At the ancestor worship ceremony of the Three Rivers Sword Sect, there was a commotion.

I don't know who released a large swarm of rats, which caused the ladies to scream incessantly, and the venue was in chaos.

The guards suspected that someone was trying to assassinate the master, and they gathered around Li Zhong.

When the riots subsided, Li Zhongxinna's wife Ru was gone.

Li Zhong immediately ordered martial law throughout the city and conducted a search, but to no avail.

It wasn't until the evening that Li Zhong knew that his favorite retainer Lan Yufeng was holding a token and claimed to be ordered by the master of the door to go out of the city to do errands.

Lan Yufeng is the same clan of Mr. Lan Dingji, the number one important minister of the Sanhe Sword Sect, and dedicated his cousin to Li Zhong as a side room, so when he was favored, although there were rumors in the city recently, and the city gate officials were also a little suspicious, he was deceived by Lan Yufeng's clever tongue and let him out of the city.

Li Zhong was furious and ordered to immediately send flying horses to block all major roads for investigation.

But Lan Yufeng's brother and sister were as if they had evaporated from the world, and they couldn't find any trace at all.

Xiangyang City Lord's Mansion, Inner Chamber.

Li Xun sighed lightly: "Daddy, you should understand now." There is no one to replace my mother, no one will be as desperate as she is, everything is only for you......"

"The brothers and sisters of the Lan family not only did indecent things, but also colluded with the Divine Hall. ”

"Lan Yufeng is not known for his eloquence, if he can deceive the guards guarding the gate, someone must have helped him formulate a set of rhetoric. If they were able to escape, they must have been assisted by the people of the Divine Temple. ”

"If Lan Yufeng escapes this time, he will also sell a lot of information......"

Li Zhong let out a long sigh, with a haggard look floating between his eyebrows, but he didn't know what to say.

Li Xun added: "Actually, it may be a good thing that they are found out. Lan Yufeng's original idea is probably even more sinister......"

Hearing this, Li Zhong's heart flashed like lightning.

Li Xun was right.

The reason why Lan Yufeng and his cousin ** are not only in love, but also because they have to move flowers and trees.

Li Zhong's body suddenly began to tremble.

It is normal for a man to lose his wife and place his feelings on a woman who looks similar to his wife.

But Li Xun can't understand this emotion, but will be hostile to all his father's side chambers.

Li Xun didn't know, and he understood that telling his father these things was simply revealing his father's scars.

Li Zhong thought that he trusted the two brothers and sisters so much, but they treated him so cruelly, and even deliberately sought to seize Li Xun's position as his sister-in-law.

The most hateful thing is that they have now taken refuge in the Divine Hall and become traitors, and they will naturally be high-ranking officials in the future and will not be punished at all.

A wildfire, rising in his heart, rushed from his lower abdomen to his throat.

The green tendons on Li Zhong's forehead were throbbing, and his body trembled.

Li Xun finally noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly hugged his father: "Dad...... What's wrong? Kids shouldn't be talking so hard, you don't have to ......."

Li Zhong violently spat out a mouthful of dirty blood and sprayed Li Xun's face all over his body!

Li Xun was shocked.

Li Zhong felt that the Dao power in his body was being drained.

A terrifying force spread out from his body, invading the Purple Mansion upwards, the dantian descending, and the heart veins in the middle, corroding his life force.

The two breaths of yin and yang flowed indiscriminately in Li Zhong's body.

His body was hot and cold, sometimes as cold as ice, sometimes as hot as fire.

Li Zhong's Adam's apple trembled, his face turned pale and uncertain, and he wanted to speak, but he couldn't spit out words.

It's poison.

No wonder my body has deteriorated so quickly over the years.

Although he was secretly injured when he was a child, according to his previous expectations, he would live to be in his forties, and by that time, Li Xun had already become an upright man, and he didn't have to worry about getting married and having children.

But...... It turned out that I didn't know when, and I was hit by a chronic strange poison again, and the injury was even worse.

Now that the anger is raging, and the body is already a candle in the wind, the poison has finally completely attacked.

Li Zhong usually thought that he was not afraid of death, but when death really came so quickly, he felt a deep fear and unwillingness.

Li Zhong suddenly began to regret it.

He knew that his fate would not be long in coming, and he didn't want his wife to be a widow for him, so he took the opportunity of his brother-in-law Shui Xinyuan's rebellion to send his wife Shui Bingxin back to his parents' home.

But at the last moment of his life, how he wished that his wife could be by his side.

His eyes widened, and two words came out of his throat with the last of his strength: "Poison...... Poison ......"

Black gas spread across his cheeks.

The bits and pieces of life floated in front of Li Zhong's eyes like flowing water, as fast as a spark, but extremely clear.

In a trance, he saw his wife dressed in white, like a fairy, smiling and walking towards him.

In a blink of an eye, it seemed to be back to the time when he was a teenager, and the timid little girl stuffed a slightly crumpled apple into his hand.

These images are gradually losing their color, but they are becoming more and more realistic.

Li Zhong really felt his wife's body temperature, and felt that the other party was pulling his palm, and his skin was warm.

Li Zhong suddenly felt calm, and his eyes became calm.

He recalled every image of his wife, from the shy little girl to the beautiful girl, the joy and sweetness after marriage, the maternal holiness when she had just given birth to a child, and the appearance of a young woman as sad as a lilac......

It's not that it's gone, it's that it's immortal between all these memories......

His face was distorted, but a faint smile appeared on his lips.

The head tilted back and fell back weakly.

The more chronic the poison and the longer it is incubated, the more intense and terrible it is when it attacks.

Li Xun probed with his hand and found that his father had stopped his heartbeat and breathing.

He shuddered all over his body and slapped himself a dozen times in remorse, until the corners of his mouth were bleeding.

"Daddy...... I shouldn't have said that...... Daddy, wake up!"

Li Xun knelt on the ground, put his head on his father's cheek, tears flowed like a spring, but he could only feel his father's body gradually cold.

Knowing that this day was coming sooner or later, it would come so quickly, but he didn't expect it!

The young master's cry soon alarmed the people in the mansion.

They came like a tide, and the cries and cries of the sky and the earth for a long time were endless.

Li Xun stopped crying, wiped away his tears, and stood up.

He knew that the Three Rivers Sword Sect was now in a critical situation, and if he couldn't be strong, the thousand-year-old family business would probably be destroyed in his hands.

"My father was poisoned by the defected Lan siblings. Li Xun's eyes were red, but his voice was cold: "They are likely spies sent by the Divine Temple, gaining the trust of their father and plotting to kill their father." ”

He scanned his eyes at the gathered retainers.

"The important thing now is to send a hoe team to enter the territory of the shrine, execute the murderer, and avenge my father. ”

He said to Shi Shuzheng again: "Senior Brother Shuzheng, please go to Changsha City quickly, report the matter of your father's death to the Taoist master, and ask Shenxiao to send someone to preside over the inheritance of the family governor." ”

In this turbulent time, it is difficult to say whether there will be people in the clan who do not know the general situation and want to fish in troubled waters and compete for the position of the head of the family. And Long Aotian knew that the current situation was critical, but he would fully support Li Xun to take the throne as soon as possible.

Mikawa reported the news to Shenxiao quickly, expressing his respect for the suzerain Shenxiao, and also blocking the mouths of the retainers within Shenxiao Dao who opposed the rescue of Mikawa.