Volume 2 Battlefield Chapter 41 The Wounded Realm of Half-Step Fire
The battle in the palace quickly ended under the command of Mu Ruqing, Zhou Ping just stood up, but he felt a suffocation in his chest, a powerful force was about to erupt from his heart, and a bright pillar of blood shot out from Zhou Ping's chest, and then turned into a scorching flame and began to burn.
"What is this?" Zhou Ping gasped and looked at the flames in his chest in a bit of a panic, "Hasn't the Burning Sky Flame been absorbed by Xiao Hai, why does it still appear on my body?"
Mu Ruqing also immediately rushed to Zhou Ping's side, seeing that Zhou Ping was not in danger, he also began to carefully observe the flames burning in his chest. Feeling this pure and extreme flame power, Mu Ruqing's eyes gradually became a little surprised.
"The purity of this extreme flame is even higher than the Burning Sky Flame on Xiao Hai's body, could it be the flame of the Burning Sky Flame?"
"Tinder?" Zhou Ping pulled the corners of his mouth, revealing a wry smile and asked, "When Xiao Hai broke through before, the Burning Sky Flame did hit a black bead into my heart, is that the Tinder?"
Mu Ruqing thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "You first adjust your breath, run the soul seed, mobilize the true element, and try to take back the flames." ”
Zhou Ping took a deep breath when he heard this, and the True Yuan gradually suppressed the flames in his chest.
"Sure enough, as I expected, the Burning Sky Flame passed on all the origin power to Xiao Hai, but his state at that time was not able to carry the purest fire at all, so it handed over the extreme fire that he had condensed for thousands of years to you!"
"Tinder?" Zhou Ping said with a little cry and laughter, "Then what should I do now?" This Burning Sky Flame is the inheritance of the royal family, if it weren't for the fact that the enemy won, I would never go to fight for it, this Tinder ......"
"It doesn't matter. Mu Ruqing interrupted Zhou Ping, sighed lightly, and smiled helplessly, "The existence of Burning Sky Flame is to wait for a descendant of the Mu Ru family who has the ultimate power, and then once again dedicate everything he has to create a peerless powerhouse for the southern country, and now its mission has been completed, this fire is the opportunity you exchanged for your life, and I will give it to you!"
With all that said, Zhou Ping couldn't tear out his heart, take out the fire, and return it to Mu Ruqing. But if he hadn't gone underground to awaken the Burning Sky Flame's spiritual intelligence, then I'm afraid the Burning Sky Flame would have been absorbed by the Red Lotus Immortal Cultivators, not to mention that Xiao Hai gave him the fire because he couldn't bear the Burning Sky Flame, if there was no Zhou Ping, then I'm afraid this fire would have dissipated between heaven and earth.
Now Zhou Ping's state is very peculiar, he has not completely entered the fire injury realm, but he has planted the fire of extreme fire in his heart, this situation has never been encountered by the well-informed Mu Ruqing, so Zhou Ping has no good way to deal with it in a short period of time.
Zhou Ping's true yuan recovered most of it, looked at the battlefield in front of him that had been completely cleared, and nodded at Mu Ruqing.
"It's time to solve all this, I also want to know what kind of character Zhang Han is, who can lurk by my side for twenty years. ”
Mu Ruqing's expression was a little complicated, after all, he was the king of a country, and he had already guessed about Zhang Han, but after all, Zhang Han had been following him since the time of the prince, and he really didn't want to doubt Zhang Han.
Zhang Han's residence was soon surrounded, and when Zhou Ping stepped into the gate of Zhang's mansion again, he was greeted by pools of blood everywhere.
The subordinates, housekeepers, and cooks of the Zhang Mansion were all cut throats and brutally killed.
Mu Ruqing's face was gloomy, and he stepped over the blood everywhere and walked straight towards the main hall of Zhang's mansion. At this time, his fists were clenched and dead.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Han has been waiting for you for a long time. Zhang Han, who was sitting on the chair, gently put down the teacup in his hand, slowly stood up and walked towards Mu Ruqing, and then fell to his knees with a puff and then fell to the ground.
Many masters of the royal family just wanted to take him down, but Mu Ruqing on the side raised his hand to stop them.
"Why?"
The corners of Zhang Han's eyes, who were kneeling on the ground, trembled slightly, and he kowtowed three times on the ground.
"There is no reason, people don't necessarily have to do things for a reason. “
Mu Ruqing watched Zhang Han slowly stand up, and asked expressionlessly, "I'm asking, why are you still willing to kneel to me?"
