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Chapter 170: Civil and military, loyalty and treachery, heroes, villains, life and death!

Knew it……

When Tan Tai Xian Ming saw Li Guan Yi appear and charge towards him with a halberd in hand, he had already determined the result. Why did he appear in Qilin Palace? Why did he have a counselor behind him? Why did he have a relationship with the Xue family? And why did he want to kill the illegitimate son of Emperor Chen Dingye?

All of this is messy in itself.

However, when Li Guanyi appeared, Tan Tai Xianming guessed the last piece of the puzzle and connection in all these things, that is, if the young man in front of him was Li Wanli's son, then everything could be explained.

But even so, when the young man said it himself, Tan Tai Xianming was still in a trance for a moment. He almost instinctively raised his hand and grasped the dark golden hilt of the Tiger Roaring Sky Halberd. What he vaguely saw before his eyes was another young man from a long, long time ago.

"Hello, sir. My name is Li Wanli."

The hand holding the halberd exerted force, and the young man who had become blurred in memory seemed to overlap with the person in front of him. The next moment, the divine weapon, the Tiger Roaring Sky halberd, burst into a low tiger roar, directly shaking Tan Tai Xianming's palm away.

This halberd is spiritual. Only upright and honest people in the world can wield it.

Li Guan retreated fiercely, the sharp edge of the halberd brought out a large piece of flesh and blood. He held the magic weapon in his right hand and drew the sword with his left hand. He was originally going to draw the sword of the Jinwu Guard, but he paused and directly drew the Qiu Shui sword from his waist, which was extremely sharp and could kill people without leaving any blood.

The void behind him was rumbling, and a red dragon and a white tiger appeared at the same time. The roars of dragons and tigers rose up at the same time.

The poisonous blood was forced out, emitting layers of turbulent ripples.

Red light was flowing on the long sword, and dark murderous energy was spreading on the halberd.

Li Guanyi unleashed his ultimate killing rage.

No second sentence is needed.

All the hatred is expressed in that one sentence!

Just let go and fight!

【Rolling waves】【Destroying mountains】【Breaking peaks】!
[The King's Ultimate Style] [The Sword Shadow of the Red Emperor]!
Amid the roars of dragons and tigers, waves of energy were surging, slashing throats, piercing hearts, and breaking acupoints. Every move was aimed at killing people. In the end, the swords and halberds swept past, and Tan Tai Xian Ming was breathless, falling heavily into the pool of poisonous blood.

It represents the blood and effort of Fei, the most amazing poison in the world, which poured into his body from all over.

Tan Tai Xian Ming's vitality completely disappeared.

Li Guanyi was actually exhausted.

There were varying degrees of tearing pain in the shoulders, arms, waist, and hips.

You can see the level of effort he just put in.

He could hardly hold the Autumn Water Sword and the Tiger Roaring Sky Halberd. His palms were shaking from exerting too much force. Standing there, the poisonous blood was constantly trying to invade his body, but these poisons only seeped into his body and were broken before they could take effect.

In Li Guanyi's abdomen, there was a golden elixir of the "Eternal Blue Moon Immortal Body" that had been reassembled.

Layer upon layer of warm currents erupted.

Keep resisting these poisons.

If you corrode a layer of Qi, blood and energy, the golden elixir will make up for it with one rotation.

Hou Zhongyu could even withstand the head-on attack of the Qilin Fire. If this mysterious skill was on the opponent, he would be filled with hatred. But now it was his greatest reliance. If it were not for this thing, Li Guanyi himself would have been corroded by the poison and infected again.

He used all his knowledge to beat Tan Tai Xian Ming into a pile of rags, and immediately went to check on Yue Peng Wu over there. However, the moment his hand touched him, he was almost burned. Li Guan took his hand up in an instant and looked at the general in front of him.

The internal energy and meridians around Yue Pengwu have all shifted. The poison of [Fei] is running through his body like an angry dragon, and his heart has begun to crystallize. The blood poison of [Fei] comes from the ancient strange beast that was strangled by the gods and generals led by Chidi himself eight hundred years ago.

Strictly speaking, this is not a poison.

