The cold and stern girl roared and then disappeared into thin air.
She only left a final deadline. If Tiemenguan could not find the person she was looking for within the deadline, she only said one sentence - "severe punishment according to the law."
Just these four simple words made Tie Wuxin, who had been standing aside with a blank expression on his face, suddenly change color. Cold sweat kept oozing out of his forehead, and his square and quite handsome face suddenly twisted like a ghost.
When the girl disappeared without a trace, the lobby returned to its usual coldness and solemnity. Tie Wuxin then put his hands behind his back and walked step by step to Qin Zhen, who was blasted out of the lobby, with a big hole in the ground, his whole body burned, and half an inch of flesh on his body turned to charcoal, and was still vomiting blood.
With a flick of his wrist, three palm-sized, crystal clear, dark golden imperial coins with star maps engraved on the surface, which constantly exuded a strong Taoist charm and powerful spiritual fluctuations, were thrown by Tie Wuxin onto Qin Zhen's chest.
Qin Zhen took a deep breath. These three coins were obviously much higher in rank than the common "small emperor coins" in Luoyi. The emperor coins, which contained at least ten thousand times more Dao rhyme and spiritual power, suddenly shook. Strands of three-color starlight visible to the naked eye continued to pour out from the emperor coins and quickly poured into his body. Qin Zhen's body was full of vitality. The charred skin and flesh on his body quickly fell off, and new flesh and blood quickly grew. In a few breaths, he had recovered as before and slowly stood up.
He patted his body with his hands to clean up the fallen flesh and skin, and looked down at his chest which had a big hole in it. Qin Zhen muttered in a low voice: "My friend, this time we have to get through this together... That gentleman really meant death when he attacked me just now. If I hadn't bought a Tianjun-level heart-protecting mirror at a high price in Tianjie that year, I would have died from that attack just now."
Tie Wuxin stretched out his hand carefully and with a hint of fear.
Seeing that Qin Zhen didn't react much, Tie Wuxin quickly dropped his palm and gently patted Qin Zhen's shoulder to show his intimacy: "Yes, no matter how fiercely the three of us fought in the past, it was only for the benefit of a few melons and two dates. Fighting without breaking is the norm... The three of us have a tacit understanding and a bottom line, and we will not do anything that will really embarrass everyone."
"But this time...if we don't join forces seriously, we'll really be doomed."
Tie Wuxin's mouth twitched, and the cold sweat on his forehead slowly slid down his cheeks. He said in a low voice: "Back then, I was in Chongyang Tianshi and witnessed with my own eyes a powerful Tianjun who committed a crime. His mansion was broken into by the Patrolling Forbidden Divine Guards and he was 'severely punished according to the law'... Hehe, that scene was like a nightmare, and it has not dissipated in my mind for a whole million years... I will never let myself or my family members suffer that fate."
Qin Zhen raised his head and pointed quickly towards the sky: "Can't we ask the superiors to mediate? After all, they asked us to find them. If we can't find them, we can only say that they hid too well. It's not that we are not careful, but that they are too cunning... At most, we are incompetent. How can... How can..."
Tie Wuxin's cheeks trembled violently. He lowered his voice and said in a deep voice, "Tie Zhen offended that lord. After that lord revealed his identity, they immediately controlled the garrison's external communication channels... Now, the entire Tiemen Pass and Badayuan have been cut off from the outside world."
"I do have an emergency contact talisman given by Lord Chongyang."
"But the entire Iron Gate Pass is surrounded by the void, and I...can't contact the Lord." The cold sweat on Tie Wuxin's forehead had gathered into a small strand and slowly fell down. He hoarsely said: "My feeling is not very good. I'm afraid that even if we find the person they are looking for, we will be in endless trouble."
"No one does things this way. Who knows who they are looking for and what kind of life-threatening connection they have?"
"You don't do things this way... You actually took away our authority and even restricted our external communications... You should be able to tell that something is wrong, very wrong!"
Qin Zhen looked up in shock and hissed, "This is simply outrageous. How dare they?"
Tie Wuxin gritted his teeth and sneered, squeezing out a few words from between his teeth: "Why not? Do you and I have any backers that would make them wary? Do you and I have any noble and extraordinary family background? What kind of existence is the Forbidden Heaven Guard? How terrifying are the shocking waves and invisible undercurrents inside? Don't you have heard of it? This is something that everyone in the world with a little status knows?"