"For my conscience. Zhang Han said with a smile: "You have treated me well for twenty years, so I, Zhang Han, am willing to kneel to you one last time as a courtier." ”
Zhou Ping looked at Zhang Han, whose temperament was very different from before, and his heart was full of mixed feelings. This year's study in Kyoto, Zhou Ping received a lot of help from Zhang Han because of Zhang Hanzhong's relationship, if it were not for the conclusive evidence, Zhou Ping would not want to believe that he was the last dark chess of Qi State.
"There are not many people who know about the Canghuo Underground Palace, but there are only a handful of people who know the situation of the guards around the palace so clearly. Zhou Ping raised his head and looked directly at Zhang Han, and asked, "And when Zhang Guangquan died, the military doctor who treated him was probably also assigned by you! When the entire Qiancheng Army couldn't find this military doctor, I began to doubt you, why did you have to stay in the south after the war? Knowing that your position as the master was not guaranteed, you still want to stay in the south and the fish died in the net, what are you for?"
Picking up the teacup, the once powerful Zhang Taishi took a sip of tea, shook his head and replied, "It's been more than 20 years, if I had put it in the past, I would definitely have been wise to protect myself, but now...... Hehe, I've lived enough, I've really lived enough. ”
"Tell me all the information you know, and for the sake of twenty years of kingly affection, I will spare your life. Mu Ruqing sat on the chair with a sad expression.
Zhang Han smiled when he heard this, "Leave me alive, and then lock me in the prison for the rest of my life?" Forget it, Your Majesty, I have already thought of the way back, your love for the monarch and ministers, let's wait until I die." ”
Before he finished speaking, black blood began to flow from Zhang Han's mouth and nose, but he let the blood flow on his white clothes as if nothing had happened.
"Zhou Ping, I added a little bit to the tea you drank yesterday, but you don't have to worry, it's not fatal for the time being. ”
"I've targeted you everywhere, and even tried to kill you several times, but yesterday I suddenly didn't want to kill you, do you know why?"
Zhou Ping looked at Zhang Han, who was already bleeding at this time, and said in a deep voice, "Is it because of Zhang Hanzhong?"
"Not exactly. The black blood flowing out of his eyes may be blocking Zhang Han's vision, he kept reaching out to wipe it, but the blood still flowed.
"Dragon City, White Tiger Camp, Tibetan Wind Collar and even Canghuo Underground Palace, every arrangement I have made over the years has been destroyed because of you, do you think this is fate?"
"If this is really fate, then I want to see your Zhou Ping's future fate......"
Zhang Han collapsed to the ground, raised his head to look at the empty ceiling, and recalled a figure in his mind.
Four years ago, in the assassination of Longcheng, it was Zhang Han who sat with Teacher Mu Ru Changhai, and at that time he didn't understand why his best friend would die so willingly, but now he understands.
If people have lived enough, shouldn't they die?
Zhang Han died, and almost all the Qi spies hidden in Kyoto were annihilated, but Zhou Ping, who won a great victory, did not have any joy.
Chen Bi'an fell from the sky with a human head, and the half-step Xuanjing powerhouse who went to stop Chen Bi'an was killed by Chen Bi'an on the spot, and everyone underestimated this middle-aged man who looked a little sick.
"I have been checking from the border to Qi State this month, and even the palace of Qi State has been visited, and I finally found out Zhang Han's true identity. ”
Chen Bi'an sorted out the true yuan for Zhou Ping, sat aside and sighed, "Actually, it's not that he lost this game, but that he doesn't want to play anymore." ”
"If he really wanted to kill you, you would have died last night, and even if he wanted to, even Mu Ruqing couldn't take advantage of the battle situation in the Canghuo Underground Palace, do you know why?"
Zhou Ping shook his head silently, it could be seen from the heavy layout of Kyoto that Zhang Han was definitely not a waste, he pretended not to understand the art of war at the border pass just to make the Qiancheng Army unable to command? Or was it just to kill himself?
"Zhang Han's real name is Long Han, and he is the biological brother of His Majesty the Emperor of Qi today. Chen Bi'an said with some embarrassment: "I have been in Qi for so long, and I have tried every possible means to find out his true identity. ”
"It is precisely because of this that he has been a spy in the southern country for twenty years, and even if he succeeds in becoming a court prince, he is still loyal to the emperor of Qi State!"