It is the ancient creature like [Fei], whose blood has a strong transformative power that is as deadly as death to humans. Yue Pengwu's heart is being constantly corroded by the blood poison and is changing into the state of an ancient strange beast, but that is an existence that represents disaster.

His life was about to disappear.

Yue Pengwu was leaning against the wall, with the spear condensed from chains next to him.

The face of the God General was covered with black marks left by the poison. One could imagine the severe pain he was enduring at the moment, but his eyes were calm as he stared at Li Guanyi and said:

"Are you the Marshal's son?"

The Frost Halberd in Li Guanyi's hand returned to its original appearance, but a few cracks had appeared on this superior weapon. It was obvious that the power of the magic weapon, even if only a part of it was carried, would be a huge burden for this weapon.

Li Guan nodded, he squatted down slightly, held Yue Pengwu's wrist, and wanted to find a way to contain the poison. However, the poison Li Guan had been poisoned with was not at the [Heart Blood] level, and secondly, it was his mother who bore a huge portion of it on his behalf.

Suddenly, there were loud footsteps outside. Li Guanyi gripped his weapon and turned to look.

The one who rushed in was Yan Xuanji, who followed the traces left by Li Guanyi.

He did not understand the formation, but as a veteran on the battlefield, the skill of tracking traces was something he had honed through repeated life and death experiences. It was something he would never forget, so he followed Li Guanyi's traces and came here.

His body was covered in blood, his Qi was surging, and his blood Qi turned into white gas. He rushed in and saw Yue Pengwu and Li Guanyi. He breathed a sigh of relief at first, then noticed the change in Yue Pengwu, his face changed drastically, and he suddenly strode back, leaned over to support him, and said:
“This is, this…!”

"The meridians are solidified, the qi and blood are exhausted, and the heart is also..."

The expression on the monk's face changed several times. In the end, even he was left with only a dazed and miserable look, and remained silent... This poison almost turned his body into crystal. They tried their best to get here, but it was still too late, just like ten years ago.

Yue Pengwu was calm, his head against the wall, feeling the last beat of his heart.

"That's it..."

"You escaped back then."

"Great."

The voice of the pursuer was heard from the formation outside. Yan Xuanji, holding his weapon, his tiger eyes slightly red, turned around and looked at the formation with murderous intent in his eyes. Although Gu Daohui didn't know why he stopped just now, he didn't continue to chase him.

But for a famous general like Gu Daohui, it is not difficult to catch up.

They had charged into the palace with a weak force, facing famous generals and strategists. This was a desperate strategy, and now that they had found the people they wanted to save, it seemed that they were ultimately powerless to do anything.

“The enemy…”

Yue Pengwu lowered his eyes, and suddenly stretched out his hand. His palms, backs of his hands, and arms were all covered with traces of bloody poison. The famous general picked up the rough war spear, turned his wrist, and then stood in front of the gate of the formation. He smiled slightly and said:
"Then, this time, Yue Pengwu will cover our retreat."

He turned his back to Li Guanyi and said:

"When I was young, Lord Taiping taught me martial arts and military tactics. When you were born, I was still fighting against foreign enemies. At that time, I was thinking about passing on his military tactics to you. It would be a good thing to pass on the torch. I thought about how to teach you."

"But later the world was in such chaos that I couldn't find you after all. This chaotic world always forces everyone into a place with no way out. But it doesn't matter. I have already seen you."

He whispered, "Then, that's enough."

"In this world, we are always apart more than together. Sometimes a meeting can last for more than ten years."

"They say I will die here, and so will you, but I don't believe it. Be brave... Go outside..."

Yue Pengwu held the weapon, and Yan Xuanji understood what he meant.

So the brave general who was carrying the banner also raised his weapon and stood shoulder to shoulder with the famous general who was almost unable to stand and was at the end of his life. They raised their weapons, with spears and black sticks pointing forward, just like the former Duke Taiping and the Regent, standing in front of the younger generation.

Yue Pengwu seemed to remember something. He stretched out his hand, took out something from his arms, and put it in Li Guanyi's hand. He smiled and said, "This is the morale of the Taiping Army..."

He raised his hand and saw a cluster of rice ears, which had already dried up.

