Chapter 226: This is your life

Jing Hongchou stood at the street corner, looking at the gate of the Shuntian government office not far away, holding the sword in one hand and reaching into his bosom with the other, his fingertips touched the folded pleading paper.

The paper was written for him personally by Lord Su yesterday, accusing Feng An Marquis Wei Jun of robbing and imprisoning a woman, raping and killing his sister Jing Hong Tao.

“This thing is simply useless.” He said, “Since ancient times, officials have been protecting each other, and old thief Wei is a state relative, so the Shun Tian Prefect wouldn’t dare offend him, let alone enforce the law impartially.”

Lord Su replied, “Whether it works or not, we will only know after trying it. It is said that the lower people are easy to abuse, but there is also a saying that water can overturn a boat, and no one should underestimate the power of the people.”

Jinghong Chase still doesn’t want to go.

Su Yan had to persuade, “Think of it as you helping me. I’ve urged quite a few sufferers to go to the Shuntian government office to submit a petition paper, which is also part of the impeachment plan, so you go and help look after them, so that they won’t be stopped by the Wei family’s lackeys before they can even enter the door of the government office.”

Hearing him say this, Jing Hong chased before nodding his head, picking up the pleadings and leaving without saying a word.

Right now, Lord Su did not return from the morning court, he kept his promise, and escorted the victims who sued the Wei family into the court one by one, but hesitated when it was his turn.

Once as a commoner with a starving childhood and a wandering assassin, Jing Hongchou had never counted on or believed in the government, and even had a natural rejection of the court offices, and now it was the same.

Being Lord Su’s retainer also had nothing to do with his official status, simply to stay by his side.

–To stay by his side, one must try to understand and agree with his concepts. Lord Su said: It is easy to kill a person and pay the blood debt, but isn’t it more meaningful to use justice as a weapon to cut off a party’s evil forces, so that countless potential victims can escape from the fate of being abused?

Jing Hongchou stood on a deserted street corner, turning the words over and over for a long time, and finally took a step toward the government office.

He had just taken a few steps when he suddenly heard a faint and eerie flute sound, phosphorescent and floating in the air, hidden from view.

…… The sound of this flute, like it came from Floating Sound s Crane Bone Flute? Jing Hong chased after him in a daze.

But the floating sound is already dead, even if the death is not seen, the sword that personally stabbed into the dantian, he is extremely sure to abolish the other party s cultivation. So the flute player is not a floating sound …… who is pretending to be a god!

Jing Hongchu closed his eyes and listened, his long sword suddenly came out of its sheath, like an electric light that cut through the sky, and shot toward the ridge on the side.

The flute player appeared on the ridge of the house, wearing a bucket hat to cover his face, his feet fluttered to avoid the attack, but a corner of the hem of his coat was brushed by the lingering sword qi and instantly shattered into pieces.

Jing Hongchou did not have a single superfluous question, nor did he make a single hesitant movement, he just attacked, his sword light sweeping away one after another like a shocking wave of fury – what the other party’s intentions were, he would naturally know when he had beaten the person to the point of being powerless to fight back.

The flute player avoided the vertical and horizontal sword qi one after another, and had several blood marks on his body, but he still played without stopping.

The sound of the flute caused one’s qi and blood to tumble, a fire of restlessness and evil surged up in one’s chest, and even the true qi in one’s body began to stagnate or even go against the flow, obviously it was a mesmerizing flying sound blown with the feats of the Nightmare Phantom Technique. Jing Hong chasing more and more sure that the other party is not floating sound, because this power is much deeper than floating sound.

It was the Heavenly Character Assassin of the Seven Killers Battalion! A cold aura swept across Jing Hongchu’s eyes, and the sword blade wrapped in a strong murderous aura drove straight in, stabbing at the flute player’s throat with the swiftness that was hard to catch up with and the momentum that was hard to curb with a flying waterfall.

The sword was brilliant and sharp, as if death itself had condensed into a shadow of light.

The flute player was unable to avoid it, his fingers pressing on the holes became stiff and uncontrollable due to this amazing sword energy, and the sound of the flute came to a steep halt – he thought that he was bound to die until a red-robed man who appeared out of nowhere blocked in front of him and caught the sword light.

“Battalion Master ……,” called the piper out of breath as he came back from the dead.

Jing Hongchou withdrew his sword back to defense and coldly stared at the Seven Slaughter Battalion Master in front of him.

When he was tracking Fuyin earlier, the camp master suddenly appeared, defeated and captured him with his profound martial arts skills, and poured secret medicine into him.

That was his first encounter with the battalion master, and it only lasted for more than a hundred rounds. After regaining his senses, he recalled the opponent’s strikes over and over again, desperately seeking a way to break them, and the light of the sword rising from the backyard stayed up all night as a result.

Now that he was facing the battalion master again, he might not be sure of victory, but at least he had the power to fight.

