Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 35 Lurking
The nobleman suddenly waved his hand and ordered a retreat.

When he turned around, he told the Grand Master: "The Imperial Master has always wanted to compete with Jiang Long, and now is the chance."

The great wizard immediately shouted, "Assassin Jianglong, I will kill you today!"

He stretched out his palms forward, and the palms instantly turned as red as blood. He was using the Great Seal magic of the Tibetan Tantric Buddhism.

By the time he had gathered his palm power to its peak, Huang Sixi had already pounced on him, but did not strike back.

Huang Sixi brandished the Golden Snake Sword and quickly used the move 'Golden Snake Ten Thousand Paths', instantly enveloping the great wizard in sword light.

When the great wizard's palm power surged outward with nowhere to vent and gradually weakened, Huang Sixi swung his sword horizontally, and the tip of the sword pierced the great wizard's throat.

The great wizard instantly fell to the ground, holding his neck, mumbling: "Dragon-subduing hero, assassinating the king, your reputation is so fucking fake!"

He originally wanted to fight with Huang Sixi, but Huang Sixi attacked him with a sword, and he died unwillingly.

Blood gushed out of his neck and he soon died on the spot.

At this time, the young master had already fled to the foot of the mountain and was running in panic under the protection of several archers.

Huang Sixi kicked up his foot, grabbed a lost iron bow, aimed at the nobleman, and with a "whoosh!", an arrow pierced the nobleman's back.

The archers were carrying the noble young master and trying to escape when another arrow came and a body fell to the ground on the spot.

At this moment, the remaining people were about to scatter, but as they were running in the mountains, they could not outrun Huang Sixi's bows and arrows, and were soon shot to death one by one.

When Huang Sixi saw that all the surviving archers were killed, he went down the mountain with his sword and came to the young master.

The man was still alive, but he was still stubborn: "As long as the Qing Dynasty exists, there will be people who will keep coming to kill you. You will never be able to avoid them in your life!"

"Okay, I'll wait!"

Huang Sixi raised his sword and beheaded him with one blow.

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Qinling Mountains.

It's already night.

At this time, more than half an hour had passed since Huang Sixi killed the three heroes of Taibai.

Huang Sixi had also seen Mu Renqing and Cui Qiushan off and was resting in a wild forest.

The only people around him were Tie Luohan, Li Yan, Hong Niangzi, and his old acquaintance from Liaodong, Luo Liru.

Luo Liru was the tall and thin figure who pushed the boulder down the mountain earlier and broke the arrow formation. Why he suddenly appeared in Taibai Mountain really puzzled Huang Sixi and Tie Luohan.

Several people lit a fire and roasted game while talking about their respective situations.

Huang Sixi pointed at the scar on Luo Liru's face and asked: "How did you get this injury?"

This is an old injury, it looks like it has been there for several months.

Luo Liru was still worried that Huang Sixi would label him a traitor, so he spoke with some restraint.

He spoke in a low voice: "Mr. Huang, we parted in Liaodong that day, and I returned to the Central Plains alone. Because the Tartars' search was too intensive, I had to cross mountains and ridges. But even in the mountains I encountered Tartars. I fought with them several times and was hacked by them." Huang Sixi thought to himself that his return to the Central Plains must not be easy, and he must have encountered many hardships.

Just as he was about to ask for details, he heard Tie Luohan ask with concern: "Brother Luo, how did you get back?"

Luo Liru showed a hint of luck: "I wandered around Liaodong for two or three months, resting during the day and traveling at night, until I reached the border of the Great Wall, but the border was completely blocked by the Tartars, and I couldn't get through. Later, I met a group of Ming soldiers who came out of the border. They knew how to avoid the Tartars and secretly took me inside the border."

Hong Niangzi heard this and pursed her lips: "Are the Ming soldiers so kind? How much money did they extort from you?"

"I didn't charge them! They even provided me with food and drink, drank with me, and treated me like a brother. Before I left, they gave me dozens of taels of silver!"

"Huh? Did you meet someone stupid?"

Hongniang's words made the several grown men present burst into laughter.

Wait for the laughter to stop.

Luo Liru looked proud as he looked at Huang Sixi and said, "I was treated with courtesy by the officers and soldiers because of Mr. Huang. Those officers and soldiers were originally ordered to go out of the border to look for Mr. Huang!"

