the enemy is always on the verge

The two of them guessed what was going on at a glance. Meng You went down the mountain to look for Yun Rong's "corpse" last year, apparently finally found the imperial city.However, he is only at the golden core stage, so he is no match for Shi Tianying, and he must be in trouble when he asks for help now.

Cheng Jing didn't have a good impression of Meng You, but after all, he was the junior whom he had grown up with, and he had never offended him, even the distress calls were sent, so he couldn't just watch him go to die.So the two bid farewell to Zhou Huan and left Yuxianmen.

At this time, the imperial city was quiet and deserted, the doors and windows of all the halls were closed, and the guards passing by carried spears and held torches, lighting up the entire imperial city like fire dragons.

King Zhen sat on the dragon chair and closed his eyes to rest his mind. Dark spots appeared on his face and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes, but his back was straight. Shi Tianying was a middle-aged man, pinching his fingers beside him, muttering something.

Your Highness, in the past, a huge copper tripod was placed on the red carpet where hundreds of officials made pilgrimages. The flame under the tripod spontaneously ignited without any firewood, burning the inner wall of the tripod like a soldering iron.There was a person tied to the copper tripod, eight iron chains firmly fixed him in mid-air, but blood from his heart fell drop by drop into the huge copper tripod below him.After listening carefully, there were still faint urges, he slowly raised his head, his arms were as thin as green bamboos, and his beautiful face was completely bloodless.

"Father...Father Emperor," he called out, with two lines of clear tears in his eyes, "the love between father and son is divided, and tiger poison doesn't eat children, why do you insist on killing me?"

King Zhen slowly opened his eyes, his dark and deep eyes were like a lone wolf that haunts the night, "Azhan, there are treacherous ministers and sycophants in my country of Zhen, and the country of Qi is watching. I will pass it on to you, brother Lin'er. But as long as I can live forever, even if there are a few more Qi kingdoms, I can still rule the world! If you sacrifice for my century-old foundation, I will definitely bury you honorably and seal you up Hou Wang, how is it?"

Mo Zhan shouted excitedly, "The treacherous minister who harmed my Zhen country is Shi Ying! How can mortals live forever!"

King Zhen's voice cooled down, "I am not a mortal, I am the Ninth Five-Year Lord!"

Mo Zhan sneered, and stared at him bitterly, "Can the Ninth Five-Year Lord go against the sky and use other people's lives to renew his own?!"

King Zhen said in a slow voice, "Your body is hairy and skinny, and you are my parents. You just gave my life back to me. Where is the life of others?"

Mo Zhan was desperate, and half a year ago, King Zhen went to Xie's house to apologize to him.This proud and supreme man actually cried bitterly and confessed his crimes in front of him, trying to get back the little bit of father-son love between them.

Mo Zhan didn't believe it at first, but every time he thought of when his mother and concubine were the most favored when he was young, the gentle way his father greeted him and taught him how to write and paint, he believed him again.He secretly sent a letter to his mother in the palace, and even the concubine mother said that the father had a heart of repentance and blamed himself for what he had done every night.Mozhan couldn't bear King Zhen's begging, and finally went back to the palace with him.

Mo Zhan hid a short blade in his sleeve, which was given to him by Xie Ling before leaving.He secretly swore in his heart that as soon as his father wanted to refine him into a pill again, he would kill himself immediately.The group sneaked back to the palace overnight. King Zhen explained that he didn't want too many people to know that Mo Zhan had returned to the palace, so as not to cause trouble for him.

Although Mo Zhan had doubts, King Zhen didn't do anything to him along the way.But when he entered the palace gate and saw Shi Tianying standing in front of him, he finally realized that he was afraid. He trembled with fear, and almost couldn't restrain himself from wanting to cut his wrist.But King Zhen immediately sent Shi Tianying away, personally sent him back to the palace, and promised him all kinds of favors, which gradually made him feel at ease again.

But that was all fake, this scene didn't even get past the end of the year.

Mo Zhan only hated himself for being so stupid, that he would still believe in the close relatives of father and son, that blood is thicker than water, that he would still believe in the ability to change his nature and turn his back on the shore.He just left his relatives for too long, so long that he would be blinded by the false friendship and willingly put his life in the hands of the other party.

Mo Zhan sneered and stopped talking. He closed his eyes, as if he just wanted to enjoy peace again at the last moment of his life.King Zhen frowned, "Master, haven't you caught him yet?"

He didn't want to see Mo Zhan's face anymore, it only reminded him that someone as noble as himself had apologized to others.The body of pure yin is nothing but a cauldron that monks compete for, and it is something that people are born to nourish. If it is not for immortality, how can he bow his head to such a bitch?

Shi Tianying leaned down slightly, "Your Majesty, don't act too hastily, he is just a brat, he has been seriously injured by me, and he will definitely not be able to escape from the imperial city."

King Zhen was very irritable, "Then why would you let a brat steal my precious medicinal materials? What if he destroys the aura of the medicinal materials, or delays the auspicious time for alchemy?"

"No," Shi Tianying said grimly, "I put bait on him, but I still have to wait for the big fish to take the bait."

