Shaojun riding the sea

Chapter 248 He is not Ah Chou!
"Pei Shixi captured my father and imprisoned him in the Qingli Mountains?"

When Shi Xuanling heard the news, her breathing became disordered immediately. Her heart began to beat wildly. She said in disbelief, "Why did he arrest my father? Did he want to use my father to lure me out and force me to surrender?"

Seeing Shi Xuanling's anxious look, You Ming hesitated to speak, but finally shook his head and said with a more solemn look: "Xiao Lingling, everything is not as simple as you think. The real purpose of Pei Shixi and the Restoration Cult is to unlock the seal on you and awaken the power of the Fire Phoenix King dormant in you, so that you can become the saint of the Feng family and help them accomplish their great cause and realize the dream of restoring the country that has been in their mind for a hundred years."

"Remove the seal on me?"

"Yes, I only found out when I returned to the clan this time. In fact, in order to remove the seal on you, you must use an ancient sacrificial technique to sacrifice your blood relatives and let you soak in a pool of blood. Only in this way can the seal be broken and the dormant Fire Phoenix power in your body be awakened again. This secret technique to remove the seal is called the 'Phoenix Spirit Blood Array'. The reason why Pei Shixi captured your father is because the Phoenix Spirit Blood Array emphasizes the principles of yin and yang and the five elements. If the person who removes the seal is a man, then the person who sacrifices must be a woman. Since you are a woman, the person who activates the blood array can only be a man. Looking at this world, there is only one person who meets the qualifications for sacrifice..."

You Ming said this, looked at the shocked Shi Xuanling, and sighed: "So, do you understand now?"

Shi Xuanling's breathing became disordered, and she clenched her hands involuntarily. She raised her head and said anxiously, "But my father obviously possesses extraordinary skills, and there are few rivals in the world. He can even catch an arrow I shot with his bare hands in mid-air. How could he be captured so easily?"

"So you, you know your father..." You Ming was obviously also shocked. After his eyes changed several times, he finally uttered only three words: "Very powerful?"

You Ming didn't know what he recalled, and he shook his head with deep emotion: "You can't judge a person by his appearance. Who would have thought that a seemingly weak civil servant like him could hide so deeply! He was indeed not captured by the Feng family. Those people couldn't beat him, but they used you as bait to trick him into the Qingli Mountains."

In fact, Shi Zhongqing was willing to be deceived because he missed his daughter so much. When he heard the news that Shi Xuanling died at sea, he, like Pei Shixi, did not believe it at all. What's more, when Shi Xuanling bid farewell to him, she hinted that she had important things to do, so he had been waiting for his daughter's return until the Feng family found him.

That group of guys couldn't beat him, so they used "force first, courtesy later". They revealed their identities and said bluntly that Shi Xuanling was taken to Qingli Mountains by her tribesmen. Shi Zhongqing knew that it might be a trap, but he still stepped into the trap willingly. After all, it was related to the safety of his beloved daughter, so he had to take the risk no matter what!
"When I returned to the Qingli Mountains, I happened to see your father fighting against seven people alone. He was trapped in the formation alone and fought against the seven elders of the clan. Not to mention me, the entire clan was shocked!"

The seven elders, together with Pei Shixi, a total of eight people, surrounded Shi Zhongqing in the center of the formation. No one could have imagined that this seemingly weak and old-fashioned court official with the appearance of a scholar would actually be a martial artist, no, it should be said that he was a peerless master!
At that time, sand and rocks were flying, internal forces were colliding, and the wind was blowing violently. It took the combined strength of eight people to barely subdue Shi Zhongqing. Just when Pei Shixi was about to put him in the dungeon, the clan leader Qi Yuan heard the news and rushed over, wanting to stop it all!
At that time, Pei Shixi had already put him under semi-house arrest, but he had not yet completely torn his face off against him. He still gave him some respect. When the people of the Restoration Faction saw Qi Yuan, they would still reluctantly respectfully call him "old patriarch."

