Canyon Peak City.
It was noon again, and the sun was shining brightly. However, it was different from the past. Today, there was a gust of wind blowing under the warm sun. It was cold and gloomy, carrying with it a damp and cold aura of the earth. It was like the shadows of ghosts drifting around.
This strange wind had been blowing for three days. It was neither early nor late, neither day nor night. The mountain people who lived near the original Zhenfeng College felt it the most vividly. They could even hear the mournful wail of the wind from time to time.
As for the origin of the wind, everyone knew. The lone mountain peak that the Zhai Feng Academy was leaning on, had somehow been split into two halves from top to bottom. The mountain wind of the Canyon Peak Mountain Range blew into the city through the crack, bringing with it the fresh aura of the earth.
What happened?
Some people knew, while others didn't know. But those who knew dared not say much, and those who didn't know dared not ask.
Although Zhenfeng College was small, it was one of the only two colleges in the Canyon Peak District. For ordinary people, it was always high and mighty. The college was a place for cultivators, and once one became a cultivator, one would no longer be an ordinary person. Therefore, when one entered the college, he or she would often step into another world, a world that ordinary people could never reach.
Such a place had actually been razed to the ground in a single night. Was there even a need to say how big of a thing had happened?
On the second day, the news finally spread. It was said that the governor of Canyon Peak City was dead, and the murderer was actually the dean of Zhenfeng College, Guo Youdao.
Who would have thought that Zhenfeng College would commit such a crime? Everyone immediately distanced themselves from the ruins. As for those who had friendly relations with the Zhai Feng Academy, their moods were all in turmoil.
Fortunately, the governor's office didn't seem to want to pursue the matter. It was said that the original students of Zhenfeng College had already returned to their homes. The original teachers had also settled down, except for three people.
At the main entrance of the ruined Zhenfeng College, there was still half a stone pillar left. At this moment, there were three people chained to the stone pillar like dogs, half-dead. Here, enduring the wind and the sun.
They had been tied up here for three days. At first, there were people who came over to watch and point fingers at them. However, when they found out that Zhenfeng College was involved in the death of Wei Zhong, the governor of the city, they immediately left. Since then, no one had come back. Only the City Lord's Mansion would send someone over at a quarter past noon to give the three of them a few steamed buns and scoop up half a basin of water to quench their thirst.
On this day, another secret agent from the City Lord's Mansion came over. Three steamed buns and half a basin of water were casually placed in front of the three.
"Kill me …" One of the three leaned against the stone pillar and said weakly. The people of the Mo family did not have a physical body. Even though they were cultivators, their bodies were no different from ordinary people. This kind of three days of torture had already made Mo Sen powerless.
"You can't treat me like this. I'm Li Xin, the eldest son of Inspector Li Yuan. I really have nothing to do with anyone. There must be some misunderstanding. I want to see my father! " The other person seemed to have found an opportunity and pounced towards the spy like a madman.
"Scram!" The spy raised his leg and sent Li Xin flying with a kick.
"When you die, naturally your father will come and collect your corpse." The spy said viciously. This kick was very forceful. Li Xin, who had been kicked to the side, curled up on the ground and couldn't get up for a while.
The remaining person had been lying on the ground the entire time. At this time, he didn't stand up either. He just silently crawled towards them. His legs were dragging behind him and didn't move. It was obvious that they had been broken. He crawled to the basin and drank some water. Then he picked up a steamed bun and was about to crawl back. Unexpectedly, a foot came down from the sky and landed on his wrist.
"You dog, you're pretty good! But isn't breaking your legs too easy for you? Lord Leopard told me to take care of you! "As the words fell, the foot continued to exert force. With a crack, the wrist at the bottom of the foot was broken. The steamed bun fell powerlessly to the ground. But Guo Ting only furrowed his brow and didn't make a sound.
"You dog, you don't even know how to bark!" The spy was obviously very dissatisfied with Guo Ting's reaction. He kicked Guo Ting away and then left while cursing.
Only the three of them were left in the ruins of Zhenfeng College.
Mo Sen was still leaning against the stone pillar, looking at Guo Ting beside him.
"Hey." He suddenly called out. "Is the dean really that powerful? Can he kill Wei Zhong? "Mo Sen suddenly said. He acted as if he didn't see the pain that Guo Ting had just suffered. Because he knew that Wei Zhong was unusually tolerant of such pain. They had been tied up together here for three days. Wei Zhong's legs were also broken every day. Today was the third day, and he had lost a wrist. What about tomorrow? This kind of torture would continue to torment him.
