The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 223 Chaos
Shuntian Prefecture, Tianshou Mountain.

Outside the imperial mausoleum.

Wu Zhiheng punched through the abdomen of the Xiaoling Guard in front of him, then opened his five fingers, pulled him in front of him, broke his still twisting neck with a punch, and then lifted the body to block the oncoming arrows.

He took a step back first, but stepped into a pool of sticky blood and flesh. He took another step back helplessly, and finally stepped on solid ground.

While he was regulating his breathing and recovering his energy, he looked around.

The ground was littered with corpses.

The Xiaoling Guards were indeed strong enough, as expected of the personal army formed by Emperor Taizu from the best soldiers, which was even better than the Jinyi Guards.

The imperial mausoleum was built to be easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the surrounding walls were equipped with battlements. The guards of the Xiaoling Mausoleum inside could not help but pull their bows and crossbows, and arrows rained down on them like dense raindrops.

If Wu Zhiheng had not escaped from the state of the Five Degenerations and recovered his original strength, and had not led a team of elite imperial guards to charge left and right and distract the Xiaoling Guards from defending, there would probably be even more corpses lying on the ground at this moment.

However, Wu Zhiheng knew that the key to victory did not lie in these ordinary soldiers.

He turned and looked towards the entrance of the imperial mausoleum.

There was a chaotic battle going on there.

The chaotic battle between heaven and man.

"Zhu Shoujing! You thief! Dashuo treated you well as the Xiaoling Guards, yet you actually colluded with the Mingjiao thieves to rebel!"

One person roared.

Zhu Shoujing did not answer, but with a cold face, he chopped at the man with all his strength!

This sword technique is called "White Knife"!
Unparalleled in strength and sharpness!
The man's pupils suddenly shrank, and he raised the iron mace in his hand to block the knife, but he suddenly retreated.

Dengdengdengdeng-

He retreated several feet before his strength was released.

Looking at his hands again, his blood vessels had burst, and his skin was scarlet. The iron mace in his hand had also been chopped into a deep mark.

He looked at Zhu Shoujing with an unpleasant expression.

"It's really hard to deal with... Xiaoling Guards!"

"I'm afraid it will be too late to break through here before His Majesty arrives!"

When Emperor Taizu established his rule over the country, he collected all martial arts from all over the world. The originals were kept in the palace, and the copies were sent to Xiaolingwei. The reason why Wang Zhi said with certainty that Li Miao was from Xiaolingwei was because the two places with the most complete martial arts secrets in the world were the Forbidden City and Xiaolingwei.

As the commander of the Xiaoling Guard, Zhu Shoujing's martial arts are naturally the most profound and unique skills in the entire Dashuo!

White Knife - The crowing of a rooster brings light to the world! This is one of the most upright and fierce knife techniques in the world!

With one slash of the sword, the opponent could only see a flash of white sword light, and then surrender!

He looked at Zhu Shoujing's left hand again.

There was also a short knife there.

Black Knife—the sky and earth are dark, the wind and rain are black!

The white knife is strong and the black knife is sinister.

If he had not noticed the "black knife" hidden under the "white knife" and secretly stabbed at his waist, and used the force to retreat violently, he would have been stabbed hard in the waist and abdomen!

He glanced to his side.

A total of ten priests came on this trip, all of whom were outstanding among the priests.

But they were all caught in a bitter battle!

There were not only the Xiaoling Guards, but also the Ming Cult and the Yang family, a total of ten people, who were fighting against them.

However, the court's offerings were all celestial beings of two types, while the other side had many celestial beings who had only cultivated one type. If they only had these, they would not be put in a difficult battle.

What was truly fatal was the figure standing silently outside the imperial mausoleum.

Emperor Jianwen. Emperor Jianwen noticed the prying gaze and turned to look over.

Their eyes met in the sky.

Emperor Jianwen's appearance was no longer as terrifying as before.

His body was still skinny, but no longer looked like a mummy. He looked like a dying young man. He was no longer wearing the rotten dragon robe, but a bright yellow outfit. He wore a pair of gloves made of silk from the wild silkworm.

Although he was ambushed by the court officials last night and scared away by Li Miao, he actually "ate" several members of the royal family. The immortals of the Xiaoling Guard who died at the hands of the court officials last night were also absorbed by him.

At this time, the injuries he suffered during the battle with Li Miao had all recovered, and he was even in better condition than before.

Just think about it, how could Emperor Jianwen, who almost killed all the members of the Dashuo royal family, have only that little strength?

Before that, he had been imprisoned in the tomb of Xiaoling for more than a hundred years, and had been cut off from food supplies by the emperor and Yin Ruihua for more than ten years. It would not be an exaggeration to say that he was almost exhausted after just escaping.

He at this moment is no longer the same as before.

At the moment their eyes met, the priest who was fighting with Zhu Shoujing suddenly felt dizzy. When he focused his sight again, he found himself standing in a large hall.

In the main hall, Emperor Jianwen, who was sitting on the dragon throne, gave him a cold look.

"not good!"

He secretly thought.

Suddenly, he felt a pain on the side of his neck.

The illusion before my eyes suddenly shattered.

Zhu Shoujing had appeared in front of him, and the "black knife" had cut into his neck half an inch!

"what!!!"

He was also a man who had fought between life and death. Seeing that he was in imminent danger, he was quick-witted and squatted down quickly.

"Well!!!"

He let out a suppressed cry of pain, retreated violently, raised his hands to cover his neck and cheek, and used all his strength to activate the healing technique, barely able to stop the gushing blood.

Just now, he avoided being beheaded, but half of his neck and half of his left face fell under Zhu Shoujing's blade.

This knife directly "dug" open his neck and skull.

The outer side of the left eye is exposed to the air.

"Change hands!"

He shouted suddenly.

Wu Zhiheng rushed over and hit him on the back with one hand, pushing him out of the battle circle, and with his other hand hit Zhu Shoujing's blade, forcing him back.

He had been roaming around the periphery, looking for an opportunity to quickly kill an enemy Celestial Being. If the enemy had one less person and we had one more, the pressure would be greatly reduced.

But the situation just now was really critical, so he had to come over to save people.

Wu Zhiheng knew that the martial arts of the worshiper just now were not much worse than Zhu Shoujing. The reason why the situation took a sharp turn for the worse was all due to Emperor Jianwen.

But, knowing is knowing.

He had no way to break the impasse.

The enemy had the same number of people as their own, and they were both celestial beings, so even if they were two against one, it would be difficult to win quickly. In addition, Emperor Jianwen's "Silent Illumination" was hard to defend against, and all the priests on their side were tied up and trembling with fear, and they seemed to be in danger in front of an opponent who was not as good as them.

They also had no way to find Emperor Jianwen.

Last night, ten priests failed to stop him from slitting Huang Jin's throat, and later eight priests failed to stop him from escaping to Xiaolingwei. Now, just by looking at his appearance, we can tell that he has recovered a lot, and we don't know how many people are needed to pose a threat to him.

Even if Emperor Jianwen did not take action, they would not be able to rush to Emperor Jianwen due to the interference of "Jizhao" and the enemy's celestial beings.

(End of this chapter)