Night, in the dead of night, is the best time for practitioners to practice meditation.

Zhang Lingyun was a practitioner from Thunder College. He naturally knew the importance of practice, but tonight he could not calm down and enter meditation practice.

The Painter is a powerful practitioner that few people in the entire Qixia Province can match. For a figure like the Painter, unless he is a great practitioner from the Criminal Division or the Imperial Court of Zhongzhou City, the entire Yunqin

Empires come and go at will. To him, killing the shopkeeper of a company is similar to killing a chicken.

But how did the painter collide with the Liu family's adviser?

Although the painter has been killed now, Zhang Lingyun knows very well that Su Zhongwen is the most valued adviser of the Liu family. If the Liu family continues to pursue the case, he wonders whether it will bring him a lot of trouble in the future.

After a long journey, they collapsed in an ant's nest. When I think of some big figures in the court, it is often because of an oversight or a very small matter that they are involved, and they are eventually forced to step down, leading to a very tragic ending. I also think of this

This incident was all caused by his desire to deal with Chen Feirong, and Zhang Lingyun became even more irritable and angry.

Suddenly, his ears moved slightly and he heard what seemed to be some slight sounds coming from the eaves outside.

"Snapped!"

His hand immediately fell on the green sharkskin scabbard beside him.

But after the slight sound came out, he didn't hear anything strange again.

"It's nothing. It should be the same wild cat as last time. This is an official residence. There are sergeants guarding it outside, and it's not far from the garrison camp. How could anyone dare to come. It's because I was so angry that I lost my composure."

Feeling nothing unusual, Zhang Lingyun's heart settled down, but then he sneered ferociously and murmured to himself: "Thinking of the painter, a repeat offender of the imperial court, reminded me... Chen Feirong, do you think I can't deal with you?

There's no need to kill him. I will arrange for a felon to infiltrate you, Da Dexiang, and then I will punish you for harboring a felon! A gentleman's revenge is never too late in ten years. One day, I still want you to be here.

I beg for mercy!"

"Crack!"

But at this moment, there was a sudden crack in the door of his room, and the door bolt was broken from the outside to the inside. A person followed the opened door and stepped into the room in one step.

"Who are you!"

Zhang Lingyun's movements were far beyond ordinary people's imagination. With a swish sound, he pulled out the knife.

This is a white long knife. The fine and exquisite hundred-forged steel pattern on the blade is clearly visible, and from the center of the blade to the handle, there are golden runes that look like twisted lightning.

As soon as the knife was pulled out, the light of the knife was dazzling, and it seemed like lightning flashed in the dark room.

But just as he drew the sword, he swallowed the second half of the stern sentence.

Because this person just stepped into the door with one step, and before he made any move, an extremely powerful and manic aura filled the entire room.

This is the aura of a mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood that can only be possessed by those who have experienced countless life-and-death fights and strangulation by armies. Moreover, Zhang Lingyun can be sure that the other party's cultivation level is far above his own, and only those who have reached the rank of national scholar can

, the soul power spreads out and compresses the air, which creates such a terrifying momentum.

Zhang Lingyun knew that facing such a cultivator whose cultivation and fighting skills far exceeded his own, if he instantly made things irreversible and started a life-and-death fight, he would probably have been killed by this practitioner before the guards outside rushed in.

The practitioner kills.

The practitioner who burst in through the door, and in Zhang Lingyun's eyes at this moment, with his face covered with a piece of black cloth, was naturally Lin Xi.

Seeing Zhang Lingyun's stern voice stop suddenly, he said coldly: "I originally just wanted to simply kill you... But it's a pity that you shouldn't have said such a sentence just now, and I shouldn't have heard it, so

I have changed my mind now."

While making a cold sound, Lin Xi did not stop at all, and continued to move forward. A strong wind seemed to blow suddenly in the whole room, blowing Lin Xi like a fallen leaf in the wind, and she was in front of Zhang Lingyun in an instant.

"You are only a national scholar. Even if you can kill me, how can you escape!"

As soon as he heard Lin Xi's first words, Zhang Lingyun could already sense Lin Xi's murderous intent and knew that there was no room for maneuver in the matter.

At this moment, the runes on the long knife in Zhang Lingyun's hand were all filled with golden lightning.

But the lightning only flashed for a very short moment. It turned out that in this very short moment, Zhang Lingyun gathered all the soul power in his body and wanted to slash out at Lin Xi, but this was actually just a feint. He directly used the sword in his hand

The long sword of the soul soldier was thrown violently towards Lin Xi. At the same time, his body shrank and rolled across the ground very fast, trying to escape from the room.

"How can it be!"

