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Chapter 929: Life and Death Grass, Refining the Green Mirage Bottle! (Please subscribe!)

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Yaxin pulled out the elm hairpin on her head and stabbed it at Hua Twelve's right temple. Her eyes were full of determination.

Hua Twelve had a smile on his face. He had long felt the girl's hostility towards him, so he was not surprised by her sudden attack. He did not dodge or block, and the smile on his face did not change at all.

  Bang!

The wooden hairpin hit Zhonghua Twelve's temple and broke into several pieces. Yaxin stood there with her eyes wide open. Her attack, which could pierce a wild wolf's head, was completely useless against the Ming Emperor in front of her. It didn't even pierce his skin. Was his skin made of iron or stone?

Looking at the smile on Hua Twelve's mouth, Yaxin felt that it was a mockery of her. She gritted her teeth, put her left hand together and pointed her fingers like a knife, directly stabbing the former's throat.

"ah"

Yaxin screamed in pain. She poked her fingers into Hua Twelve's throat, and it felt like she was poking rock or steel. Several of her fingers were almost broken.

Yaxin finally realized the reality and turned to run out the door, but Hua Twelve's teasing voice came from behind her:

"There are 1,507 Jinyiwei guarding inside and outside my palace, 2,500 red helmet generals, 502 bright armor generals, 3,000 fork-knife guards from the five military camps, an unlimited number of honor guards, 180 flag bearers and other guards with swords, a total of more than 8,300 people. Can you escape?"

Ya Xin paused, turned around and suddenly knelt in front of Hua Twelve: "Ya Xin cannot die yet, please be merciful, Emperor."

Hua Shier was amused by this. It seemed that you assassinated the king and then turned around and begged the emperor not to kill you.

He smiled and sat on the dragon throne, then asked: "Tell me, why do you want to kill me?"

Hua Twelve didn't ask who sent her, because that question was too stupid. Which stupid force would send a third-rate warrior to assassinate Sword Saint Ye Gucheng? So there was no need to ask.

Yaxin knelt there and said in a trembling voice:

"Ya Xin is not a Korean. He is a Jurchen spy of Zhupowei. This time, he was ordered to infiltrate the Korean envoys and assassinate the emperor of the Central Plains."

Hua Twelve's mouth corners slightly raised: "Are you a Jiannu?"

Yaxin put his head on the ground, trembling all over, as if he was very scared:

"Yes, Yaxin is Jiannu, a Jurchen spy of Zhupowei. Please don't kill me, Emperor!"

Hua Shier laughed out loud. He had seen the movie "Axin of the North", so how could he not know that Yaxin's purpose in assassinating him was not what she said, and that begging for mercy from him was not a real plea for mercy.

Everything was performed for him to make him mistakenly believe that it was the Zhupowei Jiannu who wanted to kill him.

He was quite impressed by the movie "A Shin in the North", but the reason why he was impressed was not because of the wonderful plot, nor because the protagonist was a "sassy girl".

But he burst into laughter when he saw the scene shortly after the movie started, where the Koreans and Jurchens were hunting tigers.

The funny part is the portrayal of the Jurchens in the movie. The plot exaggerates the Jurchens' bravery to the sky. First, it says that the Jurchens are invincible, and then it says that the Jurchens start practicing martial arts at the age of four or five, and all of them are masters.

Then when facing the tiger, well, the Koreans used bows and arrows, spears, steel knives, and other normal weapons.

Looking at the Jurchen masters, facing the Siberian tiger, they pulled out two daggers from their waists, and rushed forward to attack while howling.

What a miserable result!

The few who survived were finally rescued by the Koreans.

When Hua Shier saw this part, he laughed for a full minute, and his abdominal muscles became firmer. At that time, he sighed that South Korea really deserves to be called the "most powerful country in the universe". They made a movie to highlight their own people, and portrayed the Jurchens like idiots.

Let’s get back to Yaxin.

In that movie, Yaxin was indeed a Jurchen, but he was not a Jurchen spy. He was a spy for the Goryeo people, a descendant of the Jurchens whose ancestors surrendered to Goryeo.

