chronicle of court survival

The resentful spirit poured into the stooped body of the old man in black, and he suddenly let out a heart-piercing scream.

"Ahhhh-"

The five fingers turned into dead branches, the robe fluttered, and the skin swelled and floated like inflated air.

The whip in the old man's hand was manipulated by an inexplicably powerful force, and the blood flowed profusely, turning back and devouring the master.

The bright red whip directly wrapped around his throat.

The old man in black couldn't stand anymore, and half-kneeled down, clutching the rope desperately with his hands on the verge of death, his eyes shrank a little in fear, and a broken groan came out of his mouth.

"Immortal!" the regent yelled sharply, striding over.

But the whole building was shaking violently.

The regent took a step forward, but was immediately stopped by the beams falling from the sky, and the broken wood crushed his feet.

"Lord, be careful!"

"Ah, what is this?"

boom!

Everyone raised their heads, their eyes widened in disbelief—the house collapsed? !

Rumble.

The nine-foot-tall building was shattered inch by inch, from top to bottom, first the beams and then the stone pillars, and the roof tiles fell, crackling, and smashed into powder.

This royal courtyard adjacent to the glazed pagoda, the pavilions are naturally rich and noble.

The carved beams and painted buildings collapsed, and the bead curtains were broken one by one.

Xia Qing stared blankly at the chaos in front of him.

The regent's eyes were tearing apart: "Go! Go! Take me down!"

The guards were also frightened by the sudden collapse, knowing that it was not suitable to stay here for a long time, they quickly dragged the regent away.

It's just that the door has completely collapsed, blocking the exit.

The pavilion is crumbling.

Everyone's face was pale.

Lou Guanxue stood by the window, saw this and smiled lightly, and said calmly.

"I guess, if you want to kill me, you must hide it from Yan Lanyu first."

His voice was very light, and it reached the regent's ears very clearly, with a joking smile: "Then Yan Lanyu should be trapped in the palace by you now, and you must not order the Sangong, nor pass orders to the Palace of Jingshi, and you must not stop me .As I expected, you did a good deed before you died."

"Lou Guanxue—!" The regent finally came to his senses, he turned around and his eyes were red, wishing to drink his blood and eat his flesh: "I underestimated you."

The regent lost all reason and roared angrily: "You think you can live if you kill me?! You can't escape! Now there are my people inside and outside the courtyard! You can't escape even if you spread your wings!"

He cried blood every word: "You are just a puppet and a prisoner! If you kill me, the Yan family will not let you go!"

Lou Guanxue lowered her eyes, looked at him, and smiled slightly: "Puppet? A prisoner? You really take yourself seriously."

The regent was stiff and staring at him.

"Lou Guanxue."

Xia Qing suddenly felt his wrist being grabbed by him.

Lou Guanxue raised her eyes and took a look outside.

The majestic imperial city, the direction of the pagoda.

His expression was frosty, and his eyes were full of ice-like sarcasm: "A hundred years ago, the mermaids did it for themselves, and a hundred years later, the human race made the same mistakes again, so it's the same goal by different routes."

At this moment, the old man in black was tormented madly by the resentful spirit, and suddenly exploded to death with a loud shout.

The surging spiritual power spread directly in the air, seriously injuring countless people, and all kinds of screams and roars came and went one after another.

"What are you going to do?" Xia Qing was confused by what happened.

Lou Guanxue grabbed his hand, and seemed to turn her head to look at him seriously now.

The snow clothes fluttered, the blue hair fluttered, and the emotion in the eyes was as deep as an abyss, capable of drowning people.

Outside the window is the moat, the river rushes through the silent night, bringing lotus lanterns to the distance one by one.In the distance, the entire Lingguang City is shrouded in ever-bright lights, and the vast Qionglou is row upon row, shining never-night bustling.

"Lou Guanxue?" Xia Qing was stunned and called out again.

Lou Guanxue stared at him, then suddenly smiled, her voice was soft but unreasonably ambiguous: "I gave you two chances, since you don't want to leave, then don't leave."

Xia Qing: "???"

In the next second, he finally knew what Lou Guanxue was going crazy again.

——Damn it, Lou Guanxue jumped off the building with him! ! !

"You should untie the relic for me first!"

wow-

Before Xia Qing could speak, he had already fallen into the cold water of the moat.

At the same time, the second firework took off "suddenly".

With a loud bang, it bloomed, shining brightly, shining like day and night.The cheers of the crowd sounded on the bridge in the distance.

