More than half a month had passed, and the city was no longer as heavily guarded as before. Although the arrest warrant for the two was still there, few people paid attention to it.
Lin Xuan and Qu Jian Yi sold their warhorses and quietly changed their appearances. They disguised themselves as two beggars, one old and one young. They were very different from the portraits on the arrest warrant, so they did not attract the attention of the city guards.
"Master, where should we start?"
Lin Xuan asked Qu Jian Yi in a low voice as he walked forward with the box on his back.
Qu Jian Yi muttered, "The City Lord's Mansion is located in the center of the city. It should be the best place to act, but it is also the most heavily guarded place. We cannot get too close to the City Lord's Mansion. As for other places, I have been imprisoned for many years and do not know much about them. Let's look around. "
Lin Xuan said, "Master, I know of a house. The location is not bad."
"Then let's go take a look!" Qu Jian Yi nodded.
The house that Lin Xuan was talking about was the dilapidated house where he had interrogated Wang Jin.
The two first dawdled on the streets for half a day. When the sky darkened, they climbed over the wall and quietly hid in the house that had been deserted for a long time.
The two did not waste any time. They quickly gathered firewood and placed the incense over the fire, slowly roasting it.
Gradually, a faint medicinal fragrance wafted out from the room. Under the moonless night, it spread in all directions.
Qu Jian Yi was very accomplished in the field of medicine. He mixed some ingredients into the incense to slow down the effects of the incense.
This also allowed the surrounding people to not immediately fall unconscious when they smelled the incense. This way, it would not attract the attention of people with ulterior motives for a short period of time.
Time passed quietly. A night had passed, but only half of the incense had been burned.
Lin Xuan and Qu Jian Yi did not stop. They covered their noses and mouths with wet cloths and continued to roast the fire, speeding up the evaporation of the incense.
When the incense had completely burned out, it was already the evening of the second day.
At this time, the effects of the incense gradually took effect. Some of the surrounding people began to faint on the ground and fall asleep. More and more people fell asleep, falling down in droves.
This city was actually not very big, and its population was only a few hundred thousand. In just one day and one night, the smell of incense had already enveloped the entire small city, and almost everyone was unavoidably affected.
Because the City Lord's Mansion was located in the center of the city, the servants and guards inside were no exception. They all fell to the ground unconscious.
However, one person was an exception, and that was the current City Lord, Yuwen Zhi.
Yuwen Zhi was sitting cross-legged on a high platform made of black iron. His eyes were closed, and he seemed to be cultivating something.
Yuwen Zhi was twenty-five years old this year, and he was the city's six hundred and ninety-fourth generation city master. In other words, he was the Yuwen family's six hundred and ninety-fourth generation descendant.
Yuwen Zhi also inherited his ancestor's strong physique and endless divine power, which made his succession to the throne very smooth. He also had control of the city guards like an extension of his arm, and had supreme power in this small world.
At some point, Yuwen Zhi suddenly opened his eyes. He sniffed, and his eyebrows slightly creased.
"Guards, where is this incense coming from?" Yuwen Zhi yelled.
However, there was no response from outside for a long time.
Yuwen Zhi's face could not help but darken. Although he had not been the City Lord for long, he had always been the most arrogant. No one had ever dared to disobey his orders, and the servants did not dare to make any mistakes.
But now, there was no one outside waiting on him. This was ridiculous!
Yuwen Zhi felt that he might have been too kind. A trace of killing intent flashed through his eyes. He snorted coldly and jumped down from the high platform, walking out of the palace.
"Eh? What is going on? "
Yuwen Zhi looked at the scene outside the palace, and his face could not help but become angry. The guards who were supposed to be standing on both sides of the palace were all lying on the ground, sleeping soundly.
"Bastard!"
Yuwen Zhi was so angry that smoke was coming out of his seven orifices. He kicked one of the guards without hesitation. With a boom, the guard's body exploded into pieces, and his blood spilled all over the ground.
However, the rest of the guards did not seem to feel anything and were still sleeping soundly.
Yuwen Zhi gradually felt that something was wrong. He kicked away a guard who was blocking the way and quickly walked to the courtyard.
Along the way, Yuwen Zhi's face became more and more ugly. From the entrance of the palace to the inner courtyard, and then to the outer courtyard, he saw hundreds of servants and guards who were all in deep sleep. No matter how he called, he could not wake them up.
The entire City Lord's Mansion was filled with the sound of snoring, but it was also filled with a palpitating silence.
Yuwen Zhi pushed open the gate of the City Lord's Mansion, but was even more shocked to find that there were also figures lying around on the street.
"What's going on? What happened? "
Yuwen Zhi's face was gloomy. He was just about to step out when he suddenly felt a surge of sleepiness in his heart, and his feet could not help but stagger.
