Chapter 76: The Northern Beggar takes action, Zhijing is defeated and flees
In the next few days, in order to ease the relationship between the two and compensate Li Mochou, Yin Zhiping would go to Li Mochou to meet and accompany her every night. However, he did not stay overnight like that night. He basically went to the third day and came back at the fifth day. He could meet like this every night, Li Mochou did not complain anymore and lost his temper. The two of them got better again, as if they were mixing oil in honey.
After beating the third update of the street that night, Yin Zhiping changed his night clothes and sneaked out from Wanshou Temple, and wanted to meet Li Mochou. After leaving Wanshou Temple, he did not stop for a long time and walked lightly, and had to bypass the palace first. On the straight line from Wanshou Temple to Li Mochou, the palace was the largest building complex and obstacle.
With Yin Zhiping's light skills, he could have passed the palace without taking a detour. However, the guards in the palace were very strict. Even if he had excellent light skills, if he wanted to pass through it, he had to pay attention everywhere to prevent being guarded and the patrolling guards were discovered. In addition, the palace walls outside the palace were very tall and could not use their light skills directly to jump over. It was quite troublesome to climb up and then leap over it. Together, the time required to pass through the palace was actually just like a detour, and it was not much different.
Therefore, when the time spent is almost the same, it is better to take a detour directly than to pay attention to the palace. Compared to this, detour is simpler, convenient and safer. At least, in the residential areas outside the palace, except for some wealthy families, not many families will arrange people to watch at night. By the third week, it is basically pitch black and silent, and it is unexpected that people will find it. Yin Zhiping chose a detour strategy since the beginning, and he didn't think much about walking through the palace.
For such a long time since last year and now, the only time he walked through the palace was the night he happened to meet Hong Qigong a few days ago. That night, because of the excuse he found, he couldn't help but give up the invitation to Hong Qigong, so he had to leave.
Using his light skills to walk around the palace, Yin Zhiping looked at the palace walls passing by from time to time. He thought that Hong Qigong was probably still hiding in the imperial kitchen at this time and stole food. He didn't know how long it would take to hide this time. He didn't tell anyone about meeting Hong Qigong, and he didn't intend to tell anyone about it. First, it was unnecessary; second, that night, Hong Qigong also specifically told him not to tell anyone about his encounter with him, so as not to be asked to disturb him to steal food.
For Hong Qigong, food is probably the first pursuit in his life. The rest of his martial arts, Beggars' Sect and other things have to be lined up. The delicious food seems to have been imprinted into his nature. Otherwise, he would not have misled things because of greed when he was young, and even cut off his fingers as a warning. From then on, he was called the Nine-Fingered Beggar in the world.
A gentleman is a beauty for human beings. Yin Zhiping naturally wants to fulfill such a gourmet.
He was constantly exerting his light skills. While thinking about Hong Qigong, Yin Zhiping looked at the palace wall casually. After a glance, he suddenly saw a figure jumping down from the palace wall. He immediately stopped his steps and wanted to take a closer look. But just as he stopped his steps, another figure suddenly jumped down, and chased the person he had jumped down several feet apart.
The first figure was just a casual look. He couldn't see clearly because of his suddenness. But he could see clearly the second figure, and the figure was also obvious, with snow-white silver hair that was very conspicuous in the darkness, and his figure was very familiar. It was the northern beggar Hong Qigong whom he was just thinking about.
"There is a saying that 'Cao Cao, Cao Cao will arrive'. I'm faster, and I will arrive just as soon as I think about it." Yin Zhiping said in his heart, and immediately turned around and chased Hong Qigong quickly. At the same time, he carefully looked at the person whom Hong Qigong was chasing. The man's light skills were also very good. He must be extraordinary to be chased by the northern beggar. He really wanted to know who it was.
"Boy, don't run. I'm hitting my old beggar's hand and want to escape? Why don't you give me a chance to surrender!" Hong Qigong shouted loudly. He was like a dragon, strode and chased Jixing. Although he was talking, he did not feel any discourage at all and affected the speed under his feet.
On the other hand, the man who escaped ahead did not dare to answer, but just kept his head fast. He was afraid that if he delayed his speech, he would be caught up by the enemy behind him.
