This opportunity, from light to darkness, let's see who is eager to replace me. "
Shen Hao nodded: "You are right."
The terrain downstream was flat, and there were lush reeds growing on the river bank. Chu Yuming quickly pulled Shen Hao into the reeds.
Not long after, a group of soldiers came to the place where they stood just now, leading a hunting dog.Dogs are more sensitive to smells, so they smelled it where Chu Yuming and the others were standing, and then came to the river to observe.
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao quickly hid in the water, breathing only through their noses.
Water can cut off the smell, and the hunting dog finally failed to find Chu Yuming and Shen Hao, and sat on the ground without moving.
Seeing that there was no harvest, the soldiers continued to search downstream with hunting dogs.
After the sound of footsteps completely disappeared, Chu Yuming surfaced, "Huh..." After taking a few breaths eagerly, he realized that Shen Hao hadn't moved.
Shen Hao was sinking continuously, fortunately the reeds were not in a hurry, otherwise they would have been washed away by the current.
Chu Yuming quickly picked Shen Hao out of the water. Because of physical contact, he realized that Shen Hao's body temperature was very low and he was shivering.
Chu Yuming was surprised, and quickly shook Shen Hao: "Shen Hao, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm poisoned, don't worry about me, you go back to Xuantian City first." Shen Hao's voice was weak.
"Shut up! How could you be poisoned?" Chu Yuming quickly looked at Shen Hao, and found that there was a hole in the clothes of Shen Hao's right arm.He tore open the opening directly and found a black and red knife wound on his arm.
Chu Yuming immediately thought that on the boat, it was Shen Hao who pushed him away and blocked the hidden weapon that was originally shot at him for him.
"Hidden weapons are poisonous!" Chu Yuming frowned.
The poison of the hidden weapon is very powerful, if Shen Hao hadn't stayed in the river for a long time and washed away part of the poison, Shen Hao would have died long ago.However, Shen Hao's current situation is not much better, his body is extremely weak, he is so dizzy that he can't exert his strength.
"Let's go." Chu Yuming immediately supported Shen Hao and walked towards the dense forest on the river bank.
He didn't know what kind of poison Shen Hao had suffered from, but he knew many kinds of medicines to relieve the poison, so he wanted to go to the dense forest to see.
Chu Yuming supported Shen Hao, walked through the secret passage with difficulty, and soon became exhausted and out of breath.
At this time, he hated the setting of his own body very much, if it was his original body, it would not be so troublesome... But then again, if it was the original body, Shen Hao would not be poisoned.
Entering the forest, Chu Yuming quickly found a medicinal plant, picked it quickly, and then led Shen Hao to continue walking deep.
However, as he was walking, Shen Hao's body was heavy, and he fell to the ground with Chu Yuming. It turned out that Shen Hao had passed out.
"Shen Hao, wake up." Chu Yuming patted Shen Hao's cheek, but Shen Hao didn't respond at all.
Xiao Qi emerged from the system, glanced at the unconscious Shen Hao, and smiled at Chu Yuming: "At this time, you should leave him behind."
Chu Yuming glanced at Xiao Qi displeasedly: "I didn't call you, why did you come out again?"
"You are all like this, how can I stay!" Xiao Qi shouted immediately.
Chu Yuming glanced at Xiao Qi displeasedly, but said nothing, and supported Shen Hao to continue walking into the woods.
Xiao Qi followed immediately: "Don't you want to kill him? Now that he's been poisoned, isn't it just what you want?"
Shen Hao was completely unconscious, Chu Yuming was struggling to support him, Xiao Qi was chattering non-stop beside him, but Chu Yuming couldn't listen at all.
Rationally, Chu Yuming should indeed throw Shen Hao away, but the scene of Shen Hao blocking the hidden weapon for him kept appearing in his mind, as well as the arms that hugged him in time when he was suffocated in the water.Chu Yuming couldn't help laughing at himself, it seemed that he was not yet a qualified devil, and he really couldn't be ungrateful.
He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and led Shen Hao to the dense forest.
Finally, on a hillside, they found a cave where they could temporarily hide.This should be the cave of wild wolves, but there are no wolves now, only the smell of wolves remains.
Chu Yuming supported Shen Hao to lie on the ground. At this moment, Shen Hao's face had turned blue-black.He tore off Shen Hao's skirt, revealing the location of the wound on his shoulder. The black and red knife wound just now had festered, and black dirty blood flowed out.
Xiao Qi curled her lips: "He is almost hopeless."
"Shut up!" Chu Yuming yelled, he took off the Yi Rong Card, and using the sharp edges of the Yi Rong Card, he cut open the wound and let out the dirty blood.
The sharp pain in the wound made Shen Hao snort involuntarily, and finally regained a trace of clarity.
He tried to open his eyes, saw Chu Yuming crushed the herbal medicine and applied it on his arm, he quickly said: "Thank you."
Chu Yuming paused, glanced at Shen Hao uncomfortably, and then sat beside him.
"I'm fine, you should hurry back to Xuantian City."
"Shut up, I'll fix you."
"You don't have to save me. You and I are enemies to begin with. My death is exactly what you want."
"Shen Hao, am I the kind of ungrateful person?" Chu Yuming stood up displeased.
Shen Hao forced a smile: "I have no kindness to you, no matter who it is, as long as there is a need, I will save it, so you don't have to worry about it."
"Oh, yes, I forgot that you are a benevolent and righteous genius. Even if I am a big devil, you are willing to save me. I am really touched." Chu Yuming laughed mockingly.
"Well, it's good that you know."
"You..." Chu Yuming was very angry, wishing to beat Shen Hao up, but Shen Hao was already dying, so he resisted not doing anything, and finally said coldly, "Since you are so benevolent and don't want to reciprocate, then I will also Don't worry about your life." After speaking, Chu Yuming got up and walked out of the cave.
"Hey, I'm really gone." Xiao Qi looked towards the entrance of the cave in surprise.
"Well, let's go." Shen Hao's voice was so low that even he couldn't hear the regret in it. He looked at the entrance of the cave and slowly closed his eyes.
☆, Concubine VS Emperor
After leaving the cave, Chu Yuming tried his best to calm down his emotions. Sometimes, he really hated Shen Hao's righteous behavior.
"Are you really leaving? He's been poisoned." Xiao Qi chased him out and asked.
Chu Yuming ignored Xiao Qi and walked towards the dense forest, Xiao Qi followed immediately: "Yes, it's important that we go back to Xuantian City."
Chu Yuming walked forward on his own, but the direction was not Xuantian City. Xiao Qi hurriedly asked after finding out, but Chu Yuming ignored him. Finally, after Chu Yuming climbed a tree and picked a wild flower, Xiao Qi Finally understood: "You are still looking for medicine for him!"
Chu Yuming finally took a look at Xiao Qi, but his tone was very bad: "Don't disturb me, go back to the system!"
"I don't want it." Xiao Qi put his waist on his back and snorted. Seeing that Chu Yuming ignored him and went elsewhere, he quickly flew over to block Chu Yuming's way.
"What?" Chu Yuming asked coldly, his patience was exhausted, if he could, he really wanted to slap Xiao Qi back into the system.
Xiao Qi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you really want to save him?"
"I don't want to save him, but even if he is going to die, he will die by my hands."
"Hmm..." Xiao Qi hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Are you sure you can find all the medicine you need?"
Chu Yuming paused, and quickly asked, "Is there none here?"
"I can't tell you, think about it yourself." Xiao Qi couldn't reveal the information, so he just asked Chu Yuming to let Chu Yuming think for himself.Anyway, what Chu Yuming thought of in the end was Chu Yuming's own idea, and it had nothing to do with him.
Chu Yuming frowned. He knew that Xiao Qi couldn't reveal the information, but Xiao Qi's question had already pointed out the direction: he couldn't find the antidote here.
Chu Yuming was startled by this answer, and hurried back the way he came.
When he left, he applied medicine to Shen Hao, which could at least delay the time of the poison.Originally, he thought that with his alchemy ability, he could make an antidote after finding all the medicinal materials, but he ignored an important question: what would happen if the medicinal materials were not found?
From the beginning of alchemy, Chu Yuming had never worried about medicinal materials.And here is the mission world, all kinds of medicinal materials are distributed all over the world, it is not possible to find all the medicinal materials in one forest.
Thinking of this, Chu Yuming couldn't help but quicken his pace, feeling unspeakable worry in his heart.
