The wind whistled past my ears.
Xu Feng's heart was about to jump out of his chest, and when he was about to fall into the bottom of the pit, the trend of falling suddenly slowed down, and the hand around his waist tightened, firmly clasping his waist.
It turned out that He Tingzhou inserted the sword obliquely into the stone wall, holding the sword in one hand and hugging Xu Feng in the other, and the two of them hung in mid-air dangling like this.
Ordinary people would not dare to take such a risk if they hadn't possessed extremely light kung fu.
Xu Feng breathed a sigh of relief, and heard the sound of chaotic footsteps above his head, and vaguely heard someone shouting: "The person is gone!"
"what happened?"
"Did you fall into the snake pit?"
"Find it!"
Someone also held a torch to shine towards the bottom of the pit, but they hid in the depression of the stone wall and were not noticed for a while.
Surrounded by deep darkness, there are poisonous snakes hissing and spitting under his feet, and it is difficult to exert force in mid-air, so Xu Feng had to tightly hold on to He Tingzhou's arm. After an unknown period of time, he felt a heat between his brows, and a sticky liquid fell on his face.
Xu Feng raised his hand and smelled a faint smell of blood, and then remembered that He Tingzhou's hand holding the sword had just been injured.
He couldn't help whispering: "The injury on your hand..."
"It's okay, we'll climb up in a while."
"Why don't I hold the sword instead?"
He Tingzhou laughed lowly, brushed his chin past Xu Feng's cheek, hugged his waist tightly and said, "Don't move around."
The two of them were very close, and the deep voice penetrated into the ears, tickling the hearts of the people.
Xu Feng's mind fluttered, and then he came to his senses and asked, "Should we just break out?"
"We are outnumbered, I'm afraid there are already many people guarding outside."
"Then what to do?"
"Capture the thief first and capture the king."
Xu Feng understood immediately: "Deal with that masked man first?"
"He was injured by my sword just a few days ago, and he hasn't recovered so quickly."
He Tingzhou put his lips next to Xu Feng's ear, and narrated his plan. ?Xu Feng listened to him whispering, for some reason, he actually hoped that this moment would last longer.
After he finished speaking, the noisy voice above his head gradually quieted down. He Tingzhou looked up and said, "Go up."
As he spoke, he pushed Xu Feng's waist.
Xu Feng swung his arms, and with this strength, he climbed up the stone wall beside him. There are many bumps and bumps on the stone wall, and it is effortless to climb up with gecko skills.
He Tingzhou drew his sword out, tapped his toes, and climbed up.
Both of them have good lightness kung fu, they climbed up like this without making a sound, without anyone noticing.
When he was near the snake path, He Tingzhou signaled Xu Feng to slow down, and leaned on the stone wall to observe the movement above. At this time, the ever-burning lamps on the four corners had been lit again, and the group of archers had withdrawn, leaving only a few men in black still patrolling back and forth.
He Tingzhou gestured to Xu Feng, and Xu Feng turned over and jumped neatly onto the snake path, rushing towards the man in black who was closest to him. The man in black was defenseless, Xu Feng covered his mouth with one hand, and slashed with a sword with his backhand. The man in black fell limply to the ground without even humming.
At this time, He Tingzhou had also dealt with several other people. Xu Feng took off a black coat, put it on himself, and rolled on the ground a few times, trying to get his face dirty.
He Tingzhou looked amused, took out a bottle of Yirong plaster from his bosom, wiped some on Xu Feng's face, looked at him and could no longer see his true face, Fang said: "It's done."
As he spoke, he turned the hilt upside down and handed his sword to Xu Feng.
Xu Feng took the sword in his hand, put the blade on He Tingzhou's neck, and said in a rough voice: "Go!"
While talking, he deliberately kicked him twice.
He Tingzhou smiled heavily, and walked towards the end of the snake path with his hands behind his back.
Under the dim light of the fire, the two stone doors at the end are still tightly closed. This time He Tingzhou chose the door with the beauty painted on the left hand side. After opening the stone door with the method of the Palace of Bliss, he saw a flash of sword light, and the two men in black guarding the door shot like lightning, shouting in unison: " The leader is ordered not to trespass on the altar!"
Xu Feng pushed He Tingzhou and said: "The leader wants to arrest him, I have already captured him."
Those two people looked at He Tingzhou's face, they didn't suspect him, they made way for him, and said: "Let him go in."
Xu Feng followed He Tingzhou forward, and when he passed by one of the men in black, the man suddenly said: "Wait a minute, you look very strange..."
As he spoke, he reached out and grabbed Xu Feng's shoulder.
How could Xu Feng let him catch him? He dodged and withdrew the sword that was around He Tingzhou's neck.
