Chapter 402: Escape (7)
Yazhou City was broken.
There was chaos again in government offices at all levels of the Xuan Yan Immortal Dynasty.
However, the most fluttering areas were the prefectures and counties near Yazhou and Qingzhou, the northwest border of Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty. After receiving the news from Xuanfeng City, the prefectures and counties in other directions inevitably let down their guard a little.
To the west of Yazhou is Jiezhou.
Jiezhou is a very interesting state among the states in the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty.
Compared with Yazhou, Qingzhou and Yuzhou, this state does not have many rare natural resources, and its products are mediocre. It can only be regarded as a "well-off" state.
However, Jiezhou is home to a special kind of fragrant vine.
After the vines die, they are used to make paper. The paper has a smooth texture and a unique fragrance. It can last for a thousand years without getting rotten or decayed, and is not easily invaded by moths. This is the "Millennium Scented Paper" that even the bigwigs of Canghai Tower were eager to learn about. It has a reputation of "one piece of paper worth ten gold coins".
Relying on this specialty paper, Jiezhou naturally became a wealthy provincial capital.
That's the problem.
Because the only business that makes money in Jiezhou is papermaking, this thing is precious and precious, but it is useless. For those cultivators, it is really not very useful. Therefore, there are no powerful cultivation families entrenched here, and compared with other states such as Yazhou, Jiezhou does not have many masters.
When Lu Yi appeared in front of the east gate of Jiezhou, Jiezhou had already activated the city defense formation. A group of local officials, trembling like quails, huddled behind the battlements of the city wall and looked at Lu Yi.
"This... hero!" The local officials did not say anything. Instead, an old man with a bloated belly, who was extremely wealthy and wearing a copper coin patterned court uniform, clung to the battlements of the city wall and shouted at Lu Yi: "In Jiezhou, we don't have the spiritual crystals, spiritual gold, rare medicinal materials, etc. that the hero needs... We only have warehouses full of various papers, which are useless to the hero!"
“My dear, why don’t you go to Langzhou in the northwest? Langzhou is rich in various spiritual jades, including top-quality jades that contain thousand-year-old jade liquids and ten-thousand-year-old jade marrows. They are of infinite benefit to practitioners… In the past, they even mined a hundred thousand-year-old empty green jade frost, which is a rare spiritual medicine that can rebuild the foundation and strengthen the soul even if it compares to the power of the void!”
"Good man, there is no need to waste your energy in the small Jiezhou. There is really nothing in this state that a good man can use!"
The old man took a breath and said loudly to Lu Yi, "How about we, the big families in Jiezhou, gather together some money and invite the heroes to go to Langzhou? This will save the heroes from wasting time here, right?"
The old man lowered his voice and said, "To tell you the truth, the masters of the court are rushing to various provincial capitals... You... Hehe!"
Behind the battlements of the city wall, a group of local officials from Jiezhou stared at Lu Yi stealthily.
Lu Yu laughed loudly: "These officials are afraid to take responsibility, fearing that they will be charged with 'colluding with bandits', so they let you, old man, come forward? Interesting, interesting... Ha, the masters of the court didn't come to your side?"
The old man laughed dryly: "Jiezhou, there is nothing important."
Lu Yi looked at the old man deeply and nodded: "Forget it, how much money can you give? Send it out quickly... The old man is right. Instead of wasting time here, it is better to go to the next useful state capital."
After a pause, Lu Yi asked, "Do you know where all the masters in your court have gone?"
The old man blinked his eyes and looked at the local officials hiding behind the battlements of the city wall. He approached an official and the two whispered a few words. The old man raised his head and said dryly: "This is the news I found out myself. It has nothing to do with the gentlemen of this state. You must remember that this has nothing to do with the gentlemen!"
After coughing a few times, the old man said loudly, "I heard that your Majesty's younger brother, His Royal Highness Prince Ying, has brought the court's experts to defend several states in the north and west, and has set up a dragnet!"
The old man blinked his eyes and lowered his voice: "Good man, since you have made a vote for us in Jiezhou, you should hurry up and leave... Hey, hey!"
Lu Yi smiled, nodded, and hooked his finger at the old man.
After a while, the east gate of Jiezhou slowly opened, revealing a gap. The old man came out carefully with two sturdy and strong men. The men held red copper sticks that were shining with a faint light, followed the old man step by step.
The fluctuations of magical power emitted by the two big men were probably at the level of Fiery Fire Realm.
The red copper sticks in their hands were just ordinary magical weapons.
The old man, with a pale face, led two men out of the city gate step by step, carefully walked across the bridge over the moat, came in front of Lu Yi, and respectfully handed the tray in his hand to Lu Yi.
"Good man, this is the money that each family in this state has contributed to your journey."
"In this state, most of the merchants are engaged in the papermaking industry , and there are few practitioners. Therefore, the resources for cultivation are extremely limited. Please do not despise them."
On the tray, there was a sparkling bracelet.
The old man handed the tray towards Lu Yi again.
Lu Yi stretched out his hand and was about to grab the bracelet, but the two strong men behind the old man stepped forward silently. The flesh and blood on his body suddenly shriveled and collapsed, and he instantly became a terrible skin and bones.
