Chapter 127 – Unhappy to Leave

In the middle of April, spring is already bright and rich beyond measure, the whole of Jiangnan is enveloped in warm winds, people walking on the streets have begun to wear only a jacket. And in a thousand miles away from Suzhou, outside of Kyoto, across a long distance, you can still see the Cangshan head of that a touch of white snow, like a dead body’s face covered with a white scarf general cold.

The tall man wearing a hat retrieved his eyes betting on the snow on top of the Cangshan Mountain, silently drank the remaining tea in the cup, asked for a bowl of vegetarian noodles, and began to eat tastelessly.

This place is thirty miles outside of Kyoto, called Shipai Village.

And this tall man wearing a hat, is a long way from Jiangnan to Kyoto to celebrate the temple of the second priest – three stone master. Master San Shi entered the capital not to discuss the Tao, not to fold a willow outside the imperial road, he came to kill, he came …… to stab the driver!

Although Fan Xian was in Jiangnan, intentionally or unintentionally let him leave, but the Supervisory Yuan checking closely, even though the Northwest Road did not put heavy troops, but three stone to bypass the Supervisory Yuan and the black cavalry blockade, to come to the Kyoto, but still took him a lot of time.

The Junshan Society is indeed a loose organization, but when this organization has an exceptionally sacred and important mission, its importance is highlighted, and this mysterious organization, exactly how many important figures of the world’s powers are gathered, not many people can be clear.

Although Master San Shi was honored as the Second Sacrifice of the Temple of Celebration, he did not have much power to speak in the Junshan Society, and he was personally quite opposed to the arrangements of the Junshan Society in Jiangnan. After trying unsuccessfully to interfere with Fan Xian’s administration, this Master San Shi made himself an outcast, leaving the arrangements of the Junshan Association, single, with ambition in his chest, such as a red sun hidden in his heart, and so proudly traveled to Kyoto.

Go to Kyoto to kill, kill that impossible to kill people.

He thought on one side, one side of the silent eating noodles, according to the elder brother of the year’s teaching, every piece of noodles are chewed and slowly swallowed to become a noodle paste, which is contentedly swallowed in the abdomen.

Somehow, Master San Shi ate with sadness that was hard to suppress, two turbid tears slipped from his pale eyes and dripped into the noodle soup.

He wanted to go into the capital to ask that emperor why!

Finished eating the noodles, he put on the right hat to cover his face, picked up the table side of a person high wooden staff, left the noodle store, along the stone village at the foot of the mountain path, began to walk towards the direction of the Kyoto area.

In front of him was the dark imperial city, and behind him the clean white mountain, among which the ascetic walked.

The forest grew deeper and deeper, and the path grew narrower and narrower. It was early in the day, there weren’t any woodcutters diligently rising early to cut wood, and in the middle of nowhere, it was unlikely that any pedestrians would pass by, the mountain road was quiet, so quiet that it was even a bit eerie, not even the sound of birds chirping and insects chirping.

Three stone master after all is not a skilled assassination of the martial artist, just a very high cultivation ascetic, so although the heart feel a little strange, but also did not care how.

Both the court and the Junshan Society should not know that they had come to Kyoto from Jiangnan, and the only one who knew about this matter was the Northern Qi Holy Maiden, Miss Haitang. And no matter which way one looked at it, it was impossible for Haitang to reveal her whereabouts, Master San Shi believed in this very much, and he didn’t think that anyone would have grasped his route beforehand and thus carry out an ambush in advance.

So when that poignant and overwhelming arrow, shot out from the dense forest, tried to ruthlessly pierce into his eye socket, Master Mishi was very surprised.

That a branch of the arrow flight pattern is very strange, at the very beginning of the time quietly, like a ghost like charm, until only three feet from his face door when, only then suddenly as a harsh whistle, arrow whistle hook soul, incomparable fear!

Hiss …… roar!

The black long arrow, as if shouting out a kill word.

Three stone master stifled a grunt, long wooden staff to the ground ruthlessly poke, carved into a bird head of the head of the wooden staff, in a very short period of time to stretch forward, blocked that a branch of the feathered arrows as if flying from the sky.

Nailed a muffled sound, that branch of the arrow ruthlessly shot into the head of the wooden staff, the endless power contained on the arrow, shocked the three stone master wrist slightly shaking, staff head carved bird head in a split second, exploded!

