Chapter 66: The Prisoner (Part 2)

  "Wow, Master, you look much younger and more handsome after shaving your beard!"

  "No matter what you say, I insist on taking a look at my eyebrows."

  "Master, you have to trust my eyebrow-shaping skills. I'm telling you, I used to be a renowned master of disguise, and even with this slightly larger knife, I can absolutely give you perfectly shaped eyebrows."

  "Ah!" Li Dongyang suddenly pulled out the embroidered spring knife from Jiang Xia's waist, and with the bright light of the blade and the torch, he took a look. As soon as he looked, Li Dongyang's expression on his face was no longer calm, pointing to his left eyebrow which seemed to have been bitten by a dog, only two-thirds of it remained, looking at Jiang Xia and asked: "Is this the skill of a master of disguise?"

  Jiang Xia's face was awkward, and he smiled embarrassingly: "Nothing, Master, really nothing, can still make up for it."

  "How can we make up for it?" Li Dongyang asked.

  "Uh..." Jiang Xia said somewhat breathlessly: "Shave it all off, it'll look more symmetrical that way."

  After helping Li Dongyang change into the prison officer's clothes, Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao walked on either side of him, with their arms around his shoulders. As they walked, Jiang Xia burst out laughing and said loudly, "Ah, it turns out we're from the same place! Do you still remember that old locust tree at the entrance of our village?"

  "There was also a dog in our place before, it would always bark when it saw people, and it was annoying. In the end, I secretly killed it, hahaha..."

  "What? What's going on? It's your family dog... Well, no fight no friendship, strange things happen..."

  Jiang Xia and Li Dongyang were chatting and laughing on the road, but since it was night, the light inside the prison was very dim. Moreover, people tend to see what they want to see, and Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao had Li Dongyang sandwiched between them, so no one noticed that the warden had actually been replaced.

  After walking out of the San Sheng Tian prison area, they passed through more than a dozen doors without incident. Finally, when they walked out of the San Sheng Tian prison area and saw the playground, Jiang Xia patted Li Dongyang's shoulder enthusiastically and said: "Since we are all from the same place, my attitude just now was not justified, let's go, brother will invite you to drink and apologize."

  As she spoke, Jiang Xia pulled Li Dongyang and they walked forward together.

  Li Dongyang silently followed Jiang Xia, when the prison guard who was standing with the previous one suddenly shouted: "Tian Shu, you're going out, at least leave the key to cell number one of Diyi Prison behind, the Supreme Court will come to take people away soon."

  Jiang Xia, Li Dongyang and Zhu Houzhao were all stunned. Firstly, none of the three knew what the key to Cell No. 1 looked like, and secondly, they didn't bring any keys with them.

  Jiang Xia turned his back to the prison officer and let out a soft sigh, then turned around and shouted loudly: "What is this 'Di Zi' and what key are you talking about?"

  While speaking, Jiang Xia took advantage of the fact that the prison officer had not reacted yet and chopped a hand knife on his neck. This time, Jiang Xia obviously felt that the situation was urgent, so he instantly returned to his dantian, and this knife made the prison officer fall down.

  Just as the prison guard fell to the ground, he suddenly pulled a red thread on the wall behind him.

  "Ding ding dong......" The red thread actually moved the bells in many places, and for a time, all the guards inside the Tian Prison were mobilized.

  "Somebody jailbreak! Somebody jailbreak......" Such voices echoed throughout the entire Tian Prison.

  Zhu Houzhao and Li Dongyang looked towards Jiang Xia, who shook his head and said: "Pretend as if nothing is wrong, don't manage anything, don't say anything, just follow me."

  The prison guards from the opposite side of the exercise yard, who were in charge of the prison area, also ran over to this side of the Sanxiang Tian Prison area. Jiang Xia and his group continued walking forward as if nothing was wrong. Seeing the prison guards running over, Jiang Xia didn't wait for them to ask questions and loudly shouted: "What are you still standing there for? Something's happened on that side, go take a look quickly!"

  "Yes, sir!" After finishing speaking, those prison guards hurriedly ran towards the Tian Prison area of San Sheng Province.

  Just then, a group of people suddenly ran out from the direction of the San Sheng Tian prison and shouted at Jiang Xia and his two companions: "Halt, you two in brocade attire! You are to be inspected!"

  Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao, as well as Li Dongyang, were all stunned. Zhu Houzhao asked Jiang Xia in a low voice, "What to do?"

  Jiang Xia fell silent for a second before suddenly shouting out one word: "Run!"

  Jiang Xia put Li Dongyang on his shoulder and then ran with Zhu Houzhao to the front passage of the training ground. After running into the passage, Jiang Xia found that all the prison guards had gone to support the previous three provinces' Tian Prison area, so the defense here was much weaker.

  Jiang Xia looked up and saw a gate in front of him, with two prison guards standing guard. Jiang Xia shouted loudly: "Someone has broken into the prison, this warden is injured, hurry up and open the door, we must take him for treatment immediately, if we delay he may lose his life."

  The two prison guards at the gate were startled and immediately opened the door. Jiang Xia carried Li Dongyang and rushed all the way, and the several gates that blocked Jiang Xia's way were all broken through in this way.

  Finally, Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao both saw the exit of the heavenly prison. Zhu Houzhao excitedly shouted: "Success!"

