Mo Ziye is gone!
After burying her senior brother, Mo Ziye said goodbye to Yan Liqiang and left the grove alone. She said that she was going to meet up with a few fellow disciples from the Mingwang Sect and then return to the sect together.
She and her dead senior brother were just one of the groups. There were eight other disciples of the Mingwang Sect who had the same mission as them in this wilderness. The other eight people formed three groups. Just like hunters, they were either lurking or searching on the ground over a thousand kilometers in radius.
After the priest of the Flame God Cult was killed, Mo Ziye and his team had completed their mission this time. They now needed to return to the sect and report all the details of the operation to the sect's elders.
Yan Liqiang also left. He put Huangmao on his shoulder again, collected more than ten arrows, and returned to Huijiaji along the same road he came last night.
Unlike last night when he hurried here, Yan Liqiang was not in a hurry on the way back, because he knew that Sun Bingchen and his party would have to stay in Huijiaji today. The bodies of the dead guards needed to be dealt with, the people Sun Bingchen sent to ask Ganzhou for help had not returned yet, and the Black Wind Bandits were still eyeing them covetously. These factors determined that Sun Bingchen would have to stay in Huijiaji for at least another day.
Since time was not urgent, Yan Liqiang walked slowly on the way back. He had enough time to think while walking and figure out the matter clearly.
Yan Liqiang didn't understand what kind of tacit understanding and agreement there was between Sun Bingchen and Mingwangzong, but one thing was very obvious, if Mo Ziye had not lied to him, then when leaving Ganzhou, Sun Bingchen already knew clearly that there were Black Wind Bandits and a priest from the Flame God Cult of the Shatu Alliance who were trying to kill them.
This is a dangerous game. While Sun Bingchen is using himself and his group as bait to attract the firepower of the Black Wind Bandits, Ming Wangzong and his group are searching for the priest from the Flame God Cult of the Shatu Alliance who is behind the Black Wind Bandits.
Mo Ziye said that the reason they wanted to find the priest of the Flame God Cult was to "confirm some news."
The news that could make Sun Bingchen and Ye Tiancheng act as bait to confirm something must be very important, but Yan Liqiang could know what news they wanted to confirm just by a simple guess
Judging from Ali Gujin's position in the Black Wind Pirates, the Black Wind Pirates have a close relationship with the Seven Shatu Tribes. It is possible that the entire Black Wind Pirates are basically composed of people from the Seven Shatu Tribes, while the Cult of the God of Flame is the ruling force in the Shatu Alliance. In the past, due to historical reasons, the Seven Shatu Tribes and the Shatu Alliance have always been in a hostile relationship. This is also the reason why the Han Empire took in and sheltered the Seven Shatu Tribes. But now, a priest of the Cult of the God of Flame within the Shatu Alliance has begun to dominate the actions of the Black Wind Pirates from the Seven Shatu Tribes, wanting to kill a person who can make some big shots in the Imperial Capital unhappy after being sent to the Imperial Capital. What does this indicate
The Shatu Alliance and the Seven Shatu Tribes began to merge, and they also colluded with bigwigs in the capital of the Han Empire. Just thinking about the connections behind this is enough to make people shudder. Perhaps this kind of news and information is exactly what many people behind Sun Bingchen and Mo Ziye want to confirm.
Yan Liqiang knew that a person like Sun Bingchen, who could sit in this position today among millions of people, was not simple. Political struggles were cruel, and it was inevitable to use some means and schemes. However, what Yan Liqiang could not let go of was that Sun Bingchen rushed in with his men when he knew that there would be danger ahead. If not, those guards yesterday might not have sacrificed and died in vain.
Thinking about Sun Bingchen's reminder to me yesterday, it seems now that Sun Bingchen at that time already knew clearly what he was going to face, so he said those words to me.
Sun Bingchen showed enough kindness and care to himself, but to those ordinary guards, Sun Bingchen was almost cold-blooded and ruthless.
Yan Liqiang returned to Huijiaji with mixed feelings.
When he arrived at Huijiaji, it was already noon and the sun was shining brightly. The Black Wind Bandits who had wreaked havoc outside Huijiaji last night were nowhere to be seen. The gate of Huijiaji was closed and there were suddenly many more people patrolling on the earth wall than yesterday.
Before Yan Liqiang reached the earthen wall of Huijiaji, which was still thousands of meters away from the wall, the gate of Huijiaji opened. Yan Liqiang saw Liang Yiji and several guards riding on rhinoceros horses and rushing towards him quickly.
Yan Liqiang can see the people of Tuqiang Mountain, and the people of Tuqiang Mountain can naturally see him as well.
In just a moment, several rhinoceros horses rushed out from Huijiaji and arrived in front of Yan Liqiang.
"Liqiang..." Liang Yijie was even more excited than usual when he saw Yan Liqiang. When the galloping Rhino Dragon Horse was still more than ten meters away from Yang Liqian, Liang Yijie stopped the Rhino Dragon Horse, jumped off the horse, walked quickly to Yan Liqiang, and grabbed Yan Liqiang's arm tightly with both hands. He looked Yan Liqiang from head to toe, his face full of excitement, and his words were overflowing, "Are you okay?"
Yan Liqiang was now dressed in rags and covered in wounds, looking like a soldier returning from the battlefield. Even the shoes on his feet were torn, revealing two rows of toes. "Brother Liang, it's okay!"
Yan Liqiang smiled. Apart from feeling a little weak and not having fully recovered, and some minor injuries, Yan Liqiang didn't think there was anything wrong with him.
"What happened last night..."
Yan Liqiang licked his dry lips and said, "Brother Liang, let's go back and talk. I'm starving..."
"Okay, let's go back and talk about it. Get on the horse..." Liang Yiji waved his hand, and a guard brought a rhinoceros horse over.
Yan Liqiang did not refuse. He first put Huangmao on the saddle, then got on the horse himself. Then he rode the rhinoceros horse and returned to Huijiaji with Liang Yiji and several guards.
From the expressions on Liang Yiji and the guards' faces, Yan Liqiang knew that they probably already knew what he had done last night - they might not have seen him when he sneaked out last night, but they saw Ali Gujin being shot dead by an arrow, and then the Black Wind Bandits retreating in chaos. As long as they thought about it, and then realized that they couldn't find him, they would probably guess that it was him who did it.
When he arrived at the gate of Huijiaji, Yan Liqiang found that many guards around Sun Bingchen were standing on both sides of the gate. They were all silent, but they all looked at him riding on the horse with admiration.
The old man Lu Chang from Huijiaji, and a group of fierce-looking men from Huijiaji were also standing on both sides of the road, staring at him with wide eyes and surprise.
At this time, Yan Liqiang really felt like a lone hero returning triumphantly.
As soon as the rhino horse under his crotch entered Huijia Market and slowed down a bit, an active guard standing at the city gate came over, holding the reins of the rhino horse and walking in front to lead the way for Yan Liqiang...
Yan Liqiang had never imagined such treatment before.
Just after walking a short distance, Yan Liqiang did not look back, but heard the exclamations of a group of men in Huijiaji.
"I didn't expect that there was such a hero around your Lord Sun. With just one man and one bow, he scared the shit out of those hundreds of Black Wind Bandits..."
(End of this chapter)