Although his physique was tyrannical and his body's endurance was far beyond that of ordinary people, the fragrance in the air was not completely useless to him.
Yuwen Zhi was secretly shocked. He shook his head fiercely, but he could not shake off the sleepiness. He only felt his body getting heavier and heavier.
After a moment's hesitation, he fiercely closed the gate and staggered back to the palace. He bolted the gate from the inside, then fell weakly to the ground and fell into a deep sleep.
"Lin Xuan! It's about time, quickly do it! I'll protect you, you kill them and take their souls! "
"Yes, Master!"
Lin Xuan took out a long saber and strode out of the house to the street.
Qu Jianyi also held a long saber and followed closely behind.
As far as the eye could see, there was a sleeping figure lying on the ground every once in a while on the street.
Lin Xuan's thoughts moved, and a small sword embryo appeared in the palm of his hand. He walked in front of a sleeping man, and the sword embryo immediately lit up with a faint red light.
"This guy is an unjust villain, he deserves to be killed!"
Without hesitation, Lin Xuan swung his saber and slit the man's throat. The man twitched twice and died quickly.
Following that, the sword embryo in his hand shot out like a hungry wolf that had found its prey. It flew around the man's body and flew back.
Lin Xuan could clearly feel a slight change in the sword embryo. There was an additional soul in it.
This was only the beginning. In the following period of time, Lin Xuan began to crazily harvest people's lives. He walked quickly on the street, using the sword embryo to identify people who could be killed. He then killed them and took their souls without mercy.
The effects of the fragrance had a time limit. He had to kill 4,900 people before the effects of the fragrance wore off. This was not an easy task, even though most of the people in the city were already asleep.
One, two, three.
One hundred, two hundred, three hundred...
In a short hour, Lin Xuan had already harvested more than 600 souls. However, he finally met someone who was awake.
It was a fellow who also had a wet cloth covering his nose and mouth. He was carrying a heavy bag and stumbled out of a gambling den. Coincidentally, he bumped into Lin Xuan, who was in the middle of killing people.
"How dare you! Who, who are you?" the man shouted.
Lin Xuan was stunned to see someone who was awake. However, after a short moment of surprise, he immediately charged at the man with his saber.
However, just as he was about to swing his saber, he suddenly realized that the sword embryo in his hand did not react.
"Oh no, I can't kill this guy!" Lin Xuan's heart skipped a beat.
At this moment, the man had already drawn his saber and slashed at Lin Xuan's head. The saber wind whistled, and the force behind it was extraordinary.
Lin Xuan hurriedly dodged and quickly retreated.
When the man saw Lin Xuan retreat, he thought that Lin Xuan was afraid. This emboldened him even more. He raised his saber again and charged at Lin Xuan.
However, Qu Jianyi had already arrived beside Lin Xuan. He leaped up and brandished his saber as fast as lightning, viciously slashing at the man's head.
The man's expression changed, and he hurriedly raised his saber to block!
Clang!
With a metallic sound, the man was slashed to the ground by Qu Jianyi's saber. Before he could get up, Qu Jianyi's second saber slashed at an even faster speed, instantly splitting his head open.
"Speed up, continue!" Qu Jianyi coldly shouted at Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan silently nodded and continued on to his next target.
Pfft!
Pfft!
Pfft!
On the quiet street, Lin Xuan transformed into a cold-blooded butcher, killing a person every ten steps. He rapidly reaped human lives and collected souls.
The number of souls in the sword embryo increased. Six hundred, eight hundred, one thousand, one thousand five hundred, two thousand …
Wherever he went, he left behind corpses, and the stench of blood drifted in the night wind.
Just as Qu Jianyi had said, most of the people in the city belonged to the Seven Kills category. Out of every ten people, nine could be killed.
Lin Xuan did not feel any sense of challenge or accomplishment in killing these mortals who could not fight back. However, he had no choice but to kill them. He was truly helpless.
Although the knockout incense had enveloped the city for an entire day and night, there were still many people who were conscious. Along the way, Lin Xuan encountered more than a hundred people who were not knocked out by the knockout incense.
He did not want to waste time on these people. As long as they did not stop him from killing, he could not be bothered. However, if someone attacked him, he would kill them if he could. If he could not kill them, he would leave them to Qu Jianyi.
As the number of people he killed increased, the number of souls collected in the sword embryo also increased.
After devouring different souls, the sword embryo gradually expanded. Its surface was suffused with rays of colorful light, as if it was gradually turning into a beautiful yet dangerous rainbow.
Time passed quietly.
When the day was about to end, Lin Xuan had finally killed four thousand nine hundred people. The saber in his hand was already spinning, and his body was covered in blood. He was sweating profusely and panting heavily.
However, his eyes were bright and threatening. Looking at the seven-colored sword embryo in his hand, his heart was filled with hope.
"Master, this is enough," Lin Xuan said.
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