Lan Jun Zhu Kong

There are a group of people that can be described as so.

They move around while avoiding attracting attention.

You'll find them in temples as well as in the pugilistic world. You'll find traces of them in the marketplace as well as the palace.

They go about their business extremely low-key. You may know of them, but you'll be hard-pressed to state exactly what it is they're doing. What's even harder is pinpointing their location.

They may not do much, but when they do something, it's always something huge. They're usually elusive, but when they do appear, they appear in a shocking manner.

They serve the emperor faithfully and take orders from him directly.

They are the emperor's entourage.

On a night with few stars. At an abandoned courtyard at the outskirts of Nan Jing.

A tall handsome man stared into the courtyard. His surname was Tie, and his given name was Hanyi. People in the pugilistic world call him Tiexue Hanyi. They call him so as his martial arts have reached their peak. His internal energy is in a league of its own making him formidable. According to legend, a man once said that a large sabre weighing more than thirty kilograms was used to cut down on Tiexue Hanyi during his sleep. But when the blade was brought down, there was only a clang sound. The blade got chipped, but Tie Hanyi was perfectly fine.

Tie Hanyi is ranked twenty-first on Liu Shan's Elite Rankings. He's basically got a shoe in for the top twenty ranks to join those in the Jia level. He's also one of the highly skilled fighters in the emperor's entourage.

There was a young looking beauty standing next to Tie Hanyi. She had a bow silver strapped to her back and was covered with a black cloth to keep it hidden. She too is a highly skilled fighter in the emperor's entourage. The pugilistic world calls her Ye Luo of the Silver Bow Falling Leaf. She may be young but her archery skills are incredible. She once shot through seven leaves which a single arrow, hence her moniker. She's ranked just below Tie Hanyi on Liu Shan's Elite Rankings at rank twenty-two.

Those in the pugilistic looked at the beautiful couple as a star of calamity though.

Those in the pugilistic world aren't afraid of Liu Shan Men if they haven't done any evil deeds. If they haven't offended any officials or ministers, then they need not be afraid of the Qilin Guards. But everybody avoids the emperor's entourage regardless of whether they're with the good or bad sects, because they're the plague. It's literally like getting arrested for cleaning your own house.

The emperor's entourage handles big cases of the royal family. When they take action, it's out of necessity and when the fuse has been lit, meaning it's too late to do anything. When they appear, you know that it's going to rain blood. Even if you just happened to bump into them then, you won't be able to escape unscathed.

Since Tie Hanyi and Ye Luo appeared, it means this place had caught their attention.

They were investigating an unsolved case, a case that was considered a cold case.

Cha Yuan was killed a year ago by the Demon Sect, but the reasons surrounding his death are unclear.

Cha Yuan was a member of the emperor's entourage and was once in Tie Hanyi's position. When he was still alive, he snuck into the Orange Prince's residence to gather evidence of his misdeeds. It always went smoothly, but he was somehow discovered during the last infiltration after handing over evidence, which resulted in the Orange Prince's men trying to kill him. But in the end, he ended up dying at the hands of the Demon Sect.

Tie Hanyi was once Cha Yuan's subordinate so he wanted to find out the reason behind his superior's death as well as find out who the culprit was. Based on the evidence thus far, he deduced that this courtyard was highly suspicious.

Everything was going to be revealed tonight.

Tie Hanyi pushed the door open and the two of them snuck in. The courtyard was supposedly once the property of an official, but was then abandoned for unknown reasons. People rarely come by the place so it was fairly deserted.

But there was somebody there in that deserted place.

"It's a beggar." Ye Luo looked at the man sleeping with his head and face covered in the middle of the courtyard, and said: "Brother Tie, be careful, it might be a trap."

Tie Hanyi found it strange too but didn't comment. He just gave Ye Luo an order with his eyes. Ye Luo gracefully nodded and reached for the bow on her back.

"I'm going to speak to him." Tie Hanyi took a few steps forward while Ye Luo stayed back outside the door to support him with her bow. That's their tactic as a team.

Tie Hanyi took two steps forward. Then the shadow of a person from the roof came flying towards him like an arrow. In front of him was a punch, the wind was extremely strong, and the force of the strike was like thunder. His opponent wasn't any less skilled than him.

If Tie Hanyi were to retreat now, the opponent would go for Ye Luo. Ye Luo may be skilled with her bow, but