Chapter 222: Escape from Death

The Heavenly Supreme was swept straight into the sky by a huge wave of qi, and the screams he let out were muffled by the loud sound of a huge landslide cracking the ground, but it was only half heard, and it came to an abrupt end, because the blazing air wave that erupted from the ground had burned him into a crimson shrimp.

No matter how high the martial arts are, they are as weak as babies in the face of the power of nature.

Heim turned sharply and sped outside, as fast as a meteor, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared outside the ring volcano.

At this time, with a bang, something slammed into the immortal fruit tree where Xiao Jiading was, and when he looked at it, it was the corpse of the Heavenly Supreme, which happened to fall on his trunk. Xiao Jiading saw the skin bag containing the fairy fruit on his waist at a glance, and quickly grabbed it and tore it off and took it back.

I don't know if the fairy fruit was burned by the blazing air waves. Xiao Jiading opened his mouth and looked at it, and was pleasantly surprised to find that the four immortal fruits inside were lying in it. It turned out that the blazing qi wave only hit the other side of the Heavenly Supreme's body, roasting him alive in an instant, and the fairy fruit skin sac was on the other side of the body, so it was not roasted and was retained.

Xiao Jiading shrunk into the tree hole with the skin, praying that the power of the qi wave could not rush the huge trunk into the sky.

But his prayers were of no avail. With a loud bang, a super wave of air erupted from the entire crater, sending the huge tree trunk he was in, as if throwing a match, into the sky.

The clouds flew up into the air, because the direction of the wave was oblique, and the trunk of the tree formed a parabola, drawing an arc and falling towards the surface of the lake.

It's over! Falling from such a high point in the air, even if you fall into the water, I am afraid that you will be killed by the huge impact!

Xiao Jiading tied the leather bag around his waist and took a look at it through the hole in the tree. There were only rocks falling with him, and there was no blazing air, so he quickly climbed out of the tree hole, grabbed a branch next to him, and watched in the high-speed falling wind, and the blue lake below him became clearer and clearer.

What to do? Is that how he died?

He looked around for life, and suddenly, he saw a large rock falling down the slope, and immediately came up with an idea. Just as the trunk of the tree was about to hit the surface of the lake, he flew out of the zipline, wrapped around the rock, and pulled it with all his strength, and his body struggled to leave the trunk and fly over the rock.

Knock knock knock!

The trunk of the tree slammed into the water and broke into two knots!

Countless rocks smashed into the water, causing a splash several feet high.

Although Xiao Jiading used the force of flying upwards to offset most of the falling force. But the force of the fall was too great, and he still fell into the water like a cannonball.

He felt like his whole body was going to shatter, and he almost passed out, and his body sprinted deep into the water. He endured the excruciating pain. Immediately spread out his body, and the speed of the dive immediately slowed down. Finally stopped. Rocks fell everywhere in the water, like raindrops, and some hit his body. Fortunately, the speed at which the rock enters the water has been greatly reduced, and no damage has been done.

He didn't rush to the surface, trying to keep himself underwater. In order to avoid the raindrops of rocks. However, he was not good at water and could not stay underwater for a long time. He decided to take the risk and float for a breath.

In the ascending, he saw two long huge black shadows, which should be the fairy fruit tree. It can be used as a shield.

So Xiao Jiading moved to the dark shadow of the huge tree trunk, and emerged from the side of the trunk to breathe.

He wiped a handful of water from his face, looked up at the island, and was stunned for moments.

The volcano has erupted!

Huge volcanic smoke billowed into the air, and hot lava gushed out and flowed down the mountain.

Get out of this place!

Xiao Jiading immediately dived into the water again, hid under the trunk of the tree, and pushed the trunk forward hard, listening to the sound of raindrops of rocks falling on the huge trunk.

He kept ventilating, constantly pushing the trunk forward under the water.

After some time, he finally stopped hearing the sound of rocks falling on the trunks of the trees, and then he emerged from the water and looked back, the volcano had been obscured by the thick fog on the surface of the water, but the loud roar could still be heard clearly. It is estimated that it has left the range of volcanic ash and rock cover. He then climbed up to the trunk of the tree, cut off a branch with a knife, cut it into a rough oar, and paddled forward, which was noticeably faster, supported by a strong internal force, which allowed him to continue rowing.

From time to time, he used the watch compass on his wrist to confirm the direction, because the map given to him by the Tianyi Daoist showed that the island was due south of the water port, so if he walked due north now, he should be able to return to that water port.

