Chapter 13: Black Robe

In the Immortal Platform, a strange kind of bird is raised, which lives by eating jade. From a young age, it is fed with jade materials nurtured by the same person, and then it will not eat other jade. Therefore, every inspector outside will hold a jade bead to connect with their own bird.

The soul bird has two main uses.

First, to transmit letters. This bird flies extremely fast and is extremely precise in finding positions and people. It has quite a bit of spirituality, and all kinds of urgent and secret letters can be delivered to the right person extremely quickly.

Second, to report the soul. If the owner suddenly dies, the jade bead held will gradually lose the human Qi, and the bird will have nothing to eat, so it will fly back to the Immortal Platform in the Divine Capital. Seeing the bird means knowing the person is dead. This is the safety reliance of the Immortal Platform inspectors walking in the Jianghu. It is precisely because the soul bird does not stay with the owner at ordinary times that it is difficult for the enemy to destroy the person and the bird at the same time.

It's just that sometimes this process takes too long. By the time the Platform learns the news, the murderer has often long since disappeared. Therefore, there is also an emergency method, that is, when the inspector is in a desperate situation, he can either smash the jade, roast it with fire, or throw it into deep water, using various methods to quickly destroy the human Qi in the jade. Generally, in a few hours, the soul bird will fly back to the Immortal Platform.

From Fenghuai to the prefecture city of Bowang, it is about three hundred li. Logically, it takes less than an hour to go back and forth. Even if the soul bird can avoid thunder and rain, the speed is inevitably involved. Therefore, counting two hours is already generous, but more than three hours have passed since it was released, yet the soul bird still hasn't flown back.

The people in the county government don't even know where the accident happened. The most terrible situation is that the prefecture city didn't receive the report at all.

"Now we don't know what to do either." Shen Yanping said with a hoarse voice. Pei Ye noticed that his hand stretched out involuntarily and then gripped the sword hilt again, and a thin layer of sweat had grown inside. "Moving and staying might just be the difference between seeking death and waiting for death."

"We finally decided to let you leave separately. At least... those who are not selected will not die." Chang Zhiyuan continued. "But it needs to be noted, it's best..."

This half of the sentence seemed to consume a lot of the old man's strength. The spine that was originally straight like a pine seemed to collapse, and the white eyebrows like swords also drooped. He finally said it: "It's best not to let them go home."

Pei Ye stood quietly, silent.

The teenagers in the room wouldn't think that what they were waiting for was not the continuation of the story they were thinking about day and night, but a helpless abandonment.

"We will die before them." Shen Yanping said in a low voice.

Pei Ye knew that if there were really no reinforcements, this might be the method with the lowest cost, but the heaviness in his heart could not be vented. He said "Hmm," placed the two Di Baos on the table, and turned to go back.

Just at this moment, the wind and rain seemed to be quiet, and the armored body in front of the platform suddenly stood up.

Several people turned their heads, but Feng Zhi didn't say a word.

"Officer Feng? What's wrong?" Shen Yanping frowned and walked over.

Feng Zhi turned his head slowly and stiffly, his eyes splitting, his beard bristling, and a bloody crack splitting vertically on his throat.

He opened his mouth silently, blood surged from the corners of his mouth, and his huge body fell softly to the ground.

This heavy iron armor didn't let him take a few more hits.

Everyone's throat seemed to be choked by an iron block, and the chill climbed onto their skin like a centipede.

The candlelight in the room leaked out, and the scene outside the door was reflected in their eyes.

A figure in a black robe stood straight in the courtyard. In the wet rain and breeze, a thin, long knife shape was vaguely bulging under the robe at the waist, and the left hand was just sheathed on the hilt.

The boots on his feet were as new as if they had just been made.

He didn't look at the people in the hall, but lowered his head, appearing quiet and condensed.

But no one doubted that under that quietness, there was a violent force that could not be resisted, and that the body under the black robe could take away the life of anyone present at any time.

As soon as this person entered his field of vision, Pei Ye's hair stood on end, as if a child was facing a fierce tiger. His heart beat like a drum, and his limbs were tense to the point of stiffness.

The blue bird's good news missed the date, but the urging-life evil ghost had already stood in the courtyard.

The most decisive one was still Shen Yanping. His thumb flicked open a porcelain bottle, and he swallowed all the pills inside into his abdomen.

At the same time, following Chang Zhiyuan's roar of "Run!", Pei Ye used all his strength to run toward the backyard.

As if blood exploded in his abdomen, Shen Yanping's eyes were bloodshot and red. Amidst the flying long hair, his gentle and gentle face became fierce and ferocious.

To participate in the sword of the dragon and snake, one must first realize the way of clouds and thunder. The core of the "Rubbing Clouds" lineage of Little Cloud Mountain's sword art lies in the integration and transformation between elegance and violence, and the ninth-generation junior brother was soft in temperament and easygoing in character. He practiced martial arts lazily, and his cultivation stopped at the fifth life realm and he was unwilling to work hard again. His sword technique also stopped at the softness and variability of the word "Cloud," failing to grasp the true meaning of the word "Thunder."

But perhaps it was the credit of drinking tea and playing chess with his master, talking about the world, that he was granted a bottle of thunder pills sealed with his master's Qi before going down the mountain to serve in the Immortal Platform. With this martial art, plus this bottle of thunder pills as a guarantee, choosing a remote mountain county to be an inspector should have been a leisurely and dashing life.

Unfortunately, things went against his wishes. Now, even if he used all the thunder pills in this bottle, he could only delay the arrival of death.

Blue clothes like clouds, Qi like thunder, Shen Yanping crashed out of the door. The magnificent momentum actually made the man in black retreat gracefully.

The sword was like a thunderbolt, Shen Yanping advanced again, and the man in black retreated again without drawing his sword. The passing brush, under the hood, was a young, cold, and ruthless face, with a trace of mockery at the corners of his mouth.

For the man in black, Shen Yanping was now like a fish put into a vegetable basin, jumping around because of lack of oxygen. It wasn't that he couldn't hold it down, it was just that it was hard not to get some fishy smell. As long as he waited for ten seconds or so, taking advantage of the moment it adjusted its strength, he could easily hold it down and cut off its head with one knife.

So even though he knew that death would come after the last three swords were finished, Shen Yanping didn't dare to stop at all, because as long as there was a slight gap between the two swords, the other party would insert a fatal knife.

Another sword, Shen Yanping passed by the locust tree. The branches and leaves shattered by the thunder Qi were nailed into the ground like darts.

There were only two swords left.

In the backyard, the teenagers with panicked faces rushed out of the room. Pei Ye anxiously handed the reins to everyone who didn't clearly answer "I can't ride a horse."

"Run as far as you can! Go into the mountains! Go down the river! Enter the forest! Go toward the prefecture city! Anything is fine!"

"If," Pei Ye tore off the binding on his forehead and pointed to the fire symbol, "this symbol appears on the forehead of the person you are with, those without the symbol must immediately stay far away from him, do you hear me?!"

"I hear you."

The bewildered teenagers hadn't realized the cruelty in these words. Pei Ye looked at these teenagers who were still young and had faces like paper. Two of them were even shaking so much that they couldn't hold the reins.

How could they escape from the pursuit of those criminals?

The best result was just "those who should die" die. ===== CHAPTER 14 =====

"I heard."

The bewildered youths had yet to grasp the cruelty in these words. Pei Ye looked at these boys, still so childish and pale as paper; two of them were even shaking so hard they couldn't hold the reins.

How could they possibly escape the pursuit of those vicious criminals?

The best outcome would be nothing more than a "damned" death.