"Why are you leaving in such a hurry? It's too late anyway." Xiao Qifei walked up to Chu Yuming, looked at the panting Chu Yuming, and asked curiously.
Chu Yuming ignored him and almost ran all the way back to the cave.But when he came to the entrance of the cave, he stopped in his tracks, a little afraid that Shen Hao would die of poison.
"Hurry up, he's not dead yet." Xiao Qi didn't understand what Chu Yuming was thinking, and flew directly into the cave.Shen Hao is not dead yet, but he is not far from death.
Shen Hao was groggy, the poison invaded his lungs, and black blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.In a daze, he seemed to see Chu Yuming, and he couldn't tell whether it was reality or a dream, so he smiled: "Junior Brother Chu..."
Chu Yuming trembled when he heard Shen Hao's voice, and many memories flooded him like a tide.
"Hey, what are you standing there for? Can you save him?" Xiao Qi waved his hand in front of Chu Yuming's eyes, seeing that Chu Yuming didn't respond, he asked quickly.
Only then did Chu Yuming come back to his senses: "Of course we have to be rescued." Chu Yuming rushed to Shen Hao's side to check Shen Hao's situation, but the more he looked, the more he frowned.
"Actually, it's wise for you to give up on him." Xiao Qi said leisurely.
"Before, didn't you keep persuading us to make peace, why are you persuading me to give up him now?"
"He was not injured before, and you can cooperate better to complete the task, but now..." Xiao Qi looked at Shen Hao who was in a coma after being poisoned, "He is like this now, what can he do if he doesn't give up?" He spread his hands out, and shook his head helplessly.
Chu Yuming didn't speak for a while, looking at the unconscious Shen Hao, he fell into deep thought. After a while, he came back to his senses: "Although you are a bad and good person, you were indeed injured to save me. I saved you." You, just don't want to owe you favors."
After speaking, Chu Yuming opened the system mall, found Jiedu Pill in it, and clicked to buy it.
A detoxification pill requires 5000 points, which used up all their savings, but Chu Yuming clicked to pay without hesitation.
When the familiar box popped up, he put one hand on the box, grabbed Shen Hao's hand with the other, and placed it on the virtual box.
Soon the payment was successful, and a detox pill appeared in the purchased product.
Chu Yuming took out the detoxification pill and fed it to Shen Hao, and the big stone in his heart fell to the ground.
"I can't tell, you really will help him." Xiao Qi couldn't help but sigh after seeing the series of actions Chu Yuming had done.
Chu Yuming glanced at Xiao Qi: "You can go back to the system now, don't disturb our rest."
"Okay, okay." Xiao Qi is in a good mood now, obediently returning to the system world.
Chu Yuming watched Shen Hao's face improve, and he lay down on the other side of the cave with peace of mind.
After a lot of tossing today, it is already dark now.Chu Yuming only ate something before going out, but now he was tired and hungry.But Shen Hao hasn't woken up yet, he can't leave the cave.
The silver moonlight shone in from the cave, covering the two of them with a layer of silver.
Chu Yuming looked at Shen Hao in the moonlight, and couldn't help but go back to many years ago.
At that time, he was 13 years old, and he joined Ling Xiaozong for just one year. He participated in the sect trial for the first time, and the senior brother who led the team that time happened to be Shen Hao.
The location of the trial is Fuhu Mountain near Ling Xiaozong. Because they are all new disciples, their trial tasks are relatively simple.However, something went wrong during the trial. A spirit beast at the peak of Foundation Establishment suddenly attacked them.
As the senior brother leading the team, Shen Hao was obliged to stand in front of them.Because the spirit beast was too powerful, Shen Hao asked another senior brother to take the disciples away. Chu Yuming was very worried about Shen Hao, and turned back after a while.
"What are you doing back?" Shen Hao was very angry.
"I want to help you."
Chu Yuming has been a student for one year and has reached the peak of Qi training. He is already the best among the same group of disciples, but he is not even qualified to fight against the spirit beasts at the peak of foundation establishment.However, Chu Yuming was not afraid, and fought side by side with Shen Hao, and finally used the Zongmen's combined fencing technique - Linyuan sword technique, and finally killed the spirit beast.
But Shen Hao was also injured, Chu Yuming helped Shen Hao find a cave to rest. The 13-year-old Chu Yuming guarded the entrance of the cave with his sword in his arms, like a dedicated guard.
……
In the early morning of the next day, Shen Hao finally woke up from the coma. The detoxification pill really worked very well. Not only did it detoxify, but even the wound on his arm began to scab.
Shen Hao was a little surprised, sat up quickly, and found that he was the only one in the cave, feeling a little disappointed.
He asked Xiao Qi: "Who saved me?"
"Of course it's Chu Yuming." Xiao Qi flew out of the system and said.
"It's really him?" After getting the answer, Shen Hao's heart suddenly became active, he stood up and asked, "Then where did he go?"
Just after asking, a figure appeared at the entrance of the cave. He took off Chu Yuming who was disguised by Rongka, and returned to the appearance of Concubine Yu, holding something wrapped in lotus leaves in his hand.
Seeing that Shen Hao woke up, Chu Yuming's first reaction was to be happy, but thinking that they were rivals, he immediately covered his expression and said coldly: "Wake up, eat something."
He went out to look for something to eat early in the morning, but in the end he only found some fruit.
Shen Hao glanced at Guozi, then at Chu Yuming, and said seriously, "Thank you, thank you for saving me."
Chu Yuming paused the hand holding the fruit, then put the fruit into his mouth, and said nonchalantly, "No, I wouldn't have saved you if it wasn't for completing the mission."
Shen Hao was dumbfounded, knowing that some of the things he said to make Chu Yuming leave before were hated by Chu Yuming.He took a fruit to eat, looked at Chu Yuming's side face, and suddenly remembered what happened more than ten years ago.
"I remember the first time you participated in the sect trial, we fought side by side and killed the two-horned spirit wolf at the peak of foundation establishment..."
"Shut up," Chu Yuming interrupted Shen Hao when he heard Shen Hao mentioning the past, "It's been so many years, what are you doing!"
"Chu... Junior brother Chu, why did you betray the sect back then? If you really have any difficulties, you can tell me."
Shen Hao's words touched the thorn in Chu Yuming's heart again, he stood up, kicked away the fruit wrapped in lotus leaves, and said angrily: "Shen Hao, if others respect you as 'righteous Tianjiao', you will really Do you think you can uphold justice? Since you want to know the truth so much, I can tell you, but will you really believe what I say?"
"I believe you." Shen Hao quickly stood up and said.
"Really?" Chu Yuming smiled coldly, approached Shen Hao step by step, and asked, "In your heart, what kind of person is your Uncle Feng? Kind-faced and kind-hearted? Great benevolence and righteousness? Yes, he saved He killed me and brought me into the sect to practice. He was really my reborn parents. But in fact? He liked my talent, so he killed my whole family. He wanted to take away my spiritual root when I was an adult and cultivation. But he was unlucky, and I killed him in the end."
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao were very close, his eyes were fixed on Shen Hao, and he didn't miss any of Shen Hao's expressions.
Shen Hao was speechless in surprise, and finally under Chu Yuming's sharp gaze, he slowly said, "What you said is true? You can tell the truth and let my father..."
"Hehe," Chu Yuming interrupted Shen Hao bluntly, "Do you think your father doesn't know the truth? It's because he knows, that's why he couldn't wait to kill me. After all, my good master is a respected teacher of the Zongmen. The elder is the relative and younger brother of the master of the sect."
"My father wouldn't do that." Shen Hao didn't want to believe that his father, who was tall in his mind, would kill people to cover up the sect's scandal.
Chu Yuming smiled mockingly, and he knew that Shen Hao would not believe it, so he turned and walked out of the cave without hesitation.
"Junior Brother Chu, Junior Brother Chu..." Shen Hao chased to the entrance of the cave and saw Chu Yuming's determined back.
☆, Concubine VS Emperor
Chu Yuming hurried to Xuantian City, because he was holding his breath, he didn't feel tired at all, and soon came to Xuantian City.
Xuantian City is now heavily guarded by soldiers, he can't sneak into the city quietly, along the woods, he came to the north gate, and saw many people leaving the city one after another.
Chu Yuming hurried up, looking for someone to ask about the situation.
