After a while.

The gang of robbers who were robbed were lying on the ground groaning. Zhao Changhe was riding on one of them, holding a fist the size of a vinegar bowl: "Tell me, what's the situation with Han Wubing? You guys with your mediocre skills think you can let him escape?"

The person speaking was almost crying: "I was just using Han Wubing's name to scare people. It wasn't us who drove him away..."

"What happened then?"

"I only know that Han Wubing killed the leader of the Xingyi Gang and was besieged by the gang. Later, the leader of the Pinghu Society, Peng, made a move, and then Han Wubing left..."

"What a mess! What does this have to do with you guys?"

"I told you, I was just trying to scare you. I wanted you to think there was a connection."

"Damn it!" Zhao Changhe's fist came crashing down, knocking the person unconscious.

Zhao Changhe squatted down and searched each person, but there wasn't much money. They all seemed to be low-level gang members. Seeing that he would even spend money to buy a pancake, he was temporarily tempted by greed.

Zhao Changhe cursed and stood up, stuffing the remaining silver coins into his pocket. He turned to look at Yihuo She, who was tilting her head and watching him steal money. Her cute pig face made him feel happy again. "What are you looking at?"

Zhuque smiled and said, "Why are you deliberately stopping me? Are you afraid that I will kill them?"

"Don't you?"

"I do."

"Then you didn't stop me." Zhao Changhe walked towards the city gate. "Don't always think about killing people over trivial matters. It's unnecessary."

Zhuque didn't argue back, but instead said, "Hmm," and accompanied him out.

She seemed to be in a much better mood than Zhao Changhe.

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Zhao Changhe was a little puzzled. "Why are you so obedient?"

"It's nothing," Zhuque said leisurely. "You don't seem like a rigid hero. You're more to my taste."

"Hmph, flattery."

Zhuque was telling the truth.

When she was stopped earlier, Zhuque was a little unhappy. But after Zhao Changhe's actions, she found it quite interesting, especially watching him steal money. After all, she was the leader of the Four Elephant Sect, and whether they could get along well besides their abilities also depended on their temperament and style of doing things.

So far, Zhao Changhe's temperament and actions were completely in line with the aesthetic of the Four Elephant Sect.

As for Han Wubing and the others, it had nothing to do with her... She was actually a little angry because of this incident, because she wouldn't be able to go shopping anymore.

As long as someone had studied Zhao Changhe, they would know that although Han Wubing had a short time with Zhao Changhe, he held a high position in Zhao Changhe's heart. Because if we don't count females, Han Wubing was his first friend, and they got along well from the moment they met. They were like brothers. Before Tang Buqi, Situ Xiao, and the others appeared, Han Wubing was even his only friend.

Sure enough, Zhao Changhe no longer had the mood to go shopping and increased his pace to leave the city.

Zhuque angrily threw away the last bit of pancake.

............

The surroundings of Gujian Lake were still similar to before, with people wandering around in groups of two or three, hoping to find the legendary Gujian. People didn't know that the Gujian had already been taken away, but at most, they knew that there had been a battle between the Maitreya Sect and the Four Elephant Sect here, and it ended strangely.

So people who came to find the sword never stopped coming, but in the past few months, there hadn't been any incidents of people being killed by sword energy for no reason.

If nothing unexpected happened, people would eventually realize that the Gujian was probably gone.

But now it seemed that something unexpected had happened...

Zhao Changhe didn't believe that someone like Han Wubing, a swordsman, would be forced to "escape" by a local gang. Even if the other side had more people and temporarily couldn't win, they would most likely retreat to the underwater space and wait for an opportunity to fight again.

When he reached the lakeside, Zhao Changhe didn't hesitate and dived straight into the water. It was not uncommon for people looking for the sword to jump into the water from time to time.

Zhuque followed suit and suddenly thought of a question.

Previously, when the Four Elephant Sect opened this dimensional space, there were many prerequisites and formations to summon the ice soul to break open the space. But what was the situation now? Could anyone come and go? What if someone found it?

On the other hand, if Han Wubing really was "escaping in a panic," it was possible that he couldn't come back here. Because if he didn't shake off the pursuers and was seen entering this place, it would be like catching a turtle in a jar.