"If we are small shrimps like you and me, we will be crushed to death..."
Tie Wuxin whispered, "I'm afraid that Tiezhen's pioneering group is almost there. Several of my youngest grandchildren are mixed in with Tiezhen's pioneering group. They are looked after by reliable and capable elders in the clan... Once the pioneering group enters the primitive wasteland, they will officially reveal their identities."
Tie Wuxin looked at Qin Zhen dimly and said softly, "You know, the primitive wasteland is much safer than here."
Qin Zhen's expression became extremely strange, almost distorted.
He lowered his voice and tightly grasped the front of Tie Wuxin's shirt with both hands: "Why are you saying this now?"
Tie Wuxin patted Qin Zhen's hand gently and said calmly: "I was just taking precautions... Who knew that this lady could kill you? When I saw her 'casual attack' just now, I knew that it was right to keep this precautionary measure."
Shrugging his shoulders, Tie Wuxin said calmly: "But don't worry, Tie Zhen is accompanied by a group of playboys who are close to him. Some of them have distant bloodlines of you and Lao Lin, and they are all males."
"So, you and Old Lin should thank me." Tie Wuxin smiled and said, "Now we don't have to worry about anything, right? At least our three families will have a bloodline no matter what happens... Moreover, I left a secret report to the king in the hands of one of my grandsons. There is always a chance that the king will know what happened here."
Qin Zhen's face kept changing unpredictably. Finally, he suddenly laughed, took two steps back, and bowed to Tie Wuxin solemnly: "Now I know why you and I are from similar backgrounds, and why you are the garrison commander while we can only be your adjutants... Awesome, really awesome, good, good, good, very good... You even hid it from us. I really thought that Tiezhen had offended that woman and was exiled far away."
"Very well. I appreciate your kindness."
“Since Hou Gu Wuyou has left behind a bloodline and a glimmer of possibility for revenge… then, let’s go all out and have some fun with them!” Tie Wuxin clenched his fists and said in a hoarse voice: “Patrol God Guards? Haha, anyone below the level of the Great Emperor will die if they touch me. I want to see how miserably I can die!”
He leaned close to Qin Zhen's ear and said in a hoarse voice, "Don't hide the good things in the bottom of the box at home. Take them out and use them... If we can't find the people, if we can't give them an explanation... If they really want to do something cruel to us, then, let's show them some power."
Qin Zhen grinned, and in his smile there was a hint of madness and hysteria.
This is Tiemenguan.
It was their Tie, Qin and Lin families who opened up a wasteland, started their business from a blank slate, built and expanded bit by bit, and accumulated wealth bit by bit, leading to the prosperity of today.
Everything in Tiemenguan should belong to them.
What are the Sky Patrolling Forbidden Divine Guards? No matter how powerful they are, no matter how terrible their reputation is, they want to completely wipe out the three families from Tiemenguan. If they want to do something to Tiemenguan, then be prepared to face the backlash from Tiemenguan!
Hey……
Blocked the Iron Gate and cut off all communications inside and outside?
It can be seen that there is some shameful business going on, and it can be seen that the people these people want to find are clearly closely related to it.
Interesting, interesting!
It’s really, really interesting!
Tiemenguan, outside the city, on the hillside of a graceful little hill, in one of several exquisitely decorated houses, the young girl, who had just dealt a casual blow and severely injured Qin Zhen, almost killing him on the spot, appeared out of thin air with a gloomy face, and sat down heavily behind a desk.
A breeze blew, and a teapot and a teacup appeared in the air. The teapot tipped over by itself, pouring out emerald green tea with a faint fragrance, which was exactly seven-tenths full in the teacup.
The girl grabbed the teacup and gulped it down.
The teapot tipped over again and she took another sip.
After finishing more than ten cups of tea, the girl impatiently threw the teacup away. A ripple appeared in the air, and the teacup and teapot were submerged in the ripples, disappearing without a trace.
She snorted coldly, "It's a poor place with bad water and bad mountains, and the people are corrupt and the officials are corrupt. This is the worst place... The people inside and outside the Iron Gate are all a bunch of trash. The salary of the Heavenly Court over the years is used on this group of people? It's better to feed it to the dogs!"
