Ali frowned slightly: "Is there anyone else in this world with the last name Huan?"
He had never heard of the surname Huan among the Hundred Family Surnames.
Shen Lian said calmly: "Huan is not a surname, but a family name. How could he get lost?"
Shen Lian paused and looked at Abao with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
Being stared at like this by Shen Lian, Ah Bao couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly said: "Sir, what...what's wrong?"
Shen Lian's voice suddenly became hollow, and his eyes were empty, which made Abao's heart tremble.
"Turn around and take a look." Shen Lian said empty-handedly.
When Abao heard Shen Lian's words, he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind his neck, which made him shrink his neck immediately.
The whole person is not well.
He swallowed and looked back subconsciously.
Then--
"Oh my God!"
A scream suddenly rang out.
“People, people, there are fewer people!”
Abao's lips moved slightly. He clearly remembered that when he just came in, there were more than a dozen Jinyiwei following him. But after he took a few steps and looked back, there were only five or six Jinyiwei left.
What about the other Jinyiwei?
And they clearly came in through the door.
But when I turned around, there was no sign of the door at all.
There were trees behind them, as if they had entered a forest.
In addition, the flames on the pillars were bright red, which made them look even more eerie in the night.
This gave Abao goosebumps all over his body.
Shen Lian didn't take it seriously and said unhappily, "It's just a small matter, Ah Bao, you'd better not be so loud. The enemy can know where we are based on the sound."
After hearing what Shen Lian said, Abao immediately lowered his head in shame.
But his voice was still trembling: "Where are the people?"
Ali also looked solemn and his scalp was tingling at this time.
The current situation was indeed beyond his expectations.
Shen Lian looked calm and not surprised.
He said calmly: "Don't worry, the person is not dead."
"The enemy's target is me, Shen Lian, not anyone else. Although this is their territory, they will definitely not be too reckless in building such a territory in Chang'an City, so the number of people here is limited."
"They know how difficult I am, so they won't want to cause any more trouble. If they deal with other people and attract my attention, then all their efforts tonight will be in vain."
"so……"
Shen Lian spoke calmly but seriously, "If any of you get lost next, remember... stand still, don't move, ignore any sounds around you, ignore anyone talking, just wait where you are, I will keep you safe."
Seeing Shen Lian being so serious, Ali and the others felt a sinking feeling in their hearts, and they quickly nodded in agreement.
Only then did Shen Lian nod slightly.
He said, "Okay, keep going and don't make a fuss."
“This…is just the beginning.”
Shen Lian continued to walk forward.
Even though someone was missing, his expression did not change at all. Ali and others did not dare to relax their vigilance at this moment. They all followed Shen Lian closely, fearing that they would disappear if they were not careful.
Although I don’t know when the scene behind me changed~.
But the road ahead of them was still the same as what they had seen before.
Some stone pillars faced the firelight, illuminating a path forward.
At the end of the road is a high platform.
Except for the places illuminated by the firelight, the rest of the place was filled with shadows.
In the pitch-black night, something seemed to be moving, but due to the dim light, they couldn't see what was going on there.
Ali frowned and said solemnly, "Be careful, there may be someone around spying on us."
As a member of the Imperial Guard, Ali's main job is to do secret things.
Therefore, I am particularly sensitive to this kind of dark gaze.
He could feel that many eyes were looking towards him, but because he could not see the situation outside the firelight, he did not know where the people were or how many there were.
But there was one thing he was clear about...that was that they could not see the enemy, but the enemy could easily see them with the help of the light.
Now...it really is true what the saying goes, you are in the dark and I am in the light.
After hearing Ali's reminder, Abao and the others immediately became fully alert.
They gripped their weapons tightly and looked around constantly.
However, Shen Lian seemed not to have heard what they said, his eyes only fixed on the platform in front of him.
At this moment, there was a sound of breaking wind suddenly in my ears.
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and raised his right hand forward.
Phew!
A dagger flew out directly from Shen Lian's loose sleeves.
