Start with a red name

Chapter 233: Waves are rising, the first test of black luck

Under the leadership of Xue Zhiheng, Geng Xuan, Tang Caizhu and their group first quietly sneaked out of the Blood Fang Group's base.

There are 530 Blood Fang warriors, plus 23 people in the Blood Fang Corps who have reached the level of marrow refining or above, and Tang Caizhu and her group of 61 people.

Excluding Geng Xuan, the total number of people has reached 614.

Among them, Tang Caizhu has perfected the first realm, Xue Zhiheng has reached the peak of marrow refining, there are four people in the late stage of marrow refining, eleven people in the middle stage of marrow refining, and twenty-eight people in the early stage of marrow refining.

Such top-level combat power is already very impressive, and even in Yuanjing, it is very impressive.

However, Xue Zhiheng felt that with such combat power, even with the addition of "Su Ruiliang", it was not safe to attack the Acropolis of Wuyou Palace.

So, after a burst of super-fast mental activity, he exerted his subjective initiative and took the initiative to introduce a potential ally to Geng Xuan.

Xue Zhiheng led the way and led everyone to sneak out of the Bloodfang Group. After skillfully avoiding all sights, he led everyone into an empty courtyard that covered a large area but was deserted.

He explained to Geng Xuan:
“Although the noble families of Yuanjing live together in Yuanjing City, the rules and regulations in the palace are very strict. Many successful descendants or branches like to buy some mansions and courtyards in the outer city.

This is the mansion owned by a branch of the Yuanjing Li family who is in the late stage of marrow refining. He only comes here occasionally to stay for a few days. The rest of the time, there is no one here. You don't have to worry about being discovered if you stay here temporarily."

As he spoke, he looked at the team of more than 600 people in the field and said:

"This place is not far from the Xu family's villa.

Although the Xu family has taken the initiative to move out of Yuanjing City, there are still many forces that are openly or covertly paying attention to the movements of the Xu family in the villa these days.

In order to avoid causing dissatisfaction among the Xu family, the stalkers were of average strength.

But if so many of us go to the Xu family villa, we will definitely be unable to hide it from anyone.

So, what I mean is that the main force is staying here for the time being.

"Boss Su, take a small number of elite troops with you, try to avoid the eyes of those stalkers, and sneak into the Xu family's villa to implement the plan."

Geng Xuan looked at him and said, "You have to go with me."

"Yes." Xue Zhiheng said calmly, without any surprise on his face.

"And all the combat forces under your command who are above the marrow refining stage, come with me." Geng Xuan continued.

"Okay." Xue Zhiheng nodded and agreed very readily.

Geng Xuan looked at the two people following Tang Caizhu and said, "You two stay here and tell everyone to keep order and quiet until we come back."

When Zheng Qingyan and Yan Wenxuan heard the order, they did not respond immediately, but turned to look at Tang Caizhu beside them.

Tang Caizhu nodded slightly.

"Yes, uncle." The two of them responded in unison.

Geng Xuan finally said to Tang Caizhu, "Apart from these two, Senior Sister, please bring all your marrow refining forces with you and come with me."

Tang Caizhu nodded.

After making the arrangements, without any delay, Geng Xuan led forty-three marrow-refining warriors and quietly sneaked out of the deserted mansion and continued to approach the Xu family villa.

After being reminded by Xue Zhiheng, Geng Xuan asked Tang Caizhu to watch the others and hide in a secluded place, while he himself quickly circled around the Xu family's villa.

With his keen eyesight and the special side effect of his "red name" that made all stalkers "unable to hide", Geng Xuan found all 43 stalkers in 15 groups around the Xu family's villa.

After finding these people, getting rid of them seems to be the safest solution.

But another situation described by Xue Zhiheng prevented Geng Xuan from acting rashly.

Different surveillance groups will report the situations detected during a certain period of time, and someone will come to replace them.

For a single surveillance group, the intervals would not be too frequent, perhaps three to five hours, or half a day.

