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On the banks of the Hanshui River in the west of Fancheng City, several soldiers were anxiously waiting for Sima Liu Jing's appearance on the shore. Liu Jing entered the water before dark. It has been nearly an hour since he was seen breathing on the water surface. He was like a mud cow entering the sea and disappeared.

One of the soldiers was particularly anxious. He came to report the news. Someone came to find Liu Jing in Fancheng and had been waiting for him for a long time.

On this dense and extremely cold night, the Han River was not safe. The soldiers could see the whirlpools rising on the water. Although the water surface was calm, the undercurrent was undercurrent, which made them full of worry.

Liu Jing has long been adapting to the undercurrent underwater. He will even use the undercurrent to guide his strength. He even regards the undercurrent as an enemy attacking from all directions and fights against them. This kind of competition with the undercurrent will consume a lot of physical strength. Liu Jing will be exhausted every time, but it can greatly improve his martial arts cultivation.

Today's exercise is a little special for Liu Jing. He is not trying to deal with tomorrow's competition. He has not taken Cai Jin to heart. He is dealing with himself. He challenges himself every time. Today is no exception. Today he uses a square-to-day painting halberd weighing 91 kilograms, which is the Wenhou halberd given to him by the Tao family.

Although Liu Jing used a weapon of 70 kilograms of Crescent Squid, in fact, his strength has been slowly increasing. He can already use Gan Ning's 80 kilograms of Double Squid, but it is still a little lacking in heat. However, to use the 91 kilograms of Fangtian Hua Ji, he needs a breakthrough from quantitative change to qualitative change.

During the Chaisang battle a month ago, he had a premonition of breaking through his strength. This time he came to Xiangyang, his premonition was particularly strong, so he specially brought Fang Tian Hua Ji with him.

Today's undercurrent was turbulent and surging. He came from all directions, as if breaking through the army and horses. Liu Jing was waving the 91-pound Fangtian Painting Hydrograph underwater and fighting against the undercurrents on all sides. He had been training for an hour and was already exhausted.

But at this time, he had clearly felt the point where his body broke through, just like a lamp dozens of steps away. He could clearly see that he was struggling to walk towards it step by step. Liu Jing's chest had exhausted the oxygen, and he began to be in a state of semi-oxidative suffocation, in which his potential was greatly realized.

Unfortunately, he could no longer support it. The breakthrough point seemed to be right in front of him, like a brightly blooming flower, but he was no longer able to pick it. Liu Jing knew that he would die at the bottom of the water if he didn't come out of the water.

He slashed out the last halberd, sighed secretly, let go of the big rock under his body, let go of the long halberd with both hands, and quickly rushed towards the water surface, and rushed out of the water surface, breathing in fresh air.

Then he suddenly dived into the bottom of the water, touched the Fang Tian Hua Ji, and walked step by step from the bottom of the water to the shore. He was only one step away from breaking through, but in the end he failed.

This so-called breakthrough is actually a process of fixing the potential that explodes. When the potential is stimulated again and again, this potential will slowly become a normal state, and breakthrough is the last step of quantitative change to qualitative change.

Liu Jing has had the experience of breaking through twice, and he was not very frustrated. He knew that he had taken ninety-nine steps and had a solid foundation. He could take the last step at any time. This kind of breakthrough is not something that is hard to come by, but a natural result.

When Liu Jing walked out of the river, the soldiers cheered and came up, wrapped his body with thick, dry fine linen cloth, and two soldiers took Fang Tian's painting halberd over.

"What's wrong?" Liu Jing found that another soldier wanted to speak but stopped, and seemed to be reporting something.

The soldier hurriedly stepped forward and reported: "Report to Sima, there have been waiting in the business for a long time."

"Who is it"

"Report to Sima, he is an officer named Cai, and he seems to be named Cai Jin."

It was him Liu Jing who thought to himself, why did he come? Could there be any changes in tomorrow's martial arts competition?

"Is he the only one?" Liu Jing asked again.

"He's the only one."

After Liu Jing finished practicing martial arts, he usually had to sit quietly for half an hour to recover his strength. But since Cai Jin was waiting for him, there was probably something important. Liu Jing stopped stopping, quickly put on his clothes, and rode his horse to Fancheng.

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Cai Jin had been waiting for Liu Jing for nearly half an hour. He was walking back and forth in the living room, worried and he was very conflicted. He didn't know whether it was wise to come to Liu Jing tonight and whether it would harm the interests of the family. However, when the head of the family and Huang She left, he clearly heard what Huang She said before getting on the carriage.

This time Liu Jing will surely die

It was this sentence that gave Cai Jin the idea of ​​helping Liu Jing. Although Cai Jin competed with Liu Jing with Liu Jing two years ago because of Liu Cong's request, and that time he was defeated by Liu Jing's sword, it was that competition that made Cai Jin feel a sense of mutual appreciation for Liu Jing.

This time, Liu Jing's defeat of Jiangdong Army in Chaisang made Cai Jin even more admire Liu Jing. He even offered a war competition early this morning, which was an honor for him.