Master San Shi narrowed his eyes, and a chill arose in his heart – such swift and thunderous archery skills, it seemed that only Yan Xiaoyi, the Great Governor of Conquest of the North, had such a level, and Yan Xiaoyi should be in Cangzhou City at this time, thousands of miles away from the capital.

Through the foliage of the forest, Master San Shi’s clear eyes saw the archer’s face clearly, it was a young and unfamiliar face, but he knew that the arrow he had personally caught must have received Yan Xiao Yi’s true skill, and that this unfamiliar young man must be Yan Xiao Yi’s disciple!

While thinking about these things, Master San Shi had long since utilized the force of the recoil of that staff, his entire body flew into the air, unfolding his stance like a large bird, holding his wooden staff, smashing over there like a madman!

Although he didn’t know why the other party was coming to kill him, he wouldn’t allow himself to die before he entered Kyoto and asked the Emperor that.

Master Mishi was stout, wearing a hat on his head, his staff meant to kill, and his whole person soared in the air like a ferocious bird, full of the aura of a go-getter.

With the divine archer sparring, the most critical thing is to close the distance between the other party, but …… at this time leaping into the air, will show all of their own empty door to the other party, and people in the air nowhere to borrow strength, it is not easy to avoid those ghosts to the extreme of the arrow plume ……

Three stone master swept over, looking at that archer’s serene face, knowing that the other side to take the opportunity to send arrows.

As expected, that archer didn’t know how to move, with a splash of his hands, he had already taken out an arrow feather from behind himself, strung it, aimed, and fired!

Very simple three movements, but completed so naturally, so harmoniously, so quickly, as if itself is just an action that can not be cut off, very beautiful.

This simple beauty came from hard practice and talent for archery on weekdays.

There was a whooshing sound! A second arrow had been shot at Master Mishi’s throat again, and at this point, with him in the air, there was no way for him to dodge such a swift arrow!

But Mishi was waiting for this moment.

He let out a muffled grunt, and without dodging or avoiding, he transported his true qi to his chest and abdomen, and hardened himself against this arrow with his stupidest, and most powerful, Iron Cloth Shirt!

The arrow struck his throat with a strange cackle.

A strange aura flashed in Master San Shi’s eyes, and his entire body had already killed in front of that archer’s body, and he slashed over with a staff!

At this time, there was only a distance of three feet between the two, how could the archer avoid it?

The archer’s face was still tranquil, against that crazy staff, the whole person took two steps backward in an extremely stable manner, the long bow was protected in front of his body, and his mouth spat out one word: “Seal!”

The four golden swords came from nowhere and transformed into four streams of light, sealing Master San Shi’s overwhelming staff!

A loud sound exploded, the knives shattered, the staff’s momentum was in disarray, and a cloud of dust filled the forest.

In the midst of the dust, the sound of arrows was heard again, a Soul Snatching Arrow pierced through the dust and crossed the forest, and within a very short distance, it shot at Master San Shi’s throat again.

The distance was too close for Master San Shi to avoid, nor did he dare to allow his most vulnerable throat to be constantly tested by Yan Men’s archery, so he put up his palm and assumed a posture of honoring the temple.

The opponent used four swords to seal his staff, so he used his palm to seal this arrow.

The thin, soul-devouring arrow, nailed to the edge of his Master Sanshi’s broad, calloused palm, was like a mosquito staring at the flesh of the poor people, shaking twice before falling to the ground.

It was only a very slight sting, a nail, but Master San Shi’s body shook violently.

He was shocked by this arrow and took a step back …… Another arrow arrived, Master San Shi raised his palm again, sealed it, and retreated again.

The arrows shot out from the dust became faster and faster, as if there was no interruption, not knowing what kind of terrifying hand speed that archer behind the dust, actually possessed!

Such was the case with nine arrows.

Three stone master was hard shocked back nine steps, by those terrible arrow feathers forced back to the side of the mountain road, he stifled a grunt, true qi straight through the arms, the long staff swung, shocked the last branch of the arrow …… and then found that his feet were tight, a horrible and incomparable beast clamp cackled, bloody and incomparable clamped his right foot!

This beast clip is so big, should be used to clip the tiger, even if the three stone master has iron cloth shirt invulnerability, but suddenly encountered the trap, the calf is still blood and flesh a open, blood burst flow.

Master San Shi let out a pained bellow! Frowning tightly unwillingly those eyebrows, there is also a small blood spot on his throat, holding the wooden staff’s hand, there are also many small blood spots, is slowly seeping outward blood.