But if all the groups of stalkers around the Xu family's villa are counted, there will be at least one or two, and at most three or five groups of information coming out every hour, as well as personnel rotations.

Because this place is in the outer city of Yuanjing, even if there is only a quarter of an hour's error, it will immediately attract the attention of the end point.

Then, the "abnormality" will spread at an extremely fast speed.

——The Xu family is now under close surveillance by all parties in Yuanjing.

Even with the most optimistic estimate, it would take at least one or two hours to complete the "persuasion" work of all the Xu family members in the Xu family villa.

Therefore, although it is easy for him to get rid of all these stalkers now, before he can accomplish the purpose of this trip, the Xu Family Villa may have become the most prominent area of the "big stage" of Yuanjing.

This is not what he wants to see.

Fortunately, the Xu family villa covers a very large area. Although the forty-three stalkers are numerous, they are far from enough to "surround" the Xu family villa.

After confirming the location of these stalkers, Geng Xuan led Tang Caizhu, Xue Zhiheng and forty-three others, easily avoided all the surveillance eyes, and quietly climbed over the wall to sneak into the Xu family villa.

Time passed by minute by minute.

In the eyes of all the stalkers, the Xu family villa under the night sky was the same as usual, with no difference at all.

During this period, new stalkers came one after another and the old stalkers were replaced and left.

As they leave and return to their respective forces, they will also bring the message that "everything is normal" back to various places in Yuanjing.

Until an hour and a half later.

More than thirty figures suddenly shot out from all parts of the Xu family villa without any warning almost at the same time, and landed accurately near the stalkers.

Then, before they could react with astonishment, these murderous Xu family members decisively attacked them and sent them away as quickly as possible.

After quickly, easily and accurately eliminating all the stalkers nearby, the Xu family members quickly gathered towards the gate of the Xu family's villa.

And just as they were gathering towards the gate of Xu's villa, a total of one hundred Xuanyou horses galloped out from the inside of the Xu's villa with the main gate wide open, and lined up in front of the gate of Xu's villa.

Then, one after another, the fine horses from Yuanzhou rushed out of the courtyard in an orderly manner under the control of a group of riders.

Many riders not only rode their own horses, but also held one or even two empty horses in their hands.

This group of Xu family members who were the first to rush out of the Xu family's villa and eliminate all the stalkers as quickly as possible returned and came to the front of the team.

Geng Xuan, Tang Caizhu, Xue Zhiheng and others are all here.

Although some people had stiff faces, they still nodded ceremoniously to Geng Xuan, the "gang leader".

Some people were too lazy to even pretend, and simply ignored them, and respectfully replied to the other two old men next to them:
"Report to the ancestor, all the stalkers have been eliminated!"

Of the two old men, one was not too obviously old and looked much younger than Xu Peng.

His actual age is about the same as Xu Peng's, in his early sixties.

The other old man looked very old, with a head full of white hair and visibly loose and wrinkled skin on his face. However, when he was riding on the horse, his back was very straight.

This person's actual age is already 85 years old, undoubtedly an octogenarian.

These two are the only two remaining peak-level marrow refining fighters in the Yuanjing Xu family since the departure of the head of the Xu family.

It can be said that they know the times and can endure what others cannot endure.

It is said that the older they get, the less courageous they become and the more they fear death.

These two people are the key to Geng Xuan's successful completion of the "persuasion" work of all the Xu family members in the villa.

With their cooperation, Geng Xuan not only succeeded in "persuading" all the Xu family members in the villa.

It also took a lot of time to carefully "sort out" all the Xu family members in the villa from top to bottom.

All parts that are clearly identified as "impurities" are decisively removed.

Just talking about the combat power at the marrow refining level, there was one in the late marrow refining stage, two in the middle marrow refining stage, and five in the early marrow refining stage who could not step out of the Xu family villa alive and slept forever in this villa.

Even so, as the Xu family members who had all become temporary gang members under Geng Xuan walked out of the Xu family villa one after another.

