12dz Chapter 617 is planned
Chapter 617 is planned
A cold wind blew by, causing the already dim light to flicker and reflect on Wu Tiancheng's gloomy and uncertain face.
He hadn't expected the man in black to make such a demand. After all, he was a court official of the Wu Kingdom, and although he wanted to suppress Lin Ping, he didn't want to sacrifice the interests of the Wu Kingdom.
"What if I disagree?" Wu Tiancheng said coldly, trying to test the man in black's bottom line.
"Lord Wu is a smart man, how could he not have guessed the consequences?" The man in black gripped the hilt of his sword with his other hand, and a crimson light filled the entire study.
"The sword is indeed a fine sword, but whether it's proper or not is another matter." Wu Tiancheng stomped his toe on the ground, and the floor instantly cracked, causing his entire body to fall down.
"Trying to escape? Not so easy!" A cold glint appeared on the man in black's lips.
He wasn't afraid that Wu Tiancheng would escape, since his face was always covered by a black veil and his identity hadn't been exposed.
Besides, with his martial arts skills, how could he let Wu Tiancheng escape?
break!
With a soft shout from the man in black, the longsword in his hand shone brightly, the floorboards crumbled, and a hidden passage appeared beneath.
Knowing that the man in black could open the mechanism, Wu Tiancheng fled for his life.
"Lord Wu, your decision has greatly disappointed me." The man in black pursued relentlessly, his chilling voice echoing through the secret passage.
"Catch me first." Wu Tiancheng didn't want to waste words with him and kept running away.
But the strength of the man in black could be judged by the scarlet longsword alone.
Even though Wu Tiancheng was once a martial arts champion and a master comparable to the White Lotus Realm, he was utterly insignificant compared to the man in black.
At this moment, Wu Tiancheng was like a rabbit desperately trying to escape, while the man in black was like a cunning and treacherous wolf.
He was worried that the Lost City was full of traps and did not immediately kill Wu Tiancheng.
The end of the secret passage is the end of Wu Tiancheng's life; he will be killed as soon as he steps onto the ground.
The secret passage wasn't long, leading from the front courtyard to the back courtyard of the Minister of War's residence. When Wu Tiancheng crawled out from underground, he was already panting heavily.
"Lord Wu, where do you plan to escape to?" The man in black followed him out of the secret passage, his eyes already flashing with a menacing murderous intent.
"Escape? Why would I escape? Are you blind?" Wu Tiancheng suddenly gained confidence and said with a cold laugh.
At the same time, dozens of torches were lit, turning the entire backyard into daylight.
Thousands of armored soldiers, each wielding a powerful crossbow, aimed their cold arrows at the black-clad man's chest.
"There was an ambush? You knew I would come?" The man in black's pupils constricted; he never expected to be ambushed.
Under normal circumstances, no one would hide thousands of crossbowmen in their backyard.
The man in black racked his brains but couldn't figure out how to expose his whereabouts; for decades, he had never failed.
"I, Wu Tiancheng, am just a rough man. How could I possibly possess such strategic acumen? It's all thanks to the Great General," Wu Tiancheng said with a smug smile.
"Lin Ping? Wasn't he imprisoned in the Imperial Prison? Wait, why are you addressing him so respectfully? Have you forgotten how he suppressed you?" The man in black was getting a headache, increasingly confused.
“Suppress? Why would the General need to suppress a mere soldier like me? I have always followed the General’s lead, and this is all part of his plan.” Wu Tiancheng couldn’t help but reveal Lin Ping’s plan.
"The general had long suspected your existence. After returning to the city, he began to plot. He first spread the news that the defense map was lost, and then used the loophole of the theft of the luminous pearl to get himself imprisoned."
"Furthermore, I deliberately made him stand against me in court, making you think that we are irreconcilable enemies, thus giving me an opportunity to win him over."
"You did find evidence that the general stole the defense map. After he was imprisoned, you thought everything was fine, and then you showed up to win me over."
The man in black felt a chill run down his spine and muttered, "What a clever scheme! It's just a pity that you underestimated my strength. What can these thousand crossbowmen do to me!"
"I'll kill you first. Once you're dead, no one will know about Lin Ping's plan, and the king will surely behead him," the man in black calmly analyzed, his scarlet longsword piercing straight into Wu Tiancheng's chest.
"Protect your lord!"
A commander drew his longsword, stood in front of Wu Tiancheng, and loudly issued commands.
Shoot the arrow!
shhhhhh!
Thousands of cold, eerie crossbow bolts swept across the night sky, gleaming coldly in the moonlight.
Wu Tiancheng knew that the man in black was a martial arts master, so he adopted a scattering strategy.
In other words, the rain of arrows wasn't dense, but it covered a distance of several tens of meters around him.
The man in black had intended to use his incredible speed to get through the rain of arrows and stab Wu Tiancheng in the throat, but that was clearly not going to work now.
He had to stop and deal with the incoming arrows.
However, due to the scattering, there weren't many arrows in front of him, and even the powerful crossbows, despite their high speed, couldn't harm a peerless master like him.
"Mirror Flower, Water Moon!" The long sword in the black-clad man's hand shone brightly, its scarlet light slicing arcs through the air.
Clang clang clang!
Arrows were shot down one after another, but the man in black continued to wield his longsword methodically, without even a single strand of hair being knocked out.
"Who is this person? Such powerful martial arts!" Xia Linglong asked curiously from the corner.
She had been watching this place for a long time and roughly understood Lin Ping's purpose.
"Head of the Lotus Palace's Hall of Affairs, and Grand Scholar of the Central Palace of the Martial Kingdom!" Lin Ping explained with a faint smile.
"Grand Scholar Lü Yan? How do you know it's him? You can't judge a person by their appearance without a veil." Xia Linglong asked curiously. She didn't know about the Lotus Palace's Hall of Affairs, but she did know about the Grand Scholar of the Central Hall.
This man is the king's teacher and the chief minister of the cabinet, possessing supreme power. How could he possibly rebel?
"Wouldn't it be clear if we went over and took a look?" Lin Ping pulled Xia Linglong's hand and quickly moved closer.
Could a mere veil conceal Lin Ping's vision? He simply didn't want to convict the other party based on one side's testimony.
At the very least, his identity should be revealed in full view of the public.
"He actually withstood a thousand crossbow bolts!" Xia Linglong exclaimed, speechless.
Currently, the crossbowmen are the most powerful army in the Wu Kingdom.
Even so, he still couldn't defeat one person, which is truly astonishing.
“Even a top expert can’t withstand a thousand crossbow bolts. I deliberately used a scattering technique to save Wu Tiancheng’s life. But the real show is yet to come!” Lin Ping continued with a smile.
"Wu Tiancheng, so these are your crossbowmen? Hahaha! Today, I will surely kill you!"
After blocking a thousand crossbow bolts, the man in black became somewhat arrogant and swung his longsword again.
"Really? I'm afraid you're not even able to protect yourself!" Wu Tiancheng said sarcastically.
Only after he pointed it out did the man in black notice that the fallen arrows around him were glowing red, as if they were on fire.
Bang bang bang!
The explosives attached to the arrowheads detonated one after another, and the tiny bamboo strips were even sharper than the crossbow bolts.
The powerful blast wave generated a shockwave that shook the entire backyard and blew off most of the roof tiles.
The man in black was engulfed by thick smoke, leaving behind a dense network of deep craters on the ground.