Tang Dizhihua

April [-]th.

Little is known about what happened during the day in Hanguang Temple.However, what will be held the next day is well known to everyone.

Empress Wu Zhao believed in Buddhism. After she came to the throne, Buddhist temples prospered near the capital of the gods, and the practice of worshiping Buddha prevailed in the country.

This time for the Obon Festival, she feels that Guanhe has been peaceful and peaceful for more than a year, and people's lives are peaceful and happy, so she wants to go to Hanguang Temple on the outskirts of Shendu to offer incense.

The Queen's visit in person is no small matter.As early as a month ago, Hanguang Temple was under martial law, and the emperor's personal army inspected it day and night, for fear of any mistakes.But on April [-]th, they still dug up a headless corpse.

At this time, Di Renjie was skeptical about the Queen's statement in the court hall that "he will be the head of the incense on behalf of the six departments and nine ministers", because the candidate for the incense should be the prince.Di Renjie was very puzzled, so he asked his student Zhang Jianzhi.

Zhang Jianzhi told him that the prince had raised a prostitute in another courtyard in the past few months, and Wu Sansi's party seized the opportunity to ruthlessly read a book.

But the crown prince was demoted from a saint to the king of Luling back then, and he was finally crowned crown prince and returned to the capital of God.

Both were skeptical.But the important matter of pilgrimage comes first, and the two of them have to keep this matter in their hearts temporarily, and they will only talk about it in the future.

Zhang Jianzhi went back to the value room alone.Not long after, Huan Bin came to find Di Renjie and told him about the sudden discovery of the dead body in Hanguang Temple.

Di Renjie went with him to Hanguang Temple, after checking, he found something strange.

After returning home, it happened that Li Yuanfang came back. From Li Yuanfang's narration, Di Renjie finally got the news that Shining would go to Hanguang Temple tomorrow to assassinate him. Thinking of the corpse found in Hanguang Temple during the day, he was surprised that someone must have sneaked into the temple. In the temple, so I went at night to eliminate this hidden crisis.

Hui Wenzhong wiped his knife calmly, polishing the blade until it was spotless, and then closed his eyes.

After a while, he raised the saber flat, his deep eyebrows and eyes were clearly reflected on the saber.Immediately the candle was extinguished, and a figure moved around and disappeared in an instant.

He hurried all the way, found several escape routes in Hanguang Temple, and then disappeared in the Daxiong Palace where he was going to make incense the next day, remembering the decorations in the palace in his heart.

Li Yi secretly followed Di Renjie to Hanguang Temple, watched him check out the monks in the temple, and successfully used Xiaomei's snake-shaped wooden sign to defraud the person pretending to be a monk.

Li Yi frowned, and found that this person's disguise method was similar to that of Chongzhou.

This person's martial arts is not high, Li Yuanfang observed for a while, and ruled out the possibility that he is the Shining Spirit.

Ruyan captured him and asked him to be Xueling's subordinate. Before he could ask again, he was killed by a shadowless needle.

Li Yi's eyes were fixed, and before he could turn his head to look, he noticed a white figure leaving quickly from the corner of his eye.

Li Yuanfang chased after him.Li Yi took a look at Di Renjie, and followed him a step later.

When he came to the Daxiong Palace, he faintly heard someone talking.He opened the door first, only to see two figures standing opposite each other at the two ends of the Buddha statue in the dimly lit hall.One is Li Yuanfang, as for the other...

Li Yi's pupils shrank suddenly.

If he was not mistaken, the young man in a white round-neck robe and a snake-shaped bun was the man in white who he met two years ago in front of the ruins of Huang Guogong's mansion in Jiangzhou. ——Li Xin, Li Wenzhong.

The door of the palace opened suddenly, and both Li Yuanfang and Hui Wenzhong subconsciously looked towards the door.Li Yuanfang didn't respond to him, but Jin Wenzhong's heart was shocked. At this moment, his heart somehow coincided with Li Yi's thoughts.

Li Yi closed the palace door and stopped two feet away from their battle circle.He didn't speak, just pursed his lips tightly, only his left hand holding the hilt of the sword vaguely revealed his emotions.

