Chapter 59: Yun Zelin

Let's talk about Wang Hai here.

This trip was for a secret visit, and bringing people with poor martial arts would be a burden. Wang Hai had an internal energy foundation, so he went on the road alone, changing horses all the way, and arrived at his destination in less than a day and a half.

That person had opened his mouth, but he didn't know much, only saying that someone handed him the secret book, saying it was the Right Envoy's instruction, just put it there, and don't ask anything else.

After losing the secret book, he had reported it, but there was no response. Since then, he had lost contact with the sect.

Unable to bear Li Xiaosi's torture, he racked his brains and said: "Since the secret book was lost, I have gone out of the city to handle affairs several times, and it seems I have been followed. The methods look like people from the sect."

"I went out of the city to do things very suddenly several times, and I could follow up immediately. This person should live near my house. I didn't dare to check, I don't know which family it is."

Wang Hai came here to investigate, wanting to find the Ming Sect member who was monitoring, to see if he could find out the plan of the Ming Sect Right Envoy.

This place was a village and town under the jurisdiction of Beizhili, with not many people, close to the mountains and forests.

This kind of place had few people coming and going, and to avoid attracting attention, Wang Hai got off the horse in advance and tied the horse in the forest by the road.

Then he took out some clothes and disguise items from his luggage, and spent a stick of incense to roughly tidy up.

In a short while, he changed from a heroic young military officer to a wind-blown, dusty merchant appearance.

Wang Hai entered the town and strolled around, roughly figuring out the layout of the surrounding buildings. He also took the opportunity to chat with a few idlers, roughly locking onto a few suspicious households.

Then he left the village and town, found the horse and luggage, changed into a night suit, put on hooked gloves, sat on a bluestone slab to rest and adjust his breath, waiting for the night to act.

The sun set, and in the blink of an eye, it was midnight.

After half a day of adjusting his breath, Wang Hai had eliminated the fatigue accumulated from the rush, stood up, moved his muscles and bones, and used his light-body technique to go toward the suspicious households he locked onto during the day.

According to the news he got from those idlers, there were three households near the person who was interrogated, and they had moved in in recent years and had no relatives in the local area.

Wang Hai flipped over the wall silently and fell into the courtyard of the first household.

He first entered the bedroom quietly, pointed at the owner's neck, and knocked him unconscious. Then he searched carefully in the house and under the bed, and knocked on the floor tiles and wall panels, but found no secret doors or secret rooms.

Finally, he held the man's pulse to check if there was true energy. He also carefully pinched his muscles and bones to see if there were traces of practicing martial arts.

Basically excluding this person's suspicion, Wang Hai flipped over the wall and went out, and checked the second house in the same way, but still found nothing.

By this time, Wang Hai actually had no hope in his heart.

According to the Ming Sect's style of doing things, the possibility that this line had been broken was very high.

If it weren't for the relationship with the Ming Sect Right Envoy, and the Five Mountains Sword Sects' errand being related to the Ming Sect, plus the fact that the things on this road were faintly connected, Wang Hai wouldn't have been so eager to come and investigate himself.

Wang Hai put one hand on the wall and was about to flip over the courtyard wall of the third household.

He just showed his head on the courtyard wall.

In an instant, a cold light had reached his face!

Wang Hai was overjoyed: "Caught!"

He supported the wall with his left hand, grabbed the air with his right hand, and grabbed the flying dart that was coming toward him. He had refined iron pieces inlaid on his gloves, so he wasn't afraid of the thing being poisoned and cutting his skin.

As soon as Wang Hai landed, he saw a figure flip onto the roof and flee outward.

Wang Hai sneered, and directly threw the flying dart in his hand as it was.

*Whoosh—pfft! *

"Ah!"

The man shouted, blood sprouted from his knee, his body lost balance, and he immediately fell on the roof.

Wang Hai flipped onto the roof, didn't talk much, directly reached out and grabbed the man's chin, and dislocated the joint with a *crack*.

Then he grabbed his hands, and with two crisp sounds of "crack" and "crack," he directly broke them. His legs were also treated the same way.