Sure enough, Guo Ting didn't care about his broken wrist. When he heard Mo Sen talking to him, he immediately turned around.
"One hand is enough," he answered.
"Really!" Mo Sen was surprised. He really didn't know that Guo Youdao was so mysterious. "Could he be that person?"
No one could figure out whether the robber at the Wind Gathering Field was real or fake. At this moment, Mo Sen was suspecting that the robber was Guo Youdao.
But this question made Guo Ting silent.
"Are you waiting for him to save you?" Mo Sen didn't continue asking, but changed the question. Everyone knew Guo Ting's skills. Obviously, he was not an ordinary person.
"If he's still alive," Guo Ting said.
"Sigh, that nephew of mine, I don't know where he died," Mo Sen said. Morin was his nephew, and there was no need to hide it now.
"You two, one is Guo Youdao's attendant, and the other is Morin's uncle. What about me? I have nothing to do with these people!! " Li Xin shouted as he struggled to get up. He had some strength, and his limbs weren't broken like Guo Ting's, so he was in good spirits.
"That's right … you have nothing to do with it. Then why?" Mo Sen said weakly.
"I'll kill the two of you right now to prove it to them!" Li Xin's eyes suddenly revealed an ominous glint as he suddenly thought of this idea.
"That's a way." Mo Sen nodded. He really wanted to die. He didn't know what situation Morin was in, or if he was planning to save him. He only knew that the people from the City Lord's Mansion had bound the three of them here for some evil trap. He didn't want anyone to take the risk for him. He wanted to die, but he couldn't bring himself to do it, so he hesitated for a long time. If someone was willing to do it for him, he was more than happy.
"Okay, I see that you don't want to live either, so I'll fulfill your wish!" Li Xin's eyes weren't resolute, but thinking of the suffering he had suffered in the past three days, and looking at Guo Ting's miserable state. Finally, he made up his mind.
"Alright, then go and die!" Li Xin grabbed Mo Sen's head and was about to smash it against the stone pillar with his Fifth Heaven's Soul of Strength. With his 5th stratum strength, it was enough to make Mo Sen's head explode.
"Grandpa Zhan, look, Xin 'er is really innocent!!" In a small building two hundred meters away, there was a window on the second floor that directly faced the main entrance of Zhenfeng College. For cultivators with a bit of a cultivation in strength, it was enough for them to clearly see what was happening on the stone pillar. Wei Zhan was standing by the window, watching everything. When this happened, a middle-aged man beside him rushed over excitedly. He was none other than the Arbiter of Fate, Li Xin's father, Li Yuan.
He could guess the plan of the City Lord's Mansion. It was to use the three of them as bait to lure the snake out of its hole. He believed that Li Xin was innocent, but he couldn't help but be afraid in this situation. In this situation, if someone really came to help, Li Xin might have to run away with them. If that really happened. Not only would his suspicions be confirmed, his whole family would probably be implicated.
So for the past three days, he had been begging the City Lord's Mansion, telling them of his son's innocence. The City Lord's Mansion didn't make things too difficult for him. They only said that his son was suspected of colluding and that they would observe him first.
But Li Yuan was afraid of this observation. He had been restless for three days. Today, he finally saw his son kill those two people. He was instantly overjoyed. This kind of proof was very suitable.
He shot over to Wei Zhan's side. However, Wei Zhan's expression changed greatly at this moment. Li Yuan thought that he had ruined their plans after Li Xin had killed those two people. He even felt that he had vented some resentment in his heart. Who asked you to wrongly accuse our Xin 'er of wanting to observe?
But in the next second, Wei Zhan had already left him and flew out of the window. Li Yuan stilled and looked outside. He saw that Mo Sen wasn't dead. His son was on the ground, and there seemed to be an arrow stuck in his back.
They really came!
Li Yuan was dumbstruck. The reinforcements that he had been worried about for three days had finally arrived. His son had made an action to prove himself at this time, but his action had allowed the other's reinforcements to shoot him down. At this time, Li Yuan's heart was broken.
Then he saw multiple people charge out, sprinting towards the main entrance. The group carefully looked around, but there was no movement at all.
What was going on?
Li Yuan was also dazed. Had he guessed wrong? The City Lord's Mansion didn't have any preparations at all? That wasn't possible?
Of course it wasn't possible.