"Young man, you must have escaped. There is going to be a war in Xuantian City, so you should go to Maple Leaf City with us." Chu Yuming was still looking for candidates, and an old woman took the initiative to say to him.
It was only then that Chu Yuming realized that he was indeed a refugee.
He was only wearing a dark undershirt, and because he had been soaked in water, lay on the ground, and was scratched in several places while looking for medicine, his clothes were already in tatters.And in order to avoid revealing his identity, he deliberately let his hair loose, and even smeared mud on his face, he was a real refugee.
Chu Yuming acquiesced to his new identity, and took the initiative to step forward: "Old man, you said Xuantian City is going to fight?"
"That's right, Xuantian City is going to fight at any time, General Fan ordered us to go to Maple Leaf City. I also heard that His Majesty passed away, and people are panicking now."
"Your Majesty died?" Chu Yuming guessed that the news was from King Chen, with the purpose of throwing the Qi army into chaos.
"Go away, go away!"
At this time, a group of soldiers appeared on the road, waving horse whips, and kept driving away the fleeing people on the road.
Chu Yuming supported the old lady to the side of the road. Not long after, a group of imperial guards came galloping on horseback, accompanied by an exquisite carriage.
"It should be a nobleman from the capital." The old woman said.
Chu Yuming said goodbye to the old lady without saying a word, and walked towards the gate of Xuantian City.
Now Chen Qi's two armies will fight at any time, he needs to meet General Fan quickly to stabilize the situation.
At this time, with a hand on his shoulder, Chu Yuming reflexively turned around to grab the opponent, but the opponent cleverly dodged his attack.
"It's me." Shen Hao said.
"What are you doing!" Chu Yuming pushed Shen Hao away rudely.
"Brother Chu, it's not that I don't believe what you said, but it's about my father and Uncle Feng, so I can't make a rash decision. Please give me some time. When we return to the Tianxing Continent, I will definitely ask my father the truth. , to return your innocence." Shen Hao stood in front of Chu Yuming and said seriously.
"Innocence?" Chu Yuming sneered, "I believed in your father so much back then, but he wished he could get rid of me as soon as possible. Will he admit something that damages the reputation of Ling Xiaozong?"
Seeing that Chu Yuming was about to leave, Shen Hao quickly grabbed him: "You don't trust my father, you should trust me."
Chu Yuming's face became even colder, he broke away from Shen Hao's hand, and asked in a cold voice: "Why should I believe you? Back then, I was hunted down and kept sending you summons, but you didn't answer a single word. Why do you want me to believe you?" you?"
Chu Yuming was so excited that he attracted the attention of the soldiers: "What are you doing? Hurry up!"
Like Chu Yuming, Shen Hao was dressed in rags and had disheveled hair. The soldiers thought they were refugees going to Maple Leaf City and urged them to leave quickly.
"Go right away, go right away." Shen Hao pulled Chu Yuming away from the gate of the city.
"Let me go!" Chu Yuming kept struggling, but Shen Hao didn't let go.
"Listen to me, when I heard the news that you betrayed the sect, I immediately rushed back to the Lingxiaozong. I wanted to find you, but my father locked me up, so I didn't receive any of your communication symbols. .”
Chu Yuming was stunned for a moment. He thought that Shen Hao didn't reply to him because Shen Hao also thought that he had betrayed Ling Xiaozong, but he didn't expect...
"So give me time, and I will definitely find out the truth." Shen Hao's attitude was so sincere that Chu Yuming forgot about struggling.
"Okay, I'll trust you again." Finally, Chu Yuming said.
"Junior Brother Chu, thank you for trusting me," Shen Hao smiled, looked around, and said, "But the most important thing now is to complete the task."
"Do you have a way to enter the city?" There are heavy guards at the gate of the city. They will definitely be strictly interrogated when they enter the city, and their identities may be exposed.
"There is a way." Shen Hao and Chu Yuming reached an agreement, and their mood became very comfortable.He saw that on the official road outside the city, there were many soldiers maintaining order and directing the fleeing people to leave.
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao followed the refugee team towards Maple Leaf City, but they kept a close eye on the soldiers around them. In the end, they each selected a single soldier, knocked him unconscious, and took off the uniform to change In the end, he disguised himself as a soldier and returned to Xuantian City.
After entering the city, Chu Yuming and Shen Hao went straight to the city lord's mansion, but all the outside of the city lord's mansion was under martial law, they were just ordinary soldiers now and couldn't get in at all.
After hovering around for a long time, Chu Yuming finally saw General Fan coming out of the city lord's mansion, riding a horse and not knowing where he was going.
"Let's go." Chu Yuming and Shen Hao hurriedly followed, and finally followed General Fan to the temporary residence where the wounded soldiers were recuperating.
There are so many people here that it is easy to get in, but it is very difficult to get in touch with General Fan. In the end, Chu Yuming decided to play the wounded soldier himself and let Shen Hao help him in.
But before going in, Chu Yuming asked Shen Hao to cover his face with a cloth, and he himself put on the Yi Rong Card and changed back to Qi Huang's appearance.Chu Yuming took off his helmet, deliberately grabbed a few strands of hair, and with Shen Hao's support, he entered the residence where the wounded soldiers were recuperating.
After entering, the two sat on the only way, waiting for General Fan to come out.
Chu Yuming pretended to be a wounded soldier and leaned on Shen Hao's shoulder, while Shen Hao looked around to observe the situation here.
After about a cup of tea, Shen Hao finally saw the figure of General Fan, and quickly whispered: "General Fan is here."
Chu Yuming raised his head slightly, and seeing General Fan approaching, he stood up and stumbled over.
General Fan's personal guards immediately stepped forward to stop them, only to see the man fall in front of them.The guards stared wide-eyed, they obviously didn't even touch this person.
"What's wrong?" General Fan stepped forward and asked.
"General Fan..." Chu Yuming raised his head, and his face that belonged to Emperor Qi appeared in front of General Fan.
"you……"
General Fan was about to speak, when Shen Hao stepped forward and interrupted him: "General Fan, my friend is injured, can he heal alone."
"Oh, okay, okay, this way." General Fan nodded incoherently, and led Chu Yuming and Shen Hao to a remote room.
"You stay here." General Fan said to his personal guards. When he entered the room, he was overjoyed to see Chu Yuming who was safe and sound. He was about to kowtow to salute, but was stopped by Chu Yuming.
"These hypocrisy will be avoided. Tell me what's going on now?"
"Your Majesty, after you fell into the water and disappeared, I have been sending people to look for it. Last night, Deputy General Cao found your... Well, a corpse. Because you were wearing the armor you disappeared, many generals thought that something happened to you."
"Can you determine the identity of the corpse with a piece of armor?" Chu Yuming sneered, the armor was taken off by Shen Hao because it was too heavy in the water.
"Of course I don't believe it, I have been sending people to look for you, but other generals don't think so, just now..." General Fan glanced at Chu Yuming's face, frowned and said, "His Royal Highness the Seventeenth Prince has received news that he has arrived in Xuantian City , Said to avenge His Majesty."
"The Seventeenth Prince, it's him!" Chu Yuming immediately realized that there was something wrong with the Seventeenth Prince. He only saw King Chen yesterday, but Qi Feng came here today. This speed is too fast.Moreover, Qi Feng is young, even if he wants to leave the palace, the ministers will not agree, which shows that Qi Feng must have superior means.
"Your Majesty, I didn't intend to provoke the relationship between you and the Seventeenth Prince. There is really something wrong with the Seventeenth Prince."
"Say, tell me everything you know, and I forgive you for your innocence."
General Fan then continued: "Your Majesty, I have been strictly blocking the news of your disappearance, but I don't know how the Seventeenth Prince knew about it. Moreover, the Seventeenth Prince was able to mobilize the Imperial Forest Army, and even many deputy generals of the Zhenbei Army Following the order of the Seventeenth Prince, I think that there is something wrong with the Seventeenth Prince, and I am afraid that he wants to... usurp the throne."
"Is he not like the original Qi Feng?" Chu Yuming asked.
General Fan also watched Qi Feng grow up, thought for a while, and nodded: "The style of behavior is not quite like the seventeenth prince."
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao looked at each other, and they both saw the answer in each other's eyes: Qi Feng is their task opponent.
"Qi Feng, I will take care of it. The most important thing now is to stabilize the army, General Fan. I will leave this to you."
"The minister obeys the order and never lets the military power fall into the hands of others."