The battalion master did not immediately strike, and an indistinguishable male and female voice came out from under the mask, “Twenty three, your sword skill has been refined again …… an excellent embryo, but unfortunately the heart is too wild and the ideas are too many, it seems that indeed only the ‘Blood Pupil’ is the most suitable for you.”

Jing Hongchou coldly said, “Less nonsense! Strike.” Before the words fell, the sword qi ruffled the house and said, “I didn’t expect it, what can force you to enter the blood pupil state, besides the secret medicine, there is also the Soul Enchanting Flying Sound. But Floating Sound won’t work, his power is low, it simply degrades the reputation of the Heavenly Tone Sect’s Sect Leader.”

Floating Sound …… Tianyin Sect …… Jing Hong chased in pain vaguely recalled that when investigating the case of the Varrar emissary throwing himself into the water at Honglu Temple, Lord Su once said that he asked the Northern Zhenfu Si to investigate the sects in the Jianghu Lake that used sound and rhythm as a means of attack, and Shen Qi had given him an answer –Tian Yin Sect. However, this sect was wiped out in the jianghu fight about twenty years ago.

Twenty years ago …… coincides roughly with the year in which Floating Sound was born. When he was in the Seven Killing Camp, Floating Sound occasionally told him that his parents were seeking revenge at the door on New Year s Eve, and his family was destroyed overnight, so he himself fell into the rivers and lakes and joined the Hidden Sword Sect.

From this, it seemed that Floating Sound was most likely an orphan of the Heavenly Tone Sect, which was why she was able to rely on her ancestral techniques to incorporate the Nightmare Charm technique into her sound rhythms, thus researching and creating the Vertigo Flying Sound.

But this new gong method fell into the same position as Fuyin himself as an enabler. And it continued to plague the earth even after his death.

The eyeballs were burning, the retrograde true qi was like a bone-scraping steel blade, what was even more unbearable was that his sanity and consciousness were leaving him, Jing Hongchu gasped in pain, his fingertips clawing out trails of blood on the stone floor.

“One less point of resistance, one less point of pain.” The Battalion Master kicked his longsword into his hand, “Take up the sword – Blood Pupil Nameless.”

Jing Hongchui squeezed out a broken hiss from the depths of his throat, “I’m not …… Blood Pupil Nameless …… I am, Jing Hongchui!”

The camp master ordered, “Pick up your sword! Walk out into the marketplace and let everyone see your bloody pupils. Blood splatters and screams, kill as much as you can, it’s your life!”

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A Jinyiwei lieutenant rolled over and dismounted, entering the Shen Mansion with hurried steps, indicating that he had come to deliver a message by order of Lord Su, and immediately met Shen Qi.

Shen Qi asked, “But what happened at the court?”

The school lieutenant will Changning Bo Wei Que suddenly rushed to impeach the Su Yan thing, carefully described a pass, and said, “Su adults only said four words to the humble servant, ‘go to find Shen’ …… to find Shen adults, and nothing else was accounted for. “

Shen Qi frowned and pondered for a moment and commanded, “You go back to the noon gate first and stand guard, wait for Lord Su to come and report as soon as he gets off the court.”

The lieutenant obliged and retired.

Shen Qi took a deep breath, endured the hidden pain coming from the wound that had not yet healed, got up and said, “Someone come, change your clothes.”

Before the maidservants put on the tracer for him, Shen Qi put on the gold silk soft armor that Su Yan had returned back to him and put it on close to his flesh, which could protect against the blades and bind the wound from crumbling.

His beloved scout, Gao Shuo, who had just listened outside the door, entered the room and asked, “My lord, what is this going to be?”

Shen Qi asked rhetorically, “What do you think?”

Gao Shuo thought for a moment and said, “The Wei family was able to find out Jing Hongchou’s origins, and there must have been a mention behind it from someone who knew the inside story. Now that they’re using it as a weapon to attack Lord Su, things are looking a bit troublesome.”

“You know what the bigger trouble is?”

“…… My humble servant is obtuse, please enlighten me, my lord.”

Shen Qi buckled his belt, lifted the Embroidered Spring Sword and headed out of the house. Gao Shuo hurriedly followed. Shen Qi said as he walked: ”The origin of this dog Jing Hongchu cannot be washed away. Even if Qing He proves that he has long rebelled against his master, turned against the Seven Killers Battalion, and even made great achievements in investigating the Vacuum Cult, it will not be able to withstand the fact that if he goes off the deep end again, he will be manipulated into a killing spree. At that time, Qinghe will truly be unable to defend himself!”

Gao Shuo drew in a breath of cold air, “What should we do then? Lord Su sent someone to inform Your Excellency, I think he also expected this and hoped that Your Excellency could fish for Jing Hong to give chase.”

Shen Qi laughed coldly: “Fishing for him? No, I’m going to kill him, before the Vacuum Sect makes its move and causes irreparable trouble.”

Gao Shuo supported his arm to help him mount the horse. Shen Qi frowned and touched the sorely torn wound, his expression ruthless: “Immediately go and transfer the Sword Formation Team of the Brocade Guards to go with me to the Shuntian Prefectural Office.”

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