536: Chapter 86 Great General_2 536: Chapter 86 Great General_2 “After leaving the Imperial City, head straight north.”
The red-haired woman took a deep breath.
Xie Xuanyi “struggled” as he lay into the thatch.
His voice was hoarse as he squeezed out a word: “Thank…”
“My benefactor, what is there to thank me for?”
The woman laughed cheerfully, “If it weren’t for your grace in slaying demons back then, Chi Lin would have been dead long ago…
Today, seeing you off is the only way Chi Lin can repay you.
There must be some misunderstanding with the case of the Moon Hidden Realm.
If you can escape this disaster, your wrongful case will surely be cleared one day.”
Chi Lin.
Xie Xuanyi tried to open his eyes wider, wanting to take another clear look at the woman’s face.
But the thatch was gently closed by her.
The woman left.
The view once again became pitch dark.
The sound of the Demon Fire burning in the distance gradually overwhelmed everything else.
“!!!”
Xie Xuanyi suddenly opened his eyes.
Grass clippings fluttered, bamboo leaves fell, he was sitting steadily with a tea cup in hand at the bamboo table, not knowing how much time passed after the sixth cup of wine…
His back was drenched with cold sweat, his lips dry and pale, but his Divine Soul was anything but “tired”, on the contrary, it was more spirited than ever.
The intoxication had been completely dispersed by the Undying Spring.
“A hero in life, a legend in death.”
The scholar in the green robe lightly applauded, saying, “Worthy of being Xie Xuanyi’s disciple, truly living up to your reputation…
After finishing these six cups of wine, you can take your people and leave.
From this moment on, for an hour, the Yuanzhou Iron Cavalry will not trouble you.”
Xie Xuanyi slowly stood up, feeling the earth shake and the heavens spin; after drinking six cups of Drunken Immortal Brew, his Divine Sea felt as if it were tearing apart in pain.
Deng Baiyi quickly came forward to steady him.
“Can you still move?”
The green-robed scholar smiled and said, “Do you need me to additionally send you a swift horse?”
“There’s no need for you to trouble yourself, sir.”
Xie Xuanyi took a deep breath.
He waved gently, Spring Breeze Grass swept over, umbrella sword sheathed and landed in front of him, trembling ever so obediently…
Even if Xie Xuanyi was left with his last breath.
He could still wield his sword for a thousand miles.
That was his final pride.
…
…
“Meng Kejian, we’ve been walking for so long, why haven’t we seen that man surnamed Xie?”
Venerable Bai Yu became impatient.
Qixia Mountain was vast.
But with two Yin Gods, how swiftly should they be traveling?
He was just leading the horse along, following Meng Kejian around in circles through dense fog, moving on continuously…
Venerable Bai Yu had released his Divine Thought long ago.
Meng Kejian didn’t seem to be chasing anyone at all; taking twists and turns, they were not moving in a straight line!
“Why are you so anxious when your master isn’t?”
Meng Kejian maintained his indifferent attitude.
He said mockingly, “If you’re so eager to kill Xie Zhen, why don’t you do it yourself?
Weren’t you just spectating when the Cage Immortal Array was set?”
“…”
This remark left Venerable Bai Yu speechless.
Indeed, he had been watching the struggle within the Cage Immortal Array with the attitude of a spectator.
He had another reason for not taking action himself.
Miao Zhen, True Master Jun Shan, those two Reincarnated Yang Gods were truly daunting.
As a Yin God Venerable who had advanced with the help of elixirs, relying on years of cultivation to stabilize his Initial Stage Cultivation, if he irritated the Reincarnated Yang Gods, they could force a Breakthrough to suppress him!
“Prince?”
Venerable Bai Yu could only fall back on Prince Jiangning.
“Lord Meng, Prince Jiangning has just sent a generous gift to Da Li Fang Yuan Square.”
Prince Jiangning said softly, “Accepting a person’s money to rid them of a disaster…
Hurry and kill Xie Zhen, to avoid prolonged troubles.”
“That’s the idea.”
Meng Kejian’s attitude didn’t improve much, he still said lazily, “But the one who took the money isn’t me, Meng Kejian, nor the Great General.
Since it was Nalan Xuance who accepted the gift from Jiangning, logically, it should be Nalan Xuance’s people who ought to kill Xie Zhen…
so if Xie Zhen escapes, Prince, you should turn to Nalan Qiutong for an explanation.”
“…?”
Venerable Bai Yu’s eyes widened.
So there’s such a principle?
People of Li Country are so shameless!
Veins on Prince Jiangning’s forehead bulged.
“Alright, I’ll stop teasing you two.”