The breeze started again, and several men dressed in blood-red robes, wearing tall black iron crowns on their heads, with cold light flashing in their eyes, their eyebrows slightly opening and closing, with a hint of thunder ready to be unleashed, cold faces, and a murderous chill all over their bodies, slowly walked out of the air and stood in a row in front of the girl.
The girl casually took off the high crown on her head, and her long black hair rolled back like a waterfall, twisting and shaking as it fell behind her. Her hair rubbed and collided with each other, making a faint thunderous sound and splashing a trace of lightning that was visible to the naked eye.
Delicate and pretty, but her frozen little face showed no emotion at all. The girl placed her hands on the desk, staring at the men like a tiger ready to pounce.
"Any news?"
Several men shook their heads slightly.
"What's going on here?"
A man took two steps forward and said in a deep voice, "From what we have observed, the garrisons of the cities at Tiemenguan Pass are doing their best to cooperate and track down the whereabouts of those people... However, in a remote frontier area like Tiemenguan Pass, the discipline is lax and the military regulations are not strict. It can be said that the civil and military are idle, which is simply absurd... Their efficiency is very low."
The girl's eyebrows were raised and her eyes slightly opened. She muttered in a low voice: "The efficiency is very low. This is very bad. We need to find a way to make them nervous and improve their efficiency a little bit."
"Others are fine, but that old man must not be allowed to return to that person this time." The girl pointed above her head and said coldly, "He has been a good man for many years and likes to be a good person so much, why doesn't he die? Only dead people are truly harmless to others, and are truly, purely and thoroughly good people!"
The men said nothing.
Of course they knew who this 'nice guy' was.
As for whether he was a real, pure good guy, and whether things would get better after his death... that was not something they should care about.
The girl represents the will of that adult.
The girl wants the good old man to die, which means the adult wants the good old man to die... In that case, then find him and let him die, it's that simple.
"You should know that the old man is the most trusted minister around him. If we can't find him in a short time... I don't know what kind of changes will happen."
The girl narrowed her eyes and smiled softly: "Tell me, when will people become hardworking and do their best to do things?"
The men said nothing.
The girl stood up and said calmly, "Of course, when a knife is placed on the neck and the whole family is about to be exterminated if they are not careful, then some people will really work hard, really risk their lives, and really find ways to get things done."
"So, adults taught us that when we do something, we must do it thoroughly. Don't leave any room for luck to those who are wavering."
The girl said calmly, "He offended me, so he sent that dude out, saying he was sent out to explore the primitive wasteland, taking the opportunity to keep his bloodline out there? He wanted to use the primitive wasteland as a barrier to stop us from taking action? Haha, it's a nice idea, but is it that easy?"
The girl suddenly laughed very brightly: "Let Dao Qiqiqi do it, and do it cleanly . Bring back the heads of those bloodlines sent by the Tie, Lin, and Qin families. Well, I will personally deliver them to Tie Wuxin and the others later."
"Instead of working hard for us, they actually resorted to such a petty trick to send their own descendants away to hide... What is they doing?"
The girl sighed.
"To put it mildly, this is a lack of trust in us!"
"To put it in a broader sense, this is a lack of trust in the Patrolling Divine Guards!"
“Although we are not the real Forbidden Sky Patrol Guards… but they actually dared to doubt the authority of the Forbidden Sky Patrol Guards and question their credibility… Isn’t this a capital crime?”
"It's done. Kill all of them and leave behind the cover of the Patrolling Divine Guards."
"If things go wrong, kill them all and leave the sign of the Sky Patrol Forbidden Divine Guards behind."
The girl tilted her head slightly and said with a smile, "They thought that Tiezhen, that dandy good-for-nothing, was about to escape, and they must be feeling smug now. I suddenly held their heads and sent them in front of . Don't you think it's funny?"
“Will they despair?”
“Will they be angry?”
"In their despair and anger, will they work hard for us or will they attack us with all their might?"
The girl stared at her subordinates.
The men remained silent and looked at the girl quietly.
The girl frowned, sighed, and waved her hand gently: "Forget it, I shouldn't have too much hope."