Obviously, Zhao Changhe was also worried about this. When he reached the spatial node, he quickly entered, furrowing his brows soon after.

There were no signs of intrusion by others, indicating that no one had found this place for the time being... but Han Wubing was really not here.

He could see that there were still beds and tables on one side, with bowls, chopsticks, and food residue on the table, all of which had become moldy. It could be seen that it wasn't tidied up and left by himself, but after going out, something happened and he never came back.

Was he really in such a panic that he couldn't even escape back here?

Zhuque followed in and looked around. Apart from the traces of Han Wubing's daily life, the original sword room atmosphere remained, with various swords hanging on the walls, nothing else, not even a storage cabinet, just smooth stone walls.

There couldn't be any secret passages because this was an independent space, and the walls couldn't be dug out. The entrance was the only spatial node, and there were no hidden passages. No wonder after entering, he was sure that there was nothing here. There couldn't be anything here.As for the residual sword intent, it did not dissipate with Han Wubing's long-term residence here, but rather, because the main purpose of Han Wubing's seclusion here was to comprehend the sword, he might spend all day, except for eating and sleeping, comprehending the sword. This made the air filled with some of Han Wubing's sword intent, mixed with the original ancient sword intent, which was quite sharp.

In a sense, Han Wubing was also accompanying this ancient predecessor, making her soul no longer lonely and giving her unique skills a chance to be passed on.

At this moment, Zhao Changhe was closing his eyes to feel the sword intent here.

Rosefinch looked around for a while, and her judgment was consistent with Xia Chichi's. Although the woman here had some connection with the Night Emperor, there was really no valuable information to be obtained from this enclosed and small sword room.

Seeing Zhao Changhe closing his eyes to feel the sword intent, Rosefinch finally broke the silence: "Are you interested in these because you have learned the sword?"

Zhao Changhe responded with a "Hmm". Rosefinch didn't disturb him and went to admire the swords hanging on the walls.

In fact, Zhao Changhe mainly thought that if he let the Heavenly Book have more contact with the sword intent here, there might be gains. He wanted to come back here for this reason, but it was not convenient to say so.

He had stayed in the inn opposite the Wang family for two nights before, to verify whether there would be any changes the day after applying that thing... As expected, the gold foil had a new evolution the next morning, proving that applying that thing was really useful.

The new evolution was that he no longer needed to take out the gold foil to see, as long as he thought about it, the information would directly enter his mind, forming a virtual reality illusion, as if he was on the scene.

Including the Wind Thunder Palm book given by Situ Xiao before, he seemed to have not even flipped through it after getting it, but in fact, he had already learned it on the way these two days. It's just that he hasn't practiced it yet, he knows it in his mind, but whether his hands can do it is another matter.

It also proved that "I will kill you first after unsealing" did not happen. I don't know if it's because the unsealing was not thorough enough... I'll try again next time.

Anyway, at this moment, an image of a woman appeared in his mind. Because it was too ancient and the sword intent was elusive, he could only see an elusive image, and he couldn't even see the face clearly.

Then Han Wubing's image appeared, and the two of them were demonstrating a set of sword techniques on their own.

Zhao Changhe shook his head and temporarily exited the illusion.

This was not the time to watch the sword technique. It was enough to confirm that the gold foil could receive information, and he would study it later. And what he wanted to study was not their sword techniques, but to analyze whether there was any Night Emperor-related skill from the woman's sword technique. This was probably not something that could be figured out in a short time. It might need a long time to grind, like analyzing the Sword Emperor's inheritance. He would talk about it later.

The urgent task at the moment was to figure out what happened to Han Wubing.

Feeling that Zhao Changhe had exited from a certain special state, Rosefinch turned her head and smiled: "How about it? Have you learned any sword techniques?"

"No... By the way, does your Four Elephant Sect still have people here?"

"They withdrew a long time ago. Are you asking us to help you investigate?"

"Um..."

"Then what's the use of finding us, go to the Wanhua Tower, I don't believe you don't have Tang Wanzhuang's token."

Zhao Changhe suddenly remembered that he was a secret agent of the Demon Suppression Bureau... That damn badge always asked him to investigate cases, this time it should finally come in handy, right?

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