So many ghostly and unfathomable severe arrows, if it was any other person, he would have been shot into a hedgehog, and only he, who was not really hurt, just a pity that in the end, he was still forced into a trap by these arrows.

The dust gradually fell, the opposite side of the forest, once again appeared the face of that young archer, and four swordsmen with crippled swords in their hands.

Master Mishi looked at the other party indifferently and spoke, “I didn’t expect that it was you guys who killed ……”

Before the words were finished, the young archer had come to kill and kill, and had no interest in conversing with Master Mishi, although he knew that Master Mishi was also a legendary figure, there was no extra reverence for the growing lords of the younger generation.

With the fingers of his steady right hand, the young man rested the quenched black arrow on the string and once again took aim at the immobilized Master Mishi’s throat.

“Shoot.”

He said, while the arrow in his own hand did not go off the string.

The forest was noisy, it was unknown how many archers came out from all directions, separated by a distance of more than ten feet, surrounding Mishi right in the center, all holding bows and arrows in their hands, and in accordance with this sound of the word shoot, countless long arrows took off the strings and turned into soul-catching straight lines, ruthlessly stabbing at the body of Master Mishi right in the center!

Three stone pupils shrink slightly, see the other side of this arrangement …… know that he may not really survive today, can arrange so many arrows in the mountains, this must be the military manpower, and then how powerful masters, in the face of the army’s ruthless and cold-blooded attack, but also can not survive, not to mention that their own right foot has been the abominable beast! Clip clamped!

He himself was not Ye Liuyun, not Bitter Lotus, Master Sanshi sighed in his heart and waved the long staff in his hand, fending off the rain of arrows from all directions.

Dang dang dang dang, countless shattering sounds resounded around him, but in just a few moments, there were already hundreds of flying arrows shattered by his wooden staff, the remnants of the arrows piled up around him, looking exceptionally sad.

There were also some arrows that pierced through his defensive circle and stuck on his body, only these archers were not as good as the young man from earlier, unable to shoot through Master San Shi’s Iron Cloth Shirt.

That leading young archer was not in a hurry, he just coldly looked at Master Sanshi who was struggling like a dying beast, and watched the ascetic struggling helplessly with the rain of arrows from the sky, he knew that the other party’s true qi was strong, and if he wanted to be shot to death from a distance, he would need to be patient, and would have to keep consuming it, and as long as Sanshi’s true qi had a slight appearance of not being able to cope with the situation, his ability of being a hard-rocking warrior would no longer be able to be sustained… …When the arrow entered his body, that would be the death of Mishi.

So he just aimed at Mishi’s throat, indifferently waiting for that moment.

And the dozens of archers in the forest just kept shooting arrows indifferently.

Mishi howled loudly and kept waving his wooden staff, struggling amidst the rain of arrows.

There would be a time when he would run out of strength.

That’s why at this moment, Mishi’s bravery and might looked so sad.

Facing the powerful army machine, what is the use of martial arts master ……?

This is a what kind of cold scene.

The relentless rounds of shooting still continued. The broken arrows piled up around Master Mishi were getting higher and higher, gradually disappearing past his calves, drowning the beast’s clip and injured leg in the arrow feathers, looking like a monk who was burning himself, chopping the woodpile that was about to ignite himself.

Master San Shi’s clothes were already damp and sweaty, and the speed at which he swung his wooden staff, also slowed down, obviously his true qi was no longer as abundant as it was at first.

It was this opportunity that the lead archer, who had been waiting for a long time, gently loosened his middle finger, and the arrow on the string shot out!

With a whoosh and a nail, the entire forest, the entire heaven and earth seemed to fall silent in that instant.

Master Sanshi held the arrow feather on his throat, his mouth was ho-ho-hoing, but he could no longer say anything, and blood flowed outward along his palms.

The surrounding archers also stopped firing.

The young archer frowned and said coldly and mercilessly, “Continue.”

The arrows resumed, and in an instant, more than a dozen feathered arrows were shot into Mishi’s body, and blood dyed his entire body red.

Sanshi slowly closed his eyes and sighed once again in his heart, knowing that showing weakness and luring the enemy was not feasible, that Yan Xiaoyi’s disciple really had the cold and ruthless style of his Nai Shi when he did what he did.

He waved his hand, his big sleeve flicked, flicked away several branches of arrow feathers, his eyes opened, stormy awns appeared, shouting, the wooden staff that had been held in his hand was shocked by this pure true qi cracked from the outside, and the wooden pieces flew horizontally, revealing that the knife …… inside was a big knife!