In just two or three breaths, this person was deprived of all ability to move, wriggling on the roof like a maggot, making a "heh heh" cry of pain from his mouth.

Wang Hai carried the man's clothes and jumped off the roof, walked into the house, threw the man in a corner at will, and searched carefully in the house.

In less than a stick of incense, he found a scripture, some silver notes, and a waist token in a secret compartment under the man's bed.

Wang Hai picked up the waist token and examined it carefully, with some Persian characters written on it.

The Imperial Guard had been searching for Ming Sect disciples for many years, and they were familiar with certain specific Persian characters.

"Thick Earth Flag." Wang Hai read it out.

The Ming Sect structure from top to bottom was the Sect Leader, Left and Right Envoys, four Protectors, and five Flag Leaders. The disciples in the sect belonged to the jurisdiction of the five Flag Leaders, which were Sharp Metal, Giant Wood, Flood Water, Fierce Fire, and Thick Earth.

Fifteen years ago, the Ming Sect was severely damaged, the main altar was destroyed, and the Sect Leader Ji Tianrui died.

Below the Sect Leader, a Right Envoy, two Protectors, and three Flag Leaders died.

Among them, the Right Envoy was later supplemented, but there had been little news so far. They didn't even know if it was a man or a woman. A Protector was supplemented.

But the Flag Leaders had always only had the Thick Earth Flag and Flood Water Flag leaders, and they had never been supplemented.

The reason was very simple; the five flags of the Ming Sect had different divisions of labor. In that battle fifteen years ago, the Sharp Metal, Giant Wood, and Fierce Fire flag disciples who faced the enemy head-on were all killed. Only the Flood Water Flag responsible for the operation of branch altars in various places and the Thick Earth Flag responsible for secretly investigating news and undercover probing were preserved.

Without disciples, naturally there was no use for Flag Leaders.

The Imperial Guard had been dealing with the Thick Earth Flag people for these years.

And this person had the Thick Earth Flag waist token, and he was also a person with status within the Ming Sect, and should be a middle-level figure of the Thick Earth Flag.

The Ming Sect had gone underground for more than ten years, and those who remained now were all loyal die-hard elements who would not easily open their mouths. Wang Hai was used to dealing with Ming Sect people, so he didn't talk much, dragged the person over, and began to use torture.

That person was also tough, hard-boiled for two hours, before opening his mouth weakly: "Stop... I say..."

Wang Hai stopped, wiped the blood on his hands on the man, and asked: "What is your name, what connection do you have with the Ming Sect Right Envoy?"

"I... my name is—"

The man was about to speak.

*Pfft. *

But a cold light shot from the courtyard, directly inserted into the man's neck!

Blood spurted wildly, the man fell softly, and lost his breath.

Wang Hai's pupils shrank, and he immediately turned to look at the courtyard, his true energy ready to go, fully alert.

He had been working under Li Miao for many years, and he had handled no less than eight hundred errands. How could he not secretly guard against the Ming Sect's ambush at this time?

But he clearly didn't hear a sound, and the speed of that hidden weapon was also bizarrely fast; he didn't even have a chance to stop it!

Wang Hai focused his attention and looked at the courtyard, only to see two people appearing in the courtyard at some point, one young and one old.

The young man had a feminine face, and at this time, he was looking at the old one with ease: "Flag Leader Zhou, how long did your subordinate last?"

The old one was expressionless, and replied coldly: "Two hours."

"Ah, then you won."

The young man smiled and said: "However, Flag Leader Zhou, can you be considered cheating?"

"I was still betting with you on how much he would say, why did you kill him?"

The old one didn't answer, only looked at Wang Hai coldly.

The young man turned his head and smiled at Wang Hai: "Hello, little brother."

"After the person was caught by you, I have been waiting for you here for a long time."

"You are an Imperial Guard, right? Do you recognize someone—should be thirty-something this year, heroic face, martial arts at the peak or above? Should be called... Li Miao?"

"If you know, please be sure to tell me."

"I am Yun Zelin, I met him once fifteen years ago, and I have been asking about him for a long time."

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