At this time, snowflakes were still floating in the sky, and the cold wind was blowing. The low-hanging leaden clouds covered the sky like an airtight curtain, and no sunlight could penetrate. The only bright place in the whole Huizhou city at this time was the blazing fire on the top of the city wall in the distance. 50 meters away from the city wall, the whole city at night had only a few scattered lights or lanterns hanging high in front of the doors of wealthy families to let out a little light in the dark...
Yan Liqiang was speeding, stepping on the eaves and tiles with his feet. With a light tap, he leaped on the roof like a ghost, without any sound of wind. Even though there was a layer of snow half a palm thick on the eaves and tiles where he stepped, Yan Liqiang's footprints were only the size of a melon seed, so faint that there was almost no trace. This kind of lightness skill was already the legendary skill of walking on snow without leaving any trace, which was enough to make many people stunned.
In comparison, the two people who were stared at by Yan Liqiang, although they were also masters and their lightness skills were not weak, they were more than one level lower than Yan Liqiang. Those two people did not even notice Yan Liqiang following behind them.
The darkness before his eyes was darkness for others, and there was also a visibility problem, but for Yan Liqiang's eyes, if he wanted, there was almost no difference between night and day. This darkness was the best cover.
Houses and roofs flew by under Yan Liqiang's feet, and streets and alleys were left behind. The two people running in front of Yan Liqiang seemed to be very familiar with Huizhou City. Yan Liqiang followed them, running on the roofs, and then quickly passing through those secluded alleys. Occasionally, he would pass through the walls of the back gardens of one or two wealthy families, and then jump out again. In less than 20 minutes, after successfully avoiding three teams of soldiers patrolling the city, Yan Liqiang had followed the two people and arrived near the City God Temple in Yuhua Pavilion on the east side of Huizhou City...
Yuhua Pavilion is a pavilion built on a small hill to the east of Huizhou City. The City God Temple is just behind the Yuhua Pavilion.
The hill was full of pine trees, with piles of graves in the middle of the trees, and weeds growing in the middle. Even in the winter, the pine trees were covered with strings of snow and fog. Near the Yuhua Pavilion was a forest of steles, which was considered a scene in Huizhou City. The forest of steles was like a ghost in the dark night, with layers of shadows. In the howling snow and wind, against the backdrop of the lonely graves, it inexplicably brought a bit of cold and evil spirit. In this place, only in broad daylight would the people in the city come to the City God Temple to worship and burn incense. At night, there were basically no people here...
When Yan Liqiang followed the two men here, he saw from afar that in the darkness, a group of strange and swift black figures had sneaked into the pine forest on the hill where Yuhua Pavilion was located, and were rapidly approaching Yuhua Pavilion and the City God Temple behind it. The black figures that rushed into the pine forest were all wearing night clothes, with the same green-faced and fanged ghost masks on their faces. They were highly organized, and occasionally, the cold light of weapons could be seen flashing through the pine forest. At first glance, there were at least hundreds of these people.
Seeing these black-clad men wearing various ghost masks, Yan Liqiang was certain that these people were the subordinates of the Ghost King of the White Lotus Sect. The Ghost King's subordinates in the White Lotus Sect were known as the Night Walk Ghost Army. They specialized in moving at night and wore terrifying masks. They had committed many large-scale crimes of exterminating entire families in several southern states of the Han Empire. Their methods were brutal and cruel, and they used every possible means to terrify many people. They were a terrifying weapon in the hands of the White Lotus Sect. There were even rumors that the Night Walk Ghost Army under the Ghost King had the ability to be invulnerable to swords and guns, and were completely unkillable...
Of course, Yan Liqiang has always scoffed at such rumors. Rumors such as being invulnerable to swords and guns and being completely unkillable are just testing people's IQ. Let alone these night-walking ghost soldiers, if the ghost king himself has such abilities, how can anyone else take the throne of the emperor of the Han Empire? Based on Yan Liqiang's experience in his previous life, the so-called invulnerability to swords and guns is either complete nonsense, or the night-walking ghost soldiers have taken some special drugs that greatly improve people's tolerance for pain, or they are in a state of excitement or hallucination during the battle.
