Vol 2 Chapter 136 (2/2)

A slight frown showed through the black cloth that bordered Fan Xian's eyes Although there was no night curfew in the capital, the streets were still strictly guarded at night After the incident at Niulan Street, the city guards had been considerably whipped into shape, so now he had to take serious precautions So he tee His body treh his whole body, quickly accelerating his speed as he disappeared into the darkness of the capital

Fan Manor was not far from the palace, and Fan Xian quite quickly reached the foot of the palace's western wall This was a place where the part-time workers in the palace came into contact with the inner keep It was often quite busy, but this late at night, it was silent shi+elding himself behind shrubbery, he crouched as he leapt towards the bank of the Yudai River With his left hand, he felt for the stone railing by the side of the riverbank, and like a koala, he sidled along it

There were sohts ahead of him, but the river itself appeared co the deep wellspring of zhenqi in his body, he stopped his breathing, and carefully

Soes, and had corove of trees within the palace Fan Xian relaxed slightly, opening hisgradually ht him some kind of pleasure

The wall by the side of the thicket of trees was 16 meters tall and extremely slippery; there was nowhere one could hold on to Even the strongest warriors in the land could not vault it Of course, to those who had already approached the rank of grandmaster, whether they couldto be tested

Fan Xian was not one of the four grandmasters, but he had other ways The red surface of the wall looked slightly blue in the dark of night Like a shadow, he swept froht fro his radually channeled his powerful zhenqi through his xueshan point, war the conditions within his body Deep in the palace, not far fro sat quietly in a roo the as that had happened at the palace banquet, of how Fan Xian had caused Zhuang Mohan to spit blood, the E, but she didn't knohy It seeone to bed early

Hong Sixiang had spent years within the palace The young eunuchs did not kno old he really was - seventy? Eighty? His only responsibility in the place noas to keep the E of the Kingdo, he still liked to leave the palace and wander around, but as he got older, he found that there was not much difference between the inside and the outside of the palace after all

Hong Sixiang took a shelled peanut, put it in his mouth, and chewed it loudly Then he took hold of a wine cup and had a long, satisfying sip froht The old eunuch thought about young Master Fan's drunken madness in the palace hall, and he could not prevent a s on the corners of his lips Even if he was a eunuch, he was still a eunuch of the Kingdo; if Northern Qi could be e felt that it was not a bad thing

In another part of the inner palace, there was a bright candle lit in the Eht in the eunuchs' roohtened ruler who loved his subjects and was politically diligent, and so he would often read long into the night The eunuchs had long becoht snacks for hi his suht after the palace banquet, and the E-brush in his hand, its tip freshlyto kill a -brush halted above the paper in front of hiradually turned to a frown ”Are you tired, Your Majesty?” asked one of the eunuch scribes by his side ”Perhaps you should rest?”

The Emperor s all those poe?”

The eunuch pursed his lips into a serly copy poeenius of poetry”

The Elanced out of theand again, feeling like there was soht

The palace was large, in the su it was quiet The palaceThe guards outside the walls kept careful watch All was peaceful within the palace

At the corner, by the side of the rock garden, wearing brand new dark clothes, Wu Zhu dissolved into the diht The only part of him that could have been noticed by anyone, his eyes, was also covered by a length of black cloth With the help of some sort of technique, his whole body had becos around hinificantly, and hehim Even if someone had walked past hi carefully

Wu Zhu ”looked” at the light co he looked Then he slowly lowered his head, pulled over his black head covering, and silently headed in a direction away fro with the terrain, along the grass and the flowers, he left no trace anddeuarded inner palace

[1] In Jin Yong’s novel The S, Proud Wanderer, the character Yue Buqun castrates himself in order to study the technique of Bixie Swordplay