The Great Inner Forbidden Palace has nine gates in total.
For ordinary people, the most difficult gate is often the ninth gate. Although they cannot even enter the first palace gate in their lives, they just feel that the ninth gate is the most difficult to reach because it is the real forbidden palace. The emperor location.
For Yin Xiu and Ren Qi, the city walls and palace gates were just decorations to a certain extent.
The two of them easily entered the depths of the Forbidden City without even having to kill the guards on the city wall.
After several leaps into a rockery, Yin Xiucai stopped behind the mountain.
Ren Qi fell on the other side, also silently.
"Your Qinggong skills are very good."
Yin Xiu frowned, "The way you said this sounded like a senior, a martial arts legend giving guidance to the juniors."
Ren Qi sneered, "Why, are you dissatisfied?"
"Not dissatisfied, just interested."
"To mind is to be dissatisfied, it's the same."
Ren Qi seemed to be in a good mood after revisiting his old place, and he couldn't help but talk a lot.
The two of them checked the terrain and were considering where to go deeper, when a eunuch pulled the palace maid. The two sneaked into the rockery, and then there was a pulling sound.
Yin Xiu frowned and whispered: "Are all the people in your inner palace doing this?"
"Where is this? It's all fake, you can see whether it can be used or not."
"Are you very experienced?" Yin Xiu glanced at him.
Ren Qi smiled coldly and said, "Isn't it natural for a master of the palace to engage in court ladies?"
"Aren't you afraid of the Emperor inspecting the goods?"
"Ha!"
Ren Qi's smile became even more obvious, "The emperor was just a baby at that time. When he grows up, these maids will all get married, so it will be his turn to inspect the goods."
Yin Xiu gave him a thumbs up.
"What, you admire me very much now?"
"No," Yin Xiu shook his head, "I want to say that you are really despicable and shameless."
"Despicable and shameless, these are the tickets for a great master."
Ren Qi didn't take it seriously, "Only in this way can we survive in this cannibalistic inner palace."
When he said this, he was waiting for Yin Xiu to refute him and was ready to argue with him. However, Yin Xiu did not make a sound and just stared down.
Ren Qi also turned his gaze and his eyes widened instantly.
"What kind of posture is this, have you seen it?"
"I don't know."
Yin Xiu still shook her head, "Maybe I learned it from those South Asians. They turned around and couldn't understand."
When Ren Qi was fascinated, Yin Xiu pushed him.
"Hey, it's been so long and you're still reading this. It's so sad that a businesswoman doesn't know how to hate her country."
"..."
Ren Qiyi was furious for a while.
"Okay."
Seeing him like this, Yin Xiu finally patted his shoulder with satisfaction, "Let's go, business is important."
The two jumped out of the rockery, turned over like a silent kite in the air, and landed gently on the eaves.
According to Ren Qi's original plan, one of them went to the imperial study room in charge of the archives, while the other went to Guanhai Pavilion.
Yin Xiu of the imperial study room knew about it and could associate it with files, documents and the like upon hearing it.
But Guanhai Pavilion sounds like something like a landscape.
However, Ren Qi said: "That is the central area where all the masters are commanded. Almost all the orders of the masters are issued from there. As long as you go there and take a look, there is always a chance to find those secrets."
So Yin Xiu went to Guanhai Pavilion alone.
This time, their target was not the emperor or any prince or noble, but the Black Emperor's son.
With the help of Xuedie's vision and Yin Xiu's movement bonus on any terrain, making it almost unobstructed, he quickly arrived at his destination.
In fact, Guanhai Pavilion is also easy to recognize.
Because it was a simple and elegant wooden tower standing high on the edge of the lake. However, it seemed that there was no light anywhere, as if there was an endless abyss inside.
This kind of shape is the only one in this palace and is incompatible with other places, so it is easy to identify.
It was summer at this time, and the lake was full of face-sized lotus leaves. White and red lotus flowers poked out a small corner from the lotus stems touching the sky, slowly swaying in the breeze.
Yin Xiu looked at the Guanhai Pavilion, her mind working rapidly.
Although it seems that there are no guards at the entrance of Guanhai Pavilion, there are no buildings around it where you can hide.
There is just such a building standing alone there, just like a tree growing in the desert. There is no terrain around it to cover or hide. Therefore, it is obviously not an easy task to get close to Guanhai Pavilion.
