Chapter 116: The Ten Palaces of Hades
Xiao Qianye stood with his sword in his hand, his gold and silver eyes looked coldly at the two people who were suddenly thrown in, since he was the center, the power of the god of war was still fighting against the erosion from the Ten Halls of Hell Array, and countless ghost hands were frantically grasping around him, but he was afraid of this stronger divine power, and he never dared to get too close.
In the previous moment, Mu Xizhao burst out with a terrifying power that made his heart tremble, rolled up the old man who was almost devoured directly, and then saw the direction, and landed directly in front of him.
After entering a certain range of Xiao Qianye's side, the ghost hands that almost tore them to pieces before also shrank back with interest, Zhuang Mo came back to his senses and smiled a little embarrassedly, the next moment, the white sword end of the empty sword pointed unceremoniously at the two of them, Mu Xizhao instinctively held down the weapon, but Zhuang Mo immediately suppressed him, and looked at the strange and familiar person in front of him, his expression was even more polite, and he said: "Stop! Put away the weapon, and when you see the military pavilion master, don't be too big or small!"
"The following offenses?" Xiao Qianye's tone was slightly provoked, and he looked at this shrewd and capable old man coldly, and his hands still didn't move, "Speaking of the following offenses, Master Zhuang seems to have a bad head." ”
Zhuang Mo patted the hem of his clothes, and then gave him his hand, according to his position, the military pavilion master who was in the position of marshal was indeed much higher than him, the warden of the whole realm, but the water prison of the king has always belonged directly to His Majesty, and it was originally a very special place, even if the other party was in the position of marshal, he would not get any special exceptions.
Usually when the two meet, even if they pretend to be Xiao Qianye, they will still treat each other with courtesy, but in the current situation, he immediately put away his hypocritical kindness and revealed his murderous aura.
"What is this?" Xiao Qianye didn't want to talk nonsense with him at all, his wrist moved slightly, and the seven-turn sword style cut through his skin like a threat.
The moment the blood poured out, the special spiritual power from the sword spirit entered the body, and the pain that pierced his heart made his forehead break out in cold sweat, but Zhuang Mo didn't squint, stared at him directly, and didn't care about his wounds at all, the old man's eyes showed an extremely complicated look, and countless thoughts flashed in his mind, he quickly screened out the most suitable words with so many years of experience, and then smiled loudly, and let out a long sigh of relief: "If I tell the truth, can the military pavilion master let me go?"
Mu Xizhao broke out in a cold sweat, looked at Zhuang Mo like a monster, and didn't dare to interject at all-this old man is too bold, right?
Sure enough, the person on the other side sneered, and shook his head at such a statement, he provoked the old man's chin with a sharp sword and asked, "Why do you think you are qualified to let me let you go?"
"If you say it, you're dead, and if you don't say it, you're dead, so I'd rather not say it. Zhuang Mo was not afraid, and the excitement in his tone was difficult, "I have tormented others all my life in this Binding King Water Prison that does not see the light of day, and if I am destined to die here in the end, it is not bad, but you ...... Every minute you delay here, the situation outside will be 100,000 dangerous, and it is cost-effective to exchange the life of an old man for the life of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and your brother......"
The two looked at each other silently, Zhuang Mo smiled heartily, he couldn't understand this kind of thing anymore, in order to survive in the imperial capital, observing words and colors is a necessary skill.
From the moment he was thrown in by the Night King, he had already discovered that this so-called "Ten Halls of Hades Array" was not to kill this person, and it could even be said that this formation could not kill Xiao Qianye at all, and the purpose of the Night King was just to trap him.
Zhuang Mo's heart jumped—did His Majesty have long expected such a change to happen? So from the very beginning, he didn't trust the Heavenly Realm at all!
"Huh...... All right. Xiao Qianye put away the sword spirit, but he pulled his collar with his backhand and lifted it up, he actually looked a little angry, but he had to calm down and asked, "What did you go to great lengths to create? What did the Ten Hall Yama King use it for? Lord Zhuang, you better not try to lie to me, otherwise I will break one of your fingers every time I find a fake word." ”
Zhuang Mo's face finally changed, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of his hand seemingly gently resting on the back of his hand, and then pinched his index finger.