Hui Wenzhong probably thought it was him, but at the moment he was wearing a disguise and the light was dim, Fei Wenzhong reluctantly withdrew his thoughts, faced Li Yuanfang again, and said with a smile: "Unexpectedly, Li Yuanfang also found a helper."

Li Yuanfang said: "This is the battlefield between you and me."

Li Yi also took two steps back in a calm manner, leaned on the doorpost of the main hall, raised his hand, and motioned for them to continue.

Fei Wenzhong smiled, and said to Li Yuanfang: "I don't know who is faster between the two of us?"

The two each showed their weapons, and Li Yi saw the familiar bamboo knife, and somehow made a mistake, remembering the night when this man put the knife on his neck.

Immediately, he rubbed his wrist involuntarily, feeling that the wrist he was holding down on the pulse gate was still aching.

At this time, the two shot at the same time.Li Yuanfang is proficient in swords. It doesn't mean that his sword skills are not good, but that his skills are not as good as sword skills.

Li Yi has been practicing swords for more than ten years, and he dare not say how much he knows about swords, but he can clearly see that Li Yuanfang is restricted by the sword.The swordsmanship emphasizes lightness and changeability, one touch and go away, the swordsmanship can be simple, but the sword light can confuse the opponent infinitely.However, Li Yuanfang opened and closed his sword wide, although it was also a kind of swordsmanship, but it slowed down his speed to a certain extent.He is not so much using a sword as he is using a knife.

And his opponent, Wen Wenzhong, has top-notch agility and extremely fast speed.The bamboo knife in his hand has a strange shape, but it doesn't change the fact that it is a short weapon.However, the blade of this weapon is narrow and long, and the handle is almost as long as the blade, which means that as long as he changes the way of holding the blade, he can instantly become a long weapon.

The two are extremely fast, and they have already clashed dozens of moves at this moment. The sharp knife energy they released instantly cut open the fruit offerings in the temple. Donate fruit, forget it.

The gate of the palace was also pushed open at the right time, and Di Renjie and Ruyan rushed in. Seeing the fierce battle between the two, they were terrified, and Ruyan panicked: "This must be the Shining!"

The two did not dare to approach their battle circle.At this moment, Li Yuanfang and Jin Wenzhong were evenly matched, and they almost became two afterimages in the hall.Except for Li Yi who can see their moves clearly, the others can only see two blurred shadows.

The two fought for a moment, and simply used the cover of beams, pillars and banners to attack and defend each other.Fei Wenzhong kicked hard towards the beams and pillars, and took advantage of the huge reverse force to slam the weak point of Li Yuanfang's sword with the back of the sword.Li Yuanfang was numb from the shock for a while, and the Youlan sword couldn't help but came out.

Di Renjie and Ruyan exclaimed.

Fei Wenzhong quickly bypassed him, and once again borrowed strength from Liang Zhu on the opposite side. Unexpectedly, Li Yuanfang fell back and pulled out his own knife.

Li Yi: ...Forget it, I will serve Li Yuanfang.

If it was a normal sparring, you could declare defeat if your weapon was knocked down, but in this life-and-death situation, it is justifiable to use any means.What's more, it is a battle between masters, every extra hole card will increase the chance of winning.

Li Yuanfang: "...you are too fast."

Fei Wenzhong said: "Now it seems that this is my weakness."

He tried his best to put his eyes on Li Yuanfang, and secretly glanced at Li Yi who was walking over from the corner of his eyes.

Li Yi didn't speak, and let Li Yuanfang ask: "How many people are here?"

Fei Wenzhong's expression darkened, and he finally understood the reason why Xiao Qingfang asked him to come in this assassination operation.

"All I know is me."

So, who is the person who led Li Yuanfang here?Is it Xiaofeng who prepared this matter in the Mangshan branch a year ago?still……

Before thinking about it, Li Yuanfang nodded: "I believe in you, people like you won't lie."

Fei Wenzhong regained his composure, holding a smoke pill with his hand behind his back.Laughing: "Thank you. But I want to say goodbye to you."