She followed her father and clansmen since she was a child and lived in the Fanhu tribe in the north of Goryeo. Her father worked as a spy for Goryeo and was often ordered to cross the Yalu River to the Jurchen camp Zhupowei on the opposite side to gather information.

Later, one time her father went away and never came back. The next day, the entire Fanhu tribe was slaughtered. Fortunately, Yaxin went to the mountains at that time and escaped.

Although Yaxin did not see the Jurchens killing their people with her own eyes, she felt that this incident was related to her father's trip to the other side of the Yalu River, so she rowed a boat alone and went to Pozhuwei on the other side of the river under the cover of night.

Finally, we found out that the Jurchens of Pozhuwei had executed a spy who had crossed the river from Goryeo a few days ago.

She also found out that the murderer of her tribe was the Jurchens from Pozhuwei.

In the heavy snow, she returned to Goryeo and ran to the nearby Goryeo military town. She found the Goryeo envoy who asked her father to carry out the mission and begged him on her knees to take over her father's position as a spy for the Goryeo people. She had only one goal, which was to take revenge!

Well, this is the first half of the plot of the movie. In fact, her father and tribesmen were indeed killed by the Jurchens, but the real murderer was someone else. However, Yaxin seems to not know it yet.

After Hua Twelve laughed, he directly exposed Yaxin's lie:

"You said that, you just want to use me to get rid of Zhu Powei!"

Yaxin shuddered, "No, no, I am a spy of the Zhupo Guards. They asked me to kill you, saying that as long as the emperor died, the Ming Dynasty would be in chaos, and the Jurchen emperor could lead his army to attack Shanhaiguan."

Hua Twelve ignored her sophistry and lies and continued, "You assassinated me because you wanted to kill me and then frame the Zhupowei and the Jian slaves!"

Yaxin shook his head repeatedly: "No, I'm not."

Hua Twelve changed the subject: "I! I can help you destroy the Pig Guards!"

Yaxin, who was still quibbling, suddenly stopped talking. She slowly raised her head, her eyes full of inquiry, as if she was looking to see if Hua Shier was deceiving her.

Hua Twelve said with a smile: "You can speak the language of our Great Ming. I wonder if you have ever heard of the saying, 'A gentleman should never joke!'"

Yaxin stopped trembling. Although she was still kneeling, she was no longer timid and touched the ground with her head. Instead, she knelt straight and gathered her hair expressionlessly, revealing her innocent and heroic face:

"If the great emperor can avenge Yaxin and destroy Zhupowei, Yaxin will be your woman!"

Hua Twelve was amused by her again and waved his hands: "All under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people are his subjects. I have no idea what kind of beauty I want. Is it because you are not a virgin, or because you have calluses on your hands?"

He remembered that in the original plot, Yaxin was harmed by a Goryeo soldier after she grew up.

Yaxin stiffened her neck and said, "Yaxin is a virgin. If you don't believe me, you can ask the palace's Shang Gong to check her out!"

Hua Shier was a little surprised. He looked at Yaxin's face carefully. She seemed to be much younger than in the movie. Her eyebrows were tight and she certainly didn't look like she had lost her virginity. He guessed that it was not yet the time in the plot.

He asked curiously: "Tell me about your story first, and then tell me how you got into the Goryeo delegation!"

Yaxin rubbed the corners of her clothes with her hands: "Yaxin didn't sneak in, Yaxin was selected." She immediately told her own story. The previous plot was the same as what Hua Shier knew, but there were changes later.

However, Yaxin spent several years drawing a topographic map of the area near Zhupowei, and also recorded the living habits of the Jurchens in Zhupowei over the past few years, as well as the time when they went out hunting. When he was about to give it to the Chief Envoy, an imperial envoy from the Goryeo court came to the military town, and asked the Chief Envoy to lead his troops south to welcome the distinguished guest.

It happened that Yaxin went to report the situation and was noticed by the imperial envoy, who asked her if she was a virgin. After getting the answer of yes, he directly asked Yaxin to follow him.