At this moment, a guard hurriedly ran into the palace, "Report to the Holy Majesty, this subordinate has found the thief's hiding place, but the thief is too powerful, and the Imperial Forest Army is no match, so please send out the national teacher!"

King Zhen immediately stood up, "National teacher, go!"

After speaking, he followed behind Shi Tianying, and hurried out of the hall.

For a moment, only the scorched copper tripod and Mozhan, whose limbs were bound by iron chains, remained in the hall.Mo Zhan has already burst into tears, his death is approaching, but there are still too many things he can't let go, he hasn't seen his mother, concubine and elder brother, and the Xie family has not repaid the kindness of nurturing.He still remembered that before he left, Xie Yun repeatedly advised him to think twice before acting, but at that time he naively thought that even if he lost his life, it would be worth it if he could see his father's sincerity clearly.

At this time, when he was on the verge of death, he began to regret it. The gamble was too high for a life just to see a person's heart clearly.

Chengjing and Yunrong were hiding on the roof of the main hall, seeing King Zhen and Shi Tianying leave, Chengjing wanted to follow, but Yunrong grabbed him.

"Brother's level may be able to compete with Shi Tianying, but if something unexpected happens, we will inevitably be caught off guard. We might as well destroy Shi Tianying's alchemy cauldron now, so as not to be in a hurry later."

What Yunrong thought was that if he couldn't fight at that time, he could retreat first, and he could delay for a few more days without the medicine cauldron left and right, but it was inconvenient to speak directly with Chengjing.Cheng Jing also thought it made sense, but what he thought was that if the corpse was really destroyed, he would have no evidence to prove that Yun Rong was still alive.

Although they had different ideas, their goals were the same. The two jumped off the roof and entered the Hall of Supreme Harmony.

As soon as they entered the gate of the palace, they were shocked by the scene in front of them and stopped in their tracks. There was a strong smell of blood in the air. The person above the bronze tripod was obviously being used to refine medicine with blood, and that person was the one who had been in Xiejia Xiyuan before. The young master Mo Zhan I've seen!

Yun Rong, "Brother!"

Cheng Jing split the iron chain with a sword, and put Mo Zhan on the ground, Yun Rong hurriedly stepped forward to check his injuries.At first glance, there was no wound on Mo Zhan's body, but when he looked closely, he found that there were holes the size of needle holes all over his chest, and his blood flowed out from the atrium little by little, and it couldn't be stopped at all.

Mo Zhan was already very weak, and before Yun Rong came, he had been hung here for three hours.That Shi Tianying used some method to make his blood flow very slowly, every drop was bright and pure red, without any impurities.

"It's Tianmang Needle." Yun Rong said.

The Tianmang needle is specially used to take blood. The blood of some monsters is extremely precious but poisonous, so they use this Tianmang needle to pierce the heart, and only take the blood from the atrium, because even the most poisonous monster, his Efforts are also absolutely pure.

If the Tianmang needle hits other places, it can be saved, but if it is pierced into the chest, there is no way to recover.

"Thank you," Mo Zhan held onto his hand tightly, his voice weak and weak, "Am I hopeless?"

Yun Rong didn't answer, "Why did you come back?"

Mozhan showed a bitter smile and didn't want to mention it anymore.He said to Cheng Jing who was standing at the side, "A disciple of the Divine Sword Sect came and took away the body of Master Yun. Shi Ying and King Zhen just went to arrest him."

Cheng Jing responded, but did not move.

Mo Zhan didn't bother to care about other things, he knew very well that he might die soon, and it was a gift from God to live to be 19 years old in this life, and he only hoped that in the next life, he could become an ordinary person and simply spend the rest of his life.

He reached into his collar and grabbed the jade on his chest, and pulled it off his neck, "I can't make it through tonight, but please take this jade to Xie's family to let me know, and say, 'The kindness of nurturing, don't worry about it. Repay in the next life'."

Cheng Jing suddenly raised his head and saw the jade engraved with the word "Zhan" in Mo Zhan's hand.That piece of jade is so familiar, Mo Zhan had always carried it with him in the previous life, and it was because Chengjing accidentally saw this piece of jade that he knew that there was a word "zhan" in the other's name, Mo Zhan, the name of his beloved lover.

Then Chengjing bumped into Yunrong's eyes, their eyes met, Chengjing stood aside, Yunrong was half kneeling on the ground, there seemed to be a thousand words in his eyes.But he quickly lowered his head, took the jade in Mo Zhan's hand, and said, "Okay."

At this moment, all the past became threads in Chengjing's mind, turning into one question after another.

If he hadn't met himself, Xie Ci also came to the palace to find Yunrong's body, and he also thought that he should destroy the medicine cauldron as soon as possible. To him, Mo Zhan, who only wants to report his death...

Chengjing clenched his fists violently, and the Soul Return Mirror sealed in his heart trembled.

Then, Xie Ci accepted the jade and lied that the injury on his body was given by Shi Tianying, so he pretended to be Mo Zhan and lied to himself for 20 years.