At this time, someone knocked on the door: "General, the woman in the firewood room has woken up."
Chu Yuming looked at General Fan, and General Fan immediately explained: "Your Majesty, my servants found a woman in the lower reaches of the Wei River, suspected to be the person who was on the boat yesterday." Worried about leaking the news, General Fan secretly locked her in the firewood room .
"Maiden Feng?" Chu Yuming had a guess in his heart, and immediately asked General Fan to lead the way.
In order to keep it secret, General Fan asked his personal guards to guard the door of the backyard, and he brought Chu Yuming and Shen Hao to the firewood room in the backyard. He opened the door, and Chu Yuming really saw Maid Feng leaning on the bed.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Maid Feng was drinking medicine, but she lost her mind when she saw Chu Yuming, and the medicine bowl fell to the ground and shattered.
Chu Yuming's face was very cold. The accident that happened on the Weihe River yesterday was inseparable from Maid Feng.
"General Fan, you go out first."
"Yes." General Fan closed the door and stood guard at the door.
Only Chu Yuming, Shen Hao, and Maid Feng were left in the firewood room. Maid Feng knew she was guilty, so she knelt down on the ground and begged for mercy.
"Your Majesty, this servant didn't mean to deceive you, someone forced me." Maid Feng came to Chu Yuming on her knees, hugged Chu Yuming's leg and cried.
Chu Yuming trusted Maid Feng before, but in the end he was tricked by King Chen. He even hated Maid Feng, so he kicked Maid Feng away and asked, "How do you know about ecstasy?"
"Someone told the servants."
"who is it?"
"I don't know, my servant. After I left the city, I was caught, and they fed poison to my servant." Maid Feng cried. She originally wanted to go back to Chen County with full expectations, but she was caught by a group of people just after she left the city. Get caught and have to follow someone else's orders.
☆, Concubine VS Emperor
General Fan has been guarding the door. Although Emperor Qi is safe and sound, he is still uneasy.
After waiting for a stick of incense, Emperor Qi still didn't come out, but he waited for his cronies: "General, His Royal Highness summoned General Cao and other deputy generals of the Zhenbei Army to discuss matters alone in the City Lord's Mansion. And after receiving the news, Chen Jun from Nan'an All are deployed on the Weihe defense line, and a general offensive should be launched. In addition, in Huainan, Anbei and other places, the army has changed, and I am afraid that we must follow the example of King Chen."
"I see, let the battalions prepare for battle. The most important thing is that orders not from the general will be invalidated!"
"Yes." The confidant took the order and left.
In the chaifang, through the mouth of Maid Feng, Chu Yuming finally connected the cause and effect.
Qi Feng should have known about the fact that he sent Maid Feng back to Chen County, and then Qi Feng sent someone to capture Maid Feng, and let Maid Feng do things for him by poisoning him.
On the one hand, Qi Feng asked Maid Feng to send a letter to King Chen, saying that he would get rid of Emperor Qi, and then support the young Qi Feng as emperor, so that King Chen could coerce the emperor to make the princes.
On the other hand, Qi Feng took advantage of Chu Yuming's desire to find the opponent of the mission, and deliberately asked Maid Feng to send a letter to Chu Yuming, saying that Chen Wang had fallen into an enchantment, and tricked Chu Yuming to meet Chen Wang.
However, Qi Feng knew that the ecstasy Gu could not be known to outsiders, so he didn't ask Maid Feng to tell Chen Wang about the ecstasy Gu.This aroused Chen Wang's suspicion, and decided to use the river water to kill Qi Huang and Maid Feng together.
Maid Feng was lucky, she was found by General Fan's men, after treatment, the toxicity was temporarily suppressed.But there is no antidote, and the poison will develop soon. Maid Feng doesn't want to die, so she recruits everything, hoping that Emperor Qi can detoxify her.
"You have betrayed the trust of Zhen and Concubine Yu, thinking that I will save you if you say this?" Chu Yuming sneered.
"Your Majesty, this servant was forced to do so. The servant is convicted. Please save the servant..." Maid Feng kept kowtowing for mercy.
Chu Yuming was unmoved, even felt noisy, and wanted to slap Maid Feng to death.
But Shen Hao couldn't bear it: "She was forced to, or let the imperial doctor come over to see if he can detoxify her."
"Shut up, I won't be as merciful as you," Chu Yuming pushed the door straight out, and said to General Fan who was waiting at the door, "Send someone to guard her, don't worry about her life or death." Chu Yuming didn't know what poison Qi Feng had poisoned Maid Feng, but it was definitely not simple, so he wouldn't waste time on someone who betrayed him.
General Fan nodded quickly, and told Chu Yuming the news he had just received.
"If Chen Jun attacks aggressively, can Xuantian City be defended?"
"Your Majesty, I am [-]% sure that I can defend Xuantian City."
"Seventy percent...that's good, but isn't there a general in the Zhenbei Army who has defected to Qi Feng, and the general is sure to control all the troops?" Chu Yuming is most worried about Qi Feng's control of the military power.
"Your Majesty, according to your request, I have already arranged secret orders for the generals of different levels of the Zhenbei Army. Without the secret orders of the humble ministers, the other lieutenants would not be able to transfer the Zhenbei Army at all."
"Huh?" Chu Yuming was surprised. He didn't give General Fan any instructions at all. At this moment, when he saw Shen Hao giving him an awkward look, he instantly remembered that the night he came to Xuantian City, General Fan mistook Shen Hao for Emperor Qi. , it should be when Shen Hao said these words to General Fan.
The atmosphere was suddenly very quiet, and General Fan didn't understand why Qi Huang was upset all of a sudden.
Fortunately, this atmosphere was quickly broken. There were noisy voices ahead, and someone had a dispute with General Fan's personal guards.
Chu Yuming realized something was wrong, immediately put on his helmet, bowed his head together with Shen Hao, stood behind General Fan, and acted as General Fan's bodyguard.
The next moment, Deputy General Cao brought a group of people over: "General Fan, let Cao be easy to find, the Seventeenth Prince is here to invite you."
"Well, let's go." General Fan had suspected Vice General Cao for a long time, and now he was not surprised to see Vice General Cao acting as Qi Feng's running dog.
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao followed General Fan and left the backyard with Vice General Cao's men.
Deputy General Cao climbed up to Qi Feng, and now he looks like a villain, when he went out, he deliberately walked in front of General Fan, as if he was the general.
Chu Yuming was worried that Qi Feng's rush to power would be detrimental to General Fan, so while passing by a crowded place, he stepped forward and whispered to General Fan, "General Fan, Qi Feng has no good intentions in letting you go. It’s the best way to do it.”
"I know." With Chu Yuming's words, General Fan was more confident. He gestured to his personal guards, who nodded, deliberately lagging behind, and then disappeared into the crowd.
Knowing that General Fan had already made preparations, Chu Yuming felt more at ease. After a while, they arrived at the City Lord's Mansion.
Different from the last time, the current City Lord's Mansion is controlled by Qi Feng. As soon as Chu Yuming entered, he felt that many eyes fell on them.The soldiers guarding the aisle seemed to rush up and capture them later.
If it were someone else, they would have been too scared to walk, but are Chu Yuming and the others ordinary people?No matter what he and Shen Hao were Nascent Soul cultivators, how could they be intimidated by these soldiers, and General Fan was fought on the battlefield. Although he was old, his vigor was still there and it was not affected.
Soon after arriving at the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, Chu Yuming and Shen Hao wanted to follow in, but were stopped by the guards at the door, so they had to obediently stand outside the lobby.
There are four generals in the lobby, discussing how to deal with Chen Jun.As soon as Vice General Cao brought General Fan in, they all quieted down and offered to make way.
"My minister has met His Royal Highness." General Fan saluted Qi Feng who was sitting on the throne.
"The general came at the right time, we are discussing about retreating the enemy." Now Qi Feng is not at all like a nine-year-old child, and the generals in the lobby seem to be afraid of him.
"My lords, have you figured out a solution?" General Fan asked.
The other generals couldn't help looking away when General Fan saw them. Qi Feng winked at one of them displeasedly, and that person stood up and said, "General Fan, we have already thought of a way to divide the troops into three groups: one army Dive to the opposite bank, attack east and west; use the Weihe River as a barrier all the way, start a frontal battle with Chen Jun; and stick to Xuantian City all the way to fight the last battle."
"Well, plan
Shen Hao nodded: "You are right."