He Tingzhou was still standing with his hands behind his back, flicking the hidden weapon in his hand lightly, it hit the acupuncture points of the man in black.
The other man in black came to his senses and shouted, "You, you..."
Before he finished speaking, he was knocked unconscious by Xu Feng's sword.
This time and time again, it was only a short-lived matter, He Tingzhou saw that no one else was alarmed, so he said to Xu Feng: "Let's go."
Unexpectedly, after walking a few steps, a fork in the road appeared in front of him, three identical dark roads, and he didn't know where they led.
Xu Feng asked: "Which way to go?"
He Tingzhou thought for a while, then turned around and asked the man in black whose acupoints were tapped: "What do you think?"
The man in black couldn't speak, and only rolled his eyes.
He Tingzhou nodded and said, "To the left."
After the two walked into the secret passage on the left, Xu Feng asked, "How do you know he's talking about the left?"
"I guessed randomly." He Tingzhou said, "But after I said left, there was panic in his eyes, I must have guessed right."
This secret passage is not too long, the two of them were talking when another stone door appeared in front of them.
Xu Feng hurriedly fell silent, and saw that the stone gate was also painted with erotic pictures, but the eyes of the people in the painting were all embedded with pearls, shining brightly under the firelight.
He Tingzhou put his hand on the stone gate and groped it inch by inch, then stretched his eyebrows and pressed down on one of the pearls.
There was a "click" sound, and the door burst open. Behind the door is a square stone room, magnificently furnished, with night pearls hanging from the four corners, lighting up the whole room in semi-darkness.
The masked man was sitting on a stone bed, meditating on himself. He didn't open his eyes when he heard the door open, but said coldly: "Didn't I give orders? No one is allowed to come in and disturb me."
Xu Feng had put the sword back on He Tingzhou's neck, and said roughly: "Boss, the person you are looking for has been captured."
Only then did the masked man open his eyes, his icy eyes swept across He Tingzhou's face, and he burst into laughter: "Palace Master He, I never thought we would meet again so soon."
"Yes," He Tingzhou also said with a smile, "Your Excellency's hospitality is really interesting."
"How? Can the previous arrow array still catch the eyes of Palace Master He?" The masked man suddenly changed his tone when he said this, "Why are you the only one? What about the other one?"
Xu Feng's hand holding the sword trembled.
He Tingzhou calmed down and said: "I was also about to ask you, where is the person who came with me? If you don't want to die too ugly, you'd better not touch him."
The masked man put away his exercises, jumped off the stone bed and said, "Palace Master He was arrested without a fight, so it was for this person's safety."
"So what?"
"You can't protect yourself now, even if this person is in my hands, how can you save him?"
"It's just...you and your master are practicing the martial arts of my Palace of Bliss." He Tingzhou snorted and said, "Although this evil skill has been lost for a long time, as the master of the palace, I have a little bit of it." Know a thing or two. There is a flaw in this evil skill, the longer you practice it, the easier it is to go crazy, and only my inner strength and mental method in the Palace of Bliss can resolve it."
Although the masked man was wearing a mask so that people could not see the expression on his face, Xu Feng noticed that his breathing was obviously tightened, and after a while, he smiled again and said: "Nonsense."
"Whether what I said is true or not, you will naturally know it in your heart. This inner strength mentality is originally the secret of my Bliss Palace. Now it is used to exchange the person in your hand. What do you think?"
"It really is a good deal!" The masked man took a step forward and said, "However, Palace Master He seems to have forgotten one thing. Do you think... where is my master now?"
He Tingzhou understood as soon as he thought about it. He clasped his hands behind his back and spit out a few words: "The Palace of Bliss!"
"That's right," the mask said humanely, "As long as you go to the Palace of Bliss, what kind of mentality can't be easily captured?"
"So that's the case. Thank you Your Excellency for clearing my confusion." He Tingzhou nodded, turned his head to look at the person beside him, and said with a smile, "Brother Feng, let's do it."
Xu Feng deserved a cry, and as soon as he loosened his hand holding the sword, the sword just fell into He Tingzhou's hand. He also drew his sword out of its sheath, and the two swords were fired together, like two frightening waves rising and falling, carrying great power, and attacking the masked man.
The masked man knew that He Tingzhou would not be controlled by others, but he didn't expect that his subordinate was also a fake. He was careless for a while, and almost got two transparent holes pierced. Thanks to his kung fu, a kite turned over to avoid it, even so, a hole was cut on the front of his chest. His internal injuries hadn't healed yet, but at this moment he was eager to mobilize his internal strength, and felt his blood surging, his red eyes stared at Xu Feng, and said, "So it's you!"
Xu Feng had already wiped off the Yi Rong ointment from his face, and said: "We are old friends, it's a pity that we couldn't kill you that day in Lin'an City."