The next moment, a spark burst out from the air, and with a bang, a dagger and an arrow fell directly from the air and landed in front of Shen Lian.
Shen Lian stopped.
Eyes twinkling.
Ali, Abao and the others' faces changed. They quickly rushed over and protected Shen Lian from all sides.
Their palms were sweaty, and no one expected that danger would come so soon.
However, Shen Lian, who was protected by them, still looked normal.
He clapped his hands lightly and said, "Don't worry about me, it's just this, it can't hurt me."
After saying that, he raised his head and looked towards the platform, chuckled, and said calmly: "You spent so much effort to invite me here, it shouldn't be just to let me Shen Lian and see how you guys can shoot arrows from the dark, right?"
"The Huan Family should not bother to use such means, right?"
As soon as Shen Lian finished speaking, a strong wind suddenly blew up.
The dust on the ground kept blowing into the air, and Ali and others couldn't open their eyes because of the sudden strong wind.
"Ha ha ha ha….…"
At this moment, a voice that sounded far and near suddenly rang out.
At the same time, a beam of fire suddenly shot up into the sky.
Abao and others subconsciously looked towards the sudden fire.
They saw that the fire suddenly appeared on the high platform.
And the next moment, the pupils in their eyes all shrank slightly.
Everyone looked shocked to the extreme.
Because they found that in the flames... there was actually a person walking out from it.
This person seems to be not afraid of fire.
Like a demon, he walked out slowly.
pat!
The foot landed on the high row, making a sound.
As he landed on the platform, the flames behind him quickly disappeared.
It felt like the flame was created specifically for this person.
Abao and his friends had never seen such a scene before.
This strange scene made them feel even more mysterious than the methods of the Yin-Yang School they had seen before.
The man had a mask on his face, which was painted with various paints as if they were sprinkled casually, making it look very strange.
He was dressed in black with loose sleeves and a large robe that rumbled in the wind, as if a lot of things were hidden inside.
At this time, he looked at Shen Lian, and suddenly raised his fingers, touching his thumb and middle finger.
Snapped!
A sound was heard.
At the same time, something like a crutch suddenly appeared in his hand.
This thing appeared completely out of nowhere.
Ah Bao couldn't help rubbing his eyes, he thought he had seen it wrongly. But the fact was, the cane really appeared out of thin air.
"This... This... Is he really a god?"
Abao couldn't help but say.
"immortal?"
Shen Lian raised the corner of his mouth, and said with a half-smile: "It's more like a charlatan, but it's just some tricks like deception."
In Shen Lian's opinion, illusionism is actually very similar to magic in later generations.
However, the methods used by our ancestors seem more bizarre and mysterious than the magic of later generations.
But no matter how mysterious the means are, they are fundamentally different from the legendary magic.
Immortal arts use power that is beyond comprehension.
The methods used by illusionists can all be explained by science, but they are imperceptible to ordinary people.
At this moment, the person on the high platform was like a magician making a grand entrance. He appeared from the fire and transformed things out of thin air, which shocked Xu Gou and others to the fullest.
But for Shen Lian, that's all.
For him, who was used to watching magic shows and had seen the secret techniques of the Illusionists, there was really nothing special about this.
"The right wing of the Tang Dynasty's Young Master Qin, the leader of the Jinyiwei, Shen Lian, welcome to the magical world!"
A voice that sounded like crying and laughing, sometimes far away and sometimes near, sometimes male and sometimes female, reached everyone's ears.
Shen Lian listened to the androgynous voice and narrowed his eyes slightly.
In order to fool people, even the voice was specially practiced!
Shen Lian rubbed his forehead slightly and said calmly: "Where did the word magic come from? Is it just because of the little trick you just played?"
The people on the platform seemed to have not expected Shen Lian to answer like this.
Moreover, the mockery and contempt in Shen Lian's tone were not concealed at all.
It was as if my own performance was full of loopholes.
For the people of Huanjia, negative reviews from the audience are the most unacceptable.
"You are disrespectful to the gods, and the gods will punish you!"
