Chapter 122 Let’s just kill it [Please give me a monthly ticket! ]

At night, in a mansion in the north of the city.

This is where the Zhuxie Yamen settled all the people in the princess's mansion, from the husband Zhang Ji to the maids and servants. Outside the courtyard, there were teams of knife-wielding officials patrolling inside and outside, ostensibly to protect their safety but actually to monitor their movements.

Whoosh whoosh—

Suddenly, a string of cold arrows shot out, and several knife officers who were on guard outside a small courtyard fell to the ground. Then, several dark shadows quietly rushed in.

There is only one room in the courtyard, which is the residence of the son-in-law Zhang Ji.

Zhang Ji suddenly opened his eyes while he was sleeping, as if he heard some noise outside. He turned over quickly and hid under the bed.

There were faint sounds of footsteps outside the house, as if there were many people surrounding the house. Zhang Ji's eyes were bright as he paid attention to the movements around him.

There was a bang.

Someone kicked open the door, and a group of people rushed in with knives, and started hacking at the bed.

He chopped the bedclothes into pieces and found that the person was not there.

The masked man in the lead touched the mattress and found it was still warm. He immediately said, "The person hasn't gone far. Go out and search!"

The group of black-clad assassins seemed to be retreating, and Zhang Ji breathed a sigh of relief.

But the masked leader, who was about to turn around and leave, suddenly stopped, then swung his sword, and with a surge of energy, he flipped his hand and chopped the bed in half with a bang!

"I saw you!"

boom--

Zhang Ji, who was hiding under the bed, suddenly appeared, and his face was immediately filled with panic, "Ah——"

As the masked man approached, he shouted louder and louder: "Murder, help!"

“Haha.” The masked man sneered, “Scream and see if anyone can come to rescue you.”

He didn't seem to be in a hurry and approached step by step.

Zhang Jize retreated repeatedly and soon his back hit the wall with a loud bang.

"My dear, I haven't offended anyone, have I?" Zhang Ji's forehead was covered with sweat. "Why did you chase me here to kill me?"

"You should know who you have offended!" the masked man said sternly.

"Don't kill me, I'll give you money! I can give you a lot of money!" Zhang Ji begged for mercy. Seeing that the other party's hands slowed down, he continued: "The reason for being a gangster is to make money. I will give you half of my entire fortune!"

"I'm fine if you give me money." The masked man nodded.

Zhang Ji thought this was a good idea, so he asked, "Then if I give you money, you won't kill me?"

The masked man said decisively: "Kill them all."

“I…” Zhang Ji couldn’t hold back any longer and uttered the sweet words in his heart.

"Prepare to die!" the man in black shouted. Before he finished his words, he had already raised the steel knife in his hand. The cold light of the blade illuminated half of Zhang Ji's face.

call--

The knife whistled and suddenly stopped just an inch in front of Zhang Ji's forehead.

"Hmm?" The masked man's hands trembled, as if his arms were being controlled by someone and he couldn't exert any strength. "What's going on?"

"I gave you a chance and you didn't want it." Zhang Ji sneered, his expression instantly changing from the fear just now to calm and fierce, "You never thought? It's you who needs to be rescued!"

The masked man retreated again and again, revealing the scene in front of Zhang Ji.

It turned out that he was holding a seal in his right hand and raising a jade talisman in his left hand. There was a relief of an animal head on the surface, which was shining.

The masked man’s martial arts skills were quite strong, but when illuminated by the light, he could no longer control half of his body.

As Zhang Ji turned his magic formula, the masked man actually swung the steel knife with his right hand and slashed it towards his neck!
He shouted, "You are a mystic!"

"Go to hell." Zhang Ji said coldly.

whoosh-

Just when the masked man was about to die in his own hands, a sharp golden light flashed through the air, instantly shooting down the steel knife in his hand, and then hit the jade talisman in Zhang Ji's hand.

call out!
The jade talisman shone brightly, but it did not break into pieces. Instead, it broke the golden light into pieces, revealing its true appearance.

It was a long arrow.

Zhuxie Division, Lin Fenghe’s arrow!
The arrow light and the jade talisman confronted each other, and there was a brief stalemate.

Then a bright white light fell from the sky, slid in an arc like a meteor, and pierced into the house.

Zhang Ji was activating the jade talisman to offset the spiritual power of the arrow, when a sword beam suddenly came at him, leaving him no chance to resist.

laugh.

The sword pierced through him easily.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Ji, the mystic master who had just revealed his high level of skills, was nailed to the wall by a sharp sword.

Ancient Sword Qingqiu.

...A group of people rushed into the house. The masked man took off his mask and turned out to be a leader of the sword officials in the Zhuxie Division. He had reached the third level of martial arts cultivation and had fought in the army for many years. He was definitely an expert.

But in front of Zhang Ji, he had almost no resistance. If they were really fighting one-on-one, they would have been defeated long ago.

But his real enemy is not the one in front of him, but the evil-killing officials who are lurking in the dark.

The one who shot the arrow was Lin Fenghe who was high up in the distance, and the one who pierced the man with the sword was naturally Wen Yifan.

The people who had just been shot down by the arrows got up from the ground one after another, talking and laughing. It turned out to be just a show.

“You guys…” Zhang Ji closed his eyes weakly, “I actually fell into your trap.”

He thought he had been cautious enough, using secret methods to suppress his consciousness at all times, and never revealed anything in front of anyone. Unexpectedly, he was still led out.

Among the crowd that entered, Liang Yue took the lead and walked in front, smiling and said: "Of course we knew the background of the prince consort, so we dared to attack you. Now that things have come to this, let's speak frankly."

Zhang Ji looked at him with a complicated expression, paused, and said: "But I still want to know, where did I expose myself? I let you guess my cultivation level."

