. You must send it back alive." Lu Nanting seemed calm, but he didn't know how much anger was ignited in his heart.
The old man who has been with him for more than ten years is actually an undercover agent of another family?
As the general of Zhenbei, this matter is more than just a matter of face.
Who knows how much information Hong Huang has revealed over the years?
Soon, a jailer pulled Hong Huang down, and not long after, screams could be heard from deep in the cell.
None of Lin Ji and the others were interested in watching the execution, so they left the cell together.
After walking out of the cell, Lin Jicai said: "He just lied. He may be from the Feiyun Sect, but the order to assassinate me cannot be from the Feiyun Sect."
As soon as these words came out, they immediately attracted the attention of Lu Nanting and Qin Jinsong.
"how?"
"I have practiced a special skill. I dare not say that I can see through his thoughts, but as long as the words are unclear, any distracting thoughts in his mind cannot be hidden from me."
"When he told about his origin, he felt extremely calm. But when he mentioned the reason for killing me, although there seemed to be no flaws, he felt uneasy in his heart. He also specifically explained that it was a temporary decision made by the senior officials of Feiyun Sect."
Lin Ji narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "He is an undercover agent of Feiyun Sect, but there was someone else who made him choose to expose me and assassinate me."
Seeing Lu Nanting and Lu Nanting frowning and thinking, Lin Ji added: "The price of offending Jian Tiansi is to expose the secret lurking around General Zhenbei... Since Feiyun Sect is the largest sect in Yunzhou, they will not do this
Unwise."
"Then let's go down and try it again?" Qin Jinsong suggested.
Lin Ji shook his head slightly.
"I'm not dead yet, and the person behind it will always be exposed."
"You want to be a bait?" Lu Nanting heard what Lin Ji meant.
Lin Ji smiled.
"This junior has been away from Beijing for a long time, and it's time to go back."
Lu Nanting asked: "When will you leave?"
"After lunch tomorrow, we will set off from the south gate."
"good."
It was settled simply to lure the snake out of the hole, and no one was worried about Lin Ji's safety.
It wouldn't matter if he was stabbed in the back by a monk from the Tonghui Realm. If he wanted to intercept and kill Lin Ji, he would have to have several people from the Sun Traveling Realm or Taoist Realm take action.
But if you really have entered the Taoist realm, there is no need to go to such trouble.
Entering the Tao is not that cheap. If you completely break up with Jian Tiansi, Feiyun Sect cannot bear the price.
...
Noon the next day.
Lin Ji left Beiguan City alone and walked toward Jingzhou.
He walked as if he were strolling, humming a ditty that only he knew the origin of, and looked like a tourist out for an outing.
As we walked, we were about twenty miles outside the city.
Light snow fell in the sky.
The cold wind howled, blowing the branches of the already withered trees on both sides of the road, and falling a lot of dead branches and leaves.
"I've been gone for so long and no one has come to kill me."
"So boring." Lin Ji muttered in a low voice.
After walking forward for about half an hour, snow gradually accumulated on the road.
Lin Ji looked behind him, and there were footprints left behind him after stepping on the snow.
Two people's footprints.
Lin Ji didn't react at first, but when he realized something was wrong, he suddenly felt a sweetness in his throat.
His hand touched the corner of his mouth, and there was steaming blood, blood from his heart.
"What's going on?" Lin Ji's pupils shrank suddenly, and he felt that his energy and blood had been reduced by at least 30% at this moment.
A strong wind suddenly sounded.
Lin Ji had already detected the opponent's position, but when he wanted to avoid it, his body was half a beat slower.
Fortunately, it was only half a shot, and he finally avoided the critical point.
puff.
The sharp weapon penetrated Lin Ji's right chest, and blood came out from his back.
Lin Ji suddenly raised his hand and grabbed the opponent's wrist holding the sword hilt, and looked up.
It was an expressionless face with Chinese characters.