On the other hand, Cai Jin was a hiring person and was upright. He had always been dissatisfied with some of the actions of the head of the family, especially in order to support Liu Cong, the head of the family did not hesitate to marry Shaoyu to a useless man. This incident made Cai Jin feel dissatisfied.

This time, when Huang She was about to collude with the head of the family to secretly frame Liu Jing, Cai Jin could no longer bear it and rushed to Liu Jing overnight to report the message. But no matter what, he must not do anything to betray the family. He had to consider a plan that could not only help Liu Jing, but also not harm the interests of the family.

Just as Cai Jin was paced back and forth in the living room, there was a sound of footsteps under the hall, followed by Liu Jing's cheerful laughter, "Brother Cai is going to change the competition tonight?"

Cai Jin turned around and saw Liu Jing quickly walking to the lobby. He hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, "I have seen Sima Liu. It's really important to disturb him so late."

Liu Jing nodded slightly and waved his hand, "Please sit down and talk."

The two sat down, and Liu Jing stared at Cai Jin with a smile. He could never imagine that Cai Jin would have important things.

Cai Jin pondered for a moment and said, "I saw Huang Sho tonight."

This is indeed something that interests Liu Jing. He has always been paying attention to Huang She's whereabouts. He knows that Huang She is a poisonous snake hiding in the dark. He will jump out and take a bite when he is not paying attention.

"Where did you see Huang She?" Liu Jing asked again.

Cai Jin shook his head, "I can't say much about some things, it's related to the interests of the family. Liu Sima only needs to know a little. Huang She is in Xiangyang now. He wants to frame you, and it seems that he has caught your handle. You have to be careful."

Liu Jing nodded. Although Cai Jin did not say it explicitly, one sentence that concerns the interests of the family implies that Huang She and Cai Mao colluded. It should be said that this was also within Liu Jing's expectations. After all, they have a common enemy and are more likely to unite.

Liu Jing smiled and said, "I can understand Brother Cai's difficulties. Apart from what I said just now, does Brother Cai have anything else to tell me?"

Cai Jin lowered his head and pondered for a moment. Perhaps he also felt that the information he provided was not enough to help Liu Jing. He gritted his teeth and finally said: "There is a person locked in the dungeon of the punishment room of the Cai Sword Hall. I don't know who it is, but this person is the key person Huang She deals with you."

Speaking of this, Cai Jin stood up and saluted, "I can only say so much."

Liu Jing replied with a greeting and said sincerely: "Thank you, Brother Cai, for reporting the message in time. Liu Jing is very grateful."

Cai Jin shook his head and smiled indifferently, "I am neither an enemy nor a friend, but I respect Liu Sima as a soldier, so I do my best to take care of Sima. Cai Jin said goodbye."

Cai Jin did not mention tomorrow's competition at all, nor did Liu Jing mention it. Both of them knew in their hearts that at this murderous moment, tomorrow's competition might not be held.

Cai Jin said goodbye and left. Liu Jing stood at the gate and watched Cai Jin walk away. He couldn't help but fall into deep thoughts. How did Huang She frame him? What handle did he catch him?

He looked at the sky. It was not long before dark. The city gate of Xiangyang was not closed yet. He immediately ordered: "Prepare horses for me, I'm going to Xiangyang."

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Half an hour later, Liu Jing led twenty soldiers to appear in front of the Cai Sword Hall. The gate of the Cai Sword Hall was closed. Liu Jing winked at a soldier. The soldiers understood and immediately went forward to knock on the door.

After a while, someone inside answered: "Who is it?"

"After the order of the head of the family, come and increase the defense of the punishment room, open the door quickly."

The door creaked open, and an old man looked around. Before he could react, a cold sword was placed on his neck, scaring the old man almost fainted.

The soldier grabbed his clothes and said, "Let me tell me where is the punishment room?"

The old man pointed to the northwest corner tremblingly, and the soldier pushed him and said, "Take us there."

Liu Jing rushed into the sword hall and ran towards the punishment room. The punishment room was a building covering an area of ​​one acre, with a rockery behind it.

Everyone walked into the gate. The building was pitch black. A soldier lit a torch. Only then did everyone see the structure inside. After walking through the iron gate, they entered the lobby. The lobby was divided into small houses.

There are iron bars in front of each house. Obviously, each house is a small cell, but these cells are empty and there is no prisoner.

"Where is the entrance to the dungeon?" Liu Jing shouted at the concierge.

The gatekeeper pointed to the east corner with fear, and everyone also saw an iron door there. As soon as everyone walked to the iron door, they saw a guard running out in panic and running towards the other side.

Several soldiers rushed up quickly and pushed him to the ground. The guards were so scared that they shouted: "Don't kill me has nothing to do with me."

The soldier took the guard back. The guard was so scared that he fell to his knees in front of Liu Jing and kowtowed repeatedly, "Give up your life, it has nothing to do with the villain."

Liu Jing pointed to the horse whip and said coldly: "I'll ask you, who is imprisoned in the dungeon?"
Chapter completed!