There are still four people in the late stage of marrow refining, thirteen people in the middle stage of marrow refining, and twenty-two people in the early stage of marrow refining.

Just from this point, it can be seen that this is a deeper foundation than that of the Blood Fang Group and Tang Caizhu's group of "remnants of the Red Heart Gang".

This does not include the head of the Xu family, two people in the late stage of marrow refining who died at the hands of "Su Ruiliang", and Xu Peng and Xu Yao who surrendered to him and served him.

In addition to the combat power at the marrow refining level, eight of the remaining one hundred Xuanyou riders of the Xu family were also "purified" by Geng Xuan.

Among the three hundred heavy swordsmen, twenty-one were "purified" by Geng Xuan.

——Originally, the Xu family had only 200 heavy swordsmen left in Yuanjing. But with the bad news of Qingyuan Ji, the Xu family tapped into their internal potential and urgently expanded their ranks by another 100.

Just from the perspective of "purification ratio", the "impurities" within the Xu family are indeed much less than those of the Blood Fang Group.

Moreover, according to the interrogation, it was learned that many of those who were "purified" had recently made the decision to jump ship because they saw that the situation of the Xu family was delicate and there were signs of collapse.

Before this, they were all loyal members of the Xu family.

This can also be seen as an example of how family power is superior to gangs and the Blood Fang in some respects.

According to Geng Xuan's understanding, among these "Xu family members", there are actually very few who are truly descendants of the Xu family's direct bloodline.

The other "Xu family members" are either side branches, and many of them are just the same surname. As for whether they were a family hundreds of years ago, neither side is clear.

Either he himself, or his parents and grandparents have integrated into the Xu family through various means such as marrying into the family, getting married, being adopted as a son, changing the surname, etc., which is fresh blood.

From this perspective, there is not much difference between this and those gang forces, it is just covered with a family shell.

The current direct line of the Xu family has changed so many "pulses" compared to the direct line of the Xu family hundreds of years ago.

But it is this seemingly useless veil of warmth that makes the "new and old Xu family members" more willing to be captured and disciplined by it.

"Family" is obviously more soothing than "fellow students".

……

In addition to the one hundred Xuanyou riders and three hundred heavy swordsmen, there are another four hundred and fifty-five members of the Xu family in the villa.

Among them, thirty-four people were tragically "purified".

When all the surviving members of the Xu family walked out of the villa, the team set off quickly without staying any longer.

When they arrived, Geng Xuan led forty-three people to sneak into the villa.

Now when they leave, it is a huge team of nearly 800 people.

Including 41 fighters above the marrow refining level and 692 fighters below the marrow refining level, the Xu Family Villa trip, which lasted less than two hours, had 733 more allies.

Not only the quantity, but also the quality is very high.

The addition of so many high-quality temporary gang members brought Geng Xuan another 56 points of good luck.

——It seems that there are only eight more points than the Blood Fang Group, but it does not mean that the difference in strength between the two sides is so small. Even if they are temporary gang members, under the condition of "same quality", the white luck that the latecomers can provide will be lower than that of the early comers.

……

In addition, there is the Blood Fang Group headed by Xue Zhiheng, and the "remnants of the Red Heart Gang" headed by Tang Caizhu.

Geng Xuan came to Yuanjing empty-handed, but within just a few hours, he had 1347 comrades-in-arms.

"That's enough."

While riding his horse quickly, Geng Xuan did not forget to turn his head and look at the southwest sky.

Up to now, it has been nearly half an hour, and no more good luck has come from the direction of Qingyuanji.

In just two or three hours, a large number of red names came from the direction of Qingyuanji, no less than two thousand of them came from afar.

After refining these red names and gaining a huge amount of good fortune, Geng Xuan was most concerned about the names of those who contributed to the good fortune.

Most of them are strangers.

There were not many familiar ones that left some impression on Geng Xuan.

Geng Xuan had basically made a judgment in his mind.

At this moment, as no new red names came in for half an hour, Geng Xuan felt even more confident.

