Chapter 38: Black Mud Pond
Hongxiuzhao is magnificent and can be elegant or vulgar, and has always been a treasured place for celebrities in Beijing to have fun and gather.
Among them are many strict party members.
Most of the members of the Yan Party knew Zhao Wenhua, and quite a few of them knew his family well.
I don’t think Lu Kunlun can hold on for long.
Once Hong Xiuzhao finds out his background, she will definitely change her attitude. Cao Jinxing knows that time is running out and he must seize the opportunity to search for the two people.
The most suspicious one is Nuanxiang Pavilion!
——The place where Su Miaoyun played the piano and received “elegant guests”.
This place is easy to find.
All other rooms in Hong Xiu Zhao are equipped with "sound-absorbing stones", so even if there is the sound of piano playing, the sound will not leave the room.
Only this room is not only not soundproof, but it is hoped that everyone in the capital can hear it, so as to use Su Miaoyun's wonderful piano music to attract distinguished guests.
At this moment, the sound of piano was coming from the room on the east side of the top floor.
Cao Jin walked as fast as the wind. While everyone's attention was on Lu Kunlun in the lobby below, he moved several times, using the shadows to get close to Nuanxiang Pavilion and quietly climbed in through the window.
The piano music remains.
He stood motionless under the window, releasing his true energy to the outside world, and determined the number of people in the room by sensing the changes in water vapor within a radius of fifty meters.
This was a little trick he learned after learning "Ice Control", but he found it was not right after trying it.
There is only one person in the whole room!
Just Su Miaoyun herself?
Didn’t you say you were receiving guests?
Cao Jinxing frowned slightly and looked over from behind the screen. There was a woman in red clothes with a veil on her face playing the piano.
On the surface everything seems normal.
But, her age doesn't match.
It is said that Su Miaoyun entered Hongxiuzhao at the age of sixteen. It has been ten years since then. She should be twenty-six, but the eyebrows and eyes in front of her are not fully grown yet. She is at most sixteen.
Still a little girl.
Cao Jinxing was too lazy to guess, so he just flashed behind her and put his sword on her neck: "Tell me, where is Su Miaoyun?"
The sudden sword strike startled the girl.
"Miss, Miss, she is not here... "
The girl shuddered and answered tremblingly.
"Where did you go?"
"have no idea……"
"Um?"
"real!"
She was so scared that she was about to cry, so she had no time to play the piano. As soon as the piano stopped, the faces of the people below changed immediately. They looked up and could not deal with Lu Kunlun for a while. Some of them who were good at martial arts rushed upstairs.
Lu Kunlun took one look and quickly called out, “Hey, hey, hey! Those few of you, hurry up and pour me a cup of tea! If you neglect me, I’ll kill you!”
He spoke each word with great emphasis, his voice and expression stern.
Those people really didn't dare to move.
They didn't dare to take the risk, and most people didn't dare to cause trouble in Zhao Wenhua's name.
Before they completely figured out his identity, they really couldn't ignore him and could only flatter him with kind words.
The people do not argue with the officials.
What's more, it involved a behemoth like the Yan family, which really intimidated him for a moment.
The mother was angry, and pulled a tortoise over, gritting her teeth and saying, "Go to Haijiao Pavilion upstairs and ask Lord Liu! He is Lord Zhao's confidant, ask him if he has this person. If not, I will chop him into pieces! And ask the rest of the people to go to Nuanxiang Pavilion... I didn't expect there are accomplices, let's deal with them together!"
"clear!"
The turtle left quickly.
Upstairs, Cao Jinxing changed the question: "Did she leave with two men? One of them is ugly. You call him... Master Wei."
According to the Beggars' Sect disciples, the wine seller's surname was Wei and he called himself Wei Wuyan.
The girl stiffened.
"Stop pretending, do you really think I won't kill you?"
Cao Jinxing sneered: "Although you are young, you have the seventh level of acquired cultivation. You shouldn't be so scared as if you don't know martial arts! Didn't your lady tell you that acting should be done in moderation, and too much is as bad as too little?"
He thrust his sword forward.
The cold sword blade cut through the skin.
There was a trace of blood on the girl's neck. The Yin energy of [Snow Soul] invaded her body. The girl felt as if she fell into an ice cave. Her whole body was trembling. This time she was really scared!
"yes……"
Her teeth were chattering.
"She asked you to cover up here on her behalf, so where did she go? Let me count to three, three, two, one..."
He pretended to chop!
"Black mud!"
After all, he is young and can't be frightened easily.
The girl quickly closed her eyes and screamed!
The sword suddenly stopped at her neck!
——Cao Jinxing saw that she was delaying on purpose and not giving him any chance at all, and he gave her the impression of being meticulous and cold-blooded. If he reported a false place name at this time and let him hear it, he would surely die!
The girl collapsed after she finished speaking.
The murderous intent between life and death was too terrifying, she really thought she was going to die!
boom!
Just at this moment, several figures broke in through the door. They were the remaining protective force of Hongxiuzhao.
Cao Jinxing swung his sword casually, and the sword energy was like a collapsing snow mountain, and the bone-chilling cold instantly submerged everyone!
The three people in the front row turned directly into ice sculptures, maintaining the action of rushing in, their whole bodies were ice-blue and stiff, unable to move at all!
Others couldn't help but shudder, as if they were poured with a basin of ice water, and didn't dare to get close.
