When he counted to thirty, Fan Xian lifted the cloth curtain and stepped out of his residence, coldly eyeing the black carriage. The carriage seemed perfectly normal, even the secret mark Wang Qinian had set before the carriage door hadn't been moved. The other party was indeed an expert in this field.

Just then, the entire camp suddenly emitted some trembling sounds. Apart from the members of the delegation who had been knocked out by the sleeping pills, the confidants of Qinian’s group who had been notified by Fan Xian stood behind him. Appearing behind him were also extremely heavy breaths and the sound of digging – three black dogs with leather muzzles, unable to make any noise.

Fan Xian scratched his slightly itchy hair roots and waved his hand, saying, "Open the gate, release the dogs."

Wang Qinian silently waved his hand, and his subordinates released the ropes. The three black dogs, confined for a month, could no longer suppress the violent beastly nature within them. Following the faint scent in their noses, they silently raged, their four paws digging into the mud, transforming into three black shadows, ferociously pouncing towards the outside of the camp.

At that moment, several cold glares shone brightly! Countless poisoned hidden weapons slashed towards the dogs!

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A series of clattering sounds rang out, like raindrops, as the hidden weapons encountered a gust of wind-like saber light, and were shaken far away onto the ground. Immediately afterwards, the saber light pounced towards the assassins who had launched the sneak attack.

With several tearing sounds, after a few screams, the bodies of two assassins were cut into three sections, their heads were chopped into the air, and blood splattered everywhere!

A long saber rose from below with ruthless force, slicing through the air and cutting into the armpit of the last assassin. With two swishing sounds, the assassin's two arms, like lotus root segments dipped in syrup, left his body and fell to the ground, bouncing twice.

The leader of the Tiger Guards, Gao Da, sheathed his long saber behind him, appearing very dashing and efficient. The six Tiger Guards behind him also simultaneously sheathed their sabers, standing neatly in the center of the camp in the night, looking very handsome.

But this was not the time to strike a pose. Wang Qinian had already darted to the side of the assassin whose arms had been cut off. This dart seemingly normal, but in an instant, he leaped out a distance of several zhang. The twin wings of the Surveillance Department were indeed well-deserved.

With a rapid movement, he fiercely thrust the menacing iron rod in his hand into the assassin's mouth, stirring it. A very unpleasant sound rang out. Wang Qinian reached into the other party's already bloody mouth and pulled out the tooth containing poison, carefully wrapping it in cloth. Then, he took out a round wooden ball connected to a rope from his chest, and stuffed it into the assassin's mouth to prevent him from biting his tongue and committing suicide.

The assassin's arms had been chopped off, and blood flowed like a river. He was already in unbearable pain. Being stuffed like this by Wang Qinian, tears, snot, and saliva mixed together and flowed into his mouth, looking extremely miserable and terrifying.

"To think the enemy actually managed to sneak into the yard." Wang Qinian frowned, looking at the assassin's face, and realized he was an acquaintance. "Fortunately, the method of hiding poison is still the old one from the yard."

He then turned around and said to his subordinates, "Heal him. He absolutely cannot die. Take good care of him. You must make him confess."

The subordinate responded in a deep voice, but said with some curiosity, "Lord Wang, you have already knocked out all his teeth. Will the poison flow into his body?"

Wang Qinian was stunned, thinking that he had been a civil official for so many years, and had indeed become a bit rusty. He quickly took the wooden ball out of the assassin's mouth again, washed it with water, and fed him a few detoxifying pills bestowed by Supervisor Fan, before feeling somewhat relieved.

Seeing that he was about to stuff the wooden ball back into the assassin's mouth, the subordinate finally couldn't help but say, "His teeth are all broken. How can he bite his tongue and commit suicide?"

Wang Qinian was greatly embarrassed and turned back to scold, "This official likes to stuff wooden balls in his mouth, is that not allowed?"

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While the camp was in an uproar, Fan Xian had already fastened his cuffs and trouser legs, turned his hood inside out, covering his face. Under the cover of black clothing, he slipped into the darkness. The seven Tiger Guards with amazing saber skills also followed his figure, heading in the direction of the three tracker dogs, silent all the way, without disturbing the bright moon in the sky, only causing the reeds to sway gently.

With the Surveillance Department taking care of the camp, and a team left behind by the Black Riders outside, Fan Xian was very relieved.

Although the poison he had injected into Xiao En's body was overbearing, the most crucial thing was that even if Xiao En drove the drug out of his body with his powerful Zhenqi, it would still leave a faint scent on his pores.

Xiao En couldn't smell it himself, but dogs could. In some aspects, humans are indeed inferior to dogs.

A cloud in the sky, a dark cloud, the moonlight immediately dimmed, and only the sound of the night wind blowing across the surface of the great lake and the swaying of the reeds could be heard.