"The battle in Qingyuanji should have ended."

"Fang Jintang, Jiang Hongyi and the others handled the situation well. Although the Giant Bear Gang lost a lot of men, they still managed to resist the counterattack from the Worry-Free Palace."

……

When they came, Geng Xuan led Tang Caizhu, Xue Zhiheng and others to carefully cover their tracks.

But this time, a team of nearly 800 people left the Xu family villa in a mighty manner without any intention of concealing their whereabouts.

It can't be hidden anyway, so fortunately I won't cover it up or hide it.

But things are so strange. Despite such a grand and ostentatious action, not a single ignorant person jumped out along the way.

Even Geng Xuan, who had amazing eyesight, could only see a few "red names" flash by in the distance.

Geng Xuan did not waste time on these people and met up with Zheng Qingyan, Yan Wenxuan and others who were waiting in a nearby mansion.

The team of over a thousand people left East Outer City without a moment's pause, disappearing from everyone's sight. The empty, quiet, and desolate Xu Family Villa didn't suddenly become lively until an hour later.

As if they had discussed it beforehand, group after group of people appeared outside the Xu family compound from different directions almost at the same time.

Some people went to check on the stalkers who were killed swiftly and efficiently, while others stared at the messy ground outside the courtyard with dense horseshoe prints for a while, and then rushed straight into the courtyard with the door open.

A moment later, everyone gathered in the meeting room.

The originally spacious meeting hall has now become extremely crowded. Many latecomers and those with insufficient status cannot even get a seat in the hall and can only watch from outside.

No one spoke in the brightly lit hall. Everyone's eyes were focused on the corpses neatly placed together in the hall.

Everyone quickly counted the bodies and found that there were as many as seventy-one.

A death toll of this magnitude would be enough to cause an uproar within any force.

not to mention--

Most eyes in the hall were focused on a dozen or so bodies.

Among these dozen or so corpses, one was from the late stage of marrow refining of the Xu family, and the others were all marrow refining combatants of the Xu family.

Although the other few are not marrow-refining combat forces, they are representatives of the Xu family in certain aspects because of certain characteristics or abilities. They are also well-known in the minds of many forces in Yuanjing.

Now, all these people are dead.

He died in the Xu family's villa and his body was neatly placed in the hall.

Everyone who witnessed this scene was shocked and extremely confused.

No matter how amazing their imagination is, their minds are still in chaos and they cannot make out a clear line.

……

Just as the attention of all parties in Yuanjing was alarmed and attracted to the incident at the Xu family villa.

Geng Xuan, leading Tang Caizhu, Xue Zhiheng, the two elders of the Xu family and more than a thousand others, had already left Dongwai City and was more than 40 miles southeast of Yuanjing.

The group of people who were riding their horses quickly did not move forward after arriving here.

At Geng Xuan's request, everyone dismounted.

Those who rode Yuanzhou's fine horses all hid their mounts in the nearby dense forests.

Hundreds of Xuanyou riders wrapped the four hooves of the Xuanyou horses with cloth and led them forward.

The purpose of doing this is, of course, to avoid thousands of fast horses running in the middle of the night and making too much noise, which would alert the people in the Wuyou Palace Acropolis that is getting closer and closer in advance.

Soon, the team continued its journey.

Under the cover of night, a team of thousands of people, like an undercurrent in the dark night, flowed silently on the slowly undulating earth, quickly rushing towards the Wuyou Palace Citadel in the distance.

It was a truly marvelous scene.

Because just recently, nearly two thousand miles away, under the shining of the same moon, in the wilderness outside Qingyuanji.

There was a team of similar size doing almost the same thing as what was happening right now.

The most amazing thing is that the “host” and the “guest” have switched places.

As this "dark night undercurrent" silently "flows" close to the ground, it maintains a steady speed and rhythm as it approaches the Acropolis of Wuyou Palace.

Geng Xuan handed the task of leading the team forward to Tang Caizhu.