The terrain downstream was flat, and there were lush reeds growing on the river bank. Chu Yuming quickly pulled Shen Hao into the reeds.
Not long after, a group of soldiers came to the place where they stood just now, leading a hunting dog.Dogs are more sensitive to smells, so they smelled it where Chu Yuming and the others were standing, and then came to the river to observe.
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao quickly hid in the water, breathing only through their noses.
Water can cut off the smell, and the hunting dog finally failed to find Chu Yuming and Shen Hao, and sat on the ground without moving.
Seeing that there was no harvest, the soldiers continued to search downstream with hunting dogs.
After the sound of footsteps completely disappeared, Chu Yuming surfaced, "Huh..." After taking a few breaths eagerly, he realized that Shen Hao hadn't moved.
Shen Hao was sinking continuously, fortunately the reeds were not in a hurry, otherwise they would have been washed away by the current.
Chu Yuming quickly picked Shen Hao out of the water. Because of physical contact, he realized that Shen Hao's body temperature was very low and he was shivering.
Chu Yuming was surprised, and quickly shook Shen Hao: "Shen Hao, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm poisoned, don't worry about me, you go back to Xuantian City first." Shen Hao's voice was weak.
"Shut up! How could you be poisoned?" Chu Yuming quickly looked at Shen Hao, and found that there was a hole in the clothes of Shen Hao's right arm.He tore open the opening directly and found a black and red knife wound on his arm.
Chu Yuming immediately thought that on the boat, it was Shen Hao who pushed him away and blocked the hidden weapon that was originally shot at him for him.
"Hidden weapons are poisonous!" Chu Yuming frowned.
The poison of the hidden weapon is very powerful, if Shen Hao hadn't stayed in the river for a long time and washed away part of the poison, Shen Hao would have died long ago.However, Shen Hao's current situation is not much better, his body is extremely weak, he is so dizzy that he can't exert his strength.
"Let's go." Chu Yuming immediately supported Shen Hao and walked towards the dense forest on the river bank.
He didn't know what kind of poison Shen Hao had suffered from, but he knew many kinds of medicines to relieve the poison, so he wanted to go to the dense forest to see.
Chu Yuming supported Shen Hao, walked through the secret passage with difficulty, and soon became exhausted and out of breath.
At this time, he hated the setting of his own body very much, if it was his original body, it would not be so troublesome... But then again, if it was the original body, Shen Hao would not be poisoned.
Entering the forest, Chu Yuming quickly found a medicinal plant, picked it quickly, and then led Shen Hao to continue walking deep.
However, as he was walking, Shen Hao's body was heavy, and he fell to the ground with Chu Yuming. It turned out that Shen Hao had passed out.
"Shen Hao, wake up." Chu Yuming patted Shen Hao's cheek, but Shen Hao didn't respond at all.
Xiao Qi emerged from the system, glanced at the unconscious Shen Hao, and smiled at Chu Yuming: "At this time, you should leave him behind."
Chu Yuming glanced at Xiao Qi displeasedly: "I didn't call you, why did you come out again?"
"You are all like this, how can I stay!" Xiao Qi shouted immediately.
Chu Yuming glanced at Xiao Qi displeasedly, but said nothing, and supported Shen Hao to continue walking into the woods.
Xiao Qi followed immediately: "Don't you want to kill him? Now that he's been poisoned, isn't it just what you want?"
Shen Hao was completely unconscious, Chu Yuming was struggling to support him, Xiao Qi was chattering non-stop beside him, but Chu Yuming couldn't listen at all.
Rationally, Chu Yuming should indeed throw Shen Hao away, but the scene of Shen Hao blocking the hidden weapon for him kept appearing in his mind, as well as the arms that hugged him in time when he was suffocated in the water.Chu Yuming couldn't help laughing at himself, it seemed that he was not yet a qualified devil, and he really couldn't be ungrateful.
He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and led Shen Hao to the dense forest.
Finally, on a hillside, they found a cave where they could temporarily hide.This should be the cave of wild wolves, but there are no wolves now, only the smell of wolves remains.
Chu Yuming supported Shen Hao to lie on the ground. At this moment, Shen Hao's face had turned blue-black.He tore off Shen Hao's skirt, revealing the location of the wound on his shoulder. The black and red knife wound just now had festered, and black dirty blood flowed out.
Xiao Qi curled her lips: "He is almost hopeless."
"Shut up!" Chu Yuming yelled, he took off the Yi Rong Card, and using the sharp edges of the Yi Rong Card, he cut open the wound and let out the dirty blood.
The sharp pain in the wound made Shen Hao snort involuntarily, and finally regained a trace of clarity.
He tried to open his eyes, saw Chu Yuming crushed the herbal medicine and applied it on his arm, he quickly said: "Thank you."
Chu Yuming paused, glanced at Shen Hao uncomfortably, and then sat beside him.
"I'm fine, you should hurry back to Xuantian City."
"Shut up, I'll fix you."
"You don't have to save me. You and I are enemies to begin with. My death is exactly what you want."
"Shen Hao, am I the kind of ungrateful person?" Chu Yuming stood up displeased.
Shen Hao forced a smile: "I have no kindness to you, no matter who it is, as long as there is a need, I will save it, so you don't have to worry about it."
"Oh, yes, I forgot that you are a benevolent and righteous genius. Even if I am a big devil, you are willing to save me. I am really touched." Chu Yuming laughed mockingly.
"Well, it's good that you know."
"You..." Chu Yuming was very angry, wishing to beat Shen Hao up, but Shen Hao was already dying, so he resisted not doing anything, and finally said coldly, "Since you are so benevolent and don't want to reciprocate, then I will also Don't worry about your life." After speaking, Chu Yuming got up and walked out of the cave.
"Hey, I'm really gone." Xiao Qi looked towards the entrance of the cave in surprise.
"Well, let's go." Shen Hao's voice was so low that even he couldn't hear the regret in it. He looked at the entrance of the cave and slowly closed his eyes.
☆, Concubine VS Emperor
After leaving the cave, Chu Yuming tried his best to calm down his emotions. Sometimes, he really hated Shen Hao's righteous behavior.
"Are you really leaving? He's been poisoned." Xiao Qi chased him out and asked.
Chu Yuming ignored Xiao Qi and walked towards the dense forest, Xiao Qi followed immediately: "Yes, it's important that we go back to Xuantian City."
Chu Yuming walked forward on his own, but the direction was not Xuantian City. Xiao Qi hurriedly asked after finding out, but Chu Yuming ignored him. Finally, after Chu Yuming climbed a tree and picked a wild flower, Xiao Qi Finally understood: "You are still looking for medicine for him!"
Chu Yuming finally took a look at Xiao Qi, but his tone was very bad: "Don't disturb me, go back to the system!"
"I don't want it." Xiao Qi put his waist on his back and snorted. Seeing that Chu Yuming ignored him and went elsewhere, he quickly flew over to block Chu Yuming's way.
"What?" Chu Yuming asked coldly, his patience was exhausted, if he could, he really wanted to slap Xiao Qi back into the system.
Xiao Qi hesitated for a moment and asked, "Do you really want to save him?"
"I don't want to save him, but even if he is going to die, he will die by my hands."
"Hmm..." Xiao Qi hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Are you sure you can find all the medicine you need?"
Chu Yuming paused, and quickly asked, "Is there none here?"
"I can't tell you, think about it yourself." Xiao Qi couldn't reveal the information, so he just asked Chu Yuming to let Chu Yuming think for himself.Anyway, what Chu Yuming thought of in the end was Chu Yuming's own idea, and it had nothing to do with him.
Chu Yuming frowned. He knew that Xiao Qi couldn't reveal the information, but Xiao Qi's question had already pointed out the direction: he couldn't find the antidote here.
Chu Yuming was startled by this answer, and hurried back the way he came.
When he left, he applied medicine to Shen Hao, which could at least delay the time of the poison.Originally, he thought that with his alchemy ability, he could make an antidote after finding all the medicinal materials, but he ignored an important question: what would happen if the medicinal materials were not found?
From the beginning of alchemy, Chu Yuming had never worried about medicinal materials.And here is the mission world, all kinds of medicinal materials are distributed all over the world, it is not possible to find all the medicinal materials in one forest.
Thinking of this, Chu Yuming couldn't help but quicken his pace, feeling unspeakable worry in his heart.