Fan Xian was wrapped in black from head to toe, with only a pair of bright eyes exposed.

After discovering that Xiao En had successfully forced out the poison, he took it upon himself to plan this operation. After all, no one in the entire delegation dared to oppose his opinion, and the members of the Surveillance Department who knew the inside story were even more obedient to his lead. However, this was also a very risky operation. If Xiao En really took the opportunity to escape, Yan Bingyun would naturally not be able to be exchanged, and a poisonous snake would forever remain in the darkness, waiting to launch a fatal blow against certain specific people in Qing. Fan Xian could not bear such a great loss no matter what.

From the reeds ahead, a few strange noises suddenly came. Fan Xian twitched his nose, and through the special fabric, he still smelled a faint smell of blood. The three extremely ferocious black dogs seemed to have died. Xiao En was able to silently kill three ferocious dogs in one encounter, indicating that the other party's physical functions had recovered a lot.

Fan Xian stood quietly on the damp muddy ground, squinting and looking ahead through the layers of reed curtains, calculating the distance between himself and Xiao En.

He clenched his right hand and raised it. The seven Tiger Guards who arrived behind him immediately understood the young master's meaning, exchanged glances, and dispersed into the reeds, not daring to get too close to Xiao En.

At this time, Xiao En must know that someone behind him had begun to chase him, but this old man obviously had not forgotten all his escape skills because of his twenty years in prison. Relying on the cover of the night, the concealment of the reeds, and the washing of the lake wind, he silently fled towards the northeastern border.

Fan Xian knew that in that place, there must be someone to meet Xiao En.

He calmly ran forward, the overbearing Zhenqi in his body gradually operating. His feet touched the slightly damp mud and separated immediately. His whole person pounced forward like an arrow, scattering the reeds that came head-on. Occasionally, he would stop and carefully explore his surroundings, his fingers gently sliding over the obviously freshly broken openings under the reeds, and his eyes falling on the pair of stable footprints left on the mud.

Xiao En was circling around.

Fan Xian was following and circling around.

In the night, the hunter and the prey were one in front and one behind, but no one knew when the roles of both sides would be reversed. For Xiao En, he had to escape the control of the delegation and meet with the people on his side. For Fan Xian, he had to seize this opportunity that he had created himself.

Gradually, Fan Xian's eyes, exposed outside the black cloth, became brighter and brighter. The traces left by Xiao En became more and more obvious, it seemed that the other party was old and weak after all, no longer possessing the bravery of his youth, and the poison injected these days was not for nothing.

Crossing the reeds on the lakeside and arriving at a side of low cedar forest, Fan Xian frowned slightly. Even in the dark night, his extremely sharp eyes could still see that the footsteps beside the forest were a bit messy. He did not dare to be careless, slowly retreated, circled around, and inserted into the side of the low cedar forest.

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A very shrill whistle suddenly sounded in the night. A black rope sprang up from the shallow grass under the trees and bound the ankle of a person - one of the Tiger Guards who had entered the forest with Fan Xian! The Tiger Guard was still in the air, but his body had already bounced up extremely powerfully. His right hand twisted, and the long saber behind his back swung out with a clang, cutting the black rope.

The Tiger Guard's whole person fell forward with the momentum of the black rope, watching as he was about to step onto solid ground.

An arrow flew over, startling him to lead with his long saber, knocking the arrow away with a clang. His whole body struggled backwards, retreating half a step more than expected. His toes loosened, and he realized that there was actually a pit in front of him, a simple trap composed of several sharp branches!

Fan Xian stood against a tree, released the fingers that had been pinching the trigger, and watched as the Tiger Guard disappeared into the night again, slightly relieved.

Two calls of night owls came from the forest. They were very unpleasant and harsh. A branch moved slightly, and the saber lights from all directions suddenly broke free from the silence, transforming into seven snow-like beauties, cutting all the space in that place.

Countless pieces of blood splattered in the center of the forest. With a soft sound, the leader of the Tiger Guards, Gao Da, carrying his saber behind him, waved a lit fire stick and shone it on the face of the dead person, shaking his head. Obviously, the dead person was not Xiao En.

The fire stick was extinguished again, and the seven Tiger Guards revealed themselves, searching the depths of the low forest in a semi-circular formation.

Fan Xian disappeared into the darkness, slowly moving against the trees. He did not expect that Xiao En would take the person who opened the carriage door with him. This realization made him feel somewhat strange. But he knew that Xiao En was still in this forest, because the poison injected these days was still firmly emitting a faint scent.

The moon slowly floated out of the clouds, and the forest was bathed in silver light. Fan Xian gently pressed his palm against a tree, feeling the slight tremors coming from all around, and his heart was filled with confidence in killing the other party.

Xiao En was in this forest.