He had been worried about the earth-shattering waves on the lake, and the appearance of the terrifying dinosaur crocodile, but fortunately, neither of them appeared, and the lake was calm.

After two days of paddling, he was hungry and thirsty, and was about to eat a fairy fruit, when he finally came out of the fog and saw the mountains in the distance, and the simple water port.

Fortunately, I had a compass, and I was so lucky that I was back where I started.

After going ashore, he had already come to the port, where the soldiers were still there, and there were several wooden boats, which Wu Yueniang was preparing to use. Xiao Jiading was stopped by the vigilant soldier, and he asked the soldier to tell Shangguan, saying that he saw Wu Yueniang's big boat overturned by the wind and waves, and there was no compass on the lake, so it was estimated that they were lost in the thick fog. If I don't go to them again, I'm afraid I'll die of thirst and starvation.

After speaking, Xiao Jiading walked away. The soldier was startled and hurried back to report.

Xiao Jiading found the horse he had hidden in the jungle, flew on the horse and walked back. Climbing to the top of the mountain, I looked back and saw several large ships on the water port, sailing out of the harbor and heading to the depths of the dense fog.

Xiao Jiading untied the skin on his waist, took out the four immortal fruits and looked at them, but did not find any signs of freshness, and they were still the same as when they were just picked.

In the past two days on the lake, he has been paying attention to this fairy fruit, and he has decided that as long as he finds that the fairy fruit has signs of deterioration, he will eat it immediately, and he cannot waste it. However, he had already eaten one and a half immortal fruits, and if he continued to eat them, the effect might not be better. Since this kind of fairy fruit legend has the effect of resurrecting the dead, it would be best if it could be preserved, and if there was any calamity, it would be effective if it was eaten.

He put the fairy fruit back into the skin. I took a closer look at this leather bag, this leather is very soft, I don't know what kind of leather it is made of, and I don't know if the fairy fruit has not deteriorated because of the fairy fruit itself, or because of this skin. Anyway, it's more reassuring to pretend like this.

He left a small bag of dry food on horseback, just to meet the occasional need. Just as it was about to come in handy, he found a clear mountain spring, ate dry food on this cool and sweet mountain spring, filled his stomach, and then rode his horse and whip back.

After a while, I finally returned to Yizhou.

When he arrived at home, several pretty girls such as Crazy Mei, Su Yunxia and Yuzhen were overjoyed when they saw him. Crazy Mei instructed the young bamboo to hurry up and prepare the wine and food, while she personally served Xiao Jiading to wash up. After changing into new clothes, the family sat down to eat.

Crazy Mei and other women are very well-behaved, Xiao Jiading doesn't talk about business, they won't take the initiative to ask. And Xiao Jiading didn't say that he went there. didn't say anything about his experience of nine deaths on Xianguo Island this time, but just asked him if he was not in these days, if there was anything going on, and how was the business? Su Yunxia took out the account book and reported it one by one. Several businesses are very prosperous, how much money is made from buying Shu horses, and how much money is made from selling rocks and wasteland to build flood control embankments. And how much money the shops on the street make.

Nian Mei also said that during his absence, people from the Wangye's Mansion and Panbie's Mansion came to ask him if he had returned, but he didn't say anything.

When Xiao Jiading heard that they were all looking for him, he pondered for a while and decided to go to Pan Beijia first, see the situation, and then go to see the prince.

So, after eating, Xiao Jiading took his carriage to Pan Beijia's mansion.

The post was sent in, and soon, Pan Beijia personally greeted him, laughed, and pulled Xiao Jiading into the house side by side. This is a treatment that has never been done before. Xiao Jiading didn't feel flattered, but felt a little frightened, what happened to Li Ke, the king of Shu, right?

Sure enough, after sitting down, Pan Beijia retreated left and right, and said with a smile: "Brother, the day of your soaring prosperity is just around the corner!" ”

Before this, Pan Beijia had already told him that Han Bingdie had tampered with Princess Gaoyang's letter in order to rectify Xiao Jiading and Li Ke and made it into a letter of rebellion. Because it was sent to Pan Beijia in the name of Xiao Jiading, Pan Beijia and they always thought that Xiao Jiading found out about the letter of rebellion, and the credit was credited to him. At that time, he promised that Xiao Jiading would soar.

