Early the next morning, when it was still bright, the vegetable seller brought a cart of vegetables from outside the city and walked to the market entrance.

When he reached the Cai Shi Kou door, his foot slipped and he almost fell.

The vegetable seller was still frightened. He looked down and saw a large stain of blood on the ground. The smell of blood penetrated his nose.

He covered his nose and cursed angrily:

"Which damn butcher who married a wife without eggs wouldn't think it was a waste to make all the pig blood."

Suddenly, he felt a cold feeling on his face, as if something was dripping on his face. The vegetable seller stretched out his hand to wipe it, and looked at it. His hands were full of blood.

He looked up in surprise, and the sight almost scared him out of his wits.

I saw a large row of heads hanging on the door number of the vegetable market, one by one, neatly arranged on the top of the entire door number.

The vegetable seller's legs went weak. He was so frightened that he cried for his father and mother. He rolled and crawled away, not even caring about his own cart of vegetables.

The news that the thirteen members of Zhou Mu's family were killed soon spread throughout Yunzhou City. After hearing the news, Yunzhou Tongjian was so frightened that he fell to the ground and could not get up without help.

Soon, Yunzhou City was sealed off, and officers and soldiers began to search for suspicious persons from house to house. For a time, Yunzhou City was in turmoil, and everyone was in danger.

But privately, the people felt very happy. After learning that the murderer only killed Zhou Mu's direct family, but spared dozens of subordinates of Zhou Mu's mansion, the people even gave thumbs up and praised him. A chivalrous act.

This shows how much this Yunzhou parent official is despised in the hearts of the people.

The people in Yunzhou City couldn't help but wonder who the murderer was. The Zhou Mu Mansion had always been heavily guarded, and there were several fifth-level masters in the mansion. Being able to kill the Guangzhou Mu family under their noses showed the murderer's martial arts and methods. How clever.

In fact, the identity of the murderer was not difficult to guess. After the autopsy, Wu Zuo quickly concluded that the Zhou Mu family was decapitated with a knife while they were sleeping. The wounds were smooth and delicate, and it was obvious at a glance that the murder weapon was an extremely sharp blade.

In the past two days, the sharpest and most well-known weapon in Yunzhou City was undoubtedly the sword of the young performer.

Sure enough, the officers and soldiers searched the entire governor's mansion and found that all the gold and silver treasures were not missing, except for the extremely sharp sword.

After identifying the murderer, Tong Xuan immediately issued arrest documents and reported it to the Ministry of Punishment of the imperial court to start the pursuit.

Not only that, even the martial arts sects received a letter from the government, ordering them to arrest the murderer.

Yizhou Zhou Mu, a proper feudal official, and a second-rank official of the imperial court, was massacred. This kind of thing is absolutely not allowed by the imperial court. Therefore, regarding this murder case, even those far away in the main hall of Kyoto The Ninth Five Supremes personally issued a decree that the murderer must be captured and brought to justice this morning at all costs.

Qin Hao could see this murder clearly.

That night, Qin Hao stayed outside the Zhou Mu's Mansion out of curiosity. It happened to be the birthday of Zhou Mu's father. There was an endless stream of people coming to celebrate his birthday. The Zhou Mu's Mansion was busy until late at night before it became quiet.

As expected, the young man appeared. He was extremely skilled in the art of lightening himself. His body was like a feather, and he came and went silently. Even with Qin Hao's sharp five senses that were far superior to those of a fifth-grade master, if he hadn't guessed his appearance in advance, he might not have been able to detect it.

Not long after, Queen Qin saw him running out with a lot of heads. After hanging the heads on the door plate of Caishikou, the young man climbed over the city wall overnight and left Yunzhou City.

Qin Hao thought that this person was extremely skilled in martial arts, which was obviously a level higher than the Songfeng Sect martial arts he had learned. He guessed that this person must be from a famous sect.

The purpose of his coming to Yunzhou City was to inquire about the famous families in Liuyun Kingdom and see if there were any clues about the elixir, so Qin Hao chased after him after seeing him running away.

The young man noticed that someone was chasing him, thinking that his murder was exposed, so he used his energy to increase his speed.

Qin Hao saw him speeding up from behind and knew that the young man had misunderstood him.

He did not explain aloud, but also accelerated, intending to compete with him.

The two of them chased each other from midnight to dawn.

The young man was extremely surprised when he saw that he could not get rid of Qin Hao. He knew his own affairs, and the light body kung fu he practiced was not an ordinary martial arts. Even among them, it was considered to be the first-class martial arts.

Since there was no way to escape, murderous intent suddenly appeared in the young man's eyes. He quietly tightened his grip on the handle of the knife and still kept leaping forward, but his body was secretly adjusting, intending to catch Qin Hao off guard.

When Qin Hao saw that the sky was getting brighter, the competitive thoughts in his heart had faded away. He was about to explain out loud, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he saw a flash of sword light in front of him, slashing towards his throat mercilessly.

Although Qin Hao was not frightened, he had been following the other party, and he had long been wary of the other party's sudden counterattack. After all, this man had just beheaded more than a dozen people in one go, so he was certainly not a kind-hearted person. .

Qin Hao stopped speaking and suddenly leaned back. The Qiu Shui Sword in his hand with the scabbard in his hand pointed at the young man's wrist holding the sword.

The young man reacted very quickly. The moment Qin Hao pointed at his wrist, he immediately raised the long knife in his hand, and the one-foot-long hilt pressed down, just in time to collide with the tip of Qin Hao's sheathed sword.

After this move, the two people passed each other, stopped more than ten meters away, and faced each other.

Both of them saw that the other was a real master and no longer acted rashly.

Qin Hao had no intention of fighting with him at all. He held the Qiu Shui Sword backwards, with the hilt facing up, and said to the young man:

"Brother, wait a minute, I don't mean any harm."

The young man stood with his sword horizontally, looked at Qin Hao coldly and asked:

"There is no harm. Why have you been chasing me for so long?"

Qin Hao smiled and said:

"I feel ashamed to say it. I saw that Xiongtai is very skilled in martial arts and all the martial arts he uses are superior. I guessed that Xiongtai must be from a famous sect, so I wanted to ask Xiongtai something. Later, I saw that Xiongtai had outstanding Qinggong skills, so a fight broke out immediately. Other than that, there is no malicious intention, which caused my brother to misunderstand me."

The young man still looked ready to go, and he asked coldly:

"Aren't you a hawk dog sent by the state shepherd's office?"

Qin Hao smiled disdainfully and said:

"Eagles? Huh, are they worthy?"

Having said this, the young man finally let down his guard a little, retracted the long knife in his hand, pointed the blade inward, and cupped his hand towards Qin Hao and said:

"If that's the case, then I'm being reckless."

Qin Hao waved his hand and said:

"It's my fault for not making it clear first."

The young man asked:

"I wonder what you want to ask?"

Qin Hao looked around and said with a smile:

"Why don't we find a place to sit down and talk slowly?"

The young man nodded and looked not far away. There happened to be a pavilion for resting, so he walked over.

Qin Hao stayed where he was and waited for him to sit down before heading towards the pavilion.

Only now did the young man truly believe that Qin Hao was not a killer sent by the Prefectural Mufu, because he had deliberately exposed his back to Qin Hao just now. If Qin Hao wanted to kill him, that would be the best time to take action.

Obviously Qin Hao also understood this, so he deliberately waited for the young man to face him again before setting off.

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