A cold voice suddenly came.
The man raised his fingers and snapped them again.
Snapped!
A clear sound rang out in the night.
The next moment, before anyone could react, a huge rock suddenly fell from the sky.
It suddenly smashed down from above Shen Lian's head.
Before Abao and the others could react at all, they heard a bang.
Shen Lian disappeared.
And where he had just stood, a huge rock was falling.
A deep hole was smashed into the ground.
The stone, one third of its size, has already sunk into it.
Abao and others stared at the scene in a daze.
At this moment, their brains seemed to have lost the ability to think, and they only felt a buzzing in their ears.
My mind goes blank.
The next moment, Abao suddenly yelled: "Sir!!!"
The voice was so shrill and sharp that it instantly brought everyone back to their senses.
At this moment, they were all furious.
All of them have cold hands and feet.
Their faces were filled with despair and fear.
Because, because...
My own master was... was smashed to pieces by a stone!
"grown ups!!"
Ali's tears burst out instantly.
He rushed directly to the big rock and pushed it hard, trying to push away the rock that had crushed Shen Lian.
However, the stone was too heavy and he could not move it at all.
Abao and others also rushed over at this time.
It took more than a dozen people urging at the same time to move the stone slightly.
But the stone was embedded too deep in the ground and could not be lifted.
At this moment, all of them felt what despair and powerlessness were.
"Hahaha….…"
The androgynous laughter sounded piercingly at this moment.
He raised his hands upwards, as if he was holding up the sky, and laughed harshly, "An ant trying to shake a tree, you dare to disrespect the gods, this is the end!"
"Really? What kind of god is so rubbish that the punishment he sends is just throwing a stone?"
And just as this person finished speaking, a sneer suddenly rang out.
The sound came too suddenly.
This voice is so familiar!
For a moment, everyone present was frozen.
The members of the Huan family who had just laughed suddenly stopped as if their throats were strangled by an invisible hand.
He swallowed and turned around in disbelief.
At the same time, Abao and others also trembled and turned their heads to look.
Then…….
They saw flames burning on the platform.
A figure slowly walked out of the flames.
This person was dressed in a black robe, and his eyes were pitch black, as if they contained the sun, moon, and stars.
He is Shen Lian!
The flames were blazing, and the fiery red light illuminated the entire platform.
And in the flames, Shen Lian slowly walked out.
He stepped on the ground with a calm expression, as if he had participated in a grand performance.
And the moment his feet touched the ground, the raging flames disappeared without a trace.
There was silence all around.
Everyone stared at Shen Lian in a daze, with different expressions on their faces.
Abao was stunned at first, then his face was filled with surprise and excitement.
Ali's eyes were red and he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands.
The other Jinyiwei were also filled with surprise and excitement at having recovered what they had lost.
Only the man on the podium wearing a strange mask had eyes full of shock and disbelief.
"You...you...how could you be alive? Why weren't you smashed into a pulp?"
He spoke in shock, and his voice was finally no longer that androgynous tone, but a very obvious masculine voice.
Shen Lian looked towards him following the sound. The firelight from the surrounding stone pillars illuminated his face, as if it had been dyed with a layer of blood.
Shen Lian's voice was calm, with no emotion at all: "If I, Shen Lian, died so easily, that would be something you would be shocked about, right?"
"You don't really think..."
Shen Lian looked at him with a half-smile, and said teasingly: "Can you really kill me with those little tricks of yours?"
Shen Lian's words made the man's pupils shrink suddenly.
He stared at Shen Lian intently, recalling the situation when Shen Lian just appeared, and suddenly widened his eyes and said: "You secretly learned the secret technique of my Huan family?"
"It's a bit inappropriate to say stealing."
Shen Lian said calmly: "I went to watch it openly. I didn't intend to learn it at first, but I, Shen Lian, have a very good memory. I remembered it after watching it once."
"I just saw you perform and thought it was interesting, so I gave it a try. The result was..."