Cao Jinxing rushed out of the window and disappeared without a trace.
The girl turned around and looked stupidly at the three acquired peak masters who were instantly frozen. She was completely stunned. From beginning to end, she didn't even see Cao Jinxing's face.
First floor lobby.
After much persuasion, Mr. Gui finally invited the drunken Lord Liu from Haijiao Pavilion to come out.
Lord Liu didn't even come downstairs. He just glanced down from the corridor and said with a drunken smile, "How could this ruffian dare to use Lord Zhao's name to cause trouble... hiccups...everyone knows that Lord Zhao only had two cousins, and now they are gone too... where did this... hiccups...cousin come from?"
The mother was furious when she heard this: "Surround him up! Beat him!"
Others had also long disliked this kid. Even though the elite weren't there, they still outnumbered them. Several masters on duty immediately jumped up and pounced!
There were also a few poison masters who secretly prepared hidden weapons.
Lu Kunlun laughed loudly, stood up and threw three punches in a row, using the most common eighth-grade "Liuhe Fist" in the martial arts world, but the punches were both hard and soft, and were extremely powerful.
The three with the most fierce attack were sent flying backwards.
whoosh whoosh whoosh!
All kinds of hidden weapons came from all directions.
Lu Kunlun picked up a chopstick and blocked all the hidden weapons with ease. He then used the "Flying on the Grass" move and quickly retreated, laughing:
"Goodbye, girls~"
Disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Martial arts are common knowledge, but it is obvious that he deliberately did not show off his real skills. He must be extremely powerful to be able to break through so easily!
"not good!"
The mother secretly thought that things were not going well: "One bright and one dark... hurry upstairs! That damned girl Zhu'er might have given away something! Use the Invisible Falcon to notify Miaoyun and tell her to be careful!"
…
Black mud.
It is located in the Baimachuan River in Jizhou Town, northeast of the capital, where the terrain is steep and the mountains are undulating. Further north is the Baimaqiao border pass, which borders the three guards of Doyan.
Because it is too close to Tatar, this area is sparsely populated.
Cao Jinxing and Lu Kunlun ran all the way, one like a ghost, the other soaring straight up, and in a blink of an eye they arrived at Baimachuan.
Wunitan is located in a large canyon called Lulu Gorge in the Baimachuan River. It got its name because of the ten-foot-deep silt that covers an area of several miles in radius.
“It stinks!”
Before they reached Wunitan, Cao Jinxing and Lu Kunlun smelled a foul odor from afar.
It was like the stench of a wild animal's corpse rotting in the mud.
Lu Kunlun said: "No wonder the wine seller didn't even bother to clean up his stench. If the Peach Blossom Spring is hidden in here, then he must be covered in mud and stink every time he goes in and out. It's useless to wash."
Cao Jinxing nodded: "It seems that his Qinggong is not good enough, so he can only use a method similar to earth escape to pass through the mud."
The mud in the Wuni Pond is so deep that even boats and rafts cannot pass through. If you are not good at lightness skills, you will get stuck in it and be dragged into the mud and become part of it.
The two continued on their way.
When they reached the cliff of Lulu Gorge, Cao Jinxing, who had sharp eyes and ears, immediately gestured to Lu Kunlun to keep quiet.
Lu Kunlun nodded.
The two of them jumped lightly onto a big tree on the cliff, and from their vantage point, they looked down into the black mud pool below in the bright moonlight.
Eight figures were passing across the surface of the quagmire.
In the front were two men and one woman.
The men were on both sides.
The woman is in the middle, carrying a guqin on her back and wearing a red skirt. She is none other than Su Miaoyun.
The two men, each carrying one person, moved briskly, throwing out a few pieces of wood every few dozen meters. With the buoyancy provided by the wood chips, the group of eight people quickly passed over the black mud pond.
"'Butterfly Steps Through Flowers'..."
Lu Kunlun narrowed his eyes, sneered and said in a voice transmission: "These people are really disciples of Qijian Music House, no wonder they know "Heart-Captivating Music"... They are really going backwards. As one of the nine secret realm sects, they actually went to a brothel to sing. Aren't they afraid that Master Li will beat these unfilial descendants to death!"
“…”
Cao Jinxing raised his eyebrows and replied, "The Chess and Swords Music School is the famous school in Qiandao Lake, Hangzhou? It seems to be divided into two schools, the zither and the sword?"
"Um."
Lu Kunlun said, "The Chess and Sword Music House and the Beggars' Sect have been friends for generations, but the succession has been poor over the past two generations. The Dongting Martial Arts Competition has been defeated time and again, and the so-called heroes that have been promoted are all trash, not even close to the Nine Sects! I don't know what they are up to."
"never mind."
Cao Jinxing said: "The ones they are holding should be Lao Zhou and Wei Wuyan. The woman's internal strength is average, she should have just passed the Xiantian level. The only problem is the sound of the piano. Be careful of the two men next to them, they are at least the fourth level of Xiantian."
“The disciples of Chess and Sword Music House can still beat those who are at the ninth level of Xiantian!” Lu Kunlun looked down on this sect and said, “I am very familiar with their methods. Don’t worry, just follow me!”
He dodged and jumped down.
Cao Jinxing shook his head, thinking there might be something wrong. The woman and the two men gave him completely different feelings. Old Lu might be at a disadvantage, so he dodged and followed...