"You guys, you don't know any tricks, cunning, tactical tactics, or strategies... But I can't blame you for this, really, I can't blame you... That lord has locked this up so tightly that you haven't even got a single drop of it... Your heads are made of solid stone, I can't blame you for this."
"Hey, don't talk about you. Even I, although I have learned a little bit of the dregs of the Way of Stratagem from that adult's fingers... but sometimes, I still feel that it is not enough, not enough!"
"If you take care of your head, you can't take care of your feet."
"If you take care of your feet, you won't be able to take care of your butt!"
"Oh, it's so tight, it's ugly!"
"However, it is enough to deal with this small situation... Although I don't have much strategy or cunning, I am still much smarter than these country bumpkins in Tiemenguan, right?"
"So, let Dao Qiqiqi take action."
"I just like this feeling... Let them see a glimmer of hope, and then completely kill all their hopes! Hoho!"
The girl laughed a few times in a strange way.
Then, her laughter stopped abruptly. She frowned and looked at the men, and said in a deep voice: "Why aren't you laughing? Do you also think that my behavior is quite meaningless? Do you think that I am a little... twisted, perverted, and a completely bad woman?"
The men remained silent, but their eyes opened slightly, and the power of thunder within them became slightly more intense.
The girl pursed her lips and nodded slightly: "Go do your work."
She sat down gently, the air around her rippled, and a wine pot inlaid with seven treasures and an antique bronze wine cup quietly flew out. The wine pot poured out by itself, and a stream of wine with a color as red as blood and a pungent smell of blood quietly poured into the wine cup.
The girl grabbed the wine cup and sipped the wine.
She watched the men's bodies sway slightly and then disappear into the air, and suddenly she smiled.
"Lord of the Heavenly Book... where are you? Where are you!"
"Ah, I really hope that guy makes a mistake this time... Could the Heavenly Book Master really be stranded around here? Tsk, I hope he's at Tiemenguan, I hope I found him... Don't let those little bitches give the credit to him!"
Behind the girl, in a small space, the light suddenly dimmed.
A figure nearly two meters tall, covered in heavy armor, quietly emerged behind her. This person's entire body was like a black hole, madly devouring all the light, all the ways, all the visible and invisible existence and concepts around him.
He stood quietly behind the girl, and two spots of blood light slowly lit up on his dark visor.
The girl giggled, stood up, and without looking back or turning around, she whispered, "Sir, when can I die?"
The unusually burly figure with an extremely terrifying aura laughed in a low and strange, extremely vague voice.
He raised his right hand, grabbed the back of the girl's head, and pushed her to the ground.
A dark light shone on the floor of the exquisitely carved white jade temple. The girl's head hit the ground with a dull thud, her skin torn, her skull cracked, and blood and brain matter all over the floor.
The figure swung his fists and attacked the girl frantically.
The girl's slender and beautiful body was smashed into a mess by a few punches from the figure. Her face was distorted, and the flickering light in her three eyes contained extremely twisted madness, extreme pleasure and joy.
After a long, long time, the figure shook his fists gently, spilling large amounts of blood and flesh, and slowly stood up.
An invisible and traceless aura of Tao enveloped the temple. The girl's entire shattered body, except for her head, squirmed rapidly and recovered in the blink of an eye. Even her shattered clothes and armor were completely restored, without any trace of the previous shattering or annihilation.
The girl was crawling on the ground like a dead dog, with saliva even flowing from the corners of her mouth.
The figure muttered in a low voice: "Want to die? How can it be that easy?"
"Many people want to die, but they all have to live well!"
"According to divination, they are most likely to be lost near Tiemenguan Pass... Your chances of finding them are the highest. So, do your best to find them. I don't care what you do, and I don't care if you find some cheap and insignificant fun for yourself during this process... Anyway, do your best to find them!"
"Lord of the Heavenly Book? Not important!"
"Linghu Wuyou? Not important either."
"That stupid woman Ling Huan? She's even less important!"
"Whether they found anything, whether they discovered anything, whether they brought anything back from the netherworld, none of it matters. What does it matter?"
"Qing Feng, I just want you to find Qing Feng, find him!"
"Then, I killed him with my own hands! This is very important!"