"Hurry up. Xiao Qianye's threatening urging, Zhuang Mo paused, his heart was pounding, and he didn't dare to look at the other party's gold and silver eyes anymore, and said, "The Ten Halls of Hades, originally started thirty years ago for the separation plan of the Four Realms, with the Imperial Capital's Water Hell as the core, connecting the other prisons of the Four Great Realms, including the Heavenly End of Yudu, the Zhanxi Mountain in the Eastern Underworld, the Broken Moon Cliff of Jialuo, and the Shensha Sea of Yangchuan, when all the forces converge in the center, the huge power generated can divide the four major realms, so that Tianyu City can break away from Feiyuan and become completely independent. ”
"But it still failed. Zhuang Mo sighed, as if he was very sorry, and completely ignored the disgust that instantly rose on the faces of the people in front of him, and continued, "There is another more powerful force that has prevented the separation of the four realms and forced the Ten Halls Hades Formation to terminate, and the thing you see now is just the ruins left over from the past." ”
Xiao Qianye silently thought of what Fang Cai Xi Hui said, this Ten Halls Yama King Array was designed by the Chenwang Pengshan in order to destroy the Feiyuan, but he encountered resistance from the ancient species deeper in the foundation, and finally had to be forced to give up.
An imperceptible sneer appeared between Xiao Qianye's eyebrows, Zhuang Mo did not lie to himself, but he should have something more important not revealed.
"What else?" he secretly exerted force in his hand, and his bones made a soft "click" sound, and the old man frowned suddenly, obviously knowing that such an explanation would not satisfy him, so he had to continue: " His Majesty actually never gave up this plan, in order to let the Ten Halls Hades Array have enough strength to reactivate, he ordered the eighty-first layer to be remodeled, changed the crematorium to a spiritual fire to support combustion, and asked the Star Sacrifice Palace to write a spell on it to strip away the soul, and from then on, all prisoners must be sent there to deal with before dying......"
"Before you die?" Xiao Qianye's eyes flashed with surprise, and suddenly realized these four unusual words, the corners of Zhuang Mo's mouth pursed into a sharp straight line, and sighed, "No dead people are allowed in the Water Prison of the Binding King, hey, Your Majesty is really embarrassed for me, and you have to give enough punishment to the prisoners, and you can't let them die, thanks to Your Majesty, I have also grown a lot over the years, and I have learned a lot of methods that can make people immortal...... And those test subjects, in order to reduce death, I deliberately studied something that can bring people back to life......"
The old man's eyes rolled, as if he was showing off a very remarkable thing, his eyes lit up and grabbed Mu Xizhao's hand, forgetting his situation for a while, and said in a sneering voice: "Look at him! He is also one of the most successful test subjects I have had over the years, he can even be perfectly fused with the 'Soul Stealing', or it won't be long before Governor Gao will completely control him, can you imagine, an old man in his eighties, will soon be reborn, change his body and become a young and strong young man!" If Governor Gao succeeds, then ...... next"
"He couldn't make it. Xiao Qianye interrupted him impatiently, Zhuang Mo's interest instantly dropped from fanaticism to freezing, and he suddenly calmed down, and found that the Likong Sword had inexplicably turned its direction and pointed at Mu Xizhao beside him.
Mu Xizhao looked at him vigilantly, and through his eyes, Gao Chengchuan was also watching Xiao Qianye's every move.
Xiao Qianye shook his head, and smiled a little helplessly: "I'm really not good at detoxification, I can't do anything about your poison myself, but ......"
Before the words fell, ten golden sword qi slashed down in front of his eyes, Mu Xizhao staggered backwards, Xiao Qianye's body moved and grabbed him to prevent him from falling, and then fixed his foot, Mu Xizhao pressed his eyes in pain, and the warm liquid flowed down the corners of his eyes, he was stunned, his heart was shocked, his eyes were instantly dark, and he couldn't see anything anymore!
"I'm not blind. Without waiting for him to think nonsense, there was a sound of sword wind in his ears, and in an instant, his world fell into a dead silence, Xiao Qianye's voice swayed coldly in his ears, "Your sight and hearing are sealed by the sword qi of Feng Shi, just hold me and don't let go." ”
Mu Xizhao lowered his head, but the instinct to survive forced him to reach out, and his fingertips touched his skin, and then abruptly retracted.
It's cold...... Why is this person's body as cold as ice?
"Master Zhuang, go on. Xiao Qianye didn't notice the emotions surging violently in his heart under Mu Xizhao's calm appearance, and asked Zhuang Mo again, "You have to deal with waste products again, and you can't let them die, do you ...... say?"