But as soon as Qi Yuan opened his mouth, the people of the Restoration Faction became furious. Pei Shixi's face became as gloomy as water, and a sneer appeared on his lips.

Because what the clan leader Qi Yuan said was——

"You've caught the wrong guy. He's not Ah Chou, whom Fu Ying rescued back then, and he's not Xiao Lingdang's biological father. Let him go quickly, and don't make the same mistake over and over again!" Upon hearing this, Shi Xuanling could no longer sit still. His expression suddenly changed, and he stood up and said excitedly, "What do you mean, my father... is not my father?"

You Ming nodded and said, "Master said that Senior Sister Fu Ying saved your father in the mountains. At that time, your father's face was injured by a huge rock in the formation and he lost all his memory. He asked Senior Sister to call him 'A Chou'. Later, he was cured by Senior Sister. Master and Senior Sister discovered that he actually had an unparalleled good appearance, and there was a small bright red mole between his long eyebrows on the right. Master said he would never remember it wrong..."

On the day when Achou's wound healed and the gauze was removed, clan leader Qi Yuan was also present. At that time, he and Fu Ying were both shocked by Achou's true appearance. Fu Ying felt even more inferior and ran away to hide in a patch of jujube flowers, refusing to see Achou.

When Qi Yuan found them, he heard Ah Chou expressing his feelings to Fu Ying. He was even willing to destroy his own appearance for Fu Ying. He didn't care about his good looks and only wanted to be Fu Ying's Ah Chou for the rest of his life.

They understood each other's feelings in the midst of the flowers. Fu Ying couldn't help but gently touch the red mole between Ah Chou's eyebrows. Ah Chou took the opportunity to grab her hand and joked to her:

"This is a beauty spot of mine, and no one has ever touched it. Since you have touched the beauty spot between my eyebrows today, you must be responsible for me, a beauty, and stay with me forever. Do you hear me?"

The goddess was moved and promised to spend her life together in the flower. Qi Yuan would never forget that scene.

"So Master said that Pei Shixi and the others had caught the wrong person, because Shi Zhongqing didn't have a cinnabar mole between his right eyebrow, and he possessed peerless magical skills, but Ah Chou back then had no internal strength and didn't know any martial arts at all. Even if more than ten years had passed, it would have been impossible for Ah Chou to improve so quickly and acquire such a high level of skills, so they are actually two different people!"

The clan leader Qi Yuan's words were very convincing, but to the Restorationists, it was just a lie he made up to save people. Pei Shixi just waved his sleeves and snorted coldly:
"That's enough. What about distant mountain eyebrows, beauty mole, and the unparalleled exiled fairy? It's all nonsense, so absurd! It's hard for you, the clan leader. Do you think you can save this Shi guy by making up such nonsense? Do you think we will let him go?"

Pei Shixi's next words were so cruel and full of murderous intent: "You are really old and confused. If he is really the biological father of the Saint Girl, it's not a big deal. We can still let him live in this world for a while and use him to activate the Phoenix Blood Formation in the future. But if he is not, then he is really worthless from head to toe. How can we let him go in vain? After all, he is still the Shangshu of Dongmu, an official appointed by the court. Wouldn't it be great if we killed this guy to sacrifice for Tonglu and to shock the civil and military officials in the imperial city?!"

Clan leader Qi Yuan had never expected Pei Shixi to be so crazy. His face turned pale and he pointed at Pei Shixi for a long time without saying a word. Pei Shixi took a step closer to him and asked him for an answer with a sneer:

"So, old patriarch, please think carefully, and see clearly with your dim old eyes. Is this Shi the biological father of the Saint?"

Hearing this, Shi Xuanling's heart tightened. Her chest rose and fell, and even her voice trembled slightly: "Chief, what did the chief finally answer? My father, how could he... not be my biological father?"