Of course, Yin Xiu couldn't use [Thousand-Changing Flowers] to transform into a eunuch or a palace maid and pass by, because just now, the area in front of Guanhai Pavilion was like a no-man's land, and no one passed there. .
Moreover, except for the emperor, the other people in the Forbidden Palace can hardly be called "people".
These palace maids and eunuchs may only operate in one area throughout their lives, walking the same path for decades without changing their route.
Therefore, if a eunuch randomly appears and walks into the Guanhai Pavilion at this time, it may arouse the alert of the hidden sentry who does not know where it is.
Even if the blood butterfly is as small as possible, Yin Xiu can only control it carefully and cannot let it fly directly to Guanhai Pavilion.
After waiting patiently for a while, a white cloud suddenly floated in the sky, blocking the sun slightly and casting a shadow between Guanhai Pavilion and the rockery where Yin Xiu was hiding.
Yin Xiu did not hesitate, her figure escaped into the shadow, turned into a black shadow, and merged into the shadow cast by the clouds in the blink of an eye.
This movement of shadow fusion was very rapid. Even to the sharpest-eyed spy, it looked like the wind had moved the clouds.
After another blink of an eye, Yin Xiu had followed the shadow into Guanhai Pavilion, hiding her figure against the pillar.
As soon as she entered Guanhai Pavilion, Yin Xiu felt the coldness. The place was dark and damp, almost like a nest where some kind of animal was hiding.
Ren Qi has been working here for so many years without suffering from rheumatism, and it must be said that he has an iron-clad body.
It was as dark inside as outside, except for the candlelight in the center.
It turns out that Guanhai Pavilion was dark because the bright spots were covered by screens made of silk and satin.
In that light, there are stairs that continue to go up.
However, Yin Xiu faintly heard that there seemed to be people hiding everywhere in the darkness, breathing evenly and weakly.
If he had started to act in a hurry as soon as he entered the building, he might have been discovered by now.
As Ren Qi said, Guanhai Pavilion is heavily ambushed and heavily guarded. It is not easy to sneak in. It is also not easy to act inside after sneaking in.
Fortunately, Ren Qi mentioned a loophole to him before, that is, the eyes of Ouchi masters have been trained not to see things they shouldn't see, and to treat things they shouldn't see as if they haven't seen them.
Therefore, their eyes are often only in front of them, and they do not look around. For example, if you ask them to stare to the left, they will not look to the right, let alone look at the movement on the rafters.
So Yin Xiu climbed up to the beam and started to move on top of the heads of the masters.
Clinging to an edge of the roof beam with one hand and hanging upside down, Yin Xiu used his strength to turn over and swing to the other side. Putting his hand on it again, he easily climbed up to the second floor. There was no need to take the stairs at all, and it was enough to avoid the danger. Open the eyes of people in the building. After repeating this process several times, Yin Xiu climbed to the fifth floor of Guanhai Pavilion. This was the meeting place Ren Qikou mentioned. Except for the people attending the meeting, there was no one else here.
Just because there are many people with mixed opinions, some secrets are better as fewer people know them.
After Yin Xiu climbed up here, he began to search for the documents stored here.
As Ren Qi said, the imperial study room is where the files are hidden, and the fifth floor of Guanhai Pavilion is where the manuscripts and orders are kept.
Yin Xiu took out a bamboo tube from his pocket and bit it in his mouth. It contained polished fluorite, which he used as a "flashlight."
Then he picked up a hand scroll from the shelf and carefully opened it.
"On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, three teams of high-level master Xuedizi were dispatched to protect the Grand Imperial Master of Qin Tianjian, and were put in charge of the commander Xuedizi."
These are probably the people who went to take Dongfang back to Yujing in the future.
He pulled out another volume that looked to be of a similar date.
"I ordered the Niangan Department to find a few places as hiding places for the Black Emperor's son, and put them in charge of the commander of the Niangan Department."
This is the news Yin Xiu is looking for - the Black Emperor's son.
This is the first time Yin Xiu has come into contact with the news about the Black Emperor. Although he does not know the specific whereabouts or who this person is, he knows that it is handled by a master from Ouchi, so he has found a clue. .
Just as he was about to continue reading, there were footsteps on the stairs.
Yin Xiu immediately put the scroll away and slipped into the corner, completely hiding his figure.
Just when he was hiding, a team of Ouchi masters came up.
They had a tacit understanding of the division of labor and patrolled the fifth floor, seemingly looking for someone or something.
Yin Xiu repeated his old trick and climbed up the beam silently, avoiding the search.
