Mortal Mage

Zhang Mingxuan was groping for the half-wasted spirit stone in his hand.

This spiritual stone had lost its spiritual power and was no different from an ordinary stone. It was so uncomfortable to use as a stepping stone that he just played with it in his hand.

One low-grade spirit stone can be exchanged for one thousand taels of gold.

"If you want to avoid assassination, sleeping in the palace for a long time is not a solution."

After thinking for a long time, he thought about the present situation again; "From what Li Si said, there are many people who want to kill me."

"I boasted and proposed reform and opening up, but I didn't expect to offend the whole court today."

"Ugh."

He sighed deeply, lay down on the table, and prepared to fall asleep.

He had just closed his eyes when the door of Zhenghe Hall opened slightly under the moonlight.

Four men in black holding long swords tiptoed into the hall.

Zhang Mingxuan saw clearly that these four people were definitely here to kill him.

The Zhenghe Hall was extremely large, with no less than a hundred tables and desks inside. Zhang Mingxuan was hiding in a dark shadow in the corner of the hall, and several people groped their way in and did not see Zhang Mingxuan at first.

Zhang Mingxuan's nerves were tense and he slowly crawled under the table.

The four men in black holding long swords searched the hall bit by bit. Zhang Mingxuan hid in the dark and moved quietly.

Zhenghe Hall is where Zhang Mingxuan works. He has been here for many days and knows exactly where the tables, chairs, benches, vases and bookshelves are.

The few men in black who came in had obviously never been to Zhenghe Hall, so they could only grope their way forward.

After Zhang Mingxuan secretly negotiated with a few people, he moved to the door of Zhenghe Hall and quietly went outside the hall, while the four men in black were still looking for Zhang Mingxuan in the hall.

The Taihe Palace Square should have been patrolled by the Feathered Guards, or have eunuchs on duty waiting to receive orders from the palace at any time.

But at this time, the entire Taihe Palace was empty and deserted.

"How powerful is this person to be able to send away all the eunuchs of the Feathered Guards on duty at the Taihe Palace to kill me?"

Zhang Mingxuan was lying behind a stone railing outside the Zhenghe Hall. He stood up and tiptoed to look in the direction of the harem. He was wondering whether he should run directly to the harem and shout for help from Emperor Li Sigou.

The door to the harem was also closed and there was no one there.

Zhang Mingxuan was thinking about a countermeasure in his mind. Seeing that the harem was empty, he murmured, "This is unscientific. How could there be no one on duty in the harem?"

There was a sound of "pop".

It seemed that something was knocked over in the hall by the man in black, and soon the palace lanterns in Zhenghe Hall were lit.

"no one!"

A man in black looked at the empty hall and growled.

"He ran away! Go chase him!"

The other man in black reacted quickly and stepped out of the hall in three or five steps.

Far away at the gate of Taihe Palace, a man in the official uniform of the second-rank right vice minister of the Ministry of Revenue was seen crawling and tumbling out of the Taihe Palace.

"The palace gate is not locked tonight!"

Zhang Mingxuan was shocked when he left Taihe Palace. He even suspected that Li Si, the dog emperor, wanted to kill him personally. Then he quickly shook his head. "If Li Si wanted to kill me, he wouldn't go to such great lengths."

Zhang Mingxuan hadn't run far when he saw four men in black chasing him rapidly, only a hundred meters away.

"Help! Someone's killing me! There's an assassin!"

Zhang Mingxuan was shouting at the top of his lungs on the street outside the Taihe Palace, but he had no other choice now.

But when he shouted, no one responded. Instead, the four men in black behind him walked faster.

While running, Zhang Mingxuan became more and more out of breath. The physical strength of these people was obviously much better than his.

"Where is this kid running to? Wang Han's home is in the East City, about eight or nine miles away. I don't know where Guo Zhuoran and Dang Nanzhi's homes are either."

Zhang Mingxuan thought as he ran.

After another thirty or fifty breaths of chasing, Zhang Mingxuan was already out of breath after running away in a panic, while the four men in black kept pace with him, speeding up again.

In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two was less than thirty or fifty meters.

"Brothers, let me go, I'm a good person, don't kill me!"

Zhang Mingxuan shouted loudly and turned several turns before entering a courtyard.