(End of this chapter)
He had never heard of the surname Huan among the Hundred Family Surnames.
Shen Lian said calmly: "Huan is not a surname, but a family name. How could he get lost?"
Shen Lian paused and looked at Abao with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
Being stared at like this by Shen Lian, Ah Bao couldn't help but be startled, and hurriedly said: "Sir, what...what's wrong?"
Shen Lian's voice suddenly became hollow, and his eyes were empty, which made Abao's heart tremble.
"Turn around and take a look." Shen Lian said empty-handedly.
When Abao heard Shen Lian's words, he suddenly felt a cold wind blowing behind his neck, which made him shrink his neck immediately.
The whole person is not well.
He swallowed and looked back subconsciously.
Then--
"Oh my God!"
A scream suddenly rang out.
“People, people, there are fewer people!”
Abao's lips moved slightly. He clearly remembered that when he just came in, there were more than a dozen Jinyiwei following him. But after he took a few steps and looked back, there were only five or six Jinyiwei left.
What about the other Jinyiwei?
And they clearly came in through the door.
But when I turned around, there was no sign of the door at all.
There were trees behind them, as if they had entered a forest.
In addition, the flames on the pillars were bright red, which made them look even more eerie in the night.
This gave Abao goosebumps all over his body.
Shen Lian didn't take it seriously and said unhappily, "It's just a small matter, Ah Bao, you'd better not be so loud. The enemy can know where we are based on the sound."
After hearing what Shen Lian said, Abao immediately lowered his head in shame.
But his voice was still trembling: "Where are the people?"
Ali also looked solemn and his scalp was tingling at this time.
The current situation was indeed beyond his expectations.
Shen Lian looked calm and not surprised.
He said calmly: "Don't worry, the person is not dead."
"The enemy's target is me, Shen Lian, not anyone else. Although this is their territory, they will definitely not be too reckless in building such a territory in Chang'an City, so the number of people here is limited."
"They know how difficult I am, so they won't want to cause any more trouble. If they deal with other people and attract my attention, then all their efforts tonight will be in vain."
"so……"
Shen Lian spoke calmly but seriously, "If any of you get lost next, remember... stand still, don't move, ignore any sounds around you, ignore anyone talking, just wait where you are, I will keep you safe."
Seeing Shen Lian being so serious, Ali and the others felt a sinking feeling in their hearts, and they quickly nodded in agreement.
Only then did Shen Lian nod slightly.
He said, "Okay, keep going and don't make a fuss."
“This…is just the beginning.”
Shen Lian continued to walk forward.
Even though someone was missing, his expression did not change at all. Ali and others did not dare to relax their vigilance at this moment. They all followed Shen Lian closely, fearing that they would disappear if they were not careful.
Although I don’t know when the scene behind me changed~.
But the road ahead of them was still the same as what they had seen before.
Some stone pillars faced the firelight, illuminating a path forward.
At the end of the road is a high platform.
Except for the places illuminated by the firelight, the rest of the place was filled with shadows.
In the pitch-black night, something seemed to be moving, but due to the dim light, they couldn't see what was going on there.
Ali frowned and said solemnly, "Be careful, there may be someone around spying on us."
As a member of the Imperial Guard, Ali's main job is to do secret things.
Therefore, I am particularly sensitive to this kind of dark gaze.
He could feel that many eyes were looking towards him, but because he could not see the situation outside the firelight, he did not know where the people were or how many there were.
But there was one thing he was clear about...that was that they could not see the enemy, but the enemy could easily see them with the help of the light.
Now...it really is true what the saying goes, you are in the dark and I am in the light.
After hearing Ali's reminder, Abao and the others immediately became fully alert.
They gripped their weapons tightly and looked around constantly.
However, Shen Lian seemed not to have heard what they said, his eyes only fixed on the platform in front of him.
At this moment, there was a sound of breaking wind suddenly in my ears.
Shen Lian narrowed his eyes and raised his right hand forward.
Phew!
A dagger flew out directly from Shen Lian's loose sleeves.