"Because there is a secret room in the princess' bedroom and the Milo tree is hidden in the secret room, there shouldn't be many people who know about it." Liang Yue said, "And there are even fewer people who have the opportunity to tamper with it and wake up the Milo tree."

"Princess Fuyang sold Mi Luo incense among the wealthy families in Nanzhou and made a lot of money. And you happened to be from a Nanzhou noble family. We just checked and found that she did go to Nanzhou to live under the pretext of returning home with you. It was with your help that she promoted Mi Luo incense."

"That means you are definitely her accomplice in the sale of Miloxiang."

As Liang Yue was speaking, they had already put Zhang Ji down, suppressed his cultivation with a seal, and then locked him up tightly.

"If it's an outsider, it's unlikely that they would choose to do something in the secret room. You are the most likely suspect."

"I originally suspected that you were colluding with Jiuyang. After the test of the True Word Spirit Mist, most of the suspicion of the Evil Slayer Division on you could have been dispelled. However, the highly skilled Qigong practitioners and mystics can make the True Word Spirit Mist ineffective. Coupled with this murder case, I suddenly have a little suspicion."

"Could it be that you colluded with Jiuyang, hid your abilities, killed the princess, and framed me?"

"But I didn't expect that you are a mystic, not a Qi Refiner." Liang Yue's tone was somewhat regretful.

This means that Zhang Ji was not the one who killed Princess Fuyang.

……

Zhang Ji said, "I am indeed a mystic, but I just don't want others to discover my skills. What's wrong with that? Besides, I know nothing about your collusion with Jiuyang and killing the princess. I also don't know why you, the Evil Slaying Division, are making such a fuss. Is it a crime to hide your skills?"

"You're still being stubborn?" Wen Yifan's eyes turned cold. "Maybe you didn't kill the princess, but you're guilty of treason and deserve death. You should be beheaded!"

"Senior Sister Wen." Liang Yue advised, "Give him a chance."

Turning his head, he said, "My Lord, you underestimate us. Since we have come to the point of testing your cultivation, how could we not find out more in advance?"

Wen Yifan said from the side: "Why not just kill him directly?"

Zhang Ji had just been pierced through by her sword. At this moment, he always felt that although this woman was extremely beautiful, she exuded a terrifying murderous aura.

If someone else had said it, he might not have been afraid.

But when he heard Yifan say this, he couldn't help but feel a chill all over his body.

"No hurry." Liang Yue tried to dissuade him again, "Maybe he can tell us something we don't know, and there's still a chance for him to make amends for his crime."

Then, he pointed backwards and said, "There is a disciple of the Xuanmen Danding lineage in our Zhuxie Division, and she found out the origin of Mi Luoxiang. The smell of burning Mi Luo flowers and trees is addictive, and it was first discovered by the people of Jiuyang Water Ape Tribe, who used it for sacrifice. More than ten years ago, a Gu Master from the Pleiades Tribe used it to refine the earliest Mi Luoxiang, but it was banned by Jiuyang within a few years, probably because they found that it was harmful to humans. But a few years later, this thing appeared in Nanzhou of Yin State, and you and your wife took it back. My husband, where did you get the recipe for Mi Luoxiang?"

"I don't know!" Zhang Ji knew that he couldn't deny his involvement in the sale of Mi Luo Xiang, so he shouted, "It was Her Royal Highness the Princess who took it out."

"Before Princess Fuyang died, she told me in person that it was you who gave her the prescription!" Liang Yue shouted.

In fact, what he heard the princess say was that "someone" gave her a prescription.

In order to make Zhang Ji tell the truth, Liang Yue tampered with the speech.

Because he was sure that in this matter, it must be Zhang Ji who deceived the princess, not the princess who deceived Zhang Ji.

Since Zhang Ji is connected to Jiuyang, he is either the "someone" or that person was arranged by him.

Zhang Ji suddenly paused, speechless, and said: "Impossible..."

He was also wondering in his heart whether Liang Yue was deceiving him.

Liang Yue said, "Princess Fuyang doesn't know anything about the Milo tree. You must have told her that this demon tree grows in Baihu City, right? In fact, the Milo tree grows more in Mangcang Mountain in Jiuyang, but in order not to alert her, you deliberately concealed this part and only mentioned Baihu City."

When Princess Fuyang told him the story, she said that the Milo tree was a magical tree that grew near Baihu City.

But later, when he asked Wei Ping'er, Liang Yue learned that the Miluo flower tree grows on the outskirts of the demon land and can be found in all four demon domains.

However, due to the cold climate in Baihu City, very little grows. Mangcang Mountain is the place with the most Mi Luo flowers and trees, which is why the Jiuyang people were able to discover this thing first.

Liang Yue did not doubt that Princess Fuyang lied on purpose. On the one hand, she was affected by the True Words Spiritual Mist at the time. On the other hand, she did not need to say this sentence in the first place. Even if there was no effect of the True Words Spiritual Mist, she could choose not to tell the origin of the flowers and trees, since he did not ask anyway. Instead of telling it and hiding half of it.

Therefore, he believed that Princess Fuyang must have been partially deceived regarding Mi Luoxiang, and this was probably the information she received.

Zhang Ji hid from her because he was afraid that she would associate it with the Jiuyang territory. After all, as a child of the royal family, it was unlikely for her to go with him.

"It seems that he is not going to confess anything. I think we should just kill him." Wen Yifan had already pointed his halberd and was ready to sacrifice his sword.

"Wait!" Zhang Ji shouted loudly. He gritted his teeth and said, "I can tell you everything I did. But I didn't commit treason, and I didn't kill the princess!"

(End of this chapter)