Dark night.

Residential house.

"I'm fine, sir. Thank you for saving me."

"I didn't expect that Young Master's swordsmanship is so fast, accurate and ruthless."

Li Jingyao shook her head slightly, looked at Li Wuji with some gratitude and said, with a hint of surprise in her eyes.

This was the first time she saw Li Wuji take action. She didn't expect that Li Wuji not only had amazing talent, but also had such strong skills.

"Your Highness is serious. Protecting His Highness is your natural responsibility."

"Besides, I brought Your Highness here. If something happens to His Highness, I will be guilty of a serious crime."

Li Wuji smiled and said half-jokingly.

"Okay, let's not talk about this. Let's find out what's going on here as soon as possible."

Li Jingyao chuckled softly. As she spoke, she turned around and looked at the two remaining survivors again.

But when I turned around, I realized that the two survivors who had been kneeling on the ground had already fallen into a pool of blood, with hidden weapons on their necks!

"search!"

Li Jingyao frowned and said in a deep voice.

Tongzhuo agreed, put away his sword, glanced at Li Wuji, and left to start searching the house.

"Your Highness, there is a situation!"

After a while, Tongzhuo ran out of a room quickly and said something to Li Jingyao, his face serious.

Li Jingyao glanced at Li Wuji and walked quickly inside.

Li Wuji also followed in.

"gunpowder?!"

When Li Jingyao walked into the house, she couldn't help but exclaimed and froze on the spot.

In the large room, not a single piece of furniture was placed. Instead, there were dozens of half-person-high wooden barrels. The barrels were filled with dark gunpowder and exuded a pungent smell. !

"That's right!"

"Your Highness, if this much gunpowder explodes, the consequences will be disastrous!"

Tongzhuo nodded and said solemnly.

Li Wuji couldn't help but frown, and visually checked the number of barrels. He felt that all the gunpowder added up was hundreds of kilograms!

If it were to detonate, it would affect almost half of the capital!

Such a huge amount of gunpowder is enough to attack a city!

"Sir, it seems that as you said, the Qianguo envoy's visit to Beijing has really evil intentions!"

Li Jingyao's face darkened and she said in a cold voice.

"Your Highness, this place is too dangerous, you'd better leave here first!"

Li Wuji frowned and said seriously.

"Your Highness, Mr. Wuji is right, you should evacuate this place with me as soon as possible!"

Tongzhuo took a step forward and said worriedly.

"We are all gone, what should we do with the gunpowder? What if there are still bad guys lurking nearby?!"

"Go and inform the Duying Guards and the Five Elements Division immediately, and order the Duying Guards to clear out all the gunpowder, and conduct strict inspections throughout the capital to prevent anyone from hiding gunpowder and plotting evil!"

"Let the Five Elements Division surround the Huitong Pavilion. No one in the mission will be allowed to leave the capital until the matter is investigated!"

Li Jingyao said coldly with a sullen face.

"yes!"

"Your Highness, then you..."

Tongzhuo agreed, showing hesitation.

"Don't worry, Commander, as long as I'm here, your Highness will be fine."

Li Wuji smiled and said slowly.

Tongzhuo nodded and left immediately.

"You come with me."

Li Jingyao glanced at the gunpowder in the room, turned around and walked out.

"Your Highness, where are you going?"

Li Wuji asked slowly while following up.

"Follow me and meet Shen Qingshan for a while!"

Li Jingyao said as she walked out of the yard.

"Old Cao, you stay and watch here!"

Li Wuji told Cao Zian, took Lu Yuan, and followed Li Jingyao straight to the Huitong Hall.

...

Huitong Hall.

When Li Jingyao knocked on the door of the Huitong Hall in person, the official who opened the door was so frightened that he knelt on the ground. He didn't know why His Highness Taiqing suddenly came to the door so late at night.

The Huitong Pavilion is a place dedicated to receiving missions from various countries. As long as there are missions coming to the capital to pay tribute, the Huitong Pavilion will arrange their food, clothing, housing and transportation.

"Where are the people from the Qianguo mission?!"

Li Jingyao asked coldly with a sullen face.

"Reporting to Your Highness, you are... inside... you should have fallen asleep..."

The junior official replied nervously, still a little confused.

"Ask everyone in the mission to gather in the front yard and order Shen Qingshan to come see me immediately!"

Li Jingyao said coldly and walked straight in.

"yes..."

The junior official trembled in agreement and immediately rushed to the backyard.

Front yard main hall.

Li Jingyao sat quietly in the front seat with no expression on her face.

Li Wuji sat on the first chair on his right, observing Li Jingyao intentionally or unintentionally, while Lu Yuan stood behind him without saying a word.

After a while, a middle-aged man with somewhat disheveled clothes stumbled in, his face full of fear.

Together with the envoy of the Embassy, ​​Shen Fang.

"I pay my respects to His Highness, Taiqing!"

"I didn't know that Your Highness was coming late at night, and I missed you from afar to greet you. I hope Your Highness will forgive me!"

Shen Fang knelt down and saluted, while speaking with trembling lips, he did not forget to steal a glance at the unfamiliar Li Wuji as he spoke.

"It's disturbing Mr. Shen's peaceful dream!"

Li Jingyao looked at the disheveled Shen Fang and said coldly.

"Your Highness is serious in your words. You may try to offend me. I know you are wrong..."

When Shen Fang heard this, cold sweat broke out on his forehead. As he spoke, he hurriedly arranged his clothes.

"Where is Shen Qingshan?!"

Li Jingyao snorted coldly and asked in a deep voice.

"The official has already ordered someone to call him. He should arrive soon."

Shen Fang swallowed his saliva and hurriedly explained.

As he was talking, footsteps could be heard outside, and dozens of people from the Qian Kingdom delegation had already gathered in the courtyard.

Shen Qingshan, deputy envoy of Liguo Wenshu Monastery, coughed and slowly walked into the main hall with his four disciples. One of them was being supported by others, it was Tong Zhi who was vomiting blood due to Li Wuji Qi in Xuanhua Hall.

"I have met His Highness Taiqing!"

After Shen Qingshan came closer, he knelt on the ground respectfully and said loudly.

Following Shen Qingshan's actions, the four sons of Manjusri and those in the courtyard all knelt on the ground and spoke in unison.

"Shen Qingshan! Do you know your guilt?!"

Li Jingyao looked at Shen Qingshan on the ground coldly and asked word by word.

"Foreign ministers are ignorant and don't know what your highness means by these words?"
To be continued...