Chapter 63: The Maze
During the reign of Xu Wu, that is, the dynasty when Chu Yao's imperial grandfather was in power, I am afraid that it was the generation with the most heirs since the founding of the Nansheng Empire, and there were only three princesses among the more than 30 imperial heirs, and the rest were princes, and their father Chu Zhixian ranked thirty-three.
When I was a child, I often listened to the story of Gonggong Shi's father Chu Zhixian, because his mother died unexpectedly, he was fostered under the knee of a noble concubine, and he suffered a lot, and was almost buried alive as a substitute for the dead.
By the time Chu Yao was born, only four of the emperor's grandfather's more than 30 imperial heirs, including his father, were given fiefs and driven out of the imperial city.
Later, because his father was too suspicious, one of the imperial uncles was hanged in Tuyan Mountain before he reached the fiefdom. The other two also died in their fiefdoms one after another, one killed him and the other committed suicide.
"What about the Father? Is it really sick, or did you do something to him? Chu Yao said.
"Of course I'm really sick." Chu Jin didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, and said to the guards guarding the palace in a blink of an eye: "King Ling stayed in the palace tonight, and he was tired after saying so much, so send him to Yanyang Hall to rest!" ”
The guard arched his hand: "Yes! ”
Chu Yao couldn't believe it, "Are you trying to imprison me?" ”
Chu Jin turned around and stopped looking at him, waved his hand to let the guards send him away, he didn't resist, but the sadness in his heart was real, and he couldn't help shouting: "Third brother, are you still the third brother?!" ”
When Chu Yao walked away, the roots of his ears were finally much cleaner, Chu Jin looked at the door of the Wufu Palace, thinking about what the emperor said to him half a month ago: What a chongwang, this emperor doesn't know that the prime minister has a close relationship with you!
It is false to say that he is not afraid, how can he sit still and wait to be judged by his father, and how can he watch his father pass the throne to the person who should not sit on the throne the least.
Chu Ye, a person who was born to die, has lived for so many years. He thought that his performance over the years had been good enough, and he thought that although his father favored Chu Ye, he would definitely be fair and just in the choice of the crown prince, but he was wrong. If he hadn't accidentally stolen the edict prepared by his father in advance, he really couldn't believe it.
So he miscalculated from the beginning, he should have calculated from the beginning not Chu Yong, but Chu Ye.
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Two days later, Chu Ye and his party rushed to Yincheng before dawn, but most of the day passed, and they were still wandering on the small slope at the foot of Qianyuan Mountain.
It took most of the day, and nearly half of the manpower was lost, some of them encountered wild beasts, and some fell into traps.
"Lord Wang, his subordinates are incompetent, and they can't break through this maze!" Yu Jing arched his hand with a look of shame, but Chu Ye was at a loss. I knew that this day was mysterious and powerful, and there were countless martial arts masters, and he was ready to be disabled when he came, but he didn't expect that he couldn't even go up this broken mountain.
Chu Ye's heart was depressed, and he smashed one hand on a tree beside him, but with this smash, the ground around him suddenly collapsed, and more than a dozen people fell down with people and horses!
Fallen leaves mixed with thick dust roared in the air, and only the sound of people, horses, and stones falling into the water could be heard, followed by a terrible scream. When the flying dust settled, they saw Chu Ye, Yu Jing and the other two guards grabbing the vines that fell from the ground and floating in the air, and under them, there was a huge pool of water with no bottom of the mountain.
Before Chu Ye could see the situation below, there was a "bang" A huge red crocodile head covered with pimples suddenly came out of the water, bit down on a guard, and dragged it to the bottom of the water.
The other guard was so frightened that he hurriedly climbed up, climbing too quickly, who knew that the tree vine suddenly broke, Chu Ye couldn't catch it, and watched him fall into the water, be bitten by the red crocodile, and swallow it.
The blood spread in the water, which was shocking. Chu Ye glanced up, now it was too far from the ground, and it would take a lot of effort to go up, and ...... below
Yu Jing's face twitched, and several red crocodile heads were drilled out of the water one after another, and counted, no less than seven!
"Go up!" Chu Ye said.
Yu nodded at the scenic spot, but the two of them had just climbed a few steps up, and several black and white silver krait snakes crawled down the vines, so fast that people didn't have time to think. Yu Jing stabbed his sword to the top of his head!
The head of the snake was split in half by his sword, but the vine was also cut, Chu Ye saw this, and grabbed Yu Jing who fell down with one hand, because of the increase in weight, the vine he was climbing on also began to slide uncontrollably, seeing that the two of them were about to fall into the mouth of the red crocodile, a red snakeskin whip broke through the air and encircled Chu Ye's waist, and he hurriedly grabbed the snakeskin whip with one hand.
Chu Ye was in pain, only feeling as if his palms had been bitten by thousands of sharp teeth, and he was constantly sucking his blood. If you look closely, there are really hollow thorns on this snakeskin whip.
On the ground, Qin Yuxi grabbed the snakeskin whip hard, but she didn't expect Chu Ye to still have a person in her hand, her feet were out of control, and she slipped towards the collapse by surprise, Qin Zhi picked up a vine from the ground and stopped her and tied her to the tree! Seeing that the snakeskin whip in her hand was about to get out of her hand, Qin Zhi hurriedly helped to pull it again, "Sister, are you okay?!" ”
Qin Yuxi gave him a blank look, "You can be careful, my snakeskin whip is made of the skin of the red falcon snake, even if you peel the skin, the thorns on this skin will suck blood!" ”
Qin Zhi hurriedly let go of his hand, blowing his stabbed hand in distress, and hurriedly grabbed the snakeskin whip that almost slipped out of Qin Yuxi's hand, "Let's pull people up first!" ”
After a lot of effort, Chu Ye and Yu Jing finally got to the ground, and they were surprised to see that they were actually the Qin brothers and sisters.
Qin Yuxi glanced at Chu Ye idiotly, then looked at his hand that was stabbed by the snakeskin whip, pursed his lips and did not speak.
"How are you?" Chu Ye asked. Qin Zhi's eyes flickered and said, "Coincidentally, my sister and I heard that there is a lot of game on this Qiyuan Mountain, so we came to hunt game!" ”
He was lying, of course Chu Ye could see it, and after thinking about it, since he could find the imperial city, the Qin clan must have a way to know where Hao Wuxuan was, and he must have come to find someone this time.
You might as well join them, I heard that the Qin clan knows some of the ways of Qimen Dunjia, and this maze must be difficult for them.
Qin Zhi blew the wound on his hand again, "Sister, you are really, what to use as a weapon is not good, you have to use the skin of the red falcon snake, it hurts!" ”
Qin Yuxi glared at him, "That's a lot of nonsense!" Still looking for someone? If you don't look for me, you can go back! ”
Qin Zhi looked at Chu Ye, touched his head, and the lie was revealed by Qin Yuxi at once, how embarrassing!
He made a seal with both hands, recited a long series of incantations in his mouth, and when a handprint was punched out, he saw that the surrounding air shook for a while, and the gloom dissipated, restoring the green trees and blue sky.
Yu Jing raised his eyebrows, smiled at Chu Ye, and praised: "It's amazing!" ”