Royal Palace.

When Li Jingyao walked out of Yunxiao Palace, she was still in a dazed state, her brows slightly furrowed and her steps slow.

"Your Highness, what happened?"

Seeing Li Jingyao's expression, Tongzhuo hurriedly approached her and asked in a lowered voice.

"Something is not right."

Li Jingyao couldn't help but shake her head and murmured to herself.

"What's wrong?"

After listening to Li Jingyao's words, Tong Zhuo also began to become confused.

"Your Majesty's reaction is wrong!"

Li Jingyao recalled the empress's reaction just now and said hesitantly.

"Is it because His Majesty doesn't want Marquis Li An to kill Li Wuji directly?"

Tongzhuo couldn't help but ask.

"no!"

"It has nothing to do with Li Wuji's life or death!"

"It seems that what she really cares about is not Li Wuji! It's Yangcheng! But why?! Is there anything more important in Yangcheng than Li Wuji..."

Li Jingyao walked slowly and murmured to herself. At the end of the sentence, her eyes suddenly lit up and she seemed to understand something.

"Send someone to Yangcheng immediately! Find out what secrets are hidden in Yangcheng that would make His Majesty so afraid!"

"The people from the Five Elements Department should have already set off. As expected, Xue Chi will also go secretly. Don't let them find out that I have also sent people to Yangcheng!"

"After you find out more about it, immediately return to the capital and report to me!"

Li Jingyao said immediately after thinking for a moment.

"yes."

Tongzhuo bowed his hands and replied respectfully, although he himself was still confused.

Soon, the three parties left the capital one after another and rushed towards Yangcheng.

...

The outskirts of Yangcheng.

In a mountain forest, a thatched house was built against the mountain. Several fences were swaying here and there. There were signs of fighting all around. There were corpses lying inside and outside the courtyard! There were almost hundreds of them!

The originally lush mountain forest was now almost stained red with blood.

The corpses on the ground can clearly be seen as belonging to four groups, which can be seen from the clothes on their bodies!

Looking around, there is only one word to describe it, and that is tragic!

Obviously, there has just been a fierce battle here!

Li Wuji stood among the corpses on the ground, his face solemn, a sword wound deep into the bone on his left arm was clearly visible, and the blood had stained the entire arm red.

In addition to him, Lu Yuan and several masters from Tianyuan were standing next to him. They were also injured, but their injuries were not as serious as Li Wuji's.

"Sir, we have already conducted a search. All the Xue Chi people have been eradicated, and no one has escaped."

Lu Yuan slowly came to Li Wuji and whispered.

"Okay, got it."

Li Wuji nodded with satisfaction, but the expression on his face did not relax.

"Your injury?"

Lu Yuan looked at Li Wuji's blood-red left arm with a worried look on his face.

"It's not a problem. It's just a flesh wound. It's not a critical injury. He won't die. He will recover if he takes more rest."

"The others should be arriving too, right?"

Li Wuji waved his hand and asked in a lowered voice.

"Just estimate the time, it should be here."

Lu Yuan nodded and replied in a low voice.

On the way to Yangcheng, Li Wuji had received the flying pigeon message from Di Long and knew that both Wuxingsi and Li Jingyao had sent people to Yangcheng.

And he also guessed that the empress would definitely send Xue Chi to come.

Thinking of this, Li Wuji slowly looked at the strong body lying in front of the thatched house.

It was a one-armed middle-aged man. Although he was dressed as a farmer and his hands were covered with calluses, anyone with a discerning eye could recognize at a glance that the man was not a farmer, and the calluses on his hands were not caused by farm work, but These are the traces left by years of military training!

In addition to the middle-aged man and three young men who looked like the children of the middle-aged man, there were more than a dozen men in black with their faces covered among the dead. In addition, there was a group of people led by a young swordsman.

The leading killer.

The remaining people are the people from the Tianyuan brought by Li Wuji.

In this battle, the people in Tianyuan also suffered a lot of losses.

"Sir, people are here."

At this moment, Lu Yuan reminded him in a low voice.

Immediately afterwards, footsteps sounded, and a group of people quickly came from the bottom of the mountain through the forest. After a while, they arrived in front of the thatched house. The leader was Leng Yue!

The people from the Five Elements Department have arrived!

Li Wuji slowly turned around and looked at Leng Yue, who had arrived belatedly, with no expression on his face.

"Master Leng came at the right time. Fortunately, I brought enough people, otherwise I would have died in Li Wuji's hands today!"

"You came in time, didn't you come here to attack?"

Li Wuji looked at Leng Yue and said in a deep voice, with a hint of dissatisfaction in his words.

However, Leng Yue did not speak to Li Wuji immediately. He just bowed his hands in a hurry, then walked around Li Wuji, quickly walked into the pile of corpses, and led people to inspect each corpse!

"Li Wuji?!"

Until Leng Yue walked to the side of the young swordsman, she finally couldn't help but exclaimed!

That's right, the young swordsman lying on the ground with a face full of unwillingness looks exactly the same as "Li Wuji"! No matter the figure or appearance!

"I lived up to your Majesty's expectations and tried my best to kill him. Fortunately, I didn't miss."

Li Wuji also slowly stepped forward, looked at that extremely familiar face, and said solemnly.

Leng Yue's expression was complicated. She stopped and looked at it for a long time, as if she couldn't believe that the grandson of the former emperor had died like this.

After Li Wuji escaped from the Heavenly Prison, he had a fight with Leng Yue in front of the Five Elements Division, so Leng Yue was extremely familiar with Li Wuji's figure and appearance, even better than the empress who was far away in the capital!

After Leng Yue hesitated for a moment, she squatted down and turned over the corpse of "Li Wuji". She opened the collar and took a look, and found the eye-catching character "Ling" on the neck of the corpse.

"Is it really him?!"

Leng Yue frowned and said in disbelief.

"What? Is it possible that Master Leng thought this was just a way for me to kill someone randomly to deal with it?"

"If he wasn't Li Wuji, why would I have lost so many of my men?"

Li Wuji's face darkened, he pointed at the corpses of Tian Yuan on the ground, and said coldly.

"Master Leng! It's Tu Ling!"

“It’s available here too!”

"And here!"

At the same time, other people from the Five Elements Division also discovered the corpses of those Ling disciples on the ground while inspecting the corpses, and reported them to Leng Yue one after another.

Leng Yue hesitated for a moment, glanced around, and then found the middle-aged man dead at the door of the thatched house, then walked over quickly and looked up and down carefully.

"What? What's wrong with this guy?"

"When I arrived, Li Wuji had already killed this person. Who is he? Isn't Li Wuji near the capital? Why did he suddenly appear here to kill this person?"

Li Wuji slowly came to Leng Yue's side, looked at the middle-aged man's body on the ground, and asked in confusion.

Hearing Li Wuji's question, Leng Yue frowned slightly, glanced at Li Wuji, then stood up and bowed respectfully to Li Wuji.

"It's nothing. What happened today is thanks to Lord Marquis."

"Don't worry, Lord Marquis. After returning to the capital, I will truthfully report to Your Majesty what happened here and will not attack the Lord Marquis."

"May I ask Lord Marquis, have all the people around this person been killed?"

As Leng Yue spoke, she pointed at the body of the middle-aged man at her feet.

"They should all be here. When I arrived, they were already dead."

Li Wuji thought for a while and said.
To be continued...