At this moment, when Zhao Ji was walking in a deep alley, suddenly some people surrounded Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji never liked to bring guards with him, let alone attendants. Every time he went to or from court, Zhao Ji was alone.

Even when he returned to the Seal-holding Mansion outside the palace, he was alone.

This gave those who were watching secretly an opportunity to seize.

Although Zhao Ji was trapped in the alley, he was not panicked at all.

Through the observations just now, Zhao Ji discovered that the people who came to assassinate him this time seemed to be proficient in Kung Fu.

And judging from the temperament of these people, I'm afraid they are all so-called gangsters.

"It seems that the person who hired you thinks highly of me, and actually hired someone like you who is a professional in the underworld!"

Zhao Ji said this deliberately, and sure enough, he saw some people opposite him with a hint of pride on their faces.

This also made Zhao Ji even more certain that these people were indeed people from the martial arts world. He just didn't know whether they knew that the person they were trying to assassinate was an important official in the court like Zhao Ji.

You know, there has always been an invisible agreement between the martial arts world and the imperial court.

That is, before any major case occurred, everything was peaceful and everyone was supervised by each other.

The people of Jianghu and the chivalrous heroes who were fighting for justice. They always spoke out for justice against the corrupt officials in the court. They drew their swords and fought against them. After the careful reform of the regent Zhao Ji, the court

The corrupt officials were uniformly punished. Such corrupt officials are now rare in the court today and are hard to find.

However, the Third Prince spread rumors to the heroes in the martial arts world, saying that the current court was in a state of extreme decay and that treacherous officials were in power.

The third prince and the Imperial Academy scholar sought so-called help from the Jianghu people. They confused right and wrong. This led to the confrontation between the imperial court and the Jianghu people. In order to deal with this, the imperial court

The fake people in the Jianghu set up and supported a group of guards with superb martial arts skills and masters of the palace. They established a unified worship hall to support and target the most vicious people in the Jianghu and hunt them down accordingly.

Zhao Ji knew that he couldn't reason with them much. They only knew to kill the so-called regent.

That is, himself. But he didn't know how much Zhao Ji had contributed to the country and established a clear and bright court.

Zhao Ji smiled faintly: "Do you know why I didn't bring the guards with me? Because I don't know. Who else in the world can match me in martial arts? Don't think that the regent is just a clerk. I can pacify the world with my martial arts, and I can pacify the four directions with my literary skills. You little shrimps, you really don't know how to write the word death!"

After saying that, he launched the attack at lightning speed.

Zhao Ji drew out the long sword at his side. This thing that everyone mistakenly thought was just a decoration actually emitted a terrifying cold light.

"Ah. My sword hasn't drunk blood for a long time. It's really exciting." Zhao Ji turned around quickly and jumped up. He was the first to flip the enemy behind him. He kicked him up and down in the air.

The assassin was not ambiguous either, and kicked his leg, colliding with Zhao Ji's leg. Under Zhao Ji's powerful force, he rolled off the ground.

Zhao Ji took advantage of the situation and cut off the assassin's head. The other assassins saw that things were not going well, so they attacked together, determined to kill Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji shouted: "The water of the Yellow River comes from the sky, flows east to the sea and never returns."

An inexplicable aura emanated from Zhao Ji and spread out in all directions.

After encountering this powerful energy, the assassins all suffered varying degrees of internal injuries. The assassins suddenly felt uneasy and began to fight with their lives at stake.

Zhao Ji saw through the assassins' intentions, so he stretched out his movements to avoid being besieged by the assassins.

Of course, even if he was besieged by all the assassins, Zhao Ji was not afraid.

Zhao Ji was only using two levels of power now, and was still dealing with them carefully. His wanton laughter gradually reached the ears of the assassins, which undoubtedly irritated the assassins.

I saw an assassin who looked like a leader shouting and forming a battle array, and the rest of the assassins surrounded him and formed an unfamiliar attacking posture.

Zhao Ji stopped laughing and said, "Things are starting to get interesting. Do you think that mayflies can shake a tree? It's just like a mantis trying to stop a chariot."

Zhao Ji raised his foot and stepped upwards, performing a superb light skill that no one had ever seen before, and easily escaped from the center of the formation.

Three sword qi were cast at the assassins in the air, and the assassins blocked with their swords. However, they were still swept by the sword qi, and one of the assassins with the lowest skill spurted a lot of blood from his mouth.

I guess he was seriously injured by this sword energy.

Zhao Ji naturally would not miss this obvious good opportunity. He quickly approached the assassin and slashed at the assassin's mouth, trying to take away the assassin's weapon in one blow.

The assassin reacted quickly, but was still affected by internal injuries and his arm was cut off by the sword.

When Zhao Ji saw that he had lost his fighting ability, he no longer paid attention to him and turned to look at the assassin leader.

The commander suppressed his inner fear at this time, and joined forces with the remaining assassins who were still able to fight, and launched a life-and-death battle against Zhao Ji.

Some people even swallowed the poison that has strong side effects to increase their internal strength, overdrawing their lives.

Zhao Ji had already put away his thoughts of playing tricks on them. With a gorgeous ground-level slash, the assassins were silenced.

At this time, Zhao Ji approached their bodies and searched the leader, and found a special token hanging next to him.

Zhao Ji had seen something similar on the third prince's guards.

"Third Prince, you have such a cruel heart!" Zhao Ji couldn't help but sigh.

However, Zhao Ji could also guess that they must be the people sent by the third prince and the prime minister.

Zhao Ji clenched his fist and thought for a moment: "Given the Third Prince's personality, it would be difficult for him to attack me alone. After all, there are other colleagues who are conspiring with him to assassinate me. I must catch his accomplices and settle accounts with them together."

These gangsters are not cheap, and Zhao Ji is able to afford to hire them. He has now realized that things are not as simple as he imagined.

But Zhao Ji had no way to go directly to the third prince to find out the situation, so he sent his men to investigate whether there were any officials from the court among those who had recent dealings with the Jianghu Killer Pavilion.

In this way, we can identify who is hiring the killer?

After his men had been keeping an eye on the case for more than ten days, they finally discovered that eight days later, the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy had disguised himself and was interacting with people from the underworld.

"What do you mean it's the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy? When I was in charge of the court, I was very kind to the Grand Secretary of the Hanlin Academy. Why would he treat me like this?" Zhao Ji was very angry when he got the news.