But at this moment, Zhang Lingyun's mind was filled with just such a thought.

In the corner of his eye, he saw a foot trample down violently. Before he could make any unnecessary movements, it landed heavily on him with great force.

There was a "click" sound.

Half of Zhang Lingyun's spine was directly trampled to pieces!

With a sound of "duh", the long knife, which had lost all its soul, passed by Lin Xi and was nailed to the wall next to the door.

At this moment, Zhang Lingyun simply couldn't understand why the other party seemed to be fully aware of his next move at the moment of the fight, but he understood that the other party just met him and severely injured him with a simple step.

And he also knows that for practitioners, the spine is a "big dragon" in the human body. The complete fragmentation of this most important bone is not only equivalent to destroying the practitioner's combat power, but also completely destroying it.

With the practitioner's mobility, even if he could survive, he would probably only be able to spend the rest of his life in paralysis.

The opponent's kick was clearly capable of killing him directly, but it only completely crushed half of his spine, leaving him paralyzed in a way that was worse than death.

"ah!"

So at this moment, Zhang Lingyun, who understood this, screamed in an unprecedented way and screamed crazily.

However, not only intentionally or unintentionally, Lin Xi's second foot also fell.

This foot didn't seem to be very powerful, but it just stepped on his lower body.

"Crack!"

In Zhang Lingyun's ears, he seemed to hear a sound like breaking an egg, and then his body froze. In the next breath, he fainted due to excessive fear and pain.

Lin Xi didn't even look at him, nor did she pause at all. She turned around and walked out of the room.

Because of the noise of his fight with Zhang Lingyun, and because of Zhang Lingyun's shrill scream before he passed out, the entire official residence was shocked.

Candles lit up in the room, and the guard outside sounded a golden warning sound.

Soon, several teams rushed over and blocked and searched the streets and alleys at the same time.

But Lin Xi just walked leisurely in the darkness, as if everything had nothing to do with him, leisurely walking through the courtyards and alleys.

He seemed to have become a transparent person.

Several times, as soon as he passed by, the searching sergeant had already arrived. Several times, as soon as the searching sergeant left, he appeared and passed by.

He just walked away from the official residence slowly and took off the black cloth covering his face.

"Why haven't I seen you...who are you?"

In a brightly lit street, a man threw himself in front of Lin Xi, chuckled, said this to Lin Xi, and then rolled at Lin Xi's feet.

Several people immediately ran out of the shops facing the street, helped the man who was rolling on the ground and seemed about to fall asleep back, and expressed their apologies to Lin Xi from time to time.

This is a common drunkard.

Under the system agreed upon by the late emperor and Dean Zhang, the folk customs of Yunqin were open and there was no curfew. There was no restriction on carrying weapons or drinking heavily at night.

Faced with such an ordinary drunk who was so drunk with his relatives and friends that he almost didn't even recognize him, Lin Xi certainly had no need to answer his question or who he was.

However, when the drunk man was being helped away, Lin Xi smiled slightly and replied softly in a voice that only she could hear: "I am a priest."

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In the military camp shrouded in darkness, Li Anting coughed deeply and kept rubbing his temples with his hands.

In the process of encircling and suppressing the painter, his deputy general Mo Qingfeng, who also demonstrated his strong ability to lead the army, and several military commanders were also sitting on the seat below him.

There is no question about the identity of "Du Siguo", the pseudonym of Zhantai Qiantang, but there is evidence that this person should be a small businessman from Qiantang Province, but he went to Zhongzhou City, and then continued all the way to Qingyuan City. His cultivation

The fact that his behavior is inconsistent with his identity is a big problem. For Li Anting and others, the only direct conclusion is that the person who killed the painter was an enemy cultivator who replaced Du Siguo's identity.

"Sir, do you want the people from the Criminal Division to start the execution?"

Mo Qingfeng looked at Li Anting, who was in very poor physical and mental condition, and couldn't help but ask.

Li Anting naturally knew that at this moment, when this enemy cultivator insisted that he was Du Siguo, the most common method and procedure would be to use torture to extract a confession.

However, after a moment of silence and a slow breath, Li Anting shook his head and said, "Forget it."

"never mind?"

Mo Qingfeng and several generals were stunned and looked at each other, unable to understand what the word Li Anting meant.

"I just said that this person's cultivation level is too high and his involvement may be very high. He will be escorted to the provincial capital tomorrow." Li Anting glanced at his subordinates and sighed: "Of course it's impossible to let him go... But for the three of them, he

Even if Yunqin Child takes action, even if he needs to be tortured, I don't want to be tortured here and let me watch him being tortured."

Mo Qingfeng and several generals said no more, just nodded and said: "I obey."
Chapter completed!