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After killing the enemy with one strike, he quickly lurked towards the next patrol point.
Looking from above the house, seven or eight teams of men in black advanced at the same time, constantly shrinking the attack circle towards the inner house.
Wherever he passed, the patrolling guards in the yard, the night watchmen, and the sleeping maids and servants in the room were all silenced.
boom!
A door in the inner house suddenly broke apart. A middle-aged man in his forties, who looked wealthy, broke through the door and fell into the courtyard.
He had a ghost-head sword stuck in his abdomen, his face was covered in blood, and he stared fiercely at the figure who followed him out of the room.
"Shangguan Tong! How dare you?!"
Smelling the increasingly strong smell of blood, veins bulged on the wealthy middle-aged man's neck.
"Why shouldn't I dare?" Shangguan Tong, who was in his forties, had a face as white as jade and spoke slowly with his hands behind his back.
"Li Shentong, since you dare to provoke my Shangguan family, you must be prepared to be exterminated."
"When have I ever provoked the Shangguan family!" Li Shentong couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood, his eyes almost popped out of his head with anger.
Shangguan Tong looked at the other person gloomily: "You actually forgot."
"Eight years ago today, Chunfeng Tower held a beauty pageant."
"I was careless and didn't bring enough money."
"I didn't expect you to take the lead and steal the limelight."
"how dare you?!"
"Over the years, I have been practicing martial arts diligently, and I have long wanted to avenge the fact that I stole the limelight!"
"I think it should be today."
Li Shentong: "..."
"Didn't I spend money to buy the Oiran to give it to you?!"
"You just remember that I stole your limelight?!"
Shangguan Tong: “…”
"Shen...Brother Shentong, I...I may have remembered it wrongly."
At this time, a man in black suddenly appeared in front of Shangguan Tong and knelt on one knee: "Second Master, kill them all."
Li Shentong: "..."
Shangguan Tong looked disappointed and said, "Forget it, let's go as a family."
"By the way, don't forget to take away the valuables in his house. Especially the land deeds and house deeds."
……
Shangguan family, in the pavilion of the inner house.
Shangguan Ji sat under the pavilion, leisurely looking at the chess record and slowly studying the chess moves.
"Brother, I killed all those families!" Shangguan Tong rushed into the pavilion and said happily.
"How dare you say that the evil spirits causing chaos in the city have something to do with us."
"Spreading rumors and provoking the Shangguan family deserves death!"
Shangguan Ji glanced at the excited Shangguan Tong.
"You must have fished a lot last night."
Shangguan Tong suddenly grinned.
"Don't always focus on that little profit. It's just a few small families in the outer city."
"If you can find evidence that several families in the inner city are colluding with those people."
"Wouldn't it be more profitable if we destroyed a few families?"
Shangguan Tong scratched his head immediately: "Big brother is still smart."
"Then...I'll go find evidence?"
"Yeah." Shangguan Ji nodded calmly.
"Yu'er went north to look for the Thousand Machine Order."
"This is the opportunity our Shangguan family has been waiting for a hundred years."
"Before we find the Thousand Machine Order, Tangshan Camp must be stable, and Nanyang Prefecture must not be in chaos."
"Those major families have been restless. We need to eliminate these destabilizing factors as soon as possible."
Shangguan Tong chuckled and said, "Just wait and see!"
"Whether there is evidence or not, I will find it for you."
……
Linhengfang, Chen’s house.
Chen Mu had been chanting the mantra until his mouth was dry and his tongue was parched for three days, but today he finally got the hang of it.
Soul Locking Curse: 12/10000/Level ;
"Go on reading." Chen Mu said helplessly.
He likes to brush up his proficiency, but he doesn't like to brush up in such a hurry.
But he needed to imitate the Dragon Transformation Pill as soon as possible, so he had to give up other skills and recite the Soul-Locking Spell day and night.
Fortunately, I entered the first stage, and my proficiency brought me constant insights. Hundreds of words of difficult scriptures were transformed into more than thirty strange syllables.
"The speed should be faster later."
Three strange syllables came out of his mouth.
Five clouds of black smoke appeared in front of him.
"Five ghosts moving a mountain!"
The black smoke suddenly swirled into circles, and an intense feeling of hunger suddenly hit my heart.
Saliva is secreted crazily in the mouth, and the impatient desire to swallow constantly hits the brain.
After a long while, Chen Mu dispersed the black smoke and took back the five ghosts.
"It seems that I can slightly control the urge to devour."
"Is this the effect of the Soul Locking Curse? To restrict the Five Ghosts? Or, to control the Five Ghosts more powerfully."
"Wait until it's done and then see."
After taking a sip of throat-soothing herbal tea, Chen Mu took advantage of the break to open the Thousand Mountains Sutra.
The secret method of offering sacrifices to the ghosts of the dead, in addition to the soul-locking spell, also includes a prescription called the Immortal Pill, which is used to nourish the medicine man.
"This has nothing to do with the word 'nurture'." Chen Mu was shocked as he read it: "It's completely a tiger and wolf medicine that disregards life and forcibly stimulates vitality!"
"It seems to be to strengthen the medicine man's qi and blood..."
"Perhaps, this can also be applied to livestock." Chen Mu squinted his eyes and pondered.
……
Nanyang Prefecture, Luohe.
A fifty-meter cargo ship floated slowly on the wide river.
At the bow, a square-faced man in his forties was sitting cross-legged on the deck.
There was a square low table in front of him.
There was a black porcelain pottery jar on the low table, and a rich aroma of wine wafted out of the jar.
There were also two side dishes on the table, a plate of sliced pork head and a plate of fried peanuts.
The middle-aged man was enjoying the breeze from the river, drinking by himself with a contented look on his face.
"Brother, the third brother sent me news that seven families, big and small, were wiped out in the outer city last night." A round-faced man came up behind the middle-aged man and clasped his fists.
"The prefectural government said that it was the chaos in the north that caused the evil spirits to run rampant."
"Nonsense." The square-faced middle-aged man laughed.
"That's nonsense indeed." The round-faced man said sarcastically, "Anyway, I've never heard of any evil spirit digging deep underground to search for treasures."
"The third brother has become very capable. He has managed to trick seven families into helping us test Shangguan Ji." The square-faced middle-aged man said with a smile.
The round-faced man stammered for a while and said, "Two families."
The square-faced middle-aged man turned his head in confusion.
"The third brother only persuaded two families."
"What about the other five?"
The round-faced man shrugged: "The one who led the team to exterminate the whole family was Shangguan Tong."
"Wow! You're just going for the money!" The middle-aged man with a square face laughed.
"Isn't Shangguan Ji afraid that Shangguan Tong will do something bad to him?" the round-faced man wondered.
"He did it on purpose." The square-faced man smiled faintly, "To deter the scoundrels."
"It was just a rumor, and they killed the chicken to scare the monkey immediately."
"I guess the evil-repelling mirror must have been taken away by Shangguan Yu!"
"Keep letting people test you."
"It's better to leave some evidence and link it to a few big families in the inner city."
"Let them fight first!"
"Okay." The round-faced man clasped his fists respectfully.
"Find some unoccupied houses in the city and bring our people in slowly." The square-faced man continued to order: "Go."
"Yes!"