"Exactly what you think. Zhuang Mo waved his hand, he was always old and ruthless, and said indifferently, "Only if you are sent in alive, the living soul can be stripped out, and then part of it will be used for drug testing, and the other part will be imprisoned in the Ten Halls of Yama Formation forever, Your Majesty hopes that one day this resentful force can make the formation work again, realize the great separation of the four realms, and return to the homeland with Tianyu City!"
At this point, Zhuang Mo raised his arms high, revealing a frenzied worship: "Your Majesty moved his most important people to Heavenly Domain City just to wait for that day to come!
The murderous aura in Xiao Qianye's eyes flashed, he clenched the Likong Sword, and let go with a sneer: "Once, the Heavenly Realm slaughtered the entire Feiyuan Realm with a bloody array, and now, Your Majesty has slaughtered millions of living beings with the Ten Halls of Yama, no wonder the two of them will hit it off and join forces, it really smells like each other." ”
"Don't you want to return to your homeland?" Zhuang Mo was poured cold by his basin of cold water, and sneered, "Don't pretend, you are not a good person, don't you have nothing to do with you and Tianzheng Mansion when you die here?" The military pavilion master has not forgotten, the military pavilion has been a place where only the emperor's orders are listened to since ancient times, but wherever the iron hooves of the military pavilion have stepped on, those guilty and innocent people are indistinguishable, have you ever seen those captives you brought back? Not once, right? Where did so many people go? The King's Water Hell is such a big place, and people ...... Where have you gone?"52 Literature
The corners of Zhuang Mo's mouth rose up, as if he had some feelings, and said sarcastically: "Aren't you still killing people without mercy for your own status and status? The people under the military pavilion master who have died are not necessarily less than me. ”
"Indeed, what you said is not bad at all. Xiao Qianye was unexpectedly calm, after all, he was a person who had long been accustomed to life in the imperial capital, and such deliberate provocation could not make him have the slightest wave, he bent down slightly, so that his eyes were level with the lean old man, and there was a deep meaning in his eyes, "Since Lord Zhuang knows so much about Zaixia, he should know that for me, it is not a big deal to go back on his word, and no matter how much he kills one more person, it is just a matter of raising his hand." ”
"You!" Zhuang Mo was stunned, unable to believe the smiling face he saw now - with banter, disdain, and even playfulness, the corners of his mouth were hooked.
Did you miscalculate...... At this moment, Zhuang Mo chuckled in his heart, feeling unprecedented tension and fear, judging from his experience of reading people for so many years, although Xiao Qianye, the master of the military pavilion, was not very easy to get along with, he was definitely not a person who was open-mouthed and went back on his word!
However, the bright sword light of the Likong Sword obviously indicated that his guess was wrong, Xiao Qianye didn't plan to keep his promise at all, his eyes were like knives, and he slashed down with a sword without any emotion!
"Antidote! You don't want the antidote-" Zhuang Mo's pupils shrank, instinctively overshadowed his reason and shouted loudly, the empty sword against his forehead suddenly stopped, the sharp blade had already cut through the skin, Zhuang Mo gasped rapidly, grabbed his fleeting hesitation, and shouted loudly, "The antidote to soul stealing, you, if you let me live, I will tell you how to break the soul stealing on his body, it won't hurt you, ......right?"
Xiao Qianye was unexpectedly slightly stunned, tilted his head and looked at Mu Xizhao beside him-he had shown such hatred, and even made himself think that "this person must not stay".
But at this moment, Mu Xizhao, who was blind and deaf, gently pinched the corner of his clothes, and really only pinched a little bit with the top of his fingers, so cautious, like a helpless child.
Should I save it? Xiao Qianye was stunned, and he was also asking himself this question that he shouldn't have hesitated about, and a nameless irritability rose in his heart, and it was this familiar sense of disagreement, which made him involuntarily have a sense of disagreement after the diametrically opposed personalities of Emperor Zhong and the fierce beast collided!
"Where's the antidote?" The next moment, he lowered his head and rubbed the corners of his forehead, suddenly feeling a little tired.
Zhuang Mo breathed a sigh of relief, secretly glanced at Mu Xizhao, and stuck out his tongue incredulously - he never expected that the person who saved his life in the end would be a former medicine man!
