Martial Arts: My Proficiency Panel

late at night.

Outside the Forbidden City.

This place is the imperial city, which is distinguished from the residences outside, because the Forbidden City is used as the residence of the Liao emperor every year, and every autumn, the security is extremely strict.

If it weren't for Ningxiu, Lu Xiaofeng and Sikong Zaixing's lightness kung fu is very good, just don't even think about stepping over the towering walls of any imperial city, where would they come from this palace.

And within the imperial city are the palaces of the great nobles of the Liao Kingdom, among which the palace of Yelu Zongyuan is on this list.

Ning Xiu and the others were lying on the top of an attic, looking from a distance at the very vast palace covering hundreds of acres in front of them.

But I saw that the mansion is composed of more than a hundred houses of different sizes, which are surrounded by eight courtyards. There are no such things as reception rooms, living rooms, dining rooms, workshops, squares, attics, and gardens.

There are only high walls and deep courtyards, and a grand structure.

The layout seems to imply some kind of formation and metaphysics. If ordinary people walk into it without familiar paths, they may get lost in the deep courtyard wall and lose their direction.

In this world, since the Forbidden City was built, it was once owned by the emperors of the Song, Jin and Liao Dynasties. This magnificent imperial city that once belonged to the Song Dynasty was damaged by war and was repaired by the later owner. All, there are more cultural characteristics belonging to Khitan.

Although the terrain of this place is complicated, after several days of investigation by Sikong Zhaixing, he has roughly figured out the layout of the palace, and now he just needs to follow him.

Sikong Zhaixing said via voice transmission: "The terrain of the palace is complicated, you follow me later, let's go to Nayelu Zongyuan first."

Tonight is the 14th, and there is only one day left before the duel between Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuuxue. If there is really any conspiracy, the mastermind behind the scenes must be ready. If you go at this time, you will definitely know some news.

After discussing with each other, several people immediately used their body skills together to walk some dark and solemn corners, and finally turned around and sneaked into the palace.

Move forward quickly all the way, pass through the vermilion curved corridor, and gradually come to the living area behind.

Finally, they arrived in front of a large-scale, ancient and generous courtyard.

here we go.

Several people stopped moving forward.

Compared with the previous three-step one soldier and five-step one pawn strict security, there is no one here, which is very strange.

Sikong Zhaixing's eyes flickered, asking what to do.

Lu Xiaofeng winked, Ning Xiu didn't understand what it meant, but Sikong Zhaoxing already understood, pointed to the direction ahead, and signaled to go over.

The roof where the road still goes is too close to the house where the candles are lit.

Before walking a few steps, Ning Xiu signaled them to stop, and said via voice transmission: "There are experts ahead, if you just walk over like this, you will definitely be discovered."

When the strength has reached the level of Ningxiu, the five senses are fully opened, the five senses of eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body, the five realms of color, sound, smell, taste, and touch are combined, and the spiritual sense is brought to the extreme. Even the slightest turmoil at such a distance can't escape his detection, and it's because his sword skills have touched the threshold of the Tao, his perception has reached the realm of mystery and mystery, and he can perceive the hidden enemy through the sympathy of heaven and earth.

Even messages from the enemy's mind can produce some sensations.

Unless it is a character who is more powerful than their breathing skills, it is difficult to hide in front of them.

Besides...

At this moment, Ning Xiu could see more than a dozen faint red lights in the courtyard.

Three of them are even more popular, obviously they will pose a lot of threats to him.

"Go over there."

With his thoughts spinning, Ning Xiu immediately adjusted his direction and walked towards a five-story attic, preparing to bypass the three masters.

The three of them made a detour to the back of the hill first, turned over the hill with light kung fu without much effort, and landed on the left side of the courtyard.

The night was dark and there was no one around, but a voice could be heard in front of the courtyard. It turned out that a maid was walking past, and it happened that Ning Xiu walked away decisively.

At this time, the three of them had already reached the fifth floor attic, and the voice of the guard came faintly.

In front of the attic, Ning Xiu and the others prepared to go up.

This place should be a corner that has been forgotten all the year round, the space is small and dirty, Ning Xiu just touched the window in front of him, and touched the dust. Sikong Zhaixing said through voice transmission: "Don't look for it, it's dark, you can't find it if you look for it, and these windows are old, they must make a sound when they open and close."

Ning Xiu originally wanted to go through the window directly, so as not to make a louder noise when he climbed the stairs and alert the guards, but Sikong Zhaixing had a better way.

Sikong Zhaixing pulled out the small knife he was carrying with him, and stuck the blade to a window in front of him, with a few ingenious scrapes, he easily removed the entire window, Lu Xiaofeng quickly caught the window panel and put it aside .

