"A covenant of life and death?" A chuckle appeared on Qi Ning's lips: "You cicada clan have already given their lives to the people of Eastern Qi?" He looked at the officers and soldiers around him left and right, and said, "Everyone, look at it, this Dongying person...... Well, they were expelled from Dongying, and now they are not even Dongying people, it should be said that they are cicada ronins, these cicada ronins and Dongqi people signed a covenant of life and death, and they are loyal to Dongqi people, even if they are the life and death of the whole clan, they don't care about the life and death of the whole clan, such loyalty, is it very touching to everyone? ”

The officers and soldiers also didn't understand Qi Ning's deep meaning, but they didn't dare to speak out easily.

"The so-called loyalty and filial piety can't be both, today in order to fulfill your loyalty to the Dongqi people, you don't care about the life and death of the clansmen, I appreciate it very much, and I will fulfill you." Qi Ning sighed: "In fact, no one will care too much about your life and death. By the way, it can't be said that no one cares at all, if the Dongying Ye Yin Jiahe sect hears that your Cicada clan is completely extinct, they will definitely be relieved. ”

Flying Cicada Danf's eyes were even colder: "What? ”

"Back then, you Cicada clan were expelled from Dongying by several major ninja schools, like lost dogs." Qi Ning said: "I know that your Cicada clan is likely to have taken refuge in the Dongqi people, but at that time, I only thought that you were using the Dongqi people to recuperate, and when the time is ripe, you will return to Dongying to regain what should belong to your Cicada clan." ”

The eyes of the flying cicada Danfu flashed with a fierce color, and even the two ninjas beside him also showed a different color in their eyes.

"There is a saying in the Central Plains, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years." Qi Ning said slowly: "You have been expelled from Dongying, it should have been ten years, right?" Ye Yin Jiahe's major schools must have been worried that your Cicada Clan would make a comeback, if you knew that the Cicada Clan had died in a foreign land, you would be very happy. ”

"What do you mean?" Flying Cicada Danfu said in a deep voice.

Qi Ning smiled: "Don't you understand what I mean?" I guess that you are living at the feet of the Dongqi people, naturally not only to survive, but also to recuperate, waiting for the opportunity to one day kill back to Dongying. But now, for the sake of your allegiance to the Dongqi people, you don't care if you can still complete your revenge plan, and you are willing to die here, so I want to praise you for your loyalty. ”

Flying Cicada's eyes flickered, but he didn't speak.

Qi Ning sighed, raised his hand, and the crossbowmen all aimed the crossbow arrows in their hands at the three of Flying Cicada Danfu, just waiting for Qi Ning's arm to wave, and immediately shot the three of them, Flying Cicada Danfu took two steps back, raised his hand sharply and said, "Wait a minute!" ”

Qi Ning slowly lowered his arm and asked, "Do you still have something to say?" ”

Flying Cicada Danfu groaned slightly, and then said: "It is I who have reached a life and death covenant with the people of Dongqi, not my entire Flying Cicada clan. ”

"Oh?" Qi Ning smiled and said, "Then who did you make an agreement with?" Emperor of Eastern Qi? Or someone else? ”

Flying Cicada Duff shook his head and said, "I can't tell you. ”

"If you can't say it, why should we talk about it?" Qi Ning gestured to raise his hand again, and Flying Cicada Danfu immediately said: "As long as I die, or...... When the other party dies, the covenant of life and death can be dissolved immediately. I can't change the master, but the cicadas can. ”

"Oh?" Qi Ning said with interest: "How can you say this? ”

"When I die, there will be a new leader." Flying Cicada Danfu said: "He can find his master again and make a life and death covenant with his new master." He said in a deep voice: "Flying Cicada Kotaro!" ”

A secret ninja behind him bowed down and said, "Here!" ”

"As the seventh-generation leader of the Cicada Clan, I will let you take over as the eighth-generation leader of the Cicada Clan." Flying Cicada Danfu's voice was extremely serious: "From now on, the fate of the Cicada clan will be entrusted to you, and the mission of our clan will be completed by you and the clan at all costs." Straighten up and bow deeply: "Please!" ”

The secret ninja flying cicada Kotaro also bowed deeply.

Flying Cicada Danfu turned around at this time, faced Qi Ning, sat down cross-legged in front of everyone, clenched the short blade in his hand, raised his arm, Qi Ning faintly felt something, only to see that Flying Cicada Danfu reversed the short blade The blade was actually aimed at his own throat, and he stabbed straight down without hesitation.

Blood splattered, and the short blade pierced the throat of the cicada duff, and the two secret ninjas seemed unusually calm, and they both fell to the ground on one knee, bowing their heads and saying nothing.

The cicada Danf fell to the ground on its side, and everything happened in a matter of moments.

The officers and soldiers present were all dumbfounded, and they couldn't imagine that Danfu would commit suicide in front of everyone so decisively.

Cicada Kotaro bowed his head for a long time, finally raised his head, slowly stood up, looked at Qi Ning and said: "The Cicada clan is now free, and there is no agreement with Dongqi, and the dispute between your country and Dongqi will not involve my Cicada clan." ”

Qi Ning said: "Although the life-and-death covenant between you and Dongqi has been dissolved, but you sneaked into Hui Zecheng with the intention of burning grain, which is naturally an unforgivable sin. ”

"You can shoot us right away." Cicada Kotaro said.