The next moment, a spark burst out from the air, and with a bang, a dagger and an arrow fell directly from the air and landed in front of Shen Lian.
Shen Lian stopped.
Eyes twinkling.
Ali, Abao and the others' faces changed. They quickly rushed over and protected Shen Lian from all sides.
Their palms were sweaty, and no one expected that danger would come so soon.
However, Shen Lian, who was protected by them, still looked normal.
He clapped his hands lightly and said, "Don't worry about me, it's just this, it can't hurt me."
After saying that, he raised his head and looked towards the platform, chuckled, and said calmly: "You spent so much effort to invite me here, it shouldn't be just to let me Shen Lian and see how you guys can shoot arrows from the dark, right?"
"The Huan Family should not bother to use such means, right?"
As soon as Shen Lian finished speaking, a strong wind suddenly blew up.
The dust on the ground kept blowing into the air, and Ali and others couldn't open their eyes because of the sudden strong wind.
"Ha ha ha ha….…"
At this moment, a voice that sounded far and near suddenly rang out.
At the same time, a beam of fire suddenly shot up into the sky.
Abao and others subconsciously looked towards the sudden fire.
They saw that the fire suddenly appeared on the high platform.
And the next moment, the pupils in their eyes all shrank slightly.
Everyone looked shocked to the extreme.
Because they found that in the flames... there was actually a person walking out from it.
This person seems to be not afraid of fire.
Like a demon, he walked out slowly.
pat!
The foot landed on the high row, making a sound.
As he landed on the platform, the flames behind him quickly disappeared.
It felt like the flame was created specifically for this person.
Abao and his friends had never seen such a scene before.
This strange scene made them feel even more mysterious than the methods of the Yin-Yang School they had seen before.
The man had a mask on his face, which was painted with various paints as if they were sprinkled casually, making it look very strange.
He was dressed in black with loose sleeves and a large robe that rumbled in the wind, as if a lot of things were hidden inside.
At this time, he looked at Shen Lian, and suddenly raised his fingers, touching his thumb and middle finger.
Snapped!
A sound was heard.
At the same time, something like a crutch suddenly appeared in his hand.
This thing appeared completely out of nowhere.
Ah Bao couldn't help rubbing his eyes, he thought he had seen it wrongly. But the fact was, the cane really appeared out of thin air.
"This... This... Is he really a god?"
Abao couldn't help but say.
"immortal?"
Shen Lian raised the corner of his mouth, and said with a half-smile: "It's more like a charlatan, but it's just some tricks like deception."
In Shen Lian's opinion, illusionism is actually very similar to magic in later generations.
However, the methods used by our ancestors seem more bizarre and mysterious than the magic of later generations.
But no matter how mysterious the means are, they are fundamentally different from the legendary magic.
Immortal arts use power that is beyond comprehension.
The methods used by illusionists can all be explained by science, but they are imperceptible to ordinary people.
At this moment, the person on the high platform was like a magician making a grand entrance. He appeared from the fire and transformed things out of thin air, which shocked Xu Gou and others to the fullest.
But for Shen Lian, that's all.
For him, who was used to watching magic shows and had seen the secret techniques of the Illusionists, there was really nothing special about this.
"The right wing of the Tang Dynasty's Young Master Qin, the leader of the Jinyiwei, Shen Lian, welcome to the magical world!"
A voice that sounded like crying and laughing, sometimes far away and sometimes near, sometimes male and sometimes female, reached everyone's ears.
Shen Lian listened to the androgynous voice and narrowed his eyes slightly.
In order to fool people, even the voice was specially practiced!
Shen Lian rubbed his forehead slightly and said calmly: "Where did the word magic come from? Is it just because of the little trick you just played?"
The people on the platform seemed to have not expected Shen Lian to answer like this.
Moreover, the mockery and contempt in Shen Lian's tone were not concealed at all.
It was as if my own performance was full of loopholes.
For the people of Huanjia, negative reviews from the audience are the most unacceptable.