He nodded gently to Xue Zhiheng and the two elders of the Xu family who were beside Tang Caizhu, and said softly:
“There are still some nails in the nearby forests. They should be the night sentries arranged by Wuyou Palace. I will go and pull them out.

...You don't need to worry about anything, just keep moving forward at the current pace.

I will remove all the nails along the way in advance."

After saying that, he flashed away, and because of his speed, it seemed as if he disappeared from the spot, and he disappeared from the sight of several people in an instant.

Xue Zhiheng and the two elders of the Xu family all had their pupils shrink.

Their eyes accidentally met. The two elders of the Xu family snorted coldly and immediately looked away, while Xue Zhiheng maintained a polite smile.

Not to mention the little episode that happened between the two sides, since "Su Ruiliang" left, they have not made any trouble and have been leading their subordinates forward peacefully.

They could naturally hear the words "Su Ruiliang" said before he left, as well as the amazing speed he displayed, which implied a warning.

But such beating does not make them feel uncomfortable.

As they were getting closer and closer to the Wuyou Palace Acropolis, they wished there would be as many such beatings as possible.

……

After Geng Xuan broke away from the team, his speed suddenly increased several times.

No longer needing to accommodate the pace of everyone in the team, Geng Xuan increased his speed to the fastest.

As the art of horse judging reaches a perfect level, in addition to everything related to the "horse", the increase in speed has also reached a higher level.

After some reckless attempts, Geng Xuan judged that his current speed had reached about 150 kilometers per hour.

In other words, it can move forward more than 40 meters in one second.

This is still the state of long-distance rapid travel.

If you dodge and move in a short distance and accelerate instantly, the speed will be even faster.

In battle, with his sharp perception and nimble movements, he can keep the enemy completely unaware of his presence.

By locking in the red names in advance, Geng Xuan easily eliminated the sentries lurking along the way.

This allows the large group behind to move forward without worrying about exposing their whereabouts before reaching the Wuyou Palace Citadel.

But this was not the real reason why he left the team and went alone.

Clearing out the sentries hidden in the dark mountains and forests along the way was just a side job.

While clearing the sentries, Geng Xuan left the team and advanced nearly twenty miles at the fastest speed.

Looking at the towering and well-maintained city wall in the distance, which was no less impressive than the city wall of Yuanjing, Geng Xuan did not feel much excitement.

The first thing he did was to look around, and with the help of his sharp eyesight and "Red Name Reveal", he determined the areas where the guards on the city wall were located.

The number of guards on the city wall was even smaller than he thought.

Such a majestic city wall, but there are only dozens of people on duty guarding it.

Moreover, in Geng Xuan's opinion, many guards were just there for show. They were facing inside the Acropolis instead of outside it.

There is no need to look carefully to find many blind spots.

Geng Xuan chose the best "passage" and approached the city wall safely.

Then, using his hands and feet, his body was like an extremely flexible gecko, sticking to the almost straight upward city wall and quickly rising more than 30 meters.

Then he flipped in the air extremely lightly, and his body did not even come into contact with anything on the city wall, and he rolled directly through the void above the city wall.

When his body passed through the void and began to fall, he stretched out his hand and grabbed forward lightly, and then he firmly hooked onto the inner wall of the Acropolis, and his body silently stuck to it.

With his hands clasped on the wall and his body firmly pressed against the city wall nearly 30 meters above the ground, Geng Xuan turned his head and looked down from above. With his sharp eyesight and extraordinary perception of spatial orientation (given by the Earth Walking Technique), Geng Xuan memorized the general layout of the Acropolis in his mind in a very short time.

Then he lowered his head and glanced around nearby.

In the front left, in a small detached house more than fifty meters away, a figure with a very strong red name was seen.

"You are the one."

After determining the target, Geng Xuan changed his grip on the steep wall to pushing, and at the same time, he pushed hard with his feet pressed against the wall.

The whole person stretched his body as far as possible and leaped forward, just like a strong swimmer before entering the water.