The whole process is very smooth, and there is no sound, which shows that the technique is sophisticated.

Sikong Zhaixing jumped into the window first, followed by Lu Xiaofeng and Ning Xiu, and then Sikong Zhaixing put the removed window back in place.

This building should be the pavilion where Yelu Zongyuan watched the scenery. From the first to fourth floors, only the stairs were lit. The place they just entered was pitch black.

When the three of them entered, they heard commotion at the door, as if the guards from outside were patrolling.

Sikong Zhaixing said in a low voice: "Let's go over quickly and walk in front of them, hurry up."

After saying that, Sikong Zhaixing jumped forward with a beautiful lightness kung fu, without making any sound when his toes touched the ground. The two followed her up and moved up quickly. If they were slow, they would be noticed by the guards.

After that, there was no one around for a certain distance, and it was eerily quiet, and the journey was smooth and unimpeded.

When the three of Ning Xiu walked around the attic and entered from the back of the courtyard, Sikong Zhaixing looked at the figures in the room illuminated by the candlelight from a distance, and suddenly frowned: "Yelu Zongyuan is not inside."

"Not here?"

The three walked around for a long distance, but found that Yelu Zongyuan was not there, Ning Xiu couldn't help asking: "Didn't Yelu Zongyuan stay at my house at night, did he go to the Forbidden City?"

squeak~

At this moment, a window on the top floor of the five-storey building they bypassed just now was half opened, and the sharp-eyed Sikong Zhaixing immediately saw the majestic figure.

That person is Yelu Zongyuan's personal bodyguard, he will follow wherever Yelu Zongyuan goes, and the appearance of this person means that Yelu Zongyuan is there.

"Where is he."

Lu Xiaofeng raised his eyebrows, this Yelu Zongyuan guessed that someone would sneak into his mansion at night, and deliberately sent experts to sit in his house, while he himself was quietly waiting for the fish to take the bait in the fifth floor attic beside him.

There are no guards on the first and second floors of the pavilion, and it even looks as if no one has lived in it for a long time, so as to confuse intruders.

If it weren't for Sikong Zaixing's sharp eyes, they would definitely be entangled by the masters in the courtyard, and then surrounded by the guards of the palace.

The three looked at each other, then turned and walked back the same way.

Several people slowly walked up to the fourth floor. Above the stairs was a long corridor with elegant and simple decoration and simple furnishings.

This structure is too simple, so simple that there is no place to hide, not even a darker aisle.

The few people had no choice but to walk down the corridor before turning a corner. They heard two people talking about something at the other corner in front of the corridor. They were walking towards this side. The sound of footsteps brought down the tense atmosphere. vertex.

In fact, on the fifth floor, Ning Xiu had already sensed the aura of many people, which undoubtedly confirmed that Yelu Zongyuan was actually staying on the fifth floor.

But the current situation is how to bypass the ubiquitous guards on the fourth to fifth floors.

Can't be found, can't kill them, only hide.

Sikong Zhaixing decisively pulled the two of them back, wanting to retreat to the original single-lane corridor, but before he could retreat, he heard the sound of a group of people walking on the stairs over there.

People are sandwiched between the front and back, and the footsteps on both sides are gradually approaching, the situation is really awkward.

Ning Xiu looked around, but in this corridor, there was nowhere to hide.

Sikong Zhaixing suddenly grabbed the clothes of the two of them, tapped his toes, jumped straight up lightly, jumped onto the beams of the roof, and squatted down firmly on it.

The three heaved a long sigh of relief.

But before they let go of their breath, their nerves immediately tensed up again, gasping for air, their skins were about to explode.

It was the beam opposite the beam of the house where the three stayed, and there was a person squatting on it.

The man was dressed in black with a black mask, only a pair of eyes were exposed, looking at them with a murderous look, he was holding something in his hand, it was hard to see clearly in the dark, but the man reacted quickly, and was about to raise a hand at them pick up that thing.

Ning Xiu jumped up lightly, rolled over and quietly reached the opposite beam, and swiftly drew out his dagger and swung it at the man in black.

The man in black nimbly rolled on the beam, narrowly dodging Ning Xiu's knife, and raised a small object to Ning Xiu again in a panic. This time he saw it more clearly, it was a black knife.

Ning Xiu's eyes froze, and he rolled over on the beam, covering the mouth of the man in black with one hand, and the dagger in the other hand was attached to the man's neck like lightning, and he cut the man in black with a slash. The large blood vessel, the man died in an instant.

He snatched the black knife from the man in black's hand, held it tightly in his hand, and tightly covered the man's neck with one hand, blood slowly overflowing from the palm of his hand.

These movements were completed within a few breaths, and the identity of the man in black was unknown, and he didn't shout out immediately when he noticed the three of them, so they didn't reveal their existence.

