Chapter 63: Temptation and killing

After 19 days of marching on the territory of the Dayan Dynasty, Wuqi and his group finally arrived in Jicheng.

Jidu, the capital of the Dayan Dynasty, has been expanded for fifteen times over the past two thousand years. With each expansion, the original city wall was raised and reinforced, and another city wall was formed several miles outside the city wall, circling a larger area into the city area. Therefore, from the outermost wall to the innermost palace wall, Jidu has a total of 17 high walls.

Thirty years ago, Jidu had just undergone a recent expansion. The latest city wall is 180 miles long and wide. In the thin morning mist, the tall city wall is like a lying dragon, lying quietly on this vast plain.

Each city wall is fifteen zhang high and ten zhang thick. It is built with extremely strong black sun rocks. A hardware solution is poured between the rock blocks, making the city wall more indestructible. On these black sun rocks that are twice as strong as diamonds, a large number of rune array diagrams with Wu Earth attributes are also carved, and the earth veins are extracted from the spiritual energy of the earth to strengthen the city walls. The city walls are always shining with light yellow light, which is shocking to see.

Every two miles on the city wall, there is an arrow tower that is hundreds of feet high. The arrow tower is ten feet long and wide, with nine floors from top to bottom. It is arranged with a large number of ink machines and crossbows, and its lethality is extremely terrifying. Inside the city wall, there are countless hidden soldiers and corridors, and the peep holes, gun holes, arrow holes, and dark holes can be seen from the bottom of your heart.

As the group of people gradually approached the walls of Jicheng, Wuqi felt his heart beating faster and faster, and his blood was flowing in his blood vessels, making him a little dizzy. He instinctively felt that something would happen in this huge capital, something that would have a significant impact on him or the Dayan Dynasty.

Taking a deep breath, Wuqi pointed his finger on a piece of wooden talisman hanging around his waist. Several simple runes on the wooden talisman flashed slightly, and a faint force spread out from the wooden talisman, covering up Wuqi's true energy fluctuations. Now it seems that Wuqi is an ordinary warrior with about thirty or forty years of internal strength.

Lu Chengfeng, Luo Kedi and Ma Liang also input a true energy into the wooden talisman hanging around his waist, covering his internal strength and breath. The four breath-catching talismans were made by Lu Chengfeng himself, and it is also the last practical array talisman in addition to the Houtu Spirit Armor Array and the Taibai Golden Sword Array.

A large butler from the "Tao Family" of Lu Guo came forward to clear the situation, and the brigade of troops successfully entered Jidu. The soldiers at the gate of the city did not even check whether there were any contraband in the convoy, so they were allowed to enter the city.

Jicheng is the core hinterland of the Dayan Dynasty. It has stationed hundreds of thousands of troops all year round. There are countless personal soldiers of major families in the city, and I don’t know how many masters are hiding it. Wuqi and his group are just more than 4,000 guards. For the huge Xidu, it is like a drop of water sprinkled into the big lake, and it cannot cause any waves at all. People don’t take them seriously.

We walked along the main road that was thirty meters wide and passed the thirteenth level of the city wall along the way. Then Wuqi and the others could no longer move forward. Going further inside, the core urban areas inside were all princes and nobles from the Dayan Dynasty, and they came from the vassal states under the Dayan Dynasty. The direct descendants of an ordinary wealthy business were not qualified to enter the core urban area.

After some busy schedule, the Lu family in Liyang bought a large mansion in the city in advance, which was enough to accommodate more than 5,000 people. Under the reception of the general manager of the Lu family in Jidu, a large group of people stationed in the courtyard, and then Wuqi immediately instructed Zhang Hu, Hu Wei and others to arrange the guards on duty.

After Tie Yuewu took a hurry to take a shower and changed her clothes, she immediately sent Lu Qiulu, the general manager of Jicheng, to lead the way, and brought three cars of gold, jade and jewelry to visit Yu Xuan, the current ruler of the Guozong Mansion of the Dayan Dynasty, the Duke of Yanxing.

Yu Xuan, Duke of Yanxing, and 392nd grandson of Yanhuang, Yan Dan, were abusing power, loving money and sex, valued profit but neglected righteousness, and held the power of the Dayan Dynasty's national government, and were responsible for supervising and managing the birth, old age, sickness and death of the princes and grandchildren, royal family and nobles, punishments and rewards, title changes and other matters.

If Lu Chengfeng wants to successfully inherit Yan Buji's title, fiefdom and all his official positions, he must bribe Yu Xuan.

Wuqi and others entered the city in the early morning. They spent a lot of time in the city. When everyone settled down, it was already after noon. Tie Yuewu took a shower and changed clothes, counted three cars of gold, jade and jewelry to visit Yu Xuan, it was already evening. The matter was urgent, and a little time would delay more variables, so Tie Yuewu knew that it was really unethical to visit a duke of the Great Yan Dynasty in such abrupt way, but she didn't care about so much.

There was no news when I left. From the evening approaching until the moon was in the sky, I didn’t see Tie Yuewu coming back, nor did I see her send the guards around her back to notify me. Gradually, not only Lu Chengfeng, but also Wuqi felt a little anxious.