They dropped their sticks and thrust their hands forward fiercely.
Their fingers quickly grew longer with a 'crack' sound, and in an instant the shortest little finger became three feet long, like twenty sharp daggers, stabbing fiercely into Lu Yi's chest.
When the two big men attacked, their bony fingers instantly turned black and a pungent fishy smell hit their faces.
Lu Yi was slightly startled and was about to fight back.
The chubby old man suddenly raised his head, and his eyes suddenly burst into a emerald green light.
An evil force burst out from the old man's eyes and attacked Lu Yi's mind and soul directly.
While the old man was practicing his evil magic, he opened his mouth and a faint light, almost invisible to the naked eye, suddenly spurted out silently. Then a half-foot long, thinner than a cow hair, extremely sharp, and transparent black needle suddenly spurted out from his mouth without any sound and arrived in front of Lu Yi in an instant.
The two big men attracted Lu Yi's attention, but it was actually the old man who took action.
Such evil and cruel methods are definitely not used by people who practice the righteous way.
Lu Yi's body swayed, and the two men's fingers stabbed into his chest fiercely, and the extremely thin black needle also hit his body.
On the city wall, a group of Jiezhou officials jumped up at the same time, applauding and laughing.
"The Photo Studio Killer lives up to his reputation. He is indeed extremely ruthless and can kill with one strike!"
There was a series of dense "ding ding ding" sounds, and the two men's fingers hit Lu Yi's chest. Their nails suddenly shattered, and their fingers also broke one after another.
The thin needle bounced back and pierced the old man's nose silently.
The old man's reaction was extremely funny. The moment the needle pierced his flesh, he danced and screamed, twitching and foaming at the mouth. He took out a small medicine bottle, his fingers trembling violently. He finally took out a pill sealed with white wax from the bottle and put it into his mouth tremblingly.
However, the needle was too poisonous, and just as the pill reached his mouth, the flesh on the old man's fat body began to turn into pus and blood. Before the pill even touched the old man's lips, he had turned into a dark skeleton, shaking slightly, and with a "crackling" sound, the skeleton collapsed, and the broken bone fragments fell to the ground, and soon melted into a pool of poisonous water.
Above the city gate of Jiezhou , a local official exclaimed: "Didn't you say to capture him alive? How are we going to do it..."
Lu Yi raised his head and looked deeply at the local officials on the city gate tower.
"Everyone, this is not so particular... You agreed to give me some money so that I can leave as soon as possible... Haha, so this is how you give me money?"
"Catch him alive? Haha, haha!"
Lu Yi looked at the poisonous water still bubbling on the ground, shook his head, and walked away with big strides.
The two skinny men roared and charged towards Lu Yi with all their might. Lu Yi turned around and pointed his finger, and the two bodies shattered into pieces.
This method was so secretive and brutal, and so poisonous that he didn't even have time to take the antidote. It must be the method used by the killer in the photo studio.
Capture alive?
This should be the intention of the senior management of Canghai Tower and Baoguang Pavilion.
But the killer in the photo studio was so ruthless. It must be the old lady in the gold pit who gave the order, right?
Women are always prone to extreme emotions.
Her own precious son was dead, and she was not allowed to hysterically demand that the murderer be cut into pieces?
Although Lu Yu committed the crime in the image of the bald man, and "everyone in the world knows" that "the murderer who killed Jinkeng was the evil monk Fahai"...but you have to allow a neurotic woman to vent her anger on others.
Therefore, it completely makes sense that the killer in the photo studio was so ruthless.
Lu Yi ignored the people from Jiezhou and left.
On the wall of Jiezhou city, a group of local officials cheered with joy, but a group of strong figures in black clothes had already filed out of the woods outside the city, and turned into a wisp of afterimages and chased after Lu Yi.
"You bastard, come with us?"
"What is your relationship with the demon monk Fahai? Tell me clearly as soon as possible."
"Don't make a mistake... If you fall into our hands, you still have a chance to survive... You've also seen that someone wants you and you won't be able to die."
A group of men in black were shouting loudly. They moved very quickly and caught up with the slowly walking Lu Yi in an instant and surrounded him.
A man in black took out a jade token and waved it towards Lu Yi.
The jade tablet was engraved with wind and cloud patterns, and in the middle was a huge swallow. Obviously, they were sent by the Xuanyan Immortal Dynasty.
First they used the assassins from the photo studio to launch a sneak attack, but when that failed to do anything to Lu Yi, they immediately sent the elite troops lying in ambush outside the city to hunt him down... There was nothing wrong with their cooperation!
Lu Yi laughed, "Now you want me to surrender. You were so ruthless just now. Didn't you think that you couldn't capture him alive?"
The expression of the man in black holding the jade token became a little embarrassed.
This is not what the people at the photo studio said when they were formulating the arrest plan... They said that the thin needle was quenched with a strong anesthetic, but they didn't say that it was something that could take people's lives.
Shaking his head, the man in black shouted, "Go ahead, catch him alive!"
A group of men in black raised their hands at the same time, and ropes as thick as thumbs flew out with sharp sounds of breaking through the air, wrapping around Lu Yi like living things.