Yaxin didn't understand what was going on at first, so she followed the team. But later she found out that she had been selected into the team of beauties to be presented to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Yaxin was unwilling to leave Goryeo before her great revenge was avenged, but she knew that even the Chief Eunuch, whom she relied on, had no right to speak in front of the Goryeo court. She could not refuse the conscription, otherwise she would have no place in Goryeo. Her hostility towards Hua Twelve also originated from this.

Later, Yaxin came up with an idea, which was to pretend to be a Jurchen assassin from Zhupowei to assassinate the Ming emperor.

By then, the Ming Dynasty will certainly destroy Zhupowei to avenge the emperor. She can be said to have avenged her father and clan members through the Ming Dynasty.

As for Goryeo, the beautiful women who were tributed became Jurchen assassins, so they were inevitably to blame. Even if it was to atone for their sins, Goryeo would send troops to fight to the death with Zhupowei.

After Yaxin thought of this method of driving the tiger to devour the wolf, the more she thought about it, the more feasible it seemed to her. However, there is always a loophole in a perfect plan. She never expected that the skills she had trained hard in the deep mountains and forests to be able to fight wild beasts would be useless in front of the emperor she wanted to assassinate.

Hua Twelve laughed after hearing this: "Don't blame me for being blunt. If your father were in the Ming Dynasty and sold out his people for wealth and glory, he would have suffered the same fate. He doesn't deserve any sympathy at all!"

In the original plot, Yaxin's father lived a worthless life in Goryeo. He was called a spy, but in fact, he lived no different from a pariah. He was always hoping to sell out information from his fellow tribesmen and get an official position in Goryeo. Such a person should have died long ago.

When Yaxin heard what Hua Twelve said, he immediately wanted to argue, but Hua Twelve waved his hand and said:

"You don't need to argue. Since your father betrayed the Jurchens, it has nothing to do with my Ming Dynasty!"

"I can help you get revenge, but what can you give me?"

Yaxin gritted her teeth and said, "Yaxin can dedicate herself to you!"

Hua Twelve sneered: "That's not enough. Sending troops to fight for a woman is a tyrant. Do you think I look like a tyrant?"

Yaxin pondered for a moment and said, "Yaxin knows a kind of life and death grass that can bring the dead back to life. I can present it to the emperor. The grass is in Goryeo. Yaxin can take the emperor to find it!"

Hua Twelve smiled faintly when he heard Yaxin say this: "Tell me what harm that grass does!"

"Axin in the North" is a costume zombie film. The grass that Yaxin mentioned is called "life and death grass" and it is the source of zombies.

Upon hearing this, Yaxin's face turned pale. She was afraid that after the emperor knew the side effects of the grass, he would change his mind and no longer help her to take revenge.

  However, she had no other choice but to tell the truth:

"Although that grass can revive the recently dead, after resurrection, they will not have their original wisdom and will only become monsters that crave the flesh and blood of the living!"

When she finished speaking, her morale instantly dropped. She felt that the emperor would definitely not agree to send troops because of such a thing.

Unexpectedly, Hua Twelve nodded and said, "Okay, if you lead me to find this life and death grass, I will promise to help you get revenge!"

  Hua Shier was somewhat curious about the Grass of Life and Death and wanted to get some to study. The rest had to be destroyed. Otherwise, if it was used by someone with ulterior motives or if one or two of them flowed into the Ming Dynasty, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Upon hearing that things had taken a turn for the better, Yaxin became excited and asked the emperor when he would send out the troops. However, Hua Shier asked her to draw what the Zhupowei camp looked like. The more realistic the better. If she couldn't draw, she could tell the emperor by word of mouth and the court painter would help her draw it. When the drawing was finished, that would be the day to set out.

After Hua Shier finished speaking, he called the eunuch outside and asked him to arrange accommodation for Yaxin and provide painting tools. He then took out the magic weapon "Green Mirage Bottle" left by the Han Dynasty immortal Zhang Mian and began to refine it.

When he went to Goryeo, he also wanted to plot against the Xuantian Sect and take back the Golden Wheel of the Sun and the Moon. That was an old monster who had practiced for hundreds of years, so he had to make some preparations.