"Why are you leaving in such a hurry? It's too late anyway." Xiao Qifei walked up to Chu Yuming, looked at the panting Chu Yuming, and asked curiously.
Chu Yuming ignored him and almost ran all the way back to the cave.But when he came to the entrance of the cave, he stopped in his tracks, a little afraid that Shen Hao would die of poison.
"Hurry up, he's not dead yet." Xiao Qi didn't understand what Chu Yuming was thinking, and flew directly into the cave.Shen Hao is not dead yet, but he is not far from death.
Shen Hao was groggy, the poison invaded his lungs, and black blood flowed out from the corner of his mouth.In a daze, he seemed to see Chu Yuming, and he couldn't tell whether it was reality or a dream, so he smiled: "Junior Brother Chu..."
Chu Yuming trembled when he heard Shen Hao's voice, and many memories flooded him like a tide.
"Hey, what are you standing there for? Can you save him?" Xiao Qi waved his hand in front of Chu Yuming's eyes, seeing that Chu Yuming didn't respond, he asked quickly.
Only then did Chu Yuming come back to his senses: "Of course we have to be rescued." Chu Yuming rushed to Shen Hao's side to check Shen Hao's situation, but the more he looked, the more he frowned.
"Actually, it's wise for you to give up on him." Xiao Qi said leisurely.
"Before, didn't you keep persuading us to make peace, why are you persuading me to give up him now?"
"He was not injured before, and you can cooperate better to complete the task, but now..." Xiao Qi looked at Shen Hao who was in a coma after being poisoned, "He is like this now, what can he do if he doesn't give up?" He spread his hands out, and shook his head helplessly.
Chu Yuming didn't speak for a while, looking at the unconscious Shen Hao, he fell into deep thought. After a while, he came back to his senses: "Although you are a bad and good person, you were indeed injured to save me. I saved you." You, just don't want to owe you favors."
After speaking, Chu Yuming opened the system mall, found Jiedu Pill in it, and clicked to buy it.
A detoxification pill requires 5000 points, which used up all their savings, but Chu Yuming clicked to pay without hesitation.
When the familiar box popped up, he put one hand on the box, grabbed Shen Hao's hand with the other, and placed it on the virtual box.
Soon the payment was successful, and a detox pill appeared in the purchased product.
Chu Yuming took out the detoxification pill and fed it to Shen Hao, and the big stone in his heart fell to the ground.
"I can't tell, you really will help him." Xiao Qi couldn't help but sigh after seeing the series of actions Chu Yuming had done.
Chu Yuming glanced at Xiao Qi: "You can go back to the system now, don't disturb our rest."
"Okay, okay." Xiao Qi is in a good mood now, obediently returning to the system world.
Chu Yuming watched Shen Hao's face improve, and he lay down on the other side of the cave with peace of mind.
After a lot of tossing today, it is already dark now.Chu Yuming only ate something before going out, but now he was tired and hungry.But Shen Hao hasn't woken up yet, he can't leave the cave.
The silver moonlight shone in from the cave, covering the two of them with a layer of silver.
Chu Yuming looked at Shen Hao in the moonlight, and couldn't help but go back to many years ago.
At that time, he was 13 years old, and he joined Ling Xiaozong for just one year. He participated in the sect trial for the first time, and the senior brother who led the team that time happened to be Shen Hao.
The location of the trial is Fuhu Mountain near Ling Xiaozong. Because they are all new disciples, their trial tasks are relatively simple.However, something went wrong during the trial. A spirit beast at the peak of Foundation Establishment suddenly attacked them.
As the senior brother leading the team, Shen Hao was obliged to stand in front of them.Because the spirit beast was too powerful, Shen Hao asked another senior brother to take the disciples away. Chu Yuming was very worried about Shen Hao, and turned back after a while.
"What are you doing back?" Shen Hao was very angry.
"I want to help you."
Chu Yuming has been a student for one year and has reached the peak of Qi training. He is already the best among the same group of disciples, but he is not even qualified to fight against the spirit beasts at the peak of foundation establishment.However, Chu Yuming was not afraid, and fought side by side with Shen Hao, and finally used the Zongmen's combined fencing technique - Linyuan sword technique, and finally killed the spirit beast.
But Shen Hao was also injured, Chu Yuming helped Shen Hao find a cave to rest. The 13-year-old Chu Yuming guarded the entrance of the cave with his sword in his arms, like a dedicated guard.
……
In the early morning of the next day, Shen Hao finally woke up from the coma. The detoxification pill really worked very well. Not only did it detoxify, but even the wound on his arm began to scab.
Shen Hao was a little surprised, sat up quickly, and found that he was the only one in the cave, feeling a little disappointed.
He asked Xiao Qi: "Who saved me?"
"Of course it's Chu Yuming." Xiao Qi flew out of the system and said.
"It's really him?" After getting the answer, Shen Hao's heart suddenly became active, he stood up and asked, "Then where did he go?"
Just after asking, a figure appeared at the entrance of the cave. He took off Chu Yuming who was disguised by Rongka, and returned to the appearance of Concubine Yu, holding something wrapped in lotus leaves in his hand.
Seeing that Shen Hao woke up, Chu Yuming's first reaction was to be happy, but thinking that they were rivals, he immediately covered his expression and said coldly: "Wake up, eat something."
He went out to look for something to eat early in the morning, but in the end he only found some fruit.
Shen Hao glanced at Guozi, then at Chu Yuming, and said seriously, "Thank you, thank you for saving me."
Chu Yuming paused the hand holding the fruit, then put the fruit into his mouth, and said nonchalantly, "No, I wouldn't have saved you if it wasn't for completing the mission."
Shen Hao was dumbfounded, knowing that some of the things he said to make Chu Yuming leave before were hated by Chu Yuming.He took a fruit to eat, looked at Chu Yuming's side face, and suddenly remembered what happened more than ten years ago.
"I remember the first time you participated in the sect trial, we fought side by side and killed the two-horned spirit wolf at the peak of foundation establishment..."
"Shut up," Chu Yuming interrupted Shen Hao when he heard Shen Hao mentioning the past, "It's been so many years, what are you doing!"
"Chu... Junior brother Chu, why did you betray the sect back then? If you really have any difficulties, you can tell me."
Shen Hao's words touched the thorn in Chu Yuming's heart again, he stood up, kicked away the fruit wrapped in lotus leaves, and said angrily: "Shen Hao, if others respect you as 'righteous Tianjiao', you will really Do you think you can uphold justice? Since you want to know the truth so much, I can tell you, but will you really believe what I say?"
"I believe you." Shen Hao quickly stood up and said.
"Really?" Chu Yuming smiled coldly, approached Shen Hao step by step, and asked, "In your heart, what kind of person is your Uncle Feng? Kind-faced and kind-hearted? Great benevolence and righteousness? Yes, he saved He killed me and brought me into the sect to practice. He was really my reborn parents. But in fact? He liked my talent, so he killed my whole family. He wanted to take away my spiritual root when I was an adult and cultivation. But he was unlucky, and I killed him in the end."
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao were very close, his eyes were fixed on Shen Hao, and he didn't miss any of Shen Hao's expressions.
Shen Hao was speechless in surprise, and finally under Chu Yuming's sharp gaze, he slowly said, "What you said is true? You can tell the truth and let my father..."
"Hehe," Chu Yuming interrupted Shen Hao bluntly, "Do you think your father doesn't know the truth? It's because he knows, that's why he couldn't wait to kill me. After all, my good master is a respected teacher of the Zongmen. The elder is the relative and younger brother of the master of the sect."
"My father wouldn't do that." Shen Hao didn't want to believe that his father, who was tall in his mind, would kill people to cover up the sect's scandal.
Chu Yuming smiled mockingly, and he knew that Shen Hao would not believe it, so he turned and walked out of the cave without hesitation.
"Junior Brother Chu, Junior Brother Chu..." Shen Hao chased to the entrance of the cave and saw Chu Yuming's determined back.
☆, Concubine VS Emperor
Chu Yuming hurried to Xuantian City, because he was holding his breath, he didn't feel tired at all, and soon came to Xuantian City.
Xuantian City is now heavily guarded by soldiers, he can't sneak into the city quietly, along the woods, he came to the north gate, and saw many people leaving the city one after another.
Chu Yuming hurried up, looking for someone to ask about the situation.
"Young man, you must have escaped. There is going to be a war in Xuantian City, so you should go to Maple Leaf City with us." Chu Yuming was still looking for candidates, and an old woman took the initiative to say to him.