In Suzhou City, San Shi had once chopped the long street with a knife, but at this time, he …… could only chop himself with this knife.

Slanting down, the blade entered the flesh without sound, and he ruthlessly cut off his right calf!

No longer will be trapped by the beast clip, three stones like a big bird with broken wings, once again hostile horizontal take off, like a hawk fighting a rabbit to kill into the opposite side of the formation, the knife light splashes snow, making people splash blood, a photo, they cut off the head of three people, breaking open the chest and abdomen of several people, the forest is a blood kill!

What a domineering blade!

When the three stones out of the knife, that indifferent young archer, has turned away, silently up the tree, began to shoot one arrow after another, he knew that the other party has come to the end of the crossbow, and self-broken a leg, blood flowed like this for no money, the other party can not support for too long.

As expected, the light of the sword is still gradually dimming after a stunning moment.

After killing a ground archer, three stone master in the body of poison, injury, blood exhaustion, long knife long handle on the ground, muffled grunt, spit out the last mouthful of turbid breath.

The second priest of the Temple of Celebration, dead.

Confirmed the death of the three stones, the archers surrounded, they are all the elite of the army, today came to surround and kill …… and even shamelessly murder the second sacrifice of the Qing Temple, not everyone can keep the surface calm, especially after the other party was tricked earlier, but also managed to cut off his own leg and kill so many of his own brothers, these people at this time in retrospect, all of them couldn’t help but feel a chill in their hearts.

“Clean up, you guys go back to camp.” The young archer said indifferently, “Ding Han, you are responsible for cleaning up.”

A soldier answered with a low salute.

The forest once again returned to calmness, and these good archers in the army took off their disguises and found another hidden change of clothes to return to camp.

After leaving the forest, the young archer had changed into an ordinary people’s clothing, and did not return to the camp with the brigade, but turned east and west out of the mountains, found the official road back to the capital, took a ride on the carriage on the road, all the way to the merchant joked and laughed, and so into the Kyoto.

Into the city of Kyoto, the archer first went to eat two bowls of vegetables porridge, and bought a paper windmill in the street, through the South City Street, traveling through the quiet alleys, in the doorway of a storytelling hall look, seems to have not withstood the temptation of today’s book, into the building to ask for a bowl of tea, a dish of melon seeds, began to listen to the book.

After listening for a while, he seems to have some urgency to urinate, went to the toilet.

In the outhouse out of the courtyard wall, after confirming that there is no one to follow, into a mansion. This mansion does not know whose family, he walked as easy as in his own home.

Entering the study, he bowed down before the desk and reported to the pair of tiny feet under the desk, “Your Highness, it has been excepted.”

“Hard work.” Her Royal Highness, the First Princess of Qing, Li Yunrui, smiled faintly, this beautiful and unlike mortal woman, when she smiled, it added a few points of charming and confusing.

That young archer, who appeared so cold and ruthless when he shot Master San Shi, did not dare to look directly into the eyes of the Eldest Princess at this moment. After getting up, he stood aside in a disciplined manner.

“Mishi …… is really a pity.” The eldest princess lamented and sighed incomparably, “Not to listen to the words of this palace, have to act on the courage of the horseman, at this time of the year now, how can we make his majesty suspicious of us? Everything is not ready, now is not the time to strike, like this disobedient person, have to let him go.”

The young archer remained silent without saying a word, knowing that for these great matters, it should be a matter of concern for the elders, and that he only needed to carry it out.

The Eldest Princess glanced at him and said with a smile, “Do you have any complaints about not being able to accompany Governor Yan on his campaign in the north?”

The young archer smiled and said, “Father just spends his days drinking in the north as well, where is the excitement from the capital.”

After a few more words, the eldest princess let him out of the study.

This mansion was nameless and no one knew that the Eldest Princess would occasionally come here. Her favorite thing to do was to sit by herself in this study and think about things, and often she would think herself into a frenzy.

Junshan Club? …… The corners of her lips spread a self-deprecating smile, when she was still small, what was the purpose of her own group, the Junshan Association? It was to do something for Qing, it was to think that one could help the emperor’s brother to do something that the emperor’s brother was inconvenient to do, such as killing which ministers to kill and robbing whoever’s family’s property.

Although the emperor’s brother has been unaware of the existence of the Junshan Association, but this Junshan Association in the dark but helped him a lot of favor, such as the war with the North Qi, such as the dark influence on the Dongyi City.