And when Ning Xiu dealt with the man in black, the people below had already passed here slowly.

"what sound?"

The dripping blood hit the wooden board, making a slight sound, and one person heard the sidewalk.

"Don't make a fuss."

He looked around while walking, and the two people who were going to the stairs first happened to run into this group of people, and one of them whispered: "Go in quickly, the master waited until the tea was cold..."

"Yes." The leader bowed his head and replied, not caring about where the voice came from.

The three of them, holding their breath, relaxed a little at this moment, watching a man with a long knife walking behind them slowly.

The sound of footsteps gradually faded away, and the tense muscles of several people slowly relaxed, and they let out a long breath.

Ning Xiu hung the man in black on the beam, tore off a piece of clothing from the man in black and tied his bleeding neck tightly, then jumped back to Lu Xiaofeng and Sikong Zaixing with a serious expression.

"The swordsman just now is very powerful, I don't know what his identity is."

"If I'm not wrong, it should be the master of the rivers and lakes invited by Yelu Zongyuan. In addition to the three masters I saw in the room just now, there are already four masters of our level in the palace. It seems that Yeluzong Yuan's conspiracy is not small."

Ning Xiu handed the knife he snatched from the man in black to Lu Xiaofeng, and asked, "This is a knife made of stone, do you know it?"

"A knife polished by stone?" Lu Xiaofeng stroked the black knife, looked at it through the light, and found some strange characters on it, "This seems to be the knife of those barbarians in the extreme north."

"The land of the extreme north?"

Ning Xiu frowned, did all the foreigners in the north get involved? It seems that Yelu Zongyuan is really ambitious, and even has connections with foreigners.

The last few who had passed before said something to each other and walked out slowly. The three of them held their breaths and waited for them to pass. When the footsteps spread down the stairs, they resumed normal breathing and walked towards the end of the corridor on the beam.

At the end of the corridor was the door of a room, which was guarded by two guards with swords. The three of them squatted on the beam outside the door, just hanging directly above the heads of the two. From where they were squatting, they could just see the situation inside the house through a few cracks.

The room was very spacious, and a row of bead curtains hung in front of the upper seat, which obscured the people behind, but it was not difficult to see that there was a tall man sitting behind.

On the two sides in front of the bead curtain stood a strong man with a knife and an extremely charming woman.

An old man was sitting next to the swordsman who went in just now. There are always a dozen or so masters inside, all of them are of innate level.

From behind the bead curtain came the sound of the teacup lid scraping the rim, and accompanied by the ceramic rubbing sound, came the voice of a calm middle-aged man: "Is this hero Fu Hongxue, the world's sharpest swordsman?"

The man named Fu Hongxue had an extremely pale complexion, but he had an extremely pitch-black long knife, his eyes were shining, and he exuded an air of arrogance.

Seeing the man behind the bead curtain, Fu Hongxue smiled, that smile was like sunshine on ice, extraordinarily bright.

"My lord avenged me. No need to say much. I will definitely help you with your lord's affairs."

"Okay! With your words, the king is relieved, and I will give you a seat."

Fu Hongxue nodded when he heard this, and sat down on the seat beside him.

"Red Cloud." The middle-aged man called out suddenly, "Go pour a cup of tea for the guests."

"Yes, master." The woman took a few steps forward, with a charming face and charming movements, her pair of red phoenix eyes were full of bone-destroying enchantment, her waist twisted and twisted and she carried the teapot to pour tea for Fu Hongxue.

There are also a few masters of the rivers and lakes who have already arrived around, including an old man with a clear face, cloth shoes and white socks, and a blue cloth gown, and his demeanor is nothing special.

He was still resting his eyes with his eyes closed, until Fu Hongxue arrived, and he opened them suddenly. These eyes were piercing, piercing like sharp swords, making people dare not look at them closely. Obviously, he was a person with extremely profound internal strength and extremely good swordsmanship. Fu Hongxue felt a twinge of pain just by looking at such a superb person.

This old man was Xue Yiren, who was known as the number one swordsman in the north back then. Xue Yiren was known as the "Man in Blood Cloth" when he was a teenager. The "killer impermanence" Pei Huan in the southern seven provinces was all beheaded by Xue Yiren on Mount Goulou.

After being middle-aged, he has cleared his anger and retreated to the forest under the Yin Mountain, but he has practiced a sword even more superbly. It is said that in the past forty years, no one has been able to perform ten strokes under his sword, and because of this, he has won the first place in the north. The name of the swordsman.

He had already retired, but was invited here by Yelu Zongyuan. It can be seen that Yelu Zongyuan's ability is really not small, even Xue Yiren was invited here.