Chapter 218 The oriole is behind
The sunset glows in the sky and the sun sets in the west.

The golden afterglow poured down outside Yingchuan City, and through the dense branches and leaves, it reflected spots of light, like a broken galaxy.

Long Si never returned. When He Shan sent people to the water and land dock to investigate, they saw the flag of Dongshan Company had been hung on the former Panjia Wharf. He Shan suddenly realized what had happened and issued a wanted notice in anger, searching the whole city for Long Si. As for himself, he personally led 300 soldiers and escorted Liu Xunyi, Pan Wen and others to the dense forest outside the city.

When they reached an open space in the forest, He Shan ordered Liu Xunyi and others to be tied to trees, and ordered 300 soldiers to set up defenses around them in case of any emergency.

"Why did you bring us here?" Xu Heng glared at He Shan and asked, "You can kill me or chop me up, just give me a quick death!"

He Shan glanced at Xu Heng coldly, then turned to Liu Xunyi and said, "Long Si is missing, and he took the 'Qingchuan Landscape Painting' with him. Even He An and the two messengers I sent to retrieve the painting are missing. I guess... they are in grave danger."

He An and He Shan are relatives after all. Now that He An's life or death is unknown, He Shan can't help feeling sad.

In response to He Shan's unreasonable sigh, Liu Xunyi just smiled lightly and did not respond.

"Who wants to see us?" Pan Wen asked worriedly, "You can do whatever you want with my wife and me, but my two children are innocent and still young. I wonder if Lord He can..."

"Shut up!" He Shan interrupted impatiently, "If you don't want your whole family to die, stop talking so much nonsense!"

Hearing this, Pan Wen and his wife looked at each other, their eyes filled with sadness and bitterness. They had finally gotten rid of Long Si's threat, but unexpectedly, they had just escaped from the tiger's mouth and fell into the wolf's den. The Pan family's fate was full of twists and turns.

"Brother Liu, you shouldn't have surrendered for our sake." Pan Yuyin looked at Liu Xunyi with tears in her eyes and choked up, "In the end, not only did you fail to save us, but you also implicated yourself."

Liu Xunyi smiled calmly and said, "Don't worry, good fortune will come to those who are lucky. Mr. Pan Ba ​​is still alive, he will definitely protect us!"

Pan Yun looked worried and pitiful, and sighed, "Brother Liu, you can still laugh? If I had known that they would tie me up here and I would be at their mercy, I would have fought them to the death."

"Shhh! There's movement!"

Suddenly, a faint sound of wind came from the depths of the dense forest. Liu Xunyi's expression straightened and he hurriedly said, "Master He, the person you are waiting for has arrived."

Before he finished his words, a black shadow suddenly flashed through the woods like a gust of wind, accompanied by a few birds soaring into the sky. Xu Ren flipped in the air and landed steadily in front of He Shan.

"It's you!" Liu Xunyi recognized at a glance that the person who came was the one who pretended to be Qin Tianjiu last year.

Xu Ren smiled sinisterly and said, "Liu Xunyi, after not seeing you for several months, I didn't expect you to still be so stupid?"

Liu Xunyi smiled and said, "It's easy to change the country, but it's hard to change one's nature. I'm really curious, who are you? Why do you go against the Xianwang Mansion and the Pan family again and again?"

"No, no, no." Xu Ren waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I am only against the Xianwang Mansion. It has nothing to do with the Pan family."

Pan Wen frowned and asked indignantly, "What do you mean? Since you have no grudges against the Pan family, why did you repeatedly frame us? First you killed Li Bao and framed him, then you used Ding Cui to poison my second brother, and now you have killed my father. What is your intention? You have ruined our Pan family, and you still dare to say it has nothing to do with us?"

"It really has nothing to do with you." Xu Ren curled his lips and said, "If you want to blame someone, blame it... you are friends of the Xianwang Mansion."

"you……"

"Who are you?" Liu Xunyi asked curiously, "What deep hatred do you have with the Xianwang Mansion? Could it be that... you are from Jinjianwu?"

