The Sword of Smiling and Proud

Chapter 157 The Mystery of the Sunflower Book
Hearing this, Guan Yuan was a little surprised and glanced at Xu Chenzi's injured left palm, "Where do you get the confidence to kill me?"

Guan Yuan could defeat Xu Chenzi with his fingertip sword energy before, but now that he injured a hand, he was no longer his match.

The other party raised his head at this time, with a smile on his lips, "It's almost, it's almost."

At this moment, Guan Yuan heard a faint chirping sound behind the Sanqing statue. He looked up and saw green smoke rising.

No, could it be gunpowder? !
This Xu Chenzi has ambushed explosives here!He is not afraid of blowing himself up too.

Guan Yuan's muscles tightened, his hair stood up, he jumped back violently, somersaulted, and jumped out of the door.

Just before he landed, a fire suddenly broke out behind the statue, and a violent loud noise was accompanied by the explosion of the statue, the roof collapsed, and smoke and dust flew everywhere.

The shock wave came in an instant and directly pushed Guan Yuan far away.Fortunately, he fell into the pool in front of the temple and was blown apart by the explosives. The debris thrown out did not hurt Guan Yuan.

In the blink of an eye, the shock wave spread in all directions, leaving not a single good tile or window in Shaoyang Temple.

When everything calmed down, Guan Yuan struggled to stand up. Before he could stand up straight, he felt severe pain in his chest. He staggered and almost fell down. It turned out that Guan Yuan was too close and the violent shock wave injured the internal organs in his body. The corners of his mouth and ears were injured. There are bloodshot edges.

The guards outside came and looked at the ruins on the ground, not knowing how to start.

"Look, if you want to see the person alive, you want to see the body if you die." Guan Yuan was a little angry. If he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have been crushed to death by the collapsed house even if he was not killed at such a close distance.

But from Xu Chenzi's tone, it seemed that he still had a backup plan, and he most likely escaped, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to remain calm at that time.

Guan Yuan didn't believe that he detonated the explosive with the idea of ​​perishing together.

After everyone spent a long time cleaning up the rubble and tiles here, they did not find the body of the man.

At that time, Guan Yuan was busy avoiding and did not have time to look at Xu Chenzi's movements. He could only vaguely catch a glimpse of him sitting firmly on the futon just a second ago.

"Come on, there is a tunnel here!" Shen Lian and Guan Yuan were attracted by the shout of a guard.

When I looked over, I saw that under the bluestone slab where the futon used to be, there was a long, narrow and deep hole, more than several feet deep. It was unknown where it led.After Guan Yuan discovered something was wrong, Xu Chenzi should have immediately activated the mechanism, turned over into the tunnel, and escaped.

I don't know if this Xu Chenzi doesn't understand, or if he is a very skilled person, he is not afraid of the tunnel being collapsed and burying himself alive in the ground?

Shen Lian sent people down to explore the truth. The middle section of the tunnel did collapse, but there was no sign of Xu Chenzi. He didn't know whether it was collapsed by the explosion, or whether Xu Chenzi deliberately collapsed it to avoid pursuit.

Seeing that their efforts were in vain, everyone had to go back and resume their lives.

At this time, Zhu Houzhao had realized that there was actually a bold gangster who dared to mix among the actors and Taoist priests and assassinate him, and he almost succeeded.If Guan Yuan, whom he had seen before, hadn't taken action, he might have died a violent death at this moment.

Shen Lian sorted out the currently known information and made a report to Zhu Houzhao.

After listening, Zhu Houzhao waved his hand and asked the Jin Yiwei to go south immediately and ask Zhang Tianshi of the Tianshi Mansion for an explanation and let them clean up the house themselves. If they could not deal with Xu Chenzi, arrest Zhang Yanshuo on the spot and return to Beijing; at the same time, he ordered the Gyeonggi region and In Beizhili, a wanted order was issued to hunt down the bandit leader Xu Chenzi; as for Qian Ning of the Jin Yiwei, he was arrested first, put in a prison, and then interrogated in detail.