It was only then that Chu Yuming realized that he was indeed a refugee.
He was only wearing a dark undershirt, and because he had been soaked in water, lay on the ground, and was scratched in several places while looking for medicine, his clothes were already in tatters.And in order to avoid revealing his identity, he deliberately let his hair loose, and even smeared mud on his face, he was a real refugee.
Chu Yuming acquiesced to his new identity, and took the initiative to step forward: "Old man, you said Xuantian City is going to fight?"
"That's right, Xuantian City is going to fight at any time, General Fan ordered us to go to Maple Leaf City. I also heard that His Majesty passed away, and people are panicking now."
"Your Majesty died?" Chu Yuming guessed that the news was from King Chen, with the purpose of throwing the Qi army into chaos.
"Go away, go away!"
At this time, a group of soldiers appeared on the road, waving horse whips, and kept driving away the fleeing people on the road.
Chu Yuming supported the old lady to the side of the road. Not long after, a group of imperial guards came galloping on horseback, accompanied by an exquisite carriage.
"It should be a nobleman from the capital." The old woman said.
Chu Yuming said goodbye to the old lady without saying a word, and walked towards the gate of Xuantian City.
Now Chen Qi's two armies will fight at any time, he needs to meet General Fan quickly to stabilize the situation.
At this time, with a hand on his shoulder, Chu Yuming reflexively turned around to grab the opponent, but the opponent cleverly dodged his attack.
"It's me." Shen Hao said.
"What are you doing!" Chu Yuming pushed Shen Hao away rudely.
"Brother Chu, it's not that I don't believe what you said, but it's about my father and Uncle Feng, so I can't make a rash decision. Please give me some time. When we return to the Tianxing Continent, I will definitely ask my father the truth. , to return your innocence." Shen Hao stood in front of Chu Yuming and said seriously.
"Innocence?" Chu Yuming sneered, "I believed in your father so much back then, but he wished he could get rid of me as soon as possible. Will he admit something that damages the reputation of Ling Xiaozong?"
Seeing that Chu Yuming was about to leave, Shen Hao quickly grabbed him: "You don't trust my father, you should trust me."
Chu Yuming's face became even colder, he broke away from Shen Hao's hand, and asked in a cold voice: "Why should I believe you? Back then, I was hunted down and kept sending you summons, but you didn't answer a single word. Why do you want me to believe you?" you?"
Chu Yuming was so excited that he attracted the attention of the soldiers: "What are you doing? Hurry up!"
Like Chu Yuming, Shen Hao was dressed in rags and had disheveled hair. The soldiers thought they were refugees going to Maple Leaf City and urged them to leave quickly.
"Go right away, go right away." Shen Hao pulled Chu Yuming away from the gate of the city.
"Let me go!" Chu Yuming kept struggling, but Shen Hao didn't let go.
"Listen to me, when I heard the news that you betrayed the sect, I immediately rushed back to the Lingxiaozong. I wanted to find you, but my father locked me up, so I didn't receive any of your communication symbols. .”
Chu Yuming was stunned for a moment. He thought that Shen Hao didn't reply to him because Shen Hao also thought that he had betrayed Ling Xiaozong, but he didn't expect...
"So give me time, and I will definitely find out the truth." Shen Hao's attitude was so sincere that Chu Yuming forgot about struggling.
"Okay, I'll trust you again." Finally, Chu Yuming said.
"Junior Brother Chu, thank you for trusting me," Shen Hao smiled, looked around, and said, "But the most important thing now is to complete the task."
"Do you have a way to enter the city?" There are heavy guards at the gate of the city. They will definitely be strictly interrogated when they enter the city, and their identities may be exposed.
"There is a way." Shen Hao and Chu Yuming reached an agreement, and their mood became very comfortable.He saw that on the official road outside the city, there were many soldiers maintaining order and directing the fleeing people to leave.
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao followed the refugee team towards Maple Leaf City, but they kept a close eye on the soldiers around them. In the end, they each selected a single soldier, knocked him unconscious, and took off the uniform to change In the end, he disguised himself as a soldier and returned to Xuantian City.
After entering the city, Chu Yuming and Shen Hao went straight to the city lord's mansion, but all the outside of the city lord's mansion was under martial law, they were just ordinary soldiers now and couldn't get in at all.
After hovering around for a long time, Chu Yuming finally saw General Fan coming out of the city lord's mansion, riding a horse and not knowing where he was going.
"Let's go." Chu Yuming and Shen Hao hurriedly followed, and finally followed General Fan to the temporary residence where the wounded soldiers were recuperating.
There are so many people here that it is easy to get in, but it is very difficult to get in touch with General Fan. In the end, Chu Yuming decided to play the wounded soldier himself and let Shen Hao help him in.
But before going in, Chu Yuming asked Shen Hao to cover his face with a cloth, and he himself put on the Yi Rong Card and changed back to Qi Huang's appearance.Chu Yuming took off his helmet, deliberately grabbed a few strands of hair, and with Shen Hao's support, he entered the residence where the wounded soldiers were recuperating.
After entering, the two sat on the only way, waiting for General Fan to come out.
Chu Yuming pretended to be a wounded soldier and leaned on Shen Hao's shoulder, while Shen Hao looked around to observe the situation here.
After about a cup of tea, Shen Hao finally saw the figure of General Fan, and quickly whispered: "General Fan is here."
Chu Yuming raised his head slightly, and seeing General Fan approaching, he stood up and stumbled over.
General Fan's personal guards immediately stepped forward to stop them, only to see the man fall in front of them.The guards stared wide-eyed, they obviously didn't even touch this person.
"What's wrong?" General Fan stepped forward and asked.
"General Fan..." Chu Yuming raised his head, and his face that belonged to Emperor Qi appeared in front of General Fan.
"you……"
General Fan was about to speak, when Shen Hao stepped forward and interrupted him: "General Fan, my friend is injured, can he heal alone."
"Oh, okay, okay, this way." General Fan nodded incoherently, and led Chu Yuming and Shen Hao to a remote room.
"You stay here." General Fan said to his personal guards. When he entered the room, he was overjoyed to see Chu Yuming who was safe and sound. He was about to kowtow to salute, but was stopped by Chu Yuming.
"These hypocrisy will be avoided. Tell me what's going on now?"
"Your Majesty, after you fell into the water and disappeared, I have been sending people to look for it. Last night, Deputy General Cao found your... Well, a corpse. Because you were wearing the armor you disappeared, many generals thought that something happened to you."
"Can you determine the identity of the corpse with a piece of armor?" Chu Yuming sneered, the armor was taken off by Shen Hao because it was too heavy in the water.
"Of course I don't believe it, I have been sending people to look for you, but other generals don't think so, just now..." General Fan glanced at Chu Yuming's face, frowned and said, "His Royal Highness the Seventeenth Prince has received news that he has arrived in Xuantian City , Said to avenge His Majesty."
"The Seventeenth Prince, it's him!" Chu Yuming immediately realized that there was something wrong with the Seventeenth Prince. He only saw King Chen yesterday, but Qi Feng came here today. This speed is too fast.Moreover, Qi Feng is young, even if he wants to leave the palace, the ministers will not agree, which shows that Qi Feng must have superior means.
"Your Majesty, I didn't intend to provoke the relationship between you and the Seventeenth Prince. There is really something wrong with the Seventeenth Prince."
"Say, tell me everything you know, and I forgive you for your innocence."
General Fan then continued: "Your Majesty, I have been strictly blocking the news of your disappearance, but I don't know how the Seventeenth Prince knew about it. Moreover, the Seventeenth Prince was able to mobilize the Imperial Forest Army, and even many deputy generals of the Zhenbei Army Following the order of the Seventeenth Prince, I think that there is something wrong with the Seventeenth Prince, and I am afraid that he wants to... usurp the throne."
"Is he not like the original Qi Feng?" Chu Yuming asked.
General Fan also watched Qi Feng grow up, thought for a while, and nodded: "The style of behavior is not quite like the seventeenth prince."
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao looked at each other, and they both saw the answer in each other's eyes: Qi Feng is their task opponent.
"Qi Feng, I will take care of it. The most important thing now is to stabilize the army, General Fan. I will leave this to you."
"The minister obeys the order and never lets the military power fall into the hands of others."
At this time, someone knocked on the door: "General, the woman in the firewood room has woken up."