"What is Jin Jianwu? It's not worth even a sneer." Xu Ren said with a rather proud smile, "You so-called famous and upright sects are all hypocritical hypocrites in my eyes. Luo Tianjin is like this, and so is Jin Fuyu."

Liu Xunyi's eyes moved, and he asked back: "So, you are from the four major religions? After thinking about it, it seems that only the four major religions would despise the famous and upright sects so much. I just don't know... which sect of the four major religions are you from?"

As soon as these words came out, He Shan's face changed immediately. He subconsciously took two steps back and asked suspiciously, "You are really not from the Hexi Qin family?"

Xu Ren ignored He Shan's surprise, still looking at Liu Xunyi with interest, and jokingly said: "You are so smart, why don't you guess my identity?"

Liu Xunyi glanced at the short knife inserted diagonally on Xu Ren's waist and speculated, "You use a knife, so you must not be from Peach Blossom Sword Island. I have fought with you before, and I have also seen many disciples of Tianshan Yulong Palace. Their martial arts are completely different from yours, so you should not be from Yulong Palace. There are still Jueqing Valley and Longxiang Mountain left. It is rumored that Jueqing Valley has repeatedly opposed Xianwang Mansion. Could it be that you are from Jueqing Valley?"

Without waiting for Xu Ren to reply, Liu Xunyi, who had been carefully observing Xu Ren's reaction, suddenly shook his head and said, "No! You must not be from Jueqing Valley."

"Why are you so sure?" Xu Ren asked puzzled.

"Do you know the 'ruthless swordsman' Tang Afu?" Liu Xunyi chuckled, "He is a disciple of Jueqing Valley, but his methods are completely different from yours. Although you both kill people, Tang Afu kills openly, unlike you..." At this point, the smile on Liu Xunyi's face suddenly froze, and then his eyes turned cold, and he spat on every word, "The methods are despicable, and the moves are vulgar!"

"Ha ha……"

Xu Ren laughed out loud without caring. His laughter was hoarse and low, like the croaking of a crow, and was unpleasant to the ear.

Before the laughter died down, Xu Ren had already pulled out the dagger from his waist, and walked towards Liu Xunyi, grinning: "Boy, I don't know where you get the confidence to talk to me like that? I only know that I am the knife and you are the fish, and I can kill you at any time."

Seeing this, He Shan frowned slightly and looked at Xu Ren's back with complicated eyes, but did not say anything.

"I let you go last time, will your luck be so good this time?" Xu Ren came in front of Liu Xunyi and gently placed the dagger on his face. A hint of coolness instantly came out, which lifted Liu Xunyi's spirits.

"It seems like he's always had good luck!"

Before Xu Ren finished speaking, a cold laugh suddenly came from the forest, and a black shadow suddenly flew down from midair, swinging a knife straight at Xu Ren's crown. Xu Ren was shocked and hurriedly waved his knife to block, but unexpectedly, two more people suddenly rushed out from the left and right, and they were all top-notch masters. Under the joint attack of the three masters, Xu Ren, who was caught off guard, was instantly clamped under the knife of the newcomer.

At this point, Xunzhen, accompanied by Abaolu, slowly appeared in front of everyone.

Seeing this, Liu Xunyi couldn't help but let out a long sigh and said with a wry smile: "If you had come a step later, I'm afraid my life would be in danger!"

Xunzhen rolled her eyes at Liu Xunyi in displeasure and said sarcastically, "Even if I didn't come, Sect Master Liu wouldn't die." Then, she walked in front of Xu Ren and said with a contemptuous smile, "Why don't you call your people out?"

"What did you say?"

At this time, Xu Ren was restrained by Xun Budao, Su Hu, and Xiao Yang. He could not move at all. He could only stare at them with a pair of unwilling rat eyes and sneered, "Kill me if you dare! Don't forget, there is Lord He and his three hundred soldiers here. I don't believe you can escape unscathed."

"Don't cry until you see the coffin!" Xunzhen waved his hand impatiently, "Abaolu, dig out his eyes and see how long he can endure."

"Haha... let's be merciful when we can. Xu Ren has already fallen into your hands, so why should you be so cruel, lady donor? If you dig out his eyes, how will he be able to see in the future?"