Although this is not Xiao Jiading's own wish, but this result is what Xiao Jiading wants, he himself will not say it, and smiled at the moment: "Those are nothing." ”

"Nothing!" Pan Beijia glared and said, "Li Ke deliberately provoked a war with Tubo in order to take advantage of the chaos to seize power, and they are openly going to rebel!" ”

Xiao Jiading was taken aback, why did he disappear for so many days, and the matter was already so serious? Hurriedly said: "Don't drive, how can this be?" Can you elaborate on that? ”

Pan Beijia smiled, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Speaking of which, this major case of rebellion was discovered, and it is thanks to you!" ”

"Credit to me?" Xiao Jiading was a little dazed.

"Do you remember the spicy and rude woman Wu Haiyan I gave you a guarantee?"

Of course, Xiao Jiading remembered and nodded.

"His father, Deputy Wuzhen, has always been very afraid that your marriage will be disturbed by his daughter, for fear that I will blame him, so now he has come to me several times to explain, the last time he inadvertently said that you were carried into Tibet by the fangs of wild boars, life and death are unknown, in order to find you, he can only forcibly lead troops into Tibet, and as a result, he is surrounded by the Tubo army. Later, for some reason, the Tibetan army released them again. ”

Xiao Jiading's eyes widened, he looked very surprised, he didn't know how much information Pan Beijia had mastered, so he didn't dare to speak easily.

Pan Beijia then smiled mysteriously: "When I heard this, I was very excited, this is a good opportunity to win Li Ke." So we immediately communicated with the people on the Tibetan side, and the Tubo soon lodged a solemn protest to our Datang. In addition to the incident of Captain Han leading troops to break into Tubo last time, Tubo asked us to severely punish the murderer, apologize, and compensate a total of 1 million taels of silver and cloth. The emperor was furious and ordered an investigation, and now the emperor sent a messenger in our Yizhou, and he is still investigating this matter. ――The person in charge of investigating and handling the case this time is Jia Minxing, the middle of the imperial history, who is the confidant of the prime minister of the eldest grandson! ”

Xiao Jiading was secretly taken aback, thinking that last time Pan Beijia and they secretly put a set of dragon robes and jade seals in the study of Li Ke's mansion, wanting to frame them.

Pan Bei smiled proudly: "In this investigation, Zhongcheng of the Imperial History has found out a lot of things, -- the immediate death of General Zhang Zhen and Brigade Marshal Bao was planned by him Li Ke, and the purpose was to cover up his conspiracy to order the army to provoke Tibet in order to provoke a war between the two sides, so that he could take advantage of the chaos to seize power. The culprits of the poisoning and assassination have been caught, and they confessed that they were instructed by Li Ke. In addition, this time, Deputy Wuzhen, who led the troops into Tubo, also confessed to the fact that Li Ke instructed him to lead the troops into Tubo to provoke! ”

Xiao Jiading hurriedly said: "Didn't you say that Deputy Wuzhen led the troops into Tubo to look for me?" ”

Pan Beijia smiled meaningfully: "There are two skins in people's mouths, and they can be turned over no matter how they are." Of course, in order to prevent him from turning the words back again, we also used a little trick to make him never speak, so that he would not turn back and forth? ”

Xiao Jiading really sighed: "He...... Could he ......? ”

"Yes, he has committed suicide in fear of sin. Alas! This crime is too great, and it is understandable that no one can bear it, and it is understandable that he has found a short-sighted view. Saying sad words and sighing, Pan Beijia's face was full of smiles and pride.

Xiao Jiading said: "Then is it that the King of Shu has been arrested now?" ”

"How can it? In the end, he is the king of Shu and the emperor's brother, how can he say that he will be caught? In the imperial history, Cheng only came to investigate the matter, and when he went back, he also reported to the emperor and the prime minister of the eldest grandson, he was the imperial prince, and he belonged to the scope of the eight discussions of the court's ministers, and after that, he could talk about whether he was guilty or not. However, this time, he was afraid that he was really in danger! Hahaha! ”

Pan Bei looked up to the sky and laughed, very happy.

Xiao Jiading also smiled very happily.

Pan Beijia said: "We all know that this matter started because of you, without you, there would be no whole thing." Although you are unintentional, at least it means that you are a lucky general! Hahaha. ”

"Where, where. This is all carefully designed by Pan Beijia, how can I have half the credit. ”

"Nope! The last letter, and this time, you can't run away from the two great credits. Well done! The prime minister of the eldest grandson will not treat those who have made meritorious contributions badly! (To be continued......)