The method of refining magic weapons can be found in the Qingcheng inheritance and Lu Zu's Pure Yang Pill Sutra. Now that Hua Twelve has cultivated the 'Spiritual Treasure Innate Sword Qi', it is not difficult to use it to refine magic weapons.

Seven days later, Hua Twelve came out of retreat. After he successfully refined the Green Mirage Bottle, he stored it in his Dantian for nourishment just like the Yitian Flying Sword.

  I asked Cao Zhengchun if he had any problems during his days of seclusion. Old Cao replied:

"The Imperial Concubine has come to see the Emperor twenty-one times, and the Korean envoy has requested an audience every day. There is nothing else to do!"

Hua Shier took a deep breath when he heard that Liu Sheng Piaoxu had looked for him twenty-one times during the seven days he was in seclusion. That was three times a day. Of course he knew what Liu Sheng Piaoxu wanted him to do. The Yin-Yang cultivation method was too slow for a single person to practice. She was looking for him to be her tool. He couldn't afford to offend her!

Hua Twelve ignored the Goryeo envoys.

  What's wrong with accepting a gift and not doing anything?

What the hell are you looking for? I'll just leave you alone. When the dust settles, maybe Goryeo will have been destroyed.

Before Hua Shier heard about Yaxin's request for a meeting, he knew that the girl had not finished her painting. He asked Cao Zhengchun to lead the way to Yaxin's residence. He found that what this girl drew was so bad that it looked like a map and the lines were crooked.

He quickly called a halt and asked the eunuch to call the court painter, let Yaxin dictate, and leave the rest to the painter.

Hua Shier told the painter that if he wanted to paint something realistically, the more realistic the better.

After turning around and taking a few steps, he was caught by Liu Sheng Piaoxu and dragged to the Cining Palace where the Imperial Concubine lived.

This training lasted for three days, and even though Hua Twelve had a strong body, he still felt a sore waist.

On the fourth day, Cao Zhengchun came to report that the painter had finished the painting. He took the opportunity to run out, walked out of the Cining Palace, turned around and looked at Liu Sheng Piaoxu's resentful eyes, and couldn't help shaking his head and smiling bitterly:

"A sin!"

It can be said that the court painters were quite skilled. Their paintings did not have the feeling of being like photographs in later generations, but they looked almost the same. The painting showed the northern bank of the Yalu River, the green grass, the Jurchen camp, and the Jurchens riding their horses, all of which were vividly portrayed on the paper.

That night, about 500 steps away from the Zhupowei camp, a door suddenly appeared and opened. Five hundred Jinyiwei and Dongchang experts walked out silently through the door.

The last to walk were Hua Shier, who was holding Yaxin's hand, and Cao Zhengchun, who was following and serving them.

In order to send troops to Goryeo this time, Hua Twelve exposed the Anywhere Door in order to achieve a quick victory and prevent the Later Jin and Emei from noticing the movements here. At the same time, he asked Zhang Tianshi for a jade talisman to conceal his aura as an emperor. Otherwise, as soon as he showed up, people would know that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had come to Goryeo.

Yaxin looked at the familiar scene with her eyes wide open, afraid that she would scream out in surprise, so she covered her mouth tightly with her hands. She couldn't understand how she could have suddenly returned to the Yalu River when she was originally in the Ming Palace.

Hua Twelve pointed at the brightly lit Zhupowei camp and asked, "Is that it?"

Yaxin nodded heavily with a flame of revenge in his eyes.

Hua Shier ordered Cao Zhengchun, "Go ahead, leave no one alive!"

The Jinyiwei and the Dongchang thugs are good at confiscating homes and exterminating families. The camp of the Zhupowei in front of them is not even as big as a village, and these experts rushed in and killed without hesitation.

Those Jurchens were all asleep. When they heard the shouting and screaming, they rushed out with their bare chests. As a result, they were all hacked to death by the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang guards.

  In less than two quarters of an hour, the battle was over. Cao Zhengchun faithfully carried out Hua Shier's orders. No man, woman or child in the Zhupo Guard was left alive. All the chickens and dogs were killed one by one. Several hundred war horses were left behind. A human pig with its hands and feet chopped off and tied with chains was rescued!

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