Li Huo's cultivation was taught by his elder brother Li Nan himself. This person has a very strong comprehension, coupled with the teaching of a ninth-rank powerhouse with all his strength, it is not slow to enter the realm. Among Su Buwei's dark guards, his cultivation level can be considered above the middle level. The people under him are all carefully selected by him, and they are usually in the same faction as him.
As long as it is a power group, there will be factional disputes among them. There cannot be any truly united power group in this world. As long as people have ideas, it is impossible for everyone to be intimate. There are also many factions among the dark guards, and even the people who are recruited from the rivers and lakes are not of one mind.
Li Nan is one of the leaders of the Jianghu faction among the dark guards, but after he died in battle, his subordinates also began to fall apart.
Li Huo relied on his elder brother's Yu Wei and there were some people gathered around him, but they were not very powerful among the dark guards. He didn't expect that Su Buwei would give him the job of monitoring Fang Jie, so he was a little flattered. He regards this matter as a step in his promotion, and naturally spares no effort.
Although the cultivation bases of Chen Hun and Chen Ha are astonishing, relatively speaking, it is not absolutely impossible to get rid of them. As for monitoring Fang Jie, for the dark guards, lurking is already a good game.
But what Lihuo didn't expect was that Yan Kuanghui discovered his plot at a critical moment.
He was worried that if Yan Kuang told Fang Jie about this, it would be difficult to make another move. After all, there is more than one master in Fang Jie's side, Shen Qingfan. He knew that the Ouchi Guards Office had also sent someone to spy on Fang Jie, and of course he also knew that Zhuo Buyi who came had a close relationship with Fang Jie in private.
So, tonight, he plans to send someone to sneak aboard the boat and poison the water in Chen Hun and Chen Ha's room.
At this moment, the threat came.
But don't know where it came from.
He didn't dare to move because he didn't know where the danger was. At this moment, it was as if all the flaws in his body were in the eyes of others. As long as he moves casually, the killing move that is waiting for an opportunity will arrive in an instant. This was the first time Li Huo faced such a situation, so fear quickly spread in his heart.
Not only him, everyone standing behind him seemed to be forced by an invisible knife.
On the big ship.
Mu Xiaoyao, who was standing next to Fang Jie watching the night of the river, suddenly changed her expression slightly, and then looked towards the far north bank, as if something caught her attention in the deep darkness.
Fang Jie looked at her and asked softly, "What's wrong?"
Mu Xiaoyao was silent for a while and said: "Someone should be watching our boat in the bushes over there. I can feel eight people, two with eight-level cultivation, and six with seven-level cultivation. I discovered these people from the very beginning. But now it seems that some masters have come here, I can't feel it, what is certain is that the eight people seem to be in a crisis, and they are surrounded by the vitality of heaven and earth that is operating regularly."
"Because these people have average cultivation, so I didn't care at first."
Mu Xiaoyao said: "But now... it seems that a difficult person is coming. I can't feel the existence of this person, so I can't predict whether it is one person or several people. But since I can't perceive it, the person's cultivation base …”
"I gonna go see."
Shen Qingfan frowned slightly.
Fang Jie shook his head: "You don't have to look. People don't want to show up. There are reasons for not wanting to show up. As for the master that Xiao Yao mentioned that she can't perceive, it may not be aimed at us. Let's wait and see... This trip to the Southwest It might be interesting to go there.”
"Go and call Chen Heng and Chen Ha."
Fang Jie smiled and said, "As long as we're all together, how many people can come on board?"
north shore.
among the trees.
Li Huo's clothes were already drenched with sweat, he stood motionless like this for more than five minutes, the threat that made him dread was still swimming around them. He gradually understood that it should be the great practitioners who changed the vitality of the world around them. As long as they moved around at will, the internal energy mixed in the vitality of the world would attack like an arrow that leaves the string. This method is too powerful, Li Huo knows that he is definitely not an opponent.
"What does senior mean?"
When the defense line in his heart was really unbearable, he finally couldn't help asking in a low voice. As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he realized that his voice had become hoarse.
"roll."
Someone said a word secretly.
"If I find out that you are still following this big boat tomorrow morning, I will kill you all and throw you into the river to feed the fish."
The voice of this person was very erratic, and it was impossible to determine the direction at all. But Li Huo really felt that this person was nearby, not far from them. Perhaps because of fear, Li Huo felt that the surrounding night was getting darker and darker. It was so dark that he felt that his surroundings were full of dangers, and there were countless lonely souls and wild ghosts wandering back and forth.
"We are people from the imperial court!"
Li Huo lowered his voice and said: "May I ask who the senior is. If we did not mean to offend, please forgive me, but at this time, I have official business, so please make it easier for the senior."
"You want to scare me with the word court?"
The man in the dark sighed, very disdainful.
"You don't even know what I look like. Even if you can escape, do you know who ruined your business? You are too idiotic to say that the court wants to scare people. What's more, since I have already taken action, I naturally didn't put you in my place." In the eyes. Killing eight cats and dogs, you are dead, who knows who killed you? The court... Bah!"
"I'll count to three, don't blame me for being ruthless if I don't leave."
