"You already have enough guards." Wei Suyao frowned. She, Rao Yue, Hua Fuduo, Seluvinia, etc. are all people who stick to Zhou Xingyun all day long. He also wants a shadow assassin to be his role.
Guard? Everyone knows Sima Zhao’s intentions!
However, what surprised Wei Suyao the most was that the female assassin agreed readily: "I promise you, but I have conditions."
"Let's talk about it, but don't ask too much, you are in the wrong!"
"Promise to avenge me, and I will risk everything and be your shadow for the rest of my life." The female assassin is a hero, and Zhou Xingyun almost has the word "beast" written on her face, but she actually dares to make a deal with her.
"Okay. Anyway, we want to settle accounts with them and avenge you by the way... But you can't renege on the debt! Even if Liufan Zunren fakes his death, as long as I vent my anger for you, you can't renege on the debt!" Zhou Xingyun sighed helplessly.
After taking a breath, he said from the bottom of his heart that he really didn't think that bad old man would die at the hands of a Southern Barbarian warrior.
If Master Liufan is really killed, then the strength of the enemy is really immeasurable.
"Once a word is made, it is hard to follow. I swear in the name of the Temple of the Dead that you and I have made a contract!" The female assassin said coldly: "The assassins of the Temple of the Dead are the most principled. If I promise you, there will be no way to break the contract.
.If I violate the contract, the Death Temple will not let me go without you taking action."
The female assassin saw Zhou Xingyun's unhappy face and was worried that he would not take the contract with the Temple of the Dead seriously, so she had to emphasize it solemnly.
"I know, your name is Hong Caiyi. It's a nice name..." Zhou Xingyun said ambiguously. The reason why he was unhappy and why he sighed helplessly was because he remembered another incident.
Does anyone still remember Fang Shushu? She was the beauty from the world who avenged Fangjia Village and promised to marry her.
Zhou Xingyun had already avenged Fang Shushu, but what was the result? What about the promised sacrifice? Zhou Xingyun waited for a year, but he still didn't wait for Fang Shushu to take the initiative to sacrifice himself.
If the girl's family doesn't take the initiative, can Zhou Xingyun take the initiative? OK, yes! But don't be too impatient! Otherwise, the girls of Yan Jijun will be more impatient than him!
Fortunately, Fang Shushu is also a member of the Yan Ji Army, so Zhou Xingyun can take the long term and wait patiently.
While Zhou Xingyun and Hong Caiyi were talking, Han Qiumiao and others were watching quietly. The contract they reached... was neither a good thing nor a bad thing.
Rao Yue has already put down her words. Hong Caiyi assassinated Zhou Xingyun. She could not escape the death penalty but could not escape the death penalty. Zhou Xingyun would deal with her.
Xu Zhiqian and others could only do as they were told.
Now everyone understands that Hong Caiyi's assassination of Zhou Xingyun was just a false accusation. She mistakenly believed that Master Liufan was missing and that Zhou Xingyun led someone to kill her father.
Now that Hong Caiyi and Zhou Xingyun have reached a settlement in the form of a contract, Wei Suyao and the other girls can barely accept it.
After all, no one understands how strong Zhou Xingyun's love luck is better than them. A well-known and beautiful assassin came to his door on his own initiative. It's a good thing that Zhou Xingyun didn't execute her on the spot.
"You've reached an agreement, it's our turn to get down to business."
The feud between Zhou Xingyun and Hong Caiyi was, to be honest, their private matter. Now Han Qiumiao was in no mood to care about it. She was occupied with thinking about how to deal with the barbarian army invading the Central Plains.
"I know how the barbarian army, without anyone noticing, bypassed the Zhennan Cavalry stationed at the border and infiltrated into the border towns in the south." Hong Caiyi suddenly took over the words, and Xu Zhiqian couldn't help but suddenly understood after hearing the words: "So you were
I want to say this!”
Xu Zhiqian remembered very clearly that before the Nanman warriors came to cause trouble at the Wulin Alliance Hall, Zhou Xingyun used his acupuncture technique to deal with Hong Caiyi.
When Mu Ya and Han Qiumiao talked about the Nanman foreign invaders who quietly crossed the border and occupied the border villages and towns in the south, Hong Caiyi wanted to talk.
However, Zhou Xingyun regarded Hong Caiyi's struggle as her wanting to beg for mercy. Not only did he not let her speak, he also pressed harder... I pinched! I pinched! I found the weakness! Hey! It's so fun, haha...
"There is a misty forest in the southern border area. It is a maze array created by him using the strange spells of the Six Paths of the Mysterious Realm to transform the forest landscape. When the mist forest takes effect, people who enter the forest will become disoriented and suppressed.
Nanqi sent people into the forest several times to patrol, trying to see if they could cross the forest and go to the outside of the territory, but they always circled in circles and ultimately returned without success."
Hong Caiyi slowly explained that the soldiers of Zhennan Cavalry had tried many times but could not pass through the misty forest, so they believed that it was impossible for the army of Nanman foreign invaders to cross this forest on a large scale.
This is also true. Unless the foreign invaders build large-scale construction projects and cut down all the way through the woods, they will not be able to break the magical techniques of the Six Paths of the Mysterious Realm.
However, if the Nanman foreign invaders really want to go to great lengths to cut down the forest, they cannot infiltrate quietly."
"You mean, someone has seen through the maze formation in the misty forest?" Qin Shou is quite familiar with the art of Qimen Dunjia. If there are experts in the barbarian army who are familiar with this method, it is not impossible to crack the maze formation.