But it was this cluster of rice ears that ignited the initial fire. From General Zhou, to Duke Taiping, and then to Yue Pengwu, the flame burned quietly in the hearts of every generation. Then Yue Pengwu fired a shot in his backhand and blasted a huge exit next to the underground palace.

"Let's go!"

He pushed Li Guanyi on the shoulder and pushed him out.

Yue Pengwu's pupils had lost focus and everything in front of him was blurry.

I have grown up, General, he thought. I can travel the world, fight for my country, protect the people and pave the way for those who come after me.

The Garuda will fall here.

But there will be another fire rising from where I fall.

But he saw the young man being pushed out, taking a few steps, as if he clenched his fists, and suddenly turned around. Li Guanyi had been thinking about how to save him, but at this moment, there was indeed only this last method left.

Just gamble.

Without hesitation, he strode over.

The young man drew out the Autumn Water Sword and slashed it across the palm of his left hand.

Then he retracted the sword and pressed acupoints on Yue Pengwu with his right hand. Yue Pengwu was a tall man, but he suddenly staggered. He was not on guard against Li Guanyi and was like a candle in the wind.

He was holding on to his final blow, and when he launched this move, he was still invincible and as bright as the sun. However, after this move, he was unexpectedly so weak that he staggered and fell.

Li Guanyi supported him with one hand and raised his left hand.

The blood containing the inexhaustible power of the elixir of immortality fell into Yue Pengwu's mouth. In the end, which one is more powerful, the [Fei] that represents disasters in the ancient times, or the [Eternal Life] that sorcerers of all generations have been pursuing at all costs, which one is better.

"Hou Zhongyu, ah Hou Zhongyu, you have to do better!"

Li Guanyi took out bottles and jars from his arms.

This was Hou Zhongyu's collection. He found the healing elixir and poured all of Hou Zhongyu's collection into Yue Pengwu's mouth, then dissolved it with his own blood. However, Yue Pengwu's vitality was still disappearing rapidly. Hou Zhongyu could not deal with Fei's blood.

If it is just the impact of the previous bloodbath, it can be solved.

However, in order to fight against Tan Tai Xian Ming Fang, Yue Pengwu took the initiative to absorb the blood into his heart meridian and control the two forces of good and evil. This also caused the poisonous blood to flow throughout his body. This was a strange poison that once affected the situation in the world. He was not the only top master who died from this poison.

Yan Xuanji looked miserable. Yue Pengwu lowered his eyes slightly. He seemed to see the general of that year. There was a moment of hesitation and struggle on Li Guanyi's face. There was indeed such hesitation and struggle.

But it turned into determination in an instant.

He raised his hand and placed his palm on Yue Pengwu's mouth.

Inside the body, the golden elixir of "Eternal Blue Moon Immortality Elixir" rotated several times.

Then, it shattered directly!
The energy around the young man dissipates like the wind, and the young man's spirit is like the wind.

Yue Pengwu's originally blurred vision suddenly stopped, and then became clear again for a moment. He saw the blurry general turned around, and suddenly his vision overlapped with that young man. He saw that traces of the bloody poison reappeared on Li Guanyi's face.

The boy grinned, like the young general who had pulled him out of the fields.

"Those who work for everyone should not freeze to death in the snow."

"The General's life."

"Li Guanyi is on the back!" This was a skill directly derived from the Green Robe Master in the martial arts legend and the theory of the golden elixir of the alchemist's elixir of immortality. The gathered tremendous vitality and the elixir of immortality hidden in Li Guanyi's body were forced out. Yan Xuanji's expression suddenly changed, and he saw the young man's hair tips slightly raised.

Then, traces of poisonous erosion appeared on his face. Without the resistance of the golden elixir, the top version of the world's number one poison instantly invaded Li Guanyi's body. The familiar severe pain came again, but he did not stop his actions.

Yan Xuanji said: "Young Master!!"

Yue Pengwu was in a trance, and then everything in front of him became dark.

He was able to fight fiercely just now, and he still had one last powerful martial arts move to break out. He was still conscious and as fierce as a burning flame, but now he lost consciousness. However, the wisp of firewood that should have been burned out was protected instead.

The deadlock that everything will decline after reaching its peak was interrupted.