"This is not Lin'an City, it's full of my subordinates outside, even if you two have wings, you won't be able to escape."
He Tingzhou said: "That's right, that's why I need to hold your amulet."
After finishing speaking, he pulled the sword flower, and joined hands with Xu Feng to unleash the sword.
He Tingzhou's martial arts already surpassed that masked man, and with Xu Feng's help from the side, he immediately competed with each other. Because the stone room is narrow, many moves cannot be used, so the masked man can survive a few moves.
The masked man knew he was invincible, so he raised his breath and let out a long roar. The whistling sound used internal strength, and it spread far away, making people's ears buzzing. ?As soon as this sound came out, the men in black under his hands must have known that something had happened. When the time came, they would flood in like a tide. No matter how skillful He Tingzhou was, they would be crushed to death.
Xu Feng thought of this, and the long sword in his hand made him even sicker.
But that masked man is not an idle person, it is easy to kill him, but difficult to capture him alive. Just as the fight was reaching its height, a "bang" was heard suddenly, and the stone room was shocked.
Xu Feng was startled, and quickly turned to look at He Tingzhou.
He Tingzhou had already put away his sword, held his hand and said: "It's okay, it should be Liu Yue and the others who came here."
"Hall Master Liu?"
He Tingzhou smiled and said: "You don't really think that I will be alone in danger, do you? I left marks along the way, thinking that Liu Yue would follow the clues to catch up, but couldn't find the mechanism to get in, so I had to use gunpowder to blow open the entrance gone."
Xu Feng said: "It really looks like Hall Master Liu's handwriting."
When they were talking, the masked man had retreated several steps, until he reached the corner of the wall.
He Tingzhou didn't pay attention to him, instead he pulled Xu Feng to sit down at the stone table, and said: "Since Liu Yue is here, that group of people in black is not a big deal, let's have a cup of tea and talk about it."
As he said that, he really poured a cup of tea slowly, raised his hand towards the masked man, and asked, "Your Excellency, do you think... is this a catch?"
The masked man was silent for a while, but then he rolled his eyes and laughed loudly.
The laughter penetrated so deeply that Xu Feng felt a little horrified when he heard it, and only heard him say in a hoarse voice: "Before my master left, he ordered me to save Palace Master He's life—no matter what method is used."
When he said the last word, he didn't know where the mechanism was activated. The night pearls hanging around dimmed, and the stone room fell into darkness in an instant.
Xu Feng was wary of the sneak attack by the masked man, he had already clenched the sword in his hand, but now he didn't panic, he hurriedly took out the fire pocket in his arms and lit it.
As soon as the fire was lit, only he and He Tingzhou were left in the stone room, and the masked man had long since disappeared.
Xu Feng immediately understood, looked around and said: "It seems that there is another secret passage in this stone room."
"Yeah." He Tingzhou got up and said, "Let's look for it quickly."
"Don't wait for Hall Master Liu to come over?"
Under the firelight, He Tingzhou's face was only paler than before. He blinked at Xu Feng and said, "I don't know if Liu Yue is here or not. The stone chamber was shaken, it was not easy."
Only then did Xu Feng suddenly realize: "It's you making tricks again?"
"I guess there should be another way out of this underground palace, so I moved Liu Yue out, deliberately defrauding him."
Although He Tingzhou said these words lightly, but Xu Feng looked at his face and guessed that he must have spent a lot of effort.
While the two were talking, they had already searched the stone room, but they didn't see any mechanism or secret passage. He Tingzhou turned his gaze, and finally landed on the stone bed.
Xu Feng felt bewildered, and remembered that there was also such a stone bed in the treasure cave at the back of the Palace of Bliss, and Brother Zhou was by his side at that time...
Now it is a matter of fact.
When he thought of this, his mouth felt astringent, and he didn't dare to think about it any more.
He Tingzhou didn't realize it, he just went to the bed to have a look, then turned over and lay down on the bed, felt it carefully with his fingers, and sure enough he touched a mechanism. He waved to Xu Feng and said, "Brother Feng, come up."
Xu Feng was startled, hesitated for a while, and then walked over slowly.
He Tingzhou was afraid that he would delay time, so he stretched out his hand and pulled him into his arms. Xu Feng threw himself on the bed, dropped the torch in his hand, and the surroundings became dark again.
The two breathed and heard each other, and they couldn't be closer.
But the stone bed was very narrow, so He Tingzhou had no choice but to hold Xu Feng's waist tightly, saying: "Be careful, don't fall off."
After finishing speaking, he bent his fingers and tapped lightly on the organ.
With a "click", the stone bed turned over abruptly, and both of them fell into the darkness.