"In the heart of Governor Gao. Zhuang sneered indifferently, and at this time, he didn't care if he would anger Gao Chengchuan if he said these words, "The antidote to soul stealing is called Soul Melting, which needs to be implanted directly into the heart, and the current Governor Gao can already see and hear things through his eyes and ears, and recently he can even directly transmit his own voice into his head, but I am afraid that it will not be long before the soul melting and Governor Gao are completely integrated, he...... will become another high governor. ”
"...... in my heart" Xiao Qianye pursed her lips and said bluntly, "Is it lifted to kill Gao Chengchuan directly?"
Zhuang Mo was taken aback, he really meant this, but such words came out of Xiao Qianye's mouth without hesitation and fear, which was still greatly beyond his expectations.
"Lord Zhuang......" Xiao Qianye sneered lowly, and there was a rare trace of poison in his eyes, "Do you remember a test subject called 'Tianshi', who escaped from the Water Prison of the Binding King not long ago because of the failure of the experiment. ”
"Tianshi?" Although Zhuang Mo didn't understand what his sudden question meant, the murderous aura condensed on the other party's body again made him dare not relax a bit, and he quickly thought about it seriously, and suddenly realized, "Oh, Tianshi, you mean that child of the Lingyin Clan, Forty-three, what's wrong with him?"
"He and I barely have some relationship. Xiao Qianye didn't say it directly, and laughed self-deprecatingly, "But when I persecuted him, I was not softer than you, and even more so, I really didn't have the qualifications to stand up for him, but I suddenly thought of him, and I was in a very bad mood." ”
Zhuang Mo was shocked and didn't dare to answer, this kind of seemingly clueless chit-chat was actually the most deadly, because he couldn't judge what the other party was thinking.
"Well, I promised you not to kill you twice, and I can't break my promise again and again, but—" He sighed, the tip of his sword picking up the old man's collar, and smiled lowly, "But, I don't want to see you, please stay away from me." ”
Then he used his wrist to force and directly threw Zhuang Mo a few meters away, and after leaving the range of the divine power around him, the whistling ghost hand rushed hungryly!
"Xiao Qianye, you-" Zhuang Mo's terrible scream echoed at the bottom of the empty King Bound Water Prison, Mu Xizhao trembled inexplicably, although the surroundings were still dark and deadly silent, but at this moment he still felt a horror to the bone!
"Are you scared?" Xiao Qianye whispered inexplicably to the people around him, knowing that he couldn't hear it, but still talking to himself alone, "I want to try, if I can save you, not just physically, but the deeper kind...... Can I be forgiven? It's not just you, it's more ......."
He lightly pressed his forehead and shook his head, not knowing what he was talking about or thinking at the moment.
"Let's go, let's go out first. He quickly regained his composure, and continued to stride into the depths with his sword, Mu Xizhao felt him move, trying his best to suppress the unprecedented tension and anxiety in his body, and followed him little by little.
In a trance, Xiao Qianye's words echoed in his ears - "Has Governor Gao ever been affectionate and righteous to you?"
Mu Xizhao bit his lip suddenly, years of unwillingness and pain almost overwhelmed him to breathe, he has always been under great pressure, he is a pawn of Governor Gao who comes and goes at any time, and any mistake is a catastrophe!
Governor Gao had already blatantly changed the forbidden army to a hereditary system, and if he openly touched the military cabinet again, he would definitely be confronted by other forces in the court, so the governor chose another obscure and compromise way, and picked him and Mu Xizhao back as a tool to seize power.
It was Governor Gao who taught him knowledge and martial arts, and taught him how to survive in the imperial capital, just like regenerating his parents.
However, that was only wishful thinking on his part, and since the Governor lost his son in middle age, he had carefully cared for his three grandsons, preferring them to be invisible to everyone and not to let them be involved in any danger again.
All the dangers are borne by him, because even if he dies, he is only a tool.
"Save me......" His fingers trembled slightly, he was originally just pinching the corner of his clothes, and suddenly he collapsed and grabbed Xiao Qianye's arm, his blind eyes changed violently, "Let me ...... Follow you. ”
"You?" Xiao Qianye raised his tone, obviously startled by his sudden move, and then laughed, "You and I are about the same age, just use 'you'." ”
Mu Xizhao was stunned for a moment, although he didn't hear it, but he seemed to feel something, and finally smiled a little bit - he had always resented this person, complaining that he had taken everything that belonged to him, but in fact, it was not his own in the first place, it was a false dream woven by Governor Gao.
Dreams, it is time to wake up, and if he doesn't wake up, he will become a puppet in the dream and lose himself forever.