However, Geng Xuan's leap, so light and graceful, was not intended to dive into the water, but to throw his entire body into the night sky.

Geng Xuan stretched his body to the utmost and quickly flew through the void of more than fifty meters, while falling nearly thirty meters.

Such a smooth and flowing action was carried out silently, and even the guards on the city wall did not hear anything unusual.

It was not until Geng Xuan, like a giant bird, had completely flown over the target that the target on the ground sensed something was wrong and turned his head to look.

"Oh!"

What he saw was a huge black shadow approaching rapidly.

Before he could take a closer look, a dull sound came from his forehead, interrupting all his thoughts.

With this punch, Geng Xuan reduced a lot of his falling momentum and landed on the ground silently. He helped the man who was knocked unconscious by him and was about to fall to the ground and quickly brought him into the room.

After entering the room and taking a quick look around, Geng Xuan felt more at ease after confirming that this was a small courtyard where people lived alone.

He reached out and pressed his hand on the man's forehead, and soon the unconscious man woke up slowly.

The man with a headache saw a strange man looking down at him, and he immediately became alert and was about to shout.

His own courtyard is very close to the city wall. He believes that as long as he makes a little noise, he can attract the attention of the outside world to the abnormality here.

But the calm-looking man in front of him seemed to have seen through his thoughts first. He stretched out his finger and tapped lightly. The man suddenly discovered in despair that although his mouth was wide open, he could not make any sound at all.

"Now, I ask and you answer." Geng Xuan said.

The man with a look of despair showed a look of determination on his face when he heard this.

Geng Xuan shook his head slightly and reached out to touch his forehead again.

Soon, a look of pain appeared on the man's face, and his body began to curl up and struggle in vain on the ground. He felt hot and cold all over and was sweating profusely.

He had opened his mouth as wide as possible, but no sound came out.

Geng Xuan withdrew his fingers, and the man who was curled up on the ground like a cooked shrimp was breathing heavily.

"If you cooperate with me, I can make your death quicker. If you don't cooperate, I will make your death more painful.

...If you are truly steadfast and unyielding, I will go find someone else. There isn't much else here, but there are many people. You are not irreplaceable.

Do you understand?"

The man curled up on the ground breathed greedily and nodded slightly.

"what's your name?"

"Fang...Fang Yong."

"Which hall do you belong to?"

"Transmission... Transmission Hall."

"Where does Xiao Jingwen live?"

The man was suddenly stunned, and his eyes became more lively, but when he met Geng Xuan's gaze, he immediately gave the answer.

Geng Xuan's memories corroborated everything he had just seen while looking down from the city wall.

After asking a few more questions and confirming that everything was correct, he asked again: "What does he look like?"

"..."

A moment later, when Geng Xuan walked out of the room disguised as a man, the room was empty.

If someone entered the house to search, it would be impossible to find the original owner unless they dug several meters underground.

Soon, Geng Xuan arrived near Xiao Jingwen's residence.

He looked around and, after making sure that no one was paying attention, slipped silently into the luxurious mansion in front of him.

The huge mansion is very cold and empty.

Geng Xuan didn't waste too much time before he looked through the open window and saw a man sitting in the study in the main courtyard.

At first glance, he doesn't seem very impressive, but if you take a closer look, you will feel that he is a man of great talent, with a reserved demeanor and hidden beauty.

"You are the one."

Sneaking quietly to the window of the study, Geng Xuan fixed his gaze on the red name above the head of the person in the room, and on the innermost black halo among the three layers of halo.

Soon, a bit of dark luck in the "flint bead" dissipated silently and was injected into this layer of halo.

After fifty points of bad luck disappeared, Geng Xuan stopped everything.

Then, after doing all this, he slipped out of the mansion quietly and sneaked out of the Acropolis.

As he climbed over the city wall, Geng Xuan couldn't help but smile.

This was his first time trying out this feature, and he was looking forward to what kind of surprises it would bring him.

(End of this chapter)