After a search, several people nodded and said nothing happened and then went down one by one.
Soon, Jin Hai, the general manager of the department, walked up, followed by two people, a man and a woman.
Both of them looked old, but they were tall and tall, and apart from their faces, they didn't look old at all.
The man has broad shoulders and wears a white robe, while the woman is slim and tall and wears a thin dress.
After the three of them stood up, to Yin Xiu's surprise, it was Jin Hai, the general manager of the palace, who bowed deeply to the two of them.
"Mr. Lingfeng, Miss Zi, it's a great honor for me to invite you two to come out this time."
"You're welcome, Manager Jin."
The man called Mr. Ling Feng was very angry: "The imperial court raised us just to be prepared for unexpected needs.
Now is the critical moment for us to contribute. ”
Miss Zi clasped her hands behind her back, her manners were superb, she raised her chin, "Manager Jin, if you have any requests, just ask, we will listen and we will do it."
"Then I'm welcome."
Jin Hai put away his humble gesture just now and said in an attitude of equal status to the two of them: "I would like to ask you two for help to see the Black Emperor."
"The Black Emperor's Son?"
Ling Feng seemed to have guessed it from the beginning, but he still frowned: "Hei Dizi's luck is so strong that it is indeed worthy of us to take action. However, Hei Dizi's luck may also affect Yu Jing's luck. have an impact, especially on the Great Inner Forbidden City.”
Jin Hai suddenly remembered that the two masters in front of him, like other monsters in the palace, relied on the luck of the Great Inner Forbidden Palace for their existence.
If the Black Emperor's son had been active in Dauchi for too long, they would be the first ones to worry about changes in their luck.
It is these people who are most afraid of being contaminated by karma.
So he added: "Master Dongfang said that this period of time will not be too long, please don't worry."
Hearing this, Miss Zi breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good. In that case, we will do what you want."
"That couldn't be better."
Jin Hai held his chin and said with a solemn expression: "In fact, although the Black Emperor himself is also a troublesome person, the most troublesome one is Yin Xiu and his group.
According to the latest news, they have left Jinmen and are heading towards Yujing.
However, their whereabouts are mysterious. According to my judgment, they may have entered Yujing at this time. ”
"Wouldn't that be troublesome?"
He said this, but Ling Feng's tone was normal.
"I heard that Ren Qi is also with him?"
"That's right."
When Jin Hai mentioned this name, his tone was inevitably bad.
"I met him once when we were in southern Xinjiang."
"How is he now? I heard that he defeated Bei Wulin Mythical White Rust?" Ling Feng seemed to be very concerned about him.
"It's still the same."
Jin Hai shook his head, "As unruly as before, without blood or tears."
"I'm afraid that's just the surface."
Ling Feng was unceremonious, "The person who can defeat the Northern Spear Saint Bai Ruo will never be that simple."
Miss Zi also echoed: "This shows that he is a capable and determined person, but such a person is also a trouble for us."
"Maybe outside, but not in the Forbidden City."
Ling Feng sneered, "It's easy for Ren Qi to enter this inner forbidden palace, because he can recognize every plant and tree here with his eyes closed. However, if he can get in, he may not be able to get out.
Because there are many people in the Forbidden Palace waiting for him, holding their breath for him. ”
"If I had known that we would have killed him directly many years ago, wouldn't it be the end of it?" Miss Zi asked.
"That won't work."
Ling Feng shook his head, "The one who sent the message told him to run out of the palace."
"That one?"
Miss Zi didn't have a clue for a moment, but she didn't delve into it because she knew that in the Forbidden Palace, if you feel that you shouldn't ask, it's best not to mention it at all.
Yin Xiu listened to the conversation between the three of them and felt that what Ren Qi said about the Forbidden Palace was too simple.
Just like what they said before, there are no more than two hands of great masters who can walk in the world, but there seem to be many monsters who rely on the luck of the Forbidden Palace to exist without leaving the palace, far more than the people in the world. The number of rumors.
Suddenly, Miss Zi asked again: "Who is Yin Xiu?"
"Not cleared yet."
Jin Hai shook his head, "There is very little information about him. I only know that he is a descendant of the Mao family."
"Taoist priest?"
Ling Feng laughed and said, "No wonder."
"What's the wonder?"
"No wonder he entered Guanhai Pavilion and no one noticed him!"
Ling Feng suddenly clapped his palm and hit Yin Xiu on the beam with wind and thunder. (End of chapter)