Chu Yuming looked at General Fan, and General Fan immediately explained: "Your Majesty, my servants found a woman in the lower reaches of the Wei River, suspected to be the person who was on the boat yesterday." Worried about leaking the news, General Fan secretly locked her in the firewood room .
"Maiden Feng?" Chu Yuming had a guess in his heart, and immediately asked General Fan to lead the way.
In order to keep it secret, General Fan asked his personal guards to guard the door of the backyard, and he brought Chu Yuming and Shen Hao to the firewood room in the backyard. He opened the door, and Chu Yuming really saw Maid Feng leaning on the bed.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty..." Maid Feng was drinking medicine, but she lost her mind when she saw Chu Yuming, and the medicine bowl fell to the ground and shattered.
Chu Yuming's face was very cold. The accident that happened on the Weihe River yesterday was inseparable from Maid Feng.
"General Fan, you go out first."
"Yes." General Fan closed the door and stood guard at the door.
Only Chu Yuming, Shen Hao, and Maid Feng were left in the firewood room. Maid Feng knew she was guilty, so she knelt down on the ground and begged for mercy.
"Your Majesty, this servant didn't mean to deceive you, someone forced me." Maid Feng came to Chu Yuming on her knees, hugged Chu Yuming's leg and cried.
Chu Yuming trusted Maid Feng before, but in the end he was tricked by King Chen. He even hated Maid Feng, so he kicked Maid Feng away and asked, "How do you know about ecstasy?"
"Someone told the servants."
"who is it?"
"I don't know, my servant. After I left the city, I was caught, and they fed poison to my servant." Maid Feng cried. She originally wanted to go back to Chen County with full expectations, but she was caught by a group of people just after she left the city. Get caught and have to follow someone else's orders.
☆, Concubine VS Emperor
General Fan has been guarding the door. Although Emperor Qi is safe and sound, he is still uneasy.
After waiting for a stick of incense, Emperor Qi still didn't come out, but he waited for his cronies: "General, His Royal Highness summoned General Cao and other deputy generals of the Zhenbei Army to discuss matters alone in the City Lord's Mansion. And after receiving the news, Chen Jun from Nan'an All are deployed on the Weihe defense line, and a general offensive should be launched. In addition, in Huainan, Anbei and other places, the army has changed, and I am afraid that we must follow the example of King Chen."
"I see, let the battalions prepare for battle. The most important thing is that orders not from the general will be invalidated!"
"Yes." The confidant took the order and left.
In the chaifang, through the mouth of Maid Feng, Chu Yuming finally connected the cause and effect.
Qi Feng should have known about the fact that he sent Maid Feng back to Chen County, and then Qi Feng sent someone to capture Maid Feng, and let Maid Feng do things for him by poisoning him.
On the one hand, Qi Feng asked Maid Feng to send a letter to King Chen, saying that he would get rid of Emperor Qi, and then support the young Qi Feng as emperor, so that King Chen could coerce the emperor to make the princes.
On the other hand, Qi Feng took advantage of Chu Yuming's desire to find the opponent of the mission, and deliberately asked Maid Feng to send a letter to Chu Yuming, saying that Chen Wang had fallen into an enchantment, and tricked Chu Yuming to meet Chen Wang.
However, Qi Feng knew that the ecstasy Gu could not be known to outsiders, so he didn't ask Maid Feng to tell Chen Wang about the ecstasy Gu.This aroused Chen Wang's suspicion, and decided to use the river water to kill Qi Huang and Maid Feng together.
Maid Feng was lucky, she was found by General Fan's men, after treatment, the toxicity was temporarily suppressed.But there is no antidote, and the poison will develop soon. Maid Feng doesn't want to die, so she recruits everything, hoping that Emperor Qi can detoxify her.
"You have betrayed the trust of Zhen and Concubine Yu, thinking that I will save you if you say this?" Chu Yuming sneered.
"Your Majesty, this servant was forced to do so. The servant is convicted. Please save the servant..." Maid Feng kept kowtowing for mercy.
Chu Yuming was unmoved, even felt noisy, and wanted to slap Maid Feng to death.
But Shen Hao couldn't bear it: "She was forced to, or let the imperial doctor come over to see if he can detoxify her."
"Shut up, I won't be as merciful as you," Chu Yuming pushed the door straight out, and said to General Fan who was waiting at the door, "Send someone to guard her, don't worry about her life or death." Chu Yuming didn't know what poison Qi Feng had poisoned Maid Feng, but it was definitely not simple, so he wouldn't waste time on someone who betrayed him.
General Fan nodded quickly, and told Chu Yuming the news he had just received.
"If Chen Jun attacks aggressively, can Xuantian City be defended?"
"Your Majesty, I am [-]% sure that I can defend Xuantian City."
"Seventy percent...that's good, but isn't there a general in the Zhenbei Army who has defected to Qi Feng, and the general is sure to control all the troops?" Chu Yuming is most worried about Qi Feng's control of the military power.
"Your Majesty, according to your request, I have already arranged secret orders for the generals of different levels of the Zhenbei Army. Without the secret orders of the humble ministers, the other lieutenants would not be able to transfer the Zhenbei Army at all."
"Huh?" Chu Yuming was surprised. He didn't give General Fan any instructions at all. At this moment, when he saw Shen Hao giving him an awkward look, he instantly remembered that the night he came to Xuantian City, General Fan mistook Shen Hao for Emperor Qi. , it should be when Shen Hao said these words to General Fan.
The atmosphere was suddenly very quiet, and General Fan didn't understand why Qi Huang was upset all of a sudden.
Fortunately, this atmosphere was quickly broken. There were noisy voices ahead, and someone had a dispute with General Fan's personal guards.
Chu Yuming realized something was wrong, immediately put on his helmet, bowed his head together with Shen Hao, stood behind General Fan, and acted as General Fan's bodyguard.
The next moment, Deputy General Cao brought a group of people over: "General Fan, let Cao be easy to find, the Seventeenth Prince is here to invite you."
"Well, let's go." General Fan had suspected Vice General Cao for a long time, and now he was not surprised to see Vice General Cao acting as Qi Feng's running dog.
Chu Yuming and Shen Hao followed General Fan and left the backyard with Vice General Cao's men.
Deputy General Cao climbed up to Qi Feng, and now he looks like a villain, when he went out, he deliberately walked in front of General Fan, as if he was the general.
Chu Yuming was worried that Qi Feng's rush to power would be detrimental to General Fan, so while passing by a crowded place, he stepped forward and whispered to General Fan, "General Fan, Qi Feng has no good intentions in letting you go. It’s the best way to do it.”
"I know." With Chu Yuming's words, General Fan was more confident. He gestured to his personal guards, who nodded, deliberately lagging behind, and then disappeared into the crowd.
Knowing that General Fan had already made preparations, Chu Yuming felt more at ease. After a while, they arrived at the City Lord's Mansion.
Different from the last time, the current City Lord's Mansion is controlled by Qi Feng. As soon as Chu Yuming entered, he felt that many eyes fell on them.The soldiers guarding the aisle seemed to rush up and capture them later.
If it were someone else, they would have been too scared to walk, but are Chu Yuming and the others ordinary people?No matter what he and Shen Hao were Nascent Soul cultivators, how could they be intimidated by these soldiers, and General Fan was fought on the battlefield. Although he was old, his vigor was still there and it was not affected.
Soon after arriving at the lobby of the City Lord's Mansion, Chu Yuming and Shen Hao wanted to follow in, but were stopped by the guards at the door, so they had to obediently stand outside the lobby.
There are four generals in the lobby, discussing how to deal with Chen Jun.As soon as Vice General Cao brought General Fan in, they all quieted down and offered to make way.
"My minister has met His Royal Highness." General Fan saluted Qi Feng who was sitting on the throne.
"The general came at the right time, we are discussing about retreating the enemy." Now Qi Feng is not at all like a nine-year-old child, and the generals in the lobby seem to be afraid of him.
"My lords, have you figured out a solution?" General Fan asked.
The other generals couldn't help looking away when General Fan saw them. Qi Feng winked at one of them displeasedly, and that person stood up and said, "General Fan, we have already thought of a way to divide the troops into three groups: one army Dive to the opposite bank, attack east and west; use the Weihe River as a barrier all the way, start a frontal battle with Chen Jun; and stick to Xuantian City all the way to fight the last battle."
"Well, plan
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