Li Bai rubbed the corners of his eyes, felt a sense of uneasiness, and leaned over to look.

This time, he seemed to have finally seen something.

The figure that even the hallucinations or nothing was confirmed appeared again.

When the swaying candlelight fell on it, it could not illuminate its outline, leaving only a broken outline on the curtain.

It seemed like a monster hiding in the crowd was approaching the old man step by step, but no one noticed it.

When it raised its head, two rows of hideous antlers extended from the side of the skull...

"antlers!"

Li Bai roared, not bothering to disturb this beautiful performance, and kicked the fence without thinking, and pounced down from the second floor with loud noises and exclamations.

At that moment, all the lights in the Jiuxiao Pavilion trembled.

The precisely cut-off wicks finally burned out at this moment, a trace of residual light trembled and disappeared.

Darkness suddenly hit!

As everyone shouted in panic, only the mechanical dancers and puppet singers were still dancing wildly. The dancing wind sounded suddenly with a shrill roar burst out in the low sound.

It was like the sudden burst of thunder in the long night, roaring forward.

It's antlers!

It is hard to imagine that such a terrifying power is hidden in this darkness.

Within ten steps, there is a sting that shocks the ghosts and gods!

The sound of steel rupture was endless, and all the puppets blocking ahead were penetrated by the whistling force.

But then, iron light jumped out of the sheath and swept across!

Li Bai felt as if he was slashing on the giant arrow urging the city to break through the wall. He almost didn't hold the sword in his hand in a hurry, but the long-standing stab was finally stopped by him.

In this short darkness, he listened, but he could no longer hear the footsteps belonging to the antlers from the countless chaotic shouts, footsteps and crying.

He could only hold the sword and block Duke Lu, not daring to slack off at all.

Even the antlers may have left.

No assassin will take action when it is possible to be exposed. The real safest method is to miss a single blow and go thousands of miles away.

The spying in the dark must be full of patience and no trace.

People living in the sun will be in panic all day long until one day, when they finally reveal their flaws, they can calmly give out a blow, then turn around and leave, and disappear in the darkness again.

But for some reason, Li Bai felt that the antlers had not left yet!

Maybe it was just a guess, maybe it was because of the collision of the attack just now that he had the so-called intuition: Deer Antlers would not give up. Since he had given a warning, he must be punished after the target violated the warning.

He must kill Lu Daoxuan here!

Li Bai tightened the hilt of the sword and suddenly heard the sound of wind coming from the darkness again.

Left? Right?

No, it's above!

The continuous sound of steel collisions burst out from the darkness, sparks flying, but did not illuminate the strange shadow, as if fighting an invisible enemy.

Be careful when you hit every blow and never dare to make mistakes easily.

"Xun Qing!"

Li Bai roared angrily: "Light the light!!!"

Before that, the instructor in the corner had already instinctively rushed to the extinguished lampstand. He didn't bother to re-switch the wicks. He directly sprinkled the lamp oil on his sleeves, and then rubbed the fire hard to ignite it.

Before that, a shrill whistling burst out from the air again.

The antlers move again!

Once the light is lit, today's assassination will fail.

This time, he no longer cared about it.

And in response, the whistling sword energy.

Just like a green lotus blooming, dozens of collision sounds burst out one after another in the darkness that no one can see.

“Here!”

Li Bai widened his eyes, took a step forward, and stabbed into the darkness that was no one on the side.

The sword blade collided with something quick, and a dazzling spark was created, as if it had stabbed something.

At that moment, Xun Qing's sleeves were finally lit.

The fire rose and illuminated everything.

Li Bai stood there in a daze.

The antlers have disappeared.

Only an uproar and scream sounded from all around, along with the sound of the pipa string breaking.

When Li Bai slowly turned around, he saw the broken pipa in Lu Daoxuan's hand and the blood slowly oozing out of his chest. When the fragments of the pipa slid down from his hands, the old man finally woke up from his confusion, his eyes drooping.

"So that's it......"

He wanted to say something, but then a large amount of blood overflowed from his mouth.

Amid the terrified shouts, Lu Daoxuan fell silently to the ground.

It was not until the evening that Li Bai finally walked out of Dali Temple.

Thanks to the many witnesses and a noble man named Shangguan, Li Bai was not detained as an assassin who assassinated Lu Daoxuan. Although he was warned by Di Renjie again not to interfere in Chang'an affairs, he still rushed to the workshop of Chongrenfang as soon as possible.

There was chaos in the workshop.

The hall was filled with people, wandering uneasy or sitting on the ground. Disciples, relatives and friends, and even the remnants who received the favor of Daoxuan Gong gathered together, even on the street outside the door.

Waiting uneasy.

"Xun Qing," Li Bai rushed straight to him as soon as he came in. Xun Qing's eyes turned red, and he barely squeezed out a bitter smile of "It's good if you come out". When Xun Qing saw Li Bai, he seemed to find his backbone, grabbed his hand, wanted to speak, but couldn't make a sound.

His eyes were red, but he did not shed tears in disrespect.

I just smiled reluctantly.

Li Bai patted his shoulder and said nothing.

Until the door of the quiet room finally opened, the doctor who had not washed his hands came out of it, and the assistant students brought him a copper basin to wash his hands, and then sat on the chair to breathe.

Someone brought the water, but the older doctor waved his hand and did not hide it anymore. He said bluntly: "Relying on the protection of Li Bai, Mr. Lu was seriously injured, and he has no worries about his life for the time being. Please rest assured."

"But why... why is Mr. Lu not awake yet?"

"……poison."

After a moment of silence, the doctor replied: "Although it was only a wound in the lungs, the toxins penetrated into the bone marrow. Mr. Lu is old and weak. I dare not use tiger and wolf medicine. I can only use blood washing to relieve it. However, whether he can wake up depends on his luck."

He lowered his head: "Sorry, I can do nothing more."

"If you can't wake up..."

"Then there is no doctor for the medicine stone."

After the doctor finished speaking, he was ashamed to face many old friends again. After bowing his head and leaving a few prescriptions, he covered his face and left.

I have always been blessed and helped by Mr. Lu, but now it is my turn, but I cannot repay my past kindness. What else is more ashamed than this?

In the brief silence, Li Bai saw Xun Qing's pale face.

The young institution master collapsed on the chair, as if he had all his strength taken away.

After the teacher died in an accident, Lu Daoxuan cultivated him without asking for anything in return. In his heart, the old man is no different from his closest relative.

Now the life and death of the last relative is unpredictable.

It was already making him unable to bear it.

In the hustle and chaos, someone started to make a noise in the hall.

Li Bai wanted to dissuade him, but he didn't even know who was arguing, and could not persuade him. He could only stay with Xun Qing with Li Xiang.

Soon, chaos spread.

Li Bai heard the angrily scolding and insulting voices.

A embarrassed figure walked into the front hall from the back room, carried his own package and walked out the door.

The disciple who saw him was furious: "Xin Tong, you, are you going to run away?"

“Yes, that’s right.”

Xin Tong's face turned gray. He held the wrapped knot and lowered his head and said, "I have always thanked you for your junior brothers and brothers for your teachings. I'm leaving."

Xun Qing was stunned for a long time, but he didn't expect that this great disciple who had been following Lu Daoxuan and regarded as his successor and inheritor would run away at this moment!

I don't know where the strength came from, so he held up his body from the chair, pushed away the person blocking him in front, lifted Xin Tong's collar, and roared:
To be continued...