He became excited unconsciously: "At that time, the news of the assassination of the Tartar emperor had been reported back to the Central Plains. I heard from the officers and soldiers that our emperor was so excited that he ordered all the nine frontier garrisons to send out troops to bring back Mr. Huang.

The guards at other checkpoints could not find any clues about Mr. Huang. Those officers and soldiers knew that I had met Mr. Huang and were very happy. They could finally report to their superiors, so they were polite to me. "

He wandered alone for half a year and suffered a lot, but when he thought of being surrounded by hundreds of Ming soldiers at the Great Wall, listening to his story about the assassination of Huang Taiji by the Dragon Subduing Knight, and taking turns to toast him afterwards, he felt very happy and felt that it didn't matter if he had to suffer for another half a year.

These officers and soldiers had been badly bullied by the Tartars. The Dragon Subduing Hero avenged them and stopped the Tartars' southward invasion by his own strength. Since they could not see the Dragon Subduing Hero, they expressed their gratitude to Luo Liru.

However, Luo Liru did not get carried away and hurriedly said, "Mr. Huang, I only told the officers and soldiers about your killing of the Tartars in Shengjing. I did not reveal a single word about where you went or who you were with after leaving Shengjing."

Huang Sixi nodded: "Since you returned to the Central Plains safely, why didn't you go back to your hometown in Nanjing, but entered Shaanxi instead?"

Luo Liru's expression turned solemn: "After I was sent back to the interior by the Ming soldiers, a senior official named Lu came to see me. He told me that you, Mr. Huang, stabbed the Tartar emperor to death, which led to a dramatic change in the Tartar court and the resumption of the Eight Kings' Political Consultative Conference.

As long as you are still alive, Mr. Huang, the Tartars will not elect a new emperor, lest you try to assassinate him again. The Tartar nobles are terribly afraid of you, so they use the Eight Kings to discuss politics so that you can't tell who is the head of the Tartar family."

The eight kings discussed politics together, and no matter who Huang Sixi stabbed to death in the future, it would not affect the operation of the Tartar court.

Upon hearing this, Li Yan pointed out sharply: "These Tartar nobles are so afraid of Mr. Huang, will they concentrate their minds and specifically deal with Mr. Huang?"

"Mr. Li, you are right. That senior official Lu also said the same thing!" Luo Liru said:
"Official Lu told me that each of the eight banners of the Tartars sent a group of people to lurk in the provinces of our northern border. These people secretly publicized their bounty order against Mr. Huang and secretly recruited assassins to track down Mr. Huang's whereabouts in order to assassinate him."

Upon hearing this, Lady Hong immediately became indignant: "Since this Senior Officer Lu has obtained intelligence on the Tartars, why doesn't he send troops to catch these Tartars? Wouldn't it be a source of trouble if we keep them here?"

Li Yan sighed, "How can we catch them? In the five northern provinces of Beizhili, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Shandong, and Henan, the common people are rising up in rebellion everywhere. In any mountaintop, there are strong men who set up their own camps. The officers and soldiers are too busy to suppress the rebels, so who would specifically go after a small group of Tartars?"

The more corrupt the situation in the northern border of the Ming Dynasty, the easier it is for the Tatars to hide.

Li Yan added: "Besides, the Tartars' goal is to assassinate Mr. Huang and prevent him from going to Liaodong again. Even if the officers and soldiers kill all the Tartar lurkers, the Eight Banners of Shengjing will send a second and third batch to sneak in. If they don't kill Mr. Huang, they will not be able to sleep well."

Hong Niangzi was a little anxious: "What should we do? There are Tartar assassins in every province. It's easy to dodge the open guns but hard to guard against the hidden arrows."

Li Yan suddenly turned to Huang Sixi and said, "Mr. Huang, you might as well contact the various martial arts sects and use the help of people from the martial arts world to investigate the whereabouts of the Tartars. These people from the martial arts world have connections and they have connections with the strong men in the northern border. They will definitely be able to wipe out the Tartars!"

Huang Sixi disagreed. "I will go to the Tibetan border soon. It is deserted and no one can find me there. I will not see anyone. If the Tartar spies cannot track me, the nobles in Shengjing will be worried all the time. This is not bad. There is no need to make trouble."

(End of this chapter)