Xia Qing emerged from the water, just when a lotus lantern was passing by his eyes, he angrily grabbed Lou Guanxue's hair, pulled him closer, stretched out his wrist, and said in a cold voice: "Lou Guanxue, this broken If you don’t untie things for me, we didn’t—”

The word "Endless" stuck in his throat, and Lou Guanxue had already stretched out a finger to cover his mouth.

The red building was completely wiped out and turned into ruins.

The chief guard's furious voice was heard from the bank.

"Shut up the city gate! Digging three feet into the ground will also find the culprit!"

"My lord, the Regent and His Majesty seem to be in the building."

"What?! Quickly send someone to save you!"

Xia Qing met his eyes in the water.

Lou Guanxue's black hair was scattered in the water, her eyelashes were also wet, and she didn't know what was going on right now, so she laughed for a long time.

Xia Qing looked at him like he was crazy.

On both sides are all kinds of swaying blessing lotus lanterns. They pass by, and the fireworks and lights leave reflections. Lou Guanxue's skin is extremely white, her red lips are smiling, and her eyes are deep and cold, like a water demon that captures people's hearts.

He said hoarsely, "Of course we don't finish tonight."

After speaking, he took Xia Qing's hand and swam to the end of the moat.

"You want to come out of Lingguang?" Xia Qing only realized now.

"Yeah." Lou Guanxue raised her eyes and looked in front of her eyes, and said lightly: "People come and go to the lantern banquet, the city gate is not so easy to close, not to mention that Yan Lanyu is trapped in the Jingxin Palace, a rare opportunity."

Xia Qing: "..." He realized that he had never really understood what Lou Guanxue wanted to do.

After lurking in the water for a while, Lou Guanxue took Xia Qing ashore temporarily,

On the shore, Xia Qing lowered his head and found the wound from the old man's whip. After soaking in the water, it looked even more terrifying, and his robe was drenched with blood.Being blown by the wind is a deep pain.

Lou Guanxue obviously noticed this too, he lowered his eyes, and grasped Xia Qing's wrist involuntarily.

Then the movement was crisp and neat, and the bone flute was stretched out from the sleeve.

The bone flute now seemed a little different from what Xia Qing usually saw.

The evil blood energy that had been accumulated above when we first met was gone now.

The whole body is as clean as jade, and the red color fades to reveal the original appearance, with a slight cold light, like snow and moon.

The streamer on the flute was carried by Lou Guanxue's fingertips to Xia Qing's wound, strangely, after an extremely gentle touch, the flesh and blood healed in the light and dust.

Xia Qing was in the dark of the street, his eyes were blank, and he didn't say a word.After a long time, he suddenly raised his head and asked softly, "Lou Guanxue, are you a god now?"

Lou Guanxue didn't even think about it, she sneered, "No."

Xia Qing stopped talking.

After helping him heal the wound, Lou Guanxue said calmly: "I took the divine bone from Yao Ke. She rescued me from the Futu Pagoda, and she knew that she would definitely die, so she told me about it first."

Xia Qing was stunned, and said, "So the evil light on the flute before was her grievance before death?"

Lou Guanxue: "Maybe."

Xia Qing asked again: "Where are you going when you leave Lingguang?"

Lou Guanxue smiled meaningfully, and said, "Probably, let's go to the Mausoleum of Emperor Liang."

Xia Qing: "???" How did this have something to do with Liang Guo again? !

Lou Guanxue said, "Do you think Song Guichen will chase him out?"

Xia Qing thought for a while, and said slowly: "High Priest? Probably not. But why are you asking me? I don't know him well."

Lou Guanxue's jade crown also fell off the moment she fell into the water, her black hair was scattered, and her luxurious clothes looked like a handful of snow in the dark night. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "If you keep avoiding this, I won't force you to do so." Yes. After all, it doesn't matter to me who you were before."

Xia Qing: "..."

Nothing to say.

He chose to purse his lips and ignore it.

Lou Guanxue said: "I think Song Guichen will chase after him." His face was cold and pale, but his smile was like a flower stained with blood, decadent and extravagant: "He is the Sifan sword master, Sifan, I think Song Guichen This life is destined to be dragged down by the mortal world to death."

Being dragged down to death by the mortal world.

Xia Qing was lost in thought when he heard this.

In fact, it was exactly as Lou Guanxue said.

Song Guichen is here.

He seemed to have attended the Lantern Festival.

The world-famous Sifan sword is in the sleeve.

Standing on Zimo Street near the gate of the city, playing with a child's rattle, like a rich man who has no worries about food and drink, with an elegant and casual posture, chatting with the hawker about homework.

Hair tied with wooden hairpins, wearing a purple shirt.