"No. It's simply that the maze has failed." Hong Caiyi explained that the Sixth World Master lived in seclusion in the misty forest, so he changed the forest landscape and turned it into a maze.
The plants in the misty forest will grow. In order for the maze to take effect, Master Liufan must prune the grass and trees in the forest every once in a while to make the scenery in the misty forest similar everywhere.
Once the eye of the maze array in the misty forest is left unattended for a long time, the wild growth of plants will greatly reduce the effectiveness of the maze array.
In the past few decades, Master Liu Fan has been practicing in seclusion in the deep foggy forest, rarely walking around in the rivers and lakes. He can be said to have guarded a pure land on his own, sharing the pressure for the tens of thousands of Zhennan Cavalry soldiers stationed at the border.
However, the phantom formation in the misty forest disappeared a while ago. The Southern Barbarian warriors only need to figure out the route to lead the army across the forest in batches and attack the surrounding villages and towns.
Although the terrain of the misty forest is very complex and it is impossible to march on a large scale, the forest is very concealed. The opponent only sends a small force to cross the forest, and it is difficult for the Zhennan Cavalry stationed at the border to detect it.
The barbarian advance team crossing the forest only needs to quickly occupy a nearby village and town, and then use this bridgehead to march to nearby villages and towns.
Every day, one or two advance teams cross the misty forest, use the occupied villages and towns as transit points, and spread to nearby border villages and towns. Over time, they form a large network, cutting off the retreat of the Southern Cavalry soldiers stationed in the border town.
When the main force of the barbarian army attacked from the front, the Zhennan cavalry officers stationed at the border discovered that the enemy had a large number of troops. They planned to use the depth of the terrain to fight and retreat as before, and when they sent people to report to the King of Zhennan and ask for help, they were met with a surprise attack.
to an enemy ambush.
At that time, the barbarian advance teams lurking in various border villages and towns can merge with hundreds of rivers to form an army of tens of thousands, launch an offensive from the inside of the territory, cooperate with the main force inside and outside, and attack the border garrison from front to back.
Hong Caiyi made a reasonable and well-founded opinion. The reason why the barbarian army penetrated the southern border of the Central Plains without being noticed was because the maze set up by the Sixth World Master failed, allowing them to take advantage of it.
To put it bluntly, the Six Mortal Masters have to prune the plants in the misty forest at regular intervals to maintain the effect of the maze.
There may be someone in the barbarian tribe who knew that the maze formation in the misty forest was arranged by Master Liufan, so they lured him out and killed him while he was regularly maintaining the maze formation.
No one is pruning the plants in the misty forest, so the psychedelic effect of the maze array is naturally getting worse and worse.
The effect of the labyrinth array has diminished, and the Southern Barbarian warriors only need to explore a few more times to notice that the misty forest is similar everywhere. There are many places that are no longer similar due to uneven plant growth.
After figuring out the correct route, they can lead the small force through the misty forest and penetrate the southern border of the Central Plains.
"I initially thought you killed him, so..."
"So you were struggling so hard earlier because you wanted to mock us severely. The reason why the foreign invaders infiltrated the southern border without anyone noticing, and the source of all these disasters, was because we killed your father, right? Hey, fortunately,
I didn't relent then, otherwise I would have been ridiculed by you in vain." Zhou Xingyun found a very reasonable excuse for his inappropriate behavior.
After listening to Zhou Xingyun's speech, the beautiful assassin Hong Caiyi was naturally speechless, because everything the scoundrel said was right.
But, is there a possibility that if Zhou Xingyun hadn't said, "I pinch! I pinch! Find the weakness! Hey! It's so fun..." and allowed her to speak out, the misunderstanding between them would have been resolved immediately.
?
"Do you know the exact location of that forest?"
The speaker is unintentional and the listener is intentional. The information provided by Hong Caiyi is the key to Han Qiumiao's biggest headache.
The barbarian troops quietly infiltrated the southern towns, which shows that they found a secret way to sneak into the Central Plains.
If no one knows about this secret passage, the barbarian army can use this secret passage to secretly supply the front line and deliver hidden troops, causing our army to misjudge the situation.
Our army and the barbarian army clashed on the battlefield, and a hidden enemy force suddenly appeared. This may become a key factor in determining victory or defeat.
Now Hong Caiyi informed Han Qiumiao that the barbarian army infiltrated the southern border through the misty forest, which undoubtedly helped her solve a big trouble.
"Haven't you already found the location of the forest?" Hong Caiyi looked at Mu Ya.
"When I was investigating the whereabouts of Master Liu Fan, I did find one of his footholds, but I don't know where the forest you pointed to is." Mu Ya said truthfully. She followed Zhou Xingyun's instructions to investigate Liu Fan.
Following the whereabouts of Fan Zunren, we found traces of Liu Fanzunren’s activities in a border village in the south.
"If you can find it, you are already very close to the misty forest." Hong Caiyi sincerely admired Mu Ya's detection ability. The Six Mortal Masters had lived in seclusion in the misty forest for decades, and no Central Plains warrior could find him.
However, it only took Muya less than a month to almost find the place where Master Liufan lived in seclusion for cultivation.
It was also because Hong Caiyi had insight into Mu Ya's investigation near the misty forest that he made a mistake and became even more convinced that the murderer of Liu Fan Zun Ren was Zhou Xingyun and his party.
In short, Zhou Xingyun was assassinated by Hong Caiyi, and Mu Ya was the one who wanted to take the blame. She was the one who lured Hong Caiyi here.