The girl slowly raised her head and smiled at the shadow with a clear and sweet voice: "Then, if I found him but kept it a secret and let him return to the Patrol God Guards safely and smoothly, with some clues he found in the lower world that I didn't know about..."
The black shadow looked down at the girl and laughed.
"You can try."
"But if you tried, what would it matter?"
“Do you think what you’re doing is important?”
"Do you think that what you are doing is qualified to be used as a bargaining chip to bargain with me?"
"Stupid woman!"
"You don't even know who I am!"
"But I can guarantee one thing... If you really do what you just said, then I guarantee that you will live a long, long life without any illness or disaster!"
The girl pursed her lips tightly, and her originally delicate and lovely lips were forced into a pale, extremely thin line, as thin as a knife blade.
The shadow smiled and nodded: "Anything else you want to say?"
The girl shook her head.
The shadow stretched out his right hand, and his long and thick fingers were like crossbow arrows fired from a siege crossbow, piercing the girl's chest with a "bang". Indescribable "pain" poured into the girl's body, infecting every cell and every bit of her soul in an instant.
This is the 'Avenue of Pain' that directly erodes the girl's body.
No matter how many wounds there were in the flesh or how painful it was to tear the soul apart, none of them could describe the pain of the ‘Avenue of Pain’ that had descended directly upon her, branding her entire body, her entire soul, her entire spiritual essence, and even her past and present lives, countless reincarnations in the future, all of the cause and effect entanglements, all of which were immersed in it, washing and cleansing them over and over again, bringing her pain.
'The Avenue of Pain'!
This is the root of all suffering in the world, the root of all suffering!
The black shadow adjusted the pain the girl endured at will. The pain the girl was going through at this moment was a hundred times... a thousand times... ten thousand times more intense than the combined pain of all the tortures that could be imagined by all the intelligent creatures in the world!
However, under the blessing of the 'Path of Pain', the girl endured this indescribable pain, but her body did not suffer any harm, and her soul did not suffer any harm...
She was twitching and jumping on the ground like a dead fish.
She wants to die.
But where can I die?
So she struggled, rolled, and twitched on the ground. She stretched out her spasmodic hands, hugged the black shadow's feet tightly, and hit his hard boots with her forehead, shattering his skull and spurting blood and brain matter far away.
The black shadow looked nonchalant, just like an old butcher who saw a little quail that couldn't swim fall into the water and sink into the deep water little by little, and smiled nonchalantly.
He casually picked up the wine cup that the girl had just used, put it to his nose and sniffed it.
Shaking his head, the black shadow said calmly: "Strong anesthetic made from Worry-Free Grass? Is this stuff useful? Haha!"
He casually threw the wine cup aside, and the black shadow slowly dissipated.
"Do your job well."
"Next time, don't think about angering me."
"To be honest, even if it's a cat or a dog, if you keep it for a long time, you will have some feelings for it. What's more, you are a little woman with a noble status and good looks? There's no need. I don't want to be too harsh on you, right?"
"Just focus on your work. Don't think about those random, messy things."
"Isn't it good to be alive?"
"Well, life may be a little difficult for you... Then find a way to make yourself live more comfortably, and stop tossing around in these messy things. Why bother to make yourself suffer for no reason?"
The shadow disappeared completely.
The Iron Gate Pass was equipped with layers of defensive formations and void restrictions, and the city defense system that was densely spread out and was known as the Golden City, but it simply could not react to the appearance and disappearance of the black shadow.
The girl lay on the ground gasping for a long time. Her skull and flesh that had just collapsed healed again, and the blood and brain matter that had flowed out returned to her body.
She stood up slowly, the dust on her body was swept away, and her clothes and armor were restored to their meticulous state. Her delicate and stern little face was still so perfect and so superior, as if every pore was filled with the breath of power and strength.
Ripples vibrated in the air, and a bronze mirror quietly emerged.
The girl looked at her face in the mirror carefully for a while and sighed softly: "It's so hard to die... How can it be so easy to live?"
"So, since my life is so difficult...I have to make things difficult for you!"
"Knife seven seven seven, start!"
"Kill Tiezhen and his group, and chop off the heads and skin of the bastards from the Tie, Lin, and Qin families hiding in his group, regardless of whether they are men or women, and send them back!"
"Hee, send it back before the dinner, just in time to make a perfect side dish!"