Putting it in the busy city, the temperament is as clear as the breeze and the moon, but it does not appear cold and distant at all.

No one who came and went could recognize that this was the high priest of Jingshi Temple.

Song Guichen can chat with anyone.

The peddler had a natural affection for him, and said with a smile, "Did you buy it for the children at home?"

Song Guichen smiled gently: "Not really, I don't have a family,"

The girl selling lanterns next to the hawker's eyes lit up immediately: "So, the young master hasn't married yet?"

There was undisguised admiration in her eyes.

Song Guichen shook his head when he heard the words, blinked narrowly at the girl, and spoke slowly: "I was married, but we divorced."

The light in the eyes of the lantern girl suddenly dimmed, but she still refused to give up after thinking about it. She pretended to be free and easy and said with a smile: "The young master has such an appearance and demeanor, that girl is willing to leave, but she really doesn't have long eyes."

Song Guichen put down the rattle, his light-colored lips curled up, his crimson robe was windless and automatic, but his voice was calm and distant: "It's just that the ways are different and we don't conspire with each other."

The lantern girl was shocked by his sudden indifference.

Knowing that the touch would mean that he would turn his back, he smiled embarrassingly and stopped talking.

"The royal family arrests the most important criminals! Idle people and others will stay away!"

The soldiers rushed outside the city gate, and the sound was like thunder!But the lantern feast was crowded with people, and the sound of fireworks continued one after another, boiling over the sky, and his voice didn't cause much effect.

Dispelling is not an easy task.

Song Guichen looked at the guards standing in a row, and smiled again, and said in a flat tone, "You really treat Your Majesty as a fool."

The moat is very long and dark, but fortunately, the people of the Lantern Festival sent countless lights to the river today, and there is some light to guide the way.

I don't know if it was the blessing of the god's bone and god's light, Xia Qing didn't find it difficult to walk in the water, but walked very easily.

Xia Qing had no objection to following Lou Guanxue out of the mausoleum.

Anyway, he has no purpose in this world, coming here is like traveling!After seeing the most prosperous Lingguang City in the sixteen prefectures, it’s not bad to go to other places to experience the local customs and customs!

The moat meanders towards the gate of the city. In order to ensure the strict defense of Lingguang, a dam is erected here as a wall.

Xia Qing said slowly, "Can't you just go out from the main entrance openly?"

Lou Guanxue said, "It's the same on both sides."

Xia Qing: "What?"

Lou Guanxue swam to the mouth of the dam, and stretched out her hand to touch the wall that was soaked by the water day after day, and moss grew.Then, he scratched his fingertips on a rough and sharp bulge, and drew a talisman array on it with blood.

Xia Qing was familiar with that formation, he had seen Lou Guanxue draw it countless times on paper.

In the next second, I just listened to "咔咔咒", along the rune line, the cracks scattered, and it seemed that the entire dam was going to be destroyed.At the same time, the water flow of the moat became more turbulent, and a force was conceived from the heavens and the earth, bringing the soupy river water, and crazily hitting the dam.

boom--

The dam was completely shattered, and rocks fell from head to toe.

Xia Qing didn't even react and blocked his head with his hands, but who would have expected that all the rocks would avoid him.

"What is this?" Xia Qing was stunned.

He hasn't asked a question yet.

The Lotus Lantern in the River has flowed out of the city with the suddenly fierce river water, passing through the rolling lime smoke and the faint wick, it is mighty and mighty, and it flows straight to the east.

Lou Guanxue took him out of the water without any dampness in his clothes or hair.

Not far from the city outside the dam is an abandoned arch bridge.

Half collapsed, covered with weeds.

At this time, there was a person standing on the arch bridge.

Song Guichen held a sword in his hand, and his voice sounded gentle with the moonlight, but he released the coercion without hesitation.

"Your Majesty, the lantern banquet is not over yet, how can you leave now as the protagonist."

Lou Guanxue's expression remained unchanged, but she stuck to Xia Qing's ear and said with a smile, "Look, I guessed it right."

Xia Qing: "..."

Song Guichen looked sleepy, held the Sifan sword, lowered his head, and didn't stop until he saw Xia Qing.His expression, which he didn't care about at first, froze, his light-colored pupils deepened little by little, and he looked at Xia Qingqiao on and off the bridge.

The rolling stones in the distance have not yet completely fallen, and there is still gray smoke and sound when stepping out of the wall.

Countless lotus lanterns flock to the distance.

It seems to be the same way a hundred years ago.

Song Guichen: "Xia Qing."

He called out his name calmly.