Yue Pengwu's vitality stopped escaping, and the last bit of vitality was maintained in his heart, maintaining the basic beating. Li Guanyi's face and body were covered with ink-colored [Blood] marks, which then slowly imprinted into his bones and blood. The severe pain made his palms tremble. He hid his hands behind his back and said:

"It is said in the martial arts world that there is a man in green robes who can bring the dead back to life."

"There is a miraculous doctor in the ghost market who can also wake up General Yue."

Yan Xuanji was stunned. The young man withdrew his hand, clenched his fist, and said:
"General Yan, please take Marshal Yue away."

Yan Xuanjidao blurted out: "What about you?!"

"I?"

Li Guanyi raised his weapon, just smiled and said:
"With your fame, you will definitely attract enough enemies. If you stay with me, I will become a burden to you. Then you can't leave, and neither can I. It's better for us to go our separate ways. You don't have to care about me, but you can still lure away the masters."

“I’m not a sacrificial person.”

"Then maybe we can all get out alive."

Yan Xuanji looked at the young man in front of him and said, "Your poison..."

"Oh, blood-stained blood. I've been hit by this before."

The young man seemed to be unconcerned and said with a soft smile:
"It's just extremely poisonous."

"At worst, we can fight for another ten years!"

"You go first..."

"Don't worry, I won't die."

Yan Xuanji looked at the young man in front of him, and in a trance he seemed to see the shadow of another person, the same character, the same demeanor. When this traveler who had already gone through the eighty difficulties of Buddhism was distracted, he saw the young man looking at him sideways:
"By the way, there is one more thing, General Yan."

The young man raised the halberd in his hand, stood in front of Yan Xuanji and Yue Pengwu who was still alive, and said softly: "Although I am not my father, he will definitely say so."

"You are the general who carries the banner."

"Even if I die, so what?"

"As long as your heart is not dead, the banner will not fall."

Yan Xuanji's body shook violently, and the young man walked past him holding the Frost Halberd. However, Yan Xuanji seemed to see in a trance that it was the young Duke Taiping who walked by, and it seemed as if the voice of Duke Taiping was mixed with the clear timbre of the young man.

Li Guanyi stood still, his halberd resting on the ground: "A real man should repay a favor."

"Ten years ago, you opened a way for me. This time, it is Li Guanyi's turn to open the way for you. However, my strength is still very weak. Perhaps this is all I can do."

"If I don't die this time, the general will be able to hear my name one day."

Yan Xuanji looked at the young man's back.

The heroes of the world will only show their character and courage in the most desperate moments. The young man still has the courage of the hero who stood at the forefront at the beginning. Yan Xuanji suddenly grinned.

He reached out and broke the Buddhist beads around his neck.

Then he half-knelt on the ground, clenched his fists, and responded word by word:
"This is Yan Xuanji."

"Obey the Lord's orders!"

He raised his head and looked at the young man: "Well, my lord."

"So-and-so has gone."

Li Guanyi turned his back to him and nodded. Yan Xuanji stood up, grabbed the Xuanbing, and carried Yue Pengwu, who was kept alive. His eyes were red and he took the initiative to rush out from this end of the formation. Li Guanyi exhaled, and when Yan Xuanji ran away, his expression suddenly changed.

Li Guanyi's body trembled, and he almost fell to the ground in pain. His halberd was against the ground, and Fei's blood turned into poison. His eyes were like burning flames, but he did not fall down again. He knelt down alive, stood up with the help of his halberd, and suppressed the poison with the Blue Luan Bird.

His face turned pale, but he just reached out and patted his cheek, cursing:

"Let you be a hero."

"It hurts!"

Then he burst into laughter: "Anyway, there's no way to regret it!"

"That's all!"

"Damn it, at worst, I can just fight this poison for another ten years!"

He turned around and chopped at Tan Tai Xian Ming's vital points several times before staggering out in another direction. Before leaving, he walked step by step to the place where the tablets of Chen State's ancestors were enshrined, and then left after burning an incense stick.

………………

And just after everyone left, a hand suddenly emerged from the poisonous blood pool in the underground palace, and then the dead Tan Tai Xian Ming walked out slowly again. Even though he had used all the magic power, strange poison, and magic weapon, he was still alive.