Fang Sheng and Chong Xu arrived late to the Leopard Room. In order to make up for it, they received the wanted order and arranged their own experts to start chasing Xu Chenzi. "Your Majesty, do we also need to check the Prince Ning that Shaoxia Guan mentioned?" Shen Lian reminded in a low voice.Just now, Guan Yuan also revealed the affair between Xu Chenzi and Prince Ning, and Jin Yiwei also presented some evidence from previous cases.

However, Zhu Houzhao didn't seem to take it seriously. "There is no ironclad evidence for this matter. We will discuss it later. Even if King Ning wants to rebel, I can suppress it with thunderous means."

"Let's first let the clan government send a letter to ask questions."

Although the emperor arranged many means in the end, Guan Yuan vaguely felt that Zhu Houzhao seemed to be eager for Prince Ning to rebel so that he could lead his troops to quell the rebellion.Of course, this is all speculation and cannot be taken seriously.

When Guan Yuan turned his eyes to Eunuch Qu who was seriously injured, he was already in trouble and seemed unable to survive.

Originally, as a eunuch, he had a weak constitution. Although the Sunflower Manual was even magical, it was difficult to cure such a serious injury.

In addition, Xu Chenzi's pure Yang internal force seems to have some restraint on Sunflower's true energy. After such a long time, the true energy in Eunuch Qu's body is still disordered and out of control.

"Young Master Guan, cough, cough, cough, it's been a long day. Thanks to you, I can protect the emperor's safety."

"Eunuch-in-law is too flattering. You have to hold off the culprits before we have a chance." Guan Yuan stepped forward and took Eunuch-in Qu's hand.

"Hey, I'm a piece of rotten wood. I can't hold it up for a long time. Now that I've been seriously injured for the first time, I'm afraid I won't live long." There was some hope in the eyes of the old eunuch. "But the inheritance of this sunflower to the sun book cannot be cut off. We must rely on this skill to protect the emperor thoroughly."

Guan Yuan is a little speechless. I kindly came here to express my condolences to you. You don't want to drag me into the palace to be a eunuch.

Eunuch Qu had already regained his consciousness at this time and did not pay attention to Guan Yuan's little thoughts. He turned to Shen Lian and continued, "I'd still trouble Shen Qianhu to help me transfer this treasure book to Eunuch Gu Dayong and let him Find a reliable successor in the palace and pass it on."

"Copy another copy of this magical secret book and give it to Guan Shaoxia as a reward."

Even if you give it to me, I can't practice it, Guan Yuan complained secretly in his heart.However, being able to observe and practice these magical skills can also be used as a reference, so that you can know yourself and the enemy when facing Dongfang Bubai in the future.

After saying this, Eunuch Qu seemed to be unable to hold on any longer, his head hung slightly and his breath stopped.

When Zhu Houzhao saw that his father-in-law Qu, whom he had grown up with, died, he was in a depressed mood. He turned around and issued a death order, and he must capture the bandit leader Xu Chenzi.

Shaolin Wudang took the job as if he were taking credit, and left happily.They didn't know that Eunuch Qu gave the magic secret book to Guan Yuan before his death.

After Guan Yuan escaped from death, his interest was gone and he didn't want to continue to get involved, so he said goodbye to Shen Lian.

Shen Lian saw that the crisis was almost gone, and there was almost nothing he could do.The commander of the Jinyiwei, Qian Ning, concealed information about the bandit leader, which resulted in the emperor being in danger of an accident. This top-down bloody storm would soon sweep through the entire Jinyiwei system.

He definitely didn't have time to continue investigating the case with Guan Yuan. Fortunately, the identity of the enemy was already known. In front of the huge state machine, he believed that Xu Chenzi would not be able to escape for long before he would be caught.

Guan Yuan was alone and found an inn to stay in the capital.Before he planned to leave, he wanted to see what charm this Sunflower Book had, which would make warriors who had seen him find it difficult to resist its temptation.

(End of this chapter)