Qi Ning groaned slightly, and then asked, "Did you sneak into the city on the order of Ju Tuluo to prepare to burn grain?" ”

"Not getting involved means that whatever you want to know, we won't say a word." Cicada Kotaro said in a blunt Central Plains dialect: "You can kill us, but you can't threaten us, you'd rather die than give in!" ”

Qi Ning sighed: "Although the cicada clan has become a free body, it is also rootless duckweed...... In other words, can you survive without your master? Putting his hands behind his back, he said: "I said that the Flying Cicada clan needs to change to a new master, and my Great Chu will eventually dominate the world, even if you only want to survive on the islands of the East China Sea, then you also need to bow to the feet of my Great Chu Empire." ”

Cicada Kotaro said solemnly: "I can sign a life and death contract with you, but you must agree to my conditions." ”

"Conditions?" Qi Ning sighed: "With your current situation, you still have to make conditions with me?" ”

"Otherwise, I'd rather die than give in." Cicada Kotaro's voice was firm.

Qi Ning smiled slightly and said, "I would like to hear what kind of conditions you are going to propose." ”

Cicada Kotaro thought for a moment before he said, "After signing the covenant of life and death, you must help us return to the main island of Toei and assist us in defeating the three clans of Hagakure, Mist and Koga." ”

"Oh?" Qi Ning smiled: "It's just this condition? ”

"Until we return to the main island of Dongying, the island where we live now will belong to us." Cicada Kotaro said: "We have the right to use that island and the surrounding seas, and you need to provide us with five hundred taels of gold every year to ensure that the Cicada clan can survive." Staring into Qi Ning's eyes: "If you can agree to my conditions, I can make a life and death covenant with you and obey your dispatch." ”

Qi Ning listened to the conditions he proposed, and knew in his heart that the agreement reached between Flying Cicada Danfu and Dongqi should be like this.

Before Flying Damo committed suicide, he ordered Flying Cicada Kotaro to succeed him as the leader, although it may have been a hasty decision, but it was never a random appointment of an heir.

The reason why Flying Cicada Danfu did not spare his life and committed suicide in public was to protect the Cicada Clan's continued survival, because this person at least cared about the future of the Cicada Clan, and because of this, even in a hurry, Flying Cicada Danf would not let a person who could not bear the future of the Flying Cicada Clan lead the clan.

At this time, Cicada Kotaro put forward these conditions, and did not hesitate too much, Qi Ning believed that these conditions were not the temporary intention of Cicada Kotaro, it must be that Kotaro had long known the conditions for Flying Cicada Danfu and the Dongqi people to reach a life and death covenant, so he would put it forward so quickly.

Since Cicada Kotaro knows the content of the agreement, many things that Cicada Mi Shinobi participated in before are naturally very clear.

The ninja world has the rules of the ninja world, and the cicada Danfu is obviously a ninja who strictly abides by the ninja way, and would rather die than destroy the ninja way, and the purpose of his suicide is naturally because he has judged that Dongqi cannot continue to provide protection to the cicada clan, and the cicada clan wants to complete the task of survival and revenge, so they can only change the court, and use their own death to lift the constraints of Dongqi on the cicada clan, and the new leader will reach a new agreement.

"There is a saying in the Central Plains, it is called beating the dog to see the owner." Qi Ning said: "If you become the subjects of my Great Chu Empire, and Ye Yin and other sects are your enemies, the master will always help you vent your anger." As long as the war in the Central Plains is over, I can support you to fight back to Dongying, and even assist you in exterminating Ye Yin and other factions. ”

Cicada Kotaro's eyes lit up: "Is that really the case?" ”

At the beginning, the Cicada clan was forced by the situation and reached an agreement on a life and death covenant with Dongqi, naturally hoping that Dongqi could help the Cicada clan to kill back to Dongying, although Dongqi belonged to a small country in the Central Plains, but compared to Dongying, the strength was not under it, and the Cicada clan also pinned hopes on Dongqi.

But now that the Eastern Qi Kingdom has been broken, it is difficult to protect itself, and it is simply a fool's dream for the Cicada clan to rely on the Eastern Qi Kingdom to kill back to Dongying, and they all know this, whether it is Flying Cicada Danfu or Flying Cicada Kotaro, but the Eastern Qi Kingdom has not been completely destroyed in one day, and the covenant of life and death cannot be completely dissolved, and it is because of the Flying Cicada Danfu that he cannot tear up the agreement, and he can only use his own death to cancel the covenant of life and death.

At this moment, Qi Ning promised to consider helping the Cicada clan to kill back to Dongying, Cicada Kotaro was naturally overjoyed in his heart, compared to Dongqi, the strength of the Chu Empire was far above it, if he could get the support of the Chu Empire, the possibility of the Cicada clan's success in killing Dongying would be greatly increased.

"It's just that the island where the cicada clan lives, as long as it is above the East China Sea, no matter when, it will not belong to you." Qi Ning said lightly: "I, Da Chu, can let you live on the island temporarily, but you can't have the right to that island, not to mention the sea around the island, everything in the East China Sea belongs to the Central Plains Empire, even if it's a piece of seagrass, you don't have ownership, I don't know if you understand?" ”