In addition to those night-walking ghost soldiers, there were also several masters with superb martial arts skills who also wore ghost masks on their faces. They were running through the forest by stepping on the trunks and branches of the pine trees without touching the ground.
The two people who rushed in front of Yan Liqiang rushed into the pine forest without hesitation when they arrived here. After joining up with the Night Ghost Army, they rushed towards the City God Temple on the hill.
Yan Liqiang's mind raced at lightning speed, and he did not rashly rush to the front, but deliberately fell behind and followed those night-walking ghost soldiers, rushing up the mountain together...
Yan Liqiang, who came here, was extremely curious about the identity of the person hiding in the City God Temple. He really couldn't figure out who in Huizhou City was worthy of the White Lotus Sect making such a big fuss, even sending out the Night Ghost Army that had sneaked into Huizhou City.
Yan Liqiang instinctively rejected and was hostile to the White Lotus Sect, which pretended to be mysterious and ambitious and used ordinary people as cannon fodder. He opposed what the enemy supported and supported what the enemy opposed. When he saw that the people with crossbows in the Night Walkers did not rush to the front after entering the pine forest, but found a place to hide, climbed up a tree and drew their bows, Yan Liqiang sneered in his heart. When the Night Walkers in front of him just left, his figure, like a shadow, silently leaped to the tree closest to him where the crossbowmen of the Night Walkers were hiding. While the Night Walkers were still staring at the distance, Yan Liqiang's long sword had silently pierced into the heart of the Night Walkers. The true energy on the sword shook and crushed the heart of the Night Walkers...
An ordinary person, even a super expert, would die immediately if he encountered such an injury. There was no chance of luck. But what surprised Yan Liqiang was that when his long sword crushed the heart of the first night-walking ghost soldier, the body of the night-walking ghost soldier hiding in the bushes suddenly froze, and he even turned his head and looked at Yan Liqiang, and turned a green-faced and fang-covered mask to Yan Liqiang, his Adam's apple trembling, as if he wanted to scream...
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Yan Liqiang didn't even think twice and directly slapped the night ghost soldier on the head. The gentle force in his hand shook the night ghost soldier's brain into a pile of paste.
There was no shouting, no sound, the night-walking ghost army was completely motionless...
Yan Liqiang quietly wiped a cold sweat. If that night-walking ghost soldier could still move and scream after his brain and central nervous system were completely destroyed, Yan Liqiang would really suspect that he had seen a ghost. Fortunately, everything had not completely exceeded Yan Liqiang's cognitive system. It was just that the moment when the night-walking ghost soldier turned his head was a little scary. If it was an ordinary person, if he encountered such an opponent, his legs would probably be scared to death and he would not be able to continue fighting...
Yan Liqiang carefully placed the corpse of the Night Walk Ghost Soldier on a tree branch, and at the same time, he pulled off the mask on the Night Walk Ghost Soldier's face. The face behind the mask looked like an ordinary person, even a little dull, but there was a faint black line from the philtrum to the center of the eyebrows, especially the center of the eyebrows, which was shiny black, which was very consistent with the characteristics of poisoning.
As expected, these ghost soldiers wearing these ghost masks on their faces were just to cover up the fact that they were controlled by poison. They didn't want people to see that the poison that controlled them seemed to allow their bodies to have some mobility before brain death. This was unusual and had some scary value...
Yan Liqiang had just dealt with a night-walking ghost army, but over there, blood and fighting had already begun without any warning...
Just when a Night Walker Ghost Army expert had just leaped over the stele forest next to Yuhua Pavilion, a giant axe suddenly flew out from the stele forest and slashed across the body of the Night Walker Ghost Army expert. With a scream, the axe directly split the Night Walker Ghost Army expert's body in half and scattered from the air...
(End of this chapter)