Chapter 327

Palace, Huagai Hall.

Li Miao threw a Zheng Qi and a Zheng Anqi to the ground, stepped into the door, and scanned left and right.

Although he was quite happy when scolding Zheng Anqi, saying he didn't care about the Xuanlan inheritance he left behind... but who let Zheng Anqi die?

If Zheng Anqi jumped up now and stared at Li Miao, Li Miao would definitely have no hesitation, and after a disdainful snort, he would turn around and leave, never losing face in front of him.

But people were already dead, why bother with a dead person?

So Li Miao still came.

He stood and watched for a long while, but Li Miao raised his eyebrows.

With his eyesight, he could see any secret room or hidden compartment in this room at a glance. But he was in a dilemma right now—because there were not no hidden compartments here, but too many.

At a glance, Li Miao saw seven or eight mechanisms, more than a dozen hidden compartments, and as for places to hide things like gaps and cracks, there were countless.

Li Miao shook his head.

"Also, it's the palace, it's the main hall... if you don't hide some imperial edicts or secret letters, it's like it was built in vain."

"And they don't say where they're hidden, so I have to find them one by one. They really didn't die in vain."

After saying that, he didn't walk around, raised his hand to grab into the void, triggered a mechanism, revealed a hidden compartment, and grabbed a stack of envelopes from it.

Opening it, Li Miao laughed immediately.

"Ho, the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Rites, all took money... just right, the old man is worrying about having no reason to kill, handing it to him is just right."

Li Miao looked at the dense hidden compartments in the room, became more and more interested, raised his hand and grabbed several times, grabbed the things in several hidden compartments into his hands, and read them one after another.

"Interesting, interesting."

"The performance of hundreds of heads is considered to be there. Even if I can't find the Xuanlan inheritance, this trip is not in vain."

The low laughter echoed in the empty main hall.

In the distance, dense footsteps were rushing toward here.

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Zheng Yi slashed out with a sword, drawing a wound one foot long and an inch deep on the back of the man in black.

The man in black seemed not to feel the pain at all, just kept fleeing forward, neither dodging nor blocking, and didn't even mean to turn back to stop Zheng Yi.

Zheng Yi frowned.

The other party was a heavenly being, this was beyond doubt. Although he only had the realm of the first path, his inheritance was brilliant, and his light-body technique was even more outstanding, making it difficult for her to behead him for a while.

However, in another cup of tea's time, she would kill him anyway.

But the strange thing was... this person didn't look like he was fleeing for his life at all.

Fleeing for one's life properly, if you only care about running, it's the lowest level. You should at least go around, block, or at least try to get out of Zheng Yi's sight... but this person walked in a straight line, and on the way, he only went to high places, never leaving her sight.

It was as if... he wanted to deliberately lure her away.

Zheng Yi paused her feet and stopped suddenly.

Without a trace of hesitation, she turned around and rushed toward the Imperial City.

As she changed direction, the man in black actually stopped suddenly, then rushed toward her, shook his hands, and threw out two soft whips, rolling toward Zheng Yi's legs.

"Sure enough! He wanted to lure me!"

"Is he trying to lure me into a trap, or lure me away to make a move on others?"

Between thoughts turning, Zheng Yi tapped her toes, suddenly stopped the momentum of rushing forward, and darted backward!

The sword tip pointed left and right, and the force of the winding soft whip was unloaded, hanging down softly. The long sword suddenly retracted, turned in her hand, and the sword tip shot out from under her armpit, stabbing straight at the face of the man in black!

The man in black's gaze didn't waver at all. He shook his hands, and the soft whip raised its head again, rolling toward Zheng Yi's arm.

Soft whip and long sword, which one was more fatal, even a three-year-old child could tell clearly. But the man in black had a posture of exchanging life for injury, not caring at all about the sword tip that had poked in front of him, only urging the whip to roll toward Zheng Yi!

Zheng Yi's face sank, and she returned the sword to point the soft whip down.

The two collided, and the man in black raised his hand to strike Zheng Yi's back of the head. While still in mid-air, he suddenly spat out a mouthful of fresh blood, and his whole body flew backward.