From the first day he had quietly returned to Canyon Peak City, when he had seen Mo Sen and the other two tied to the stone pillars, Lu Ping had known that there was definitely no preparations. This was another trap, one that was not new, but one that had to be stepped into.
Last time, when the City Lord's Mansion had played this trick, Lu Ping and the others had really acted.
But this time, Lu Ping did not act rashly.
He carefully used his Soul Listening to search for xiuzhe in this area. Those would undoubtedly be ambushes from the City Lord's Mansion. In these three days, he had found many. During this time, Guo Ting's legs had been broken, and he had been tortured. Lu Ping had still maintained his composure, and did not act rashly.
It was not enough. He told himself that he needed to investigate more. Today, when he saw Guo Ting's wrist was broken, he still gritted his teeth and endured.
This feeling was really not good. But, if he had to protect the three of them …
Lu Ping did not forget Guo Youdao's last words. He had even thought that if he simply ignored them, would the three of them eventually be regarded as useless and let go?
But in the end, he did not dare to do it so thoroughly. He found that among the words left by Guo Youdao, there was another sentence that was more suitable for him.
If he had enough strength, it would be a different story.
If he liked it, it would be a different story.
Unfortunately, he was not strong enough. It might not be a problem for him to break through the trap and kill his way to the three people alone, but how to take them away was too much of a problem.
So he could only continue to endure and think of ways to destroy the other party's trap.
But at this moment, Li Xin unexpectedly wanted to kill Mo Sen and Guo Ting. Such a change was really unexpected.
Lu Ping had to act. He was ready to rush out, but an arrow flew over and Li Xin was shot down.
Nightingale! Archer God!
There were many people who used archery, but the first one that popped up in Lu Ping's mind was really this one.
But there was an ambush in the mayor's mansion!
Lu Ping did not forget this, so he hurriedly rushed to the place where the ambush was. He wanted to snipe these ambushes as soon as possible.
He quickly rushed to the nearest point, but he did not sense any soul power activity around him.
Those ambushes, how could they be so quiet and calm? Lu Ping felt a little strange. At this time, he had already rushed to the nearest point. The spy was still there, but he had already fallen to the ground, and there was no sound of soul.
Lu Ping was stunned. He quickly turned around, but there was another point next to him.
So he saw another spy's corpse, lying under the wall, his head tilted, his face purple, and a few bites of a steamed bun rolled beside him.
Lu Ping was stunned. This death … was it poison?
He looked at the steamed bun on the ground, and another person's name jumped into his mind, which made him a little happy.
Morin?
Lu Ping jumped to the roof, but it was quiet everywhere. The places where he knew the secret agents were lying in ambush, there was no movement at all. He looked around, trying to find Morin's figure, but then he saw a large group of people from the mayor's mansion rushing here.
He could only leave.
Lu Ping turned around and jumped down. Mo Sen and Guo Ting had already been rescued by several people, and were already quite far away. The ambushes were all killed by poison, so the rescue was naturally not difficult.
Wait, that figure!
Lu Ping, who had already jumped down from the roof, desperately jumped back again.
He saw, the person carrying Mo Sen was running, and most of his figure was covered. Mo Sen's feet were dragging on the ground, and the person carrying him was obviously not tall.
It was Su Tang!
Just by looking at this figure, it was enough for Lu Ping to recognize him.
Lu Ping hurriedly wanted to catch up, but an arrow was already flying towards him.
"Who is it!" A shout came. Lu Ping, who was standing on the roof, had long attracted attention, but before he could recognize his appearance, a large group of people were already rushing towards him.
There was no way to chase. Seeing the people from the mayor's mansion rushing over like a tide, Lu Ping had no choice but to turn around and run in another direction.
No matter who saved her, she was fine.
Lu Ping had sneaked back to Canyon Peak City because he wanted to see if there was any news about Su Tang. And now, he had received some really good news.
It was good that she was fine.
The current Lu Ping was no longer demanding anything. He laughed as he ran.
Behind an unlatched door, a pair of sneaky eyes peeked out from inside.
"That's Lu Ping, isn't it? What's he jumping up and down for? " He thought silently, but in the end, he could only watch as Lu Ping ran away, and Mo Sen and Guo Ting were rescued and fled in another direction.
"So many people came out of nowhere, but it saves me a lot of trouble." After sensing that there was no more danger around, the man muttered, opened the door, and walked out.
A straw hat was deeply buckled on his head, and after looking around vigilantly, he quickly disappeared at the end of the street.
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