Li Yuanfang smiled and said, "Oh? How did you escape from my knife?"

Fei Wenzhong shook his head with a smile: "If you just waved your knife, I would never leave again. But as long as you give me a chance, you will never be able to keep me again."

In the next moment, white smoke rose, and Wen Wenzhong had already left.Li Yuanfang was shocked, and said, "I'll go after it!"

While he was speaking, Li Yi had already soared into the air, and immediately followed the white shadow and flew out of sight.

Di Renjie hurriedly stopped Li Yuanfang: "Let Pei Le go, you have other important matters."

Li Yi used lightness kung fu and followed closely behind Bai Ying.The two left Hanguang Temple one by one. Outside the temple was a sparse forest, and the forest became denser as they went forward. They had already entered the boundary of Beiman Mountain.

Fei Wenzhong stopped in his tracks.He turned around, looked at Li Yi who jumped down from the treetop and stood ten steps away from him, and smiled faintly.

Li Yi held back his stomach full of words, but when he really faced Wen Wenzhong, he couldn't say anything.

After a while, he glanced at the other party's purple underwear and snake-shaped bun, and asked, "Are you a snake killer?"

Fei Wenzhong nodded: "Not bad."

Li Yi got an affirmative answer, and for some reason, felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.Although their meeting back then was not friendly, the person in front of him even held him hostage, but he has never forgotten the lonely and sad back of the other party standing alone in front of the ruins of the palace.

"then you……"

"What you want to ask is, why did I pay tribute to Duke Huang?" Hui Wenzhong asked with a smile.

"No." Li Yi said depressedly, "Why didn't you kill me back then? Don't say that I look similar to Lingdi. If that's the case, shouldn't you get rid of me as a counterfeit?"

And your martial arts are so high, it is more than enough to kill me at that time.But you didn't kill me, can it explain that this is your own subjective meaning?

Fei Wenzhong said: "You are not a threat to me, besides, I am not a person who kills indiscriminately."

Besides, there was a voice in his heart that kept saying, isn't the one standing in front of him really his younger brother?

Even if he only had an extravagant wish, he would not do it, even if this person broke through the deepest secret in his heart.

Li Yi said: "You said, you are not a person who kills indiscriminately. What about the snake spirit?"

Hui Wenzhong was speechless.

Li Yi closed his eyes: "I was in the mountains of Beidi, and I passed a village." He told Hui Wenzhong what happened in Dongliulin Town back then, "Those villagers, together Should I die?"

"Shouldn't."

"The unarmed Orion, and the six or seven-year-old boy... Should they die?"

"...it shouldn't be."

"But the snake spirits killed them all." Li Yi took a breath and forced himself to calm down, "Say, the snake spirit... deserves to die?"

Fei Wenzhong sighed, "Snake spirit, damn it."

"Then what are you going to do? Assassinate Hanguang Temple?" Li Yi's eyes were aggressive, "Do you know that if you succeed in assassinating, the imperial court will be in chaos in an instant, and it will be the common people who will suffer!"

"……Know."

He Wenzhong didn't know, in fact, he also used similar words to persuade Xiao Qingfang.However, the hatred of the country and the family comes first, and the pain of injury comes later. Even in the past many years, he never dared to forget it all the time.

"You don't understand anything." Hui Wenzhong said in a deep voice.

"Is it because I don't understand, or you don't understand? The emperor can't die!"

Silence spread between the two.The two were silent for a while, Li Yi said in a deep voice, "I won't let you have a chance to assassinate him."

Fei Wenzhong said: "I don't want to do anything to you, and you don't want to stop me."

Li Yi gritted his teeth and said, "Don't even think about it!" Then he drew his sword.

His new sword is three feet three inches long and two inches wide. The blade is similar to his short sword, with a blade on the front and no edge on the back.

Fei Wenzhong saw him draw his sword, and raised the bamboo knife in front of his eyes.It is not only looking at the knife, but also looking at the person with the sword on the opposite side.

The wind suddenly picked up.