Yin Zhiping looked carefully at the man in front, but saw that the man was carrying a long sword in his hand and wearing an official uniform of an eunuch of the Song Dynasty Palace. His figure looked quite familiar. The next moment, he suddenly opened his eyes wide open, and his face was shocked, but he had already recognized who the man was. It was not other, but the protagonist in the excuse he had talked with Hong Qigong that night - Zhao Zhijing, who is currently the Imperial City Envoy of the Song Dynasty Imperial City, which was the defected disciple of the Quanzhen Sect that he and Hong Qigong mentioned.
That night, he used Zhao Zhijing's affairs as an excuse to explain to Hong Qigong why he didn't sleep in the middle of the night and was wandering outside the palace in a night clothes. However, he didn't expect that within a few days, the two of them really collided with each other.
Although Zhao Zhijing was promoted to the Imperial City Envoy of the Imperial City Division, he was still an eunuch. Moreover, the Imperial City Division's service office was originally located in the palace, so he still lives in the palace. However, his status and living places have been upgraded to a little differently.
But even in the palace, both his residence and the office of the Imperial City Department were far away from the imperial kitchen, and the palace was very large and there were many people. Yin Zhiping never expected that Zhao Zhijing would run into a relationship with Hong Qigong who was stealing food in the imperial kitchen.
"I don't know how these two people collided. Is it because Zhao Zhijing was ordered to check the food prepared in the imperial kitchen that suddenly disappeared? Or is it because Hong Qigong found Zhao Zhijing's identity and wanted to help me capture this defected disciple?"
Yin Zhiping secretly guessed in his heart, and his feet kept chasing in the direction where the two of them were.
As a disciple of the Quanzhen Sect, Yin Zhiping and Zhao Zhijing often competed with martial arts when they were on Mount Zhongnan. Originally, Zhao Zhijing was the number one master among the three generations of Quanzhen Sect, and Yin Zhiping had to be the last. However, since Yin Zhiping came over and opened the Ren and Du meridians among the three generations of disciples, his martial arts had already been on top of Zhao Zhijing. For a long time after Zhao Zhijing took the initiative to compete with him.
Until later he traveled to the world and "captured" Li Mochou back to the mountain. This period was also a period of great progress in his martial arts. He especially experienced in the world and fought with many figures in the world. There were many life-and-death battles, which further honed his martial arts and swordsmanship.
Shortly after he returned to the mountain, Zhao Zhijing was sent down the mountain to find him, but he got an adventure in this place and returned to the mountain. Not long after returning to the mountain, Zhao Zhijing went to seclusion and practiced in seclusion, which eventually allowed him to open up the Ren and Du meridians because of this adventure, and his martial arts skills were in great success. After leaving the mountain, Zhao Zhijing was very proud and confident, and came to challenge him in the name of competition, but was defeated by him. That time was also the only time he had fought with Zhao Zhijing after traveling through time.
After a while later, although Zhao Zhijing had to challenge him for the second time, that time he happened to be interrupted by Xiaolongnu and was defeated by Xiaolongnu with the two swordsmanship of the gentleman and lady. After that, he never fought with Zhao Zhijing again.
The last time he saw Zhao Zhijing's martial arts and attacks was at the Heroes of the Great Victory Pass two years ago. At that time, Zhao Zhijing fought against Huo Du and gained the upper hand. In the end, he killed Huo Du, and was already among the top experts in the world.
Although he has seen Zhao Zhijing in the Song Dynasty Palace since last year, he has never seen Zhao Zhijing take action since then. I wonder how Zhao Zhijing has grown in the past two years. Now seeing Zhao Zhijing chase and escape, he is still stalemate for a while and has not immediately brought the distance to Hong Qigong. He can't help but think:
"I don't know what Zhao Zhijing's martial arts skills are now, but just looking at the light skills, he has made considerable progress, and he can even be comparable to Hong Qigong for a while. Although Hong Qigong himself is not good at light skills, his skills are naturally the best in the world. Even if he compares light skills with Huang Laoxie, he may not be inferior. Of course, Zhao Zhijing is naturally far from being comparable to the Five Great Masters. Hong Qigong seems to have enough strength now, and he has a lot of strength and has no effect on speaking. However, Zhao Zhijing is probably running away with all his strength now. Although he is quick for a while, he will not be able to last long and will be caught up as soon as possible." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!