Apart from the first fatal attack, Li Guanyi used the magic weapon to suddenly appear and pierce through Tan Tai Xianming's defense. After that, every move of Li Guanyi caused fatal damage to Tan Tai Xianming. However, something was slowly flowing inside Tan Tai Xianming's body.

"The mountain marrow can give you longevity. It is true, but also false. At most, you can only survive in misery."

Tan Tai Xian Ming walked out holding something that Li Guan Yi had seen before. This was what appeared after his death. The wound on the old man's chest that was pierced by Li Guan Yi's halberd was still there. The Confucian scholar walked out and finally sat down on the steps where he had come before.

As his breath circulated and the blood on his body evaporated, he thought:

"Li Wanli's son?"

"There are so many heroes in the world, it's really impossible to kill them all..."

The young man that Tan Tai Xian Ming had just seen had the light that lit up a place in the troubled times. Tan Tai Xian Ming lowered his eyes, stretched out his hand, dipped it in the blood that kept flowing from his chest, and then wrote words on the sleeve after the blood had evaporated.

"The one who killed me was Li Guanyi, an assassin under Yue Pengwu's command."

The old man's eyes were calm. He used this crime to cover up his identity as the son of Li Wanli, the Duke of Taiping. Then he stretched out his hand. His palm was shaking because of the poison, but he still picked up the wine pot that fell into the gap and poured himself a glass of wine. He looked ahead calmly and continued to calculate:
"If the son of Li Wanli, the Duke of Taiping, sets foot in the world, the State of Chen will be in chaos."

"This chaos will exceed the level of my original plan. I should assist it."

"Yue Pengwu, Taiping Army, the hero of the world... yes."

"When one country is in chaos, the Chen state will be torn apart. When one country is strong, heroes will emerge and the world will be settled."

"But it's not enough, it's not enough... His identity as the son of Li Wanli, the Duke of Taiping, cannot be exposed like this, and he cannot be without achievements. Otherwise, if he dies too early, or too lightly, it will be difficult to shock the people of the world and cause the State of Chen to completely burst into chaos."

This strategist who was among the top ten in the world smiled slightly. He took out something from his arms. Inside the brocade bag was a shriveled steamed bun. He rubbed it and threw it into the pool of blood. Then he picked up the sword of the Jinwu Guard that Li Guanyi had dropped with great effort, gasping for breath.

The old man adjusted his clothes in front of the pool of blood, and finally moved his fingers slightly. The last breath rose, and the sword flew into the sky, circled, and fell. Tan Tai Xianming sat there calmly, arrogantly, and conceitedly, then he held the wine and swallowed it slowly.

With his eyes closed, he seemed to still be able to see his hometown which had been razed to the ground by the army of the Emperor of Chen decades ago.

The sister who was stabbed away by the spear, and the intestines hanging on the city wall.

He recited the poem softly: "The wealthy merchants gathered in the brocade, and the enemy army mobilized more than ten families."

"Dongmen has even more sad things to say, so I can't help but let the girl go with the kite..."

I hope this scene never happens again.

I want the world to be unified!
Li Guanyi, for killing the treacherous prime minister, the reputation of a great scholar is now handed over to you. See if you can handle it.

With my head as an invitation, I will send you into the world and split the Chen Kingdom!
He finally saw his younger self in the rain.

The long sword fell.

The wine cup fell to the ground, and the white-haired head fell to the ground.

'Brother, you are back!? '

The Confucian scholar said: Can a hatred that has lasted for nine generations still be avenged?

Even after a hundred generations.

Yes.

………………

In the palace, the Chixiao Sword clearly sensed everything here.

The light on the sword flickered several times.

But he held himself back because of the agreement with Li Guanyi.

Light it up, press it down.

Light up.

Press it down again!

Finally, the young man laughed and said, "That's it." The child who had survived because of everyone's protection, finally laughed and gave himself the blood poison in exchange for the survival of others, and said nonchalantly, "Fuck it, I'll fight for another ten years."

The Chixiao Sword finally couldn't bear it anymore.

The sword became brighter inch by inch.

Then, right in the middle of the confrontation between Xiao Wuliang and Yue Qianfeng.

The bright sound of the sword rose into the sky.

Endure, endure, endure——

I can’t help it!!!

(End of this chapter)