Suddenly, a ethereal laughter came from the forest. The sound came near and far, high and low, like the sound of Sanskrit.

As soon as this sound was uttered, it brought about ripples of energy, causing the leaves in the forest to rustle and the birds to flee in all directions. He Shan and his officers and soldiers suddenly felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, dizziness, blurred vision, and buzzing in their ears, and they looked in pain.

"Buddha Sound?"

Liu Xunyi and Xunzhen cried out at the same time and used their internal energy to resist the Sanskrit sound that came from the sky.

Liu Xunyi had only seen Shaolin Buddhist Sound Kung Fu twice in his life, and both times were when he was with Xunzhen.

The first time was at Luohan Temple in the Western Regions, where a mysterious old monk used the Buddha Sound Power to rescue Liu Xunyi from Xunzhen. The second time was today.

Although the Buddhist sound skills of the visitor are quite powerful, they are far inferior to those of the mysterious old monk in the Luohan Temple.

The laughter gradually died down, and accompanied by the sound of rustling footsteps, a dozen black-clad swordsmen suddenly appeared in the forest.

These men in black all wore white masks, moved in unison, and their weapons were drawn in exactly the same way, as if they had received rigorous training.

Everyone looked in the direction of the sound, and saw a tall and fat monk, leaning on a clear water Zen stick, walking slowly out from behind a tree with a smile on his face, like a smiling Buddha.

Seeing this, He Shan's eyes suddenly changed, but before he could ask, Xu Ren had already comforted him, "Master He, don't panic, they are our own people."

"The Unrighteous Divine Monk!"

Xu Heng recognized the monk's identity at a glance, his face changed immediately, and he exclaimed: "Master, this man is one of the four guardians of Longxiang Mountain, Si Wudao. He is known as the 'Wudao Divine Monk' in the martial arts world, and his martial arts are very impressive. Master Ling had seen this man when he was chasing the Qin Demon and the Wu Yao. If Master Qi had not been there at that time, I am afraid Master Ling would not have been able to escape unscathed."

Hearing this, Liu Xunyi's pupils narrowed, and there was a hint of caution in his eyes as he looked towards Si Wudao.

"Here comes a master, Miss, be careful!" Xiao Yang looked at Si Wudao coldly, and reminded Xunzhen without turning his head, "And those black-clothed swordsmen are not mediocre either."

Abaolu looked around cautiously and whispered, "Xunzhen, the situation is not good right now. We only have five people, but the other side has hundreds of people, including more than a dozen masters. If we fight to the death, I'm afraid we won't be able to protect ourselves. The most urgent task is to protect you and get out first. As for Liu Xunyi..."

"Why not release Xu Ren first?"

Si Wudao seemed to have seen through Abaolu's thoughts. He pointed at Xu Ren who was captured by the sword and said with a smile: "As long as you release Xu Ren, I will let the five of you go. How about it? I don't like large numbers, and I don't like to bully the few with numbers. If a fight really breaks out, you will inevitably suffer..."

"is it?"

Suddenly, Liu Xunyi sneered, and then he shook his arms, and the hemp ropes that tied him up were easily broken in an instant.

Seeing this, Xu Heng and others were stunned.

"You don't have to look at me, you can easily break the rope." Liu Xunyi smiled mysteriously.

Under the puzzled gazes of Xu Heng and others, Liu Xunyi moved his fists and feet a few times, then turned to He Shan and bowed and said with a smile: "Master He, thank you for your cooperation. I lured the snake out of its hole with this move, and you should take the credit! Haha..."

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar in the forest. Everyone was stunned. Only Xunzhen seemed to have expected this and glared at Liu Xunyi with dissatisfaction.

At this moment, He Shan's mouth revealed a sly smile, and then his eyes became fierce, and he ordered: "All officers, listen up, surround the monk in front of you, and these black-clothed men who came from nowhere, and don't let any of them escape!"

"As ordered!"

Three hundred soldiers shouted in unison and drew their swords at the same time, pointing directly at Si Wudao and the group of men in black.

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(End of this chapter)