Meng Kejian, with a smile that was not quite a smile, reopened the conversation and explained lightly, “This Qixia Mountain has long been trapped by Nalan Xuance.
Without an array map, if one recklessly intrudes, they might be exterminated by the trapping array.
With each step taken, the path grows longer, taking one further and further away…”
“You mean to say, we were circumventing Nalan Xuance’s trapping array on our way here?”
Venerable Bai Yu frowned: “But what about Xie Zhen?
Xie Zhen traveled by sword control, choosing his direction randomly.
Could it be that he didn’t fall into a trapping array?”
“You’re actually right.”
Meng Kejian still smilingly said: “They say that a Sword Cultivator’s Heart Lake Sensing is extraordinary, able to pursue fortune and avoid calamity…
I don’t know if the lad was just lucky, or really sensed it, but as he fled all the way, he chose the safest routes that led out of Qixia Mountain and didn’t fall into any trapping array.”
“What kind of joke is this?!”
Venerable Bai Yu spoke icily: “Meng Kejian, are you serious, or are you making a mockery of my Prince?”
Prince Jiangning’s expression also turned increasingly somber.
“I don’t have time for such nonsense.”
Meng Kejian did not back down in the slightest, and said mysteriously: “If you don’t believe it, you two can verify it for yourselves next.”
As they spoke.
The three of them arrived in front of a bamboo forest.
The wind had dissipated, and the leaves had fallen all over the ground.
At the bamboo table, a Daoist-robed child lay fast asleep while on the other side, a young Confucian scholar in a blue robe was reading and flipping through scrolls.
“True Master Jun Shan from the Taoist sect?”
Venerable Bai Yu’s eyes lit up; he was well aware that Jun Shan was traveling with Xie Zhen.
If Jun Shan was here.
Then Xie Zhen must have been here too!
He raised his head and exchanged a glance with Prince Jiangning, who nodded expressionlessly.
Venerable Bai Yu let go of the horse’s reins and took a step forward, moving to the bamboo desk with an outstretched hand about to grab True Master Jun Shan’s collar from behind.
“Snap!”
A sudden breeze arose, and a bamboo leaf landed on Venerable Bai Yu’s wrist, making a very light crisp sound.
Venerable Bai Yu was too late to react.
His wrist was struck by the leaf, leaving a red mark and making his movements momentarily hesitate.
“Today at Qixia Mountain, the two of you are guests.”
“Guests should follow the host’s wishes, a principle unchanged for a millennium.”
“Taking without asking is called ‘stealing’…
As guests, you should observe the etiquette.
Reaching out rashly, you commit the crime of ‘stealing’…”
The young Confucian scholar’s gaze never left the pages of his book, and a breeze turned a scroll for him.
The young Confucian scholar spoke indifferently: “Meng Kejian, how would you deal with this in Yuzi Camp or Camp Cang?”
Meng Kejian dismounted from his horse.
The Great Commander, who was usually leisurely and playful, was now devoid of any smile.
His expression became extremely serious as he said, “Great General, if this were in Yuzi Camp, this hand should be cut off to set an example.”
“???”
Words like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, Venerable Bai Yu backed away several steps in shock, barely maintaining his balance.
The light flick from the bamboo leaf was not painful.
What truly shook him was Meng Kejian’s address.
Great General?
Great General!!
The Yuzi Camp and Camp Cang are the elite of the Li Country.
Du Yunzhong, Meng Kejian only served one person.
“…Chen Chong?
Are you Chen Chong?!”
Venerable Bai Yu stared intently at the young Confucian scholar before him, his eyes filled with disbelief.
It was said that the Da Li Dynasty had a talented and supremely young pillar of the country.
He was extremely young but had reached the Perfect Yin God Realm.
However, the world’s impression of him seemed somewhat ‘one-sided’.
Chen Chong steered clear of the time when Xuanyi’s brilliance was at its peak.
In these ten years, the Taoist sect has locked itself away, Da Sui Sword Palace has been in seclusion, and the Buddhist fortunes have declined.
It seems as though the entire world was on the decline, yet Chen Chong was rapidly rising.
He led the Iron Cavalry to quell the rebellion in the three states, suppressed all Da Li Holy Lands opposed to them, and then fought on the Li Country’s frontier against the Demon Race, winning nineteen battles out of nineteen.
As for him personally, he battled and killed a Demon Venerable in the Perfect Yin God Realm last year, just one step away from reaching the Great Success of the Yang God!
Everyone said Chen Chong was a ruthless character who would stoop to any means.
Many even compared Great Chu’s Yuan Jimo to him!
What kind of person would be wearing a plain blue robe?
How could he appear so frail and weak?