Lu Chengfeng sat upright in the lobby, his hands hiding under the table, and his fingers shivered violently.

Wuqi walked slowly in the yard with his hands behind his back, like a swimming fish swimming in the water, floating under his feet, without any smoke or dust, and without making any sound. He sometimes looked up at the sky, sometimes looked back at Lu Chengfeng, and his brows were frowned tightly.

After waiting for half an hour, Wuqi also felt something was wrong. He stomped his feet heavily and said in a deep voice: "Who else knows where the Guozong Mansion is except Lu Qiuluo? Call someone over and take me to confirm the way."

Lu Chengfeng jumped up suddenly, and he shook his head repeatedly and said, "You can't do it, you can't do it. This is not comparable to Xiaomeng City. There are countless masters in Jicheng, and there are more than 100,000 soldiers patrolling the night at night. Legend has it that there are still real cultivators in the inner city who are on patrol at night, so you can't go out."

Wuqi stamped his feet again, and he whispered: "Where did they go? No matter what the result is, I have to reply to a letter, right?"

The two were discussing here, and Zhang Hu suddenly hurriedly walked in. He saluted Lu Chengfeng and said hurriedly: "Young Master, brother Wuqi, a few servants from Guozong Mansion came with their wife's seal, saying that they were asking the young master to go to Guozong Mansion to discuss in secret."

Lu Chengfeng was happy and hurriedly pulled Wuqi and walked out.

Wuqi hurriedly turned around and greeted him. Luo Kedi and Ma Liang looked at each other and hurriedly followed.

Outside the main hall of the first courtyard of the mansion, several men wearing black cloaks and covered their faces were standing quietly under the eaves. Hearing the footsteps of Wuqi and others, several men hurriedly turned around and handed over a jade seal the size of a thumb and red. "But Mr. Chengfeng is in person? On the order of my elders, I ask the master to go through the secret business of the mansion to negotiate the important matters."

As the seal was handed over, there was also a token cast with gold, silver, copper, iron and tin hardware. The token size of a palm was covered with wind and cloud patterns. In the wind and clouds, a blue bird was spreading its wings and flying high. On the back of the token, in a round of tomorrow, a small seal carved the word "Ji".

Lu Chengfeng took the seal and looked through it. It was indeed Tie Yuewu's personal seal. Wuqi took the token over. The token didn't look big, but the weight was very heavy. He looked through the token for a round. At the edge of the token, there was indeed the words Yu Xuan, the Dayan Chaoguo Zong.

After weighing the token, Wuqi asked, "Why don't the guards around you come with you?"

The man just now said lightly: "Do you think anyone can walk at night whenever Jidu? One more person, one more trouble."

With a sneer, the man explained with a bit of arrogance: "Even if you enter the inner city later, you must hide in the car, do not speak or move, otherwise you will cause trouble, don't blame us for ignoring it. Young Master Chengfeng, don't forget your current identity, and you are still the eldest son of the Lu family in Liyang!"

Lu Chengfeng snorted lightly, and he looked at Wuqi.

Wuqi narrowed his eyes and whispered: "Our young master wants to bring a few guards."

The man in black glanced at Wuqi and others and said calmly: "Except for Young Master Chengfeng, it is best not to have more than four guards. The car we brought was too small to accommodate too many people."

Wuqi pointed at himself and Luo Kedi, and Ma Liang said calmly: "The only three of us serve our young masters."

Several men in black nodded together. They stopped saying anything, and straightened the cloak that covered their faces, turned around and walked out.

In the shadow outside the mansion, a small two-wheeled black painted carriage was waiting there. Wuqi and four others got on the carriage, and several men in black surrounded the carriage, heading towards the inner city with loud noises.

There were soldiers patrolling the night from time to time along the way, but after they saw a light green lantern inserted on the shaft of the carriage, all the soldiers treated them as if they had not seen the carriage and let them walk over.

Walking straight along the way, several men in black were indeed very powerful. At this time, all the city gates in Jidu had been locked. Without disturbing anyone, they asked to open two small side doors on the city walls and walked all the way into the inner city.

The streets in the inner city of Jidu are all based on the specifications from more than two thousand years ago, and the streets are only about three meters wide. Both sides of the street are home to princes and nobles of the Dayan Dynasty. The walls are ten meters high, making the streets extremely narrow.

Several men in black drove their carriages around and walked around, and walked into a remote alley.

The carriage suddenly stopped, and Wuqi, who had been watching the movements around him through the gap in the car window, was stunned. It was dark and there was not even a door. How could it be the Guozong Mansion? He hurriedly asked in a low voice: "How many people, where is this?"

Several men in black laughed, suddenly turned around and jumped into the darkness.

Wuqi was shocked, and he whistled and put it on the carriage door. It was dull and shattered, turning into countless debris and flew out. Wuqi flew out of the carriage.

In the darkness, dozens of strong winds came silently and instantly arrived beside Wuqi, covering his entire body.

More strong winds hit the carriage, and the solemn cold air stimulated the carriage to make the three of them sweat all over the carriage, sweating.
Chapter completed!