Li Huo gritted his teeth, was silent for a while and ordered: "Let's go!"
He clasped his fists towards the darkness: "Thank you for your mercy today, senior, but we will..."
"roll!"
Before he finished speaking, he was cut off by the person in the dark, who seemed to be angry: "Say one more word, and I will kill someone."
Stuffed from the fire, he swallowed back the words that followed.
"go back!"
He stepped a little and floated backwards. The people behind him seemed to be pardoned, and followed closely behind him lest they run too slowly. Not long after they disappeared, a slender figure appeared where they were standing just now.
"This errand... is tiring."
The man sighed, and looked far away in the direction where Fang Jie's big boat was staying.
This person turned out to be Zhuo Buyi, he turned and left after he was far away from Huo and those people. It is not easy to suppress eight people with good cultivation in an instant with his cultivation base. In less than ten minutes before and after, drawing the ground as a prison consumes a lot of internal energy.
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Li Huo spat out annoyed, and after the fear in his heart gradually subsided, what was left was endless anger.
"This person might be someone close to Fang Jie. He knew we were sent by His Majesty, so he just threatened to dare not make a move... We shouldn't have retreated at that time. We should try it out before we speak!"
Lu Minglan said as he walked: "If he is really someone from the Jianghu, there is no reason to stop us. Even if he is a ninth-rank powerhouse, you have to know that we have two eighth-rank and six seventh-rank. Is it really that easy to deal with?"
"Shut up!"
Li Huo glared at him and said, "This matter is full of weirdness. Even if he is someone close to Fang Jie, we can't act rashly. Since my father-in-law confessed to doing this matter in secret, I just don't want to offend Fang Jie. You all Knowing that Fang Jie is now a celebrity in front of His Majesty, the origin of this person is a bit mysterious, and there are no guards around him that only we know. Since this person speaks out to dissuade him instead of taking action directly, he will definitely not make a killing move unless he has to. What's the use of forcing him to make a move at this time?"
He said coldly: "Don't forget why we are here! Once we fight, the people on board will be alarmed immediately. At that time, it will be equivalent to forcing Fang Xie and them to come over. How can we monitor his trip to the southwest? The public has been waiting, Chen Hmph Chen Ha's matter of those two idiots is a trivial matter, but monitoring Fang Jie's every move in the southwest is a major matter! This is an errand that His Majesty personally entrusted, don't you guys know the importance? Idiots will only go because of small things and big things Do!"
"I see… "
Lu Minglan nodded: "It's just that I feel aggrieved! Since we joined the dark guards, when have we ever experienced such uselessness!"
"A small leak will sink a great ship."
Li Huo said: "If there is really no chance to get rid of Chen Hun and Chen Ha, father-in-law may not blame us. Killing these two people may be just a means for father-in-law to test our abilities. I have been thinking... If His Majesty really cannot tolerate these two people Why send someone to get rid of it secretly? It should be something that the father-in-law considered for His Majesty, so we let us do it secretly. If it is His Majesty's will, Fang Jie can just do it directly. In that case, how dare Fang Jie resist? Disrespect?"
"Makes sense."
A tall man who followed him said, "I've been thinking too, who does His Majesty want to get rid of, does it take so much trouble?"
"Li Sanxing, Gao Xiao... You two will contact the person we sent out in advance tomorrow morning. See if you can find a chance to do something when Fang Xie and the others change ships. If there is no chance, we will give up."
Li Huo pondered for a while and rubbed his wrinkled temples: "Let's do this today. Arrange people to watch the night and let others sleep. Don't get so close to the big ship tomorrow morning. Let's go to the front and follow sooner or later. be noticed."
Just when he said this, his face suddenly changed.
He stopped abruptly, and instantly pulled out the long sword in his hand. Among these people, his cultivation base is the highest. Although Lu Minglan is also an eighth-rank cultivation base, there is still some gap with him. So after he reacted, the others subconsciously stopped. They looked towards Lihuo, and Lihuo's sight stayed straight ahead.
Beside the boat they had hired, stood a man in a moon-white robe. The style of the robe looks very strange, and through the moonlight reflected by the river, one can vaguely see that the robe is very wide. And the most eye-catching thing is not the man's robe, but his head.
This man is bald.
Li Huo's pupils shrank suddenly, and then he let out a low exclamation.
"People from the Buddhist sect!"
Hearing these four words, the others immediately spread out and drew out their weapons. At this time, they all saw the white-robed monk standing beside the boat.
Under the faint moonlight, the monk stood there quietly.
"Ming Wang is merciful... I finally waited for some of you to come back."
The man put his hands together and bowed slightly, straightened up and said in a gentle tone: "I found this boat before, and asked the owner and his wife to give me a ride. But they said that this boat has already been chartered by someone, so they can't take me. So I can only wait here, may I ask if you can show kindness and kindness and let me board the boat?"
His moon-white monk robe fluttered slightly in the night wind, looking like he was out of the world.
His tone was gentle and calm, without the slightest bit of hostility.
"Didn't the Sui people also say that it is convenient for others to be convenient for themselves?"
The white-robed monk looked at Li Huo and said sincerely: "Can you please give me some convenience?"