Just when did this matter change so drastically? The purpose of the Junshan Society had unexpectedly undergone a heavenly change in its own hands!

The face of the eldest princess flashed a trace of misery, thinking of Fan Xian who was far away in Jiangnan, thinking of the inner treasury, thinking of the Supervisory Yuan, thinking of the suspicions and tendencies shown by the emperor over the past two years …… I gifted the king with a bright pearl, what did the king give me?

She closed her eyes and reopened them, her eyes had returned to calm, smiling and thinking, since Jun doesn’t allow me, she always has to love and cherish herself, and it’s not impossible to pay some price for that, and what Mr. Yuan said does have his reasoning.

Still that mountain forest, in addition to a faint smell of blood, already can not find half a trace of a sniping once before, the level of the military to deal with the scene, it seems that it is not worse than the Supervisory Board.

All the people had already withdrawn, and that Ding Han, who had been left behind by Yan Xiaoyi’s son to take care of the aftermath, was the last to leave the mountain forest.

Strangely enough, shortly after he left, he silently turned back into the forest, and under a pile of mud debris, he found a broken arrow that he had intentionally left behind earlier, and carefully tucked it into his bosom.

Then, he spat on his hand twice, and began to dig up the ground very hard. I don’t know how long he dug, but he finally dug very deep and unearthed those several corpses that had already been burned out of shape. Confirming Mishi’s corpse, he drew his dagger from his boot, inserted it into the corpse’s neck bone, and very meticulously chopped off Master Mishi’s head.

After refilling the soil, sprinkling leaves, and cloth moss, and confirming that there wasn’t the slightest problem, the character named Ding Han, only then sighed contentedly and turned to leave the mountain forest.

He didn’t need to enter the capital because the place he was going to was originally outside of Kyoto.

Chen Yuan’s back mountain, back door, wooden archway, old servant.

The old servant took a box, a package, from him, and Ding Han wordlessly saluted and started back to camp.

In the middle of a chilly room, Chen Pingping sat in a wheelchair, smiled and looked at the charred black head on the cloth, and asked, “Do you think …… it has been burned like this, can His Majesty still recognize it as that stupid bastard from San Shi?”

The old servant laughed and couldn’t say anything, he just looked at the master who seemed a little happy, and he followed suit.

Chen Pingping took out the broken arrow from the box again, and after squinting her eyes for half a day, she suddenly said in a shrill voice, “San Shi is a fool, do you think the Eldest Princess is also a fool? Who is not good to use, using Yan Xiaoyi s son, certainly can tie Yan Xiaoyi more tightly …… but also easy to be defeated is not it?”

Obviously, this Lord President of the Supervisory Academy was a little blind to the caliber of the younger generation’s intrigues.

He gently stroked the woolen blanket on his lap with his withered hands and shook his head, “There are always some people in this world who think that there are some things that no one will ever know …… for example, that bullshit Junshan Society.”

The old servant said softly, “Going to the palace?”

“Uh-huh.”

“There seems to be some difficulty on the side of Lord Tiji.” The old servant was Chen Pingping’s trusted beloved butler for twenty years, knowing most of this dean’s thoughts, he reminded in a small way.

Chen Pingping fell into silence, and after a moment said, “Fan Xian, may still do it too early …… but let him do it, let him do what he thinks is right, as for those things he may not want to do, I will do it.”

There were many things that Chen Pingping would never tell Fan Xian, because he knew that Fan Xian’s heart was far less hard and strong than his own. He pushed his wheelchair to the window, and in the distance came the faint sounds of giggling and laughing from the beautiful women the old men had collected.

He looked outside and thought of Yuan someone who had been by the side of the eldest princess, and couldn’t help but smile innocently like a child, “Often, the things that my enemies don’t want me to know, I actually know, but ……”

A trace of self-deprecation flashed in the old man’s eyes as he sighed and said, “Being a person who knows everything, in fact, sometimes, is not a happy thing.”

The old servant gently pinched his shoulders, knowing that tomorrow when Lord Dean entered the palace with his head and broken arrow, the Junshan Society would be revealed to His Majesty for the first time, and His Majesty would finally make up his mind.

And what Lord Dean needed was for His Majesty to make up his mind.

Chen Pingping slowly lowered her head, how could she be willing to leave her hand to die without making some big deal out of it, without dying a few nobles in the palace?