  Jiang Xia carried Li Dongyang and Zhu Houzhao, speeding up as they rushed out of Tianqiao Prison.

  The sky outside was dimly lit, and the front was all pitch black. Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao both rushed towards the horse carriage with all their might, but only those who got on the horse carriage would find it not so easy to be caught up by others.

  Unfortunately, just as Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao were only two or three meters away from the carriage, a sharp whistle sounded. The area outside the Tianluo suddenly lit up, and two teams of Tianluo prison guards holding bows and arrows appeared on the city walls on both sides of the passage. Neither Jiang Xia nor Zhu Houzhao had expected that there would be so many hidden sentries here.

  "A single slip may cause lasting sorrow." Jiang Xia let out a soft sigh as he put Li Dongyang down from his shoulders. Then, in a low voice, he said to Zhu Houzhao beside him: "Second Brother, when they surround us later, I'll take someone hostage and use them as a human shield to get you out of here. Once you're on the carriage, leave immediately, don't worry about me."

  "Big brother!" Zhu Houzhao's heart was slightly moved, he had secretly taken out his own gold token from his bosom, on which were engraved the four large characters "As if I were present", seeing this token was like seeing the Emperor himself, with this token these prison guards would not dare to harm him.

  There were no fewer than forty or fifty jailers chasing after them inside Tianluo.

  Jiang Xia clenched the embroidered spring knife in her hand, and suddenly, miserable cries erupted from both sides of the city wall. Jiang Xia looked up to see two black-clad men swiftly hacking away at the top of the wall, with two teams of archers already having been slaughtered, their bodies overturned.

  Jiangxia suddenly understood that reinforcements had arrived, and with this, hope rose again in his heart. Jiangxia said to Zhu Houzhao and Li Dongyang: "Second brother, Master, charge out hard."

  Zhu Houzhao was overjoyed and immediately pulled out the embroidered spring knife from his waist, laughing loudly: "After practicing martial arts for so many years, I can finally try my hand."

  After finishing speaking, Zhu Houzhao and Jiang Xia rushed over together.

  Those who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty know that Zhu Houzhao was a very militaristic emperor. The most brilliant military achievement in his life was to personally deploy troops, go into battle and defeat the Mongolian prince, known as the famous Yingzhou Great Victory. Therefore, Zhu Houzhao himself had practiced martial arts.

  However, Jiang Xia saw Zhu Houzhao's extremely brave slash, but it was almost shaken off by a prison officer with one knife. Fortunately, Zhu Houzhao had learned from a famous master, and the Spring Embroidery Knife turned its blade in sync, slipping down from the long knife of the prison officer, then cutting his right wrist, causing the prison officer to drop his knife to the ground.

  "Another person who practices boxing but not internal strength." Jiang Xia sighed helplessly in his heart.

  It is obvious that Zhu Houzhao has followed a famous master to learn martial arts. Just now, the angle at which he chopped down with his knife and the subtlety of his turning the blade are enough to prove that Zhu Houzhao's practice is a superb knife technique.

  Unfortunately, this guy obviously neglected to cultivate his basic skills and didn't usually cultivate his true energy, so that knife technique was superficial, although it looked fancy but had no great power.

  Jiang Xia shouted: "Old Second, follow me and be careful."

  In comparison, Jiang Xia's martial arts were not ordinary. As soon as he unleashed his triple-strength power, the embroidered spring knife in his hand immediately emitted a whistling wind. In a short time, Jiang Xia had already felled more than a dozen prison guards.

  At this moment, two black-clad men who were fighting on the city wall suddenly jumped down from the battlements. As soon as they landed, they joined the battle group. Just then, one of the prison guards was about to strike Li Dongyang with his knife, when one of the black-clad men swiftly drew his long sword and stabbed it through the guard's back, piercing his chest from behind.

  The prison guard hadn't even reached Li Dongyang before he fell to the ground.

  The man in black ran over and pulled out a long sword from the corpse of the prison guard, shouting to Li Dongyang: "Sir, I'm here! A friend has come to rescue you!"

  "Brother Yang." Li Dongyang called out emotionally, he suddenly remembered something and immediately pointed at Jiang Xia and Zhu Houzhao: "Protect them well, don't let them get hurt."

  "Don't worry." Junyang charged forward with his long sword.

  Very soon, Junyang and Jiangxia leaned together, and after Jiangxia beheaded a prison guard, he suddenly gasped for air. Junyang said in a low voice: "When killing enemies in battle, remember to use the three-inhale-one-exhale method of breathing, otherwise the loss of true energy will be very fast."

  "Thank you." Jiang Xia suddenly said again: "Have you ever assassinated me?"

  Jun Yang was slightly startled, he himself was masked now, and when he assassinated him before, he was also masked, how did he recognize himself? However, Jun Yang didn't plan to hide it, he nodded and asked: "How did you figure it out?"

  "Your sword is very distinctive," Jiang Xia said, pointing at Jun Yang's ancient long sword.

  At this moment, Jun understood.

  At this moment, Jiang Xia suddenly felt that all the hairs on his back stood up, and then the breaking sound got closer and closer. Jiang Xia looked in the direction of the breaking sound and saw an arrow flying towards Zhu Houzhao's side.

  "Be careful, Second Brother..."