"You are disrespectful to the gods, and the gods will punish you!"
A cold voice suddenly came.
The man raised his fingers and snapped them again.
Snapped!
A clear sound rang out in the night.
The next moment, before anyone could react, a huge rock suddenly fell from the sky.
It suddenly smashed down from above Shen Lian's head.
Before Abao and the others could react at all, they heard a bang.
Shen Lian disappeared.
And where he had just stood, a huge rock was falling.
A deep hole was smashed into the ground.
The stone, one third of its size, has already sunk into it.
Abao and others stared at the scene in a daze.
At this moment, their brains seemed to have lost the ability to think, and they only felt a buzzing in their ears.
My mind goes blank.
The next moment, Abao suddenly yelled: "Sir!!!"
The voice was so shrill and sharp that it instantly brought everyone back to their senses.
At this moment, they were all furious.
All of them have cold hands and feet.
Their faces were filled with despair and fear.
Because, because...
My own master was... was smashed to pieces by a stone!
"grown ups!!"
Ali's tears burst out instantly.
He rushed directly to the big rock and pushed it hard, trying to push away the rock that had crushed Shen Lian.
However, the stone was too heavy and he could not move it at all.
Abao and others also rushed over at this time.
It took more than a dozen people urging at the same time to move the stone slightly.
But the stone was embedded too deep in the ground and could not be lifted.
At this moment, all of them felt what despair and powerlessness were.
"Hahaha….…"
The androgynous laughter sounded piercingly at this moment.
He raised his hands upwards, as if he was holding up the sky, and laughed harshly, "An ant trying to shake a tree, you dare to disrespect the gods, this is the end!"
"Really? What kind of god is so rubbish that the punishment he sends is just throwing a stone?"
And just as this person finished speaking, a sneer suddenly rang out.
The sound came too suddenly.
This voice is so familiar!
For a moment, everyone present was frozen.
The members of the Huan family who had just laughed suddenly stopped as if their throats were strangled by an invisible hand.
He swallowed and turned around in disbelief.
At the same time, Abao and others also trembled and turned their heads to look.
Then…….
They saw flames burning on the platform.
A figure slowly walked out of the flames.
This person was dressed in a black robe, and his eyes were pitch black, as if they contained the sun, moon, and stars.
He is Shen Lian!
The flames were blazing, and the fiery red light illuminated the entire platform.
And in the flames, Shen Lian slowly walked out.
He stepped on the ground with a calm expression, as if he had participated in a grand performance.
And the moment his feet touched the ground, the raging flames disappeared without a trace.
There was silence all around.
Everyone stared at Shen Lian in a daze, with different expressions on their faces.
Abao was stunned at first, then his face was filled with surprise and excitement.
Ali's eyes were red and he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his hands.
The other Jinyiwei were also filled with surprise and excitement at having recovered what they had lost.
Only the man on the podium wearing a strange mask had eyes full of shock and disbelief.
"You...you...how could you be alive? Why weren't you smashed into a pulp?"
He spoke in shock, and his voice was finally no longer that androgynous tone, but a very obvious masculine voice.
Shen Lian looked towards him following the sound. The firelight from the surrounding stone pillars illuminated his face, as if it had been dyed with a layer of blood.
Shen Lian's voice was calm, with no emotion at all: "If I, Shen Lian, died so easily, that would be something you would be shocked about, right?"
"You don't really think..."
Shen Lian looked at him with a half-smile, and said teasingly: "Can you really kill me with those little tricks of yours?"
Shen Lian's words made the man's pupils shrink suddenly.
He stared at Shen Lian intently, recalling the situation when Shen Lian just appeared, and suddenly widened his eyes and said: "You secretly learned the secret technique of my Huan family?"
"It's a bit inappropriate to say stealing."
Shen Lian said calmly: "I went to watch it openly. I didn't intend to learn it at first, but I, Shen Lian, have a very good memory. I remembered it after watching it once."
"I just saw you perform and thought it was interesting, so I gave it a try. The result was..."
(End of this chapter)