Zheng Yi withdrew the left palm she had struck from under her armpit, turned around, and killed toward the man in black with a sword!

"I was waiting for you to stop me! Idiot!"

A series of explosions in mid-air, the long sword drew a sword flower, collided with the two soft whips intertwined like pythons, and drew a string of sparks!

Zheng Yi killed her way in front of the man in black, pierced his lungs with a sword, and then cruelly slid to the right in the flesh and blood, cutting off the man in black's scapula.

One arm was abolished, but the man in black still didn't make a sound, his left-hand soft whip rolling toward Zheng Yi's ankle.

"Sure enough, there's something strange!"

Zheng Yi stepped into the man in black's arm, dodged the soft whip, flipped her hand, and slapped his elbow.

Bone shards pierced out from his clothes.

Zheng Yi didn't pause, slashed and cut the man in black's hand and foot tendons with two swords, and then slapped him in the face!

Pa!

The black scarf flew up, revealing a pale, beardless, thin, and cold face.

When Zheng Yi saw his appearance, she pointed her sword and slashed several times at his lower body.

Broken cloth flew.

"Ah!"

But the man in black, who hadn't wavered at all after having his limbs cut off and chest pierced by Zheng Yi, suddenly let out an angry roar, his veins bulging, and his whole body suddenly bounced up, crashing toward the sword tip.

"Sure enough."

Zheng Yi sneered, flipped her palm, and pressed him back to the ground,

"No-egg thing, know you're anxious now?"

"Speak, what did you want to do by luring me over? If you don't, I'll carve the words 'Dead Eunuch' on your face, let the Embroidered Uniform Guard find out your household registration, strip you naked, and hang you at your own door!"

"Ginseng soup to hang your life, True Qi to heal your wounds, you're still a heavenly being, I think you can live for seven or eight years. Those who die violently cannot be reincarnated, let alone those whose bodies are incomplete. Don't think about loyalty and righteousness, picking a comfortable way to die for yourself is the right thing to do!"

"Choose, either finish speaking and I'll give you a quick death, or I'll hang you at your door and let you die slowly!"

The black-clothed eunuch gritted his teeth and didn't speak.

"Good! Loyal enough!"

"Satisfy you!"

Zheng Yi's long sword pointed out, slashing several times on his face.

Looking again, the flesh and skin turned up, and the word "Dead" was clearly on it.

The sword tip flicked, one horizontal and one slant, and the word "Eunuch" was half written.

"Don't!"

The black-clothed eunuch roared angrily, and then he wilted like a frosted eggplant, saying in a low voice.

Twenty years ago.

The woman stood on the roof, looking coldly into the courtyard.

Xue Bangzhu was standing in the courtyard, his face full of struggle. She suddenly spoke.

"You are there, aren't you?"

"You are my fellow disciple... You are killing me because I stopped seeking revenge and forgot the hatred, right?"

The woman on the roof had no expression and gave no response.

Her gaze was fixed on Xue Bangzhu's lower abdomen, where Qi and blood were faintly congealing.

This reminded her of a young voice.

"Mother! Mother!"

"Mother, can you tell me another story? I'll be good and go to sleep after I hear it, okay?"

The woman watched as Xue Bangzhu kept asking questions in the courtyard, his voice growing lower and lower, finally turning into a plea.

"I can die... just let my child live, okay? Even if you take her away and let her seek revenge with you... just let her live, okay?"

The woman looked at Xue Bangzhu expressionlessly for a long while, then turned and left.

Fifteen years ago.

"Boss Shi, this is Eunuch Cun Dong, a powerful figure who covers the sky with one hand in Nanjing. Why don't you pay your respects?"

The woman stepped forward and bowed deeply.

"Greetings, Eunuch."

Cun Dong sat in his chair and glanced at her.

"In the future, I will block any trouble from the officials for you. Will you share your...?"

The woman said respectfully.

"It is not too much."

Five years ago.

The woman slashed off the head of a Yingzhou person before her, but she herself was heavily wounded and fell to the ground. After panting for a moment, she forced herself to stand up and chased in one direction.

A moment later, she saw Zheng Yi running forward in the reed marsh, crying.